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Comment Re:It's not enough (Score 1) 142

Cramer vs. The United States (1945) resulted in a ruling from SCOTUS that an "enemy" must be an actual recognized foreign power actively engaged in war with the USA.

I read the text of the ruling and could find nothing saying anything like that. Can you provide a quote from the actual ruling to support your contention?

Comment Re:It's not enough (Score 3, Interesting) 142

That is not true. Treason includes assisting enemies of the USA who are in "open conflict" with the USA. There's nothing in the Constitution saying that there needs to be an officially-declared war.

This is the text of 18 U.S. Code Sec 2381:

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

I'm aware that treason charges are rare and convictions even rarer, but still. Trump has given the enemies of the United States "aid and comfort".

Comment Re:It's not enough (Score 1) 142

That would be far easier if the Russian asset in the White House would stop sucking Putin's dick

What the Russian asset is doing amounts to treason. Russia helped Iran to target and kill American troops, and the White House Russian asset rewards Russia by lifting sanctions and purporting to buy diesel from Russia.

Comment Re:idealists (Score 2, Informative) 119

Given that the US military's very strength kept the world relatively peaceful

That was true from 1945 through 2024. But in case you missed it, that old world order has been destroyed by the current US administration and it may never return. It's not simply a matter of the current administration being "warmongering". It's actively attacking the rules-based order that had kept the world relatively stable and peaceful for about 80 years. The future looks very uncertain and quite scary to me.

Comment Re: According to the notes, it isn't in the wild (Score 1) 58

I never said that having web files not owned by the web user makes your site secure. I just said that it's not a good idea to have files in the WEBROOT that are writable by the web user because that makes defacing a site or even running malware in clients' web browsers trivial.

My personal web site uses PHP, but I don't use a database because the site is simple enough not to require one. I use PHP more-or-less as a templating engine to include standard boilerplate headers and footers on all of the pages.

Comment Re:According to the notes, it isn't in the wild (Score 2) 58

Having Web server files owned by the web user is a security risk; if someone executes code as the web user, they can change those files.

If the files are owned by root, then they can't be defaced by the web user.

If you need to have writable files, then those should be in a separate directory that's not part of the WEBROOT.

Comment Re:Advertisers are the enemy of the Internet (Score 1) 58

Yes, absolutely. Advertising is unethical. It is psychological coercion designed to make people buy stuff they normally wouldn't think they need.

The only ethical ads are PSAs that impart helpful and useful information, but they're not really advertising in the commercial sense.

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