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Monday, January 14, 2008 05:42 PM

The safest form of electronic communication

Is a handwritten fax if the endpoints aren't known ahead of time. There is near zero probability of having that decoded by any program in stream. The best you can do is copy the stream to an image and have an image processor make a guess. Well guess what, pick a non English language or better, a non Roman non Cyrillic alphabet and you've increased your chance of non detection by orders of magnitude.

Also anyone can get strong encryption for free, encryption that is sufficiently robust to add days/weeks onto the decrypt time by all known methods using the fastest machines known. Don't believe Television. Strong encryption is very hard to break. Very.

All this does is oppress the people who are already obeying the law. Criminals and such are ahead of the curve.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 05:19 AM

Iran has emnbarked on a new campaign of mutilating people

you know, that charming practice of lopping off hands and feet under sharia law

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/1/ec3b38a0-00af-4743-9943-5d00e920249f.html

And of course that whole stoning thing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7188121.stm

And of course that whole hanging children in public from a crane, without trial.

And of course that whole killing homosexuals thing too.

Cue the people who scream that America is the worst nation on earth in 5..4..3..2..1..

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 05:22 AM
Original article: Dirty, sexy opera

What's Opera, Doc?

Is the best Wagner of all time.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 06:27 AM

So Michigan is home to the largest Arab American community in the US

What do they say, if anything?

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 09:26 AM
Original article: Freezing

-like if it hits 25 percent, we bomb Iran.

No of course not. Foreign policy doesn't require Congressional consent like any domestic agenda. So if it hasn't happened yet like all of you have promised for the last 4 years, it's not going to.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 09:27 AM
Original article: The race vs. gender war

Why not? They have nothing else to differ on or argue about

All this says is that those two are virtually interchangeable.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:02 PM
Original article: Dirty, sexy opera

When the Music's over

turn out the light

turn out the light

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:07 PM

What are you talking about?

My American employer makes 50% of its income outside of the Americas. Factoring in currency, it makes >50% of its gross profit overseas. We don't care all that much about the NYSE apart from being able to keep score. Market cap and accounting performance are ALWAYS two different things.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:09 PM

By the many arms of Siva

You are a stupid man.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:17 PM

share the wealth spread the shame around.

I've often wondered how an ISP can send me P2P content and then rat me out to the RIAA and the government while remaining completely above any responsibility. I wonder what would happen if we held the ISP and the end user jointly responsible and liable?

I wonder what would happen if we sued carriers and Myspace for enabling the content we find objectionable.

And mind you we're talking about content that is objectionable BEFORE you can or cannot determine it's criminal. But in any case hold up the provider of the pipe to your precious snowflake and make them as responsible as the creepy old guy whacking it.

But to be fair the NC AG is really doing this for political reasons.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:20 PM

Right, from inside your cave

In the long run you stay in the cave. We on the other hand move from a big house to a small house back to a big house in rather cyclical fashion. You folks have a nice life on the People's Red Revolution Collective #57. Because in history with perhaps one exception, Marxism has lead to stagnation, famine and/or anarchy.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:22 PM

40 is not a parenting choice

It's a lifestyle choice.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 03:42 PM

Dear Haters

Go to Dynamism.com to check out all the superslim and microsmall notebook machines that will like aka run some form of Windows.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 06:08 PM
Original article: Ask al-Qaida

Joan snap him up as soon as possible

He'd be a great catch for Salon. Kind of a combination Osama bin Laden and Cary Tennis. Plus his politics already align. And what with Blumenthal busted for DUI you have a slot.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 06:13 PM

You folks will still be screaming when they roll out an affordable OLED in a few years

And take the form factor down to a quarter inch thickness. But that's ok because no one is making you buy one. My company provided Thinkpads have gone through multiple motherboards, fans and power supplies.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 06:15 PM
Original article: YouTube, j'accuse!

The only thing more boring than the subject of this article

Is this article.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 06:17 PM

Dear Mr. Walt

It's the Jewish Lobby, obviously. Speaking of ideologues, why don't you hammer out another book about it.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 06:27 PM

He sounds genuinely like Charlie Manson

Clean him up, make him smile, give him a positive spin and you have Tom Cruise.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 06:42 AM
Original article: Ask al-Qaida

I wasn't being sarcastic

I mean it. If you don't give him a column, someone else will.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 06:44 AM

All of them speak in run on sentences in a furious effort to never give the other guy the last word

I'm in favor of all those things, I'm against all those other things and let me clarify that other thing, essentially I'm more in favor and more against all those things than all of my opponents.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 06:47 AM

then how could George Romney run for President?

If you're not native born you can't do that.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:39 AM
Original article: No debate on bankruptcy

You never have to bail out the credit card companies

They simply pass their losses on to the people who DO pay.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:42 AM
Original article: Baby boomlet

Now overlay a map of which states are growing the fastest

They are the red states. Georgia, SC, NC, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Colorado. All of them are 2.2% growth or higher.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:47 AM
Original article: Ask al-Qaida

These 'activists' are regularly given outlets in the mainstream press all over the world

From the middle east to Asia. I see nothing at all wrong with giving them a forum here. Why not, for example is al Jazeera blocked from the US unless you have your own satellite rig. They've got David Frost for God's sake. No. It's simple, just start an al Qaeda channel in the US and let them do and say whatever they like, tie in the progressive blogs like Salon, KOS and have at it. I'm sure most people hear would watch that and enjoy it before they turned on Fox or read the WSJ. And why not?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:05 AM
Original article: Betting little in Las Vegas

I honestly could not discern much difference among them

which I guess is ok, it won't matter which one of them gets the nod and we can all get on the same bandwagon.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:08 AM

The $20 charge to iTouch owners is a bit balsy

But at least you don't have to swap your phone and get raked over the coals to extend your 'contract'. Does anyone know if you can bring your iTouch in to the Apple store of have one their Slacker MiniUberNerds patch it for you? I'd prefer that as I have not had great success downloading and installing iTouch patches.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:58 PM
Original article: Ask al-Qaida

GOP ex Congressman charged in al Qaeda money laundering scheme

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EX_CONGRESSMAN_INDICTED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-01-16-14-42-37

See? It's a bitpartisan effort. Joan Walsh can give him a column and the GOP can pay him.

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