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So you honestly believe that if someone kidnapped the Duke of Cambridge's newborn son, it wouldn't be international news, because "it happens too often"? I routinely get stories ab…

Many humans "thrive" in conditions that are illegal to put humans in to. I don't really see your point, since it doesn't even remotely talk about the relative rates of the two popu…

> What was targeted was the hosting provider that was hosting 95% of child pornography in the deep web, and that hosting provider also happened to host Tormail and a bunch of other…

The child's parents were, a fact you seem to be ignoring in your analysis; I expect we'd see international headlines at the kidnapping of Michael Jackson's child or the kidnapping …

Some other species: things like raccoons, crows, cows, pigeons, rats, mice, dogs, house cats, etc are all likely to thrive.

Michael Jackson's death drew a worldwide audience.

> We're already seeing the first stages. Can you support this? We're not seeing any mass deaths which are sufficient to even slow the population growth rate, and instead, seem to s…

> I doubt having a line drawn that says you're not an adult until you're 18 years old, and until then you're still a child will keep working in this century. It worked when social …

How is paying me money any different if my only option if I quit was live on the streets and starve?

Maybe the answer is to have a program that adds low scale random noise to as many images as it can before upload to the internet. It would be easy enough to make a one-click batch …

I agree with what you said, just wanted to add an aside about privileges: You can set up a situation where a team has shared access to a particular folder, and install the necessar…

I say Ballmer is a bad CEO because of the stack ranking employee evaluations and the rampant smothering of prototype technologies that later turned out to be valuable in favor of "…

I pay for Tumblr by providing information they use for various purposes. Information has value, and is being exchanged for a service.

> Obviously we worry about more things in this society than body counts, like civil liberties and the liberty to live our lives out of the shadow of bombers. Yes, all it really tak…

> Mind you, I am not defending the NSA strategy, I don't know if it is justifiable, I am just saying that Greenwald doesn't make any effort to let some opposing views to be present…

Yep. This part of what the legal system is up to is clearly what people should be upset about and protesting in the streets.

Pressure equipment, specifically sort of mid-scale items for laboratory and small-batch use. Our low level code (ie, directly controlling machines) is written in the SPARK environm…

The code generator we use (at my job; not crypto) was written in Coq and formally verified to generate code with certain properties, given properties of the input. I assume that th…

We go beyond unit tests to verify that the algorithms can't create certain states by any execution path, etc. Formal verification of software properties is an interesting field.

I know people who write crypto software that must conform to formal verification of the algorithm, requires detailed design documentation before a single line of code, etc.

I help write microcontroller code for pressure equipment management. If something goes sufficiently wrong in heating/fails to properly vent, an explosion can occur, endangering eve…

Yes, avoiding my point by picking at the word choice when the context made it clear that I was talking about oversight by the population, not indirect ones is a totally valid reply…

Except that, you know, this effectively removes any citizen oversight, which is core to democratic societies.

> The obvious counterpoint is that off-the-shelf crypto has been available for 20 years, and effectively nobody uses it. Sorry for the delay, I just saw your comment and wanted to …

> I'm not a pro-cryptographer, just a lowly pentester. Not sure what I'll do now.f Release it with a big "WARNING - EXPERIMENTAL" at the top and don't claim it's a secure solution …