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by NettiWelho
2016-10-16 12:31pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The 2016 US Election (Part III)
Replies: 2229
Views: 289062

Re: The 2016 US Election (Part III)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DcATG9Qy_A

How can the emails be both fake and stolen at the same time? :lol:
by NettiWelho
2014-08-29 06:07pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: man that killed drunk driver not guilty
Replies: 61
Views: 6332

Re: man that killed drunk driver not guilty

This is the same state as the 'affluenza' case.. I am guessing the driver was not white or rich?

Will this mean people killing drunk drivers in the future can point to this case as precedent in texas?
by NettiWelho
2013-10-09 02:56pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=230442617 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/10/09/0415235/8-users-of-silk-road-arrested-many-more-to-come an AP report indicates at least 8 more arrests have been made on people suspected to have sold drugs through the site. Four of the arrests hap...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-09 02:20pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US government Shutdown
Replies: 611
Views: 90107

Re: US government Shutdown

Think Waco, Tx...only bigger. Instead of ATF storming a compound, you have the national guard or the regular army storming with APCs, armored vehicles, attack helecoptors and drones. And what effect would that have on the domestic and international opinion and relations with the US? Especially if t...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-09 01:42pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US government Shutdown
Replies: 611
Views: 90107

Re: US government Shutdown

How would the federal and/or local state governments react if a political entity smaller than an entire state was to declare independence from the United States? Lets say a group of people large enough to field a couple thousand rifles and the willing to defend themselves?
by NettiWelho
2013-10-07 05:02pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US government Shutdown
Replies: 611
Views: 90107

Re: US government Shutdown

Even a website not requiring any regular maintenance may need maintenance due to hostile outside action, so it could be perfectly reasonable to take down otherwise stable high functionality sites with possible security holes to prevent attacks during a time when the admins are not present to act to ...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-07 04:52pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Shots Fired at Capitol Hill
Replies: 27
Views: 3024

Re: Shots Fired at Capitol Hill

Replicant wrote:[...] a single woman in an Infiniti jumping a barricade resulted in hundreds (possibly thousands) of heavily armed and fully body armed federal agents while the rest of DC was put into total lockdown and basically told to cower under their desks.
The terrorists have won.
by NettiWelho
2013-10-07 01:07pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Shots Fired at Capitol Hill
Replies: 27
Views: 3024

Re: Shots Fired at Capitol Hill

Simon_Jester wrote:In this case, the evidence suggests that she rammed police cars [...]
The police car crash was self-inflected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCu80iDid_Q
by NettiWelho
2013-10-06 10:09am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131004/14424324756/doj-hasnt-actually-found-silk-road-founders-bitcoins-yet.shtml http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/10/06/0242257/doj-hasnt-actually-found-silk-road-founders-bitcoin-yet DOJ Hasn't Actually Found Silk Road Founder's Bitcoin Yet With the DOJ tracking ...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-06 06:43am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

Krokodil is only in the existance because of the prohibition. Hardly a good example against ending prohibition. Krokodil is in existence because it is easier to come by than heroin, and because heroin makes people stupid enough to think that a short high followed by even worse withdrawal and meltin...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-06 05:59am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

As if people don't die from "normal" alcohol poisoning and heart attacks in Russia even without the methanol contamination factor... with it the deaths just multiply. And no, legalization after the 1985-1991 "prohibition" in Russia did not cause a decrease in methanol poisoning....
by NettiWelho
2013-10-06 05:47am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

"Occasional death" from alcoholism? Methanol, not ethanol. Alcoholic drinks are supposed to contain only ethanol, but you still get cases of people being served alcoholic drinks contaminated with methanol. Methonal poisoning is by orders of magnitude more common under prohibition than und...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-05 10:17pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

I never said the current system was any good. So don't go putting words in my mouth. But your idea of legalizing everything is just as bad. May I know then what you mean by less harmful alternatives existing(alcohol is pretty serious business) and me not getting it? I am recommending actual safe al...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-05 10:06pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

You don't seem to get it. Less harmful alternatives exist. No, they dont. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/which-drugs-actually-kill-americans http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/article_image_big/public/images/2013/04/drug_overdose_0.jpg Wikipedia - Category:Psychoacti...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-05 09:20pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

Netti, how the hell is making it legal gonna stop people from overdosing? I can see an argument regarding disease transmission, but to say that it could possibly reduce how often people OD is a pretty big claim. Addicts aren't known for deciding to follow the directions on how much to use in a spec...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-05 09:03pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

Netti, how the hell is making it legal gonna stop people from overdosing? I can see an argument regarding disease transmission, but to say that it could possibly reduce how often people OD is a pretty big claim. Addicts aren't known for deciding to follow the directions on how much to use in a spec...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-05 08:00pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Seized
Replies: 45
Views: 5401

Re: Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6M Bitcoins Se

He never "had" to kill anyone. No one forced him to do that. As you yourself pointed out, he has the wealth to flee to a country that does not extradite to the US. Sorry, no, murder is NOT OK. The first "hit" appearently was some sort of a scam or extortion attempt, the extorter...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-05 05:26pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate
Replies: 81
Views: 5932

Re: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate

In this scenario it isn't even the FBI that needs to abuse its power for power to be abused; NSA is capable of doing that themselves after they get the keys legally acquired by the FBI and use it for their own purposes.
by NettiWelho
2013-10-04 09:15pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate
Replies: 81
Views: 5932

Re: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate

Actually MITM is the only way to do it using the SSL keys. Each SSL session generates a random key between the client and the server. You can't just take an SSL key and listen in to web traffic like a telephone conversation. Instead with the SSL key you are able to fool the client into thinking tha...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-04 05:34pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate
Replies: 81
Views: 5932

Re: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate

Lavabits could have avoided all of this by complying in the first place. But "all wasn't lost" even when they had to give up the SSL keys. There is no scenario that would require FBI to have the SSL keys after Lavabit signaled they were ready to do what the FBI originally requested. With ...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-04 01:35pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate
Replies: 81
Views: 5932

Re: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate

Your swipe at the supposed "incompetence or malice" of the FBI only reveals your personal bias clouding your judgement. My bias? Can you please spell it out in detail what makes these guys worth trusting further than I am able to throw a rock? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO http:...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-04 01:05pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate
Replies: 81
Views: 5932

Re: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate

There was a warrant issued in this case, and Levinson was able to go before a judge to have his side heard. This would be a perfectly reasonable, and perfectly legal search and seizure in any era... Still does not give any legimitacy for keeping demanding SSL keys after Lavabits had agreed to imple...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-04 11:38am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate
Replies: 81
Views: 5932

Re: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate

The only reason to get the SSL keys would be to capture future data transmissions. Again, the data that the FBI was hoping to capture e-mail “from” and “to” lines on every e-mail, as well as the IP address used to access the mailbox would need to be captured fresh as presumably Lavabits was not kee...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-03 06:52pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate
Replies: 81
Views: 5932

Re: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate

You seem to have missed the point where the secret court forbade Lavabit from seeking legal counseling on the matter... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/lavabit-founder-under-gag-order-speaks-out-about-shut-down-decision/ Levison explained he was under gag order and that he was legally un...
by NettiWelho
2013-10-03 06:16pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate
Replies: 81
Views: 5932

Re: FBI outed in attempt to obtain SSL certificate

Sure they are. Generally you give them what the warrant's for and they find they can't get jack shit from it. Not stonewall them until you're facing an obstruction charge and having to appeal your way out of things. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the FBI is absolutely right, but Lavabit isn't a...