PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
Your supposition that "there may as well be no laws at all" is very extreme and no credible person would support it.
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PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
Nobody is going to engage with you if you use the word "shill". It is the rhetoric of conspiracy theorists, and debate with conspiracy theorists is not technically possible.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
"it is extraordinary for anyone to not belief America is a police state"
But the vast vast majority of people disagree and think that your opinions are extremist nonsense.
Where are all the conspiracy theorists coming from on HackerNews recently?
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
Unfortunately your text largely uses the rhetoric of conspiracy theorists. You even use the word "shill". I don't think reasoned debate is possible with you, because your opinions are so extreme.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
"I don't know how anyone can argue that the US doesn't fit the definition of an electronic police state"
Unfortunately the vast vast majority of people disagree with you, including basically every single social commentator. The only people agreeing with you are those on the fringe extremes.
I'm sorry, but I don't think reasoned debate is possible with you.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
The number of respected social commentators who think America is a police state is essentially zero.
If you believe America is a police state, then you are on the extreme-fringes of opinion. So you'd need extraordinary evidence to back your claim up.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
"Americans live in a police state"
Americans do not live in a police state. Not by any sane interpretation of the definition. That's just absurd nonsense.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: The Problem with Tying Health Care to Trade
The UK still has a free, universal healthcare system. Where are you getting your facts from?
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: The Problem with Tying Health Care to Trade
Don't be depressed and angry. The NHS isn't going to be sold off. No-one thinks that, outside a few extremists on the fringes of the political spectrum.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: OpenSSH for Windows update
That's not true at all. I question it when people post conspiracy theory stuff with no evidence whatsoever. HackerNews is not that type of website, and I hope it never degenerates into it.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: OpenSSH for Windows update
No.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: Inside Britain's Secretive Bullingdon Club
Apparently because they're the "elites" or something.
Something something lizards something.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
It is magical. There is a magic 36000-core (?) computer that has been running for years (?). Well no, the paper just invents it. On the hearsay that an "anonymous nsa official" said they'd cracked something.
It astonishes me that people are running about like rabbits in a headlight on such flimsy nonsense.
But I understand. It makes us feel important. The new James Bond movie is coming out. And imagine! We're like a superhero secret agent. We can protect from the big bad government by increasing all the keys to 2048 bits! And we get to feel special and important.
Sigh.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
"It seems that the NSA (and possibly other state-level actors) can access encrypted traffic that uses 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman that use commonly-used prime numbers."
How does it "seem this"? There's no evidence, no plausibility, no sense here whatsoever. Someone hypothetically conjectured a magic all-powerful computer that could magically crack a prime, and that would magically make us all vulnerable to the government who want to steal the data from my recipe startup and the church newsletters documents on my laptop.
And therefore, system admins are all recommending upgrading to 2048 keys?
I can't see the sense or logic here. It just seems hysterical conspiracy nonsense to me.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
"Because this particular military spy organisation is being deployed by the US government against its own citizens, en masse"
But it's not. That's the problem. There's no evidence whatsoever of it doing that.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH
I don't think the government wants to know about your private family life neither. I mean, it's edgy to imagine that the government has a secret file on all of us. But they don't do they? It's just very silly nonsense.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: How Facebook knows who you might be dating online
No that's not happening, it's just conspiracy nonsense.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: Clef's company handbook
Requiring a 50 hour week would be illegal in most of the developed world. Not at this company though. What a dismal state of affairs.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: Clef's company handbook
An expectation of 45-50 hours work is illegal in most of the developed world. This company is legally free to require that, and prospective employees are free to work somewhere else, that treats their staff like normal human beings.
PlzSnow | 10 years ago | on: Libertarian communism
Fascism: kill millions of poor people for their race.
Communism: kill millions of poor people for their politics.
Fascism and communism are the same thing, if you define them by how many poor people they torture and murder.