patronagezero

Benchmarks are snake oil when not being given the ability to reproduce them.

No worries, I'm sure everyone contributes more to their respective governments to break encryption than they'll every send to anyone seeking to protect it. Send more money to this guy if you want to feel better about your shitty (respective) country or self. Better yet, just donate to the EFF like a uselessly trendy dweeb. Being a decent citizen isn't about standing up for what's right or wrong (that makes you a terrorist), instead it's about sending money to your respective, government-approved cause.

> several people (not conspiracy theorists)

Nice, you choose to single out a section of people who've been reliably wrong, and excluded them from the people that have historically been correct. Good job, you tool.

Your very own government sponsored taxi, less city and state control and now with improved tracking and information awareness! Red or blue pill, they'll choke 'em both down with a few sips of progress.

Wow, so you didn't bother reading what I typed about my accident earlier. I'm sure people that disregard the law completely will just suddenly start paying for insurance and you'll never have to bother, say, paying more for uninsured motorist. So once again, if you want insurance, pay for it, don't act like involving the law suddenly fixes everyone's problems.

Just another example of the short-sighted mentality of the supporters of more laws and enforcement.

I'm still +12, so I have a bit more "karma" to burn before I create another account. Thanks for the fun guys.

... and as a reflection, take your tongue-in-cheek-"I hope you stay healthy"-shit and shove it. Everyone dies you ignoramus.

Haha, does not improve the conversation according to you because? Is incorrect because? Close minded because? Misleads people from the truth only you know? You should pull your head out...

No worries, plenty agree with you, but few fight the flood here on HN any longer. I never vote and rarely comment. The whole premise of comment voting is groupthink 3.0.

I cherish down-votes on HN, just like I cherish disagreeing with the idiocy that has plagued the progress of the US for decades, they'll keep swimming with the flow and wondering why things only get worse. It's like being the stern of the boat and wondering why wherever the country has been is shit, and looking at the bow as being to blame. You'll all get your turn at the bow of the ship, and I promise you it'll be far worse than your parents or grandparents.

Luck has nothing to do with genetics or the history that created them. Any system that requires the coercion of subjects to submit against their will for it to be successful (it isn't and will not be) is a foolish approach to an individual's struggles through life. No one should order me to care about every drug addled fool on the street, it's not my concern. Nor is it my concern that some people cannot figure out what a healthy diet is, or how to build a marketable skill. I grew up in a bum-fuck nowhere and got into programming without college, schooled at home and no connections to the industry. I know enough immigrants to know this is possible for anyone working hard. I grew up with a 486 in the age of Pentiums because my father invested. Your ideas are trite and old, constantly disproved. But keep holding the large stick and acting like you're not trying to control other peoples lives, it will end up driving this country apart.

They're a facade, a ruse to convince the american's that they still have a say in the matters of the US Government. This should have been obvious when they took the hot air of their contributors and flew it over the NSA HQ.

Your comment has reference to nothing useful to the conversation. None.

Yet living responsibility has clearly put me into a different cost bracket as opposed to the useful idiots. I've never been to the dentist, have straight cavity-free teeth, and never needed to see a doctor aside from once, where I paid cash. The only wrecks I've been involved in where the other driver's fault. I was reimbursed $1100 for a '89 prelude with a brand new engine and perfect body/chassis (less than 90k miles). It was a ripoff in every sense. That was my benefit for paying for uninsured motorist. The driver that hit me had no insurance, no driver's license, and no papers for the van. In fact I'm pretty sure she was high on prescription pills at the time. I would have rather saved the years of paying insurance, and had enough to buy a brand-new car.

When you consider how much insurance money (all taxpayer money) goes to the chronically obese, diabetic and generally unhealthy people of america, verses all the payees, perhaps you could see your point has no bearing with me.

The funny thing is, your (evidently) supported system will pay for me anyways in an event of the unexpected, as well as cutting me huge benefits in how much it'll cost as a result of having no money on the books. Enjoy.

The hospital will check's your income and account balances respective to your credit and work out some price they think you can actually pay. I watch my (health) uninsured friend's car accidient go from 80k to 20k when they had around 80k in savings. The prices are over-inflated because of the insurance industry, but don't let me stop anyone's religious belief in this ridiculous social system.

I hope you truly see nothing wrong with paying for (and forcing others to pay for) someone's sugar addiction, cellphone conversation while driving, smoking or drinking addition, otherwise I hope you DO enjoy the nanny state stepping in to solve this future problem by further telling you which activities and addictions you can becoming involved in.

Wow, what a load. Health insurance is a scam for the over-socialized. Why don't you have food insurance as well? I freelance BECAUSE I don't want to participate in the insurance industry. I freelance for the specific reason of dodging all of the silly bull that twits now expect from the nanny state. I can only hope my actions undercut the fools that voted for this crap.

I think people should really consider that there was nothing but the intent to assist in the Sony PR campaign in the first place. The US Government is a corporation first and foremost, both on paper, and in action. They want to see all of their subsidiaries do well.

The way I see it, they're bending over backwards for the sake of profit and consumerism, as that boat is currently sinking.

What depths of poor taste we find ourselves in, to be disagreeing with pg on hn.

Even pg can occasionally come off as an ignoramus, but don't let that convince you of the fallibility of your glorious leader.

Surrender your welfare programs (social security, public schools, the postal office, health insurance, the war machine, NASA, etc) and I'll be on board with completely open immigration. Barring that, you're just another corporate shill looking to profit from the ignorance of the masses.

I'm sure the EU governments each have a hand in the cookie jar as well. This isn't about state secrets as much as having an emotional and mental thermometer into the subjects of the elite. The machine must continue evolving and becoming more efficient in their conglomerate of corporations and their employees. Like many countries using microsoft software, I imagine they're all using Surveillance 1.0 SaaS from your very own US Government[0].

[0]: http://usa-the-republic.com/revenue/true_history/Chap8.html

I agree that it's unlikely the hack itself was a PR stunt, but you have to admit the subsequent handling of the hack was a PR stunt in which even the US Government seemed to be in on.

Programming is popular now, so I guess it follows that the pop-gobbling consumerists that ingest propaganda hourly would start overrunning the hacker types. How I miss the pre-2003 slashdot type commentators and hackers in general.

Throw yourself in the 'pessimist' camp if you like, I'm merely not an optimist to the point of ignoring reality. I love watching people gasping for optimistic news, it speaks to just how hard reality is going to slap those people in the face in the next few decades.

I didn't realize it was a competition between the sexes. Pick your side and game on, then.

You're over-complicating the issue, I think. Why not just do it themselves, then claim it was 'Anonymous'? No convincing required and no one to argue with.

The whole thing smells like just another move to convince the non-believers into thinking NK was responsible for the Sony hack.

You really believe that just because their parents failed the children decided not to try for themselves? Perhaps it has more to do with seeing how their parents failed. Specifically since the article is geared towards men, maybe it speaks towards a generation (or few) of boys watching the system screw their fathers over.

I live with a girl and have no intentions of classifying that relationship through the state. This article is a joke. Check out the MGTOW movement if you're interested in the real reason guys are refusing to get married.

... I'm not going to touch that, but perhaps you should spend a bit more time reflecting on that thought before you open yourself up to conversation on the issue.

> A universe without a conciseness to appreciate it is quite pointless, and might as well not exist.

I value life in all forms too much to agree with that statement. I value humans the most, but only if they can find a way to value themselves and their surroundings in a harmonious way.

On an individual level, yes. However, if we require some central authority to demand at the point of a gun (abstractly) for us to clean up our act, then I think we're better off facing our own obsolescence.

It's a hard sell to get me to concern myself with the environment when humanity is headed in the direction it's going. The earth will be just fine, even in the event that we can no longer survive on it, I'm more concerned with the question of if humanity is even worth saving.

Well, you just blew my mind with that last link. I'll have to give that recipe a try as well, I'm pretty sure it'll be worth it. Thanks!

You are correct, edited for clarity.