Concur. Additionally, once you engineer in a back door, the actual bad guys will attempt to exploit them.
Law enforcement officials from around the world have demanded that tech companies build backdoors into their encryption software to enable authorities to gain access, provided a court issues a warrant. Privacy advocates are horrified.
Although I sympathize with the needs of law enforcement, I fear that my libertarian soul sides with the bad guys on this one.
By “bad guys,” I mean us -- people -- individuals -- who are not happy at the thought of governments snooping around our private lives. When the head of the FBI says to the tech companies, “Please help us,” he is in effect saying to ordinary users, “Please trust us.” And that’s where the problem lies.
Just as Nixon-hate was the logical successor to Kennedy-adoration and the politics of personality Kennedy introduced.
The politics of substance and policy are dead.
Conan the Grammarian
at May 14, 2017 1:28 PM
"The politics of substance and policy are dead."
Mortally wounded in a claw-hammer attack by Newt Gingrich on the right then shot dead by Bill Clinton, darling of the coporate globalists.
RIP.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers
at May 14, 2017 2:41 PM
*DeNiro & Pfeiffer look perfect for the gig.*
Nomination for breathless reporter prose, 2017:
"The Post knocked on the door of the 989-square-foot town house she rents in this bucolic burg of neatly trimmed hedges, where children wait for the school bus outside beautifully restored shingled cottages, and homemakers in Spandex drive their husbands in Audis and Land Rovers to the Metro-North station."
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers
at May 14, 2017 2:44 PM
Well, it is mother's day...
Childish men are to blame for women having kids late in life. It’s never because modern women don’t bring enough to the table to make marriage and kids appealing.
I mean, who wouldn’t rush to marry a women who will hate you after having your baby? Only a “childish” man, obviously.
Perhaps society is inadvertently doing the human trial run for this experiment:
Q. How did you stop fruit flies from breeding?
A. By discarding their eggs. In my experiment, only those females who reached 50 days of age were allowed to breed.
Obviously, only those females who lived that long, and who could still breed, contributed offspring to the next generation. After about 12 generations, you had longer-lived flies.
Sometimes, journalists have said to me, "Wow, this is what all my friends are doing," and I said, "Right, that's why it's called the career woman experiment." If everybody is like the female neurologist who waits until she is established in her profession before she reproduces, and this goes on for generations, then we will evolve longer life spans -- very slowly.
It would take centuries to get a really significant effect. Long before that ever happens, we will have medical interventions that will be far superior.
At last! We finally see some youthful vigor restored to this sagging holiday!
Crid
at May 14, 2017 8:30 PM
"It’s just too perfect that Clinton lost the election in part because she relied on a gay, 36-year-old Ivy League data nerd rather than a two-time winner of a presidential election to show her the path to the White House."
Best simple analysis I've seen to date. Thanks for that NYPost Crid.
Bob in Texas
at May 15, 2017 10:07 AM
I love the thought Bill saying to Hill-- "Tolja! Tolja!"
In honor of that Saturday Night Fever film review, I bring you... The Suit.
Crid at May 13, 2017 11:02 PM
Happy Mothers Day!
Bill Burr on motherhood the "most difficult job on the planet."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hitc8haEu_g
JFP at May 14, 2017 5:47 AM
Oh, Florida man & son.
http://gunfreezone.net/index.php/2017/05/13/the-mango-did-not-fall-far-from-the-tree/
I R A Darth Aggie at May 14, 2017 6:14 AM
This article maybe reaches too far, but maybe not, so it's better than you think it will be.
Leading men have always been goofy. But still.
Crid at May 14, 2017 6:18 AM
The Post, man. I don't see it very often.
DeNiro & Pfeiffer look perfect for the gig.
Crid at May 14, 2017 6:23 AM
Annnnd a third strong piece from the NYP, via Hymowitz...
http://nypost.com/2017/05/13/why-working-class-america-voted-with-their-middle-finger/amp/
More about this later, it fleshes out some thoughts from a comment yesterday
Crid at May 14, 2017 9:02 AM
So.. Intrasexual competition, Mother's Day edition?
http://www.wbrc.com/story/35416912/report-woman-ripped-up-mothers-day-card-beat-6-year-old-son
Sixclaws at May 14, 2017 10:02 AM
Governor Brown wants Trump to give him money for Feinstein's family train boondoggle.
Yup.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 14, 2017 10:35 AM
Excellent article. I'm going to read Williams' book.
Reminds me of Class by Paul Fussell.
Conan the Grammarian at May 14, 2017 11:10 AM
At the intersection of "Impeach Maxine Waters" and "Illegals hurt blacks.”
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/impeach-maxine-waters-street-art-appears-near-inglewood-town-hall-meeting/
I R A Darth Aggie at May 14, 2017 11:33 AM
Concur. Additionally, once you engineer in a back door, the actual bad guys will attempt to exploit them.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-08/i-side-with-the-bad-guys-on-encryption
I R A Darth Aggie at May 14, 2017 11:44 AM
Just like Captiain Ron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZefUEyIga4
Stinky the Clown at May 14, 2017 11:52 AM
Forgot this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alNxLjCBJc
Stinky the Clown at May 14, 2017 11:55 AM
Former NYPD officer is caught in an intimate relationship with a Comcast lobbyist: (NSFW)
https://mobile.twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/863139456194367488
Sixclaws at May 14, 2017 12:02 PM
Trump, the reality show star, is the logical successor to Obama, the movie star.
Just as Nixon-hate was the logical successor to Kennedy-adoration and the politics of personality Kennedy introduced.
The politics of substance and policy are dead.
Conan the Grammarian at May 14, 2017 1:28 PM
"The politics of substance and policy are dead."
Mortally wounded in a claw-hammer attack by Newt Gingrich on the right then shot dead by Bill Clinton, darling of the coporate globalists.
RIP.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 14, 2017 2:41 PM
*DeNiro & Pfeiffer look perfect for the gig.*
Nomination for breathless reporter prose, 2017:
"The Post knocked on the door of the 989-square-foot town house she rents in this bucolic burg of neatly trimmed hedges, where children wait for the school bus outside beautifully restored shingled cottages, and homemakers in Spandex drive their husbands in Audis and Land Rovers to the Metro-North station."
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 14, 2017 2:44 PM
Well, it is mother's day...
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/264868/
I R A Darth Aggie at May 14, 2017 4:06 PM
Perhaps society is inadvertently doing the human trial run for this experiment:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/science/live-longer-with-evolution-evidence-may-lie-in-fruit-flies.html?_r=0
Sixclaws at May 14, 2017 4:46 PM
At last! We finally see some youthful vigor restored to this sagging holiday!
Crid at May 14, 2017 8:30 PM
"It’s just too perfect that Clinton lost the election in part because she relied on a gay, 36-year-old Ivy League data nerd rather than a two-time winner of a presidential election to show her the path to the White House."
Best simple analysis I've seen to date. Thanks for that NYPost Crid.
Bob in Texas at May 15, 2017 10:07 AM
I love the thought Bill saying to Hill-- "Tolja! Tolja!"
Crid at May 16, 2017 6:19 PM
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