"It's news to me!"

[theCryptofishist]

Because you're ugly and your mother dresses you funny...

[Ugly Dougly]

We're already seeing that.
In some rural areas, the only employment is military and prisons.

The same might be said for some urban areas.

[gyre]

I mean it quite literally.
There are some areas that will empty out without the jobs.
No other choices.

My friend discovered this recently.
You can join the military, leave or be unemployed, in certain parts of the state.

[theCryptofishist]

http://www.haaretz.com/business/the-psy ... 8.facebook

[Simon of the Playa]

HINDUS EVERYWHERE, REJOICE!

[Ugly Dougly]

Oh, that's juicy.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-575 ... veillance/

[gyre]

Oh, that's juicy.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-575 ... veillance/

Any terrorist group with sigint that isn't full of disinformation should just give up and go herd sheep.

[Canoe]

You can tell a lot from noise, analyzed separate from content.

[gyre]

True, and preventing that is key to even random privacy for the average person.
The best encryption should not look unusual.

Just seems they could do more damage lighting up alerts than anything else.

[Canoe]

... The best encryption encoding (?) should not look unusual...

[gyre]

I'm not entirely sure there's a difference in the way I'm using that.
I may be wrong.
In theory, high security encryption could be made to look like low security encryption, so as to not attract special attention.

I would note that the desire for privacy and security has been officially designated as a suspicious activity by the government.

[Box Burner]

Oh, that's juicy.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-575 ... veillance/

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., the author of an amendment defeated last week that would have severely limited the scope of the NSA's surveillance authority, said on "Fox News Sunday" that recent terror threats prove the need to safeguard -- not infringe upon -- Americans' privacy rights.

"It's precisely because we live in this dangerous world that we need protections like the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution," he said. "The framers of the Constitution put it in place precisely because they were worried you'd have national security justifications for violating people's rights."

He is right you know. This is just more smoke and mirrors.

[Canoe]

...In theory, high security encryption could be made to look like low security encryption, so as to not attract special attention...

I'd expect any encryption to attract scrutiny.
I was thinking about code. Where simple words have a hidden meaning. Unless you have a stupid code that looks like nonsense, like "I'll take two and a half elephants, bring them to 4:20 & M".

[gyre]

Low grade encryption is common, unfortunately easy for anyone to crack, not just the nsa, dea, local cops, but the teenager down the street too.
So I'm guessing anyone looking for something interesting would look for the more secure forms, which would be easy in the past.
If it blends in, not so obvious.

Not that I would know anything about such things, so just guessing here.

[gyre]

No reason not to use code within a cipher.

Supposedly Kazinsky's by the book old school ciphers tied up the nsa for quite some time, because he followed the rules and kept it from being obvious.
Nothing new, just the traditional approaches, without sloppiness.
Of course, they eventually cracked it all.
I would have thought it would take days at worst though.
Or hours even.

[maryanimal]

So, size does matter eh??

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/03/26/ ... e_facebook

[FIGJAM]

"That's one hellava shroom you got there."

http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles ... 700748.txt

[FIGJAM]

"Stop that! You're making me sleepy."

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/dogs-yaw ... 6C10867724

[FIGJAM]

Do you have 5 pounds of undigested meat in your colon?

Kind of a long artical, but I found it fasinating.

Look out vegan's, we're coming at you!!!

http://www.gnolls.org/1444/does-meat-ro ... egetables/

[unjonharley]

I dropped two pant size and almost ten pounds in just a few days..

No more big ole pot belly for me..

Shut up and eat your garbage.(movie quote)

[FIGJAM]

"I don't have the stomach for veggies!"

[gyre]

Vegetables aren't food.
Vegetables are what food eats.


http://news.yahoo.com/mystery-texas-gra ... 09755.html

[gyre]

Available
Affordable
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/-s ... 16887.html

[DrewDubious]

http://vegetarianfighter.com/fighters/


Hmmm, these guys must be DOING IT WRONG!

[gyre]

No wonder they're cranky!

[Aurelia]

better show us the carnivorous fighters so we can compare

[Simon of the Playa]

the bees, the BEES!

[theCryptofishist]

You'd think the cold would kill it off... Unless it's from Tierra Del Fuego.
Just how pathetic do you have to be to abuse redheads anyway? Or is that an Ask Eric question?

[Thecatman]

[media]

Presidents have always been mocked. There has been presidential Halloween masks since Nixon. or at least Carter.

[gyre]

Pretty fast.
I need to get out more.