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• nosehat commented on Britain's secret spy-on-every-call-and-email plan already well underway
  @32 Ill Lich: If you can get "everyone" to do that, you might as well ask "everyone" to start using PGP (or another open-source public key encryption method). It would be a lot more effective. I've known people who have an email signature filled with keywords: "Bomb, Jihad, Terrorists Are Like So Totally Cool, etc.." But I think overwhelming the system with false positives is much harder than you'd think. First of all, these messages are not being scanned (initially) by people, and algorithms don't ever give up in disgust. Also, data mining is a very advanced science. Tricks like...
• nosehat commented on Photos of food and their sugar-cube equivalent
  @ #11 Deckard68: Thanks for your thoughtful post! I'd only add, it seems like different types of food packaging have gotten crystallized at different eras. A lot of the convenience food / junk food items have packaging from the 70s because that's when that market expanded and the products were developed. However, if you walk down the baking aisle of your supermarket, you will feel like it's the 1950s, 40s, or even earlier. Packaging for major brands of flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, etc hasn't changed in a looong time....
• Rossy commented on Photos of food and their sugar-cube equivalent
  I don't understand why it says "That's more sugar than a whole pint of ice cream!" next to the 21 oz McD's shake. Last time I checked 21 ounces is more than a pint......
• Dewi Morgan commented on Britain's secret spy-on-every-call-and-email plan already well underway
  Hear, hear, nosehat: though end-to-end email encryption will need a Big Push from the main software manufacturers before it happens. Hey, it happened with the coloured browser addressbars, it can happen with email - right? Probably not :(...
• failix commented on Gun-wielding pharmacist responds to drugstore cowboy
  @Roku "Seriously: Alcohol prohibition didn't work. Abortion prohibition didn't work. Marijuana prohibition isn't working. How can any rational person believe that gun prohibition can possibly work?" How can any rational person compare a weapon to drugs? As for the "gun control doesn't impeach crime", this is a joke. please tell me why where I live I don't have to fear to get shot in the head. It's not because people don't get killed or that there's no crime, it's because it's so expensive in money, time, and resources to get guns. That's why smaller criminals (the ones you are more...