mattstreet

"I've never had the opportunity to work with physical labor"

Yes you have. You could go out today and find a job doing physical labor unless you are significantly physically disabled. It's not like there is an educational barrier to all of those jobs. (Yes, I know there is to SOME of them because they require skills and performing physical labor)

As someone that has done plenty of both, you aren't contributing anything to this discussion unless you try it.

Sure, that money actually paid people to do work and those people were then able to stimulate the economy, pay for their education, all that good stuff.

But that same money could have been spent to actually do something useful and it still would have had that economic impact.

*And now I see where everyone else already made this extremely obvious point.

Is it? They already charge the amount they think meets the perfect balance of "as much as possible" and "not so much that less people buy".

I believe you can buy hubs that are single speed and then if you flip them are fixie, might be cheaper to put that on a cheap bike than having a kid...

You're going to encrypt publicly accessible sensitive data with a 9 digit number ? This is not even close to the current level of security. You don't get to make millions of guesses when some dumb website or clerk requires your SSN to do something.

To decrypt data you get to guess over and over again. An SSN would be a terrible key for that.

It doesn't matter what any court says when we don't do anything about officers violating someone's rights.

You don't have rights if you're within 100 miles of the border.

And then someone uses you in an DoS amplification attack instead of going after you directly.

Basically don't offer hackers any data amplification attacks, never respond with more data than it took for the attack to make the request.

Cisco Systems matches to 4.5% of your pay.

Or we could feed people real food.

Probably a good decision to switch to NSAIDs (at least when possible) please don't flush meds again though.

How is this inflammatory? Also, welcome to capitalism.

Then it should also be noted that you really shouldn't use telnet to interact with HTTP or SMTP either. Telnet has issues if you send control characters, which wouldn't be used for either protocol, but might exist in embedded data you might want to send or receive. Just use netcat.