Ok, I have to ask this, and I apologize in advance for it being out of topic.
How on earth are you well informed on so many topics spanning different fields of science and literature? Your comments are amazingly well informed, and I would like to know how you do it.
> The government's bottom line is this: their rules trump the public's statutory rights.
Mind boggling. And this is the same government that's invading sovereign countries, has its agencies undertake black operations to overthrow foreign democratically elected bodies that don't serve its interests [1], all in the name of bringing "democracy" to those regions. Here we have that same government making a fool out of the very people that elected it.
SSL/TLS was broken once by breaking MD5. Now if the NSA can break SHA-1 using its numerous known weaknesses (there's a working attack on SHA-1 with 2^52 operations), they can pull off internet-wide MITMing.
It's safe to assume the NSA can easily do way more than 2 petaflops, and they have an exaflop goal, and that would be enough to run known attacks against DES, factor 1024bit RSA moduli ... and if they can compromise just one root CA (which uses 1024bit RSA) they can issue valid certifications of their own and MITM everyone, and none would be the wiser.
And all of this assuming the NSA relies on publicly known weaknesses in SSL/TLS. The matter of the fact is that they have very smart people with access to unlimited resources researching new vulns and actively exploiting them.
I'm not interested in an argument over this, since it's off topic to the OP. My original comment's purpose was to point out the inaccuracies in the comment I replied to. Otherwise, this article [1] is a good read.
> Then I pointed that their prophet had a 9 year old wife
The age of Aisha when her marriage to Muhammad was consummated is unknown. Different reports of an age of 9 to 16.
> that by the way this girl also wrote good part of their holy book
No. She is a Hafez (one who recites the Quran by heart) and among those who helped in the efforts to collect the Quran, she did not _write_ it, or any parts of it. [1]
> Oversimplified translations is; AKP members are given police uniforms to go beat up protesters.
And I'm supposed to take this at face value, without this being corroborated by different news outlets? For all I know, the people from both sides of this matter are trying to social engineer me into being on their side. I am not on either's side.
Your comment is full of emotionally sensational discourse, and very short on data or sources to support it.
Furthermore, you attack a fellow HNer (@cup) and brand him a "Nazi" for sharing sensible argument, instead of addressing the points he makes.
The recent discussions around Turkey on HN, and the fact that comments like yours are getting upvoted, speaks heaps of the direction this site is heading towards.
How on earth are you well informed on so many topics spanning different fields of science and literature? Your comments are amazingly well informed, and I would like to know how you do it.