Take-away from that is to look up the literature /before/ carrying out the self-experimentation. It could have saved the nasty experience with the retina cyst which sounds very nasty.
I guess we normally only get to hear of the self-experiments with great results and advances for science and medicine. The not-so-good results can tend to get buried both figuratively and literally.
Forget what? There was no pardon by Obama, so that agreement does not apply.
Why would you want to detract from the good news of Chelsea having a release date in the very near future and conflate that with a different issue regarding Assange?
I suspect this article is going to get some heated discussion pretty quickly.
I don't believe you have failed anyone and I hope you'll allow me to explain why I think so.
In the West (and developed countries), we expect our local authorities to deal with problems we see on a day to day basis. And they do. When you see a car accident, you call 911 and an ambulance and fire crew arrive, cut trapped people out and take them to hospital where doctors and nurses work to treat their injuries. Meantime, police turn up, close the road, help clear things up, set diversions and get traffic flowing, then clear everything up and everything goes back to normal.
Naturally, used to all this potency of our 'leaders', we see another horrible situation (e.g. Syria) and, based on our experience, we naturally expect our leaders to step in and fix that horrible situation too.
But they cannot.
To do so, you need to want your country to act like a colonial power and send in troops - some of whom will be killed - in order to suppress and defeat the evils we are so upset about.
We know from history that a colonial power, suppressing a local authority, must be prepared to be brutal (even more so than those being suppressed) in order to succeed.
But no-one wants to be a colonial power (ok, it's frowned upon in reasonably liberal democracies at least).
And any recent attempts (Vietnam on) have ended in miserable failure and basically made things worse.
Even if you are advocating for some World Police to move in and take over, there isn't even agreement on who that would be. Russians see that as their role, Americans see it as their role.
Neither country would accept the other doing it exclusively nor would they really be able to work together to do it as they both have different standards of what is acceptable and what is not.
So, unless there is an answer to all that, neither you nor anyone else outside the theater has a personal responsibility.
That does not stop you feeling legitimately upset or anguished about the situation. That's something completely different. But don't confuse the two issues.
If I read this right, it seems to have been created to be propagated for use in IP-SEC at the request of someone who is not clearly identified (according to the original source of the RFC).
I had a job circa-2000 where the info-security officer was ex-military and we were told never to use IP-SEC because it was not considered secure. I got no other explanation of why or how she knew about it, but was told it was a non-starter and not up for discussion. We had to install physical lines between offices instead. It could have been bluster, of course. I don't know enough to say.
There have been multiple discoveries of crypto weakening discovered over the past couple of years and this has the hallmarks of another one.
Every time, I wonder how far behind we are on crypto, especially when you consider things like GCHQ had public key crypto (and kept quiet about it) long before DH & RSA.
There is a lot of work required before we have any level of assurance that current crypto is up to required levels. I'm glad capable people are doing this sort of work and investigating and pushing improvements.
Pretty intentionally misleading but handily, by posting to HN, makes sure lots of people visit and then cause a DoS. Looks like someone posted this with a nice innocent smiley face.
The point here is that the substance of the claims is not in dispute. It is well documented and acknowledged by the court. There are a myriad of these cases, such as where a father (Gary Johnson) was jailed for wishing happy birthday to his grown up son (http://www.essexlive.news/sons-slam-jailing-father-facebook-...).
There are multiple problems with UK secret courts and their draconian and excessive powers being wielded in venomous ways. The UK is not a safe place to have a dispute with petty public officials as they resort to these powers and others to attack those who fail to comply with 'right-think' or question authority.
I guess we normally only get to hear of the self-experiments with great results and advances for science and medicine. The not-so-good results can tend to get buried both figuratively and literally.
Hope you're fully recovered.