Raise the Bar on the Sacrament of Marriage

It's time to regain the sacred meaning that marriage must have  in order to be considered a sacrament. The standard of purity that I am suggesting requires considerable discipline, and would likely result in fewer marriages. The upside, however, is that there would be fewer divorces, since the novitiate for the vocation of marriage would be of considerable duration: two years. That is long enough for the initial passions attracting two people together to be brought under the discipline of Jesus' yoke. Nature would help in this regard, since sexual passion has a two-year duration, and after that, if the two were still intent on their vocation, the experience that would grow into a longterm relationship would be solid enough to bear the inevitable pain and suffering that such a commitment involves.

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A new kind of weapon of urban warfare is surfacing as a possibility. Wireless networks are being integrated into the modern automobile. The security and privacy implications of such in-car networks, however, have are not well under- stood as their transmissions propagate beyond the con- fines of a car’s body. To understand the risks associated with these wireless systems, this paper presents a privacy and security evaluation of wireless Tire Pressure Moni- toring Systems using both laboratory experiments with isolated tire pressure sensor modules and experiments with a complete vehicle system. We show that eaves- dropping is easily possible at a distance of roughly 40m from a passing vehicle. Further, reverse-engineering of the underlying protocols revealed static 32 bit identi- fiers and that messages can be easily triggered remotely, which raises privacy concerns as vehicles can be tracked through these identifiers. 

Read the article at http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~Gruteser/papers/xu_tpms10.pdf