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... he'd have been better off to cite the 4 NY Senators who, back in 2011, insisted that the First Amendment be relegated from a right to a privilege.

How about revoking their "privilege" and arresting them on the Senate floor for saying something that you don't agree with?
They'd change their tune then.

Bad example. If you're thinking of the New York City soft drink size limit, that would have applied to soft drinks with caloric sweeteners, not diet soft drinks.

Indeed; if OP really wanted to point out an example of how New York State can be just as draconian and anti-freedom as the Texas example above, he'd have been better off to cite the 4 NY Senators who, back in 2011, insisted that the First Amendment be relegated from a right to a privilege.

If you think it's just Republicans, you're an ignorant fool.

Except Republicans, conservatives, Christians, people who respect the constitution. They're all free game.

You almost had a point there until you got around to trolling with the "people who respect the constitution" part. And yeah, a lot of people hate a lot of the so-called values that many Republicans, conservatives and Christians have been pushing these days. But that coin has two ugly sides to it, so let's not pretend like there's anything unique going on here.

If you put Conservatives, Republicans and Christians in one group, and "people who respect the constitution" in another group, then I think you've covered everyone. (with very little overlap)

Then your thinking is very, very wrong.

Frankly, the page itself screams bias with the line "has proved once again". I don't recall this being proved in the past, but hey, I try to be open minded. So I threw NSS labs into google, and immediately turned up:
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200912/3268/Can-you-trust-the-NSS-Labs-report-touting-the-benefits-of-IE8

So apparently they tested IE8 and thought it was awesomesauce. Uhm, ok... I thought IE8 wasn't completely terrible but I wouldn't say it was good. That link seems to think NSS might be a microsoft shill. But ok, I like to be open minded. Let's keep looking. Going down the first page of my google search:
Firewall Vendors Challenge Findings of NSS Labs Report | PCWorld
Haavard - Malware report from NSS Labs manipulates statistics?
Google Responds to NSS Labs Browser Security Report | News
A recent test by NSS Labs gave a near-perfect score to Internet Explorer 9 beta and very poor marks to Chrome and other browsers.


So uhm... yeah... at first glance, I'd say treating them with some skepticism seems more than warranted here.

It's already happening, cf Team Themis.

Um, Secunia lumps all versions of Mac OS X as one thing: from its release in 2001 to the present. An unpatched vulnerability in OS X is not an unpatched vulnerability in the current version.

Another interesting thing about Secunia: for Apple, they report any vulnerabilities they can find. For Microsoft, they only report Microsoft-acknowledged vulnerabilities. If Microsoft doesn't admit to a vulnerability, then it doesn't exist, right?

Let's see what people outside of Redmond have to say recently about Windows 7, shall we?
Pwn2Own 2011: IE8 on Windows 7 hijacked with 3 vulnerabilities
RSAC 2011: Windows 7 vulnerabilities show need for kernel control
Patch Tuesday: Gaping security hole in Windows Media Player
Windows security hole gives anyone access to computer without logging into User Account
Windows still unpatched security hole
partial list of current exploits for Windows 7

It's true that if they throw Assange in prison, what Wikileaks has started continues, but there is real reason for concern.

If they can do this to Assange for the crime of embarrassing the US government, then they can do it to anyone who speaks out with any real effectiveness against current government policies. There are also far too many who would like to kill or at the very least blacklist journalists for saying or writing something embarrassing to people in power.

The goal of those people is to erase the freedom of speech if that speech becomes too effective. If they succeed, it will make the McCarthy hearings look like a picnic by comparison (and I write that as someone whose grandfather was a victim of those hearings).

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks

Can't say I'm surprised but the tactics and manipulation they discuss but I find it outrageous all the same.

However, the fact that they felt the need to present such a teach-yourself-how-to-destroy-wikileaks-in-21-days presentation in such a dumb manner is somewhat encouraging.

This: "The test, funded by Microsoft"

The real warning flag is that it doesn't say that on NSS Lab's site nor does it say it anywhere in the report. So if I was being paid to do this, I would have that in big bold letters as a disclaimer on the front page of the report if I wanted to maintain credibility. So either the Google response article is wrong (which the same IE8 report from last year was funded) or you're just being flat out disingenuous when you say "independent." We just happen to receive funding from one of the participants and they decide when and if the report is released.

One more thing, if you dig into this report, the parts where they reference Microsoft read like an advertisement:

It became obvious from this test and comparisons to the earlier test that Microsoft continues to improve their IE malware protection in Internet Explorer 8 (through its SmartScreen® Filter technology) and in Internet Explorer 9 (with the addition of SmartScreen application reputation technology). With a unique URL blocking score of 94% and over-time protection rating of 99%, Internet Explorer 9 was by far the best at protecting against socially-engineered malware. The 89% zero-hour block rate suggests a far superior malware identification, collection, and classification method.

"What kind of registered application reputation technology did you say they used? Simply revolutionary progress!" Compare that section to that same section on Chrome:

With a protection rating of just 3%, Chrome 6 dropped more than 14% from our last test. And, Chrome’s unique URL score of 4% was also a major decline. Chrome’s overall poor protection makes it difficult to compare it to other Safe Browsing API-related products.

"Boo, Chrome sucks!" Hahaha oh my this is too funny. Google shouldn't have to explain themselves. Just take what you can to improve from this report, become aware of your opponent's tactics and move forward.

The move to Amazon helped WikiLeaks remain online, but that was only the start of the problem. A day later politics entered the picture. Senator Joseph Lieberman is said to have called Amazon on December 1, to complain about their hosting of Wikileaks.

The assumption that Lieberman caused Amazon to boot WikiLeaks comes from a statement the Senator released that said in part, "After reading press reports that Amazon was hosting the Wikileaks website, Committee staff contacted Amazon Tuesday for an explanation."

"[Amazon's] decision to cut off Wikileaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies Wikileaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material. I call on any other company or organization that is hosting Wikileaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them," Lieberman's statement added.

In any case, no, it does not necessarily follow that businesses should have some right just because people do. Why would they? Businesses aren't people. An obvious example is the right to vote.

Most people have been led to believe they need an Anti-virus scanner

Fixed that for you.

so if a website tells them they can download one for a small fee, they will.

There's a difference between telling someone they can download an anti-virus scanner for a small fee and throwing an ominous looking pop up window saying something along the lines of "YOUR COMPUTER IS ABOUT TO GET INFECTED AND SOMEONE WILL STEAL YOUR BANK DETAILS YOU SHOULD PURCHASE OUR ANTI-VIRUS NOW OR ELSE".

Here is a good example

Very soon these devices will wirelessly talk to keyboard, monitors, each other, the public internet,/i>

You want Nokias, they already talk to bluetooth keyboards and have HDMI cable connectors for your TV at 720p at least. That's for the consumer stuff, try the N900 for the 'smart computing device'

I'm not sure if you can get a docking station for them that has the cable and BT set up - worth asking.

Frankly if they don't do the cheesy-as-hell activation fee like Intel is proposing I'm sold.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1599659/wall-street-journal-admits-ipad-sales-disappointing

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=6709

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201014/5463/First-day-iPad-sales-fall-short-of-revised-expectations

http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=454448

Wow. Four stories about how Apple didn't sell as many iPads as some analysts (not Apple) predicted!

2 million, 2 months. Fastest ever to $1 billion. But some analysts were off by a week or so (in light of a supply shortage, no less), oh no!

keep reading ...

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/20100604-the-ipad-can-t-match-the-laptop-yet-but-when-it-can-the-world-will-change-kohler.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/why-the-apple-ipad-will-fail-in-australia-339302686.htm

http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38566-five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia

http://delimiter.com.au/2010/04/27/five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia/

http://www.marketingmag.com.au/news/view/ipad-over-hyped-2165

Three identical articles! And two opinions that match yours! Oh my, Apple is doomed!

2 million, 2 months, fastest to $1 billion, top selling tablet, etc., etc. You can quote all the bullshit articles you want, but you can't negate the simple fact that the iPad is off to a stellar start. You can't take the position that with a start like this, the iPad is going to fall flat and expect to be taken seriously. If it is going fail, there are no signs of it. In fact, all signs point to the opposite conclusion.

I'll repeat that: there are no signs at all that the iPad will fail. Just because you don't like it, that doesn't mean...

Fuck, I just realized, nobody can be that stupid. I've been trolled. I need to learn to pay better attention next time.

/end thread

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1599659/wall-street-journal-admits-ipad-sales-disappointing

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=6709

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201014/5463/First-day-iPad-sales-fall-short-of-revised-expectations

http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=454448

keep reading ...

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/20100604-the-ipad-can-t-match-the-laptop-yet-but-when-it-can-the-world-will-change-kohler.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/why-the-apple-ipad-will-fail-in-australia-339302686.htm

http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38566-five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia

http://delimiter.com.au/2010/04/27/five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia/

http://www.marketingmag.com.au/news/view/ipad-over-hyped-2165

I thought we had already gotten to that point since the government can kick down your door and arrest you for clicking on a hyperlink (which BTW IIRC they didn't even bother to collect a referrer). So remember kids, that link might be the information you want, might be a rickroll, or it might be a free ride to PMITA prison, you never know!

As for TFA, is anyone actually surprised AT&T left a door the size of a Mac truck wide open? Old Steve needs to be seriously looking at this, as what good is all that control gonna do if AT&T keeps fucking up? From what I understand their network already can't give the "iExperience" Steve was touting, thanks to not having enough infrastructure to handle the load, and with apple customers generally having more $$$ they make an inviting target and stupidity like this is just gonna make that bullseye that much larger.

The big selling point of Steve's iStuff is how everything "just works" but if the networking blows and the lack of security at AT&T has your info spammed across the planet all the great UI in the world isn't gonna keep people coming and buying. Old Steve needs to go Godzilla on their ass for pulling this stupid shit and be doing damage control but quick.

I found this story mentioning a similar incident regarding WordPress blogs, but it happened two weeks ago, rather than this weekend. The original site is slashdotted, so I can't tell if this is really the same incident or not.

They started taking bids from museums a year or two ago, and closed the bidding last month. Currently marked down to the bargain-basement price of $28 million each, including shipping, no quantity discounts.

Proven?

I wonder what is the death toll caused by poor "driving" of a computer these days?

At least one

CA's take a long time to get revoked. Check google for Comodo as an exmple of a lazy CA.

"and taking almost a month to revoke the certificate has to change. The excuse that everyone else does it, so we do it too else we lose business, is weak at best. "

But the whole point is that people do not really understand certificates. There are big warnings, but people are kept in the dark what they should do. Also people are clueless what the small lock actually means. The fact is that if there is a certificate you should be able to idntifiy the people behind it. That does not help you if those people are international scammers in a country where the police does not care. (Maybe because there are bigger problems in that country , like speeding violations)

A hoax? How could you be such a pessimist when you know those two guys just unveiled the frozen bigfoot they caught? :D http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200834/1806/Shock-Bigfoot-claim-is-frozen-hoax/

Actually, Apple Support regularly kicks the crap out of PC companies in customer satisfaction surveys.

Yeah, like people never accidentally share secret documents from their desktop machines.

After seeing this movie, anyone who thinks it's a turkey is either a moron or saw a different movie than I did

I guess lots of people saw a different movie than you.

This movie deserves the videogame it got.

No, the Onion at least bases their satire on facts!

Fox just makes things up from their twisted imagination.

Seriously though, I have such a mistrust of Fox News that I had to go out to another news site to veify the facts.

Seriously. Really though, I did. Fox's reputation is that bad.

Seriously. Not kidding.

Furthermore, he didn't even get a chance to play Halo 3. If you read the other more in-depth articles, you'll see that he actually just bought the game, and had it taken away when he came home, not even giving him a chance to play it (at least at home).

... here here including the kid's name. Article notes this isnt the first time he's been in trouble for hacking, so it may explain the apparent over zealous charges.

I don't see why this is marked flaimbait. Its exactly what humanity is thinking. Its not that "Nature is overrated" its that its been rated as less important than many other things. At least the poster is honestly expressing the thought that most are acting out.

A Recent report estimates that approaching 30% of species might extinct. Let that be an exaggeration but the fact remains many environments are being destroyed. In the meantime , we all remain more interested in the horsepower of our sports car, the power of our new computer or the taste of tomorrow's exotic dinner out.

Not only that but less than a billion of us have really reached anything like our potential for destroying the environment. But a couple of billion Chinese and Indians are about to catch up. What do you think it will be like when we are 3 times as effective?

Of course I'm hoping for a technological solution, failing that I'm hoping things don't meltdown before I get old and die (I don't really want to live in a concrete bunker thanks). I don't have much faith in people to react and change in time.

cheers,
david