Think about it... they can afford to NOT WORK AT ALL, in order to protest and hunger strike. I'd say leave 'em to it. There are folks that can't afford to hunger strike, at least these strikers are leaving the jobs for those that need them.
On second thought: Can get all the other middle-men in the world to go on hunger strike too?
Or this bookmarklette: javascript:var%20f%20%3D%201%3B%0Awhile%20%28%20f%20%29%20%7B%0A%20%20var%20a%20%3D%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27a%27%29%3B%0A%20%20f%20%3D%200%3B%0A%20%20for%20%28%20var%20i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20a.length%3B%20++i%20%29%20if%20%28%20a%5Bi%5D.href.match%28%27experts-exchange.com%27%29%20%29%20try%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20f%20%3D%201%3B%0A%20%20%20%20var%20p%20%3D%20a%5Bi%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20while%20%28%20p%20%21%3D%20null%20%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20if%20%28%20p.tagName%20%3D%3D%20%27LI%27%20%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p.parentNode.removeChild%28%20p%20%29%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20break%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20else%20p%20%3D%20p.parentNode%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20if%20%28%20p%20%3D%3D%20null%20%29%20a%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild%28%20a%5Bi%5D%20%29%3B%0A%20%20%7D%20catch%20%28%20x%20%29%7B%7D%0A%7D%0Avoid%280%29%3B
Paste that in to the FF address bar to eliminate expert exchange search results. Equivalent to this script (esp for use with grease-monkey).
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Everyone knows that the best way to scare off buglers is to call out into the darkness, in your most shaky and unnaturally high pitched tone, "I have a gun!... I've already called the police!".
This, followed shortly by turning on all the lights and tip-toeing around in your boxers wielding a golf club is more than enough security for anyone!
You may want to read up on what an MMO is. How do you propose they implement a persistent, massively multiplayer online world for LAN play?
By licensing the server source code as AGPL and giving us a copy (instead of having us reverse engineer our own).
Note: You can play WoW as you describe via LAN. Just have your LAN-mates add your WoW private server's IP address to your realmlist.wtf, and away you go.
Also-Note: LAN implies loosing the first M in MMORPG.
1) You do not own this product, you are licensed to use this product if you comply with this agreement in totality. If you can not agree with any of these terms you are not licensed to use the product.
2) If any part of this agreement is found legally unenforceable the section in question will be considered stricken from the license, and does not effect the legality or applicability of all other sections. In the event that any section of this license does not apply to you as written, you must request a signed renegotiated license from us (us, as defined somewhere as the company licensing the product).
3) The sacrificing of your first born child by fire, to the death, and in dedication to Baal shall be thoroughly completed before your use of this product. Failure to comply with this term results in the revocation of your license to use this product.
Programmers make interfaces for themselves and other programmers, which means that they suck for regular users.
Speak for yourself, I'm a programmer that makes amazing GUIs because I listen to my customers/target audience... Some of us are actually very skilled in UI design.
And if/when the open source drivers are created and are better than the proprietary drivers, I'll use them. For now it boils down to "use proprietary drivers" or "not use the device".
Well, if the device shipped with open source drivers they wouldn't have to be "created" before I start making them "better" for you.
I, as a non-programmer do not care about openness of the source, since I would not be able to modify and recompile the driver even i the source was available
Perhaps, you, as a non-programmer, upgrade to a different architecture/OS, and then must either buy new expensive peripheral hardware simply because of the upgrade, cancel the upgrade and remain slow/insecure. (See: 64bit windows adoption)
Perhaps, if you cared to prod those same expensive peripheral companies and insist on open source drivers, then I, as a programmer, would be able to re-compile the device drivers for your new platform, out of the goodness of my own heart, and give you new binary drivers that are every bit as good as the proprietary drivers, if not BETTER (since I may improve the existing code instead of start from scratch).
Also note: With proprietary OS / Drivers no amount of money would enable me to fix a driver bug for your "mission critical" system... I would have to start from scratch -- A task that no amount of money can cause me to perform.
You can persuade me to work on FOSS with minimal monetary compensation. You can also pay folks to fix things for non mission critical systems. Some coders fix bugs & make improvements for the hell of it at no charge...
For instance: Perhaps you like playing 3D games on your uber spiffy PC? Perhaps there's a bug on your particular 3D driver that doesn't render the crosshair, cursor or other effect correctly. If the 3D gfx card was shipped with open source drivers I may just fix the bug on a weekend for the hell of it (or because I have the same issue), and your issue would kindly be resolved.
Try convincing Nvidia to fix a cursor bug in a 6 month old proprietary graphics driver.... Well, if that's what you call "better", good luck with that.
Most Linux (& windows) savvy folk I know MAKE A LIVING from "The fact that the public do not want to learn Bash commands, or CLI" We don't hate that fact, we revel in it...
...And, you should care about normal computer users because these same Linux savvy folk also make contributions to the kernel and other open source software you use on Linux.
The more "normal computer users" that use Linux, the more Linux savvy folk can make easy money doing what they love and have time left over to make your OS better... Hell, I've even been hired to fix a bug, or add a feature to an open source product by "normal computer users" who just want to be able to pay money to make problems go away. Were they using a proprietary OS or software, that wouldn't have been an option for them, the project & it's other users wouldn't have benefited, and I would have less money & time to work on FOSS.
We CAN all get along... We don't need to push Linux on the desktop, it is happening/will happen soon enough (my Grandma's using Ubuntu... She knows not of this Bash you speak), besides, Linux is doing pretty well in our TVs, set-top boxes, phones, toasters, clocks, super-computers, routers (esp. the web). It doesn't matter if we're competing with windows or anything else. So long as we're being used by more people in more places, that's enough for me.
...or neither since you can develop letter case semantics and follow them precisely (much like your native language and Java do). Third graders are just people too, and are expected to learn proper punctuation in the language they learn.
Programmers are excused from learning proper English language capitalization, punctuation and spelling (and other written language semantics (like proper "quote usage", and avoiding nested parenthesis ) ) because they frequently deal with the many-varied semantics of programming languages, and many coders don't use editors with spell-check features.
Perhaps you should just use a case insensitive language, like BASIC (who's name is ironically case sensitive -- must be capitalized since it's an acronym).
“Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant”
Would you buy a car that has an inaccessible engine, a dealer padlock on the hood? Do they call it “tampering” when I change my own oil?
It’s sad that more people don’t stand up for their right to use and modify their own machines however they want. It's a shame that the DMCA is used to prevent us from using & modifying the hardware we purchase. Fear of a legal suit is likely the reason the source code will not be made public...
Any attempt to lock down or make “tamper-resistant” your hardware should be met with the same outrage you would exhibit if car dealers were to make your car legally serviceable only by the dealer.
Microsoft car salesman: "No, you may not look under the hood. Touch the engine with a wrench and we'll sue."
I'm observant of the fact: I'm being irradiated by no less than 6 strong WiFi signals networks at any given time (12 at the moment) in Houston.
Turn all those into ad-hoc networks, and connect the overlapping nets together. It's not much different than the wired web. It's still a bunch of routers between me and my destination that I really don't trust.
Personally, having a BBS back in the day, I envisioned The Open Internet as a fusion between HAM radio & high speed FidoNet. Where anyone could just hook up a signal repeater and join what we call "the cloud" today... Today's Internet is so far from "the cloud", it should really be called "the grave", yeah, see, it's actually in/near the ground & everyone eventually gets there if they try hard enough -- plus, "in the grave" sounds exactly like how using dial-up (or any AT&T service) actually feels.
When I found out "the Internet is going to be Wired?!" I thought, nah, this is a just a phase, our wireless utopia will be here soon, boy was I wrong -- totally underestimated the telco's greed & unwillingness to spend money on infrastructure.
Naturally I was equally unimpressed with "Internet2". This most recent "Open Internet" sounds just as closed as ever to me.
Cellular packet data is closer to what I call "the cloud", Wimax, and LTE, etc is getting there, but if we're using wires for the majority Internet mk2, count me out... Meanwhile, I'll be hooking up my wifi router to my HAM equipment & building a truly open global ad hock WiFi network instead.
Just look at console video games. In the beginning there were lots of "exclusive" 3rd party titles. Then, one day developers (& publishers) realized that it's stupid to sell software exclusively for one platform. It's clearly more profitable to sell cross-platform software.
Why limit your target market to just one platform? One reason is to take full advantage of the platform. If even video games (which need to take as many advantages as possible can navigate the road to cross platform development, then it should be a realistic expectation for desktop applications like Photo Editor X, Word Processor 2010, etc (which have nowhere near the demand as a game) to be cross platform.
Of course, MS goes out of their way to screw over FOSS (see: Samba, OpenGL, etc), so they're not going to make it easy to write cross platform software. Even so, I write cross platform code, and it's really not that hard. I don't use libs like Qt, SDL, etc anymore, but they do make developing cross platform software much easier.
Our plea to hardware and application developers for more Linux support is slowly beginning to matter as more publishers realize that the money we saved by not buying an OS could be used to buy a cross-platform version of their software -- if only such a version existed.
On the other hand, for most users Linux IS ALREADY a decent windows replacement. My neighbor is a 71 year old retired Air Force Sergeant. Sarge has been using Windows since v3.1, and he's set in his ways more than anyone I know. Last year I installed Ubuntu on his PC after a fatal widows crash. Instead of buying the latest windows version he decided to give Linux a try (Both Gnome and Win7 are equally different to him compared to XP). After a week of adjustment ("Where is feature_X", etc.), Sarge has been a happy Linux user ever since; If he can switch to Linux, anyone can.
In conclusion: Should competing with windows matter? Not if it means doing anything different than what Gnu/Linux is already doing. Linux should just focus on being a better Linux. Cross platform software is becoming the norm, which platform matters less and less. Not even MS can fight the pressure that the free market exerts as developers ask themselves, "Wait, WHY DON'T WE SELL a version for platform X?!"
Wait, so someone actually used crowd sourcing as a way to gather information for a study against the common wisdom of crowd sourcing -- which reveals that crowd sourcing is prejudiced?
They expect us to believe that their "wisdom" gained from "crowd" sourcing shows "'the wisdom of the crowd' is prejudiced", and theirs isn't?
They are introducing multi-touch in 10.10 because in 11.04 the close and minimize buttons will run around the borders of your windows and you'll need two hands to catch them.
This is much better than the current 10.04 "Memory" min-game where you try to remember which side the buttons are on.
Their "Network Solutions" are serving malware, which is a "Network Problem" that then requires another "Network Solution"; This was overshadowed by another of their past "Network Problems" so that the current article about "Network Solutions" causing "Network Problems" was overlooked.
That's pretty neat, but I don't know how to perform a "'pwhash' compliant" hash myself... on the cmd line (you know, for when JS is disabled or unavailable).
When it comes to security I prefer approaches that allow me to "Trust No One".
That's why I made my own JS Bookmarklet that hashes the domain + my_password + static_salt.
When I need to access the site from somewhere else I can easily perform the computation on the command line (md5sum, sha1sum), or online using client side javascript.
If I can't get online to use the online tool, and the computer doesn't have a hashing tool then I really don't need to be entering my password in the first place.
You just edit this text file and it points WoW at a different server.
Just happens that WoW net traffic isn't encrypted and therefore people have reverse engineered the protocol and created their own servers.
Not really any different than any other reverse engineering I've heard of. Is it copyright infringing if they made their own server software that mimics the client / server protocol?
Is it legal to ask for payment to connect to my web server? Is it still legal if my server can speak the reverse engineered WoW protocol? Is it common knowledge that Judges are ignorant of the technology they are asked to provide judgment over?
If you answered "no" to one of these questions you have been qualified as next in line for judicial appointment.
If you use firefox: Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Encryption > View Certificates > Authorities
Personally, I've deleted all of the authorities and only add certificates as I need them.
This is because a CA can be compelled by the country they are in to sign a certificate for any domain. For example: If your browser trusts the Etisalat CA then Etisalat can can create a SSL certificate for Google.com even though Google.com didn't ask for one. If your DNS then points to a Etisalat server it can serve pages as Google.com (pretty green "I'm secure" bar and all).
You'd have to view the cert info to make sure Google's real CA signed the current cert... Thawte, Verisign and Verison can be compelled by the US to create fake certs too, but in this case only the IP address would tip you off.
If my browser was sent a fake cert and fake DNS results I will be presented with an "Untrusted Certificate" screen. Since this normally only happens when Google's cert is about to expire I would be alerted.
tl;dr: CA system is broke because any CA can make a cert for your domain without your consent.
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Then, why not just make a Rifts MMORPG and call it a day?
"It's on like a plumber avoiding barrels to defeat a Gorilla and save a Princess!"
Also: The phrase "It's on" is only exciting if your talking to your partner about a condom.
Think about it... they can afford to NOT WORK AT ALL, in order to protest and hunger strike. I'd say leave 'em to it. There are folks that can't afford to hunger strike, at least these strikers are leaving the jobs for those that need them.
On second thought: Can get all the other middle-men in the world to go on hunger strike too?
Or this bookmarklette:
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Paste that in to the FF address bar to eliminate expert exchange search results. Equivalent to this script (esp for use with grease-monkey).
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Everyone knows that the best way to scare off buglers is to call out into the darkness, in your most shaky and unnaturally high pitched tone, "I have a gun! ... I've already called the police!".
This, followed shortly by turning on all the lights and tip-toeing around in your boxers wielding a golf club is more than enough security for anyone!
You may want to read up on what an MMO is. How do you propose they implement a persistent, massively multiplayer online world for LAN play?
By licensing the server source code as AGPL and giving us a copy (instead of having us reverse engineer our own).
Note: You can play WoW as you describe via LAN. Just have your LAN-mates add your WoW private server's IP address to your realmlist.wtf, and away you go.
Also-Note: LAN implies loosing the first M in MMORPG.
Hurray, an ICBM got launched! WWIII is here!
Finally, my years of hording supplies and fortifying my re-purposed Y2K bunker are going to pay off!
I just hope some game developers survive... I can't wait to play the video games that will be based on this new Earth-shattering war!
Not so in a MS like license:
1) You do not own this product, you are licensed to use this product if you comply with this agreement in totality. If you can not agree with any of these terms you are not licensed to use the product.
2) If any part of this agreement is found legally unenforceable the section in question will be considered stricken from the license, and does not effect the legality or applicability of all other sections. In the event that any section of this license does not apply to you as written, you must request a signed renegotiated license from us (us, as defined somewhere as the company licensing the product).
3) The sacrificing of your first born child by fire, to the death, and in dedication to Baal shall be thoroughly completed before your use of this product. Failure to comply with this term results in the revocation of your license to use this product.
Programmers make interfaces for themselves and other programmers, which means that they suck for regular users.
Speak for yourself, I'm a programmer that makes amazing GUIs because I listen to my customers/target audience... Some of us are actually very skilled in UI design.
And if/when the open source drivers are created and are better than the proprietary drivers, I'll use them. For now it boils down to "use proprietary drivers" or "not use the device".
Well, if the device shipped with open source drivers they wouldn't have to be "created" before I start making them "better" for you.
I, as a non-programmer do not care about openness of the source, since I would not be able to modify and recompile the driver even i the source was available
Perhaps, you, as a non-programmer, upgrade to a different architecture/OS, and then must either buy new expensive peripheral hardware simply because of the upgrade, cancel the upgrade and remain slow/insecure. (See: 64bit windows adoption)
Perhaps, if you cared to prod those same expensive peripheral companies and insist on open source drivers, then I, as a programmer, would be able to re-compile the device drivers for your new platform, out of the goodness of my own heart, and give you new binary drivers that are every bit as good as the proprietary drivers, if not BETTER (since I may improve the existing code instead of start from scratch).
Also note: With proprietary OS / Drivers no amount of money would enable me to fix a driver bug for your "mission critical" system... I would have to start from scratch -- A task that no amount of money can cause me to perform.
You can persuade me to work on FOSS with minimal monetary compensation. You can also pay folks to fix things for non mission critical systems. Some coders fix bugs & make improvements for the hell of it at no charge...
For instance: Perhaps you like playing 3D games on your uber spiffy PC? Perhaps there's a bug on your particular 3D driver that doesn't render the crosshair, cursor or other effect correctly. If the 3D gfx card was shipped with open source drivers I may just fix the bug on a weekend for the hell of it (or because I have the same issue), and your issue would kindly be resolved.
Try convincing Nvidia to fix a cursor bug in a 6 month old proprietary graphics driver.... Well, if that's what you call "better", good luck with that.
No, you've both got it all wrong.
Most Linux (& windows) savvy folk I know MAKE A LIVING from "The fact that the public do not want to learn Bash commands, or CLI" We don't hate that fact, we revel in it...
The more "normal computer users" that use Linux, the more Linux savvy folk can make easy money doing what they love and have time left over to make your OS better... Hell, I've even been hired to fix a bug, or add a feature to an open source product by "normal computer users" who just want to be able to pay money to make problems go away. Were they using a proprietary OS or software, that wouldn't have been an option for them, the project & it's other users wouldn't have benefited, and I would have less money & time to work on FOSS.
We CAN all get along... We don't need to push Linux on the desktop, it is happening/will happen soon enough (my Grandma's using Ubuntu... She knows not of this Bash you speak), besides, Linux is doing pretty well in our TVs, set-top boxes, phones, toasters, clocks, super-computers, routers (esp. the web). It doesn't matter if we're competing with windows or anything else. So long as we're being used by more people in more places, that's enough for me.
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Programmers are excused from learning proper English language capitalization, punctuation and spelling (and other written language semantics (like proper "quote usage", and avoiding nested parenthesis ) ) because they frequently deal with the many-varied semantics of programming languages, and many coders don't use editors with spell-check features.
Perhaps you should just use a case insensitive language, like BASIC (who's name is ironically case sensitive -- must be capitalized since it's an acronym).
“Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant”
Would you buy a car that has an inaccessible engine, a dealer padlock on the hood? Do they call it “tampering” when I change my own oil?
It’s sad that more people don’t stand up for their right to use and modify their own machines however they want. It's a shame that the DMCA is used to prevent us from using & modifying the hardware we purchase. Fear of a legal suit is likely the reason the source code will not be made public...
Any attempt to lock down or make “tamper-resistant” your hardware should be met with the same outrage you would exhibit if car dealers were to make your car legally serviceable only by the dealer.
Microsoft car salesman: "No, you may not look under the hood. Touch the engine with a wrench and we'll sue."
mov ax, 4c01
int 21h
I'm observant of the fact: I'm being irradiated by no less than 6 strong WiFi signals networks at any given time (12 at the moment) in Houston.
Turn all those into ad-hoc networks, and connect the overlapping nets together. It's not much different than the wired web. It's still a bunch of routers between me and my destination that I really don't trust.
Whatever happened to Packet Radio?
Personally, having a BBS back in the day, I envisioned The Open Internet as a fusion between HAM radio & high speed FidoNet. Where anyone could just hook up a signal repeater and join what we call "the cloud" today... Today's Internet is so far from "the cloud", it should really be called "the grave", yeah, see, it's actually in/near the ground & everyone eventually gets there if they try hard enough -- plus, "in the grave" sounds exactly like how using dial-up (or any AT&T service) actually feels.
When I found out "the Internet is going to be Wired?!" I thought, nah, this is a just a phase, our wireless utopia will be here soon, boy was I wrong -- totally underestimated the telco's greed & unwillingness to spend money on infrastructure.
Naturally I was equally unimpressed with "Internet2". This most recent "Open Internet" sounds just as closed as ever to me.
Cellular packet data is closer to what I call "the cloud", Wimax, and LTE, etc is getting there, but if we're using wires for the majority Internet mk2, count me out... Meanwhile, I'll be hooking up my wifi router to my HAM equipment & building a truly open global ad hock WiFi network instead.
Just look at console video games. In the beginning there were lots of "exclusive" 3rd party titles. Then, one day developers (& publishers) realized that it's stupid to sell software exclusively for one platform. It's clearly more profitable to sell cross-platform software.
Why limit your target market to just one platform? One reason is to take full advantage of the platform. If even video games (which need to take as many advantages as possible can navigate the road to cross platform development, then it should be a realistic expectation for desktop applications like Photo Editor X, Word Processor 2010, etc (which have nowhere near the demand as a game) to be cross platform.
Of course, MS goes out of their way to screw over FOSS (see: Samba, OpenGL, etc), so they're not going to make it easy to write cross platform software. Even so, I write cross platform code, and it's really not that hard. I don't use libs like Qt, SDL, etc anymore, but they do make developing cross platform software much easier.
Our plea to hardware and application developers for more Linux support is slowly beginning to matter as more publishers realize that the money we saved by not buying an OS could be used to buy a cross-platform version of their software -- if only such a version existed.
On the other hand, for most users Linux IS ALREADY a decent windows replacement. My neighbor is a 71 year old retired Air Force Sergeant. Sarge has been using Windows since v3.1, and he's set in his ways more than anyone I know. Last year I installed Ubuntu on his PC after a fatal widows crash. Instead of buying the latest windows version he decided to give Linux a try (Both Gnome and Win7 are equally different to him compared to XP). After a week of adjustment ("Where is feature_X", etc.), Sarge has been a happy Linux user ever since; If he can switch to Linux, anyone can.
In conclusion: Should competing with windows matter? Not if it means doing anything different than what Gnu/Linux is already doing. Linux should just focus on being a better Linux. Cross platform software is becoming the norm, which platform matters less and less. Not even MS can fight the pressure that the free market exerts as developers ask themselves, "Wait, WHY DON'T WE SELL a version for platform X?!"
Wait, so someone actually used crowd sourcing as a way to gather information for a study against the common wisdom of crowd sourcing -- which reveals that crowd sourcing is prejudiced?
They expect us to believe that their "wisdom" gained from "crowd" sourcing shows "'the wisdom of the crowd' is prejudiced", and theirs isn't?
In Soviet Russia, Conspiracy makes Crazy People!
Awesome! You just beat level 1.
Now you get to play Level 2 of the minigame!
It goes something like this:
"Buttons are on the left in this versi -- oh yeah I changed them back to the other side with this theme."
<spoiler>
In Level 3 you get to add another computer -- "Which computer is this with what button config?"
In Level 4 you use VNC to provide tech support. Bonus points if your frantic mouse movement causes the client motion sickness.
Boss Level: Using only your phone you explain how to get the buttons back on the right to your mother-in-law.
</spoiler>
They are introducing multi-touch in 10.10 because in 11.04 the close and minimize buttons
will run around the borders of your windows and you'll need two hands to catch them.
This is much better than the current 10.04 "Memory" min-game where you try to remember which side the buttons are on.
used to be the place to go for domains.
Now they are completely redundant.
Actually, now they are ironically recursive.
Their "Network Solutions" are serving malware, which is a "Network Problem" that then requires another "Network Solution"; This was overshadowed by another of their past "Network Problems" so that the current article about "Network Solutions" causing "Network Problems" was overlooked.
That's pretty neat, but I don't know how to perform a "'pwhash' compliant" hash myself... on the cmd line (you know, for when JS is disabled or unavailable).
When it comes to security I prefer approaches that allow me to "Trust No One".
That's why I made my own JS Bookmarklet that hashes the domain + my_password + static_salt.
When I need to access the site from somewhere else I can easily perform the computation on the command line (md5sum, sha1sum), or online using client side javascript.
If I can't get online to use the online tool, and the computer doesn't have a hashing tool then I really don't need to be entering my password in the first place.
...otherwise many of their cordless phones would be emitting the same "wifi" signals that wireless routers do.
Perhaps the children are suffering from stress caused by video game, Internet, phone, and texting withdrawals at school.
.WTF !?
You just edit this text file and it points WoW at a different server.
Just happens that WoW net traffic isn't encrypted and therefore people have reverse engineered the protocol and created their own servers.
Not really any different than any other reverse engineering I've heard of.
Is it copyright infringing if they made their own server software that mimics the client / server protocol?
Is it legal to ask for payment to connect to my web server?
Is it still legal if my server can speak the reverse engineered WoW protocol?
Is it common knowledge that Judges are ignorant of the technology they are asked to provide judgment over?
If you answered "no" to one of these questions you have been qualified as next in line for judicial appointment.
If you use firefox: Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Encryption > View Certificates > Authorities
Personally, I've deleted all of the authorities and only add certificates as I need them.
This is because a CA can be compelled by the country they are in to sign a certificate for any domain.
For example: If your browser trusts the Etisalat CA then Etisalat can can create a SSL certificate for Google.com even though Google.com didn't ask for one.
If your DNS then points to a Etisalat server it can serve pages as Google.com (pretty green "I'm secure" bar and all).
You'd have to view the cert info to make sure Google's real CA signed the current cert...
Thawte, Verisign and Verison can be compelled by the US to create fake certs too, but in this case only the IP address would tip you off.
If my browser was sent a fake cert and fake DNS results I will be presented with an "Untrusted Certificate" screen.
Since this normally only happens when Google's cert is about to expire I would be alerted.
tl;dr: CA system is broke because any CA can make a cert for your domain without your consent.