If you were a giant company making shit-tons of money for lazy coding, would you pay for the security changes, or would you do the much cheaper and simpler option of passing legislation that makes breaking your crappy code illegal?
Remember, they've already bought the congresspersons and senators needed.
You're looking for a non-disclosure agreement. No method other than a contract has force of law behind it. That is, if you're using an untrusted stranger in the first place. There's something to be said for asking friends, even if they may not be giving you a completely unbiased opinion.
In other news, you do come across as kinda arrogant here ("as an inquitive and creative geek..."). Everyone has ideas. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
FYI, in one of the best displays of irony in recent memory, Comedy Central actually censored the image of Muhammad during that South Park episode. I shit you not.
I vehemently disagree. All of my life experience has shown me that if you don't have chemistry in a relationship, it's doomed to failure at worst, or ennui and boredom over the long term at best.
You can't be objective about chemistry, or at least, I haven't yet seen a good solution to determining it without a face to face meeting.
I was you, a while ago. I was running Windows without any AV or anti-malware because I had common sense.
I'm not saying that it's impossible to run Windows well. I'm saying that I also "upgraded" to Vista, and then four months later realized that Ubuntu made things a hell of a lot faster in general (both for computing speed and for productivity).
It's not like Comcast is going to be intercepting all DNS traffic and routing it through their spammy DNS servers.
Why not? As raddan posted above me, Sprint already did this with their aircard service. The huge majority of customers won't notice the difference since they don't know about alternative DNS servers.
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Downloading is legal in a lot of states. Uploading is the action that usually gets one in trouble.
While I'm pretty sure you're just joking here, it's quite easy to do a GeoIP lookup, which is pretty reliable on the country level.
See, here's the main thing I don't like about this (apart from the whole censorship thing, which is obvious).
The Netherlands is asking The Pirate Bay to block its own citizens.
Why doesn't the Netherlands simply block access to The Pirate Bay?
Of course, the answer is simple: to shift the blame away from government.
Too bad most people who go to TPB are smarter than that.
How dare you sully the bacon ultimate cheeseburger by comparing it to Sony! I just wish they'd move further north :^\
That's not the legislation they want. They want to make attacking the OS of your own device illegal.
If you were a giant company making shit-tons of money for lazy coding, would you pay for the security changes, or would you do the much cheaper and simpler option of passing legislation that makes breaking your crappy code illegal?
Remember, they've already bought the congresspersons and senators needed.
I'd post a version in x86 assembly, but I'm far too tired to go to that sort of effort for a Slashdot comment.
One of the most insightful posts I've seen on Slashdot in a while. Nicely done.
Wow, way to read far more into my comment than I ever intended or wrote. It's a Fight Club quote. How's all that hate feel?
You're looking for a non-disclosure agreement. No method other than a contract has force of law behind it. That is, if you're using an untrusted stranger in the first place. There's something to be said for asking friends, even if they may not be giving you a completely unbiased opinion.
In other news, you do come across as kinda arrogant here ("as an inquitive and creative geek..."). Everyone has ideas. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
You win three internets.
The airspeed over your head right now must be immense.
You know, we'd all be safe from the zombies if I HAD MY GODDAMN FLYING CAR ALREADY!
I mean, seriously, Jetsons was on, what, 40 years ago? What happened?
Unless, of course, the zombies can drive, in which case I'm sure we can all agree that we're fucked.
Some innovative company will emerge with a new concept nobody's thought about, and we'll be hooked on that for a while.
There is no "perfection". There are only new concepts, and there's an unlimited supply of them.
And knowing is half the battle!
GI-JOE!
FYI, in one of the best displays of irony in recent memory, Comedy Central actually censored the image of Muhammad during that South Park episode. I shit you not.
I vehemently disagree. All of my life experience has shown me that if you don't have chemistry in a relationship, it's doomed to failure at worst, or ennui and boredom over the long term at best.
You can't be objective about chemistry, or at least, I haven't yet seen a good solution to determining it without a face to face meeting.
I met my fiancee on OkCupid. Much, much better matching than other sites. YMMV (mostly depending on how well you know what you want in a partner).
Not free school! Anything but that!
How dare he try to educate the population without respect for class or wealth!
One day I will discover the secret communication channel between low-ID users, and on that day, I will rule the world.
I was you, a while ago. I was running Windows without any AV or anti-malware because I had common sense.
I'm not saying that it's impossible to run Windows well. I'm saying that I also "upgraded" to Vista, and then four months later realized that Ubuntu made things a hell of a lot faster in general (both for computing speed and for productivity).
But good luck to you; to each their own OS.
Well, that's not good. My background image is of outer space.
Sucks to be running Windows.
*gets back to work in gedit*
It's not like Comcast is going to be intercepting all DNS traffic and routing it through their spammy DNS servers.
Why not? As raddan posted above me, Sprint already did this with their aircard service. The huge majority of customers won't notice the difference since they don't know about alternative DNS servers.