Remember that this is a UK (European) schoolboy going to the USA taking some high school tests.
I am not from the UK but very close to that country and live in the USA now and my gf is doing her last year of high school. The lessons in mathematics and other sciences she is viewing (goniometry, algebra,...) we already did in 8th & 9th grade. It could be that it was closely related to the fact I chose architecture for a while and later electronics that we saw a little more math compared to others in the same grades, but it shouldn't differ too much. My friend is doing Chemical Engineering in a US University and his mathematics and electronic textbooks are on the level of our 11th & 12th grade, his chemics of course not but you get the idea.
How about you raise your kids correctly (that is something that multifunction remote with the TV does NOT do). Spying on your kids and reacting if they do something bad will have two effects: you will lose their trust (Do you trust your government when you found out they COULD be spying on you?) and it's just that: reactive.
Proactive will make sure they steer away from predators if they want to, if not, they're exploring on but should know not to invite someone they never met to their homes. I have been on my computer since I was 8 and I have never had a bad experience, I met a lot of persons in real life that I first met online, but always somewhere public (even if it's just the train station), never private.
You can't control your kids like you can computers or machines. They are sentient beings having their own thoughts and emotions. If they are going to explore, they are going to even if they have to evade you. When I suspected my parents from spying on me, I went to encryption, when they told me I could not date a certain girl, I went to live with her for a weekend. Just watch you as parent react when your kid disappears for 2 days after being told they couldn't see someone they (thought) loved.
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Some providers are already supporting ipv6 and ipv4 together or you can connect through a ipv6overipv4 tunnel to some server that connects you to other ipv6-enabled networks etc.
ipv6 and ipv4 can co-exist without a problem. I currently use ipv6 on my network while the rest of the company doesn't really implement v6 yet. So ad-hoc, the Apple's are talking ipv6 while for other hosts, they'll have to talk v4. There is also support in IPv6 to encapsulate IPv4 traffic so basically, if a host talks v4 to a router or a switch for example, they could easily get it to v6 by just padding the address with a certain address space and de-padding it to give it back to the host (I don't know how exactly)
ipv6 is just a pain to remember. Extending v4 as grandparent mentioned was the original idea, so they thought: hey, why don't we add two spaces to it and start using really big hexadecimal addresses. The problem with v4 is not that the address space is not large enough nor is it that there is no support for decent multicasting, it's that some morons decided to buy multiple blocks containing totals of millions of addresses (IBM, DEC, HP,...) so that there was no space anymore left. They thought that giving someone 65,535 addresses was no problem, there was more than enough for the whole world because back then all networks combined consisted out of a mere 1000's of hosts. Would be the same as someone deciding to buy the 0000:-00ff: and the next company 00ff:-0fff: in ipv6 because we have billions of addresses anyway, I hope they learned their lessons.
The problem is not that they made the platform their choice, it's the only platform if you want to sell something like virus-scanners and anti-malware. If Microsoft would have been like Unix/Linux/BSD/MacOS/OS/2 they wouldn't be as big, they wouldn't have focussed on virusses and malware and they would still have Norton Commander or some other great products they had before Windows 98.
My name is John Gumble and I am a American cittisen that just won $2m in offshore online casino. Since my bank won't proces it I would like to ask to give me your bank acount, pincode and sacrifice a goat so I can transfer the money. I will help you to get 15% out of the transaction.
God bless you, I have 2 wife and 3 kids who are hungry and this will really help me,
DVD Jon, didn't break the FairPlay, he emulates it with his software. So he's not in violation of DMCA I think. Just like the Samba project reverse-engineered the SMB protocol, they did the same. So he's going to talk to Steve in January and has at least one (1) customer (Microsoft? haha)
Skype is a closed-source resource-eating protocol. SIP is an open, standardized protocol which projects like Asterisk use. I think telephony should be a PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) and not a Kazaa-like P2P (Peer-to-Peer protocol). First of all: what information passes the supernodes? Can anyone see or analyze who you're calling, when and where? Second: what is the bandwidth usage? I can call SIP through 56k, can I call Skype as SuperNode on 56k?
Why is everybody so afraid of water? Water (H2O) is a perfect insulator... I would worry more about the magnetic induction from the wiring passing in/under your car and my manhood/child support next to the fact my Buick's compass would get out of whack everytime I try to get some "charge" and other general problems related to magnetic fields and heaps of iron.
You must be an American. If you didn't know, Belgium is THE economic hub for Europe. Not only do all roadways, waterways, railways meet there, also quite some important political and economical centers and buildings are located there (The European Union itself is in Brussels). The other problem is that Belgium itself doesn't have that of a great information structure. If you're in Belgium, your internet connection feed into the backbones is most likely located in Amsterdam (so you will effectively kill the Netherlands and Google's datacenter there too) but there is also an international backbone connection in Antwerp (feeding parts of Germany and the Netherlands too) and in Brussels/Zaventem (for Belgium, the American Embassy and the airport businesses) and sometimes our backbone feeds are even across the Atlantic ocean somewhere in New York.
So if you want to have Google disconnect 30% of Europe and 5% of the USA next to the bad publicity just because some stupid Wallonian newspapers can't get their sh-t together, feel free. BTW: Wallonia != Belgium. The (smarter) Flemish part of Belgium including Brussels has the higher penetration of internet, businesses and people. The Wallonians are like the Southerners and those in power, GWB here in the States.
Which bank do you work for??? Please tell me so I won't ever go there and YOU probably can get a bonus from SEC for snitching on SoX compliance.
Such stuff is supposed to be in big-ass expensive databases. Even PostgreSQL or MySQL would do. But using plain Access or Excel for shared calculations is just wrong.
Do it for child pron and woman's abuse, then you are pretty sure to get it accepted. Most bills and law-passing is just to keep them working. They keep themselves busy, otherwise they will be out of work. So first they pass a bill that is pretty sure to get rejected: electronic surveillance on everyone. Then they go for the war-on-drugs angle: electronic surveillance on everyone for them druggies (like Willie Nelson). That doesn't work so they go for terrorism and if they finally want to get some backing they do it for child pron or abuse which will have to get through because nobody wants to be marked as a child abuser will they.
Who of you really does have a 1080p 64" double wide screen plasma lcd television with HDCP and HDMI functionality? Anyone? No. DVD and analog are doing fine for most mainstream applications. HD-DVD or Blu-Ray are nice as an expensive temporary backup solution and for some nimwits that don't know any better. People just bought into the whole "flat-screen-is-better-hype" replacing their 2-10y old color tv. I think that major expense this and last year ($700-$2000) is going to have to hold up for at least 3-5 years before mothers-and-wifes or just hard-working honest people are going to allow another expense that big because now everything is digital.
This product is aimed (by price ($150)) to the cheap nerd and his family who move their tv around in the house. The living room now has a nice and shiny LCD while the basement (or wherever you Slashdotters live) has the 25" flat-CRT and the bedrooms have the 20" standard CRT in most households.
I live in the States now but the French part of Belgium is inherently dumb. They're stereotyped like the southerners here in the states. Their whole government is a leech to the dutch-speaking part and services that come from that part of Belgium are much higher in price compared to the same services coming in through the Netherlands, France or Germany.
But hey, if they sue Google and Google removes all reference to them, then that is pretty good payback. Should happen more often. The papers in general have to learn to play nice with new media. Same is going to happen to RIAA etc.
Next scare: you can actually install stuff programs on Linux, Windows and AIX and those programs could do nasty things... euhm, yeah, that's why you don't just install everything.
Since anything before 10.3 is not actively supported towards updates anymore, you can ignore those systems except for their monthly automatic updates.
Get Mac OS X Server 10.4 and ARD 3.0 or if you have time, wait for OS X 10.5 and for the 10.4 systems you then actually have a server-based automatic update system which shouldn't be too hard to maintain if you have basic knowledge.
I have a lab with all Mac OS'es I am supposed to support and all software we use on them. If an update comes out, I basically test it out there. If it works, I go and download the update packages from the Apple website and then schedule a package installation in ARD3 through the task server for the 10.3 systems and activate the 10.4 updates in Software Update Server. This makes sure that all my updates get done (through the task server, it just does them as computers become available).
I have a 50-client environment with about 3 servers and 4 laptops. I know what I'm talking about. Oh: don't forget to take away admin rights from your users, it will be a great help.
Ok, my credentials: I am a 23 year old person, have been married, almost father, against "bad things" like RIAA, had very restrictive and religious parents and I have a very big problem with any authority thus being a white hat hacker was kinda cool and turned black hat against certain authority (school). As of my 16 I have been drinking alcohol, never smoked or did drugs though, had a bunch of girlfriends without parents consent or knowledge. I have been working as sysadmin and computer tech in different companies. I have been working with computers totally addicted from my 8 and I never liked games.
My point: unless you're a freakin' good network and sysadmin and you know what you're doing and you let all your network traffic go through a dedicated and hardened linux box you're going to get nowhere. My parents went with me through the whole computers-are-bad, computer-games-are-bad, violent-games-are-bad, Internet-is-bad etc crap you hear from Jack Thompson-type persons etc. Even then, there's always Tor, HTTPS, Tunnels...
At a certain point they had locks on the computer room, they tried the computer in the family room (which in the end of the previous century wasn't always noiseless), they tried getting my computer being checked out and locked down by a co-churcher who is now a senior engineer for Cisco. I always circumvented all of their rules, regulations, checks etc. because it was too easy to be figured out and I was smarter than them in that area. Kids are freakishly inventive if it comes to breaking rules and the more restrictive you get, the more extreme they will be in their ways. In school we smuggled alcohol as water. Empty a bottle of water and fill it up with something that looks like water (Pure vodka is among the only alcohols that is both easily available and looks like pure water!). I went 'sleeping over' and ended up at a rave that I HAD to stay on since I couldn't go home and I have no idea what happened to me between 2 and 4 am. Dangerous, yes, fun, yes, do it again, no.
What I personally would do in case I get a kid on my computer: Set some simple rules and be firm about them. All kids (especially boys) will get their hands on porn in one of another way. Implement squid as a proxy server and block all ads to do yourselve and the computer a favor. Block all "evil" IP-ranges (I block personally all RIAA, MPAA and government IP's) using iptables both ways. Make sure that bad things like virusses, spam and other things don't get in as easily. Make sure you're not hosting an MP3-loaded P2P-node if you live in the USA.
Get aquainted with your kid's music. Put it on a share on the network and share your technological resources for a good thing, Death Metal or Eminem is not always evil, you might even like it or it might be a point for discussion. Make sure you have an open communication about everything that goes on in your son's life. If you block certain things they could be interested in, they will see it as something they shouldn't do or get in trouble for, so they'll sneak it instead of talking about it. They will go wrong, if they do, don't go off punishing them right away or taking away their computer rights, communication is a solution and they might have to face with the consequences of their actions but talk about it first. If you get pulled over for speeding, usually you get pulled over, they ask you if you are aware of the violation, then they give you a ticket, a period where you can defend or confirm your actions and then the punishment comes and even that you can appeal. It's not the other way around and you shouldn't implement that kind of thinking in your kid. Only extremist do that and certain people in our government would like that too, but it's not how it should work.
Imho a parent is there to guide a person into life as an adult. It's not to form them with a certain viewpoint or restrict them from everything that is "bad". They will get/do/know bad anyway, if not at home it will be at a less controlled place like school or at friends where they have less guidance than at home and may eventually get into serious problems.
From the viewpoint of my daily job: Only e-mail... it allows for people communicating, it's easy to filter crap (virusses, spam and anything else larger than 25Mb) out at the entrance and it doesn't allow for stupid uncontrollable flash,wmv,avi to clog up the bandwidth or people to go randomly to random sites to waste time. I know the web can be filtered by proxy, but that bring much more trouble with it than benefit.
From the viewpoint of my private life: I can get to my e-mail through the web, I can use forums, I can use Slashdot, my own website etc. to get messages across. There is much more to enjoy on the web and it allows to attach or create messages for communications. The web is also harder to control than e-mail and thus less prone to privacy compromise.
that is if you read TFA of course. The average response is (except from IBM and Microsoft): oh, tell us, here is the e-mailaddress, we will do this, this and that, make a patch and then disclose the information. IBM is like: oh, tell us, we put it in the database and try finding a resolution. MIcrosoft says: Tell us, euhm... yeah, that's it, don't go tell anyone else, just us.
I mean, at least describe what an average process looks like and possible timeframes etc.
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Remember that this is a UK (European) schoolboy going to the USA taking some high school tests.
...) we already did in 8th & 9th grade. It could be that it was closely related to the fact I chose architecture for a while and later electronics that we saw a little more math compared to others in the same grades, but it shouldn't differ too much. My friend is doing Chemical Engineering in a US University and his mathematics and electronic textbooks are on the level of our 11th & 12th grade, his chemics of course not but you get the idea.
I am not from the UK but very close to that country and live in the USA now and my gf is doing her last year of high school. The lessons in mathematics and other sciences she is viewing (goniometry, algebra,
How about you raise your kids correctly (that is something that multifunction remote with the TV does NOT do). Spying on your kids and reacting if they do something bad will have two effects: you will lose their trust (Do you trust your government when you found out they COULD be spying on you?) and it's just that: reactive.
Proactive will make sure they steer away from predators if they want to, if not, they're exploring on but should know not to invite someone they never met to their homes. I have been on my computer since I was 8 and I have never had a bad experience, I met a lot of persons in real life that I first met online, but always somewhere public (even if it's just the train station), never private.
You can't control your kids like you can computers or machines. They are sentient beings having their own thoughts and emotions. If they are going to explore, they are going to even if they have to evade you. When I suspected my parents from spying on me, I went to encryption, when they told me I could not date a certain girl, I went to live with her for a weekend. Just watch you as parent react when your kid disappears for 2 days after being told they couldn't see someone they (thought) loved.
Some providers are already supporting ipv6 and ipv4 together or you can connect through a ipv6overipv4 tunnel to some server that connects you to other ipv6-enabled networks etc.
ipv6 and ipv4 can co-exist without a problem. I currently use ipv6 on my network while the rest of the company doesn't really implement v6 yet. So ad-hoc, the Apple's are talking ipv6 while for other hosts, they'll have to talk v4. There is also support in IPv6 to encapsulate IPv4 traffic so basically, if a host talks v4 to a router or a switch for example, they could easily get it to v6 by just padding the address with a certain address space and de-padding it to give it back to the host (I don't know how exactly)
ipv6 is just a pain to remember. Extending v4 as grandparent mentioned was the original idea, so they thought: hey, why don't we add two spaces to it and start using really big hexadecimal addresses. The problem with v4 is not that the address space is not large enough nor is it that there is no support for decent multicasting, it's that some morons decided to buy multiple blocks containing totals of millions of addresses (IBM, DEC, HP,...) so that there was no space anymore left. They thought that giving someone 65,535 addresses was no problem, there was more than enough for the whole world because back then all networks combined consisted out of a mere 1000's of hosts. Would be the same as someone deciding to buy the 0000:-00ff: and the next company 00ff:-0fff: in ipv6 because we have billions of addresses anyway, I hope they learned their lessons.
Is Jack Thompson around? Anywhere?
The problem is not that they made the platform their choice, it's the only platform if you want to sell something like virus-scanners and anti-malware. If Microsoft would have been like Unix/Linux/BSD/MacOS/OS/2 they wouldn't be as big, they wouldn't have focussed on virusses and malware and they would still have Norton Commander or some other great products they had before Windows 98.
Dear highly honered sire,
My name is John Gumble and I am a American cittisen that just won $2m in offshore online casino. Since my bank won't proces it I would like to ask to give me your bank acount, pincode and sacrifice a goat so I can transfer the money. I will help you to get 15% out of the transaction.
God bless you, I have 2 wife and 3 kids who are hungry and this will really help me,
Sincerely,
John Gimble
DVD Jon, didn't break the FairPlay, he emulates it with his software. So he's not in violation of DMCA I think. Just like the Samba project reverse-engineered the SMB protocol, they did the same. So he's going to talk to Steve in January and has at least one (1) customer (Microsoft? haha)
Skype is a closed-source resource-eating protocol. SIP is an open, standardized protocol which projects like Asterisk use. I think telephony should be a PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) and not a Kazaa-like P2P (Peer-to-Peer protocol). First of all: what information passes the supernodes? Can anyone see or analyze who you're calling, when and where? Second: what is the bandwidth usage? I can call SIP through 56k, can I call Skype as SuperNode on 56k?
Over here it would easily cover a quarter, but I live in the hills without a decent 56k connection.
Don't forget that you could also be considered a child pornographer and a minorities rapist abuser.
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Couldn't explain it any better.
Why is everybody so afraid of water? Water (H2O) is a perfect insulator... I would worry more about the magnetic induction from the wiring passing in/under your car and my manhood/child support next to the fact my Buick's compass would get out of whack everytime I try to get some "charge" and other general problems related to magnetic fields and heaps of iron.
You must be an American. If you didn't know, Belgium is THE economic hub for Europe. Not only do all roadways, waterways, railways meet there, also quite some important political and economical centers and buildings are located there (The European Union itself is in Brussels). The other problem is that Belgium itself doesn't have that of a great information structure. If you're in Belgium, your internet connection feed into the backbones is most likely located in Amsterdam (so you will effectively kill the Netherlands and Google's datacenter there too) but there is also an international backbone connection in Antwerp (feeding parts of Germany and the Netherlands too) and in Brussels/Zaventem (for Belgium, the American Embassy and the airport businesses) and sometimes our backbone feeds are even across the Atlantic ocean somewhere in New York.
So if you want to have Google disconnect 30% of Europe and 5% of the USA next to the bad publicity just because some stupid Wallonian newspapers
can't get their sh-t together, feel free. BTW: Wallonia != Belgium. The (smarter) Flemish part of Belgium including Brussels has the higher penetration of internet, businesses and people. The Wallonians are like the Southerners and those in power, GWB here in the States.
Which bank do you work for??? Please tell me so I won't ever go there and YOU probably can get a bonus from SEC for snitching on SoX compliance.
Such stuff is supposed to be in big-ass expensive databases. Even PostgreSQL or MySQL would do. But using plain Access or Excel for shared calculations is just wrong.
Do it for child pron and woman's abuse, then you are pretty sure to get it accepted. Most bills and law-passing is just to keep them working. They keep themselves busy, otherwise they will be out of work. So first they pass a bill that is pretty sure to get rejected: electronic surveillance on everyone. Then they go for the war-on-drugs angle: electronic surveillance on everyone for them druggies (like Willie Nelson). That doesn't work so they go for terrorism and if they finally want to get some backing they do it for child pron or abuse which will have to get through because nobody wants to be marked as a child abuser will they.
Just shows how corrupt the government really is.
Tomcat seemed to be a good Application Server I doubt they are going to get the same performance out of whatever they replace it with, Apache maybe?
Who of you really does have a 1080p 64" double wide screen plasma lcd television with HDCP and HDMI functionality? Anyone? No. DVD and analog are doing fine for most mainstream applications. HD-DVD or Blu-Ray are nice as an expensive temporary backup solution and for some nimwits that don't know any better. People just bought into the whole "flat-screen-is-better-hype" replacing their 2-10y old color tv. I think that major expense this and last year ($700-$2000) is going to have to hold up for at least 3-5 years before mothers-and-wifes or just hard-working honest people are going to allow another expense that big because now everything is digital.
This product is aimed (by price ($150)) to the cheap nerd and his family who move their tv around in the house. The living room now has a nice and shiny LCD while the basement (or wherever you Slashdotters live) has the 25" flat-CRT and the bedrooms have the 20" standard CRT in most households.
33,000 votes, so there are at least 33,000 Slashdotters/Pirates in Sweden. Let's round them up and sue them for copyright infrignment.
Soon they will need you to plug up to a lie detector test before you can watch a movie.
I live in the States now but the French part of Belgium is inherently dumb. They're stereotyped like the southerners here in the states. Their whole government is a leech to the dutch-speaking part and services that come from that part of Belgium are much higher in price compared to the same services coming in through the Netherlands, France or Germany.
But hey, if they sue Google and Google removes all reference to them, then that is pretty good payback. Should happen more often. The papers in general have to learn to play nice with new media. Same is going to happen to RIAA etc.
Next scare: you can actually install stuff programs on Linux, Windows and AIX and those programs could do nasty things... euhm, yeah, that's why you don't just install everything.
Since anything before 10.3 is not actively supported towards updates anymore, you can ignore those systems except for their monthly automatic updates.
Get Mac OS X Server 10.4 and ARD 3.0 or if you have time, wait for OS X 10.5 and for the 10.4 systems you then actually have a server-based automatic update system which shouldn't be too hard to maintain if you have basic knowledge.
I have a lab with all Mac OS'es I am supposed to support and all software we use on them. If an update comes out, I basically test it out there. If it works, I go and download the update packages from the Apple website and then schedule a package installation in ARD3 through the task server for the 10.3 systems and activate the 10.4 updates in Software Update Server. This makes sure that all my updates get done (through the task server, it just does them as computers become available).
I have a 50-client environment with about 3 servers and 4 laptops. I know what I'm talking about. Oh: don't forget to take away admin rights from your users, it will be a great help.
Ok, my credentials: I am a 23 year old person, have been married, almost father, against "bad things" like RIAA, had very restrictive and religious parents and I have a very big problem with any authority thus being a white hat hacker was kinda cool and turned black hat against certain authority (school). As of my 16 I have been drinking alcohol, never smoked or did drugs though, had a bunch of girlfriends without parents consent or knowledge. I have been working as sysadmin and computer tech in different companies. I have been working with computers totally addicted from my 8 and I never liked games.
My point: unless you're a freakin' good network and sysadmin and you know what you're doing and you let all your network traffic go through a dedicated and hardened linux box you're going to get nowhere. My parents went with me through the whole computers-are-bad, computer-games-are-bad, violent-games-are-bad, Internet-is-bad etc crap you hear from Jack Thompson-type persons etc. Even then, there's always Tor, HTTPS, Tunnels...
At a certain point they had locks on the computer room, they tried the computer in the family room (which in the end of the previous century wasn't always noiseless), they tried getting my computer being checked out and locked down by a co-churcher who is now a senior engineer for Cisco. I always circumvented all of their rules, regulations, checks etc. because it was too easy to be figured out and I was smarter than them in that area. Kids are freakishly inventive if it comes to breaking rules and the more restrictive you get, the more extreme they will be in their ways. In school we smuggled alcohol as water. Empty a bottle of water and fill it up with something that looks like water (Pure vodka is among the only alcohols that is both easily available and looks like pure water!). I went 'sleeping over' and ended up at a rave that I HAD to stay on since I couldn't go home and I have no idea what happened to me between 2 and 4 am. Dangerous, yes, fun, yes, do it again, no.
What I personally would do in case I get a kid on my computer: Set some simple rules and be firm about them. All kids (especially boys) will get their hands on porn in one of another way. Implement squid as a proxy server and block all ads to do yourselve and the computer a favor. Block all "evil" IP-ranges (I block personally all RIAA, MPAA and government IP's) using iptables both ways. Make sure that bad things like virusses, spam and other things don't get in as easily. Make sure you're not hosting an MP3-loaded P2P-node if you live in the USA.
Get aquainted with your kid's music. Put it on a share on the network and share your technological resources for a good thing, Death Metal or Eminem is not always evil, you might even like it or it might be a point for discussion. Make sure you have an open communication about everything that goes on in your son's life. If you block certain things they could be interested in, they will see it as something they shouldn't do or get in trouble for, so they'll sneak it instead of talking about it. They will go wrong, if they do, don't go off punishing them right away or taking away their computer rights, communication is a solution and they might have to face with the consequences of their actions but talk about it first. If you get pulled over for speeding, usually you get pulled over, they ask you if you are aware of the violation, then they give you a ticket, a period where you can defend or confirm your actions and then the punishment comes and even that you can appeal. It's not the other way around and you shouldn't implement that kind of thinking in your kid. Only extremist do that and certain people in our government would like that too, but it's not how it should work.
Imho a parent is there to guide a person into life as an adult. It's not to form them with a certain viewpoint or restrict them from everything that is "bad". They will get/do/know bad anyway, if not at home it will be at a less controlled place like school or at friends where they have less guidance than at home and may eventually get into serious problems.
From the viewpoint of my daily job: Only e-mail... it allows for people communicating, it's easy to filter crap (virusses, spam and anything else larger than 25Mb) out at the entrance and it doesn't allow for stupid uncontrollable flash,wmv,avi to clog up the bandwidth or people to go randomly to random sites to waste time. I know the web can be filtered by proxy, but that bring much more trouble with it than benefit.
From the viewpoint of my private life: I can get to my e-mail through the web, I can use forums, I can use Slashdot, my own website etc. to get messages across. There is much more to enjoy on the web and it allows to attach or create messages for communications. The web is also harder to control than e-mail and thus less prone to privacy compromise.
that is if you read TFA of course. The average response is (except from IBM and Microsoft): oh, tell us, here is the e-mailaddress, we will do this, this and that, make a patch and then disclose the information. IBM is like: oh, tell us, we put it in the database and try finding a resolution. MIcrosoft says: Tell us, euhm... yeah, that's it, don't go tell anyone else, just us.
I mean, at least describe what an average process looks like and possible timeframes etc.