Wikipedia fails for one simple reason; most of the data is without citation and most of the data with citation relies on web links that do not work anymore. Do you have a citation for this?
According to Marcus Ranum, "world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation" and "an early innovator in firewall technology, and the implementor of the first commercial firewall product" (http://www.ranum.com/stock_content/about.html), white-listing was the way it should have been done since the start. In fact, black-listing (or as he calls it, "default permit") is at the top of his "The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security" list (http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/).
You're right, you do have the right to feel let down, but when any band/artist tours, it's generally known that they'll mostly play newer material to promote their most recent release. It's shouldn't have been hard to foresee this when buying the tickets.
"Maybe something like this laser system might push them to enough despair to actually give it up."
I think despair is actually what's been spawning violence from the Palestinian side.
According to Marcus Ranum, "world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation" and "an early innovator in firewall technology, and the implementor of the first commercial firewall product" (http://www.ranum.com/stock_content/about.html), white-listing was the way it should have been done since the start. In fact, black-listing (or as he calls it, "default permit") is at the top of his "The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security" list (http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/).
Doesn't a new version of Ubuntu come out every 6 months? If that's the case, you should have to wait 12 years.
You're right, you do have the right to feel let down, but when any band/artist tours, it's generally known that they'll mostly play newer material to promote their most recent release. It's shouldn't have been hard to foresee this when buying the tickets.