I believe there were more restrictions than that, however in order to go after infringers the actual owners of TC would have to come forward in some way that would make them identifiable and they've shown no interest in ever doing so.

It's even possible that the (anonymous, uncompensated) devs were looking at all the crap they were going to have to change and deal with as a result of UEFI, signed bootloaders, etc. and otherwise increasingly restricted hardware and said "screw this, I have kids now, maybe my own startup, I have a ton of things I can spend my time on that are just as satisfying and that I don't have to avoid talking about with anyone."

Back when I was writing stuff that distributed as compiled Windows executables, I'd throw a little window into the About of programs that had GUIs - if you held Ctrl-Alt-Shift and clicked the app icon the About text would change to include the names of the team and (depending on space) possibly a `fortune` style pithy saying.

Pretty mild, and if anyone had complained about the waste of time to implement changing the text of a few fields in an existing screen it would have served as a good person filter.

Yeah, yeah, whoosh, "Meet the Fockers", blah blah

The answer should actually have been "Yes, but you probably wouldn't enjoy what's required."

I can't say whether they're overvalued, but there's definite growth potential beyond where they are now.

For example, how many municipalities in areas that they cover have "dial-a-ride" transport for seniors/handicapped? Could Lyft/Uber serve as a cross-municipality contractor for those, providing the same or better service at lower cost? Adding some specialized (e.g. wheelchair-capable) vehicles, plus being able to use their existing set of drivers where appropriate could lower municipality costs while giving better on-demand service to residents.

Heh, I reinstalled Windows recently along with switching to a SSD, and apparently didn't install Flash. I didn't miss it until I saw mention of one of the Flash 0-day exploits and a new update, so I went looking to confirm that it had updated.

Of course, I run with NoScript and RequestPolicy, so I wouldn't have been seeing much Flash content anyway.

Just because someone can't describe a fairly technical topic doesn't mean they're bad at what they do, it means that cryptography, data security or possibly data transmission work isn't what they do. Perhaps you need to revisit your recruiting materials to see if you're attracting the wrong people.

I like to consider myself more informed than a lot of folks out there (I have an unread copy of the second edition of Applied Cryptography! in a box in the garage! or maybe it's the first edition, still unread either way) and I'd be hard pressed to go beyond "I'm pretty sure it relates to the difficulties of factoring large primes or the products of multiplying large primes."

And the first question I'd ask for transmitting encrypted materials is quite frankly "who are the users at each end?" because for a surprising amount of things I'd probably say "install 7-zip and do a single-page detailed step-by-step set of instructions. Possibly laminated."

A couple of other things for prevention could include CryptoPrevent and HitmanPro.Alert.

CryptoPrevent is primarily an automated way to set a variety of documented settings to restrict execution from a variety of locations, though you may need to temporarily disable it for installing or updating some software. I also haven't investigated this, but it occurred to me this evening that those policy changes might have caused problems I recently had with some Windows security updates that ended up with me saying "screw it" and reinstalling Windows.

HitmanPro.Alert monitors filesystem behavior to attempt to detect and block the assorted CryptoLocker-style infections, though there are some that it still doesn't detect (or at least can't differentiate enough from regular activity).

This could come back to bite teachers or administrators in the ass if they're sued for their actions. They'll undoubtedly get away with it with a lot of kids, but there are going to be a few that will tell them to piss off, and then things will get ugly and expensive, possibly for both school districts and the administrators personally if it's determined that A) they didn't actually have a legal right to the information and B) it was provided to them under duress (see "Color of Law" and "Color of Authority").

I work with a few places that still have 1-2 2003 servers around, and for some of them we'll probably be locking them off from any external access and doing a few other things to restrict them while still keeping them around (possibly mostly powered down except by request). That's because they're legacy systems still running old software that someone occasionally needs to refer back to - primarily old diagnostic imaging or practice management/EMR systems which are long out of support.

I have a few places that are 1-3 doctors, 3-6 staff, and they have an old system that they need to go back and refer to every week or two for things that didn't get migrated when they changed EMRs. Migrating everything out of that old system into something like PDFs for attachment to the current system would be cost-prohibitive; paying for migration ("Sure, we'll be happy to upgrade you to our new version, it'll be just like you're switching back to us, shouldn't be more than $30k or so") is the same. We long ago VM'd almost all of these systems along with upgrading/replacing where feasible, so there's not really an added hardware maintenance cost for keeping the VMs around.

And before people say "you should have migrated everything," the last migration we did, the new vendor wanted and would accept a very specific set of fields - all on a single (large) Excel sheet. Everything migrated was practice management data - demographics, insurance, etc. NOTHING clinical was migrated (possibly for liability reasons - what happens if your import of the peanut allergy info fails because of something stupid). For clinical data, the staff at the practice still goes into the old system, generates a set of reports into PDFs, then attaches those PDFs to the new electronic chart as if the customer was coming from another practice. Migrating all the patients makes no sense, this is a specialist practice where a significant percentage of patients are seen for a year or less, then are not seen again for years if ever.

Actually, it's more that Congress stopped it by barring spending any money on transfers. So Obama could likely close Gitmo, but only by actually just closing it - take the fences down, leave the prisoners to their own devices.

I'm pretty sure that's a level of "F*ck you" to Congress that he didn't want to get into, but maybe now.... After all, what are they going to do, stop cooperating with him? Attempt to roll back what's arguably his biggest domestic achievement?

This may turn out to be a situation where your best way to run Linux reliably is going to be full screen under VMware. No driver problems, etc.

I'm pleased to see them backporting new tech to the older vehicles, and by doing this they also get replacement batteries into vehicles sold as much as 6 years ago (first introduced in 2008), though presumably they've had replacement battery packs available all along.

I'm sure they're also going to be making at least some profit on these upgrade kits, and by not abandoning the older vehicles they probably do a lot to cement loyalty from those same customers who were willing & able to drop more than $100k when they first came out.

"As Prime Minister David Cameron announced, we are required to ask ALL of our customers by the end of 2014 whether they wish to opt in or out of filtering of materials deemed offensive by the government's approved third-party monitors. As we have not yet received a response from you to our previous inquiries about this, we are now required to take additional steps to ensure that you have seen and responded to this question."

Or at least that's how I'd phrase it.

If I won a 9-figure lottery (the only kind I could win, I generally throw a dollar or two in if I notice it's gone over 200 million), the first thing to do after dealing with taxes, etc. is to set up at least one pretty iron-clad trust designed to pay me a nice solid upper-middle-class "salary" every year, with a lot of restrictions on how I could break any principal out of it. I suspect this would also impact taxes if done properly.

Once you have your perpetual senior developer-level salary set up, **then** you figure out what you want to do with the rest, be it toys, long-term investments, completing your dream to visit every strip club in the country (note: if going the "hookers and blow" route, make sure that trust is *really* airtight).