Given the amount of malware served up by ad networks these days, I'd have to say better than they have now. I haven't really considered the question any further since that determination was all I needed to enable ad-blocking.

Let's just say it'll be up to them to make the case to me that they are now free and clear of malware. Since I have no actual desire to consume their content, the burden of proof will be quite high.

I'm just curious if these are the same people who penetrated the SR site via phpMyAdmin, over the Internet, on 192.168.1.24?

I mean, what motivation could there have been at play?

Consider, in the last court case the judge pretty much spelled the current regulatory changes as a winning move.

History suggests otherwise, especially in a market with significant barriers to entry.

What I find interesting is that an un-regulated market is indistinguishable from 100% regulatory capture. So those who oppose regulations are essentially proposing 100% regulatory capture in order to avoid regulatory capture.

To be fair, most of systemd has sounded like an April Fools joke to me. For that matter, most of freedesktop has read that way lately.

I swear the first time I glanced at your post I read it as 'media shites'. I may have been right the first time in light of the end of your sentence.

Let's start with has effective controls to prevent ever serving malware. Add in no history of serving malware.

Much like the food industry, I don't care how the grocery store avoids selling arsenic as flour, only that they do. If they claim that they can't, they shouldn't expect to sell much flour.

So those no blacks signs we see in old photos are all airbrushed in?

Since we didn't get any black box from MH370, I fail to see why also not getting video would have helped.

In Silkair 185, the voice recorder was shut off. I somehow doubt the video would have fared any better.

Perhaps what we really need is a more reliable way to get the data we already gather.

Exactly why I am advocating against the video cameras.

Both are equally likely to produce useful counter-terrorism results.

The most effective thing to do for counter-terrorism is to keep blowing up families in the Middle East and occupying "holy lands". Keep bombing villages until democracy emerges.

To do so, we need ever-stronger Nation States, and giving them the ability to monitor all of their subjects' domestic communications is a good rung up on that ladder.

Also, Facebook is the real danger to world peace - so be very upset about their ad network and don't bother encrypting your traffic.

The person who provided citations to back my position. You would read it if you wanted to be educated. Clearly you are quite happy being a braying ass (how ironic).

But I have to ask, are you paid to spout drivel on /.? Surely nobody could actually believe that runoff from paved surfaces explains flooding on a clear day?!?

Either way, it hardly matters. You have proven yourself ineducable. You have your fingers jammed in your ears all the way up to your metacarpals and you're screaming LA LA LA at the top of your lungs. probably crying tears of desperation wondering how long until you have to gouge your eyes out in order to keep believing.

I have no more time for that crap.