What makes it intrinsically illegal?

What makes defeating Macrovision Copy Protection to copy your wedding tape from VHS to DVD intrinsically illegal?

Just because there is a law?

"Our great Republic is a government of laws, and not of men"

Strange world view.

So's anarchy.

wants, needs and desires of the human race will expand

Says the guy who wants 99,999 ferraris so he can drive a different one every day. You don't? Huh, weird, I guess there is a limit on want, need, and desire.

There's reasons why this is bullshit (for instance, scarcity of raw materials and energy) but "people want infinite things" isn't one of them.

This does not seem to be a serious problem to me...Even if their conclusions are true.

If the "global warming alarmist religion"'s conclusions are true, then we're fucked. If that doesn't seem a serious problem to you, then I'd hate to see what is.

They took some chemicals from my son's chemistry stocks that they're going to take and test in their lab that they felt were dangerous chemicals

"Your honor, our lab tested every one of the bottles and found that this evil person had 83 bottles of marijuanas!"

FF7's getting a remake, they should get in on that.

It sounds like if you are not verifying certificates then it's not critical, but if you've got client certificates to identify/authenticate users you need to update.

If you're running any kind of client connection (for instance, consuming a https webservice) then you'll need to update (unless they're using gnutls or nss instead of openssl)

has a good mix of income producing assets

There's your problem right there. You're just not getting a good mix of blackjack hands.

That's what it sounds like he's saying. I'm wondering if something got cached wrong somewhere, then he touched it and it rebuilt the cache, but I know nothing at all about SQL Server, any version.

I'm curious though, if he was inserting the rows into another table, what was the 5th row? all nulls or a duplicate of a previous row or?

You get your choice of payment in silver or lead.

Sort of like how Hacking Team had a separate watermark/backdoor into each tool they sold to governments.

I'm sure the government's solution will be to outlaw backdoors in stuff they buy while mandating backdoors for everyone else. Not being a flaming hypocrite has never been any politician's strong suit.

Not a mac user myself, but I use Quod Libet on both Linux and Windows for my 621 album collection of FLACs, and there's a mac version as well. It's written in Python using GStreamer for the audio support, so I suppose file support depends on what GStreamer can play on your platform. I'm pretty happy with its tagging support, it will bulk-tag selected files and can move/rename files if you want, great for when the track database gave the ripper "Sound Track CD 1" and "OST Disc II" (musicbrainz is just as shit at consistency as freedb).

That's the excuse for when it's automated, but I get plenty of encrypted files that come in an email with "password sent in separate email" in the body where the password is steve55 or some such thing.

Or require that the entity purchasing an asset out of bankruptcy also inherits the contracts binding that asset. If my landlord goes bankrupt I don't get to say "Woo! Free house!" and ignore the terms of my contract with the landlord, why should whoever takes over after the landlord not be bound by the terms of the contract either?

you could not use a filesystem to safely store a database file

You can store the database file there, just don't let the power go out mid operation or make a copy of an active database's file(s) and expect it to work.

In other words, exactly like how it is now.