Comment Hybrid Mashup Games are the Answer (Score 4, Funny) 559
It's a winner no matter which way you look up it.
If an app is malicious and running on a machine, of course it can reroute, or look at data in RAM pre-encryption, or a number of other things.
If you want to be more secure, then only do secure comms on a trusted network, where any VPN routing is done outside of your potentially compromised device, and other routes are blocked.
You are not allowed to kill, but it okay for us to kill you.
I won't get into the fiscal debate as to whether it is cheaper to lock away someone for life or to execute with multiple appeals and proceedings. It shouldn't matter. If it is wrong to take a life, then it is wrong to take it in any circumstance. End of story. Then when you factor in the fact that we are constantly finding innocent people convicted (if not for death penalty offenses). Often due to poor representation, over zealous prosecutors, or shoddy politically or financially motivated police and forensic work, it would seem to me that the ethical cost of killing one innocent person would outweigh all of it. Even if our judicial system was perfect, humans make errors.
However, as with so much else in our society, our desire for vicarious retribution, our poor ability to truly judge relative risk, and the fear peddled by those in power to keep you caged keep winning.
Think man!
The murican postsecondary education system, the troll under the bridge to your future.
In all seriousness I think part of it is due to the facts that one, Oracle is not expected to actually pay attention and two, if they do, it won't be here that they listen to. They have their own channels.
Some people will beat their spouse or hire a hitman. Some people will be addicts. Some will sell to the addicts. Some will fondle their niece.
Claiming some tool is enabling these behaviors and ignoring that tool's greater benefit greater benefit to society is either fear-mongering or blind unthinking fear (possibly instilled by other fear mongers). If the former, you are the worst kind of control hungry sociopath to use fear to restrict others. If the latter, you are a puppet and a simpleton. in either case, you do not deserve to be in any position of leadership.
"Just think, with VLSI we can have 100 ENIACS on a chip!" -- Alan Perlis