Shortening yellow light duration causes accidents. Installing cameras causes shortening yellow light duration. Use the transitive property.

I have one of those $30 T-mobile plans too, and none of the nickel-and-dime stuff you mention matters because I just use Google Voice / Hangouts VoIP so everything, including phone calls and SMS, counts as data.

You can insult me all you like, and live in denial all you like. It doesn't change the fact that you're a sniveling, cowardly, traitorous, authoritarian bootlicker who is too goddamn stupid to realize that you can't preserve freedom by destroying it.

No, the world is not fucking different! The world has never been fucking different! All that happened was that a few assholes got lucky on 9/11 and then dumbasses like you shit themselves and then let Bush et al. turn the US into a goddamn fascist police state! Being a dumbass is one thing, but being a dumbass in a way that screws over everybody else is not acceptable.

YOU LET THE TERRORISTS WIN, YOU GODDAMN MORON!

Go fuck yourself, you goddamn sniveling coward.

The freedoms enumerated by the Bill of Rights are absolute and not up for debate. You and the other authoritarian bootlickers can either accept them, or you can GTFO to North Korea where the government suits your preferences.

Why? It perfectly fits the government's 1984-inspired naming convention, just like the Department of Defense (née War*) and the Department of Homeland Security.

(* It was renamed in 1949 in an amendment to the National Security Act of 1947, which was the law that established the CIA, among other things. Coincidence?)

Why not? Apparently, doxing isn't actually illegal!

You could argue that it's not a smart thing to do because a Federal judge might have enough power to get somebody raided with a no-knock warrant and arrested even though the charges wouldn't stick, though.

It also wouldn't affect the corporate world because business-grade PCs were never infected with it in the first place.

However, the real issue -- the one that makes competent companies completely justified in shit-listing Lenovo -- is the argument that if a company is capable of exercising such poor judgement now, then who knows what other poor judgement they might show in the future. Maybe the next "oops" will be a hardware keylogger in Thinkpads or a compromised WiFi firmware or something.

Lenovo may have backpedaled this time, but the malware only happened to begin with because somebody at Lenovo thought it was a good idea. That, by itself, poses an unacceptable risk to any sane customer.

(Note: I'm the grandparent AC.)

Right, half the point of this would be to defeat the Ken Thompson hack (which is what you're talking about) by cross-compiling with three different, independently-developed systems, or "ideally... by writing a simple bootstrapping C compiler in assembly (and an assembler in machine language) yourself." Maybe I wasn't clear above: the goal is not to compile three different sets of software using the three machines; the goal is to use disparate hardware and software to compile bit-for-bit identical sets of software that can be trusted because three different machines are telling you it's correct.

In other words, the hope is that even if one of the systems is infected with a compromised compiler, not all three are and thus you can detect that it's trying to insert the backdoor in the output by comparing it against the compilers whose output is clean.

Sure they did! Sony still exists, after all, which means they learned that big companies can do whatever the fuck they want with no real, lasting repercussions whatsofuckingever!

The answer to both those questions (and more!) is the same: users are stupid, so make the router as easy as possible to configure even at the cost of security (assuming the programmer even notice that the security got fucked up).

I'm surprised the damn things don't have public-facing telnet or UPnP (and for all I know, they might).

You can! You just have to hit "Preview" to enable that functionality.

I ordered a Thinkpad X60 from back when they were still IBM and got the same kind of fluctuating ship date BS (although I didn't respond by cancelling my order)... I guess nothing's changed.

As an American, I have the right, duty and obligation to complain about the NSA's illegal bullshit because they're (ostensibly) claiming to represent me as a citizen, while acting against my interests as a citizen. France, on the other hand, is a sovereign foreign nation, in which I have no standing to complain.

The spying is bad no matter who's doing it, but it's the French citizens' job to fix France's spying, not mine, just as it's American citizens' job to fix the USA's spying, not theirs.

Is it possible to hook OpenOffice to SVN, so that you can do your version control of .odt files with SVN but use OpenOffice for diff merging?