It wasn't better marketed, it was created and made available by Diffie. That 'and' is important here. The British kept it secret that they even done it until '97. This is an example of parallel invention, only in this case one side made it known he had created it and the other didn't. For creating and publicizing Diffie is correctly attributed as the co-creator of Public Key Cryptography.

I have no idea of the value of the content of the film in question, but if the residents of NC don't want to have the rest of the world point and laugh at them, perhaps they should stop doing things and stop electing people that cause the world to point and laugh at them.

NC has earned all this derision.

Seriously, they won't listen to they guy they know is paid to do this but some random guy on the phone 'ya, this seems legit.'

I'm willing to bet the wiki nazis aren't 15 year olds.

Windows 8 belongs on a tablet, it's quite easy to see how it would work well on one. On the desktop however, that is were it starts falling flat. Technically, Windows 8 under the user experience is an improvement, the tablet interface on a keyboard/mouse desktop on the other hand is not.

taking the old idea of a correspondence course and adding the phrase "...on the inernet!

Except these are free, you can take any number you want on any subject you may be interested in and learn whatever you want.

My god, the horror.

Don't download this song

[citation needed]

You could at least read the first line of the FA.

sudo if you don't feel like doing anything particularly involved.

Oh and

every descendent of Unix - has a single root account

Root is disabled in OS X by default, you have to use sudo to enable it. SELinux can remove the godly nature of root and Trusted Solaris does something similar. With Windows, you simply create users as members of the correct administrative groups.

What would you have them do to avoid this problem in the future? Perhaps they could hire someone who is a technical expert with overall responsibility for the department, whose job is to make sure something like this can't happen. Oh, wait...

There are AAA systems with RBAC for a reason. Childs was not the only network admin and there is no reason he should have been the only one with administrative access.

However, SF's failures in this regard still do not absolve Childs colossal dickery. He brought the worst of what can be made to stick on himself.

Looks like there may be a few issues with PolyHeme. It would be interesting to see how this new stuff stacks up against the disadvantages of PolyHeme.

Of course, there's no reason there can't be two (or more) different solutions to the problem, that would probably be beneficial to the patient.

The writer likes Outlook.com, clearly government spying is not a problem to them.

Not your personal army.

Well, it was also very large.

More to the point the cost of the damage it caused is passed only by Katrina in 2005 by virtue of hitting areas that do not normally have to worry about major storms of this type. Calling it a 'Superstorm' (it 'merged' with a nor'easter which is what started the name) was stupid, but it wasn't just another rain storm in New York.