If an insurance company can't correctly assess risks on their internal books, then they're out of business. But they can still do whatever they want to try and weasel out of things.

Win-D to get to desktop
Alt-F4 for the shutdown option

Because there is overlap in kernel development. 2.4 continued to be actively supported and developed long since 2.6 was released. If you went with release date a 2.4.36 would look like a newer kernel then a 2.6.20.

The value is not related to the price. I feel sorry for you if you can't find value in something that wasn't expensive. Piracy adds value to society by spreading the arts.

The value is not defined by the amount of money it raises (and I fail to see how this is linked to piracy rate) but the value of entertainment given to society. Pirates should pay the artists *and* spread it. Which increases the true value of art.

Locking art in a virtual vault, makes the art worthless to all except those who value it for it's pricetag alone.

No no no. Firewalls aren't just used to block insecure services. They're also used to block outbound connections or rogue listeners. A common scenario is a vulnerability that allows a shell command but doesn't return output of that command. A hacker could just start a listener to serve a command shell or connect back to their computer. Yes, you're still vulnerable with the firewall but it mitigates the damage. This is probably the type of "anomalous" behavior that lastpass detected.

But If you're going to believe your public services aren't vulnerable, you might be able to squeeze a slight bit of performance by getting rid of all encryption and storing passwords in plain text.

I don't think you get it. Who is "they"? Linux isn't a brand and it's not a company. There is no such thing as "The linux devs" except the linux kernel developers. There's literally thousands of different unrelated teams working on linux packages. Frankly I have no idea who you're talking about. Linux has the support for what you're saying, someone just needs to develop it. There are/were developers for a similar tool, maybe you should talk with them. If they ever got somewhere good, maybe they'd be included in a distro. I have no personal knowledge of them:
Tuxguardian (discontinued)
linux-firewall.org

No kidding, I have one of these defective HP's, had it repaired under warranty 3 times. When it failed a fourth time, I gave up. Never received any sort of notice of class action. There handling of this is despicable.

Just use chkrootkit or rkhunter as "AV" for servers.

Lost personal information is a well understand problem, credit monitoring, blah blah blah. Nightmare scenario for sony is a million PS3's updated with a firmware that no longer accepts updates. That would require a mass recall which would be very slow. It'd be utter destruction of the PS3 brand.

Uhh no, if the southwest states want to do that, let them. It makes sense there. But there are many states that they'd be more of a liability then of any real value.

I disagree, collection agencies whole intent is to be immoral (keyword being agencies, there's nothing wrong with collections). The only reason it's profitable to pay an outside company to collect debts is because they can cross those lines of morality and decency that would have landed Comcast in a PR nightmare. It's a shell game to avoid the consequences of their actions.

Customers should be responsible to pay their debts and companies should bear scrutiny for how they treat their customers.

No it just shifts those accidents to other intersections. People will adapt to push the yellow to the limit no matter how long you make it. Consistency is the most important thing with yellows.

Domains are your identity on the web. IPs are your location. Certs verify identity of computer you're talking with, they don't need to contain IPs.

Seriously, the guy's been dead for 11 years...

So only 59 more years to go on his copyright. I'll consider downloading it then, until then I'm supporting the artist.

Yes the conversion to DC is inevitable. This makes a lot of sense when you're using a UPS. When on battery power it converts from DC-AC so your PSU can convert from AC-DC. WTF?