The thing about corruption is that it will fester wherever it is allowed to fester. The only question we must answer is if we will tolerate a corrupt world or if we will cure the patient BEFORE the cure would KILL the patient. So far the big money is on keeping the world corrupt.

Why would mobile networks be any different than other networks? What possible intrinsic technical difference that applies to our privacy or traffic speed have to do with the difference between a computer plugged into the net or a cell phone connecting remotely? None? Okay at least we passed Grade 9 technology class.

The NDP is the official opposition in Canada federally. Bob Rae became an MP for the Liberals so your argument is invalid.

As for the rest of your astroturf, you should consider watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

The Liberals say the same thing every time because they are pretty corrupt and simply want to do the least amount of work. If we decide to elect them they don't have to do much at all because they were the party voted for not because of what they said they would do but rather because they were not the evil Conservatives. That's a huge cop-out and the political climate in Canada is shifting more towards what a party will do instead of what it says its rival will do.

I hear ya. Hopefully it will get better in Ontario, after this provincial election. I think the NDP has a real chance to win it this time. It's a perfect storm. Wynne's debate was awful... libs are losing support. Hudak seems like Mike Harris cloned as Stephen Harper.

NDP seems to be pulling ahead in a major way in Canada overall. I really think they could make a difference if they can get into office and hold office for a few terms minimum.

Canada doesn't do stupid shit like that. They probably will get an internship out of it and become security experts for the banking industry.

If the NSA does it, hey that's national security and they are allowed to do anything.

If you do it, you're going to be spending the rest of your life in a 10' cube for national security.

I didn't know that. If that's the case there is really no excuse not to apply the fix in Win7, unless MSFT wants Win7 to have the vulnerability. Why?

The bugs exist for a reason. If it's not broken now why buy the new version?

They might buy them to ensure they have enough plastic for more purchases.

This is a terrifically respectful response to a troll and I have to admit I always love it when I see this kind of thing on Slashdot. Definitely friending you because of this.

We do have all our eggs in one basket and meaningless acts like climbing a mountain won't save the human race from global warming, meteors, and the greed of our fellow human beings. Scuba diving and sailing and leisure activities in our global water supply are part in parcel of aquatic pollution as we litter huge continents of filth into the center of oceans under the premise of "unseen is okay".

The idiots, I mean the real idiots, are the people who encourage others to get the most of out life and really enjoy it to the fullest without any responsibility for helping our species to thrive. Because soon, and in contrast between the lifespan of Earth, we will not be able to sustain life on Earth. If you wanted to consider the timeline, we are actually within the last five minutes of Earth's life... like if Earth was your grandfather and he was lying down in his deathbed with cancer and he was really struggling to breathe... the way human beings are treating Earth right now is just as if we took a knife and drove it through his heart as he begged us to stop.

After you.

A scrap of funding for such a vital tool for human survival. Is it that our technology could never allow us to escape the confines of Earth, or is it that the government would rather lock horns with rivals on a pebble in a sea of pebbles? KUNG KUNG KUNG...

Oligarchies are a funny animal. If you are 99% of the people you do anything like NSA does and you die alone in a prison cell or you're shot point blank. 1% of NSA affiliated members can do any of it and it's "national security".

I am always ready to ascribe malicious intent to Microsoft, but this just smells like incompetence.

Flagrant incompetence is malicious. Systemic feigned incompetence a lesser form of evil. (When they release one good OS, then one bad one, then a good one... etc)

Maybe I wasn't being clear enough. If everyone is very happy with what their OS can do, they have no reason to buy another one (limiting MSFT's bottom line). Microsoft wants us to always be buying another OS from them. They won't simply perfect the OS and say "Done!", but it's even worse than that.

By increasing the hardware requirements they force us to buy new computers, which in turn means we will need to constantly be shelling out money to them every 2yrs, or every time a computer dies.

They break the OS each time intentionally so we will buy the NEXT one... if it's just as good as the one we have.

We're the dumb ones though. We buy the Vistas, the Win8s, the MEs... we BUY that crap. We're to blame!!

I like how Windows follows a SIN curve of customer satisfaction, almost flawlessly. My prediction is that Win 9 will be the next XP, loved by all only to be replaced by Win10 which everyone will hate... and so on and so forth, ad nauseam.

This kind of business policy is pretty corrupt and if it's not illegal it really should be.

Each release guarantees problems between users in terms of learning curve. Techsupport bottlenecks each time and they take the brunt of the flak from idealized Microsoft decision making.

Nonsense. Facts exist regardless of perspective. Facts surrounding Clancy's writing are easily misunderstood without context. Had he been an unpublished college student he would have been investigated for espionage or planning some horrible future crime. Context is not available through logfile analysis. Context happens outside of logs or monitoring.