Fascinating concepts... tell me, how do you rationalize your stance with the fact the U.S. was founded by stealing the land from the previous occupants? Are you willing to declare the experiment over and return all lands that were seized by force (i.e. all of them) back to the Native Americans?

That would be ideal, and there's nothing stopping the OpenSSL project from doing that.

OpenBSD is a group that says - we are relying on this code that is totally busted, let's fix it - and they prioritized their OS first. I don't see a problem with that. OpenBSD is already making their work publicly available for free, they don't have the onus to actually provide bullet-proof solid code for every platform on the planet. Turns out other OS hackers need to roll up their sleeves too, and fork over some cash to support the effort.

I don't think they care about how their font is interpreted.

I think this is more like - we're busy actually fixing code and not going to hire a team of web designers to produce a web 2.0 dynamic social-media-hooked-into website with a few links and a bit of text.

I'm not sure anybody is saying give Obama a free pass; some of us are just wondering where the FUCK all you constitutional-waving administration critics were during the Bush years... suddenly crawling out of the woodwork after hibernating 8 year I gather.

Sure, maybe Obama hasn't done everything perfect, but I know one thing: throwing Obama under the bus for what clearly started under Bush/Cheney is 100% bullshit.
It gives the impression of really wanting to hide and/or distance one group of politicians from a lot of crap they don't want to own up to, prefer to ignore or forget.

You want to examine and investigate Obama? I say heck yes, I'd welcome that, as long as the previous administration is similarly cross-examined. Bush/Cheney housed goddamn war criminals by any reasonable measure, and no way in hell is there justice if that whole group walks free, after convincing legion of fucktards like yourself to shift the spotlight. This crap didn't appear out of thin air in Jan 2009.

If I wanted to "easily poison" a water supply, I'd just form a corporation, say one that stores chemicals meant for coal mining, and build my facility near a river that supplies a small city's water supply.

That way, not only would I get limited liability if there was an "unforseen accident", my corporation could declare bankruptcy and dodge all lawsuits.

What happened to Ubuntu was they decided to "differentiate" themselves more, dreaming of monetization and profits. I'm not sure it is working out the way they thought it would.

I like Mint - the version that tracks debian (Linux Mint Debian edition). They do a ~3 month rolling upgrade from debian testing. So I get something a little more current than debian stable on Mint's nice Cinnamon UI. It's ideal except for one little thing - no LVM install by default. For that you need to jump through some hoops but it can be done. Well maybe I'll grab the latest and see if that separation has gone away.

Don't forget about all the Bush admin people that lied us into the Iraq war. Lots of those folks were the ones that STARTED all these surveillance programs.
Plenty of politicians you could repeat your phrase about:

Bush is under no compunction to tell the truth. And there's no reason to expect he would.
Cheney is under no compunction to tell the truth. And there's no reason to expect he would.
Rice is under no compunction to tell the truth. And there's no reason to expect she would.
Rumsfeld is under no compunction to tell the truth. And there's no reason to expect he would.
Wolfowitz is under no compunction to tell the truth. And there's no reason to expect he would.
etc.

Not to dispute the rest of your quote, but Nixon wasn't immune from prosecution. He resigned and President Ford pardoned him.
I guess that is a fine/moot distinction, but the President (and governors) are allowed to pardon people so.... that's just the system.

Targeted donations are great and all, but I think corporations that NEED this security layer should step up. Banks for example - oh hell, the clearly don't give a crap if they can cry to Congress for a bailout.

If I were Zuckerburg, I'd go big and throw in 50 million for a rewrite effort. The publicity alone would be gold. Facebook could brag for years how they take their user's information and privacy seriously enough to pay. God, they already spent billions on a photo sharing app and VR glasses, 50 million would be round off in comparison.

Or the compiler might helpfully optimize out your buffer clear : http://www.viva64.com/en/d/020...
Or in general: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/017...

There's just a ton of landmines to avoid while coding in C. Including the tools themselves.

Yes... but at the hiring authority of corporations first. Whatever credentials they demand, job seekers must provide.

I did something similar. I signed up for the twitter account in order to follow a handful of others, and get event results (not all of which I am interested in). Of some use is an education account I follow for occasional tips learning a foreign language.

I think twitter is great for "one to many" information dissemination.

All these problems you attribute to NASA are actually congressional problems. NASA budgets are are the chopping block every year. The only way they get stuff passed is by distributing the work to every Congress member's districts. That's fucked up as you would expect, but we're a country that doesn't give a shit about funding science, paying scientists very well, or even listening to scientists. In fact there's a whole industry around discrediting climate scientists, since that threatens corporate profits, and a huge number of adults Americans don't believe in evolution. Entertainment and sports are the heroes and finance is where the big bucks are.

Because the average anti-government libertarian retard neckbeard doesn't want to deal with the followup to accepting the science: behavior change, banned products, infringement on their god-given right to burn all the oil they want, conservation of resources, etc.

They just don't give a fuck and the simplest way to resolve any cognitive dissonance or guilt or rationalize not doing anything (i.e. living the same lifestyle they are accustom, unwilling to change change anything), is to simply pretend it doesn't exist and claim the science is bullshit and a conspiracy. They latch on to counter arguments presented to scientists funded by energy companies and the Koch brothers and figure screw the poorer parts of the planet, they didn't get to my massive consumption lifestyle early enough so they lose out first while we all go over the cliff.

Their "cyberdefence" mission is to defend DoD systems, not the entire world's computers.

If you don't like it, gripe that NIST and DHS aren't doing their jobs (they are the agencies actually over commercial internet security and non-DoD government sites) or transfer/alter their authority. Everybody thinking the NSA is there to protect their banking and email all have the wrong idea of what they do.