Exactly! Don't want your husband around the child you both had? All you have to do is convince a judge to give you a restraining order. Pretend to be horribly in fear of your life regardless of what the man did or did not do. Restraining orders are used all the time as a tool to win. Grind your X into nothing. I've seen it done all the time.

I personally think he should be allowed to say whatever he wants online. However he crossed the line when he contacted her family or anyone she knows. What's next? How much more control can we give someone over other people?

We're not talking about ensuring the system operates in a normal expected environment though. It's not exactly complicated to make sure your software doesn't kill someone. What WE ARE talking about is making that elevator software completely impervious to any attacks or any kind of bypassing of the controls to ensure no one is killed.

Holding a software programmer liable for all potential flaws in their code is rather ridiculous and shows a general misunderstanding of how software is written. We do not just go out and build a bridge. We go out and purchase or use countless components that are prefabbed (libraries) and we build the bridge in methods suggested by industry standards, programming language standards, or vendor apis. When you purchase or use any software by anyone you are not just using software by them you are using software and programming techniques designed by countless other companies. There are so many interdependencies it is insane.

Let's be honest. The only reason why anyone is for this is because they are sick and tired of Microsoft and companies like them that are interested in their bottom line first. But most software companies wouldn't exist today if every line of code had to be iron clad and secure from bottom to top. So if we go the route this article is suggesting we are going to have software companies with no IP owned by just that company (open source distribution so the purchaser can make changes themself) or we are going to have very short lived software companies that are sued bankrupt every day they hire an outside contractor to do job xyz.

This entire concept is a joke. The problem with software security does not rest with the programmer or the organization. An entire industry would have to change over night to support anything even remotely like this.

This reason for this is not so much about a belief in God as much as a belief in certain values. While it is very true that most atheists have the same values, they have not be categorized down to a simple statement of "I am XYZ religion". If a politician says this the public knows what the politician should believe in regardless if he believes in those things or not.

This is honestly the biggest shortfall of being atheist or agnostic for that matter. People identify with others that have the same traits. Stating you are an atheist says nothing of your morals or values or what you want the world to believe in how you behave morally.

Atheists will only likely ever likely get an atheist vote. So if you are an atheist and you want to hold an office you have several choices. 1) lie about your religious beliefs.
2) Hope the rest of the planet turns atheist over night
3) Believe the average IQ of the American population will suddenly go up overnight and there will be with it a large cross cultural acceptance.
4) Convert
5) State your beliefs as loudly as you can as if anyone had the time to listen to you.
6) Organize all atheists into groups and classify them based on their moral beliefs so as an atheist one can say I believe in the "all humans treated equal" anti-religion. Then everyone will know what your moral beliefs are.

Hop to it!

A stable environment is a benefit to everyone. We started two wars...the rest were started without us doing a thing. It's a horrid thing when people die and cities are destroyed. However it can be the only way anyone in an area will ever see peace again. The people in these areas are calling out for freedom. Every country that has ever controlled their population with an iron fist falls. Almost always by pissing off enough of the wrong people.

We are a world power and as such it is our job to protect the people of the entire planet. You hate us when we do nothing. You hate us for taking your resources. But we pay people for those things. Why don't you hate your corrupt governments more than a foreign nation? The middle east is filled with people in power that wish to stay in power at all costs. They have done a very very good job of painting a demon out of us. Finally some of those people are waking up and realizing who and what are the real problems. While we are dependent on oil, it is their time. Instead of all that money being pumped into all the people of those lands it is held by a select few.

No nation wants to control an empire because honestly there isn't a point unless you win the hearts and minds of the people you conquer. They will eventually rise up again and throw you out. Dictators, empires...it's all bullshit. The real point is before we as the human race can move forward we have to resolve certain issues. To have peace you can not micromanage every inch of the Earth.

The way around calling our actions in these countries as a war is to claim the power in these countries has already shifted away from those in power.

Actually I believe it's easier for small companies to stay up to date if they are tech savvy. No red tape/paper work blocking updates/upgrades. Limited number of custom made applications make it easier to secure if they were coded right to begin with. No "who the f knows" factor when dealing with large complex systems communicating together.

The idea that small companies don't have chance at securing themselves is probably missing the boat on why this is even a problem to begin with. Rarely are new exploits used in hacks that don't already have a fix out there for them. The condition though is secure in house code if you do stay up to date on everything in a timely manner. With these larger companies they do not have the time or resources to go back through decades or even 5 year old code to patch up software security issues they created back before it was a known issue. No code today should EVER be at risk to SQL injection...It's not really hard if you think about it.

Oh, and I own a small one man shop and work full time at a very large company...

Ah so that's why this is on the front page of slashdot...so we can all be told the wonders of cost savings for MS products when you're just a small one man shop! Thanks marketing giant!

Not really. Hate driven beliefs can drain you of a lot.

No I do realize...you know since I am one. You state You have to accept that anything is possible. First off Spaghetti monster is a symbol created to mock religious folk. Secondly you state this as if I have to somehow defend their existence. That's what takes work. If someone took the stance that Thor exists or did exist...who the fuck am I to say otherwise? you seem to believe that accepting the possible existence is saying they do exist.

Accepting that anything is possible...but the flip side to that coin is accepting that each possible belief is a lie. It's a very nice borderland town I live in where I don't have to take any side. It also allows me to be objective. What takes work is applying such beliefs into everyday life. "what would Spaghetti monster want me to do?...oh shit maybe I should consider what Thor would want me to do...nah Thor doesn't care anymore since all the Unicorns died in the last Spaghetti monster hissy fit....". See...not much work at all.

I'm agnostic for the same reason. I don't identify myself as atheist anymore because I found many atheists venting hate through almost all of their examples of why there is no God. There are those that are insistent on tearing down religion and blaming it for all the world problems. I'm of the belief that there are many in this world that simply need it. To remove religion from all aspects of life could simply force those that are believers into believing in something far less noble than a perfect god deformed by man's wants in a god (religion). This article supports that statement in that our brains will attempt to replace religion or find other forms of it in other areas.

Atheists have long gone past the position of being atheists when they demand that they know what is best for others and take actions or words to convert others to their form of thinking. Just because you do not need religion or a belief in God in your life does not mean it is not necessary for the rest of the planet to remain in moderate containable violent state. What no atheist ever asks is what we would fight over without religion...the truth is we'll find something and I'm sure it will be just as dumb. An atheist finds comfort that death is death of suffering in life. Just as a religious person finds comfort that death is the beginning of bliss.

In the case of a belief in God the true null value is to be agnostic.

I guess the "little" guy is suing the big corps using his mommy and daddy's checkbook then?

Defining little guy may have been required before the GP made their statement. Just because you are suing someone bigger than you does not make you the little guy. It just makes you smaller than the big corp.

The "little" guy would be your run of the mill garage lab. The guy that doesn't already employ a team of lawyers. Those are the people that can create NEW jobs and NEW industries. That is what we need. Instead they are sued or better yet simply threatened with a lawsuit just for trying to sell anything they come up with. And when they go out of business or just give up in the face of everything... the big boys pick up the scraps and make all the money off of the idea...or better yet file a new patent...or just drown out the idea reinforcing their own business model. Large corporations have no reason to take on new ideas....they already have a well founded profit center. Patents are nothing more that pointless dribble to them to get more investors. Talking points usually highlight the number of patents a company has and rarely mentions the number of products they sell that are entirely protected by patents only they own.

One of the reasons I hate AI is simply because of his smug remark. It really has turned into a religion of sorts. When/if I finally ever get back to AI coding I hope to stay as far away from everyone else on the subject as I can.

I'm very sure this will happen. But till then they will run their extortion ring....and the CEOs will get huge bonuses as their profits increase...and once lawsuits start up the CEOs will rush out the back door leaving the company in a shallow grave for the dogs to tear the rest of it up.

These guys are morons and have no idea what wonderful lovely gold mines they just became for a large number of lawyers. Not only will customers of the ISP sign up to sue them so will every two bit operation from here to China claiming they were shut out of a market due to their throttling. Let them gamble with their company's future....I mean after all the CEOs will get a huge bonus and all the low income serfs will get the boot when shit hits the fan. Another lovely day in stupidity and lack of government action thanks to greed.

I'm so sick of you, so sick of me....love the new cake song...makes me reminded of all you European snobs and Middle Eastern folk blaming us for all your problems.

The USA Is huge...many many many areas are very very safe. Hate to break that to you.

You're doing it wrong.

Why don't they charge 5x more for advertisements? I get these crap coupon wads of paper like three times a week and it all goes right into the trash. Not to mention the dumb ass Charter love letters begging me to come back. I don't want my inbox or mailbox stuffed full of advertisements. We can't stop spam so we should at least be able to stop the snail mail right?