If you want to argue that the courts are given too much power to compel disclosure you can make that argument.

But to me this ruling seems perfectly in line with existing standards.

How does that differ from our present system of government?

So by your standard they're not able to hack your computer, or access your email account, or search your house, because all of those things reveal tons of information about you.

Nor can they have you give fingerprints, stand in a line up, or respond to a supeona since they're forcing you to do something.

This was the right decision and completely in line with the US constitution. This wasn't a warrantless search done during a traffic stop. This was a request made by the prosecutor during a trial, the defendent doesn't have to speak, they just have to press their information to a pad to unlock information the court has requested.

If that were true, then the Space Shuttle would have used them instead of solid rocket boosters.

They have advantages and disadvantages.

I think the big elephant in the room is more to be found further upstream, in the area of manufacturing. Worrying about software hacks is one thing - not having the faintest absolute clue exactly *what* is inside the chip package is something else entirely. Think its an accumulator bank? Oh sorry, maybe we forgot to mention the harmonic bundles associated with wave guidance within the interstitial distances of the rapidly blinking transistors .. yeah, those can be read from space. With a satellite (or 12).

The game is over folks, or rather .. the game is on, depending on how you look at it. Until you are capable of investigating and participating, directly, in the sub-assemblies, you will always have a weak back door. Either we, ultimately, become able to assemble our own chips on the desktop, or there will always be a power class: those who can build such devices, and those who can only be ruled by them.

Users are going for systemd and liking it https://qa.debian.org/popcon-g... Notice how the rush starts after gnome (in debian) drops the hard dependency on systemd, that's when systemd-shim appears, and how systemd-shim users are declining and also not voting for the package.

I'd want to have the option, but for the default behavior to be that it stays down. I feel like unfortunately, unless you've lived a charmed life where you only have to work with software that's high quality, you will probably run across some server running some piece of crap software that can be a bit crashy. Yes, I've run across software like that on Linux servers too. And personally, ideally, I like to have the easy ability to control what happens when something crashes. Should the server ignore the whole thing and keep chugging along? Should it attempt a restart? Should it wait 10 minutes, and then attempt a restart? If the attempted restart fails, should it make a second attempt? At what point should it notify me?

I like when I can have control over that kind of thing, if possible, and I'd like to have that control be easy and reliable.

Well no, he's right. It's just a tautology-- reliable servers don't crash. It's kind of like, "No daughter of mine is going to get pregnant out of wedlock!" I can say that as long as I'm willing to disown any that get pregnant out of wedlock. If she gets pregnant, then she's no longer my daughter.

So reliable servers don't just crash, but unfortunately a large percentage of the servers out there that, for one reason or another, aren't 100% reliable. I sure wish I had software that would work well on those.

MSNBC claims to be extreme leftists, and you lap it up. Stop believing everything the television tells you, it will help.

Their memories are simply that short. That's how they forget that none of their interests have been served by their elected politicians, and proceed to re-elect them.

Here in California, however, we re-relected Jerry Brown. That's very like re-electing Marion Berry. Heh heh heh.

this is true anyway. Citibank is pure fucking evil. Sadly, they were my only choice for a lender when I got a student loan.

so just to be clear, you are in favor of oil pipelines? which commit a valdez or a deepwater every so many days or so?

FTFY. For every Warren Buffet there's a hundred fucks who won't cough up a dime unless you punch them in the gut.

And it is no different in that income is redistributed from the middle class instead of the rich.