Showing a static page involves rendering what amounts to a specialized form of code. Even browsers without javascript like Lynx have code execution CVEs-- and thats a browser that isnt even being fuzzed that hard.

Its not NIX enough, according to the posts I've read, it doesnt count.

I love seeing history repeat itself.

Years ago, it was OSX that was impenetrable. "Find us an active exploit or virus", they said, "and dont give us any of that market share nonsense". All the while the clues were there, with OSX getting exploited in seconds at Pwn2Own when actual cash and computer swag was on the line.

Here again, we have an OS with a minute market share boasting about its impenetrability and lack of exploits. I might propose that a great deal of the lack of exploits is the lack of any real incentive to go after such a tiny group of OSes which are invariably set up by fairly skilled IT persons.

Develop a BSD distro with a desktop environment and a modern web browser, and set it out for a million end users to use with a $50k cash prize for the first exploit, and you'll be paying out in a day, tops.

The amount of arrogance in some of these "My *Nix is best" threads is staggering. There is NOT code out there that is significantly more complex than Hello World that is bug free.

Your post displays an astonishing level of both confidence and ignorance. Find me a piece of software half as complex as a browser (which has the unenviable task of running arbitrary code from untrusted sources in a secure manner) that doesnt have any CVEs and I'd happily retract my statement.

It seems to me he defended the idea that residents of a society obey its laws, which is a foundational block to a working society. He didnt say anything about whether the laws were actually good ones.

I know slashdot loves tout the wonders of anarchy, but lets not go labeling someone a "statist" because they think laws should be enforced and that people dont get to pick and choose which rules to follow.

Sometimes I have to wonder whether people believe the crap they post.

How exactly are the drivers being exploited? Theres no pressure to be an Uber driver, its 100% voluntary. People make their own decision to sign onto the service.

Its not "nuance", its "correcting blatantly false nonsense".

Theres no "debtors prison" anymore.

He is in fact correct. They make it somewhat difficult to avoid being sucked into a Microsoft account, though there are ways to force it to desist. SkyDrive (or whatever its called now) also tries pretty hard to pull you in, though again you CAN force it to back off somewhat.

WPAcrack isnt breaking mixed case alphanumerical 12-character passwords over lunch.

Heck it would take a rainbow table-based attack about that long to recover a 12 character password (l0phcrack, running from dvd).

Found your problem. Theres about a million approaches he could have taken from here, including an automated script hacking your router from the LAN side and pulling the key, to pulling the key off of your local computer out of protected storage.

This isnt a weakness in WPA2.

Last I heard molten salt was still being worked on because it is insanely corrosive and generally nasty to work with.

That doesnt exactly scream "put a resevoir in every yard".

Windows 8 has this as well.

Because its cleaner and (according to the chart I posted) "decent" forms of coal are a bit more expensive than "decent" types of natural gas.

But if you find charts that include truly dirty forms of coal, you will find that is the cheapest. Scroll down in that DOE link to the 2013 germany estimate, and note how stupidly cheap brown coal is.

People in the US tend to default to not banning things just because someone else thinks its dumb.

Capacity =/= generation. Generation is generally 20% of capacity due to solar's awful capacity factor, which is why its NOT competitive with coal (really, nothing is). I would love for this to be true, because as a tech solar seems like the elegant solution we need-- you make the panel, it magically makes energy, win win! Except thats not the reality. Things like latitude (germany is pretty far north, for example, which affects their generation), the fact that panels dont last forever (need replacement after 15-30 years), their high cost to make, and their low efficiency conspire to kill "the dream". Enough soapboaxing-- lets look at actual figures.

(Sources from wikipedia, and from thence many other sites)
A chart of energy prices by source, Germany. Note how coal is generally 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of solar.

US DOE estimates for 2019 (scroll down for chart). The fun facts--Total system costs (per mWh):
  * Coal (various types): 95 - 147
  * Natural gas (various types): 66 - 128
  * Advanced Nuclear: 96
  * Solar, Thermal: 243
  * Solar, PV: 130

Note the first column, which is where solar really gets thrashed. Your installed solar capacity may be 1000MWh, but your average output over the year will generally be 200MWh because your capacity factor sucks. Go towards the poles, it will be far worse (as Germany is discovering). Take a look here, you can see that while Germany has a boatload of solar capacity (beating out everything else), its actual generation lags behind everything except gas and hydro.

Im not cherry-picking these, either; one of those links youll note appears to be to a "green" site. Im just grabbing the first links I see, which mesh with every other piece of info I've seen on the subject. The TL;DR is that solar is crazy expensive and not really a great pick for northern countries. Maybe Im wrong and Germany will hit 100% of its generation year round eventually-- but I seriously doubt it. Solar is great as long as you dont expect it to carry the full weight of your country's energy needs; its really not made for that.

The real tragedy to me is that Germany is scaling down its nuclear, with the upshot that its still having to rely heavily on coal. If we did live in a world driven by science and rationality, we would see solar / wind / nuclear on an upswing and coal on a downswing. Thats not happening because many "green" types will worry about the nuclear boogeyman, and claim that if we work for 100 years we can possibly get solar to be cost competitive and efficient enough to actually generate a country's energy.