Do you know what profit is? It has nothing to do with 'controlling the experience' or 'generating so much revenue.' Profit is income minus expenses. While everyone likes focusing on the revenue number, they conveniently ignore the expenses, which happen to be exactly the same as the revenue. Why? Because all the revenue the NFL makes is distributed to the teams, which are NOT non profits and DO pay taxes.

Uh, they already have all the power over your connection. What are you talking about?

It isn't a 'public' hotspot, it is a hotspot for Comcast customers. And you are getting something - the ability to use those same Comcast hotspots.

You have indeed 'changed everyones CC#'. EVERYONE. For ALL CARDS. Every single stored CC number is now useless. Every recurring payment will fail. What an absolutely great opportunity for phishing. Every week or so you can expect to receive a 'there is a problem with your account, please log on and re-enter your CC information, this is for your security' letter. Wonderful.

Joe's Hot Dog shopped got hacked and a few thousand CC numbers were compromised. Let's invalidate every stored CC number in the whole world! No economic harm from that, no indeed.

OK, so company 'A' gets hacked and all of their saved credit card information is breached. No problem (according to you), just change the salt! Presto magico, nobody can use the information that was stolen. Which means that EVERY stored credit card number (now 'hash') is invalid, everywhere. Not just compromised cards, every single one. Every recurring payment is invalid. Every pending payment is invalid. Great idea.

No sane developer does this, because it is worthless. The SSN IS the identifier of the user. Without the SSN, you have no idea who the user is. Use the hash instead of the SSN? Now the hash is exactly as sensitive as the SSN was in the first place. You have added unnecessary complications and have provided zero improvement in security.

Exactly. Look at it this way: your credit card number already IS a hash of your and your banks identities. That doesn't magically make it secure.

Huh? Surely for an IRS transaction the SSN is the identifier of the person. What are you going to compare the hash with? How would you know who the person is to compare the hash with if all you have is the hash? So instead, the hash becomes the identifier, and thus becomes exactly as sensitive as the SSN was in the first place.

The retailer NEVER calls the customers bank. They call their OWN bank, who will contact the card issuer using already known information.

Just out of curiousity, what kind of parts are you talking about, where a 3D printed piece of plastic would be an acceptable replacement? In my work on my own older home, the things that are in the can't find/hard to find category are all either structural (2x4s that are actually 2 inches by 4 inches), functional (doorknobs, etc), or decorative (plaster rosettes, etc). None of those are suitably replaced with a piece of plastic, regardless of whether or not it actually 'fits'.

What legal precidence are you talking about? That is completely incorrect. Take something that looks like it might be copyrighted to Kinko's and ask them to copy it. They won't.

That didn't stop the buffoons in PETA from demanding they change the name (they helpfully suggested 'Fishsave'). Somehow they missed all the other 'kills' in NYS (Catskill, Otterkill, Freshkill, etc).

Close. GF wants the IP and people for chip making. IBM wants the IP and people for chip designing.

No, it does not (at least on RHEL). yum list updates shows no available updates to the redhat-release-workstation package.

Uh, no.

RHEL 6.5 is just RHEL 6.4 with all the updates already applied. Applying the updates does not change the system-release file.

And like I said, mozilla itself reports that Firefox is at the latest level.