What did the Earth ever do to you?

Great idea! I'm sure he'll have no problem finding drivers for that solution! Bravo!

Or sneakernet, which would be far faster in this scenario. It amazes me that people would be so unable to quite literally think outside the box that it wouldn't occur to some people that just pulling the drive (outside of the box, get it) and attaching it as a second drive to the new PC and copying it in system is the only way to do this that makes any sense.

"One would hope that a good manager would have enough practical and direct experience in writing software to at least come up with a half-decent estimate, no?"

No. That is the whole point, which you have seemed to miss. I'm the software engineer and even I can't come up with a reasonable estimate; why the hell would some manager several layers of indirection distant from the design be better at it?

You are basically correct, excepting that they absolutely knew what they were doing. They knew playing well with others and building a quality product was an option. Gates simply knew that he never has succeeded, and never will succeed in accomplishing anything without exhibiting immoral and criminal/borderline criminal behaviour.

"MS mono-culture was caused by the incompetence and greed of those who were in a position to offer up alternatives."

Holy ... frigging ... shit. That has to be the stupidest thing I've read all year. You would literally have to ignore every bit of evidence throughout history to be able to type that in any other capacity than that of Microsux shill.

Yes. I know that is "actually the definition". Why do you think I said it? Did you really think I just accidentally stumbled upon the analogy sans any idea what I was saying?

You clearly don't understand what GPG does, what Metadata is, what the phrase "nearly useless" means, or all three. You may as well have claimed that the 4th amendment is pretty useless because they can still see who lives there, and who enters and leaves the premises.

How do you expect a compiler to figure out that the asymmetrical public key cryptography package you wrote has a security flaw because you implemented an algorithm improperly? Do you really think compilers can understand what code is doing at the systems level?

You have a serious reading comprehension problem.

Hey, what do you know? Even though you are a variation of the 'citation required' weanie who is evidently incapable of using google you still got your citation!

"This is another example of "if we can't discredit the science, discredit the scientist for being paid to do research."

It is exactly like that! ... with the sole exception that we don't have any difficulty discrediting the science, that is :-)

I don't think anyone is arguing that the best approach is to first set it up like an idiot and then turn around and do it the right way. This is a discussion about what the right way to do it is, not what turkey's who did it wrong should do now that security has flown the coop so to speak. In truth though, from reading the article all I see is - if an attacker had a password or could somehow get access to the web interface. That isn't much different than claiming banks are insecure because if someone got into my account they could steal my money!.

Holy shit. .... you are an idiot.

Agreed. And no matter what he does his children will still have that access. He does't own every computer system in the world. His children will simply use other systems rather than their own, when they want to go outside the limitation system he implements.

This isn't anything new just because you throw the intertubes into the mix. It is the same problem parents have always had. How can I control my children at all times, given that there is no frigging way in hell I can ever have that kind of control?