Non sequitur

The part of the internet that "was meant to be resilient to nuclear attacks" (if that's even true) would be the routing. If a nuclear strike hits the machine you're trying to talk to, redundancy among communication channels doesn't do anything. The endpoints went down, and so things failed.

So nobody is doing any clickjacking, there are plenty of legitimate reasons people who don't "like" Romney might capital-L "Like" Romney's feed, and Facebook's mobile interface is a little cluttered.

This is not a story, this is a series of banal statements including "clickjacking," "Romney," and "Facebook" to drive traffic (and it unfortunately worked on me).

What would you file a suit for? No tort or crime was committed. This is a price change for a non-essential service which you don't need to purchase, and entirely legal.

They probably figured that people who don't really care would rather be listed, but were unlikely to pay for it specifically. Assuming they have to hire people/design a system to list some numbers and not others, they pushed the cost onto people who would be willing to pay. Yawn.

Why it's a monthly instead of a one-time fee, I couldn't tell you. Trying to make a continuous revenue stream out of privacy fanatics I guess.

Because you saw the words "room-temperature" and you missed the last sentence of the first paragraph where it says the findings were published in one of the most widely respected peer reviewed journals?

Or just didn't read TFA ;)

This is a trademark, not a copyright, so there's no license to grant. If you don't defend it against all attacks, you lose the trademark and cannot defend it against any attacks.

IANAL, etc. but this was my understanding of one of the critical differences between patents, copyright, and trademarks.

If you're in an IT department of an org with any Linux machines, you may be allowed to access port 22 on the internet. Get the cheapest hosting you can find (I have a tiny VPS for $10 per year). PuTTY runs in userspace so you're likely not prevented from downloading it, so use dynamic port forwarding as a SOCKS5 proxy.

The endpoint DLP will still catch things like credit cards/SSNs/monetary values/addresses/client names, but the proxy won't have your browsing history so you can read things which are blocked by your ironport ISA.

Retarded people are human beings. You have an interesting definition of respect.

By that logic, security by obscurity is actually just fine security, because most people on the internet don't know how to do much besides googling default ports and passwords...

The only reason to oppose this (which I would but I don't live in Cali so who cares?) is that you have to pay someone for going to gun manufacturers and saying "let me see your microstamping equipment and tests please." Sign me up for that at 50k+, or better yet his "supervisor" at 100k+

As an interesting semi-related question, where does this logic lead when applied to disclosure of political donors?

It's interesting when something "obvious" in one sphere is much more complex in another because someone else's money is involved.

I reject your false choice.

The money here went to Apple and Amazon (shareholders and execs, which is a separate discussion) for developing new legal pricing strategies and distribution channels that did not and could not exist before. On the musician side, recently money has been pouring in floods to House DJs who wouldn't have been given a chance on mainstream radio in the 90s.

In other words, some people got very rich off of making something new very cheap for everyone else in a new way. There was a loser, like there always is, in some musicians and traditional labels, but the loser was making money off inefficiencies in consumer access to music, which is arbitrage and inherently risky.

There doesn't always have to be a bad guy...

You're right. The Irish have no history of violence against "other" people at all. Nothing bad has ever happened in Ireland. They never even had terrorists!

oh wait... I left out decades of 20th century Irish history in order to make a point. My bad.

Securing cockpit doors before passenger boarding? When's the last time you were on a plane? I fly weekly around the US and occasionally internationally and can't remember an instance in the past year when the cockpit was locked before everyone was on the plane. Usually it's just before the boarding door is closed.

At any rate, it doesn't affect security, as you can't really hijack a plane which does not have the engines on and is parked at the gate.... Most domestic flights have the crew on board maybe 10-15 minutes before passengers begin boarding and pilots do need to go through a checklist with flight attendants.

It doesn't matter if they work 1000 times as hard or contribute 1000 times as much to society. It matters that people in general want them to do what they do 1000 times as much as they want you to do what you do. Wealth generation is making something other entities want. This always boils down to people at the lowest level but governments, companies, etc. can be the specific entity you deal with. Remember that you're not being paid for the work you perform. You are (should be) being paid for how much OTHER people want the outputs of your work.

I love the idea of a death tax. It disincentivizes death!