I agree with twistedcubic. RMS, what questions should we be asking/proposing?

Would have been nice if the police had confiscated the media card from the drone.

Bullets? Yes. Shotgun pellets? I doubt that's ever happened. They're too light and they spread too far. They're supposed to be shot in the air.

There's a risk of falling drone debris (which would be on him, as it was above him when he shot it, and I would assume he'd have told his kids to get out of the way), but there's zero chance of danger to anyone from the shotgun discharge.

Completely agree. You don't have to be able to bang out an OS, but man, if everybody just knew how to grep through some files or automatically run an SQL query, dump the results into an Excel file and email it to somebody, the world would be a better place.

Pick your poison. Get robbed by your coworkers or get robbed by your boss. You're still getting robbed. But I bet your coworkers will rob you less, given that they're being robbed by the same process.

Resistance was futile!

Oh, sure, I'm just saying it would be funny. Revenge for all the epithets /.ers have hurled at him from this site. Not nearly so many since he retired, but you remember what it was like in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Bill Gates.

Replaces the front page of /. with a picture of him naked, rolling in money, pointing at you and laughing.

Oh, you're absolutely right. I'm definitely not saying it would be impossible to hide a backdoor in an open core design. Absolutely could. Same thing with FOSS...just see the Underhanded C Competition.

But today you could have (and probably do have...) explicit backdoors in silicon, besides debugging interfaces, and you'd never know. With an open core design, you'd have to hide it.

They can if they believe that performer will incite violence, which I believe was their reasoning here as the performer is from one of the gangs involved in the violence. The concert was a fund raiser for a kid killed in the getaway after another gang shot one of Keef's gang members.

I don't think that's unreasonable.

I disagree. Saying "people couldn't understand the hardware" is the same as people saying "open source software is irrelevant because you can't understand the software."

Some people can. I have an electrical engineering degree and specialized in computer architecture in grad school. I could understand it. And just like anything else...it's not that hard when you know what you're looking at.

Eh. When laying out silicon, you generally use libraries of simple parts you chain together. You make a register once, and then you replicate it each place you need a register. A TON of those transistors are cache, which is the same pattern repeating over and over again.

I'm not saying there's anyone who's looked at every transistor, but there's probably somebody who's looked at the layout of a cache cell, a register, an ALU, standard multiplexers, etc.

You check out as the real KGIII. Or a very good KGIII Markov chain text generator.

Skeptical != cynical.

The one publicly available edition of the state laws of Georgia is the unannotated version.

This lawsuit is about the annotations, not the code.