If they're hosting the ads themselves, at least it will take care of 3rd-party malware. Maybe. Fingers crossed, good luck with that, YMMV, invalid in Hawaii, Alaska, and Delaware, etc.

Yes it is; she was trans long before she was publicly identified as trans, and you can be sure that she did not maintain a male appearance 100% of the time. Once someone transitions, they want to move on to what is their real life.

Once Bruce Jenner is done transitioning, do you think it would not be considered both insulting and exploitative to make a statue of how he used to look?

If you consider both high and medium vulnerabilities, OSX and Linux take the top spots, by more than a 2 to 1 margin compared to Windows. Hopefully this will incentivize OSX and Linux to look at different processes for development, testing, and deployment.

Thanks. I would just like to point out that there are many different linux kernels. Many distros do their own customizations and patches. And there are many build targets - x86, ARM, POWER, etc. And there are kernels that are hard real-time. Which is pretty neat, and a GOOD THING (tm), even if it introduces even more complexity.

I grew up in the slums. Everyone knew an awful lot about delinquencies :-)

Anonymous Coward once again proves that what's between the ears is more important than what's between the legs. Last time I looked, DNA programs how you develop - which includes the failure of the testes to produce sufficient testosterone to masculinize the fetus brain at 12 weeks. So, it's only logical to say she's that way because of her DNA.

Now that further studies have shown that transsexualism is actually quite common (between 1:500 and 1:2000), you've certainly run into us - we're pretty much everywhere, and we're not buying into old, discredited ideas as to "right and wrong" about gender identity.

The very definition of a delinquency is an act that, if it had been committed by an adult, would have been a crime. And as long as the case isn't remanded to the adult system, that doesn't change - he will have been found to have committed one or more delinquencies, not crimes.

Even children in jurisdictions that don't have mandatory remand to the adult court system for acts such as murder can end up being found to have committed a delinquency, not a crime.

Some people would say this isn't right - but consider that as a trade-off, juveniles accused of delinquencies don't have a right to a jury trial, and a process with a much higher standard of proof.

Right now he does NOT face five felonies. That's a simple fact. He may, at some future time, should the juvenile court system so rule. Right now, though, he only faces delinquencies. Given that about 10% of the e population has had run-ins with the juvenile system, this should be better known.

Makes me wonder how many non-criminals who have been taken into custody have thought that they have to answer "yes" when asked if they've "ever been arrested, even as a juvenile" , when they can legally say no.

What this says is that the originators of the idea (sculptor Davide Dormino and journalist Charles Glass) are more interested in the agenda (and self-promotion) than in the people behind the story. You don't honor someone by actively disrespecting who they are, insulting them and putting the lie to the greater truth. Hopefully, since the stated purpose is to encourage ordinary citizens to speak out, hopefully others will also call out these two (and everyone who backs this misrepresentation of Ms. Manning).

And before anyone starts with the "we don't have the data to make a representation of her as a woman" argument, if you can't do it right, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it at all. Ditto for the "artistic integrity" argument - artistic integrity my arse!

Only problem with that is that the police officer was wrong. Georgia law does not mandate that juveniles be tried as adults for 3rd degree arson - which is what this was (attempt to damage property of another worth $25 or more). So, legally speaking, the kid wasn't arrested - he was taken into custody (this difference is so that adults can legally say they were never arrested if their only contact is with the juvenile system - this means that it doesn't tarnish them for life).

So, he committed a delinquency, not a criminal act (a delinquency being any act that, if it were done by an adult, would be a crime).

So, when the article, based on information from the cop, states:

, ... he is wrong. The minor faces 5 delinquencies, not felonies. Even detention at a youth detention facility is not considered prison under the legal system.

So show me the stats on unreported vulnerabilities.

We can only go by reported vulnerabilities - we have no data for unreported vulnerabilities, and claiming that there are fewer unreported vulnerabilities in the linux and bsd kernels than in the windows kernel is totally unprovable - it's "magic thinking". And as shellshock and heartbleed have shown us, linux and bsd are not "magically invulnerable".

Times change. BSD used to have the least, followed closely by Linux, but not any more. Whether this trend will continue in the future is unknown, but for right now, "them's the facts."

Neither software development (open or closed) is perfect. They both have obvious problems. Back when the Windows kernel was more vulnerable, people claimed it was because Windows was used more. Today linux is more vulnerable, even though we haven't seen any increase in uptake, so why is linux more vulnerable now?

Simple - Microsoft, after having one near-death experience too many, got their act together. The excitement we had 20 years ago over the promise of linux - "maybe this will be the year of linux on the desktop" - will never happen, and we know it. As Apple has shown with BSD, and Microsoft continues to show with Windows, the vast majority of people are quite willing to pay for software and don't care about whether it's open or not. The problem with linux is fragmentation, and it's now too late to address that.

Hey, ALL viruses, bugs, programming errors, etc., are exploits of human vulnerability. And yes, in this particular case, it's possible to fix it so that machines that download and attempt to run the exploit fail. It's right there in the white paper.

Trojans ARE exploits, duh!

Sure it's a myth. There are bugs in open source products that have been sitting there out in the open for YEARS without anyone recognizing them until they're exploited. Shellshock and Hearbleed (OpenSSL library - you can't get much more critical than that) prove once again that the "many eyes" that are not bothering to look because they all have something else to do (like scratching their own itch) proves that you also have to wait for a malicious attacker to find the vulnerabilities before they're fixed.

It's simply not a "better practice" - just different - and the myth leaves people open to exercising less caution out of an erroneous feeling that someone out there is going over the code to fix it just because it's open source. We all know that debugging and fixing code is a lot less attractive to people than writing new code, and that's simply not going to change, because it's human nature. Most programmers simply do not like to do code maintenance, which is why proprietary software with revenue streams have both an incentive and the means to PAY people to do the maintenance.

Which I guess is why the Windows kernel is now more secure than either the Linux or BSD kernels. So, citation provided :-)

Am I happy about it? No, but that's the reality of it, and denying it is being willfully negligent.