It seems of all the folks who want to do TVIP, only Google seems to be taking any action on the sorry ass state of US broadband. The telecomms sure arent. They are in the game of eating taxpayer subsides while lobbying for metered data and data caps. Cable TV has woefully failed at a la carte, instead is a force-fed smorgasbord of rotten tripe, most of which any individual doesn't want.

I just don't know what will be the tipping point for something to change, will it be when watching tv will become too expensive to do for typical family?

So I'm going to jump into this mostly blind, as the comments on Linus are the top ones and the comment on the actual issue isnt.

Saying that, lets say hypothetically that the patch actually implemented 'correct' behavior that induced a failure of an app either miswritten, or written to work around the previous wrong behavior... who should be getting chewed out? Presumably, if its a fix that is correct then someone should ping the upstream app dev. If they don't respond do you then add an exception for one bad app, or let it remain broken?

I have been wondering for several years about why we dont have vector based UIs. The 2d accelerators should be good enough to draw vector window objects and such... Why has this languished?

A) Viruses.

B) DBAN writes over the whole device.

C) none of the things you describe cover the normal users of 'scrubbing' or 're-imaging'

Shouldn't the shop that supposedly "re-imaged" it busted for fraud? One also might wonder why an FBI agent is using internal FBI resources to "scrub" a non FBI machine that isn't part of an investigation. Finally, these morons don't know about DBAN???

And all this time I thought LN was software... its good to know its something else. Some other yet undefined category.

Giraffe.

Are they going to publish it with the incorrect pronunciation that "everyone" says is correct?

Sadly you are right, nature keeps giving us better idiots

NONONNONONONO

This is not how you deal with an incident like this. You have to reexamine your infrastructure and find out *why* that info was on an endpoint to begin with. This is teh same BS kneejerk reaction that makes for bad IT planning. Just go and wallpaper of it with a band-aid and look all betterer.

HULK SMASH!!!!

Please compare to this paper http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0047712

Abstract, methods etc....

My response to the response to Nate Silver

"Math is hard lets go shopping!"