My only point was that his politics may have changed in the last 25 years...

I was wondering why he went there...

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

Perhaps we should see who he lampoons first...

But when you consider how much e-mail traffic itself has dropped, the spam drop is even more significant. I see more spam on FaceBook now then I do in e-mail.

They want to lock down standards and own the market. But the market will go to the standard with the most support, and open standards have a way of doing that better. That is how the PC won, even if IBM didn't. I am betting Google or Steam may end up the dominant player.

Because solar collectors and wind collectors are made of "stuff" and we have a finite amount of "stuff" to make them with. And that energy, once collected, is stored in some vary rare and expensive "stuff" too.

Of course all of those things take extensive materials that we do not have an unlimited supply of. And Space Based Solar, if widely adopted, would increase the imported heat to the planet faster then fossil fuels.

Money is not a resource, it is a placeholder. I am talking about rare earth magnets, complex metals, and special carbon compounds. LiPo batteries are not made of money, you know...

Because a project patching bugs daily (that only a hand full of users are actually applying) is rated as more secure then a well tested and stable project that is not finding bugs and releasing patches...

The Star Trek economy only works with no scarcity. And while there is a surplus of labor, there is NOT a surplus or resources or energy. And energy is the big one here, as everyone keeps telling us. Sure there is solar, and wind, but they run up against some rather hard resource limitations. (Especially plastics which depend on oil...)

"I know you have this tool that works perfectly well for what you are doing, but you should remove it now, and use my new and bloated tool instead..."

Seems to be the current "best practice" and I hate it.

NTP is actually quite solid. But pool.ntp.org could use some love. It can't work without servers...

If it works, why change it? The SmallWall project was immune to all of the SSL bugs in the last year because we use an old version that does not have these new and buggy features... Of course, this rating system would ding us for that... :)

I agree that it is a very good idea. But the execution leaves a lot to be desired.

Their rating system actually encourages this. If you have tight controls on commits, like perhaps 1 or two people who review code and actually make the commits, you are "at risk." So go ahead and give that NSA guy commit access...