Does anyone else find it weird that he released this, espcically before a fix is out? Thats common courtesy in security. Even more wouldn't this hurt his company more then Microsoft?

Here's the link, took me a whole two minutes to find it http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/

How is this news? Anyone can get the current sources for any Redhat package, customer or not. Those sources contain the patches. All Oracle is doing is downlaoding them and importing them into git and making that git repo public. The company I work for already did the same thing since we use a custom kernel but still want the Redhat patches.

I learned algebra in middle school not college. At least where I went to college calculus was the first college level math. Anything lower didn't even count toward your math credits.

The Navy doesn't have any spare capcity in its data centers for this? This seems like another waste of tax payer money by outsourcing something that could clearly be done easier internally.

No shut its running like shit hes using a VNC session. If I recall correctly the PI has hardware accleration, if he was using that it would be much much smoother.

I can't speak for the rest of the world but Americans are mostly reactionary. Even if there is a high chance something bad will happen no one will care until something bad does happen. Then everyone complains about how something should of been done to prevent it and politations go overboard with an exspensive solution their contributors can profit greatly from while being minamaly effective.

I suppose you're implicating Iran in the 9/11 attacks, though it's hard to imagine anyone could be so ignorant.

Well most people still think Iraq had something to do with 9/11. With the push for war against Iran I wouldn't be surprised more people started to beleive that.

And he should be punished for what other people may or may not be doing with the components of his device?

Why should he have to pay $1200 for a license to use a legal chemical to make a legal product? Sure I can understand an application fee but $1200 is a bit much.

First of all keeping track of customers costs money and makes you ensure no one(but the government of course) can access this data. If its leaked he could be held liable. Second I have a right to privacy as a consumer. The government should never be able to force a company into keeping records.

Again the government has no right forcing a person or business to use any type of security measure to protect they're possessions. If his products get stolen the only person thats affected is him, no one else.

Really who isn't?

The other thing I forgot to mention is if you do run into a bug RHEL is much more likely to fix it in a timely manner then CentOS will. This is especially the case if you run into a bug that is unique to your situation.

RHEL support gives you a very good backup plan. If something goes wrong with your Linux systems they will stand behind it and help you get it right. CentOS your on your own. While that might be fine most of the time a case could come up when no one on your team knows how to fix or do something and your stuck. RHEL will help you through it in a timely manner while CentOS might lead to long down time. As others have mentioned CentOS is way behind on building updated packages. Because of this you may be open to a security hole for much longer then you would with RHEL. The other thing to keep in mind is if your using any third party software they won't support you running CentOS. If your CIO really wants a free Linux distro I would go with Ubuntu. Your getting the same binaries are the paid version and if something bad happens where you need support you can get it pretty easily.

I've been saying this for years and its where I see communism will really rise. The problem with communism is that your average worker isn't motivated to work. Advances in technology takes most jobs and gives them to a machine which will do a perfect job every time. The people who don't want to work won't and live a fairly comfortable life being serviced by machines. However I do believe there will be a small percentage of people that will be motivated to create new art and science and for those people this machine run world will be a real utopia.

I asked this question awhile ago and after doing a bunch of research I've decided to wait for the ASUS RT-N66U which should be coming out in the next few weeks. Its gigabit with 802.11N dual channel and two USB ports. It has a 600Mhz Broadcom chip and 256M of RAM. While googling around for it I've seen a couple of references in Tomato and OpenWRT to them adding code for it so I assume it will be supported, most other ASUS routers are.