Gotcha.

Pros: Easier to identify astroturfers/shills.

Counter Con: What makes you think the rules will be applied to corporate persons or political entities?(who are the drivers behind most astroturfing.)

The rules apply to the little people, and if you judge the acceptability of a curtailment of freedom on the basis of the fairness of its application, you're judging falsely.

Yea, what you say is true, but it really doesn't make good news to talk about things that way. At least until somebody actually does it, then we get weeks of wall to wall "breaking news" and "Alert" coverage and the hosts of MSNBC will pontificate about how we should have known this was going to happen and stopped it.

If your point is that the talking heads always talk about everything but the threat which will actually materialize, true. Not a deep insight, but true.

OMG ROBOT BOMB CARZ is what's playing up on stage on tonight's episode of Security Masterpiece Theatre.

Quadcopter grenade bombers is what will actually happen. Unless it's something even more lo-tek, like moar pressure cookers.

Which is probably why you wouldn't be interested in an MMORPG. Which World of Warcraft explicitly names itself.

But you're posting in an off-topic thread. So carry on.

Use any OpenPGP app to create a key pair, which has the property that any message encrypted with one half can be decrypted with the other half. This one half is your private key and the other half you make public.

Where?

There's no such thing as a single uniform federated national-level public key clearing house, in any nation. If you want this to happen for J. Random JapaneseGrandma, you'll have to install that first.

People who think PKI infrastructure is easy don't understand PKI.

So, what you're saying is that Oracle's stagnant "sit on it" leadership is bad for people for whom the language and runtime are the end, the product, the point of it all.

As opposed to in the real world, in which the language and runtime are just tools to get shit done, and its users want stability.

You don't have to guess which community Oracle cares about. But if you're not sure, ask yourself which community can Oracle extort support contracts out of, or can be upsold on other products.

Follow the money. How much is the JCP paying Oracle to give a rat's ass about their concerns? Innovation is a cost center to someone protecting a market share, and competing against others who are protecting a market share.

If you want novelty, go find it someplace else. The other posters comparing Java to COBOL, even if jokingly, are very nearly right. Especially if you stipulate that, at the time of COBOL's dominance, the primary implementation of COBOL was associated with IBM big iron.

And that's your historical analogue of the day: COBOL was to IBM what Java is to Oracle.

A youtube video from Iran's Culture Minister explaining Tehran Catholicism.

I'll betcha a current CS grad wrote the auto-correct logic that did that.

Case... fucking...closed.

Feh. C. "Memory Management".

CS students taught in high-order language are completely deficient in their education. They haven't learned about opcode timing and instruction placement and hardware stack management.

If you aren't working exclusively in machine code, you're just a poser.

If watching cute adorable kitten videos is crazy, I don't want to be sane.

Because, cute adorable kittens.

I think "Superpower" status includes the ability to have both. Because hypocrisy doesn't matter if you're big enough that you don't have to care what other people think.

I'm pretty sure the U.S. passed that moral event horizon a long time ago.

News flash, badly written laws get misused.

Every tool is a weapon in the hands of someone with violent intent.

Business is a battlefield. Weapons are damn useful in a battlefield.

Business is ultimately responsible for the weaponization of the law. How could anyone argue that the CFAA is intended for anything else? If no one is digging holes, the only use left for a shovel is bashing your adversaries. The only question left, and it's purely an academic one, is whether this (mis-)use of the CFAA is an accident arising after its inception, or its real but unpublicized raison d'être.