I guess the big news here to me was that GNU grep and sed were being maintained. :)

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Pics or it didn't...

Nevermind.

This part of the original submission got my attention. The submitter added the italics for emphasis, implying that they don't deserve it.

Drake and Wayne, good on you.

I am reminded of Stewart Alsop's famous quote about mainframes: "I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on March 15, 1996." Mainframes are going stronger than ever.

Discuss.

First, I'd like to see a citation for your "reputed" claim.

Second, the reason why we have not had alternatives for gas guzzlers is not for lack of trying. It's because the alternatives are not competitive from a technical or economic standpoint, neither of which are a direct result of being held back by hostile patent holders.

So you're saying that vegetarians are mutants?

Honest question: I am curious about how much (sensitive) data they were able to capture. It seems to me that a car driving through neighborhoods and past businesses will only capture a very small amount of the traffic from some fraction of the access points which have no (or weak) encryption), and "sensitive" traffic (e.g. unencrypted logins) would be a very small fraction of that. So a fraction of a fraction of a fraction diminishes the value quickly - though I suppose they make it back on scale.

Capturing HTTP "remember me" cookies for seems like it would be dangerous since they might be reused back in the lab to access all the data stored at the social or webmail site.

It would be helpful on this issue to understand the magnitude and makeup of the data, and how much of it is actually valuable / dangerous.

Mr. Lowery eviscerated every single one of the usual Slashdot rationalizations, so it's not much of a surprise that either one of you can't muster an argument beyond "what a stupid post" and "definitely some kind of RIAA shill."

It's kinda fun to see all of the typical dodges and rationalizations so totally and utterly obliterated, and the apologists sitting there in a daze, with nothing better to say.

One of my favorite sayings is, "The more you own, the more you are owned." It's definitely a liberating feeling to not have to own and manage stuff, physical and virtual.

Interesting point, but a reasonable person will recognize that manufacturers can only guarantee a product as tested. Trying to think of a car analogy here... :) What would you say if you sold your smooth-running car on Craigslist, but the buyer comes back to you a few days later and says the car is running rough and he wants his money back, and you should just ignore the performance tweaks he made to the engine control module because they don't matter?

Just testing out that question in the title thing... :)

I'm really surprised the corpus was so small. Would have expected to be on the order of thousands.

Wish I had mod points for you today.

Moore's Law does not apply to:
1. Bandwidth
2. Battery life