How long before The Tetris Company sends a notice of claimed infringement to Slashdot's designated agent, claiming that this post and others like it infringes the copyright in Tetris ?

Yes. In fact I'm such a frequent contributor to Slashdot's comment section that I occasionally hit the daily comment cap while trying to narrow down a point.

So let me open an elevated command prompt:

C:\>apt-get install visual-studio
"apt-get" is not an operable program [yadda yadda]
C:\>yum install visual-studio
"yum" is not an operable program [yadda yadda]

What's the command to download and install a desktop application package (in this case Visual Studio Express) from Microsoft's repository?

Tell that to the operators of ad networks. If the ad network is HTTP while the rest of the page is HTTPS, it gets blocked as mixed content. That's probably why Slashdot redirects non-subscribers' page views to HTTP.

If PHP ought to be banned, then what migration path do you propose for (say) Wikipedia, which runs MediaWiki software, which is written in PHP? This migration path proposal might give ownCloud's developers ideas on how to migrate from PHP.

Each PPA has its own key pair.

Of course it can. The repository maintainer can introduce a new package pwnCloud and turn ownCloud into a metapackage that requires pwnCloud. This "transitional package" pattern happens often in Ubuntu updates.

For all users other than subscribers and karma-capped users who have checked "Disable Advertising", Slashdot is funded by advertisements. Using an HTTP ad network from an HTTPS site would be blocked as mixed content, and HTTPS support among ad networks is very new. AdSense, for example, didn't support HTTPS until September of last year.

Ultimately, utility monopolies arise from cities' ownership of their roads. The solution is for a city to bury empty conduits when it repairs the roads, and then competing ISPs can blow their wires through those conduits.

Are you sure Verizon will even activate voice-only service on a smartphone? AT&T sure won't.

And if the DSL ILEC for your area is also Verizon, too bad.

In order to stop being a Verizon customer, someone who requires home or mobile Internet access for his way of life might have to move his family away from territory serviced by Verizon, either as the DSL ILEC or as the only wireless carrier with acceptable coverage. Consensus in comments to previous Slashdot articles is that almost nobody is willing to spend the time and money to move just to change ISPs.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

You appear to call Slashdot not a good site. It redirects all HTTPS hits from non-subscribers to HTTP.

Because of the low adoption of S/MIME and OpenPGP, I've seen banks send not a copy of the statement but instead a notice that a new statement can be viewed by logging in to the bank's HTTPS site. Besides, without Internet banking, how do you discover unauthorized withdrawals from your checking account before your statement, and how do you send money to individuals?

A trillion (10^12) hashes per second can still check only 100 million (10^8) passwords per second if checking each requires 5000 rounds of PBKDF2. In the common PBKDF2 built on HMAC, each round is two hashes, making a 5000-round PBKDF2 take 10,000 (10^4) hashes.

At which point you may be on the wrong side of the tradeoff between security and convenience. If you have 100 subscribers behind a proxy with a single public IPv4 address, and ten of them forget one password, good luck fielding customer support calls for all of them.