Comment Re:Oh no. Not again. (Score 3, Funny) 409
This is not the line that you are looking for.
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Diaspora has the benefit of being Open Source, much anticipated, and security aware. Thus, some number of security flaws have been found.
Diaspora is lucky in that regard. Bugs have lain dormant in even open source code for decades before being discovered. "Open Source" does not guarantee that bugs will become obvious. Open Source does not even guarantee that there will be people looking at the code, only that they CAN.
Exactly right.
What I don't understand is the current outcry about the bugs. It's a prealpha release. I'm betting that, as they got so much money from so many people on Kickstarter, they were feeling a lot of pressure to get something out the door, that people could talk about, and devs could start looking at to work on themselves.
I'd say that this move is mostly throwing the hungry dogs a bone - proof of concept, and a rough idea of the architecture; nothing more.
As soon as "intelligent" signals are detected, they destroy the source.
So as long as we keep broadcasting reality TV, we're safe?
Government needs to get out of the way of business. If private companies want to own human genese, I'm sure that the benefits will trickle down to us.
The stupid thing about what you're saying is that the patent system itself is Government interference. If you want the Govt to stop interfering, remove the patent system.
Hell No, We Don't Glow!
Hell yes, your hair's a mess.
If you don't read Bloom County, then you probably won't get it. That doesn't make it offtopic.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
