This should have been classified under "YRO", not "Science".

Science disappeared a long time ago from Canada's tar sands industry discussions.

The Alberta and the Canadian governments try to call their approach "scientific" (a MP even used the expressions "based on facts" when talking about the conservatives' agenda - hilarious!) while forbidding scientists to present the results of their research, cutting their fundings and replacing their voices with marketing.

The head of UN's WIPO believes that the Internet (and obviously the stack on which it runs) should have been patented. How do you believe it would have evolved, would TCP/IP be protected by patents?

Goodbye world

His contribution goes way beyond the ones of a recently celebrated "genius". I could make a list of what C gave us today, but I'd have to start it at 0.

"You get lots of $$££€€'s moving around but it all zero's out in the balances..."

Except that, in the meanwhile, you added thousands of dollars in litigation fees, making your lawyers richer, at the expense of shareholders or, most probably, consumers.

So, now I have to get a smartphone and increase my risk of getting cancer in order to detect if I have cancer?

Why would this qualify as "white hat"? Because they sell their solutions to corporations? Corporations are often no better than the mafia: check how well established and still active corporations helped bring Hitler to power.

What would it be called if they sold their solutions to the "legitimate" government of Saudi Arabia? Or to Hamas (who was elected as the representatives of the Palestinian people)? Would it still be "White hat"?

I propose that "White hat hacking" be reserved only to those who use their skills for the good of the community as a whole. Just my 2 cents.

First, make it mandatory to disclaim when a breach occurs, with a criminal penalty (making their management accessory to the crimes in which this breached information may be used). When we'll make companies responsible for the damage they cause, they will be more careful with the information. Actually, I'd expect them to tackle the problem at its source and stop collecting unnecessary information altogether... or implement good security measures.

We have a situation where the cost of acquiring and possessing information is next to nothing, but using it has a value. Let's re-establish the balance by making sure that the cost of possession reflects the reality.

... and most importantly, does it support conversion between metric and imperial units of measure?

... barely a month before the Year of the Linux Desktop begins!

Thanks, this was a nice posting. Just took a couple of minutes to go through and read the comments.

It was a good break from work, and I guess I should soon go back to it... Wait, just one game of sudoku, and then I'll really start!