Your ad-hominem issues with Stallman have no bearing on his academic achievements and the work he has done for F/"LOSS", so your comment loses relevance entirely.

Just because the man sticks up for his values which (when people aren't taking low hanging fruit and complaining about his physical behavior) happen to be factually correct, doesn't mean that he's too divisive. It means the FOSS community people are compromising their values and giving in to the opposite of their values.

Until you are charged, you are not charged. There is no exception.

Additionally, the man is effectively in captivity under a lot of stress. That can present a very different person than that individual might be if not for being locked in the fucking embassy, for example.

Considering how this information is sent, it may be trivial for the NSA to capture such information by definition.

Way to go, Microsoft.

Which - based on the implications, would require 1/100th of the muscle just to seek parity with a normal human muscle. So, it sounds like this should be quite easy to have it do much more work than a human muscle.

It's also perhaps not great that this is the method they are tracking cheats, because using a VPN or proxy will likely thwart some of the positives they would be looking for here. So the method of tracking was via obscurity, which is now gone.

Fair enough, I do forget to separate the two. I do assume you understood what I meant, though.

There are still single core systems that aren't legacy and use java?

This is hilarious. You think there's some company that doesn't say you're fucked if you give out your information? It's just legal boilerplate. That doesn't mean it's enforceable.

The fact that they're restricting access that was easily and openly given out before is just a slow attempt to cover up the barn door which has been left open. It's pretty funny, to be quite honest.

This has to be approved and/or actually pass to even get towards attempting to ban someone's phone from being used. Whether it is even legal or not at that point is going to likely fall on "not a legal bill", as the first amendment doesn't stop just because someone else doesn't like it - which is what sums up this bill.

A lack of anything being quantifiable makes a theory completely unsound. That's not to say it can't be a theory, but the "probability" is 0. That's not "very low", it's zero.

"The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it?"

Have you thought about how long the classic design stayed in place? One of the reasons is specifically how well it works. I hope you should realize that good design lasts, while shoddy design doesn't.

Hint: the new design doesn't particularly appear good or even usable. It looks more like reddit without being able to upvote/downvote articles.

I don't quite understand, what is really being changed?

Not that I think it needs to be changed, but isn't moderation and threading still here?

Because it's incredibly easy to pad numbers and claim them as fact without focusing on the real details?

This is wrong. Considering Issa is one of the people actually pushing back against the NSA, suing without a solid foundation/way to prove it's solidly outside of the realm of law as only that information is starting to trickle out now (initial leaks did not do this), the POTUS will tear him apart if he does some bullshit/shaky lawsuit that even the judges will be compelled to dismiss.

It sucks, but both laws need to reformed AND people need to be held accountable. You can't do one without the other.