Since the energy required to produce corn ethanol is nearly equal or sometimes greater than the energy gained as fuel, corn sucks. It should be obvious that you are going to produce more emissions with corn. Even when the tarsands require large amounts of refining, that tarsand oil will be used to produce corn ethanol. Oil is used today in corn agriculture and production of ethanol. Corn as a biofuel is an odd stop-gap. If we have to use subsidies, why not encourage farmers to make some other crop that transforms to oil with higher efficiency?

These are the exact issues that OpenBSD is fixing. Also PHK has commended OpenBSD for taking the effort, so I think he agrees.

And if they were using a FIPS certified version of OpenSSL, they would still be compromised. FIPS means....nothing in this context.

Just because no bank was on the list does NOT mean that they were not vulnerable, just that they have too much to lose by admitting it.

Or about $900,000 less than OpenSSL receives in paid development work each year.

A PR grab...that you can run on any modern unix based OS. Just not VMS or OS/2.

OpenBSD was using a variant of 1.0.1c with the bug.

Funny, several of the mitigation techniques in OpenBSD and grsecurity have made their way to other systems, even Microsoft WIndows... Basically everything you are saying here is a consistent misunderstanding of what's actually going on. Have you really looked?

The stuff that is being cut out isn't just for "other platforms". It's absolutely fucking ancient, and in many cases, probably hasn't even been _compiled_ any time in the last decade.

It's a fork. And it will be usable by any modern unix variant, not just OpenBSD

OpenSSL folks have recently said they are maxed out. And they have security problems sitting in their bug tracker for YEARS. What is the point?

Like, duh. The answer is that the movie studios can't STOP netflix from renting DVDs through the court system. First sale doctrine and move rental industry has paved the way. Doesn't take a genius to figure this one out.

Gee, you're right. Everyone in the world is so black and white, so easy to understand, how could anyone not ever realize this before!?!

sshd is "used by over 50% of its users without passphrases" ?

You mean it is used with public keys INSTEAD of passphrases.

By your own statement, you're apparently smarter than the 50% of ssh users who rely on public key authentication. Obviously, they all missed the huge, gaping security hole exposing their hosts and source code repositories to attack. That's why ssh remains the #1 attack vector to this day across the internet. Right?

At least -e is in the man page, plainly documented.

Your diatribe is severely misleading at best. If you aren't trolling, then it's no wonder why nobody takes your advice seriously. And if you are, I just typed all this crap in response to, essentially, a Rush Limbaugh cartoon.

The fact that station mode is more reliable for most wifi drivers reflects how the developers actually use them. It's a volunteer project. Someone has to have the time, skill and motivation to do the work. A roadmap is for the person doing the work to develop their own direction. Wireless networking hardware is a particularly poorly documented, secretive, painful place to work and that is reflected in what you experience. While the general situation has vastly improved for some chipsets in the past several years, someone needs to step in and figure out these and other issues in the wifi area. The situation isn't terribly different for other free OSes, often times only the vendor provided and updated drivers tend to be reliable for AP mode (or other less common features) and only relatively recently have vendors agreed to redistributable, BSD compatible licenses for some of their source code, long after people like Damien Bergamini spent huge amounts of effort reverse engineering binary-only drivers from vendors. Painful indeed. It really shouldn't come as a shock to people that most don't want to spend their time in this area due to the sordid history.

He generously donated $20K out of over $100K sent in during this last go. Not quite what you think.