Are we playing buzzword bingo? If so, I concede, you win.

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Apples and oranges comparison.

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When I buy a DVD, I own that DVD. That is why I buy DVDs. I don't want some DRM server somewhere suddenly saying that I cannot stream a movie I purchased.

Now if streaming allowed me to purchase and keep a copy free of DRM, then I'd be interested.

But so long as there is DRM, I'll continue buying DVDs.

You left out the part about clever people not continuing to make the same mistakes over and over.

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The problem with OpenSSL is not that mistakes were made.

The problem is that mistakes were made and the developers did not learn from those mistakes, did not seem to care about fixing those mistakes, and did not care about preventing similar mistakes from recurring.

Looks like a committee of tech companies is going to fund a security audit and further development of OpenSSL.

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This can only be a good thing, right?

On the contrary, the government has every right to assure you are vaccinated. Your ignorant and paranoid refusal to be vaccinated threatens the health of others. The threat you pose if you are not vaccinated is not some misguided rant of a paranoid, but a real and present medical danger.

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If you do not want to get vaccinated, then go live in complete isolation, far, far away from those who want their children to be healthy. The moment you choose to interact with society, then you have a responsibility not to make that society sick.

Exactly. I use Wikipedia as a starting point to find real sources, not as the end source.

According to the results of that Nature study, Wikipedia had, on average, 32% more errors per article than the Encyclopedia Britannica. How cnet.com translates that into "as accurate as" is beyond me. The Nature summary even acknowledges that Wikipedia is not as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica.

Wikipedia: where truth dies online

... the more we realize what we do not know.

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Isn't this what science is about? Discovery, exploration, learning.

Of course mistakes will be made along the way. The fact that we can look back and see those mistakes for what they are is a part of the scientific process.

This is a good thing.

I'm sick of replying to this, but... Your apology for high ISP prices would carry a whole lot more water if the ISPs did not have very much lower prices in areas where they have competition than in those areas (more densely populated, btw) where they do not have competition.

... google fiber's gigabit speeds, Cox should also commit to rolling out google fiber's reasonable prices.

I can't speak for "we all" (and neither can you :) ) but I can say that I have had that experience on more than one occasion. But it is a small percentage of my overall community support experiences. A very small percentage.

I tend to agree with you for the most part.

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There have been User Groups providing customer-to-customer support almost as long as there have been computers.

Most of the time, the answers I receive from the community forum are received more quickly and are of better quality than those I receive from first tier support in the more formal support channels.

On the other hand, there are some companies that use the community support as the sole means to provide support, and the community has little or no employee involvement. Those companies, the ones that use the community to hide from their customers, I do not like. And I avoid their products.

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I see similar numbers for my website also, however, you are seeing much more bing activity than I see.

... that google appears to be the main generator of traffic for some websites. The way to solve the root problem is not to change how google does or does not work, but to bring other traffic generators on board.

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A company that relies upon one customer for a great majority of its sales will always be beholden to that customer. That is why companies diversify their customer base.

Websites should diversify their traffic generators instead of just relying on good ole google to generate traffic for them.