I should have said that coke-bottles are the ones that make peoples eyes look big from the other side (ie, make the wearer's eyes look big when you're not the wearer).

I should have also included
Normal: what we consider normal glasses are those for near-sighted people who need them to see far away. These are thinner than coke-bottles and don't have the bug-eyed affect.

Coke-bottes: think lenses generally used by far-sighted people who need glasses to see in focus up close.
Bi-focals: have a half-circle shaped area in the bottom of each lens at a different power (for reading) while the rest of the lens is set for regular viewing
Progressive: has the regular lens gradually change to reading power so you don't have the tell-tale line (and power jump) associated with bi-focals.

That would be a fail move that would make upgrades very difficult. What should be required by law is that you market it as "8GB, 4 usable" and "16GB, 12 usable" assuming the OS took 4GB. If the next iteration OS takes 5GB then it's up to you to decide whether you want to install it or not. Personally I do think you should be able to OS downgrade, but that's another battle.

Sadly we humans only seem to be able to handle 2 or 3 options. If 12 existed we'd hone in on 3 favorites and 9 would be outliers.

It's not that just "being open source" automatically means code is being validated by lots of eyes. It means that you can look at the code. All we need is more people interested in doing that, or paid to do so. They also need to have the knowledge/skill necessary to do that.

And as always, being closed source would not have made the issues easier to find. And then you'd be at their mercy waiting for a fix. These were all found and all fixed relatively quickly, so let's focus on that.

SSL certainly isn't a simple library. Increased complexity makes it easier to make a mistake and harder to find it.

Maybe I should be shamed for replying to myself, but I thought of another issue.

If I'm running some software to stress test a web server (such as jmeter) am I going to auto-blocked by the software? And if so, am I going to have a means to dispute the blockage?

Also, in reference to "when it does block" it could just block you leaving their network. That way they could point you toward antivirus software or other cleaning utilities hosted on their network.

I meant to add that one reason the ISP might not want to cut off DDoS senders is that they don't want to annoy their customers. Though you would think that they could call the customer at the same time alerting them to an infection, notifying that their internet will be down for 15 minutes (or whatever). Of course it's difficult for joe customer to try to remove the infection without an internet connection. Though it's possible that they're not even home at the time and wouldn't notice or care if it bumped off for a while.

What it sounds like you're saying is that ISP's could cut off individual customers who are sending DDoS traffic thereby killing the DDoS attack. If (I say that lightly) they are already monitoring our upstream traffic why couldn't they do that?

The answer lies in your earlier post, because they can make money selling mitigation to the attackee. When a place I worked was being attacked AT&T (their ISP) was completely disinterested in helping at all. It was even more sickening than them asking for money to help.

And you buy it to perform a certain function. If it didn't perform that function you wouldn't have bought it. 3 years later it will still perform that function just fine (unless you upgrade to iOS 8 - then it will be noticeably slower)

OK, that was a cheap dig - I have an ipad 3 and have refused to upgrade because of mixed reviews. But really, upgrading the OS may make a tablet/phone respond slower.

The same was true for the PC market. There was more of a driving force pushing to upgrade the OS on a PC (security, users at home using newer OSes, other software that depended on newer OSes, etc). But a tablet doesn't generally "need" to move to a newer OS. If it's used as a toy, a web browser, or a media consumption device there is little push to upgrade.

Since nobody else said it I call bullshit on this.
Apple needs to know where you bought it (store, and probably IP or equivalent identifier for the device the transaction came through)
Apple needs to know how much you paid if it's collecting a percentage.
Apple doesn't need to know what you bought.
The first two need to be stored if you have any kind of audit / discrepancy dispute resolution. If there's a time span on when you can file a dispute then they don't need to store anything beyond that.

The one with the bigger stick is right, of course.

Why was this posted as AC? I'm pretty impressed.

Other than the fact that Bilbo's sword did glow when the orcs arrived this is pretty spot-on.

My TWC reception is sometimes sketchy even though I pay over $100 a month for TV and internet. When "Under the Dome" and "The 100" decide that their respective channels are going to not come in during the broadcast so the DVR chokes on it then I go to TPB the next day and pull it down.

When the USB drive that I ripped my CD collection to decided to kick the bucket I went to TPB and downloaded the ones I cared about rather than repeating a long drawn out process.

Rather than ripping my wife's Little Mermaid DVD I went to TPB and downloaded it.

Did anybody get financially butt-hurt by my use of TPB, NO!

Have I ever downloaded something that I didn't have rights to - yes, but not enough for anybody to care. The equivalent of a kid sneaking into a movie theater to watch a movie once or twice.

Have I ever later bought something that I downloaded, absolutely.

Raiding and shutting down a site because there are a few bad apples is equivalent to taking away the 1st amendment. You need to fight for people's right to say stupid things or you will lose your right to say what you want.

Ahh. There's the reason it's not in the US.
Seriously though, our ability to screw up security is the other reason. It has led to distrust, which leads to low or slow adoption rates.

What phone OS and what do you use to police which apps get to use cellular data?

Not free as in "without ANY cost", you're being too idealistic.

The realist definition (if I can say that) is "free to download and use". That allows for ads.
In-app purchases are certainly not free, but are add-ons or unlock functionality not in the free version.

However I do sort of agree, when I hear or see that an app is free I always check to see if it has in-app purchases before I bother to download it. Because I don't have an unlimited data plan I also check screenshots for ads, because data isn't "free".