Thank you... That's spot on...

And for all those using the "you-can't-control-the-internet" argument, you're right we can't... But I respect google for trying to control their portion of it (ie. youtube).

Unless you want to do a journalist job... You need a reporter you can trust to present the story without too much bias... That's very hard today...

I can't tell if the people who modded you insightful were being sarcastic... :)
Okay, joke aside... Statements like everybody else can just **** of because something you wanted to read about was marked for deletion. Is part of the problem.

Wikipedia editors and can't get every decision right... If nimrod (which btw, think I've heard about before) continues it's growth, then I'm sure it'll eventually be featured on wikipedia.
Note, I didn't say the current decision is right, but give them a break. But give it time, and bring up again (don't be an edit warrior)

Also drop the " censor, censor, censor" rhetoric... You are free to publish this anywhere else. Why don't you just make a site with rejected wikipedia articles, where people can work on them till wikipedia is ready to accept them.

If you go the service desk for any reasons (the equivalent of calling tech support) the personal there is not instructed to try and sell you more stuff :)

Interesting interpretation... but I don't think copy right works on a per copy basis....

From GPLv2:

Your rights under this license... is the only right you have to distribute the software. I don't see how you get a new license every time you make a copy, as you explicitly lost all rights to make copies and distribute the software.

I don't even think you'll be allowed to distribute derivative works, as these are again composed of elements for which your rights have been terminated.

Agree... Also it's probably more sane for restrict access to high explosives, as oppose to consider availability for self-driving cars a problem :)

They can either take away your guns and high explosives... or put a dead-switch in your robot car... What is crazy Americans going to pick?

This is not going to happen if the first or second generation car... And then, if you set your car to "save my life above all else", then you'll probably get on hell of beating in court when your car put the other guy in a wheelchair to avoid you getting a little scratch...

Either way, this is not going to happen, and if it does, let's deal with it then, for now this is just American paranoia as usual.

Agree... if someone wants to use STL to create a DSL, I say we let them shoot their own foot :)

Also foreign agencies would be able to index all american citizen... For once, it seems like your government is doing something to protect your privacy.

Agree... But terms of the GPL says that if you violated it the license is revoked.
By my interpretation that means that once violated you don't have a license, and complying with GPL terms after the fact has no effect.

Thus, the case is reduced to somebody using software for which they don't have a license.

I'm pretty sure bringing yourself into compliance won't change the fact that the license was revoked. But most vendors might be willing to extend a new GPL license to you, if you comply with the terms - just as a way to end the case.

Yes, we really should rank pages using the "universal-relevance-attribute" on the root element...
Who says that page with more incoming links is relevant? It all depends on the context... People searching to buy should definitely only be guided to HTTPS protected site, right?

Fact is that HTTPS implies that the author is actively maintaining the site. With at least some effort.
Also odds are that a malicious site is more likely not to have SSL, it cost money per domain and the scam sites are usually deployed on many different domain names...

How often do hear news stories about leaks with encrypted passwords that are properly salted? :)
How often does anybody admit a possible leak, when there is no evidence anybody downloaded the database dump...?
Really, how often do you hear about things like this, if discovered internally?

I agree, it's the decent thing to do, but I don't think you can expect this level of detail, openness and honesty from commercial players.
I can't imagine any organization that wouldn't sweep this under the rug, after all it was discovered internally.

Avoiding a leak would certainly have been preferred. But mistakes happens, processes fails.

But only works for fixed amount.

Please enlighten me... At wells fargo they have a bill pay system, they tell me that I enter the amount and then they will send an actual physical check by email.
I have no doubt it's a physical check because one of the companies I sent it to lost it for a few weeks, and had to do an "internal search" for it..
This service can send checks periodically, but only for fixed amounts. So I can't pay utilities or anything that varies.

I pay netflix and phone electronically using a debit card. Credit card I managed to get the back to setup automatic payment for, but they told me that they had to send an internal fax (in 2014 that constitutes institutional incompetence) and that they couldn't promise it would be setup, and thus recommended that I called back a week later to verify this setup (that was with bank of america).

The I manage to pay my rent electronically (but manually), by giving them my check numbers... So that's also check - just a virtual check.
They do have automatic payment using virtual checks too, but the EULA says things like weird dates where I can't set it up, and specifically says a day of month and timeframe within which they have the system under maintenance, and because of this the system basically has undefined behaviour in that timeframe. That is what is says, not that the system is down, but that whatever I do in that timeframe they take no responsibility for. That's institutional incompetence, that is beyond my understanding.

Oh, my electric company also has some site for setting up automatic payment using virtual checks, but the site is so sketchy and I cannot validate the authenticity of anything. Also you need to keep in mind that the banks zero-liability only covers you if you didn't give authority to transact, if authority to transact was given or implied, there is no coverage regardless of the amount (wells fargo and band of america).

They did send me an email but the language was unclear and ambiguous... So I decided not to borther with it. And no I never check my account to see what goes in and out, if the amounts are less than 100 USD... I tend to ignore it, when I go through my statement.