If you don't make it as a software engineer developing big complicated systems.. .You can go work on web designs. maintaining old school php deployments, do QA, or work as a software engineer in a place with lower standards. It's true that some shops have high expectations, especially in the valley, but around the world there is also lots of places where you don't make 150k and don't have to work 40 hour weeks.

I call BS... No non-trivial code base with 1M+ lines of code is clean... And a clean room rewrite if that is what you argue here is never trivial.

That said, yes, if an existing SaaS project is too easy to deploy on your own what is the benefit of buying it.. To me zero maintenance is key. Either way, I don't believe there are many proprietary projects that are clean enough to be easily redeployed either...

Fact is mostly users have flash, silverlight or the vlc fork that hbo uses installed, and they will gladly install these "security holes"..
At least the FF DRM is a sandbox within which DRM content can run, the sandbox is open source (by FF) the module proprietary by adobe and only downloaded if you want to use it.

Or use the button to disable shaped like a "gear" to disable it...(oh, it's that simple)

I'm nightly user too, and haven't seen any of these tiles yet.

The only problem is availability... Short of maybe database and legacy software... You shouldn't be writing distributed system that can't handle individual node failure..
So the only thing holding this back is the fact that they don't promise availability and that they can take down all your nodes at once.

I would argument one ought to run a percentage of ones servers as spot nodes... or preeamable VMs.

But the gun that has anti measures to prevent you from shooting your foot off, isn't necessarily more complicated to operate.
One can argue it's simpler because you have fewer body parts to watch out for ...

In rust sense, one can argue it's simpler to code because there are entire classes of bugs that can be avoided with static typing. So you don't have to worry about that kind of bugs anymore.

Similarly one can argue that haskell is simple because if it compiles, then it'll very often do the right thing. So you don't have to watch out for bugs, the compiler will... Of course it's very hard to write anything non-trivial that compiles in haskell :)

Are you sure... I mean it would explain a lot :)
(Sorry, I just long for the good old days where we could get away with windows bashing)

I hope that's not to say that it's okay to discriminate based on citizenship? :)

The summary says "Asian Americans", I strongly suspect their native language is English...

I'm not sure it's simpler... But the type system offers some really interesting ownership models.
One can than argue that it being harder to shoot yourself in the foot makes it simpler :)

He he.. maybe... I think the argument would be stronger if we had major epidemics... Which we're increasingly likely to see if nothing is done about it.

On topic, I agree with you... Also not vaccinating put children who can't be vaccinated (due to medical conditions) at risk.. Not to mention that vaccinations doesn't always work, so people whose vaccination was ineffective are also put at risk, when someone chooses not to vaccinate.

Yes and no, it's within reason... The right to religious freedom can certainly be used to invalidate laws that targets religious conduct for no good reason. Say a law that makes the printing of a specific religious symbols illegal. Or a law that shoves beacon down the throats of religious non-pig eaters...

I (sarcastically) like the death one... it's like the witch tests were only death can prove your innocence :)

That said, if you're threaten by the state your right to freedom of religion have been violated. So again, you can only prove that you have a religious conviction by accepting punishment for that religious conviction and having your religious freedom violated.
That smells wrong.

That being said, freedoms such as that of religion, speech, etc. generally doesn't extend to allow you to hurt others. Not vaccinating your children is dangerous to others.

So just to be clear, Mozilla supplies a sandbox that and downloads a decoder from adobe (I think). This is a LOT safer than flash, java plugins or silverlight.
DRM sucks no doubt, but at least it's now isolated... In a sandbox that is open source, not a sandbox created by adobe.

Long term, I think DRM will die on it's own, like it did in the music industry. But I don't see Mozilla having the capital to change the market, not when Google, Apple and Microsoft all embrace DRM. Honestly I would rather see Mozilla around to fight another day, because the I don't think the war on DRM is over.
That said, at least this is better, safer and less intrusive than current alternatives (flash, silverlight and various other plugins).

Afaik it downloads a binary decode from adobe (I think it is) and runs it in a sandbox managed by Firefox. It's a LOT better and safer than flash...