Human language is, by it's own nature, hopelessly ambiguous. We use technical terms and jargon to eliminate as much ambiguity as possible, but completely concrete communication is not achievable. With plain text, you lack the voice inflections and tone. With a phone, you lack body language can't get direct listener feedback. Being in person enhances communication in a very real way. About the only thing that's nicer in text is a code snippet, but code snippets on their own are not exactly crystal clear.

Or have you honestly never had a chain of emails over the course of a couple days, only to have the entire issue hammered out in a few seconds of direct, in person, conversation? Or had a conference call where you know two people are just not understanding what the other is saying?

My best guess is the Cybex SQRL bike may be well-known there.

However, I don't really like the idea of SQRL. Neither this protocol, nor GRC, has a particularly good reputation in security circles. [SQRL doesn't seem to do what it claims very well](http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/43374/could-sqrl-really-be-as-secure-as-they-say).

Hey, maybe the helicopters simply convince people to not report crimes. Maybe it makes them bitter towards the police, so they don't want to call. Maybe it makes them feel like they're in a dangerous neighborhood and therefore can't expect reasonably police services, so why bother?.

I saw the writing on the wall years back. I posted an bug in the official bug forum, and the thread got locked in less than 5 minutes with a complaint that I didn't search. Except I did search. The first line of my post was even, "I searched, and while I found a similar bug, this one is actually different," and went on to explain why. Mine dealt with default column sorting (column A ascending, column B descending), theirs dealt with default column order (changing columns A, B, C to B, A, C). There was no similar request. It was locked so fast, the mod couldn't have actually paid attention to it. Alright, that's kind of stupid, but whatever.

About half an hour later, I was in a post and made a comment on a different bug. This one was about interface layout, but it seemed to me like there was confusion going on about what the bug was, so I made an image with arrows describing the issue rather well (IMO) since I was able to replicate it. 5 minutes later, my post was deleted and my account was banned. No reason given.

Contribute to community? Get told to fuck off. I've never encountered such blatant hostility to your own community before, and knew immediately that whatever uTorrent was doing wasn't worth my time. I was so irritated that I uninstalled uTorrent immediately and a found another client even though at the time they were all significantly worse (I started with Transmission, when was just getting popular on OS X, then Deluge, still in beta, then eventually qBittorrent where I've stayed since 1.x days). I didn't even wait for my current torrents to finish downloading or seeding. I have never and will never use any software from that company ever again under any circumstances. They're below Oracle. They're below Symantec. They're below Pearson. I'd install BonziBuddy before uTorrent. It's been a secret pleasure of mine watching those fuckers crash and burn over the last several years.

That's an extremely ignorant and ethnocentric way to put it.

The issue is that they have a completely different driving culture. In the west, traffic control devices are so old that they were originally human operated signs because there was no electricity to operate them. They are as old to us as the automobile itself, meaning that all drivers in the West started out using traffic signals in the form of signs and, later, lights. There has never been a generation of drivers who did not have foreknowledge of learn to drive on roads without traffic control devices.

In Africa, they have learned to expect a human figure to dictate flow of traffic. Building a mechanical human figure is the most obvious solution to automating it because everybody who already drives there will understand it. They won't understand some funny looking street lights. You're taking all your presumed knowledge that you were raised on from well over 100 years of development and education which you erroneously term "common sense" and start complaining that a culture which has not had 100 years of the same can't magically find the same solution. The thing is, our driving culture isn't better. It just has different priorities. Ours favors safety and obeying rules regardless of how practical or necessary, theirs favors convenience and expedience. You've never sat at a traffic light with no opposing traffic and felt just a bit silly? You don't know that one stop sign that everybody knows is a waste of time because the cross road has such little traffic and they put up a 4 way instead of a 2 way or should've been a yeild? Or the traffic light that runs all night in the middle of nowhere because some kid got hit in the middle of the night back in the 80s? You enjoy paying thousands of dollars annually to cover the cost of insurance even though you've never been involved in an accident? You can justify all these things because your culture has already given you the reasons why they exist and you accept them because your culture tells you they're acceptable. You don't know why other cultures do what they do. That's why they look alien, backwards, and silly. That doesn't mean they're wrong.

And it's important to note that, by and large, iOS devices still cost more and do less while being pretty. They have much better processor and graphics hardware today, relatively speaking, but they're still a small market segment overall. It's just that individually, each phone holds a large percentage of the marketplace.

Oracle bought it. Still surprised?

Not only that, but Oracle bought it on July 21, 2011. The current version of Ksplice? Released on July 28, 2011. The major feature of the current release? The changelog says the only change was "Removed unnecessary zlib detection from configure." But now only Oracle Linux is supported.

It's still available through source code, which you can find with a bit of digging (you can't navigate to it from the top level page, as far as I can tell... Ksplice isn't listed as a project). I think the amount of investment and effort put in that site makes it clear what Oracle's stance is.

At least Microsoft extends before they extinguish....

Yes, traditional zombie-ism is modeled like a disease that is highly contagious, highly virulent, and requires direct contact to transmit. Truthfully, the prominent characteristic of zombie-ism is that the infected are easily distinguishable.

Imagine a highly contagious disease which was transmitted by physical contact with two symptoms: it drastically increases the infected subject's sex drive, and it reduces social inhibitions. It also has exactly one prognosis: It renders 100% the infected subjects totally and incurably sterile.

How fast do you think that would burn through the population? What steps do you think the uninfected would take?

No, they have expressed concern over how the FCC plans to evaluate "harm," specifically with how seven rules for harm will be defined so that adequate legal challenges to them -- one way or the other -- might be brought. They're afraid they might be ambiguous.

However, overall they, like what the FCC is proposing.

They summarize:

[I]t appears that many of the proposed rules will make sense for the Internet. Based on what we know so far, however, the general conduct proposal may not.

To say that such concerns constitute "serious issues with the vast extent of the FCC's net neutrality rules" is hyperbolic.

Furthermore, if you read the ex parte letter linked, the EFF actually suggests additional regulation by considering what unbundling rules "might be appropriate for the 21st century, in a separate proceeding." If the EFF is so concerned about the "vast extent" of these new rules, why would they also be asking for additional rules?

Once again, this is about logical net neutrality, not physical net neutrality, which is a whole other ball of wax. This is about making sure that Comcast doesn't charge you extra for access to NetFlix or Twitch.tv, and then turn around and charge NetFlix and Twitch.tv more to access you. Because prior to Title II classification, that was entirely possible.

Local loop unbundling is not a simple thing and does have significant technical barriers and significant cost. Politics is a slow, gradual, arduous process. It will take time to get where we need to be. Don't proclaim the journey a failure because the first step was taken with the left foot instead of the right.

Presumably the statement is less tautological than that. I would assume it means that a new foal is capable of the same speed that any older immature gazelles are capable of, with the possibly that it means they can move as fast as a fully grown gazelle.

This is like blaming the cheerleader that the team lost the big game because she reported the star quarterback raped her.

It was the NSA's choice to engage in ethically questionable actions. These events are the fallout from that decision. That the NSA's actions in spying on citizens without legal authority, warrant, or adequate oversight should affect international business by undermining worldwide trust in the nation is, frankly, exactly what the NSA should have expected.

It's also used in a huge number of automated processes to encrypt data during the DB extract process so we can move that data out of the DB network and send it to partners.

I can buy encrypting email communications, but for this you should just use SFTP. Why would you ever use email for important data transmission? It's not a matter of encryption, it's everything else. It relies on DNS. It doesn't confirm the remote server's identity. Delivery is best effort and does not succeed or fail immediately. And sure, I'm sure you can make SMTP do all these things, but why when you can just use SFTP, a protocol already built around doing all these things? It's not like you can't also encrypt the data on top of all that if that's your concern. Are you using PLCs that only know how to encrypt SMTP traffic with authentication and server identity verifcation, and don't have SSH support? Is there some archaic law that carves out an exception for email in your country? Your use case seems so narrow that religious scholars would debate how many angels can dance on it.

The fact that corporations have been able to abuse the system so egregiously is, itself, a condemnation of the program. A proper program would have checks to prevent abuse like we see.

There are dozens of document management and document version control systems, and many enterprise content management systems have document management as a component. The most well known is probably Microsoft SharePoint, but there are open source alternatives like LogicalDOC, OpenKM, Plone, Nuxeo, Alfresco, etc. as well as other commercial offerings like IBM Enterprise Content Management and others.

However, the technology won't replace poor training or users determined to do their own thing.