The The Free Software Definition states as one of the "four essential freedoms": "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this." (bold mine)

Let's say I gave somebody a car out of charity, but I didn't give them the owner's manual. Are they now less free because they will have a harder time fixing the car than before I gave them the car? If I was compelled to give the person the owner's manual with the car, or not give the car at all, am I not less free?

My point is this. The Free Software Definition conflates freedom with capability, and does so at the cost of what freedom really means. It's nice for propaganda purposes, but it's Orwellian in nature.

It could be argued honestly that in the name of consumer protection we limit freedoms for the greater good, such as requiring a list of ingredients in packaged food. However, it would be dishonest to argue for such laws in the name of "freedom".

That actually seems quite reasonable. Just about everybody's got a cell phone. Why send out a fob for every site that needs protection? Sounds like two-factor to me.

Slashdot is dying. Netcraft confirms it.

So your 99% figure was bullshit, based on your own links.

Read the fucking article. These were areas whose needs were not being met and the dinosaurs lobbied, threatened to sue, or sued their way to prevent municipalities from offering services that would meet their needs.

You claimed, "Those dinosaurs are doing a very good job of providing tremendous bandwidth at low cost to 99% of America's 130m households."

I challenged your 99% figure. I also linked an article that shows "those dinosaurs" preventing access from being expanded to people who don't have it.

It's about big ISPs and government screwing up broadband access. You decided to pull the 99% figure out of your ass. You defended the big ISPs and government. Now when presented with some contradictory information, you want to dodge it.

Did you pull that 99% figure out of your ass? Here are those "smart people" at work:

http://www.publicintegrity.org...

Marc Espie's post, linked from the article: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-mi...

"Okay, let's admit that the *portable* version of openssh wasn't programmed in a way that's paranoid enough about the failure modes of pam."

Lots of hemming and hawing about how PAM sucks and is easy to screw up, and maybe it is, but the bug still exists in OpenSSH code and that's where it was patched:

https://anongit.mindrot.org/op...

It was six months before 9/11 and actually the World Trade Center:

The Sept. 11 Parallel "Nobody Noticed" ("Lone Gunmen" Pilot Episode Video)
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I agree, titties in the trailer are a pretty big spoiler.

COCKFIGHTER

That's the opposite of competent.

1) Instead of getting access to $7 million (or $14 million if you want to try and screw the guy), you're going for $1 million.

2) Made it harder for the guy to get his money in the first place in order to get paid that $1 million.

3) You've offered the guy a motive to kill you to silence you for trying to blackmail him. You made an enemy out of somebody you had a relation of trust with.

I think you've watched too much Breaking Bad.

And how long before Microsoft decides that this behavior is indicative of a broken/misconfigured system and disallows it? They've shown how they feel about Home users having control over their machines.

You'd think once would be enough, but anyways...

Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu got national media attention after being "forced" to "flee home" by GamerGate threats. Yet it turns out that was complete bullshit, because:

1) They were already scheduled to be at a con for the weekend they were forced to flee and go into hiding.

2) They tweeted they would be at the con and at what booth after the "threat". Really afraid for their life there, aren't they?

3) Subsequent interviews after they had supposedly gone into hiding were found out to be done from their home.

Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu injected themselves into GamerGate by poking the hornets nest and used the subsequent "threat" to promote themselves ever since. Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu, when responding to a fellow trans asking for help, admitted in private chat (but leaked by the other party): "Listen, I am good at political stuff. This is what I do. I'm telling you, taking on Paypal publicly is a suicide mission."

So trolling gamers over feminist bullshit is ok while pretending to be afraid for your life, but standing up to PayPal is suicide. Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu is a political operator and a professional victim.

*snort*

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