Actually, T-Mobile's service is pretty good ... a site better than Sprint's and the data speeds are faster than Verizon and AT&T. Sure, there are coverage gaps but I think T-Mobile is really beginning to shore those up with the purchase of some 700mhz spectrum from Verizon and the announced efforts to upgrade areas on 2G to LTE, T-Mobile may rapidly become a force to be reckoned with. Wall Street and consumer-America seem to think so as they have had a whopping number net customer additions. You also miss the point that a contract in the wireless telecommunications industry heavily favors the carrier and, if you are under contract, you cannot just dump the service because it starts to go downhill. Well, okay, you can by paying a hefty early termination fee. Having contract free wireless forces carriers to actually provide a highly reliable, good quality service. If they do not, the customer simply drops the carrier for one that is.

If the government owned the internet infrastructure, it would look a lot like the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York City; which is to say neglected and falling apart. As much as I hate a lack of neutrality, it might be good to keep government hands out of this as well. I do think that since Big Telecom got its way about no neutrality then they should lose the regulations giving them the veritable monopolies. Make less (or zero) barriers to entry for smaller ISPs to come back on the seen. This way, people can just vote with their wallet. If Comcast wants to lock Netflix out, then say, MomAndPop Connect can go ahead and tell Netflix come on over to us - we won't charge you for content - hell, give us one of your media servers and we'll give you direct access.

OpenSSL needs a revamp. If the project won't do it, fork it!

I would rather it NOT be FIPS certified. I trust my government as much as I trust an 800 lb gorilla.

PolarSSL is basically non-free. It is copyleft but not truly free. The developers at OpenBSD will basically make LibreSSL the new standard and you'll want to adopt it because they have a helluva track record at writing quality, low-bug code.

I've not had a problem getting OpenBSD to work. Even if your mileage varies, you have dmesg and other troubleshooting tools at your disposal. Part of the fun of UNIX-like operating systems is getting them to work when they don't. You learn a lot about troubleshooting and gain a solid understanding of computers.

The infrastructure guys always get fucked over, always! Without infrastructure, what will your whiz bang application run on? Software Engineers, developers, you guys have it made whereas the lowly systems and network admins only get recognition when something takes a shit.

In fact, if your radio controlled aircraft is operating on HAM bands then you can probably, successfully argue emergency and disaster assistance. I know because I am a General-class HAM radio operator.

Well said! Fuck the FAA and fuck most of the federal government too. Many of those pea-brained morons couldn't make it in the real world anyhow.

She is sharp and well-connected but I hope that this does not undermine Dropbox. I know I never trusted Dropbox from the very beginning and this is giving me even more reason not to trust them. Does this mean that government has an in road to easier spying? Only time will tell ....

Are nothing more than impediments to a police officer. They think they are above the law, and unfortunately, most times they are. :-(

This study just reeks of poor design. After all, doesn't the violent content create the experience which then leads to gamer aggression? Sounds to me like a poorly conducted study to try and take the heat off of the gaming industry. It's almost as bad as guns don't kill people, people kill people. Come up with a logical argument. That much said, I'm fully for ownership of firearms and no regulation of video games.

Well, it is a security flaw/hole until it's been plugged.

PolarSSL would be nice to use if more of the other software packages supported its libraries. I'd be curious how easy it is to use to create and manage a CA with.

Will Microsoft even be relevant in the future? They seem to have stagnated on innovation and are late coming to the latest and greatest technology party. Google and Facebook have relegated Microsoft to a lesser innovator.