That seems like a lot of dick-measuring on the part of developers. Why wouldn't Canonical simply update the repository with patches that address known security vulnerabilities? Where is the years of support? When you update your package list, the developers of those packages should be able to post updates...

This is why Linux is not desktop ready... to many stubborn minds pushing their way.

True. We also had communists, and we weren't supposed to notice that either.

Hi, meet me.

I support internet fast lanes "if" they can be implemented without slowing any other connection speeds down to below what the customer actually pays for. I also support QOS prioritization of VoIP traffic.

I also think net neutrality can be realized today by enforcement of existing laws and rules. When an ISP sells you service advertised at 10 megs or up to 10 megs, if they purposely and intentionally slow any part of it below that 10 megs, they are not delivering the goods sold to the consumer. And no, up to is not a cop out because the up to number will never be above what they limit. That means if they limit a connection to 1 meg, regardless of what they sold you, they are delivering goods of up to 1 meg. But if they sell a 4 meg connection and Youtube wants to stream at 10 megs, I have no problem with them paying to do so as long as it doesn't slow anyone else speeds to below what they purchased.

Also, many of these ISPs get money from the governments to roll out broadband or service areas not profitable to them. Well, if they limit their service or any parts of the service to below 4 megs, it is technically not broadband and they would be in default. Also, if they manipulate packets in ways like with the bit torrent in which they injected packets to cause the connection to reset, wouldn't that be a copyright violation as well as under the fraud abuse laws? For instance, Ohio law considers it bait advertising to " Delivering offered goods or services which are unusable or impractical for the purposes represented or materially different from the offered goods or services. ".

But more than all, I think the way the FCC is trying to create and or change law by wrangling reinterpretations and classifications without any intervention of congress (elected officials) is dangerous to freedom and directly contradictory to democracy. This should be true whether you support it or not. Get it done right and get congress or even your local state governments to pass the laws. Even at the state level, the state can extend it's jurisdiction to actions by the same company in other states so if Verizon in Indian is barred from restricting packets based on payments from any third party, Verizon in California doing so for traffic originating from or destined for Indiana would put them in violation and under jurisdiction.

Well, sort of. At least getting punctuality and obedience would be getting something. But they removed that in the 70s.

Yeah. Whenever I go thru their stores, I'm impressed by the hardware. Just wish 2 things - that there were more AMD tablets around (the only AMDs that I've seen there are laptops, nothing interesting), and that Windows 10 gets on them sooner rather than later. Windows 8 is a showstopper, but Windows 10 - which would be Metro in tablet mode or Windows 7 in laptop mode - is pretty acceptable.

The other thing - I like the Lumias as well. I have an iPhone 5s and a Lumia 929. I use the iPhone for Facetime w/ family members, as well as games & music, while the Lumia I use for work related stuff - calls, e-mails while I'm away from my desk, Yelp, Wallet, OneNote and so on. I do wish some apps, such as ADP and Vonage could be there on Windows Phone, but other than that, no serious complaints.

Looks like someone likes the troll mod.. That's critical thinking for ya, squash answers to questions asked- the mod must be a product of outcome based education.

Except, of course, that Muslim isn't a race. It's a belief system.

And in its mainstream forms, it's a very public-oriented, all encompassing belief system, that is not at all content with people simply choosing not to believe in it.

Smartcards alone are not a solution, because they can be lost or stolen. You want both a smartcard and a PIN/password. You smartcard may get stolen, or your password may get compromised, but it is less likely that both will happen at the same time. You might want to setup a threshold for PINless transactions for, say, purchases under $10, but you still want more security for important stuff.

No. The smartcard is pre-programmed with the public key of the authenticator, and vice versa. Unless someone knows the private key of one of the endpoints, the authentication cannot be faked. A MITM attack will not work.

God I'm commenting at the bottom.

Furthermore, you think that you're sticking it to the employer if you force them to pay higher wages, but they are simply going to raise their prices and pass the costs on to the rest of us.

This isn't actually how it works, sometimes it works this way, but only by degrees. A minimum wage is a form of price control and the difference between the equilibrium price and the fixed price can be treated as a form of tax or subsidy (in this case a tax), so this makes the question a tax incidence problem.

If McDonalds is operating in an environment where their food can be replaced with many different supplementary goods below their menu price, they actually, in the limit, cannot raise their prices because they would lose demand as people switched to the supplementary goods. If McDonalds offers a good that cannot be easily supplemented, then they have some liberty to raise prices -- but they have little control over this, their ability to raise their prices is constrained by the price elasticity of demand for their goods.

You can go a little further, and we can argue that McDonalds was paying their employees below the equilibrium wage for the work, because McDs was benefiting from either regulatory capture or some externality (an illiquid labor market, for instance), and the amount they were keeping was a pure economic rent. In this case, raising the minimum wage is a form of Pigovian regulation, and is a "perfect" pareto-optimal tax with no deadweight loss.

isn't that what a Constitution is for ?

This summery is appalling.

The bill in question Bill C-13 was introduced almost a month ago and passed two readings in parliament before the attack. Canada has been debating this bill in parliament and in the media for some time. I don't agree with this bill, but to label it a reaction to the shooting is completely wrong. Especially bad is the fact that a quick google search would have been enough to identify the mistake.

http://openparliament.ca/bills/41-2/C-13/

> Because we never had people trying to wipe us out before Muslims came along...

Were you trying to be funny? The Muslims have been trying to conquer Europe for a very long time. If anything, the last couple of centuries is just a temporary lull. They have been at this pretty much since their religion was founded.

"before Muslims came long" gets back to about 700AD.

ONE person dies and they go full retard? WTF? This was one guy with a gun. It's no reason to engage in national hysterics. They have managed to outdo us in US by a country mile.

You'll tip the boat over. Rock the boooooaaaat.