Wait, that argument isn't logical. What is the government spending billions of dollars trying to repair some of the damage if there are no detrimental affects from the leaks (which you confirmed in your rebuttal)? Sounds to me like they are spending billions of dollars covering up the mess they themselves created. Maybe they should just stop doing that. Problem solved.

Story of my life friend, story of my life.

Instead of directly managing and funding research, the government could provide tax breaks for companies who hire programmers that contribute to open source (presumably on projects beneficial to said company). They could also provide funding in the form of grants to orgs that create new and useful software, of which society as a whole benefits from.

Hello fellow Seattleite. I will keep an eye out for your work. :)

Meant to say creating and deleting files. Editing would actually be protected by umask, but is not the issue here.

Nice snark there rtard. If a user has permission to "edit" a directory, this includes both editing and deleting files owned by the same user. File permissions or umask will not help you there. I suppose you could rig the system to create a new user for every mac address that connects, but that could be easily circumvented. Im sure it's possible someone, just not as easy as googling how filer permissions work.

You just have crappy Java developers, it has nothing to do with Tomcat. The same thing would happen to any "always on" Java program that loads leaky external code. Don't feel bad, most of the Java code I've seen is total crap. You usually just don't notice it because of the short life-cycle of the process, unlike Tomcat.

You say it as if fact, but you must have missed this line in the article: "No evidence is offered for the assertions detailed above."

True, but it seems like Linux would have a better separation between the running process and a usable system environment, making that kind of attack more difficult. I'm sure these guys would have thought of that though. It really all just depends what is accessible from the root process. Sounds like fun.

I can tell you have never used an SSD. At a certain point, more RAM becomes hardly noticeable. That SSD drive I got was the single most noticeable improvement in productivity I've gotten out of a computer part.

I am both of those things. I agree my choice of words were poor. When i say over weight, I was really meaning obese, such as I was not so long ago. It definitely detracted from my point, which was to say that A) It wasn't until I had a reason to really want it that I was able to start living a healthy life style, and B) There are some advantages to being a big guy who eats well and exercises.

Having a night to sleep on it, I suppose I should consider myself lucky that my only excuse was my own lack of will. It was inconsiderate of me to think that everyone is so lucky.

I think you missed my point. I'm still quite round myself (and I like it that way). I realize I will never be as skinny as some people who never have to lift a finger. Although I think you will find quite a few women who prefer a man with some meat on their bones. ;) That doesn't mean I can't still be healthy. Being healthy and fit has nothing to do with your size, and everything to do with how you choose to live.