Comodo have facebook pages, twitter, accounts, contact forms on their website and email addresses. Go and tell them what you think of this.

All the people who lost correlation vs. causation arguments voted ad hominem atack

It is opinion.

I do not claim it is wrong.

I am not denigrating the author.

It is, however, just an opinion published on someone's blog. Hence the disclaimer (if you read all the way to the bottom.)

Slashdot is supposed to publish news for nerds, and this is not that.

I just find myself wondering what a philosopher looks like when he's in three separate parts..

Has anyone ever told these people that someone somewhere up the line has to pay for them to f*** about? I'd like to build you a house. I don't know yet how big it's going to be, because I haven't designed it yet. I don't know how long it's going to take to build it. I want you to pay me an indeterminate sum of money for it... And I want you to pay for it before you get it. In fact I want you to start paying me now, and keep paying every month until it's done. I'll tell you when it's done. Who wants to buy my house?

Really a poll without Trump? I bet Donald Trump would pay well for that...

You're going to get a fairly poisson-shaped distribution of heavy to light people forward to back, left to right, etc. With the number of flights we have in the world today, there are going to be times when the weight distribution in a plane is accidentally very unbalanced. The airlines need to be able to weigh individual people if they want to be deterministic about that.

The most expensive part of a car is the driver.
As soon as self-driving cars become practical, taxis will become cheaper than owning your own car.
If you think Uber is shaking up the industry now, it's nothing on what's coming when taxi companies don't need taxi drivers.

They've changed the genome from a 2 bit computer to a 3 bit computer. In theory they should be faster than us. But only over generations.

If, hypothetically, you had emigrated to San Francisco USA rather than NZ and Megaupload had been a US-based company do you think it would have been more or less vulnerable to the kind of action it was shut down by? Bonus points for an insightful discussion of the value of political contributions, etc.

A lot of software developers are doing what RMS says a lot of time. It's just that almost noone does it all the time.

It's clearly evident from the amount of GNU and GPL software out there that wasn't written by RMS that people are following his ideas. And that those ideas have succeeded, simply by the success of that same software in the marketplace.

It's not a failure of the ideal when developers of open source also write proprietary software to pay the bills.

I bought a Lenovo X131e Chromebook second hand for exactly that purpose. Went online for the instructions to boot it into developer mode so I could change the OS ... Nothing worked. I emailed Lenovo directly with the serial number for advice, got no reply. As far as I can tell it is a device that does not allow any change to the BIOS.

I now have a device that runs ChromeOS and nothing else. So it's going to get sold on to the next victim. Make sure if you do buy one for this purpose that you really are able to change the OS.

The Open Web Application Security Project website is a great place to start browsing from, to investigate both pen testing and secure development.

I would also recommend getting some familiarity with the PCI DSS standard. It is aimed at companies involved in online payments (and a bitch if you have to prove compliance.) However when used as a descriptive framework rather than a prescriptive one, it's great foundation for planning a company's IT security aspect.

I'm sure there's a bunch of other security standards for other industries that could be used in much the same way. A good security consultant should at least be able to name check them.

Who else remembers, back in the day, when whistleblowers used to escape from Russia and seek political asylum in the USA?

I feel old.