Theo is the same that he's been for the last 20 years, on the one hand he's militant about the BSD license which gives away all the code to multi-billion corporations then a giant crybaby when the same corporations take the code and give him nothing but a cold shoulder in return. Oddly enough he's managed to gather a small following which barely keeps OpenBSD alive, usually by threatening to shut down OpenSSH development which is their only true success but this is neither the first nor the last time he's making such ultimatums.

If Linus is the benevolent dictator for life, Theo is the not-so-benevolent dictator for life. He started OpenBSD so he could run the show and any oppositition is harshly cut down. Don't argue with him about how the project's managed, what costs are necessary, everything is as Theo has decided it should be and he's only complaining that nobody is willing to fund his masterpiece. Your input is not wanted, just your wallet and he treats everyone from the smallest individual contributor to giant corporations the same. He's got balls of steel and an ego the size of a planet, but in the end he'll always be going around with a beggar's cup.

Umm, Google kept the data because they recognized that the logging was going to provoke regulatory investigations, and deleting it could be construed as destruction of evidence.

That reputation is a product of /. groupthink, not reality. The reality is that Google has a history of pulling the plug on projects that aren't successful, niche products used only by a tiny percentage of the user base.

Chrome, however, is wildly successful. Plus, the code is all open source and has an active developer community outside of Google. Google isn't going to drop Chrome, and even if Google did, Chromium wouldn't be going away any time soon.

Then I **highly** recommend the Verbatim keyboard. Nice and heavy, solid business-like feel with great tactile and audio feedback. I bought two, one for replacement if first breaks. Great keyboard.

Without hardware support you're screwed anyway because absolutely nobody wants to input a 128+ bit passphrase on their cell phone, you need some kind of trusted, tamper proof chip that'll nuke the encryption key if you enter the wrong PIN more than say 4-10 times.

You mean like string theory?

Well, maybe it's not as trivial as it sounds to fit an appropriate robotic arm, the sensors to find a suitable rock, the software to try grabbing it and turning it over and compared to the weight, time and effort it's probably just not worth it. Assuming this is really the first time it's happened in the practically ten years (a week left) it's been on Mars it's somewhat of a freak accident, just the right size and shape stone was caught in the wheels in just the right way to flip it over. It's like a free bonus that you weren't even trying to get, isn't that lucky?

Great, I love it. My country only has about 5 million people so by GDP we should be about to pollute about 60 times as much as the US per capita with its 300 million. I really look forward to the US in total producing about 1/200th (approximate number of states recognized by the UN) of the world's CO2 emissions. Give me gas guzzlers, screw any restrictions on industry and taxes, levies and fees because we're home free baby. Oh wait, did you only want to apply that against bigger countries as China and India? My bad.

I've never understood the moral basis of why it should be measured by GDP and not by capita, what right does an American have to pollute more than me, or anyone else for that matter? And for that matter, I know my carbon footprint is way above the world average but I don't claim to have any moral right to it. I simply have the money to spend on a lifestyle that's more polluting than the people trying to life off a dollar or two a day, the world's not fair and I'm not claiming that it is.

If seven billion people had my lifestyle, the Earth would collapse. I know that, you seem to be in denial about that. That is not to say I try to be an environmental swine, but I like my car. I like going on long distance vacations. I like my large heated (replace with AC if you're down south) apartment, I like my appliances and gizmos and gadgets that all draw power. Trying to cement a situation where the people who polluted first and most get to keep polluting most is probably not very productive. At least I'd say fuck you, first you're the worst of the lot and then you get to reap benefits from it? No wonder China is giving you the finger.

First of all, you're assuming the person who did that didn't just get a quick fix because someone said somebody about AdBlock or their tech-savvy kid or classmate or coworker did. I mean, who *likes* TV commercials? Raise your hand. Also, you're ignoring the fact that impressionable people often avoid it as a self-defense, if they get smooth talked by a salesmen they cave so they avoid them. Am I the only one that's ever had a "(%#&% ad, circumventing my blocker.. but that is a damn good offer" love-hate moment?

Not with SPAM, that's just an annoyance... but web ads, there are actually companies out there with products I want, it's just something about the amount. It's like finding your mailbox doesn't just have one flyer, it has flyers stuffed to the top so it's a five minute sort job just to clear it out. Like the urban legend about the manager throwing away half the resume pile saying "we don't need unlucky people", if you throw away 80% of the ads the rest aren't so annoying.

People lie about willingness to pay, they claim they don't want ads but when it comes down to it, they don't want to pay what an ad free service costs. And the advertisers, well they'd rather show an ad to a person who sees ten ads/day rather than hundred ads/day. Sadly despite what /. wants to believe they do have all sorts of incentives to break through ad blockers, the ones who really, really hate ads well they weren't going to bring in any revenue anyway.

Well, I actually feel that is the weaker claim since it is a law passed by Congress, held in court by a judge as a civil lawsuit in open court. Evidence is presented by both sides, witnesses can be heard, pretty much all the formalism of a legal process is present so I'd say you'd have a better chance to argue that the seizure of your property is unconstitutional than the process to seize your property. Largely academic though since we know the Supreme Court has approved the whole process.

Maybe you won't but you know what 95% of the people who want to protest against Obama will vote for, get ready for a third George Bush (if there's any left) in office. <sarcasm>I'm sure that'll sort everything out.</sarcasm> I'd quote the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, but reality has fiction beat. Enjoy your lizard.

All but the last sentence. They are not self-directing at all. This wouldn't include self-driving cars either because they don't come up with their destinations. Yeah, yeah, you shop for your wife sometimes, but you know what was meant and cars lack that. You might **possibly** eke out a comparison betwixt them and the most simple of virises, but it would still be strained. Self-replication is however, the lynchpin.

Utter horse shit. Saudi Arabia **sanctions** the killing of homosexuals, "wrong" thinkers and witches. Get that, the state sanctions those killings. Your statement is moronic at face.

And they will scrape up that small percentage who don't find it annoying. The rest shall fly in peace.

The Bill of Rights was supposed to, this part:

Unfortunately all it takes is an unreasonable court to come up with an unreasonable definition of "unreasonable" and you've done an end-run around the Constitution. It's like defining slaves as property and not people, hence none of the rights guaranteed to the people are being violated. Sadly you need a bunch of lawyers to write a lawyer-proof definition and the Bill of Rights is very far from that.