Oh, if only it were possible to disable cgi in Apache...

This is the problem with SELinux in a nutshell - much of what it does amounts to reinventing the wheel. If a sysadmin is competent enough to make custom policies for SELinux, he's competent enough to edit Apache's configuration.

Adding complexity for its own sake is bad for security.

Oh, crap - I'm really screwed, in that case. Couldn't you have mentioned this sooner?

It's only been a year or so since Mat Honan got all his Amazon, Google, and Apple data wiped because someone was able to trick their way into his accounts. Apple got castigated over that, and implemented a lot of extra security to try to prevent that sort of thing from happening again. Well, guess what? You can't have it both ways. One way or the other, there will be problematic edge cases - and this sort of thing is one of them.

Coincidentally, the average Slashdotter could say the same thing with regard to sex.

An alternative explanation is those math teachers didn't actually understand the concept, and therefore were unable to properly explain it.

Given what Comcast charges on a monthly basis for their routers, I don't understand why anyone uses one of theirs. You can buy a DOCSIS 3 cable modem for 60 or 70 bucks.

Have they managed to keep from breaking crypt() recently?

When it comes to a coffee pot, the standard "cup" is actually 5 ounces.

I have a 4 cup coffee pot in my office. It's trivially easy to brew one actual cup (roughly 12 ounces) of coffee whenever I want it.

Plus I hear the rent there is horrendous.

Surely at least one of them could lead a new project then.

So in November Apple bought a company that has some side project developing Open Kinect software, which obviously has little interest for Apple. This month, they give a heads up that the website for that side project will be shut down. The code for the side project will continue to be available through GitHub.

I'm not seeing much that's rage worthy here. Out of those 100,000 active developers, there is probably at least one that can set up and maintain a website

But it seems like the real complaint is that, since the takeover, there have been no paid staffers supporting the project. That does suck for the developers, but again I don't see why Apple would be obligated to continue that. With 100,000 active developers, I'd think they could each cough up a few bucks to cover a couple salaries if they really cared all that much.

Don't worry - the only thing downstream from this dam is Portland.

Well, if you're referring to the Denver Broncos playing football against the Seattle Mariners, then yes it's a possibility.

Otherwise no.

Only if "they" refers to Slashdotters or tech pundits. But Apple Maps *did* have significant - even egregious - errors/problems at launch. It seems quite usable now.

My preferred navigation app has been Waze, but that is unfortunately going downhill since the Google acquisition. They seem more interested in adding ads rather than fixing the app's shortcomings. It's usually really good for highways and major thoroughfares (although oddly enough it picked a really weird and obviously wrong route for me after the first post-acquisition app update); but, at least when I've tested it in and around Seattle, it often picks bizarre routes in the city - roads that any resident could tell you are going to take two or three times as long to get there (and yes, I've occasionally driven them anyway to be sure Waze didn't know something I'd overlooked).

That's the thing. When I hear people complaining about Windows 8, it's *never* about the price. Lots of people just flat out hate the product.

I really doubt making it free is going to significantly impact adoption rates.

I agree it should be on by default - however, people being what they are, I'm sure in that case we'd have read at least one Slashdot story where Joe Blow screams about his unexpected $100 SMS bill because he didn't notice there wasn't a data connection and he sent 100 text messages while on vacation in Mexico.