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Unless you're claiming these machines are incapable of running a newer version of OS X, this isn't really a cogent argument.

At my job we have many still-in-warranty Windows machines that shipped with XP. These have all been updated to 7 or 8.

You not liking an OS is not really a compelling argument for a company to keep supporting older versions ad infinitum. A lot of people hate Windows 8... but Microsoft is still justified in terminating support for XP in a couple months.

For sufficiently loose definitions of "significant".

I believe you!

I'm a Prime member, and I hardly watch Amazon's streaming video because too often, after I've watched a few shows of a series, they've told me I had to pay to watch the rest.

Fortunately for them, I bought it mainly for the free two day shipping. Unfortunately for them, all this talk about the price going up has led me to reexamine just how much stuff I actually *need* to get in two days... and the list is pretty short. It looks like I'll save money dropping Prime and paying for expedited shipping only when I need it (which also has the advantage of letting me pick from other sellers).

I really like my AppleTV, but you're exactly right. If you don't own a Mac or an iOS device, AppleTV loses a significant chunk of its appeal.

This particular problem started me thinking along those lines - I believe I'll start practicing that as well in whatever language I'm writing. Both perl and (especially) JavaScript allow this in one form or another.

Silver Medalist? Just a fancy way of saying LOSER!!

This is a fundamental problem all the traitorous NSA behavior has created - every time something like this comes up, we're going to wonder if THEY are behind it. Problem is, that way lies madness... we can never really know.

1) It could very well be an innocent coding error. Heck, I could see myself doing this one with the slip of the fingers in BBEdit. I probably HAVE done it at some point in time.

2) It could be an intentional bug slipped in by someone on NSA's payroll.

3) Or, it could be even more nefarious. Perhaps NSA has known about this, but thought the use case was too restricting. So they kept quiet until they were able to slip a more broadly exploitable hole in the development code (or, alternatively, something the compiler can slip into your output). Then, to force everyone to update, they reveal this older bug. We all update, and BAM! They've got us.

We can't really know, anymore.

The researcher who found the bug is Adam Langley. CIA headquarters is in Langley, Virginia.

Coincidence? I think not!

I agree with the author - these public displays are stupid ideas driven by mediocre minds.

Having said that - you're exactly right. The students already know this info. It's been quite a few decades, but back when I was in school we certainly knew who the "smart" kids and the "dumb" kids were. We usually knew everyone's test scores because we kids talked about them.

But all that that doesn't mean the teachers or parents should be buying into this concept. It's almost certainly much more humiliating for a kid with low scores to see that exposed to the adults than it is to just have your classmates know it.

I agree with your sentiments, but I also understand the parent poster's frustration.

There's a guy living in West Virginia who shares my surname and the first initial of my first name. He keeps giving out my Gmail address to businesses as his own. I suspect he's either old or just stupid, rather than intentionally giving out a fake address, because some of the emails seem to be stuff he likely signed up for intentionally. But I keep getting his appointment reminders, his renewal notices, and other crap - and it's been going on for several years now.

I have, on several occasions, contacted a number of these businesses and explained the situation. They always apologize and remove me... But, six months later, I'm back on their list because the guy has been back in for a service call on his Hyundai, a dental cleaning, or whatever. It's incredibly frustrating.

I have tried contacting him, but it's not as easy as you might think (or else he's just ignoring me). So I can understand the frustration the parent feels, and I can see why someone might succumb to the temptation of moving on to malicious behavior.

The problem is - and we've seen this before - Apple is unnecessarily reinventing the wheel in certain cases. It's the same general problem Microsoft ran into when they decided they wanted to develop their own completely in-house tcp stack earlier this millennium - you're starting from scratch, and you sometimes end up with code that exposes bugs that were patched in the time-tested tools years (or even decades) earlier. Or, as in this case, there are fewer cumulative sets of eyes reviewing your open source code.

It's also why rolling your own crypto is probably not a smart practice, even with the NSA's traitorous actions. If you're truly smart enough to do that, you're still better served looking for the problems in existing ciphers.

Given this bug exists in published open source code, I'm not sure how your point is relevant to this particular issue.

https://www.imperialviolet.org...

Open source code is not a panacea. Have you not been paying attention to the number of RHEL kernel updates (to pick one example) released in 2014?