That floodgate

Not really. The GP describes a situation where nobody pays, everyone pirates. "That" floodgate isn't open currently, it's now some pay some don't. If they push too far, I share your concerns. However if they keep pushing history as shown thus far, seems at least reasonable to debate whether that keeps the "some pay" part in the equation.

  *actual customer experience may vary, especially in regards to "they"

 

To be a receptionist at many facilities, you need to have a clearance.

Yeah, I know, the article said so.

The information leads the reader to think that all 1m with TS clearance are working at the moment on nefarious projects for an evil government

That's not what I got out of it.

More specifically "AppConstants.AUTH_KEY" is the salt. But that doesn't appear to be a *random* salt.

/. FAQ: http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed850

Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?

Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.

It is worth noting that there is a Japanese Slashdot run by VA Japan. While we helped them a little in their early days, they essentially run their own content without any real involvement from us... none of us can read Kanji! There are currently no plans to do other language or nation specific Slashdot sites.

Maybe I don't follow this well enough to know, but I don't think Apple is doing an audit, much less line-by-line. Seems to me they just react after the fact. From what I understand they recently pulled some apps related to wifi for using undocumented APIs. If they pulled it after they fact they didn't audit the source in the first place, not even using some automated tool on the binary.

I don't have an iphone, just an ipod touch. But I don't get the impression they strictly control the app-store. They certainly impose their own restrictions, but I don't feel like it's for my benefit so I only get quality apps.

"a system used to help Google comply with search warrants" reads to me like it was something google used when notified the warrant was issued. That's not the same as law enforcement agencies/officers having access themselves which is how I read "designed to give law enforcement access to people's emails".

At least in this case, I wouldn't call it a "loophole" exploited by hackers. It's just a system they have to make it easier for them to provide information under warrant. If the information exists (and presumably it does, it sounds like they would have liked the contents of the emails), it's possible a hacker might get it, even if they don't have a "quicky warrant" front end but rely on a more manual process. Details are sketchy so who knows, but maybe this unintentionally turned out to be a form of honeypot where they got limited (subject lines, meta data, I guess whatever you must provide to LEO) information out of this system, whereas had it not been found they could have penetrated something else, perhaps better protected, but might have held even more information of value to the attackers.

That's a fair point, but I don't see mention of "use Wordpress" on Drupal's about page. Quite the opposite, they make it sound like the ordinary Joe could make whitehouse.gov. It's not a complete lie either, depending on the level of customization desired it's quite possible for someone without a lot of experience to use. But it's also quite possible you'll wind up needing a consultant. Drupal isn't immune to fanboism either. It's not so surprising that many people find it's not what they want and then tell others it wasn't what they wanted or thought they were getting.

That's an absurd thing to say and betrays your ignorance here.
As far as not using the shell for day-to-day tasks, you can do that with Linux now.
Your second comment shows you clearly understood the point, so I think the first comment was ... revealing.

If you want to make the argument that the CLI is never "needed" in linux, why not just go directly into that argument? Personally I was not the least bit persuaded by what you said in that regard. The assertion was that a CLI keeps home users away from linux, not that a CLI has no advantages.

Would you like to try again on refuting that? Your initial response seems to fall into the "delusional" category rather than just "fanboy".

You are confusing "censorship" and "first amendment violation". The first amendment only restricts government, not private parties, that's true. But it is still censorship when done by private parties.