It's not a spin at all. In order for Microsoft to prove to governments that their software does what it's supposed to, they are willing to share the source, because that's the only way you can really trust software. It's not spin to say that you cannot truly trust software unless you can see the source (and understand it, and be able to build it, etc., etc.)

Microsoft isn't implying that. They trying to convince customers they don't have NSA backdoors. ... by opening the source to their products (to certain parties). In other words, you cannot trust software unless you can see the source. It's a pretty clear implication to me.

Yes. That is just such an appropriate thing to suggest to an Apple user.

"You know that company you use because you are a n00b or just lazy? You now need to become a network admin to deal with the stupid stuff they do."

Well, Microsoft users have been dealing with this for 25 years.

Yeah as they repeat the upright guy with the Yeti suit walking through the forrest up in Washington for the 5000 th time.

And why do we still have antiquated data lines and switches and whatnot when we are paying through the nose for internet access?

Government bans competition. You can't very well expect an agency that claims a "natural monopoly" to not consider other "natural monopolies" both wise and judicious.

Community fiber is still the answer - there are just so many hurdles that make it slow in coming.

Hit the gas when the pedestrian light goes to red,and you'll be running a red light.

Right - this is what I came here to say. Is this not universal? It's been like that in every country I've been in and across the several United States.

If people are running red lights *from a stop* then beeping crosswalk signs aren't going to solve the problem. I'm sympathetic to people who get nailed by red-light cameras at artificially-short yellow lights, but not people who are starting from zero into reds at crosswalks.

JHFC, people, stop consuming poison and get your heads right. We have a mental illness problem here masquerading as a traffic engineering problem.

I don't think they should sell you bandwidth and than charge for data ... let customers know in a not so threatening letter, "hey I think you have a problem Did you know your port is lit up at 80%

Actually if they were charging by-the-bit then such a thing would be almost certainly be standard and required. The 250GB cap is sort of a bastard step child of not-charging-by-the-bit and not-charging-for-bandwidth - perhaps the worst of both worlds.

But, anyway, many ISP's have people with ports like that - they're usually doing heavy torrenting. The trouble here is that Amazon probably won't accept any responsibility for their error and the damage it caused.

And it's also astonishing that they didn't notice huge spikes on their end - does nobody buy these things?

What's the problem with Perl again?

It's not new enough or buzzy enough.

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No, Dan Cathy donated money to organizations that worked against redefining marriage to fit a certain political agenda.

LK

A good commercial pizza oven can get to 1000*F but not 1500!

Don't forget about the resolution he got out of a video controller. Or the way he mercilessly attacked the IC count. Woz is a populist geek hero to anybody who wants to maximize performance while minimizing cost.

The big iron folks always look down their noses at the little people with their little computers, but they don't start any revolutions.

So I noticed they didn't say the USA was one of the countries the NSA can't spy on, so I guess nothing is changing?

Sorry to drag out the UID, but this all goes back to the Echelon stories we were discussing here in the 90's. The same group of countries has agreements to spy on each others' citizens for the sake of circumventing their local laws. One presumes this is why GCHQ figures so prominently in the Snowden revelations.

Even that the NSA is not legally allowed to spy on US citizens does not matter, nor do any of the current Congressional posturings about stopping them from doing so.

We're back to the beginning again, but this time the enemies of liberty are two orders of magnitude more well-equipped. The slope is not a good one.

If NoIP doesn't drain Microsoft's reserves significantly for doing this, then they'll just do it again. It's important to speak to somebody in their native language whenever possible.

Do you want the justification that invokes 'child pornographers', 'terrorists', or just generic 'boogey men'?

We should change the definition of Legal to "Backed by much money".

It's better to study history than folklore, especially if he about whom the history is told is doing the telling.