Until Republicans retake the Senate and add riders that weaken the ACA to must-pass bills.

I'm not saying it's the only motivation for curing a disease. I'm saying it's one motivation.

I miss gaming, I used to be really into it (see my sig, I ran what it's linking to every December on my Quake site) but the game companies themselves ran me off with their DRM, always have to be connected, can't resell, and all the rest of their stupid bullshit.

So now I guess I should thank Epic and all the rest for sucking so much, That's one place the NSA won't be spying on me!

I keep thinking of the movie Brazil.

Anyone who watches MSNBC is well aware that The Huffington Post, the news site owned by AOL, exists.

It's still in syntactically the same form as source code, and there exist JavaScript beautifiers to remove some of the obfuscation.

One thing they'd have a harder time thwarting is DNS blacklisting. If I know a particular hostname means nothing but trouble, I can tell any computer that I control to refuse to resolve that hostname by adding it to the computer's hosts file. This means the server behind that hostname will see no connections from my computer.

Not if the publisher of a particular business-critical application refuses to make it work in Wine, or the manufacturer of a particular business-critical peripheral refuses to provide a Linux driver.

Way too much stock is given Betteridge's "law". Wikipedia says he broke his own law. Not much of a law, is it?

How would your HMAC-like method of combining the site name with your private key work around error messages like these?

• Your password doesn't have an uppercase character.
• Your password doesn't have a punctuation mark.
• Your password contains a forbidden punctuation mark.
• Your password is too long.
• Your password has expired; please change it.
• Your password matches a password that you have previously used on this site.
• Your laptop/tablet is not allowed on our network. Instead, use our [possibly keylogged] Internet terminal.

I think the idea is that a keylogger is already installed on your phone when you buy it. Because the free parts of Android's userspace are Apache licensed, not copylefted, the carrier isn't obligated to provide complete corresponding source code along with the phone to ensure that your handset doesn't already have covert snooping software to comply with CALEA and its sequels.

A hosts file is a method of blacklisting hostnames of servers with which you desire not to communicate, such as malware-infested servers and the servers that host social recommendation ("like") widgets that track you and slow down page loads.

You could use Wine. But I guess part of the tool's functionality is to manually cache the IP addresses hosts you access most, at the top of the file, so that the operating system's resolver doesn't have to do so much work.

The next generation can more easily afford the generic knockoff of the cure once the patent has expired.

A cure for cancer would make the patient a potential user of more drugs for conditions acquired later in life, such as drugs to control erectile dysfunction, drugs to increase bone density, drugs to control autoimmune arthritis, etc.

The difference is that a treatment with ongoing costs is more like life support than like a cure. Insulin is not a "cure" for diabetes mellitus caused by pancreatic failure (type I). Nor is metformin a "cure" for diabetes mellitus caused by insulin resistance (type II). But I still agree with you that an upgrade from a horrible disease to a condition managed through life support is worthwhile.

That will force me to write it down, making the site inherently less secure.

Not if you keep it in a secure place, like where you keep your money and credit cards.