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Comment Re:It's official - it passed (Score 3, Insightful) 90

Wow, what a surprise.

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This was destined to pass from the day it was first proposed. All the public commenting was merely window dressing to make it appear as if there were public involvement. The ISPs control the Internet (and apparently the FCC) in the United States, and this is their way of assuring they will continue to do so and profit handsomely in the process.

Comment Re:There's a reason books can't be updated (Score 1) 249

Though it seems that there are so many ways for a person to smuggle a MicroSD card into a secure area that an eReader is probably not a huge concern.

How much experience do you have in securing high-value military devices and how much knowledge dop you have about the reasons for securing such devices?

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None and none, you say? Gee, I would have never known that from your comment.

Comment Re:That's not who we are at Mozilla (Score 4, Interesting) 195

We need a new Firefox, someone "pure" again.

Indeed! Australis (FF29 in general) has very nearly pinched my last nerve with Firefox. What the fuck is going on at Mozilla? The last two versions have run like complete and utter shit on my systems, from freezing windows to outright random crashes. What happened to my lightweight and reliable browser? >

Pale Moon

Comment Reluctant... (Score 0) 68

I'm reluctant to try the FireFox OS for one main reason --- FireFox developers have demonstrated a bad habit of arbitrarily changing important parts of the software they publish (e.g. the FireFox 29 user interface fiasco, making the UI much less customizable, in spite of the developers asserting that it is more customizable).

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The last thing I would want would be a dependence upon an operating system from those change-happy short-sighted developers.

Comment Re:YAY for BSD (Score 4, Insightful) 128

And there you go with the problem with it. OpenBSD has no holes in the install...

Regardless of how you use an operating system, if the OS foundation is not secure, then anything you put on top of it cannot be secure.

At least OpenBSD provides the secure foundation upon which you can build what you'd like. The security of what you build on top of OpenBSD is your responsibility.

Comment Rights are not absolute.. (Score 3, Insightful) 143

The Freedom of the Press is not an absolute right. If it were absolute, then a reporter could break into my house anytime he wanted in order to get a news story.

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Only when this case makes it to the Supreme Court will we know whether drone usage in these types of cases are legal. Until then, there will be lots of discussion.

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