You mean because women don't get orgasms?

Remember that the NSA is a tax-founded government agency, thus it's much more likely to assume that indeed everyone in America (I take it that you mean the United States version of America?) support what they do. At least most people voted for it, considering both parties are equally eager to keep NSA running.

New way to develop products - merely pretend you're building some cool thing, hope that another company will steal the idea and do it first.

That way you don't actually have to get bored with the messy details, but can go out and buy the finished product later.

Frankly, I'm disappointed having read so many comments in this thread and not one talks about the most important for a geek site like slashdot: How do manage to get a bug like this?

Nothing is very special with HIJKL that makes them stick out or warrant exceptional handling.

Do you think that the product designers specified that trades beginning with the letter H to L should be buggy?

Perhaps the requirements for displaying a bright image 100 feet away outdoors is higher than your pocket alarm clock LED projector?

The question is still relevant. Manufacturers talk about erase cycles, but are there any massive-scale studies done by a third part on SSD failure modes?

Actually yes, I would like it to design an inexpensive jet pack for me, that would be awesome.

Not necessarily, because to get a decent quality unbiased random stream of bits from a simple thermal noise circuit you have to massage it quite a bit. And it may very well be sensitive to external stimuli. For example, a hacker without full access to the device could still run up the CPU and GPU to max load just before you're supposed to generate your secret key, to control the zener temperature.

Not saying it isn't better, but that "it's complicated".

It is my understanding from reading the paper from the security researchers that SecureRandom() is also perfectly fine as long as the implementation does what it's supposed to. In this case, the implementation was buggy, so instead of 256 bits of state they got 56 bits, or something similar. Bits were discarded that shouldn't be.

No, they are also afraid of us getting a less diverse Internet experience.

The only time I want your "internet" to differ from mine is when I actively log in.

So what's in there which isn't in Ubuntu?

Judging the book by the cover, it looks like someone thought this new cool programming language of the week was the most awesome ever, wrote a few wrappers to some applications, and released it as a new distro.

"it has sound" is precisely the reason why webm videos should NOT be used... Imagine if every stupid cat-animation now also tries to compete with each other in loudness.

Because the plugin would be Tor.

The MAFIAA doesn't seem to get jokes.