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Comment Re:Fine. (Score 2) 72

Absolutely, and we have to stop reacting with words like "fix" "flaw" and "problematic". This was a serious privacy intrusion on a massive scale. Whether it was some guy up to late on a bad schedule set by his boss Dilbert really doesn't matter. HP published the stuff, Connexant wrote it, they should pay some kind of price.

Comment Re:bah (Score 4, Insightful) 166

No, apple gave education a 30% discount (better in some cases) on hardware. They didn't suggest curriculum or standards, nobody came out to your school to say this kid needs such and so, it was just a huge no strings attached gift of hardware. (my experience circa the mid 80's at Bellevue Community College, buying for the student paper)

Comment Re:There's no way they'll abuse this (Score 1) 570

WASPC is known in Washington for also supporting every nutty gun control proposal to get dropped in the bin. For those who don't see the (it's freedom) parallel they also were okey dokey when the BATF was keeping background check information on gun buyers in the 80's. BATF did this for years, while federal legislator after legislator declared the action a violation of the background check law (in peasant speak this means a CRIME). BATF kept doing that until Congres threatened to defund them. Suddenly they found the reference to "30 day limit" in the law and started destroying these "backup" records as they'd always been required to do. These are not the everyday cop on the street but the (often appointed) top of the command chain. This particular velvet glove on the iron hand is beginning to chafe a bit.

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