My guess is that "pornographic" will be roughly equivalent to "containing nudity." Nudity, of course, being the most dangerous thing a person can be exposed to. Gods forbid that a child sees a nipple.

What fraction of consumers would you guess RTFM for their washing machine? Or even have one - A great many of us inherited our washer with our residence with no manual.

I'm happy being the center of my pointless existence. Takes the pressure off.

The point of a legacy isn't some sense of satisfaction post-mortem, it's the notion that as long as some part of you carries on, what you're doing now isn't pointless.

Dumbassery like yours is a social construct.
A tiny handful of genes separate us from chimps. Slight changes have huge effects, and those effects are not just related to appearance. If people like you had your fucking way people wouldn't be allowed to ask about race and people would die due to genetic conditions that affect different races more/less.

Fuck your feelings, deal with facts.

Yes this is how it should work, although because of NAT and the difficulties of setting up a VPN etc most of these products talk to an external server somewhere and then your mobile app communicates with that.
What's worse is that these devices often communicate with random target addresses (eg the vendors host their stuff on amazon and just allocate more machines on new ips as load increases) so you cant set up sensible firewall rules.

Many chinese products are sold with no brand whatsoever, or completely arbitrary brands which are made up just for that one product... They couldn't care less about brand reputation.

And how are consumers supposed to identify which devices are more secure at the pre-sale stage, and which vendors take security seriously?

Also in what way do you take security seriously? A lot of vendors go to great lengths to prevent anyone (including the legitimate owner of the device) from loading alternative firmware or gaining shell access to the underlying system etc. Vulnerabilities will still be found, but if you can't replace the firmware and the original vendor no longer produces an update or bundles the update with unwanted changes then your device remains vulnerable forever.

I've extended the useful life of various routers and access points by loading dd-wrt or openwrt on them, which will often continue to be updated long after the original vendor has given up on the device. The hardware is still fully functional, more than adequate and available very cheaply.

If you have an automated way to block traffic, then someone will abuse that system for the same goals as the original attack...
The goal of a ddos is to take something offline, a system which is blocking traffic is offline.

If that were true two people of a given race would produce a child of a different race.

And what happens when people get hooked on Apple's stuff only to find out how easy it is to be hit with a bill so high that it should constitute felony theft when trying to see a doctor who will do something more than an ER and will not result in their pre-existing condition not being covered.

Well, you're wrong.

WiFi wasn't needed from the venue. People needed to be able to use their own connections. The venue wanted to profit. And yes, they're profiting. $200 per head for access, equipment and install and config done as a line item on someone else's dime, and they keep everything in the end.

Unfortunately FTP is not very NAT-friendly, and support for it on common platforms is often poor.

As someone who has gone through several rounds of hiring and reviewing applications and interviews, I can confirm. The vast majority of applications are trash. Certain groups tend to have trash or bogus degrees / credentials. Additionally, when the grammar and spelling in your resume is only a half step above a tweet you don't stand a chance. Language skills are also a huge issue if you do make it to an interview.