From a tech perspective, Shutting out ideas is never a good idea. From a Business perspective, more markets are better. Politically, that sh*t is how wars start.

From a tech perspective, Shutting out ideas is never a good idea. From a Business perspective, more markets are better. Politically, that sh*t is how wars start.

Jacob Appelbaum and Roger Dingledine talked about this at the 30c3 conference last December. Here's a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJNxbpbHA-I They talk about this around the 39:55 mark. Basically they weren't thrilled about microsoft doing such a thing, but on the other hand if the attack had been malicious it would have taken down the entire TOR network.

My family has had a player piano for over 60 years. It still works great. The most we've had to worry about from a maintenance standpoint was occasionally replacing an old hose.

I don't know how much of Orson Scott Card's money goes toward directly supporting his political causes, but we know that it is at least possible for money spent on science fiction books to go toward agendas that we might otherwise oppose completely.

10% of his income goes to his church which in turn supports his political causes.