LOL. They'll just fire you all at the same time.

The lady that does preventive teeth cleaning at my dentist's office charges $145 per hour. That's quite a bit of money for a job that's not much more complicated than cutting somebody's hair.

Sounds like a simple fact of his life. And now that I think of it, it's also been true in my career.

You can have a bigger population and less workers, especially talented ones. Kids these days are wasting a lot of time with games and social media.

Having the source code allows you to find the really subtle exploits that can remain hidden for a long time. Also, people aren't as likely to audit old code that they and others have already looked at before.

Not that it is of minimal importance, but very specific. Not only do you have to copy a peanut gene to a tomato, but you'd have to copy the very small part that encodes the specific proteins that result in allergies.

He's living his life too, but in a more meaningful way.

Good to read that they won the case, at least, even though they had to add a disclaimer.

If you get a backdoor in through a legitimate developer, all copies will be compromised automatically.

Depends. They probably have access to source code from plenty of American companies. I guess they'll have a much harder time getting the source code of non-friendly foreign companies. Given enough motivation, they may find ways to get it, but it won't be nearly as easy as downloading it from the interwebs somewhere.

I didn't claim it either, moron.

I agree that NSA and friends manage to get the source code for many projects. But that proves my point that having the source code helps to find bugs, otherwise they wouldn't have to go through that much trouble. Entering invalid input is a great way to catch easy bugs, but some bugs may be much more subtle, and require various pieces of input to align accurately.

Correct, but I think the NSA is much more motivated to find an exploit in millions of lines of code than other people are to audit the same.

No I didn't know that. Can you give a reference ? But that would be a perfect place for the law to step in, and explicitly allow products to carry such a label.

While it is true that we don't know the long term effects of GMO foods, we also don't know the long term effects of many traditionally bred crops, new pesticides/herbicides, additives, or novel combinations/treatments. The biggest (and best known) killer is still the high calorie (fat and sugar) foods, and despite nutrition info on the package, people still eat them.