More importantly, can you stick a bunch of blind people in a room and get them to mine bitcoins?

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing: that's rich coming from Cloudflare - the company that single-handedly decides you can't access vast swathes of the internet if you're connecting from a TOR exit node.

That company does more than all the others put together to make my internet browsing experience completely miserable...

I agree. Open source and Linux should never be criticized. Any criticism is false and, therefore, is yellow journalism. I find any criticism of Linux to be highly offensive and indicative of spamming from paid Microsoft trolls.

Way to mix issues here.

1/ Should open source or Linux be criticized? Hell yes, if there are reasons to.

2/ You conflate Linux and open-source. They aren't the same issues - they aren't even the same thing. Open-source is a development and business model and Linux is a fucking kernel.

3/ Drupal is to be critized here. Not Linux. Linux as a kernel is doing what the flawed middleware on top of it tells it to. No more, no less. Show me a Linux kernel exploit and I'll be the first to criticize Linux. But in this case, it ain't the culprit.

I can sort of understand people mixing up GNU things and the Linux kernel, because it's been done for years, and people grew tired of hearing Stallman repeat "it's not Linux, it's GNU/Linux" a long time ago. But Drupal has never been remotely connected to Linux. What next? Run Drupal on FreeBSD and claim FreeBSD has been owned by a trojan?

Linux has nothing to do with this. It's a Drupal security issue.

I expected better reporting of an issue like this from Slashdot. Then again, maybe not...

less free-form.

www was not intrinsically better than gopher. It won out because there was more free porn accessible with it.

Athletes aren't usually renown for their brains and wits. Pokemon Go players aren't either oftentimes...

This.

Since when does the United States have jurisdiction over the Moon?

Actually they meant Avery. A guy called Avery made it, and it's the largest Avery built.

The German V-2 rocket was smaller than this thing, and it's been accurately described as the first successful ballistic missile.

It just goes to show, depending on who builds it, something may be an enlightened amateur rocket or a dangerous enemy weapon.

Well, given that the UK hasn't formally requested to leave the EU yet, wouldn't it be funny if Brussels launched an antitrust investigation into the Mastercard deal, as a parting gift?

that cash exists (still).

Avoid EDB Postgres Advanced Server like the plague: it officially shares your data with the US Gest^H^H^H^HNSA.

If this story leaves you a feeling of dejavu, don't worry, it's just Hugh Pickens cross-posting on /. and SN again to attract more traffic to his site

The church tries to attract people by offering free wifi? What next? Free parking and 15% off every item at any store on the local high street if they attend service regularly?

Looks like faith is cheap these days...

isn't that they're limited, it's that the user can't know exactly where the limitations are. When you know where the limits of a system are exactly, you subconsciously plan its usage to stay within its perimeter of competences. When you can't fully rely on a system to perform in certain conditions, and not to perform in other conditions, 100% of the time, you have to stay alert all the time to take over in case it craps out.

That's precisely what's self-defeating in today's fledgling autopilot systems. A real autopilot should let you sleep in the back, read the paper of drink a coffee while it drives. Or at least, it should reliably tell you when and in what conditions it won't be able to let you do that. Joshua Brown's mistake is that he failed to realize today's systems - Tesla's or others' - aren't remotely that predictable.