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Engineers are never fired? Not even when the company shuts down?
> If the company goes bankrupt, will the engineer be willing to bail the company out?
Sometimes yes, with their (and mine) taxes.
This is not how ratios work.
Politics permeates society, and by design.
Also this thread is about employment and moving jobs across countries, which is an extremely politically changed topic.
Most attacks aim at executing arbitrary code in the process space of the application being targeted. The lack of user-land does not help.
You are absolutely right.
This is what enabled prosecuting the founders of the pirate bay, among other things.
The fact that files are hosted elsewhere, mangled, encrypted, cut in pieces is entirely irrelevant to the court.
Hoping that a technicality gets you off the hook is exercise in shortsightedness.
> I seriously doubt that most people today would feel like someone with a 2nd grade education or even an 8th grade education deserves a job
Thankfully, a large number of people in the world support the idea of feeding the hungry in a way or another.
The last thing this world needs is more people, by far. If anything, adopt kids.
Also, how's the marriage required?
We are talking activists facing state-sponsored attackers, where "good" security is not enough.
Stallman is flexible enough to accept using closed hardware, closed firmware shipped with a device, non-GPL licenses.
On the other hand, patent and copyright laws...
Often, it can be the opposite. Many people would describe their daily tasks as useless or marginally useful for humanity, while finding meaning in unpaid volunteering.
DNSCrypt over Tor helps (unless all your traffic is sent only over Tor) but I'm not seeing tools to do this around.
By implementing censorship FB will make such option even less likely to happen in future.
Please don tell me a 5c switch is too expensive for a $300 phone.
First the "pioneering" phase, aka land grabbing, then the walled gardens.