If a woman blogged unkind and sexist behavior at a tech company, but 
  hid her name to avoid the backlash (like Michael), that would be 
  unethical. I guess she'd be an "asshat", right? Same thing for a 
  journalist using an anonymous source?

I'm still hoping someone will make it happen. Or rather, perhaps an entire army of services will make it happen as we've seen, a de facto monopoly, yields terrible results.

But a bunch of broexecs, who answer to no one, setting the tone for everyone else is unlikely to feel any need to change any time soon.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/tlc-22-000-cab-drivers-p...

http://www.mcgill.ca/it/news/phishing-attack-mcgill-email-11...

  The McGill Password length has also been increased from exactly eight 
  characters to a variable length of eight to 18 characters.

  Every year, about 1,200 to 1,500 McGill accounts are compromised in 
  one way or another.

If every site properly salted and hashed passwords, reuse isn't even a problem. But as we know :

  - Most people choose crappy passwords.
  - Most sites use crappy hashing schemes (if they hash at all)

McGill's problem isn't Heartbleed.

The fact that they still stay means (and this is relevant to the EFF project as well), creating alternatives is just as hard as making enough people know and care about them.

The registrar check per domain is probably the biggest plus in having it act as CA. Of course, that adds overhead to the registrar which they may not be willing to accept (margins and all that).

I'm hoping the EFF project will smooth over these hiccups, which is why I'm looking forward to it.

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Verizon, TWC, Optimum, Comcast et al require that you have an account with them to use their hotspots. But you don't need an account with ConEd to be able to read your newspaper or book out on the street. This is where internet is headed.

10 stories a month. Also, even though you may only post one or two as you say from these sites, others do the same adding to that total E.G. wsj.com Which doesn't allow viewing at all unless you browse in from a search engine or subscribe.

"...being accountable for an opinion is probably bad for them in this case." Same for you as well, it seems.

Looking from afar, you'd think this was some tiff over imaginary lines on a map or something. Now that would be silly.

No bridge is sacred enough to warrant physical threats when burned. No attitude poor enough to elicit the response that this did. It's bloody software.

Take Google for instance. The biggest hurdles they had to deployment are the protective hurdles put in place by ISP friendly politicians. Some states have regulation in place that new deployments must reach last mile to virtually every resident, which is cost and time prohibitive when there's no profit initially. You have to bite the bullet and do the deployment as necessary, bend to the legal winds and bear the full cost (which, even for Google may be a bit high) with no guarantee of profit until years after deployment.

4G is a bit tricky as well since there are areas where you'll have little choice but to rent existing towers or build your own. In some places, the terrain gets in the way, so towers are fairly limited in what they can do. Then there are the issues with maintenance and safety for crews working on these towers, which cell providers don't seem to care much about http://www.propublica.org/article/cell-tower-fatalities