[Coco] Is Mocha DEAD?

[Richard E Crislip]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 12:38:24 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 07, 2015 09:44:47 AM Sean did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > What is doing the scanning on your work PC?  Like a corporate
> > firewall/web gateway? Norton Safeweb seems to think it's fine.
> > 
> I went there with iceweazal, was greeted by a front page that demands
> I use only Oracle registered Java to access it. Since I am a member
> of the FSF, that is bloody well not going to happen.  Any site that
> demands I install something just to look at the site, is an attempt
> at lockin just as bad as M$ treats its users.
> 
> We fix vulnerabilities found in free software within 24-48 hours.
> Neither of the behemoths deign to do so within 3-6 months as a
> general rule, and in one case fixed recently, 14 years!
> 
> To me it is up to the site owner to fix the site if he want to sell
> the clicks.  Make all access use https if you feel you must.  Its a
> bit slower, but it doesn't insult the users intelligence by asking
> him to install proprietary software that has not been audited by the
> many eyeballs theory. It probably has more bugs than a 10 day old
> road kill carcass, they just haven't been found yet, by anyone but
> the NSA.  But we can't LOOK, we have to take Oracles word for it. I
> haven't taken Larry's word for anything in 20 years.  My experience
> with how he did support that was bought and paid for by the year was
> enough to sour me forever.
> 
> This is comparable to my having to even remove my belt and shoes
> because the buckle was metal and so was the arch support in my $180
> shoes, just to go and talk to someone at the local SS office about 5
> years ago.
> 
> I had sense enough to leave my carry piece in the truck and didn't
> mind dumping the pair of small pocket knives in the tray, but my coin
> purse and its contents, the two keyrings with the house and car keys,
> a pocket flashlight, my anti rf card case with everything in it that
> made whoever possesed it, me for the rest of their lives, and a timex
> wrist watch with its metal back were in there already when they made
> me take off my belt and shoes just to talk to someone that was too
> damned protected by a phone system designed to make it difficult and
> was unable to be directed to THAT person as a result. That won't
> happen again, I'll send a lawyer & let him deal with all that BS just
> because 1 in 200k people has a plugged rectum.
> 
> Fix the site.

Tell me how you REALLY feel about it 8-).

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