You may want to pick your sentence structure better next time. A better wording would have been:

he literally asked, "how about you invite woman and mentally ill pedophiles/rapists to help you with the game?"

The way you worded this makes it look like you think all women are mentally ill pedophiles.

My guess is that you wouldn't be surprised at all the amount of people who fall for simple shit like https://moxie.org/software/sslstrip/ -- That's not even the latest and greatest. I have tools that I cannot post here due to NDA.

Additionally, several rogue SSL vendors were caught years ago duplicating SSL certs, Several Laptop vendors installed their own certs on machines which allowed snooping, etc. If you've kept up with the industry at all, you know this already.

It's also funny that you list the largest, names in the IT field as hating the GPLv2 - because that's exactly what the GPLv2 was designed to protect against. Large companies who slurp up peoples hard work and do not give back in the slightest. You literally just made my argument for me.

Comcast is not a government-backed cable monopoly, Comcast is a cable monopoly who has used regulatory capture via government to stifle competition. Net Neutrality was in direct opposition to what they've accomplished so far.

Did you take the time to read every religious text that you don't have faith in, of every religion ever?

The major ones, yes. It's called educating yourself, and you should read the Net Neutrality laws as they were written because your arguments all rest on bullshit. And since the bullshit asymmetry principle exists, it's easy for you to shovel out line after line of nonsensical drivel.

Net Neutrality doesn't help Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T at all. They all hated it, because it meant they would have to remain neutral in their delivery of data.

SSL certs are easily bypassed, I also work as a programmer in the IT Security industry. Since...age 18 or so, so nearly as long as you. I've gone to DEFCON for the past decade, and also help run the local LUG. I started with Windows NT, and ran somewhere close to 100 domains prior to ditching the entire industry. (Because it's so damn hard to imagine that people could be as dumb as they are when you're the one who has to fix their problems)

The government is an enforcement agency. If you want laws, then you have to have someone with the power to enforce them. You're using a pretty obvious kafka trap as an argument here. If you want "free market capitalism", you have to have laws which keep those companies from just simply killing each other. You have to have rules.

Unfettered capitalism results in a single entity owning everything and becoming your government. Except their primary concern isn't you, it's how they can milk you.

I also work with Ad-hoc networks in the IT field. LoRA is currently the closest thing we have to widespread ad-hoc networks like you explain, and it's limited (severely) in bandwidth. Come on, you can do better than this. You know this shit already.

That's fine. Continue supporting "genuinely free software". I'll continue supporting copyleft licenses, because I've benefited from them in the company that I run. My work has likewise, benefited others.

And I agree with you on regulatory capture. Lots of these large corporations have used the government as a tool to stifle competition. Net neutrality is also a prime protector of that very thing. It says that Comcast, for example, cannot throttle Netflix because Comcast happens to be trying to bring up their own movie-streaming service. It forces corporations to stop violating the rights of others. None of these places would exist without the government and right-of-way laws. Nobody would have been able to build "the internet" in the first place if it weren't for those laws which we granted the government the ability to license.

The NOOB ALERT here should be you. It's trivial for ISPs to block and outright just simply detect encryption, and disconnect it. Net Neutrality disallows that.

I agree with most of this except net neutrality bit. You dumb fucks don't fucking get it, honestly. And if you don't get it after all these years, then you deserve what's coming to you on that one.

Net Neutrality is about ISPs not being able to stifle YOUR freedom of speech. To not be able to block FOX news, for example, because they don't like FOX's political stance. To make sure the internet isn't turned into a "pay-per-channel" shitshow that Cable has turned into.

Github. Github is just a code repo/git server that people can use freely. Git itself is a version management tool.

Apparently it's much faster than SVN, and you can work offline if needed.

I love their books - taught myself Python years ago with it. I found having a book where I couldn't copy/paste the code, and had to type it out, significantly helped the ability to retain the information.

Thanks for the resource!

I've been meaning to learn git for ages now; I'm not familiar with SVN or any other kind of code management, so I'm kind of looking for a cheat-sheet that isn't just a large block of text with GIT commands, but instead some sort of logical flowchart that I can follow over and over and over again until I've essentially repeated it enough times to remember the basics.

Thanks. With deleting your account being broken if you're banned from a sub (did this ever get fixed?) this is a nice alternative.

Don't, because then you just tip the balance toward the idiots side. Document all the stupidity. Keep logs of every stupid thing they do. When something goes wrong because of it, offer up the information.