Sklyarov Clarifies Circumstances of Release, Testimony

*ZiggyP0P* writes: "We remember hearing how Dmitry was let off and released (so he can finally go home) but how he had to cooperate with the government in the prosecution of his employer as a plea bargain. Turns out that this was all a lie by the Justice Dept. Skylarov has released his own statements which explain what exactly happened. He has entered into no legal plea bargain and he is still employed by Elcomsoft (even though the justice dept called him his former employer)."

Comments

The Best Part....

[spongebob]

Is how they are trying to use this crap to "teach" a lesson. Know your rights!!!!

I think that Neo said it best:
"How bout I give you the finger and you give me my phone call."

I still think the biggest punk in the whole process is Adobe...they backed out of the process in order to save some face on thier own knowing full well it was too late to stop the prosecution. grrr....

Re:Challenge to DMCA

[sabinm]

I wish there were a way to transfer karma. You deserve the mod points. Thanks for the heads up.

Perl Is Doomed

[shoesolebomber]

Perl has served its purpose. Sad to say, but its day is done. The time has come for Perl to yield the spotlight to newer, better scripting languages. The reasons for Perl's imminent demise should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense. Nevertheless, the main causes of Perl's lack of fitness deserve to be recounted here:

Perl is emphatically not an object-oriented language. Perl's OO features were crudely hacked in after-the-fact. This unfortunate compromise is the equivalent of trying to bolt an internal-combustion engine onto a stagecoach instead of designing an automobile from the ground up.

Too many simple tasks are pointlessly complicated. Take the simple example of creating an array whose elements are arrays. Not only does the developer need to use additional inner brackets for each element, but they must also remember to use the unique @{$a[1]} syntax when referencing. Why all the extra steps? Who knows.

Perl is notoriously impossible read and maintain. Walk into any bar frequented after-hours by veteran developers and you'll hear story after story being swapped about having to decipher brain-crushing lines of text like :" (my @parsed =$URL =~ m@(\w+)://([^/:]+)(:\d*)?([^#]*)@) || return undef;". This unreadability is in part the result of the fact that:

Perl attempts to be all things to all people and ends up being second-rate at everything.Perl is widely known as the "duct tape of the internet", and it performs superbly in this role. However, just as you cannot build a house out of duct tape alone, so attempting to turn a language that was originally developed for scrpiting brief, handy utilities into a do-all, be-all programming language will only result in the buggy, bloated, "write-only" mess that Perl has become.

Subroutine signatures, orthogonals, method access, data inheritance: this list could go on and on. But there is no real need. Its is now clear that Perl is doomed. At this very moment, Perl 6.0 is being cobbled together, with bulletins about the myriad upcoming features of the new version being issued with titles referring to the Biblical Book of the Apocalypse, the favorite text of messianic streetcorner lunatics. There is no better indicator of the deranged states of mind of the developers behind Perl than this unfortunate choice of imagery. Software developers with any interest in future employment/relevance should sieze this opportunity to attain fluency in Ruby or Python and donate their Perl books to the History Department of their local University.

Lisa Rein?

[Dr. Awktagon]

Forget Skylarov, I want to know more about this beautiful and intelligent Lisa Rein person!!!

*swoon*