JRE versions 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 all have over 260 vulnerabilities listed on Secunia. Each one has more than the last 3 versions of Flash Player and more than any version of IE other than IE 6 which only has about 2 dozen more vulnerabilities. On the other hand if you look at something like.NET there are an average of maybe 40 vulnerabilities for each major version.
That's 191 vulnerabilites on average and it's only that low since the 1.7 JRE is only 2 years old. And why did you bring up J2EE? What average user is running J2EE on their desktop?
You mean like the Linux kernel dev who had a trojan installed on his system and subsequently got kernel.org rooted by getting the trojan on two of the servers? Yeah, geeks never get malware on their systems. *rolls eyes*
It's not FUD. The JRE is one of the most vulnerable and exoitable pieces of software on a machine. If you don't believe me see Secunia for the number of vulnerabilities per version. It averages to nearly 200 per major version which is more than the average of the last 3 major versions of Flash Player.
Exactly. The English langauge has evolved so much in both grammar and spelling just in the last 300 years that it makes the grammar Nazis look like idiots for trying to proclaim hard and fast rules. English is constantly evolving and always will evolve.
It doesn't need any commas at all. 'my uncle Jack' is perfectly valid. The real point is the capitalization of the name to set it off as a proper noun redefining the noun 'uncle'.
It's either trollbait for grammar Nazis or he's a grammar Nazi that fails at grammar. A comma splice, within the English language, is not a universally accepted construct. Some consider it to constitute a run-on sentence and many style guides disallow its usage.
Of course, you are only allowed to make the arrest if you catch someone red-handed and you know that the punishment of the crime includes jail-time. And if the suspect is innocent (you did not really catch him in the act), he can defend himself, argue self-defence, and you might face assault charges. As such a citizen's is mostly used on shoplifters by shop owners, controllers, or guards.
And thus you point out that the police have a privilege you don't. They get legal protections afforded to them when they arrest and detain people that a person acting as a private citizen doesn't have.
Funny, because the statement: "I predicted in 1992 that PCs as we knew them would be dead by now" can only really be interpreted one way. The fact that Cringely predicted this 20 years ago and he's still wrong just goes to show how little credence these "post-pc" predictions should be taken.
Exactly. Citizen's arrest provides pretty much none of legal protections afforded to police officers when they arrest people. You can be liable for both criminal and civil charges if you abuse the limited power granted by the state in performing a citizen's arrest.
Actually Verizon would not want to be a common carrier. Common carrier status would relegate them to being a dumb pipe and nothing more. ISPs have never been common carriers in the US.
No, corporations exist at the behest of the government who granted their charter. Charters can be revoked and the rights granted under that charter taken away. There are no "inalienable rights" for corporations and there never has been.
Whoever wrote the Technorati article that the submitter quoted (most likely the same person) seems to be unable to form basic English sentences. The original article just states:
A group of Harvard scientists, led by Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and including graduate students Georg Kucsko and Peter Maurer and postdoctoral researcher Christian Latta, say they’ve cracked the problem, and they did it by turning to one of the purest materials on Earth: diamonds.
Apparently the person writing the Technorati article was trying to insert words in to make himself sound smarter and failing at it.
That's because "Technorati" horribly mangled what the original Harvard Gazette article said which was:
Most current systems, by comparison, rely on complex and expensive equipment designed to trap a single atom or electron in a vacuum and then cool the entire system to close to absolute zero.
Funny because Minecraft is a Java program notoriously bad at leaking memory and throwing null pointer exceptions. Maybe if he would have written it in C++ it would at least not be a slow, bloated hog?
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JRE versions 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 all have over 260 vulnerabilities listed on Secunia. Each one has more than the last 3 versions of Flash Player and more than any version of IE other than IE 6 which only has about 2 dozen more vulnerabilities. On the other hand if you look at something like .NET there are an average of maybe 40 vulnerabilities for each major version.
Yes, really. Going back over 10 years of the JRE.
JRE 1.7: 53 vulnerabilities
JRE 1.6: 274 vulnerabilites.
JRE 1.5: 265 vulnerabilities.
JRE 1.4: 264 vulnerabilities.
That's 191 vulnerabilites on average and it's only that low since the 1.7 JRE is only 2 years old. And why did you bring up J2EE? What average user is running J2EE on their desktop?
You mean like the Linux kernel dev who had a trojan installed on his system and subsequently got kernel.org rooted by getting the trojan on two of the servers? Yeah, geeks never get malware on their systems. *rolls eyes*
It's not FUD. The JRE is one of the most vulnerable and exoitable pieces of software on a machine. If you don't believe me see Secunia for the number of vulnerabilities per version. It averages to nearly 200 per major version which is more than the average of the last 3 major versions of Flash Player.
Wow there are still idiots who think he's innocent even after leading the police to the body?
Yeah that 60% cut off the pro bono fee is going to be humongous.
Exactly. The English langauge has evolved so much in both grammar and spelling just in the last 300 years that it makes the grammar Nazis look like idiots for trying to proclaim hard and fast rules. English is constantly evolving and always will evolve.
It doesn't need any commas at all. 'my uncle Jack' is perfectly valid. The real point is the capitalization of the name to set it off as a proper noun redefining the noun 'uncle'.
That's the point. He was joining an independent clause to a dependent clause with a comma which is a grammar fail.
The apposition 'Jack' is valid with or without the comma.
It's either trollbait for grammar Nazis or he's a grammar Nazi that fails at grammar. A comma splice, within the English language, is not a universally accepted construct. Some consider it to constitute a run-on sentence and many style guides disallow its usage.
Of course, you are only allowed to make the arrest if you catch someone red-handed and you know that the punishment of the crime includes jail-time. And if the suspect is innocent (you did not really catch him in the act), he can defend himself, argue self-defence, and you might face assault charges. As such a citizen's is mostly used on shoplifters by shop owners, controllers, or guards.
And thus you point out that the police have a privilege you don't. They get legal protections afforded to them when they arrest and detain people that a person acting as a private citizen doesn't have.
Funny, because the statement: "I predicted in 1992 that PCs as we knew them would be dead by now" can only really be interpreted one way. The fact that Cringely predicted this 20 years ago and he's still wrong just goes to show how little credence these "post-pc" predictions should be taken.
Exactly. Citizen's arrest provides pretty much none of legal protections afforded to police officers when they arrest people. You can be liable for both criminal and civil charges if you abuse the limited power granted by the state in performing a citizen's arrest.
Because it's a huge counterpoint to these idiots who constantly declare the end of the PC year after year yet it's demise has yet to materialize.
How can Google Chrome be prior art to a patent that was filed 4 years before Chrome existed?
You mean copies of 1984 that someone was selling through Amazon's store illegally in violation of copyright law which forced Amazon to do what it did?
And all those same things can be said about diamonds except exchange "investors" with "DeBeers".
Actually Verizon would not want to be a common carrier. Common carrier status would relegate them to being a dumb pipe and nothing more. ISPs have never been common carriers in the US.
No, corporations exist at the behest of the government who granted their charter. Charters can be revoked and the rights granted under that charter taken away. There are no "inalienable rights" for corporations and there never has been.
They used lab manufactured diamonds as to control the purity.
Whoever wrote the Technorati article that the submitter quoted (most likely the same person) seems to be unable to form basic English sentences. The original article just states:
A group of Harvard scientists, led by Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and including graduate students Georg Kucsko and Peter Maurer and postdoctoral researcher Christian Latta, say they’ve cracked the problem, and they did it by turning to one of the purest materials on Earth: diamonds.
Apparently the person writing the Technorati article was trying to insert words in to make himself sound smarter and failing at it.
That's because "Technorati" horribly mangled what the original Harvard Gazette article said which was:
Most current systems, by comparison, rely on complex and expensive equipment designed to trap a single atom or electron in a vacuum and then cool the entire system to close to absolute zero.
Then maybe you better tell the Wikipedians that these organizations other than the RIAA don't exist.
Funny because Minecraft is a Java program notoriously bad at leaking memory and throwing null pointer exceptions. Maybe if he would have written it in C++ it would at least not be a slow, bloated hog?