There is no Silver Bullet in coding. You can't get it right from the beginning always...
Oh come *on*. The errors in this code were deeply fundamental, and patently obvious to anyone paying any attention. Not authorizing actions performed by authenticated users? Really?? Jesus christ, that's *basic*.
Sorry, no, what we're talking about, here, are fundamental flaws in their security architecture (or, more to the point, a complete lack of security architecture). And security architecture is something you *have* to get right up front (which is why good software architects cost a lot of money... it's necessary work, and hard to do well).
That and the luminous screen. Its this simple - read from a bright screen, and read from a piece of paper; which is preferable? The paper for most people I would say.
I'm actually no longer convinced of that.
In a well-lit room, yeah sure, reflective can be more comfortable to read. But the minute you find yourself in low-light conditions, or where the light is a localized source, your reading position is suddenly limited by the light. Want to turn over? Nope, sorry, the light's behind you now. Want to read, say, during movie previews? Not happening at all.
I've read for *hours* on my old Palm (and now my Touch) in the dark, with the backlight set very low, with absolutely no problems. No eye fatigue at all, and I can read in whatever position I find comfortable. Good luck trying that with a Kindle. Meanwhile, I can control the contrast, brightness levels, text and background colour, etc, as I see fit.
Now, obviously it's not great in very bright conditions. But most of the time, I think I actually prefer a backlit screen now... go figure.
In terms of utility I don't find tablets all that great
A little contrast: I'm a programmer and a power user, with, god, 15 years of Linux under my belt. I recently replaced my Palm TX with a 4g Touch, mainly for use as an ereader and music player, and yet suddenly I find myself using it instead of pulling out my laptop for certain things. Want to check my email? Browse my RSS feeds? Look up a wikipedia article? (Yes, I admit it) Check Facebook? All these things work great on my touch. But it's often that I really wish it had a larger screen... the instant on, always connected convenience is awesome, Safari is an impressive piece of work, and the high-res display means the touch is decent for web browsing, but a larger screen would be perfect. As such, I can conclude that I would likely find myself completely replacing my laptop with a tablet for idle internet noodling if such a device was available to me.
'course, as always, I'm going to wait a hardware generation or two before I take the plunge. But I can definitely see a tablet filling a niche in my day-to-day life.
This isn't much of a surprise to me anymore. In previous generations we idolized decent, intelligent, articulate and educated people.
Seems to me your biggest problem is the presumption that dropping an f-bomb means the person isn't decent, intelligent, articulate, or educated.
My entire circle of friends has bachelor degrees or higher. All are intelligent, thoughtful, upstanding individuals. And all of them, given the right setting (say, a few drinks at a bar, or a night of brutal coding) will swear like sailors on leave.
So... who's the unintelligent one? The one who drops the f-bomb, or the one who assumes that swearing equates to some stereotypical archetype of the lowerclass, under-educated bumpkin?
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Yeah, I really hope shit like that gets caught in meta-mod...
If my boss was overtaxed (say 100% of his income over $1 million), then I would be out of a job. As would many other people because he'd no longer be able to hire us.
Huh, your boss pays you out of his personal salary? Weird...
Stimulus is best applied to the people at the lowest rungs of the economic ladder, as they're going to spend that cash immediately. The state is best to enact this extremely modest tax increase, and then to put the funds toward local improvement projects (which hire labourers and tradesmen), and funding a social safety net for the many many people who are under- or unemployed.
You didn't, for just a second, consider that maybe the hunters shooting at the insulators are hunters who are done for the day? and on their way back they decide to take a couple of shots at the insulators.
Seriously, how is that remotely relevant to the current thread of conversation, exactly? The GP strongly implied that Stewart and Colbert only attack the right on their shows, suggesting they are partisan. I illustrated that this is clearly not the case (at least not to the extent he/she is suggesting... obviously they are left-wingers, but they certainly don't pull punches if the democrats give 'em good material to work with).
You then bring up Glenn Beck for reasons I can't really fathom... so, can you explain yourself, or are you just retreating to trolling because you lost the argument?
Yeah cause the Glenn Beck rally was full of angry people
Uh, it was. Frightened, angry people. Were they polite about it? Yes, and good for them. But their politics is a politics of fear, whether it be fear of the Big Bad Government, fear of muslims, fear of gays, fear of latinos...
And incidentally, its worth noting that Glenn and his cohorts actively discouraged inflammatory signs and so forth, for fear of the bad press they would generate... who knows what that rally would've been like if the organizers hadn't gone out of their way to temper the reaction of their followers.
Just like a G-8 anarchist rally
Yeah, those guys are enormous douchbags, too. What's your point?
Instead of spending an hour joking about Sarah Palin and Rand Paul. How about Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi or Obama?
Yeah, you're right... they never lampoon those guys...::rollseyes::
Hell, this rally has been specifically billed as non-partisan, with their message directed at anyone and everyone who would shriek and yell, frighten and intimidate in order to achieve their agenda, whether they be in the media or a politician, left-wing or right.
Well, I think the point is also to get a bunch of people out to try and send a message to the politicians and the mainstream media to, as Jon put it, tone it down a notch for America.
How dare anyone question a government? When did governments ever do anything that wasn't 100% selfless and noble? Governments never hurt anyone, did they?
Wow, you *really* enjoy knocking down straw men...
Everyone does.
No, not everyone. Judgmental assholes? Yes. The rest of us try to avoid coming to snap judgments before actually investigating the story at hand.
I guess you pick up a newspaper and read every word from the front page to the back in numerical order of the pages, without setting it down. No?
If my intent were to form opinions about every story in said paper, of course I'd read the whole thing. Wouldn't you?
Oh, no, wait, you can't be bothered, right right...
Was that in the article, or are you just prejudiced against Americans?
Not at all. Just some of them. Specifically, I'm prejudiced against people who choose to be wilfully ignorant, and are too lazy to investigate things before they attack them. I'm prejudiced against those who are intellectually lazy and close minded. Who gain their news from the little ticker that appears at the bottom of their favorite fear-spewing cable news channel, or the big bold text in the newspaper box they see on their way to work.
In short, I'm prejudiced against jackasses like yourself.
Hey, pop quiz: did you actually read everything I wrote, here, or did you just read the first sentence of the first paragraph, and then stop 'cuz, you know, there's so many words 'n' stuff!
You don't understand how the corporate world works, methinks... such a proposition has absolutely no ROI at all, because it's unsellable. Corporate greed will win out over free software in this case.
ROFL, I love your use of the weasel words "corporate greed".
I'm no randroid, but it sounds a lot better if you describe it as "rational self-interest". I mean, who the hell would be stupid enough to spend a bunch of money developing software so that they could release it for free to their god damned competitors?
That's not greed. That's not being a fucking idiot.
The summary talked about islands threatened by rising sea levels.
So, I take it you're defending your decision to attack the government of this island without actually reading the fucking article? I assume you also prefer to just skim the headlines in a newspaper, rather than actually reading the stories?
Christ, and we wonder why the US electorate is so god damned uninformed and gullible...
Someone who cared about islanders would suggest they actually solve their problems (in the event those problems actually happen) by building some small seawalls or other simple structures to deal with a modest rise in sea levels.
WTF... did you even bother to read the article? He's doing this to protect marine diversity and fish stocks, you know, kinda like how the US has national parks. It has absolutely nothing, whatsoever, to do with dealing with rising sea levels.
Seriously, its times like this, when a blatantly uninformed post gets modded up to +4, that I wonder why the hell I even bother with this place anymore...
Get this through your head: The cost of maintaining a distribution network -- be it servers in a data center, theaters in malls across the country, or warehouses and trucks -- far exceeds the cost of manufacturing a physical article in bulk. And the cost of CREATING content exceeds them both.
Well, you're half right: the cost of *both* is actually surprisingly cheap, and is just a small percentage of the total cost of a piece of media.
This describes agnosticism, which is a vastly different thing than an atheism, what the individuals choose to call themselves notwithstanding.
Nope, sorry, that's soft atheism.
Wikipedia sums it up nicely:
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims--especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims--is unknown or unknowable.
Soft atheists say "in the absence of evidence of god, I will assume no such thing exists". Agnostics say "in the absence of evidence of god, I can't say whether or not it exists, and in fact, it may be impossible to say either way". Hard atheists say "god doesn't exist".
Alright, you provide an example where you see more than just a single troll referring to all Christians, everywhere, as "right wing, fascist, racist rednecks", and I'll concede the point. Until then, I'm going to assume you're just another Christian with a persecution complex (note, I'm not saying all Christians have persecution complexes, just some of them... you know, just for the record, I wouldn't want you to think I was persecuting all Christians, though I could see how you might feel that way, what with your persecution complex and all).
Not so, you are forgetting side channel attacks, in particular side channel attacks based on computation time.
Yeah, but those are a *hell* of a lot harder, and are subject to noise from network jitter, server load, and other variables. The odds of being able to deduce the crypto keys in a reasonable amount of time drop substantially in that case, as you need a lot more requests to smooth out that variability.
Islam is NOT a religion, it is a political movement...
Blah blah blah blah...
Seriously, fuck off. Go hide in your little hate-filled echo-chamber, with your Faux News and the like, and leave the grown-ups alone to have real, big people discussions. As clearly that's beyond you.
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There is no Silver Bullet in coding. You can't get it right from the beginning always...
Oh come *on*. The errors in this code were deeply fundamental, and patently obvious to anyone paying any attention. Not authorizing actions performed by authenticated users? Really?? Jesus christ, that's *basic*.
Sorry, no, what we're talking about, here, are fundamental flaws in their security architecture (or, more to the point, a complete lack of security architecture). And security architecture is something you *have* to get right up front (which is why good software architects cost a lot of money... it's necessary work, and hard to do well).
That and the luminous screen. Its this simple - read from a bright screen, and read from a piece of paper; which is preferable? The paper for most people I would say.
I'm actually no longer convinced of that.
In a well-lit room, yeah sure, reflective can be more comfortable to read. But the minute you find yourself in low-light conditions, or where the light is a localized source, your reading position is suddenly limited by the light. Want to turn over? Nope, sorry, the light's behind you now. Want to read, say, during movie previews? Not happening at all.
I've read for *hours* on my old Palm (and now my Touch) in the dark, with the backlight set very low, with absolutely no problems. No eye fatigue at all, and I can read in whatever position I find comfortable. Good luck trying that with a Kindle. Meanwhile, I can control the contrast, brightness levels, text and background colour, etc, as I see fit.
Now, obviously it's not great in very bright conditions. But most of the time, I think I actually prefer a backlit screen now... go figure.
In terms of utility I don't find tablets all that great
A little contrast: I'm a programmer and a power user, with, god, 15 years of Linux under my belt. I recently replaced my Palm TX with a 4g Touch, mainly for use as an ereader and music player, and yet suddenly I find myself using it instead of pulling out my laptop for certain things. Want to check my email? Browse my RSS feeds? Look up a wikipedia article? (Yes, I admit it) Check Facebook? All these things work great on my touch. But it's often that I really wish it had a larger screen... the instant on, always connected convenience is awesome, Safari is an impressive piece of work, and the high-res display means the touch is decent for web browsing, but a larger screen would be perfect. As such, I can conclude that I would likely find myself completely replacing my laptop with a tablet for idle internet noodling if such a device was available to me.
'course, as always, I'm going to wait a hardware generation or two before I take the plunge. But I can definitely see a tablet filling a niche in my day-to-day life.
Careful, apparently highlighting the OPs bigotry could result in a -1 flamebait mod... fucking (yeah, that's right) idiot moderators...
This isn't much of a surprise to me anymore. In previous generations we idolized decent, intelligent, articulate and educated people.
Seems to me your biggest problem is the presumption that dropping an f-bomb means the person isn't decent, intelligent, articulate, or educated.
My entire circle of friends has bachelor degrees or higher. All are intelligent, thoughtful, upstanding individuals. And all of them, given the right setting (say, a few drinks at a bar, or a night of brutal coding) will swear like sailors on leave.
So... who's the unintelligent one? The one who drops the f-bomb, or the one who assumes that swearing equates to some stereotypical archetype of the lowerclass, under-educated bumpkin?
(Note -1 Disagree is not an option for moderation.)
Yeah, I really hope shit like that gets caught in meta-mod...
If my boss was overtaxed (say 100% of his income over $1 million), then I would be out of a job. As would many other people because he'd no longer be able to hire us.
Huh, your boss pays you out of his personal salary? Weird...
Hint: Business and corporate tax != personal tax.
The latter. Trickle-down is bullshit.
Stimulus is best applied to the people at the lowest rungs of the economic ladder, as they're going to spend that cash immediately. The state is best to enact this extremely modest tax increase, and then to put the funds toward local improvement projects (which hire labourers and tradesmen), and funding a social safety net for the many many people who are under- or unemployed.
You didn't, for just a second, consider that maybe the hunters shooting at the insulators are hunters who are done for the day? and on their way back they decide to take a couple of shots at the insulators.
Err... how does that make them any less vandals?
Can't you say the same thing about the left?
Yes, of course.
Uh. Good for him?
Seriously, how is that remotely relevant to the current thread of conversation, exactly? The GP strongly implied that Stewart and Colbert only attack the right on their shows, suggesting they are partisan. I illustrated that this is clearly not the case (at least not to the extent he/she is suggesting... obviously they are left-wingers, but they certainly don't pull punches if the democrats give 'em good material to work with).
You then bring up Glenn Beck for reasons I can't really fathom... so, can you explain yourself, or are you just retreating to trolling because you lost the argument?
Yeah cause the Glenn Beck rally was full of angry people
Uh, it was. Frightened, angry people. Were they polite about it? Yes, and good for them. But their politics is a politics of fear, whether it be fear of the Big Bad Government, fear of muslims, fear of gays, fear of latinos...
And incidentally, its worth noting that Glenn and his cohorts actively discouraged inflammatory signs and so forth, for fear of the bad press they would generate... who knows what that rally would've been like if the organizers hadn't gone out of their way to temper the reaction of their followers.
Just like a G-8 anarchist rally
Yeah, those guys are enormous douchbags, too. What's your point?
Instead of spending an hour joking about Sarah Palin and Rand Paul. How about Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi or Obama?
Yeah, you're right... they never lampoon those guys... ::rollseyes::
Hell, this rally has been specifically billed as non-partisan, with their message directed at anyone and everyone who would shriek and yell, frighten and intimidate in order to achieve their agenda, whether they be in the media or a politician, left-wing or right.
And they've also got a month to get the paperwork sorted out. Seems like CBS digging for a non-story.
Well, I think the point is also to get a bunch of people out to try and send a message to the politicians and the mainstream media to, as Jon put it, tone it down a notch for America.
How dare anyone question a government? When did governments ever do anything that wasn't 100% selfless and noble? Governments never hurt anyone, did they?
Wow, you *really* enjoy knocking down straw men...
Everyone does.
No, not everyone. Judgmental assholes? Yes. The rest of us try to avoid coming to snap judgments before actually investigating the story at hand.
I guess you pick up a newspaper and read every word from the front page to the back in numerical order of the pages, without setting it down. No?
If my intent were to form opinions about every story in said paper, of course I'd read the whole thing. Wouldn't you?
Oh, no, wait, you can't be bothered, right right...
Was that in the article, or are you just prejudiced against Americans?
Not at all. Just some of them. Specifically, I'm prejudiced against people who choose to be wilfully ignorant, and are too lazy to investigate things before they attack them. I'm prejudiced against those who are intellectually lazy and close minded. Who gain their news from the little ticker that appears at the bottom of their favorite fear-spewing cable news channel, or the big bold text in the newspaper box they see on their way to work.
In short, I'm prejudiced against jackasses like yourself.
Hey, pop quiz: did you actually read everything I wrote, here, or did you just read the first sentence of the first paragraph, and then stop 'cuz, you know, there's so many words 'n' stuff!
You don't understand how the corporate world works, methinks... such a proposition has absolutely no ROI at all, because it's unsellable. Corporate greed will win out over free software in this case.
ROFL, I love your use of the weasel words "corporate greed".
I'm no randroid, but it sounds a lot better if you describe it as "rational self-interest". I mean, who the hell would be stupid enough to spend a bunch of money developing software so that they could release it for free to their god damned competitors?
That's not greed. That's not being a fucking idiot.
The summary talked about islands threatened by rising sea levels.
So, I take it you're defending your decision to attack the government of this island without actually reading the fucking article? I assume you also prefer to just skim the headlines in a newspaper, rather than actually reading the stories?
Christ, and we wonder why the US electorate is so god damned uninformed and gullible...
Someone who cared about islanders would suggest they actually solve their problems (in the event those problems actually happen) by building some small seawalls or other simple structures to deal with a modest rise in sea levels.
WTF... did you even bother to read the article? He's doing this to protect marine diversity and fish stocks, you know, kinda like how the US has national parks. It has absolutely nothing, whatsoever, to do with dealing with rising sea levels.
Seriously, its times like this, when a blatantly uninformed post gets modded up to +4, that I wonder why the hell I even bother with this place anymore...
Fortunately for most users (those with phones that are rootable), there's a big development scene devoted to owning your device.
At which point, Android users are in the *exact* same boat as iDevice users. So much for the "Android is moar open and teh awesome!" bullshit...
According to the license, you have to release source and binaries at the same time.
No, according to the license, you have to provide it when asked for it. Otherwise mailing out floppies wouldn't have been allowed under the GPL.
Get this through your head: The cost of maintaining a distribution network -- be it servers in a data center, theaters in malls across the country, or warehouses and trucks -- far exceeds the cost of manufacturing a physical article in bulk. And the cost of CREATING content exceeds them both.
Well, you're half right: the cost of *both* is actually surprisingly cheap, and is just a small percentage of the total cost of a piece of media.
This describes agnosticism, which is a vastly different thing than an atheism, what the individuals choose to call themselves notwithstanding.
Nope, sorry, that's soft atheism.
Wikipedia sums it up nicely:
Soft atheists say "in the absence of evidence of god, I will assume no such thing exists". Agnostics say "in the absence of evidence of god, I can't say whether or not it exists, and in fact, it may be impossible to say either way". Hard atheists say "god doesn't exist".
Alright, you provide an example where you see more than just a single troll referring to all Christians, everywhere, as "right wing, fascist, racist rednecks", and I'll concede the point. Until then, I'm going to assume you're just another Christian with a persecution complex (note, I'm not saying all Christians have persecution complexes, just some of them... you know, just for the record, I wouldn't want you to think I was persecuting all Christians, though I could see how you might feel that way, what with your persecution complex and all).
Not so, you are forgetting side channel attacks, in particular side channel attacks based on computation time.
Yeah, but those are a *hell* of a lot harder, and are subject to noise from network jitter, server load, and other variables. The odds of being able to deduce the crypto keys in a reasonable amount of time drop substantially in that case, as you need a lot more requests to smooth out that variability.
Islam is NOT a religion, it is a political movement...
Blah blah blah blah...
Seriously, fuck off. Go hide in your little hate-filled echo-chamber, with your Faux News and the like, and leave the grown-ups alone to have real, big people discussions. As clearly that's beyond you.