Hey Slashdot, fix your goddam markup. It took me all of 5 seconds to run a slashdot story through an HTML5 validator and see where you fucked up. If I can do that, how come you can't do that?
Oh, and BTW.. News, Nerds, Technology with this story? Obviously the glory days are over.
Too stupid to understand routing, but smart enough to write kernel code? Something doesn't add up here.
Can't you recognize click-bait when you see it?
Heaven knows slashdot needs click-bait, what with the crap they have been doing to their layout in the last 2 days. Right now it's utter crap on Safari 6.1*, but sometimes its good and other times it's worse. And sometimes its borked on Safari 8 and even IE 11. It's as if Dice has never heard of testing on a test system and not testing on production.
*And yes I am still there because of 32 EFI, and yes I know there are ways to get >Lion running on 32 bit EFI, but it is not a priority right now.
Before Christmas I walked into my local Firestone franchise and wanted to get 2 new tires. They quoted me $140 a pice. When I said that I could get the same tires for $100 up the street at Costco (but I also needed a front end alignment which Costco doesn't do), suddenly their price was $100. Then the next day when I came in to get the tires changed*, the cost was actually $80 a piece. It's that sort of secret, we won't tell you the true price crap that I hate. Combined with all sorts of attempts to up-sell, and add-on services that I said 3 times already that I don't need.
* What stunned me was that I had 2 good tires and 2 bad tires. Somehow they manage to replace the good ties with the new tires and left the bad tires on the car.
This is unlikely to change, not until consumers start demand product certification.
But certification costs money. And I demand my cheap keyboard.
That and how the hell do you educate users that their keyboard has a security vulnerability (and does that mean having to keep an eye out for security patches for your keyboard?!?!? )
You seem to have pulled together a list of pretty weak criticisms of each language and pretended that's justification not to use them over PHP and Javascript despite PHP and Javascript both having glaring deficiencies that make the negative considerations you pass off as fact above wholly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
There's a word I think that is missing from your vocabulary that I think I need to introduce you to:
So where is this trap that Slashdotters have been shouting loudly about for the past decade?
While my intended use of "its a trap" was a facetious repetition of a meme (and I won't bore you with a whoosh), I believe the trap is not so much the technical aspects of the tools and code (I have always preferred VS over Xcode, and c# over Obj-C), but the morals of the company that you are buying into by using their code. From It's not done until XXX doesn't run and Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to the subversion of the OOXML standards process there are many distasteful things that MS has done as a company. Thus by using their products you are supporting these actions and their philosophy.
But on the technical side of things, MS, like all good companies does try to exert vendor lock-in. So that once you have drunk from the MS well, it has been hard to break out into other technologies. So on that basis alone you can also say that it's a trap.
Besides......the only reason to write javascript is to execute code in the browser on the client side. If you're not doing that don't use javascript.
The appeal of things like Node.js is that you're writing the front and back ends in the same language. Thus reducing the number of languages you need to know etc.
And while that is a laudable goal, I'm not sure that javascript is the best way to achieve it - but then there is that inertia thing again - you already have javascript in the browsers. So it would take a huge commitment to get another language into the same position.
Proper systems and apps developers wouldn't touch either of these noddy languages with a sterilised bargepole.
So what would these "proper" developers of yours actually use?
Python - No way in hell.. the language has to bend to my will, not me bending to its will. Java - Antiquated and full of perversions, along with the spectre of Oracle hanging over you. C/C++ - I know it is done, but would you? C#/VBV.Net - Even with MS opening up things.. "It's a trap"/Ackbar Perl - Are you sure its actually serving pages and not just a prank obfuscated programming contest entry? Go - You and the 3 other people using it should get together sometime. Erlang - If its good enough for FB, shit does that mean we are going to get assimilated?
I'm not sure exactly what that would accomplish. The only reason its a Bad Thing(tm) when someone gets my SSN is precisely because that is the number everyone uses for credit granting. If they instead started using some other unique personal number for that purpose (lets call in UPN for the purposes of this discussion), then it would be the UPN I have to give out all over the place, and it would be the UPN that would be under constant thread of being stolen by identity thieves. The effects would be the same.
You're right. As long as the UPN is used for both authentication AND authorization, then you are screwed no matter what the number actually is. The trick is to separate the two functions somehow, and will mean a fundamental shift in how things are done.
The problem in the US is that the SSN is used for both authentication and authorization, even though it was only meant for the former.
Oh come on: anyone with a passing interest in trying to get away from ubiquitous corporate and state tracking knows of i2p. It takes a minute of googling to find Tor first, and i2p second.
Do you hear that close-by whooshing sound? It's gotta be pretty loud where you are.
I2P is beta software since 2003. Developers emphasize that there are likely to be bugs in the software and that there has been insufficient peer review to date. However, they believe the code is now reasonably stable and well-developed, and more exposure can help development of I2P.
So while "More secret than TOR", may be true, actually being secret is unknown by the users. But I bet the TLA LEAs will be keeping an eye on it and directing resources to test I2P limits (if they already haven't - they kinda don't like communications they can't tap)
1) Even encrypted, I'd still be pretty wary of having arbitrary files stores on my machines. Even if legally in the clear, just dealing with an LEA when someone uses your machine as a child porn host is going to be unpleasant.
From TFA they talk about "shards" being stored on a computer, so that no one computer holds a complete file. But yeah, if LEA comes a knocking then I bet you will still be in deep do-do.
As for bandwidth, what I don't get is how do you get your files back if you can't guarantee the people you rented disk space from actually have their machines turned on?
A hi-tech engineering company will continue on with its plans to test a well-engineered aspect of its product that, that after rigorous R&D, is expected to reduce the costs to end users.
It's not Daring. Its business as usual for a company that is doing actual R&D on leading edge products.
But that doesn't mean that I don't want to see it work. Vertical landing rockets are the next step to the world of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
The implementation however has already made it into unofficial WhatsApp libraries which allow developers to use WhatsApp service in their applications, starting with a python-library called yowsup, and the rest will follow.
With the previous story being 2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are
Most of the movies I've seen lately made me want my time back, let alone the money spent on them.
That's what I like about streaming movies form Netflix. Once I get to the point in a bad movie where I have had enough, I can just dump it and go onto the next in my queue. I am not compelled to sit all the way through a crap movie.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey Slashdot, fix your goddam markup. It took me all of 5 seconds to run a slashdot story through an HTML5 validator and see where you fucked up. If I can do that, how come you can't do that?
Oh, and BTW .. News, Nerds, Technology with this story? Obviously the glory days are over.
Too stupid to understand routing, but smart enough to write kernel code? Something doesn't add up here.
Can't you recognize click-bait when you see it?
Heaven knows slashdot needs click-bait, what with the crap they have been doing to their layout in the last 2 days. Right now it's utter crap on Safari 6.1*, but sometimes its good and other times it's worse. And sometimes its borked on Safari 8 and even IE 11. It's as if Dice has never heard of testing on a test system and not testing on production.
*And yes I am still there because of 32 EFI, and yes I know there are ways to get >Lion running on 32 bit EFI, but it is not a priority right now.
The problem is not haggling, it is the secrecy.
Before Christmas I walked into my local Firestone franchise and wanted to get 2 new tires. They quoted me $140 a pice. When I said that I could get the same tires for $100 up the street at Costco (but I also needed a front end alignment which Costco doesn't do), suddenly their price was $100. Then the next day when I came in to get the tires changed*, the cost was actually $80 a piece. It's that sort of secret, we won't tell you the true price crap that I hate. Combined with all sorts of attempts to up-sell, and add-on services that I said 3 times already that I don't need.
* What stunned me was that I had 2 good tires and 2 bad tires. Somehow they manage to replace the good ties with the new tires and left the bad tires on the car.
This is unlikely to change, not until consumers start demand product certification.
But certification costs money. And I demand my cheap keyboard.
That and how the hell do you educate users that their keyboard has a security vulnerability (and does that mean having to keep an eye out for security patches for your keyboard?!?!? )
As if having to replace keyboard-batteries every 6 months wasn't reason enough.
The batteries thing was one reason why I like my Logitech wireless keyboard as it is powered by solar cells - no battery changing at all.
But now .. hmm .. I totally didn't think about sniffing the keyboard.
You seem to have pulled together a list of pretty weak criticisms of each language and pretended that's justification not to use them over PHP and Javascript despite PHP and Javascript both having glaring deficiencies that make the negative considerations you pass off as fact above wholly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
There's a word I think that is missing from your vocabulary that I think I need to introduce you to:
Woosh
So where is this trap that Slashdotters have been shouting loudly about for the past decade?
While my intended use of "its a trap" was a facetious repetition of a meme (and I won't bore you with a whoosh), I believe the trap is not so much the technical aspects of the tools and code (I have always preferred VS over Xcode, and c# over Obj-C), but the morals of the company that you are buying into by using their code. From It's not done until XXX doesn't run and Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to the subversion of the OOXML standards process there are many distasteful things that MS has done as a company. Thus by using their products you are supporting these actions and their philosophy.
But on the technical side of things, MS, like all good companies does try to exert vendor lock-in. So that once you have drunk from the MS well, it has been hard to break out into other technologies. So on that basis alone you can also say that it's a trap.
Besides......the only reason to write javascript is to execute code in the browser on the client side. If you're not doing that don't use javascript.
The appeal of things like Node.js is that you're writing the front and back ends in the same language. Thus reducing the number of languages you need to know etc.
And while that is a laudable goal, I'm not sure that javascript is the best way to achieve it - but then there is that inertia thing again - you already have javascript in the browsers. So it would take a huge commitment to get another language into the same position.
Proper systems and apps developers wouldn't touch either of these noddy languages with a sterilised bargepole.
So what would these "proper" developers of yours actually use?
Python - No way in hell .. the language has to bend to my will, not me bending to its will. .. "It's a trap" /Ackbar
Java - Antiquated and full of perversions, along with the spectre of Oracle hanging over you.
C/C++ - I know it is done, but would you?
C#/VBV.Net - Even with MS opening up things
Perl - Are you sure its actually serving pages and not just a prank obfuscated programming contest entry?
Go - You and the 3 other people using it should get together sometime.
Erlang - If its good enough for FB, shit does that mean we are going to get assimilated?
I'm not sure exactly what that would accomplish. The only reason its a Bad Thing(tm) when someone gets my SSN is precisely because that is the number everyone uses for credit granting. If they instead started using some other unique personal number for that purpose (lets call in UPN for the purposes of this discussion), then it would be the UPN I have to give out all over the place, and it would be the UPN that would be under constant thread of being stolen by identity thieves. The effects would be the same.
You're right. As long as the UPN is used for both authentication AND authorization, then you are screwed no matter what the number actually is. The trick is to separate the two functions somehow, and will mean a fundamental shift in how things are done.
The problem in the US is that the SSN is used for both authentication and authorization, even though it was only meant for the former.
Oh come on: anyone with a passing interest in trying to get away from ubiquitous corporate and state tracking knows of i2p. It takes a minute of googling to find Tor first, and i2p second.
Do you hear that close-by whooshing sound? It's gotta be pretty loud where you are.
Ah okay. So maybe the Chevy D'olt is coming too then.
Homer FTFY
How about Jolt? That would be electricity-related, and it would accurately reflect both GM's build and ride quality.
Even though they are in different markets, I'm sure that Jolt Cola would object that name.
Two people can keep a secret, but only if one of them is dead
But then, from the I2P page
I2P is beta software since 2003. Developers emphasize that there are likely to be bugs in the software and that there has been insufficient peer review to date. However, they believe the code is now reasonably stable and well-developed, and more exposure can help development of I2P.
So while "More secret than TOR", may be true, actually being secret is unknown by the users. But I bet the TLA LEAs will be keeping an eye on it and directing resources to test I2P limits (if they already haven't - they kinda don't like communications they can't tap)
Two biggest reasons:
1) Even encrypted, I'd still be pretty wary of having arbitrary files stores on my machines. Even if legally in the clear, just dealing with an LEA when someone uses your machine as a child porn host is going to be unpleasant.
From TFA they talk about "shards" being stored on a computer, so that no one computer holds a complete file. But yeah, if LEA comes a knocking then I bet you will still be in deep do-do.
As for bandwidth, what I don't get is how do you get your files back if you can't guarantee the people you rented disk space from actually have their machines turned on?
I don't know where to go for insighful intelligent discussion online anymore.
I go to Ars. They actually have journalists who write stuff and all. And you get the tech news 2-3 days before here.
-- Larry Niven, "The Ringworld Engineers", 1980
It goes back a bit further than that. Death by Ecstasy, published 1968
And the Skylon is looking to build a genuine spaceplane, single stage to orbit, with its funky jet/rocket combined engines,
A hi-tech engineering company will continue on with its plans to test a well-engineered aspect of its product that, that after rigorous R&D, is expected to reduce the costs to end users.
It's not Daring. Its business as usual for a company that is doing actual R&D on leading edge products.
But that doesn't mean that I don't want to see it work. Vertical landing rockets are the next step to the world of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
Maybe folks should read the content before commenting on it.
Blasphemy!
To coordinate and block duplicate stories.
Its like they don't even talk to each other.
Shit they don't even have to talk to each other. All they Have to do is LOOK at /.
Add to that lots of backlash for the surge pricing, which comes across as pure gouging.
If you really wanna go retro, use wax tubes.
what, do you mean you don't employ your own orchestra that plays the music you want on demand?
The implementation however has already made it into unofficial WhatsApp libraries which allow developers to use WhatsApp service in their applications, starting with a python-library called yowsup, and the rest will follow.
With the previous story being 2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are
Most of the movies I've seen lately made me want my time back, let alone the money spent on them.
That's what I like about streaming movies form Netflix. Once I get to the point in a bad movie where I have had enough, I can just dump it and go onto the next in my queue. I am not compelled to sit all the way through a crap movie.