I can tell you one thing: When gmail was released, it was the *fastest* webmail out there, bar none, especially on a slow network connection. So no, javascript doesn't mean high bandwidth, and I most certainly don't think that Google has that blindspot.
are other sites now following Google's lead, with increasingly sophisticated in-browser programs written in JavaScript ?
Do you even have to ask? Do you never go out on the internet?
ALL websites are more loaded than last year in JavaScript, and this is not a new trend. GMail was just pioneering (in the webmail space that is) the webapp that has only one page and everything you do is driven by JavaScript and the DOM.
If you learned anything from Stuxnet, you would no that no data is secure whenever it's online. No data at all. Stuxnet had zero-days for all OSes that noone knew about before it was discovered, and not just one of them. Chances are your system is already compromised and nobody even knows about it. And if it is not, it could be at any time. We closed a door with Heartbleed, but there are countless doors still open, just waiting to be discovered.
I honestly don't know what you're talking about. There's been a vulnerability disclosed. Fixing it is trivial. Regenerating your keys is (or should be) trivial. End of story.
Yes, this vulnerability is scary, and even more scary thing is that there are probably other vulns that bad in the wild, and most likely plenty of them. But this is over.
When I first saw Stuxnet and the extent of this shit, I lost all confidence in online data, for good. Heck, Stuxnet even infiltrated an offline network. Heartbleed is shit compared to this. The point is that everything that is online can be breached. End of story. We closed one door yesterday, I'm sure there are still 100 others open. So you see? No big deal really.
Ubuntu did provide apt patches for all affected versions, including those not supported anymore (12.10 comes to mind). They did it right. If you had configured your security patches to install automatically, it was even transparent. I don't see a problem there.
Of course, they did hire new people. But tell me, how many hardware companies do you know that produces high quality software and/or services?
Well, there is one: Apple. And this is IMO the key to their success. They do both well (whether or not you agree with their policies/strategy is another matter, both their software and their hardware are top-class in their respective fields, and nobody even questions that.)
The rest of them? All hardware manufacturers I can think of makes software that sucks big time (graphics, printers, scanners, all those devices - and their drivers - come to mind)
So is it possible for WD to do a good service online? Of course it is. But in my view, it's extremely unlikely.
Choose your vendor carefully. HDD manufacturers are probably not good at cloud services, just because it's not their core business, nor is it close to their core business. I could've told you that. You want cloud storage? Go DropBox, Amazon, Google. These guys know what they're doing.
Now, don't treat this storage as safe or secure. It's cloud storage. Safe is copied over to at least two different remote locations plus at least two local storage devices. Secure is encrypted and offline. Cloud is neither, but it is convenient.
The key here is to know what you are doing, which isn't always obvious.
They couldn't care less about a legal smack-down as long as they're afloat. The only thing they understand is money. It will stop only with bankruptcy.
But I don't think anyone would disagree that our modern secular humanistic moralities have been at least shaped in part by the bible and other religious texts.
No, no, not by the bible, only by the "good parts" of the bible, or in other words, by other people that chose those good parts. The Bible has nothing to do with it.
When you need people to tell you what's inside a book, it's either that it's too complicated (tech stuff, specialized book, etc) or it's that someone will try to fill your brain with their view of things. Obviously, someone explaining the bible falls in the second category.
It looks as if religion has found a set of explanations to make the big book acceptable and now it's serving that to the world, not the other way around.
In France we actually got someone behind bars for something very similar with a law that I find pretty smart that says approximately: "If you are somewhere where you *know* you shouldn't be, and you don't get out immediately but you *knowingly* stay there and snoop around, then you're guilty."
I think that's the expression of common sense. It might be just me.
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I can tell you one thing: When gmail was released, it was the *fastest* webmail out there, bar none, especially on a slow network connection. So no, javascript doesn't mean high bandwidth, and I most certainly don't think that Google has that blindspot.
are other sites now following Google's lead, with increasingly sophisticated in-browser programs written in JavaScript ?
Do you even have to ask? Do you never go out on the internet?
ALL websites are more loaded than last year in JavaScript, and this is not a new trend. GMail was just pioneering (in the webmail space that is) the webapp that has only one page and everything you do is driven by JavaScript and the DOM.
If you're deployed for six months and you like to read you've brought your own e-reader loaded with books you want to read with you.
Or not... Or your e-reader can go berserk, borken or otherwise unusable. Shit happens. Having 300 books around is *much* better than nothing.
I believe the proper term is now shocked and awed.
Are there still people running windows ?
Many more than all other platform combined, at least on the desktop.
Big difference... first, of course is that Android is opensource. Don't like it, go make your own distro.
It is only in your dream. The version of Android sold on 98% of all phones worldwide is well locked and closed, thankyouverymuch.
Non removable battery isn't that much of a problem really. I've had plenty of phones (including iphones) and never changed a battery on any of them.
But the performance crippling OS updates.... I have to say I don't know what you're talking about.
My iPod doesn't even have a screen. First gen iPod Nano.
It has a screen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
It's not English nor does it has English roots, so they don't like it. It's simple really. You can apply that to many things Americans don't like.
Do birds masturbate?
With which hand?
I don't get why we have to say "the developer"?
It was Robin Seggelmann that submitted this bit of buggy openssl code. He either works for the NSA or is grossly incompetent...
If competence were a requirement for being a XXX, how many XXX do you think would be out of work?
Please replace XXX by any kind of job title. Cook. Car repair. Teacher. CEO. Anything fits, really.
If you learned anything from Stuxnet, you would no that no data is secure whenever it's online. No data at all. Stuxnet had zero-days for all OSes that noone knew about before it was discovered, and not just one of them. Chances are your system is already compromised and nobody even knows about it. And if it is not, it could be at any time. We closed a door with Heartbleed, but there are countless doors still open, just waiting to be discovered.
I honestly don't know what you're talking about. There's been a vulnerability disclosed. Fixing it is trivial. Regenerating your keys is (or should be) trivial. End of story.
Yes, this vulnerability is scary, and even more scary thing is that there are probably other vulns that bad in the wild, and most likely plenty of them. But this is over.
When I first saw Stuxnet and the extent of this shit, I lost all confidence in online data, for good. Heck, Stuxnet even infiltrated an offline network. Heartbleed is shit compared to this. The point is that everything that is online can be breached. End of story. We closed one door yesterday, I'm sure there are still 100 others open. So you see? No big deal really.
Ubuntu did provide apt patches for all affected versions, including those not supported anymore (12.10 comes to mind). They did it right. If you had configured your security patches to install automatically, it was even transparent. I don't see a problem there.
If you care so much about all that windows crap, why are you running Linux at all?
Of course, they did hire new people. But tell me, how many hardware companies do you know that produces high quality software and/or services?
Well, there is one: Apple. And this is IMO the key to their success. They do both well (whether or not you agree with their policies/strategy is another matter, both their software and their hardware are top-class in their respective fields, and nobody even questions that.)
The rest of them? All hardware manufacturers I can think of makes software that sucks big time (graphics, printers, scanners, all those devices - and their drivers - come to mind)
So is it possible for WD to do a good service online? Of course it is. But in my view, it's extremely unlikely.
If you want me to restate my previous comment, here it is: The point is, HD manufacturers probably suck at networking.
There. It's down, proving my point at this very moment.
Choose your vendor carefully. HDD manufacturers are probably not good at cloud services, just because it's not their core business, nor is it close to their core business. I could've told you that. You want cloud storage? Go DropBox, Amazon, Google. These guys know what they're doing.
Now, don't treat this storage as safe or secure. It's cloud storage. Safe is copied over to at least two different remote locations plus at least two local storage devices. Secure is encrypted and offline. Cloud is neither, but it is convenient.
The key here is to know what you are doing, which isn't always obvious.
Of course we are, just a different kind.
They couldn't care less about a legal smack-down as long as they're afloat. The only thing they understand is money. It will stop only with bankruptcy.
But I don't think anyone would disagree that our modern secular humanistic moralities have been at least shaped in part by the bible and other religious texts.
No, no, not by the bible, only by the "good parts" of the bible, or in other words, by other people that chose those good parts. The Bible has nothing to do with it.
When you need people to tell you what's inside a book, it's either that it's too complicated (tech stuff, specialized book, etc) or it's that someone will try to fill your brain with their view of things. Obviously, someone explaining the bible falls in the second category.
It looks as if religion has found a set of explanations to make the big book acceptable and now it's serving that to the world, not the other way around.
So all upskirts pictures are legit and we should encourage people to take them?
After all, all those panties are out in public and protected by just a skirt which you can look below... from a public place.
Your vision of what is right and wrong seems to be broken.
In France we actually got someone behind bars for something very similar with a law that I find pretty smart that says approximately: "If you are somewhere where you *know* you shouldn't be, and you don't get out immediately but you *knowingly* stay there and snoop around, then you're guilty."
I think that's the expression of common sense. It might be just me.
Also, whenever you have a method that has to return a couple of longs, it would also save an object to wrap the result.