True. Not being IE does not inherently make those browsers more secure. Security is a process, and to remain secure, browsers need to be able to adapt rapidly to new threats. Fortunately this is one of the advantages of open source development.
"The price of peace is eternal vigilance." - Leonard Henry Courtney.
You may not have to write your code around threading, but you then have to write it around grand central dispatch. Having GCD available is going to do absolutely nothing for a program that was not written with GCD in mind. Its changing one set of problems/features for another. Writing multi-threaded software isn't exceptionally hard. I have done a lot of it. It may take a lot less code with GCD, but you also give up control. Even using GCD with code blocks you still have to deal with the problems that can be a pain in the ass, things like concurrency, blocking and munging data.
The android implementation of java is unoptimized shit. But java, in a good JIT implementation, is by no means slow. It has come a long long way in the last decade, its speed is approaching that of c++ and exceeding it in some circumstances.
Sure. It is called trusted computing. But who is the gatekeeper of trust? In order to only allow "KNOWN GOOD FILES" you need a white-list. That means that no mere user is going to be write his own software. That means that small software producers are going to have to go through an arduous and prohibitively expensive vetting process in order to be white-listed. In practice this means that only Microsoft and its partners will be able to produce software for your pc at a reasonable price. This could even mean that user generated data files are not trusted and therefor not allowed, making the pc a device for consuming content. Perhaps the user could produce content remotely through software as a service providers, who would either charge highly or claim ownership rights to your content.
If you are using your saw correctly you will never be in a situation where a "normal" accident will cause you to loose a thumb.
Someone startles you!, You are distracted! Good thing you were using the saw correctly (not standing over the blade, using a push block for small pieces, etc) and didn't have your hand within inches of the blade. You might have gotten hurt if you were doing something wrong.
Someone pushes you into the blade! Quick, run out and sue the guy who made a sidewalk that a criminal decided to bash your head against.
Something weird happens, like the building collapses, a car drives through your garage, magical gremlins pick up the saw and throw it at you. Well, you just might loose a thumb. Oh well.
A roofing hammer is more dangerous under normal operation than a table saw. You actually have to place your finger at the point you are aiming for as you strike. You miss the nail or the nail fails, punches through, deflects the blow and you can smash a finger bad enough to require amputation. With a table saw, you never have to put yourself in harms way. It requires extraordinary external interference or doing something stupid to loose a thumb to a table saw.
Imagine buying a roofing hammer instead of a nail gun because it is cheaper. Then imagine roofing with a blindfold on and smashing your finger badly. If you had bought a nail gun instead, you could have avoided smashing your finger while blindfolded. Now imagine suing the maker of the hammer for this reason. This is analogous to what happened here.
The problem is that there is a simple, preexisting and free way to use a table saw where you never risk getting limbs cut off. This method has been available to everyone since table saws were invented. Here it is: Do not put your limbs in the damn saw blade while it is spinning.
When driving a car there is no way for a driver to ensure that other drivers are not going to hit them and risk injury that could be mitigated by an airbag.
Exactly. Any major rollout of a different technology is going to have a lot of issues, especially if you have to have some kind of incremental release and backwards compatibility. It doesn't matter if it is FOSS or proprietary.
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Postal service has been outsourced. The military functioning correctly/efficiently? thats a farce. I've been dealing with the military my whole life, both as a son of a serviceman and as a civilian employee. There is hardly anything less efficient than the military.
There is no difference if you are both reacting to something external, but if you are reacting to your opponents actions, then yes it most definitely will be a difference because your reaction is delayed from when you can perceive the signal.
Clarke, like Asimov, was a scientist before he was a science fiction author. Hubbard was fraudulent huckster before he was a science fiction author/religious leader.
This is the only thing I disagree with the ACLU on, the second amendment is extremely important. Their abject failure to defend it does not in any way discredit the rest of the good that they do.
The supposed longevity of led lights is highly overrated. By law, traffic signals have been switching over to LED for a few years around here. within months of installation you can see random gaps in the face of the light as individual LEDs fail. In many cases more than half the LEDs in those lights have failed.
I can see how it could go either way. My point of view may be flavored by pessimism and my perspective of religions as a form of government more than as a form of enlightenment. I should have perhaps prefaced my statement as opinion.
Religion started as a way to exercise control of a population by offering reward and punishment beyond physical reality. To the faithful damnation/magical curse provides a tool more threatening than imprisonment or death. To the faithful heaven/magical blessings provides a more enticing reward than liberty, security or even survival. The need to answer unknowns extended from the need to use those unknowns for control.
That would, if it were true. But just because the Iranians claim to have hacked US CIA sites doesn't mean they did. The Iranians are currently at war with themselves and the only way that the current power base will win is if they can demonize the other side by saying it is a CIA planned/supported plot.
Religion is a primitive form of totalitarian/authoritarian government. If you are going to build a totalitarian/authoritarian government of your own, you are going to want to purge the alternatives.
Stalin didn't kill religious people/leaders because he was an atheist, he killed them because they represented an alternative authority and weakened his position of absolute power. It could just as easily gone the other way, with a specific religion in power with purges of the others, as it so often has though out history.
Not entirely true. Technically xslt is a programming language and is supported by many browsers. I know of at least one person writing an XML/XSLT CMS.
I somewhat doubt that how most windows server admins interface with their servers. My limited exposure saw them using remote desktop sessions most of the time, only going into the server room to plug in keyboard and monitor when it would not respond remotely. The developer cube farm I worked in had a view of the server room through an huge window, many blinken lights and stupidly loud air conditioning.
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True. Not being IE does not inherently make those browsers more secure. Security is a process, and to remain secure, browsers need to be able to adapt rapidly to new threats. Fortunately this is one of the advantages of open source development.
"The price of peace is eternal vigilance." - Leonard Henry Courtney.
Mr. Capone would like to have a word with you.
US fucktons are also ~16.6% less that metric fucktonnes. Gawd bless Amerikuh.
You may not have to write your code around threading, but you then have to write it around grand central dispatch. Having GCD available is going to do absolutely nothing for a program that was not written with GCD in mind. Its changing one set of problems/features for another. Writing multi-threaded software isn't exceptionally hard. I have done a lot of it. It may take a lot less code with GCD, but you also give up control. Even using GCD with code blocks you still have to deal with the problems that can be a pain in the ass, things like concurrency, blocking and munging data.
The android implementation of java is unoptimized shit. But java, in a good JIT implementation, is by no means slow. It has come a long long way in the last decade, its speed is approaching that of c++ and exceeding it in some circumstances.
Sure.
It is called trusted computing.
But who is the gatekeeper of trust?
In order to only allow "KNOWN GOOD FILES" you need a white-list.
That means that no mere user is going to be write his own software.
That means that small software producers are going to have to go through an arduous and prohibitively expensive vetting process in order to be white-listed.
In practice this means that only Microsoft and its partners will be able to produce software for your pc at a reasonable price.
This could even mean that user generated data files are not trusted and therefor not allowed, making the pc a device for consuming content.
Perhaps the user could produce content remotely through software as a service providers, who would either charge highly or claim ownership rights to your content.
Sounds really nice to you?
Sorry, I don't buy that christian original sin bullshit.
If you are using your saw correctly you will never be in a situation where a "normal" accident will cause you to loose a thumb.
Someone startles you!, You are distracted! Good thing you were using the saw correctly (not standing over the blade, using a push block for small pieces, etc) and didn't have your hand within inches of the blade. You might have gotten hurt if you were doing something wrong.
Someone pushes you into the blade! Quick, run out and sue the guy who made a sidewalk that a criminal decided to bash your head against.
Something weird happens, like the building collapses, a car drives through your garage, magical gremlins pick up the saw and throw it at you. Well, you just might loose a thumb. Oh well.
A roofing hammer is more dangerous under normal operation than a table saw. You actually have to place your finger at the point you are aiming for as you strike. You miss the nail or the nail fails, punches through, deflects the blow and you can smash a finger bad enough to require amputation. With a table saw, you never have to put yourself in harms way. It requires extraordinary external interference or doing something stupid to loose a thumb to a table saw.
Imagine buying a roofing hammer instead of a nail gun because it is cheaper. Then imagine roofing with a blindfold on and smashing your finger badly. If you had bought a nail gun instead, you could have avoided smashing your finger while blindfolded. Now imagine suing the maker of the hammer for this reason. This is analogous to what happened here.
The problem is that there is a simple, preexisting and free way to use a table saw where you never risk getting limbs cut off. This method has been available to everyone since table saws were invented. Here it is: Do not put your limbs in the damn saw blade while it is spinning.
When driving a car there is no way for a driver to ensure that other drivers are not going to hit them and risk injury that could be mitigated by an airbag.
Exactly. Any major rollout of a different technology is going to have a lot of issues, especially if you have to have some kind of incremental release and backwards compatibility. It doesn't matter if it is FOSS or proprietary.
Postal service has been outsourced. The military functioning correctly/efficiently? thats a farce. I've been dealing with the military my whole life, both as a son of a serviceman and as a civilian employee. There is hardly anything less efficient than the military.
There is no difference if you are both reacting to something external, but if you are reacting to your opponents actions, then yes it most definitely will be a difference because your reaction is delayed from when you can perceive the signal.
Clarke, like Asimov, was a scientist before he was a science fiction author. Hubbard was fraudulent huckster before he was a science fiction author/religious leader.
It is obviously good... I am somewhat surprised to see this from my home state.
This is the only thing I disagree with the ACLU on, the second amendment is extremely important. Their abject failure to defend it does not in any way discredit the rest of the good that they do.
The supposed longevity of led lights is highly overrated. By law, traffic signals have been switching over to LED for a few years around here. within months of installation you can see random gaps in the face of the light as individual LEDs fail. In many cases more than half the LEDs in those lights have failed.
It could be worse. The name could be Internet-Complaint Explorer 9, but that would be redundant.
I can see how it could go either way. My point of view may be flavored by pessimism and my perspective of religions as a form of government more than as a form of enlightenment. I should have perhaps prefaced my statement as opinion.
Religion started as a way to exercise control of a population by offering reward and punishment beyond physical reality. To the faithful damnation/magical curse provides a tool more threatening than imprisonment or death. To the faithful heaven/magical blessings provides a more enticing reward than liberty, security or even survival. The need to answer unknowns extended from the need to use those unknowns for control.
That would, if it were true. But just because the Iranians claim to have hacked US CIA sites doesn't mean they did. The Iranians are currently at war with themselves and the only way that the current power base will win is if they can demonize the other side by saying it is a CIA planned/supported plot.
Religion is a primitive form of totalitarian/authoritarian government. If you are going to build a totalitarian/authoritarian government of your own, you are going to want to purge the alternatives.
Stalin didn't kill religious people/leaders because he was an atheist, he killed them because they represented an alternative authority and weakened his position of absolute power. It could just as easily gone the other way, with a specific religion in power with purges of the others, as it so often has though out history.
Funny thing. Many scientologists already do just that (Living in work camps and producing bad film until they are sufficiently brainwashed).
Not entirely true. Technically xslt is a programming language and is supported by many browsers. I know of at least one person writing an XML/XSLT CMS.
Already there. I don't tell people about what I do for two reasons:
1: they want me to fix their computer.
2: they ask me if I can hack into government computers to prove UFO's exist.
I somewhat doubt that how most windows server admins interface with their servers. My limited exposure saw them using remote desktop sessions most of the time, only going into the server room to plug in keyboard and monitor when it would not respond remotely. The developer cube farm I worked in had a view of the server room through an huge window, many blinken lights and stupidly loud air conditioning.