Wrong on both counts. Java was designed for embedded devices originally, and is currently the strongest player on the serverside, and not showing any sides of being "deRailed" by new technologies like Ruby, and was hardly scratched by.NET.
If M$ ramming.NET down your throat and the./ FUD-Machine can't deter Java, nothing will (except time, and another great general purpose language, of course - which Ruby isn't).
Check out http://online.thinkfree.com/
Unlike the original article - this web-based Office suite will work on other browsers.
Who needs Ajax when you've got Java:o)
You say that as if permission escalation isn't important. I totally disagree. Any multi-user system needs to take that situation seriously. So the original article made Macs look bad - so what, I don't care. I *do* care that it raised a serious security issue that no-one seems to be concerned about since internal security doesn't matter on Macs according to the fanboys.
Thank you - one of the few sane posts on this topic. Everyone has these issues (local permission escalarion), but they are significant and shouldn't be ignored by flag-waving fanboys.
The reality is that a user was able to elevate their permissions to root - that's a security concern and ought to be pointed out as a weakness. It would be a weakness if it happened on Windows or Linux, it doesn't become a non-issue because fan boys think that only web security is important.
The fact is *all* security gaps are important. If there's a network hack that can only get you a non-priviledged account, but you can then jack that up to root access using this local hole, then that hole was mighty significant. This whole "Mac has no security faults" meme is dangerously delusional. It's significantly more secure than Win32, but at least own up to faults (small as they may be) and get them fixed, don't bury your heads in the sand.
It's great to see that the US stopped those filthy rest-of-the-worlder's getting their hands on the Inter-Web thingy and stopping political interference with how it works. Man, Slashdot was right on the money with THAT one!
I'm... well, not suprised I guess, but unhappy at the ammount of cynicsm in the responses to this article. Most/.'rs seem to accept mediocrity far to readily. Perhaps the hope that games might transcend their current bounds artistically is in vain, but to scoff the desire to even try seems entirely modern, entirely dead, entirely futile, entirely what I'd expect of the/. crowd.
Its much better to fail than to accept doing nothing at all with some stupid half-arsed off the cuff comment. But on Slashdot, empty irony wins. Very clever.
Personally I thought HL2 was a steaming pile of shit as a game, and pacman or lemmings aced it any day, but what the fuck - I've only being playing games for three decades now, I should have realised that shiny fucking graphics and a half arsed imitation of acting is what I really wanted in games all along.
No, they were NOT UN mandated. The US / UK / France used UN resolution 688 as justification but it in no way authorises a no fly zone. Go read it and see for yourself - they're all available on the web.
Having said all that, it's becoming more and more worrisome to me the degree to which the administration apparently ignored or possibly fabricated evidence. I remember saying at the time that it was a fool's errand to use WMD and/or terrorism as the reason to go to war, and that it seemed more like slick marketing than actual strategery. We had plenty of reasons to go in, and none of them had anything to do with WMDs or terrorism. Like the fact that the Iraqi forces habitually fired on US and UK aircraft patrolling the UN mandated No Fly Zones (considering that just prior to the war, I was working in the Turkish command center that controlled the Northern No Fly Zone and had friends and, literally, family flying over Iraq, yeah, I kinda took it personally).
Just a point of order - the no-fly zones were not UN mandated. The US/UK/France falsely used UN resolution 688 as justification for the NFZ, but it does not authorise such action nor anything like it.
Re: the Bush administration. I don't care whether it was a lie or incompetence, both are unforgivable when it leads to thousands of deaths.
"the simple truth that some people are nasty and have their own agenda"
No, that is not the "simple" truth.
That is pure spin.
No group of people can be adequately described as just "nasty". The real world is much more complex than that and the Bush regiem's penchant for deviding the world into God fearing good people who are with us and blasphemous evil people who hate us and oppose us is a large part of the problem with current world politics. You can't get anywhere with such cartoonish views of the world's people and their issues.
Communism is not a political system? Go read Marx, clearly you don't understand the word.
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Wow!
ONE engineer at Google likes Python more than Java! I guess that outweighs their entire company's investment in Java. I mean, if ONE engineer doesn't prefer Java over EVERY other language for EVERY task, Java must be like, teh suxor.
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Wrong on both counts. Java was designed for embedded devices originally, and is currently the strongest player on the serverside, and not showing any sides of being "deRailed" by new technologies like Ruby, and was hardly scratched by .NET.
.NET down your throat and the ./ FUD-Machine can't deter Java, nothing will (except time, and another great general purpose language, of course - which Ruby isn't).
If M$ ramming
Check out http://online.thinkfree.com/ Unlike the original article - this web-based Office suite will work on other browsers. Who needs Ajax when you've got Java :o)
You say that as if permission escalation isn't important. I totally disagree. Any multi-user system needs to take that situation seriously. So the original article made Macs look bad - so what, I don't care. I *do* care that it raised a serious security issue that no-one seems to be concerned about since internal security doesn't matter on Macs according to the fanboys.
Thank you - one of the few sane posts on this topic. Everyone has these issues (local permission escalarion), but they are significant and shouldn't be ignored by flag-waving fanboys.
The reality is that a user was able to elevate their permissions to root - that's a security concern and ought to be pointed out as a weakness. It would be a weakness if it happened on Windows or Linux, it doesn't become a non-issue because fan boys think that only web security is important.
The fact is *all* security gaps are important. If there's a network hack that can only get you a non-priviledged account, but you can then jack that up to root access using this local hole, then that hole was mighty significant. This whole "Mac has no security faults" meme is dangerously delusional. It's significantly more secure than Win32, but at least own up to faults (small as they may be) and get them fixed, don't bury your heads in the sand.
SWT *is* native widgets, you dork
Slashdot is a place for Sun fanboys? You've never come here before, have you?
Sports are games. People take *them* seriously. The name isn't important.
It's great to see that the US stopped those filthy rest-of-the-worlder's getting their hands on the Inter-Web thingy and stopping political interference with how it works. Man, Slashdot was right on the money with THAT one!
Yes. I know this.
Does it change the point I made in ANY way whatsoever?
I'm... well, not suprised I guess, but unhappy at the ammount of cynicsm in the responses to this article. Most /.'rs seem to accept mediocrity far to readily. Perhaps the hope that games might transcend their current bounds artistically is in vain, but to scoff the desire to even try seems entirely modern, entirely dead, entirely futile, entirely what I'd expect of the /. crowd.
Its much better to fail than to accept doing nothing at all with some stupid half-arsed off the cuff comment. But on Slashdot, empty irony wins. Very clever.
Personally I thought HL2 was a steaming pile of shit as a game, and pacman or lemmings aced it any day, but what the fuck - I've only being playing games for three decades now, I should have realised that shiny fucking graphics and a half arsed imitation of acting is what I really wanted in games all along.
Yeah. Woo fucking who.
Yeah, fair point - I know it;s not a competition.
/.'s editor bias.
But I have to admit I don't mind doing a bit of promo for a site that doesn't suffer from
The Digg effect beat Slashdot to it - they had this ages ago
So... FUD is the new funny?
/. fanboys just don't get it. Sly.
I see. So M$ is actually acutely ironic and you
See if it will cure you of being an asshole
fuckwit AC's like you, I spose
Hey, I used to work in Goroka, and later in Madang.
I think the "danger" in PNG is vastly overstated.
No, they were NOT UN mandated. The US / UK / France used UN resolution 688 as justification but it in no way authorises a no fly zone. Go read it and see for yourself - they're all available on the web.
Why did this get modded "troll"?
Someone's abusing their mod points, methinks.
Just a point of order - the no-fly zones were not UN mandated. The US/UK/France falsely used UN resolution 688 as justification for the NFZ, but it does not authorise such action nor anything like it.
Re: the Bush administration. I don't care whether it was a lie or incompetence, both are unforgivable when it leads to thousands of deaths.
No, that is not the "simple" truth.
That is pure spin.
No group of people can be adequately described as just "nasty". The real world is much more complex than that and the Bush regiem's penchant for deviding the world into God fearing good people who are with us and blasphemous evil people who hate us and oppose us is a large part of the problem with current world politics. You can't get anywhere with such cartoonish views of the world's people and their issues.
I hope that sand your head is buried in is nice and warm.
Communism is not a political system? Go read Marx, clearly you don't understand the word.
Wow!
ONE engineer at Google likes Python more than Java! I guess that outweighs their entire company's investment in Java. I mean, if ONE engineer doesn't prefer Java over EVERY other language for EVERY task, Java must be like, teh suxor.
Good argument!