If you're here to inform, maybe you should start by informing me why you're not putting much effort into your trolling? Is it so hard to actually, you know, try? Why are you so lazy?
Do you think all the big-boys are going to tear up their existing long haul fiber and undersea trunks and replace it with something new? It'll never happen. These stories pop up on/. with disturbing periodicity and I've become immune to them.
It appears you've also become immune to reading entire Slashdot summaries.
The idea that people shouldn't be entertained by violence is the same argument that's been used to ban video games, movies, etc. Think about ALL of the implications what you're saying here -- are you sure this is really the road you want to go down?
Anything you build in Florida turns into a theme park. Universal Studios? That was supposed to be a strip mall. Sea World? It was originally a Red Lobster.
This guy's response seems to show a lack of understanding of the entire NSA debacle:
"All the existing US laws are about turning over existing business records and not about compelling you change your business practices. In our case such an order would further force us to lie to consumers, which would put us in trouble with the FTC and irreparably hurt our business."
If this were true, wouldn't Microsoft, Google, Apple, Verizon, etc. be in trouble with the FTC? What makes DuckDuckGo different?
"We have not received any request like this, and do not expect to."
Funny, that's exactly the same thing Google and Facebook said. What makes DuckDuckGo different? Why should I believe you?
"If we were to receive such a request we believe as do these others it would be highly unconstitutional on many independent grounds, and there is plenty of legal precedent there. With CALEA in particular, search engines are exempt."
Clearly that hasn't stopped the NSA in other cases. Again, what makes DuckDuckGo different?
"There are many additional legal and technical inaccuracies in this article and I will not address all of them in this comment. All our front-end servers are hosted on Amazon not Verizon, for example."
Okay... and what is Amazon connected to? Saying there's technical inaccuracies but not debunking them doesn't make want to trust you.
Anyway, let's hope for everyone's sake that the comment wasn't really left by the CEO of DuckDuckGo.
But an article about some guy's pipe dream (so to speak) who has no experience with train systems or projects of this magnitude doesn't really grab your attention, does it? Musk was babbling about hyperloops around the same time -- neither of those are very interesting, but it almost seems newsworthy if you can work both into one article.
It's one thing to be neutral towards those who are vaguely threatening, but it's simply naive to be neutral towards those who are actively undermining you.
Is that really true, though? There's an unfortunate tendency in the tech industry to talk down to the "average user" as though they had never even seen a computer before.
Maybe that was useful at one point, but these days assuming your users are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with technology seems laughable.
Vala is attractive initially, but after trying it in real development, youâ(TM)ll see the shortcomings of this approach. Because it sometimes generates incorrect C code that still compiles, we got some really hard-to-find bugs. So we need to examine the generated C code to make sure it does things right. This takes much more time than just writing plain C code myself. Besides, the generated C code is not quite human-readable and debugging becomes a problem. Another issue thatâ(TM)ll hit you is the problems in the library bindings. Though there exists many vala bindings for various C library, their quality is uncertain. Finally, debugging, examing, and fixing the bindings all the time takes even more time and offsets the time saved by using Vala.
I can vouch for the truth of all of this. That said, I'd still rather write Vala code than C -- fixing library bindings is typically less painful than doing manual memory management.
(And yes, I'm one of the few people who develops in Vala for a living.)
If it's not compatible with AirPlay what's the point? My Linux music server already supports AirPlay, so does my MythTV, so does my iPhone. Why do we need yet a different new standard, especially if it doesn't work with existing devices?
Everything about HTML, CSS, etc., was about separating content from layout. Javascript shits on that entire model, as does Java, ActiveX, and most other plugins.
Considering how common Javascript MVC models have become in the past few years, that isn't even close to being true anymore.
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No, you're thinking of this show.
If you're here to inform, maybe you should start by informing me why you're not putting much effort into your trolling? Is it so hard to actually, you know, try? Why are you so lazy?
It appears you've also become immune to reading entire Slashdot summaries.
Too bad the bandwidth cap is only 1 GB per month.
*yawn*
If you're going to troll, put some effort into it, PLEASE. This is so pathetic that you're making other trolls look bad.
If you're so dehyrdated that you have to call 911, urine trouble.
The idea that people shouldn't be entertained by violence is the same argument that's been used to ban video games, movies, etc. Think about ALL of the implications what you're saying here -- are you sure this is really the road you want to go down?
I doubt BitTorrent will open source this, as it's a for-profit company that hasn't had luck monetizing open source in the past.
Anything you build in Florida turns into a theme park. Universal Studios? That was supposed to be a strip mall. Sea World? It was originally a Red Lobster.
Since you're posting this on the internet, which are you?
Intellisense is okay, but anyone who does serious work in Visual Studio should be using Visual Assist
Honestly I can't tell if you're serious, but that's the funniest thing I've read all day on Slashdot.
What was he supposed to do? It's not his fault Apple makes such sexy hardware.
This guy's response seems to show a lack of understanding of the entire NSA debacle:
If this were true, wouldn't Microsoft, Google, Apple, Verizon, etc. be in trouble with the FTC? What makes DuckDuckGo different?
Funny, that's exactly the same thing Google and Facebook said. What makes DuckDuckGo different? Why should I believe you?
Clearly that hasn't stopped the NSA in other cases. Again, what makes DuckDuckGo different?
Okay... and what is Amazon connected to? Saying there's technical inaccuracies but not debunking them doesn't make want to trust you.
Anyway, let's hope for everyone's sake that the comment wasn't really left by the CEO of DuckDuckGo.
Looks like your suspicions are correct. The "news" about ET3 seems to stem back to a thinly veiled press release posted by Yahoo News back in May.
But an article about some guy's pipe dream (so to speak) who has no experience with train systems or projects of this magnitude doesn't really grab your attention, does it? Musk was babbling about hyperloops around the same time -- neither of those are very interesting, but it almost seems newsworthy if you can work both into one article.
<stallman>But Linux isn't an OS. It's a kernel.</stallman>
It's one thing to be neutral towards those who are vaguely threatening, but it's simply naive to be neutral towards those who are actively undermining you.
Yeah, because look how well that strategy worked for PC/Computing Magazine!
Oh wait...
Is that really true, though? There's an unfortunate tendency in the tech industry to talk down to the "average user" as though they had never even seen a computer before.
Maybe that was useful at one point, but these days assuming your users are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with technology seems laughable.
I can vouch for the truth of all of this. That said, I'd still rather write Vala code than C -- fixing library bindings is typically less painful than doing manual memory management.
(And yes, I'm one of the few people who develops in Vala for a living.)
So is SMB. So are Skype and Google Hangouts. So is MP3. And yet all of those have alternatives based on open standards.
Thing is, open standards are all well and good -- but if nobody uses them, who gives a shit?
If it's not compatible with AirPlay what's the point? My Linux music server already supports AirPlay, so does my MythTV, so does my iPhone. Why do we need yet a different new standard, especially if it doesn't work with existing devices?
Considering how common Javascript MVC models have become in the past few years, that isn't even close to being true anymore.
Accepting something as a "valid requirement" means "embraced"? Seriously?
Please learn English before trying to disect someone's quote.
If you're going to argue that a website isn't the web, congrats, you've just fallen into a symantic hole and lost the entire point of the debate.