I thought the whole point of Java is that it runs in a sandbox so applets don't NEED to be trusted.
You're mixing two different issues.
1) Java applets don't need to be signed if they aren't going to use certain features (I'm not going to enumerate them here). These applets are as safe as the VM's sandbox implementation.
2) Java applets that make use of those features I didn't enumerate need to be signed. The sandbox becomes greatly expanded at this point, making it far less secure than applets the comply with (1) above.
I've never understood why the two solutions have to be exclusive.
They don't have to be. It's just that evolution has an extensive and rigorous body of evidence, while intelligent design has nothing but wishful thinking and hand-waving.
They don't have to be mutually exclusive. It's just that in practice, they are.
...the U.S. Constitution...[obligates]...each and every american citizen - to overthrow any government that has become tyrannical or otherwise lost its way.
The U.S. Constitution has no such language. You're thinking of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
I always thought that when you wage war, they are supposed to consult with Congress first.
Congress has never met a war they didn't like, which is why they granted the Office of The President carte blanche power to declare war -- any war, any reason (or no reason). Eisenhower's warnings were completely ignored. I have no doubt that the vast majority of Americans don't even know what he warned against.
So he's taught Constitutional law for 40 years, but has absolutely no grasp on history. Everything he cites as Constitutional flaws were implemented as safeguards against Government abuse. Because of his near total lack of education in American history, the best way to describe him is, "educated idiot."
Our Government's habit of ignoring our Constitution, and our public's habit of not requiring heads to roll because of it, are significant factors in why we're at our current crossroads. The last thing we need to is dilute our Constitution even more.
I take that back, he's not an "educated idiot." He's just an idiot.
What if somebody called you a pedophile. How would you prove that you weren't a pedophile?
Until you are convicted in court of being a pedophile, you are not a pedophile. Someone who makes the claim prior to a court conviction is opening himself up to being sued.
maybe people are sick and tired of stupid commercials interrupting their viewing pleasure.
You are 100% correct, in my case. My wife and I cut the cable in 2009 and subscribed to Netflix. There were two main reasons:
1) The price of cable/satellite was much, Much, MUCH, MUCH higher than the content was worth. 99% of everything that comes through the TV is absolute, unmitigated, worthless crap.
2) Having to watch that absolute, unmitigated, worthless crap frequently interrupted by an endless stream of absolute, unmitigated, worthless crap trying to sell stuff was just too much to tolerate.
Of course 99% of everything on Netflix is absolute, unmitigated, worthless crap also. But we get to view only the 1% of Netflix content that we like without having to sit through number 2 (pun intended).
The day that Netflix starts having commercials is the day I cancel my subscription. I remember when Hulu first started. There was one 15-second commercial per half hour of show. That was tolerable to me, so I kept watching. Then they added another 15-second commercial per half-hour, then a 30-second commercial on top of that. Then I stopped using Hulu.
The moment commercials get introduced to a service is the moment the service becomes useless as a form of entertainment. That is because the service provider will never be content. They will always try to find the limit of their viewers' patience, ruining their viewers' experience.
Java continued to carry the stigma of being slow, and rightfully so, because it was horrendously slow for desktop use until Project Mustang (Java 6). Java 6 marked a point where Java not only no longer sucked for desktop application use, but actually became quite good at it.
Printing went from completely, unusably slow to blazingly fast. GUI components went from being painfully slow and difficult to program to some of the fastest and most flexible GUI components I've used on any platform.
Java was considered painfully slow for so many years because it WAS painfully slow for so many years (at least in the way that a great many of us wanted to use it). It's growth from unusable to highly desirable has still been relatively recent (five or six years).
A residential service is meant for residential purposes.
And the bizarre acceptance of this by the general populace is what has been slowly killing the Internet. The Internet is supposed to be a way to transmit data packets from Point A to Point B, across formerly insurmountable geography. Every connection on the Internet is both a server and a client (there is actually no technological distinction).
ISP's are supposed to sell me bandwidth. What I do with that bandwidth is none of their concern. If they sell me 100mb/s, then I should be able to continuously push 100mb/s. Period. If they don't want me continuously pushing 100mb/s, then don't sell me 100mb/s.
I'm no MSFT fan, but another way of saying this is that they abandoned products that weren't profitable.
Or put another way: Microsoft spews as much copycat crap as possible into the crowd, and watches to see who doesn't wipe it off their faces. If enough people notice they're covered in shit, Microsoft closes the tap. Otherwise, they call it their next big product.
If your wireless gear is dying rapidly, then I suggest putting them being a good UPS. It sounds more like a power supply problem than anything else. APC sells excellent UPS's around the $200 range.
Bug reporting has to be extremely easy for users, or they just won't do it. Bugzilla is an absolutely excellent, unsurpassed example of how to prevent users from reporting bugs in software. It is absolutely wretched and damn near unusable.
Your idea is excellent: let users complain in their own words, but have the software transparently gather all the runtime information needed to reproduce and identify the problem. That should also work for desktop apps written in Java or C#, which is something I think I'll create for my own apps.
Running an SQL update statement without a where clause and seeing '47,982 rows updated'.......bonechilling
Starting a new job where my first task is to fix the database with 47,982 errors that was corrupted by a former employee who didn't know how to use transactions, and where the correct values must be manually deduced by intimate knowledge of the application's obtuse business rules.
Articles on 5th Amendment issues should have a two-question quiz before posting is allowed:
1) Are you a licensed attorney? If yes, you may post. If no, then answer question number 2: 2) Have you viewed the YouTube video on why you never talk to the police? If yes, you may post. If no, then shut the fuck up, as nobody wants to see you talking out of your ass.
TL;DR: When asked anything by police, invoke your right to remain silent, then shut the fuck up.
I disagree with you on almost every point (except for your statement of the common theme).
The bar for becoming a convicted felon has been rapidly lowering over the years. The more police powers we grant, the less Free we become. This decision has just provided an incentive for our lawmakers to make many more of us convicted felons for ever increasingly flimsy "offenses."
You didn't give us enough information to answer that question, and you probably don't have enough information to give us. Here is the only answer that is going to matter: the more you know, the broader your employment opportunities. How much you need to know depends on what jobs you end up getting. They range from "no advanced math needed," to "you can't possibly know enough math."
I've written jail management software, tax collection software, basic game physics libraries, office management software, and a whole bunch of stuff covering a very diverse range of topics.
Game physics were the most mathematically demanding topics, but all of those problems have already been solved by others. My need to actually know game physics math was minimal (vectors, matrices, dot products, and cross products covered most of what I needed), as I only needed to be able to understand the language of the presenter enough to implement the math in code.
However, sometimes I am presented with a business problem that I can solve with the math I learned from game physics. One example was writing a report showing which jail inmates were ever housed together over a given period of time. This was easily solved as a one-dimensional collision detection problem, exactly as it would have been done in a video game. It wasn't advanced math by any stretch of the imagination, but it was an application of math that I would never have predicted until faced with the problem.
So there is no simple answer such as, "you don't need math" or "yes, you definitely need math." There are far too many variables to consider. The bottom line, though, is that it's very helpful to know, and in ways you can't predict. Sadly, the college/university classroom is the single worst possible environment in which to learn it.
I know I'm going to get modded to hell by GMO worshipers, but so be it:
All of you that see (R) on the ballot and instinctively vote (D), and all of you that see (D) on the ballot and instinctively vote (R), this is the result: a government so corrupt that is passes laws protecting companies that are trying to kill you for profit.
We still have a mechanism short of violent revolt to take our country back: vote third party. If you vote (D) or (R), you are saying that you support government corruption and have no self-interest. You lose NOTHING anymore by voting third party. Voting third party, at the very worst, makes you no worse off than you are now.
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I thought the whole point of Java is that it runs in a sandbox so applets don't NEED to be trusted.
You're mixing two different issues.
1) Java applets don't need to be signed if they aren't going to use certain features (I'm not going to enumerate them here). These applets are as safe as the VM's sandbox implementation.
2) Java applets that make use of those features I didn't enumerate need to be signed. The sandbox becomes greatly expanded at this point, making it far less secure than applets the comply with (1) above.
I've never understood why the two solutions have to be exclusive.
They don't have to be. It's just that evolution has an extensive and rigorous body of evidence, while intelligent design has nothing but wishful thinking and hand-waving.
They don't have to be mutually exclusive. It's just that in practice, they are.
The name Microsoft just makes me yawn. Anyone feel the same?
Yes. Since 1993.
...the U.S. Constitution...[obligates]...each and every american citizen - to overthrow any government that has become tyrannical or otherwise lost its way.
The U.S. Constitution has no such language. You're thinking of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
So far their public statements have felt like they were as ultra-parsed as the NSA's own denials.
And I don't blame them. They are walking a razor thin line even talking about the subject all, our government has become so fascist.
I always thought that when you wage war, they are supposed to consult with Congress first.
Congress has never met a war they didn't like, which is why they granted the Office of The President carte blanche power to declare war -- any war, any reason (or no reason). Eisenhower's warnings were completely ignored. I have no doubt that the vast majority of Americans don't even know what he warned against.
So he's taught Constitutional law for 40 years, but has absolutely no grasp on history. Everything he cites as Constitutional flaws were implemented as safeguards against Government abuse. Because of his near total lack of education in American history, the best way to describe him is, "educated idiot."
Our Government's habit of ignoring our Constitution, and our public's habit of not requiring heads to roll because of it, are significant factors in why we're at our current crossroads. The last thing we need to is dilute our Constitution even more.
I take that back, he's not an "educated idiot." He's just an idiot.
What if somebody called you a pedophile. How would you prove that you weren't a pedophile?
Until you are convicted in court of being a pedophile, you are not a pedophile. Someone who makes the claim prior to a court conviction is opening himself up to being sued.
Nanny corporation is trying to make people dependent on it in the exact same way as an overbearing totalitarian state would.
It's a game, not state/federally-mandated insurance; you have a choice. Stop buying. Stop playing. The problem will solve itself.
maybe people are sick and tired of stupid commercials interrupting their viewing pleasure.
You are 100% correct, in my case. My wife and I cut the cable in 2009 and subscribed to Netflix. There were two main reasons:
1) The price of cable/satellite was much, Much, MUCH, MUCH higher than the content was worth. 99% of everything that comes through the TV is absolute, unmitigated, worthless crap.
2) Having to watch that absolute, unmitigated, worthless crap frequently interrupted by an endless stream of absolute, unmitigated, worthless crap trying to sell stuff was just too much to tolerate.
Of course 99% of everything on Netflix is absolute, unmitigated, worthless crap also. But we get to view only the 1% of Netflix content that we like without having to sit through number 2 (pun intended).
The day that Netflix starts having commercials is the day I cancel my subscription. I remember when Hulu first started. There was one 15-second commercial per half hour of show. That was tolerable to me, so I kept watching. Then they added another 15-second commercial per half-hour, then a 30-second commercial on top of that. Then I stopped using Hulu.
The moment commercials get introduced to a service is the moment the service becomes useless as a form of entertainment. That is because the service provider will never be content. They will always try to find the limit of their viewers' patience, ruining their viewers' experience.
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.
That one is my favorite.
I'm going to fucking kill Google.
How's that one working out for you?
Where does the figure come from?
It's the cost of having your obscenely overpriced lawyers shift the blame for managerial incompetence onto some teenager.
Java continued to carry the stigma of being slow, and rightfully so, because it was horrendously slow for desktop use until Project Mustang (Java 6). Java 6 marked a point where Java not only no longer sucked for desktop application use, but actually became quite good at it.
Printing went from completely, unusably slow to blazingly fast.
GUI components went from being painfully slow and difficult to program to some of the fastest and most flexible GUI components I've used on any platform.
Java was considered painfully slow for so many years because it WAS painfully slow for so many years (at least in the way that a great many of us wanted to use it). It's growth from unusable to highly desirable has still been relatively recent (five or six years).
A residential service is meant for residential purposes.
And the bizarre acceptance of this by the general populace is what has been slowly killing the Internet. The Internet is supposed to be a way to transmit data packets from Point A to Point B, across formerly insurmountable geography. Every connection on the Internet is both a server and a client (there is actually no technological distinction).
ISP's are supposed to sell me bandwidth. What I do with that bandwidth is none of their concern. If they sell me 100mb/s, then I should be able to continuously push 100mb/s. Period. If they don't want me continuously pushing 100mb/s, then don't sell me 100mb/s.
Between that, and allowing a heavy use of the (Catholic) confessional, and a focus on the Christian aspects, that child is much improved.
So the cure for childhood bullying is to abuse the bullier into blind obedience?
I'm no MSFT fan, but another way of saying this is that they abandoned products that weren't profitable.
Or put another way: Microsoft spews as much copycat crap as possible into the crowd, and watches to see who doesn't wipe it off their faces. If enough people notice they're covered in shit, Microsoft closes the tap. Otherwise, they call it their next big product.
2. Institute bandwidth caps to limit the access, or raise the cost of, to web based services.
Which is why, when Google enters a market serviced by cable companies, Google is going to destroy them.
If your wireless gear is dying rapidly, then I suggest putting them being a good UPS. It sounds more like a power supply problem than anything else. APC sells excellent UPS's around the $200 range.
Bug reporting has to be extremely easy for users, or they just won't do it. Bugzilla is an absolutely excellent, unsurpassed example of how to prevent users from reporting bugs in software. It is absolutely wretched and damn near unusable.
Your idea is excellent: let users complain in their own words, but have the software transparently gather all the runtime information needed to reproduce and identify the problem. That should also work for desktop apps written in Java or C#, which is something I think I'll create for my own apps.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Running an SQL update statement without a where clause and seeing '47,982 rows updated'.......bonechilling
Starting a new job where my first task is to fix the database with 47,982 errors that was corrupted by a former employee who didn't know how to use transactions, and where the correct values must be manually deduced by intimate knowledge of the application's obtuse business rules.
Or is that not going far enough. If we're going to be truly safe, do we need to repeal writing?
To be truly safe, we have to repeal humanity. After all, the only way to save it is to destroy it.
But then it may pop up elsewhere in the universe. So to be truly safe, we must destroy the entire universe.
There. Problem solved.
IANAL.
Articles on 5th Amendment issues should have a two-question quiz before posting is allowed:
1) Are you a licensed attorney? If yes, you may post. If no, then answer question number 2:
2) Have you viewed the YouTube video on why you never talk to the police? If yes, you may post. If no, then shut the fuck up, as nobody wants to see you talking out of your ass.
TL;DR: When asked anything by police, invoke your right to remain silent, then shut the fuck up.
I disagree with you on almost every point (except for your statement of the common theme).
The bar for becoming a convicted felon has been rapidly lowering over the years. The more police powers we grant, the less Free we become. This decision has just provided an incentive for our lawmakers to make many more of us convicted felons for ever increasingly flimsy "offenses."
You didn't give us enough information to answer that question, and you probably don't have enough information to give us. Here is the only answer that is going to matter: the more you know, the broader your employment opportunities. How much you need to know depends on what jobs you end up getting. They range from "no advanced math needed," to "you can't possibly know enough math."
I've written jail management software, tax collection software, basic game physics libraries, office management software, and a whole bunch of stuff covering a very diverse range of topics.
Game physics were the most mathematically demanding topics, but all of those problems have already been solved by others. My need to actually know game physics math was minimal (vectors, matrices, dot products, and cross products covered most of what I needed), as I only needed to be able to understand the language of the presenter enough to implement the math in code.
However, sometimes I am presented with a business problem that I can solve with the math I learned from game physics. One example was writing a report showing which jail inmates were ever housed together over a given period of time. This was easily solved as a one-dimensional collision detection problem, exactly as it would have been done in a video game. It wasn't advanced math by any stretch of the imagination, but it was an application of math that I would never have predicted until faced with the problem.
So there is no simple answer such as, "you don't need math" or "yes, you definitely need math." There are far too many variables to consider. The bottom line, though, is that it's very helpful to know, and in ways you can't predict. Sadly, the college/university classroom is the single worst possible environment in which to learn it.
I know I'm going to get modded to hell by GMO worshipers, but so be it:
All of you that see (R) on the ballot and instinctively vote (D), and all of you that see (D) on the ballot and instinctively vote (R), this is the result: a government so corrupt that is passes laws protecting companies that are trying to kill you for profit.
We still have a mechanism short of violent revolt to take our country back: vote third party. If you vote (D) or (R), you are saying that you support government corruption and have no self-interest. You lose NOTHING anymore by voting third party. Voting third party, at the very worst, makes you no worse off than you are now.