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  1. Re:Super Soldiers on Scientists Find Genetic Mutation That Makes Women Feel No Pain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Humanity is only good at one thing

    Yeah, I got you bro!

    and that is turning anything and everything into a weapon.

    Oh, I thought you were going to say porn. <ahem>

  2. perfection is possible on Critical Magento SQL Injection Flaw Could Soon Be Targeted By Hackers (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    This is one of the places perfection is possible, even easy. There are many methods for avoiding SQL injections, so choose a method and stick with it. Don't let this happen to you, be perfect.

  3. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the words of a tree killer, to me.

  4. Re:"Microsoft security?" on Security Researcher Pleads Guilty To Hacking Into Microsoft and Nintendo (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Note that this is a company that regularly performs security audits, with red-teaming and blue-teaming.

    I've said it before, but security can't be bolted on afterwards by a "security team." Every programmer needs to have security at the front of their mind.

  5. The worst Splash Text I've seen there is one that proudly declared, "Open Source!" Considering the history behind it, I nearly reached through the screen and stabbed Microsoft.

  6. Re: Wikimedia foundation joins pro-DRM group on Wikimedia Foundation Joins the World Wide Web Consortium (wikimediafoundation.org) · · Score: 2

    The only ones who really matter in the web consortium are the browser makers. They are like the UN security council: yeah, there are other countries in the UN, but they don't really matter.

  7. Re:Geography does not matter more than people do. on Senators Demand To Know Why Election Vendors Still Sell Voting Machines With 'Known Vulnerabilities' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason they can target swing states is because people in the other states are reliably owned by one party or the other.

  8. Paper ballots are the center of democracy but the real problem is the electoral college which is not democracy.

    If the vote count is so close that the electoral college makes a difference, then the problem isn't the electoral college.

  9. But if these vendors can't even patch their systems, I don't trust them to implement an auditable system that guarantees

    If it needs patches then it doesn't guarantee anything.

  10. Jerks on India Shoots Down Satellite in Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Space junk.

  11. Re: I can't wait! on Swift 5 Released (swift.org) · · Score: 1

    I rolled my eyes this morning thinking you were being a little melodramatic, but here I am now trying to get an xcode project working.

  12. Re:actually on The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says · · Score: 1

    There's been strong evidence since at least ~2001 that neurons can be grown in adult humans. If you felt it was settled science, you haven't been paying attention.

  13. Re:Good point. Still, Clinton denied it on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    He and Bill Clinton would get along together well

    He and Bill did get along together well.

  14. Re:How is it forced? on Swift 5 Released (swift.org) · · Score: 2

    How is this forced? You could keep using the current version of Xcode for quite a while.

    No haha. Trying to remain on older versions of Apple software is a pain and not supported scenario. After a few OS upgrades, it won't work at all.

  15. Re:BINGO on Swift 5 Released (swift.org) · · Score: 2

    FWIW, I've always regretted that Objective C didn't have a better Linux support community,

    Agreed, it was a great language.

    The noisiest complaint people had of Objective C is that it had all the baggage of C. But then swift has all the baggage of Objective C and C, but without the elegance of Smalltalk. Oh well.

  16. Re: Not the programming language on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? So when your C# server crashes because it ran out of RAM, you're going to say, "it's not as bad because.......Actually it's just as bad." C programs don't actually lose reference to the memory that was allocated, although your particular code might. There's no getting around the need to think of memory.

  17. Re: Not the programming language on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Assembly written by Bill Atkinson is better than (pick your language) written by a lousy programmer. I think you must not have looked at very much good code.

  18. Re: Not the programming language on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    The C# (or Java or JavaScript) programmer who doesn't understand memory management has memory leaks all over his (or her) code (or they are not writing anything substantial).

  19. Re: Not the programming language on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    Good programmers write good code in every language. A bad programmer writes bad code in all of them.

  20. Re:Difference between CNN & Fox News on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
    Here is the headline that was on Fox News:

    "Probe finds no proof of Trump campaign collusion with Russia, no conclusion on obstruction: Barr letter"

  21. Re:Everyone's a loser on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You will be surprised when Trump declares complete victory then.

    Not really, he would have declared that, even if he were in handcuffs going to jail for life.

  22. Re:Yes and no on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The right wing Dems were counting on this to shut Trump down so they could put Biden or Beto in office. The effect would have been the same as Trump without the pointless trade wars. It'll be harder to do that now. Hopefully that means we get a populist like Bernie or Warren who will make actual, positive changes.

    Interesting analysis.

  23. Re:Quick, Move Them!! on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Attempting to charge the President in this case would almost certainly go to the Supreme Court and create a bit of a constitutional crisis

    It's not really a crisis, it's a detail that would need to be decided, and following procedure the supreme court would decide it.

  24. Re: Typescript has restored my job satisfaction on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Except Python isn't strongly typed, it uses duck typing.

  25. Re: Are you afraid of a new vote, Brexit traitors on Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, she can remain as a mistress.