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  1. Re: Consequences in Banking/Finance? on Oracle May Have Stopped Funding and Developing Java EE (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Im pretty sure that isnt true.

    For example. Tomcat (by apache foundation) is he implimentatiom for some of the more widely used java ee specifications. And is based on vanilla java.
    And gives jsp and servlets.

    There is a version combined with other java ee components (java tomEE). But Looking to see if it was true that tomcat is java ee is the first time Ive heard of it.

  2. Re:Consequences in Banking/Finance? on Oracle May Have Stopped Funding and Developing Java EE (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    For those not familiar with java EE, who, like me when I first saw this popping up on the tinterwebs thoght this was remotely a java..
    "Java EE" IS NOT what anyone familiar with Java would ever really use.

    Its more like a mish mash of highly specialized and mostly irrelevant java projects for corporate customers that I very much doubt anyone but the original client is using.

    This is not remotely equivalent to the java JDK we are all familiar with.

    At least, as far as I can tell. If someone can point me to something in the Java EE suite that "will be missed", I may change my mind that this is anything other than a few big clients kicking up a fuss that they may have to pay developers to work for them.

    Also, while I've seen lots of "pulled developers onto other things", there is no mention of what these "other things" are.

    We would all benefit from them de prioritizing java EE and instead devoting those resources to javaFX. imho.

    ready to be corrected if I misunderstood.

  3. Re: Rationale aside... on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So you don't think remain would have meant the end of relevance of the houses of parliament and push into an EU federal state run by technocrats?

    Given that is the stated aim of the EU. What exactly are these "lies" you think a desire to leave is based on?

  4. Re: Rationale aside... on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a simple vote between democracy and technocracy.
    and democracy won.

    Why do you think democracy will ruin the UK?

  5. Re: it wuz haxx0rz! on Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd think.
    But yeah.
    They even have booths at Defcon these days. Although their first high profile hires were recent convicts. I forget the pseudonyms.

  6. Re: it wuz haxx0rz! on Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The nsa, on multiple occasions.

  7. Re: Mind bogglingly complecated co-processing on California Researchers Build The World's First 1,000-Processor Chip (ucdavis.edu) · · Score: 1

    I thought we'd reached the point where all the main computation problems had parallel solutions now?

    What's left?

  8. Re: Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Thing on Facebook Says It's Not Secretly Recording You (fb.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, if you are on Android 6, just revoke all the permissions.

  9. Re: So there's this wonderfully secure phone... on Sirin Labs Launches Solarin, a $14,000 Privacy-Focused Smartphone (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    presumably the audio and video is encrypted before it reaches any hardware not totally designed by them.

    Which is what they mean by "chip to chip"
    Problem solved.

  10. Re: Not worth clustering as with PS3 on Using Kexec Allows Starting Linux In PlayStation 4 · · Score: 1

    clustering was even easier with commodity hardware back in the ps3 days. The horrific 256mb ram meant it didn't even perform as well as a pi2+ does today.

  11. Re: Well, there go those last remaining factory jo on Boston Dynamics' Next-Gen ATLAS Sheds the Tether (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    50 years ago you'd of been tried as a commie bastard spy for saying something like that....

  12. Re: So the vulnerability is the updating mechanis on Apple's iPhone Already Has a Backdoor · · Score: 1

    aiui.

    the FBI want apple to create both a software update.

    and the hardware required

    to breach the phone security.

    only apple has this "problem" because all the other os's have the functionality the FBI requires to breach them out of the box.

  13. Re: At that price point... on HTC Vive Is $799, Ships From April 1st (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    just bought a gear vr yesterday. great for watching films and killing time some good free games and will probably buy a couple of the paid for ones. $100 incremental cost for the headset...

    but the vive will not be enough to get me back into PC gaming.

    if nvidia ever releases an sbs graphics driver I might. but right now most of the directx 3d games don't actually seem to render in 3d. never actually got the nvidia 3d play to work satisfactorily.

  14. Re: Let me be clear on President Obama Unveils $19 Billion Plan To Overhaul U.S. Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    probably not. I doubt they tell the sockfags what site they are replying to posts on. afaik the HBGary personna management software manages it all in the client.

    If they let them read what we say about them not even the promise of forgiving their student loans would be enough to keep them in the job.

  15. Re: No use fighting it on Torrents Time Lets Anyone Launch Their Own Web Version of Popcorn Time · · Score: 1

    That would be more damaging to the movie industry than pirating.

    Because it would destroy their ability to push whatever agenda their advertisers want and give people freedom.

    Freedom is the exact opposite of what the mainstream media is all about.

  16. Re:"trolls" got teeth on Patent Troll VirnetX Awarded $626M In Damages From Apple (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We deliver high value services to high value products. Services only my companies can provide because only my companies have access to the underlying tech.

    These companies have a product - which they paid for - the exclusive rights to use a specific invention, which they licence to companies rather than the original inventor being the only one who has the rights to use it.

    That isn't trolling, its profiting from the IP system the US built for itself.

    R&D in software isn't as expensive as R&D in hardware, but it still costs money.

    You might as well call the RIAA "music trolls", or the MPAA "movie trolls".

    I don't see why big business should be let off paying.

  17. Re:"trolls" got teeth on Patent Troll VirnetX Awarded $626M In Damages From Apple (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I run all my IP under "trade secret" status. much better since you don't have to disclose any of the details of how you do things.

    Also don't do any business in the US "because* of their stupid software patent laws (the market may be large, but the return on investment is too low to bother putting any effort in there)

    But that doesn't change the fact that Microsoft Apple Google and IBM "intentional infringe" prolifically on the vast majority of their products.

    Which is one of the reasons I would never want them to know how we turn over as much as we do.

  18. "trolls" got teeth on Patent Troll VirnetX Awarded $626M In Damages From Apple (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling someone a troll just because you want to steal their IP seams to be all the rage these days....

  19. Re:Assholes against assholes on Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is the #1 reason I gave up on PC gaming and went Linux desktop and PS4 for gaming.

  20. Re: Not Sure What the HTTPS Hooplah is all about on Google Will Soon Let You Know By Default When Websites Are Unencrypted (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    the ip address isn't encrypted.

    the url is.
    lots of isps nowith mitm https by default. UK all the major ones do AFAIK. where it is impossible to establish a secure https connection using a secure CA.

  21. Russia is developing a secret 'MICROWAVE GUN' that can shoot a drone out of the sky from six miles away, claims military official

    By Jonathan O'Ca

    True story....

  22. Exactly my thought.

    It's thoughtcrime tho.

    Thinking the ruskies can make the entire US drone fleet worthless if they wanted is punishable by death.

    All it needs is some more tinfoil.

  23. Re: Go AMD! on Samsung Begins Mass Production of World's Fastest DRAM (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Do amd have decent Linux support yet.

    Not bought anything from them for about 9 years now after I made the switch to linux for my desktop and amd had near zero linux support.

  24. Re: The biggest problem with backdoors on Clinton Hints At Tech Industry Compromise Over Encryption (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    it was the US throwing the tantrum over russia destroying their oil and turkey shooting down a Russian plane over the issue which really gave it away...

    russia has pretty much destroyed them. and shut down all the us airstrikes on syrian army positions by bringing in the s400. its game over for the CIA plan to destabilise syria now.

    but I'm sure the fear porn you are all addicted too has some way to run yet.

    you've still got a greater chance of being killed by a policeman than an Islamic terrorists.

  25. Re: The biggest problem with backdoors on Clinton Hints At Tech Industry Compromise Over Encryption (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mirror probably not the best source for that.

    I'm much more inclined to believe they don't care how they are labelled.

    It's probably more an intelligence agency thing.

    They the cia has been caught so many times funding Isis now they need to try and make a distinction between the murderous Muslims they are giving money and guns to. And the murderous Muslims that murder people.