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  1. Re: CS curriculum on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nobody should be allowed to start a CS or EE program without a demonstrated ability to program three high level languages (or one high level and assembler). Also assembler was a freshman course in my EE program. Your understanding or high/low level is backwards, EEs are down and dirty in the silicon, CSs argue about 'Turing completeness' and the 43rd normal form for databases.

  2. Re: CS curriculum on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    C isn't a great 'first language'. But it better be the second or third or the programmer will be forever handicapped by low level blindness (see also: every Java only programmer you know). It makes a good segway into assembler (which should be the third or fourth language). Forth would also be a good early down and dirty language choice, but C derived is a very common pattern.

    First language should be an easy peasy toy, but one with minimal 'stupid shit', so not Python.

  3. Re:I really hate to defend ORACLE on this on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Those should just be banned because of suckage.

  4. Re:JavaScript on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because having a final else clause for the unexpected ones is better?

    I suppose that depends on what the final else case does. If it ignores them, it's much worse, if it raises them, it's the same. No better in any case.

  5. Re:Oracle JAVA is not that much. on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Oracle apps are a tell. If a business runs Oracle apps run away. It tells you everything you need to know about the culture. Just like 'united way partners'...run away.

  6. Re: Oracle JAVA is not that much. on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    About a decade ago I knew someone who worked at Oracle (spit). Do you know what Oracle used for Email? An Oracle database...the email row has to replicate to your server before you got it. It took about a half day for an email to be delivered from the next office.

  7. Re:Overall story: Java is dead. on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nothing with a significant installed base ever dies. No doubt there is still an instance of mainframe DOS running somewhere. I'd hope it's running on a VM but I doubt it.

    Jave's promise of write once run everywhere is dead as the dodo. That was it's most promising feature. As a server language it sucks balls, slightly better than javascript.

  8. Re:You do it, or you talk about doing it. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait until the agencies aren't taking orders for Obama before we trust their statements. Even then, very little credibility where politics are involved.

  9. Re:You do it, or you talk about doing it. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't really believe this bullshit do you?

    I understand you guys are processing grief. Please shut up until you get to acceptance.

    Check the intrusion logs on any public facing IP address (you dolt). Even without being the property of the DNC, all machines this badly admined are owned in short order.

  10. Just for the record. I'm strongly partisan fringe case. I want the Ds and Rs to stop holding back and destroy each other. They both have enough dirt on the other to end them. But like siblings in a stern household, they don't snitch each other out from self interest.

    Having:
    The Ds as a whole completely disconnected and in a stage of grief. Convinced that yet again, Hitler is assuming the presidency.
    The Rs smiling, but with a loose cannon aimed right at their peckers. Trying to install the right 'handlers' before anything blows up. Will be disappointed, Trump is crazy, not stupid.
    An unhinged narcissist ready to assume the presidency. Smart though. Plays power games like he was born to do it.
    An unindicted felon ready to slink away, just assuming she will never wear orange as the loser. Watch the senior aides to Clinton, one will be sacrificed first. Also plays power games like she was born to it. Past history suggests she has a ton of dirt on old time RNC power structure.

    Might make most people uneasy, I'm fucking ecstatic. Get some pro-gun people in the SC, burn down both political parties, throw the dice.

    Trump is an old man, not used to taking BS. At some point he will quit. Being president is a chumps job. By then, who knows who will be VP.

    I'm going out on a limb: the gridlock voter contingent will give the D's a big move in the house in two years, this will frustrate the fuck out of Trump. Senate is pretty hard to move, given the population coming up for reelection, but margins are thin.

  11. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Patches are by far the better way to deliver meds. You still pee the meds out, but there is no unabsorbed pill residue in the shit.

    Truth is, the number if trannies is tiny compared to women on hormonal birth control. Consider yourself like a classic car, not much point in emission controls.

  12. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Where would the DNC stop?

    Fire the incompetent but keep the corrupt who were exposed by the incompetence? Fire them all (nobody left)?

  13. Mao also said 'All political power comes from the barrel of a gun'.

    Thank dog Hillary lost. Americans get to keep their political power. Suck it, gun grabbers.

  14. Re:You do it, or you talk about doing it. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So the statement by a guy who does and has lied for his own gain (Obama) without batting an eye is credible?

  15. He beat the Republicats. It's not over until the Rs and Ds dump their MAD dirt though.

  16. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Face it. You are waiting for the book that dissects this election that agrees with your preconceptions.

    There will be dozens, most will piss of most readers. Echo chambers will be everywhere.

  17. Re:You do it, or you talk about doing it. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Leaving him to suffer makes it a bigger warning. You won't just die, you'll get some agony on the way out. Surprised the didn't shoot him in the asshole.

  18. A turkey buzzard's colica is more photogenic than Hillary.

  19. Tinfoil? Well, if that's all you can afford.

    Gold foil is much much better. Whatever you do, don't use Aluminum much less Aluminium.

  20. Re:You do it, or you talk about doing it. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't even know which server we're talking about you dolt. Just go away, take your old talking points back to HuffPost.

  21. Re:You do it, or you talk about doing it. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Still no logic in your post. Explain why Wikileaks offered a reward of Rich's killer?

  22. Re:Key omission from American media on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    The golden gate straights are 'waters facing China'. 'Facing' doesn't mean anything.

  23. Re:mr president, you're missing the point on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Does the 'balls party' get federal funding for its primaries?

    Because the major parties do. Federal funds come with strings attached for everybody but the political parties. Funny how that works out.

  24. Re:You do it, or you talk about doing it. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    We know it was a very high value target incompetently administered. It was _certainly_ owned by the Russians, Chinese, Israelis, Anonymous, NSA, CIA and Iranians. The blackmail material was just too valuable.

  25. Re:You do it, or you talk about doing it. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You have not logic to rebut. Just a self righteous 'shame on you'.