Back in the day, computer science was as legitimate a career path for women as medicine, law, or science....
I'd really like to seen some substantiation for this assertion, as it is so important for the validity of the other assertion that there has been a change since then.
... Karjaluoto doesn't recall many such changes that we didn't later look upon as the right choice....
The opinion of whether or not it was the right choice is severely clouded by the fact that in the Apple environment, there is No Choice. The user Has To go along with what Apple decides is The Future.
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Apple has built the walls so high around its empire, that few dare leave. Therefore, they must rationalize that whatever Apple decides for the future is The Right Choice.
When there is a disaster in my area, the default that my friends will be seeing (on the basis that I've not told a company that I'm OK) is "I'm not OK?
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Facebook should make this "feature" opt-in, not "you're using this feature whether you want to or not".
...Firefox still feels less bloated than Chrome...
I was comparing to the time before the recent development fiascos (new UI, etc.). Firefox just seems to be getting larger and larger and larger.
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It appears the Firefox developers are looking to please themselves, and not the users, because the Firefox marketshare is dropping in spite of all the additional bloat being added.
"Worse is better" is little more than Chiusano's opinion of what is happening.
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So he thinks that compatibility and interoperability are not features which he likes. OK, I'm OK with that.
However, that is his opinion, nothing more, nothing less.
There are reasons why interoperability and compatibility are desired. It is not the easiest path to provide those characteristics, on the contrary, it is easier to just say, ~screw compatibility, screw interoperability~, and you'll probably finish your task more quickly.
So then the question becomes, why do people invest extra effort in order to assure interoperability and compatibility?
...which we all recognize is a problem....
And now he presumes to speak for everyone....
Overall it sounds like he just got out of a bad meeting in which someone told him that his opinions are not worth the air used to utter them, and now he's trying to convince the world that he is right and the world is wrong.
Some people like to use software that is of a quality architecture and design, and not something that is little more than a security-challenged mash-up with very vocal protagonists.
My Mac is no longer supported (hasn't been for a couple of releases) by OS-X because the CPU doesn't do 64-bits. It's not even 10 years old yet, and it isn't supported by OS-X.
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It was the first Apple computer I bought. It will be the last Apple computer I ever buy.
...Since attackers are systematically scanning all available addresses in the IPv4 space...
If your site is on a server that does shared (or virtual) hosting, then IP address scans will usualy not trigger shellshock from your site because your site needs to be accessed via its URL. Accesses via IP address will usually go to a main site on that server, and that main site may not have any exploitable content.
... On one hand, that's a lot for a machine no one knows anything about; on the other, it indicates that attackers haven't wholesale dumped other methods in favor of going after this particular bug....
This is a straw man. Of course the bad guys are not going to walk away from all the other exploits in their toolbox. No one said they would.
Most of the shellshock accesses I see are just scans, i.e., the bad guys are building an inventory of what hosts are vulnerable. I haven't seen too many (i.e., only a very few) attempts to take over the host.... yet.
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At this point, I will be looking for a way to identify devices that have FTDI chips in them (real, not fake), and not buy those devices.
Back in the day, computer science was as legitimate a career path for women as medicine, law, or science....
I'd really like to seen some substantiation for this assertion, as it is so important for the validity of the other assertion that there has been a change since then.
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Am I the only one concerned about the resulting monoculture if the GIT proponents have their way?
He's asking for money, but does not say why the transformation needs to occur.
Unlikely. He's probably entered a marketing agreement with dice.com for /. coverage.
This guy has a serious case of it.
... Karjaluoto doesn't recall many such changes that we didn't later look upon as the right choice....
The opinion of whether or not it was the right choice is severely clouded by the fact that in the Apple environment, there is No Choice. The user Has To go along with what Apple decides is The Future.
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Apple has built the walls so high around its empire, that few dare leave. Therefore, they must rationalize that whatever Apple decides for the future is The Right Choice.
Seems to me that Apple is playing catch-up in the phablet arena. Apple was late to the party and lost the toehold because of its tardiness.
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Facebook should make this "feature" opt-in, not "you're using this feature whether you want to or not".
I never said that is was bloated because it does not cater to my whims.
... not make Mozilla not care about their users not make Mozilla not care about their users...
Nor did I say that it not catering to my whims means that Mozilla does not care about its users.
...Firefox still feels less bloated than Chrome...
I was comparing to the time before the recent development fiascos (new UI, etc.). Firefox just seems to be getting larger and larger and larger.
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It appears the Firefox developers are looking to please themselves, and not the users, because the Firefox marketshare is dropping in spite of all the additional bloat being added.
... and Firefox continues to lose track of its origins and continues to add to the bloat, while hemorrhaging market share....
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So he thinks that compatibility and interoperability are not features which he likes. OK, I'm OK with that.
However, that is his opinion, nothing more, nothing less.
There are reasons why interoperability and compatibility are desired. It is not the easiest path to provide those characteristics, on the contrary, it is easier to just say, ~screw compatibility, screw interoperability~, and you'll probably finish your task more quickly.
So then the question becomes, why do people invest extra effort in order to assure interoperability and compatibility?
...which we all recognize is a problem....
And now he presumes to speak for everyone....
Overall it sounds like he just got out of a bad meeting in which someone told him that his opinions are not worth the air used to utter them, and now he's trying to convince the world that he is right and the world is wrong.
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I am shocked!! SHOCKED, I say!!!!!!
Have /. really sunk so low that hyped-up articles like the one quoted are now newsworthy?
Be careful with Speedtest. They use repeating ASCII data, which compresses very well. This can lead to misleading results in some instances.
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http://www.measurementlab.net/...
Runs on OS-X, Windows, Linux. Port available on FreeBSD.
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The purpose of the article is not to convey any manner of knowledge on the subject.
It's chewing gum for the job seeker, no more, no less.
... I don't understand why anybody cares...
Some people like to use software that is of a quality architecture and design, and not something that is little more than a security-challenged mash-up with very vocal protagonists.
The last vestige of Linux has been removed from the GNU/systemd distributions, as systemd continues to move forward.
It may make it more true, but it would not be as funny as I had intended it to be. :)
... so I know they are private and secure from prying eyes.
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Is voice quality OK when using it as a phone? Does it work well in weak signals?
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It was the first Apple computer I bought. It will be the last Apple computer I ever buy.
Why?
...Since attackers are systematically scanning all available addresses in the IPv4 space...
If your site is on a server that does shared (or virtual) hosting, then IP address scans will usualy not trigger shellshock from your site because your site needs to be accessed via its URL. Accesses via IP address will usually go to a main site on that server, and that main site may not have any exploitable content.
... On one hand, that's a lot for a machine no one knows anything about; on the other, it indicates that attackers haven't wholesale dumped other methods in favor of going after this particular bug....
This is a straw man. Of course the bad guys are not going to walk away from all the other exploits in their toolbox. No one said they would.
Most of the shellshock accesses I see are just scans, i.e., the bad guys are building an inventory of what hosts are vulnerable. I haven't seen too many (i.e., only a very few) attempts to take over the host.... yet.