In keeping with the spirit of/., I didn't read TFA.
However, I'd say this is totally unrelated to the Debian bug. The Debian bug was caused as a result of a change a Debian package maintainer made. Since he only made the change for the Debian package and didn't push it back upstream, it's highly unlikely that they are related.
Java has certainly come along way since its start; however, it is still a slow beast.
You'd be surprised. The code I write processes files > 10GB in size. From 1.4.2 -> 1.5 we got an order of magnitude shift in speed. From 1.5->1.6 we'll another order of magnitude gain and cut the memory consumption for the entire Java process in half, and this is without any refactoring of our code, just because the JVM got better.
Sure, if we wrote the same code in C++ it'd probably be faster, but I'm not convinced the improvement would be worth the extra development time required.
but once you run Linux, you're pretty much stuck to the x86 processor series in 32-bit mode.
I'm not sure what you're talking about here... there's an x86_64 JVM installed on my Kubuntu 8.04 machine right now.
A "cludgey" app can be written in every language, Java is no exception.
Without getting in to a bunch of holy war things, here are some of the things that Slashdotters may like about Java:
1. You can get paid to write in it. A lot of us (myself included) are software developers who write stuff in primarily in Java. Sure, I know other languages like Ruby, but it's nowhere near as ubiquitous as Java. This makes employers like Java.
2. It's mature. It's been around for a long time, and the libraries are mostly stable and bug free. This is not true for some other languages. Also, the APIs for Java are huge and support everything, and the documentation is good.
3. It's fast(er). Older Java GUI stuff was not fast, and it gave people the impression that all of Java is not fast. Well, Java 1.6 is fast.
4. It's cross platform. This isn't a big deal for me so much, but it might be for some people.
>Well to be fair he did flip flop on the War on Drugs thing. Very true, although he still has a long way to go.
>failure to reconsider old, ineffective laws is what is keeping us from making progress currently. If we just used the laws we already had, the politicians would be out of business;-)
> A libertarian voter should be realistic -- the best they can do now or in the near term is sway the views/actions of the mainstream candidates by voting for the Libertarian candidate.
I am realistic, but I think that's a bad way to vote (maybe it's because I'm young).
I'm not going to vote for anyone who voted for the PATRIOT act. In fact, I remarked to my girlfriend the other day that with Ron Paul's withdrawal, there are no candidates that satisfy that criteria (other than the Green Party, but I'm not going to vote for a political philosophy I don't agree with).
Bob Barr isn't an idiot, but the LP leaders are dumb for selecting him; he's not really a libertarian.
"War on drugs", is one (obvious) thing. Another is the Defense of Marriage act. There's a host of reasons this guy is not a real libertarian, however the LP still chose him to run, which was dumb. You don't see the R's choosing a D to run, why should the L's choose a neo-R?
That said, I'm not a registered member of the LP. I probably never will be. I like the philosophy, but the execution leaves something to be desired.
Games don't have DRM, they have license keys like any other software.
The difference with games is that the license key can easily be faked for some games, but if it's an online game that talks to a server (i.e. WoW, Guild Wars, Diablo II, HL2 etc.), you can't sign on unless you have a valid key (i.e. one that you actually purchased, not one you generated).
faster, more reliable and for a while was less annoying to use than its competitors Really? I'm not really big into social networking (although I am a member of facebook). I've not used a whole lot of other social networking sites, but I can't imagine any of them are any more or less reliable than facebook.
I think the primary difference between facebook and everyone else is scale. Facebook is successful because it's already successful. The only reason I'm a member is because everyone else I know is already a member. If everyone in my social group picked Orkut or something else to share their kegger times, I'd sign up for that instead.
So I ended up ponying up for a pay newsgroup service that carried all the groups, for an extra $20/month I felt my ISP should already be giving me. The service was metered, and once you'd downloaded your monthly limit, you were done until next month. But they did have good speeds and almost 100% of the available groups with at least 2 weeks retention.
Daily usenet volume is almost 2TB including the binaries groups. It's really hard to keep that information without a lot of special infrastructure, which I'm sure is why they don't do it.
Thoughts about whether or not an ISP should provide this aside: you picked a really bad usenet provider. I use newshosting, and for $15/mo I get 80 days retention in all binary groups. Giganews provides 200 (or something ridiculous) days of binary retention for $25 (I think?).
I'm going to be a senior in college this fall, in Computer Engineering. I've never contributed to an OSS project before (although I've been hacking kde4 for a few weeks), but I would love to start and learn how.
I love KDE very much, and if Nokia starts to hold QT hostage, I'd very happily donate a large chunk of my free time to QT development. In fact, it would be just the opportunity I'm looking for to get started contributing to OSS.
So, your sentiment may be true overall, but there are probably a few would-be QT hackers.
Bob Barr is a sponsor of the Defense of Marriage Act and has been fighting the "War on Drugs" for his entire political career.
As a sibling post mentioned, he also voted for the PATRIOT act, and wants to ban folks of certain religions from military service.
By no stretch of any reasonable person's imagination, is Bob Barr a libertarian. So, most libertarians (non LP members, read: real libertarians) don't have a candidate they can feel comfortable voting for this election.
Ron Paul might have been an option, but he has stated that he has no plans to run as an independent.
What's wrong with small cars for big people? I drive a kia spectra, and it's got more leg room than my dad's F-150. However, my dad also has a honda civic, which has more leg room than even my kia (although the civic is a 2-door, and the spectra is a 4-door which is useful for me since I go out as the DD with my friends a lot).
For reference, I'm 6'6", 220 lbs (google says 1.981 meters, 99.7903214 kgs for those of you across the pond). The civic gets 45 mpg city. My kia gets anywhere between 30 and 34 mpg city, depending on the city;-). Both are stick shifts, which are great for gas mileage (as well as forcing you to pay attention when you drive).
Intel...controls 80 to 90 percent of the microprocessor market.
Also, for those of you (like me) who were wondering what exactly they did:
A.M.D. has asserted that Intel offers rebates and discounts that, in effect, result in its chips being sold at prices below the cost of production, a practice that some courts in cases involving other companies have said can be a violation of antitrust law.
Intel denies that its discounts and rebates drive its prices below cost, or at predatory levels. Intel has said that it offered legitimate discounts based on the volume of chips that have been purchased by companies, and that consumers benefit when personal computer manufacturers â" using the discounts â" are able to lower the cost of making their products.
For what it's worth, I think you're right. However, I've been using conky (http://conky.sourceforge.net/) forever, and I think it's great. That's about as close to gadgets as I come, though.
I've been in the market for one of these minilaptops (ultraportable, sub-notebook etc.) for a while, and it seems the market is evolving very quickly, so I should wait a few months and see what happens.
From what I understand, the Atom is designed for about 2W of power usage (under load?). This should make these computers have batteries that last forever, which will be really nice.
I like the idea of a solid state drive in laptops (resistant to drops, low power consumption, etc), but I haven't found a minilaptop that meets my needs:
1. ultra low power for a 4-6 hour battery life. 2. solid state drive (I could do this after market, if the thing meets all of my other needs) 3. 3G modem that's not a PCMCIA card (or whatever the equivalent addon bus is now) 4. preferably larger than 8", as I'm a large person myself. 5. linux compatible hardware (wireless card, mostly). I'm totally comfortable installing it myself, though.
Does anyone know of anything like this? I realize the EEE has everything but the 3G modem, and it's at the top of my list of picks right now. I'll probably wait for the Atom model and see how the battery life is with that one. However, I figure someone here knows about something that I've missed.
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Browsers already do store previous certs, and warn you if they change. This is for the initial query, I think.
In keeping with the spirit of /., I didn't read TFA.
However, I'd say this is totally unrelated to the Debian bug. The Debian bug was caused as a result of a change a Debian package maintainer made. Since he only made the change for the Debian package and didn't push it back upstream, it's highly unlikely that they are related.
I always hear people on Slashdot bitching about OpenDNS. Apart from running my own resolver, what are my other options?
Which embedded platform are you on that has a C++ compiler? Most of them barely support the C standard.
Did you watch the same video I did? The phone definitely has a touch screen.
At least it's not like Digg, where nobody reads anything!
I'm not sure why it's sad, however it's not his signature, it's in his posts.
You'd be surprised. The code I write processes files > 10GB in size. From 1.4.2 -> 1.5 we got an order of magnitude shift in speed. From 1.5->1.6 we'll another order of magnitude gain and cut the memory consumption for the entire Java process in half, and this is without any refactoring of our code, just because the JVM got better.
Sure, if we wrote the same code in C++ it'd probably be faster, but I'm not convinced the improvement would be worth the extra development time required.
I'm not sure what you're talking about here... there's an x86_64 JVM installed on my Kubuntu 8.04 machine right now.
A "cludgey" app can be written in every language, Java is no exception.
Without getting in to a bunch of holy war things, here are some of the things that Slashdotters may like about Java:
1. You can get paid to write in it. A lot of us (myself included) are software developers who write stuff in primarily in Java. Sure, I know other languages like Ruby, but it's nowhere near as ubiquitous as Java. This makes employers like Java.
2. It's mature. It's been around for a long time, and the libraries are mostly stable and bug free. This is not true for some other languages. Also, the APIs for Java are huge and support everything, and the documentation is good.
3. It's fast(er). Older Java GUI stuff was not fast, and it gave people the impression that all of Java is not fast. Well, Java 1.6 is fast.
4. It's cross platform. This isn't a big deal for me so much, but it might be for some people.
>Well to be fair he did flip flop on the War on Drugs thing.
Very true, although he still has a long way to go.
>failure to reconsider old, ineffective laws is what is keeping us from making progress currently. ;-)
If we just used the laws we already had, the politicians would be out of business
> A libertarian voter should be realistic -- the best they can do now or in the near term is sway the views/actions of the mainstream candidates by voting for the Libertarian candidate.
I am realistic, but I think that's a bad way to vote (maybe it's because I'm young).
I'm not going to vote for anyone who voted for the PATRIOT act. In fact, I remarked to my girlfriend the other day that with Ron Paul's withdrawal, there are no candidates that satisfy that criteria (other than the Green Party, but I'm not going to vote for a political philosophy I don't agree with).
Bob Barr isn't an idiot, but the LP leaders are dumb for selecting him; he's not really a libertarian.
"War on drugs", is one (obvious) thing. Another is the Defense of Marriage act. There's a host of reasons this guy is not a real libertarian, however the LP still chose him to run, which was dumb. You don't see the R's choosing a D to run, why should the L's choose a neo-R?
That said, I'm not a registered member of the LP. I probably never will be. I like the philosophy, but the execution leaves something to be desired.
Games don't have DRM, they have license keys like any other software.
The difference with games is that the license key can easily be faked for some games, but if it's an online game that talks to a server (i.e. WoW, Guild Wars, Diablo II, HL2 etc.), you can't sign on unless you have a valid key (i.e. one that you actually purchased, not one you generated).
Please do NOT vote libertarian. Our candidate is an idiot, and he is NOT what our party should stand for.
I think the primary difference between facebook and everyone else is scale. Facebook is successful because it's already successful. The only reason I'm a member is because everyone else I know is already a member. If everyone in my social group picked Orkut or something else to share their kegger times, I'd sign up for that instead.
Daily usenet volume is almost 2TB including the binaries groups. It's really hard to keep that information without a lot of special infrastructure, which I'm sure is why they don't do it.
Thoughts about whether or not an ISP should provide this aside: you picked a really bad usenet provider. I use newshosting, and for $15/mo I get 80 days retention in all binary groups. Giganews provides 200 (or something ridiculous) days of binary retention for $25 (I think?).
Sorry, usenet, for breaking the rules
I'm going to be a senior in college this fall, in Computer Engineering. I've never contributed to an OSS project before (although I've been hacking kde4 for a few weeks), but I would love to start and learn how.
I love KDE very much, and if Nokia starts to hold QT hostage, I'd very happily donate a large chunk of my free time to QT development. In fact, it would be just the opportunity I'm looking for to get started contributing to OSS.
So, your sentiment may be true overall, but there are probably a few would-be QT hackers.
I still sit with my knees smashed into the glove box in his truck, whereas I don't in his Civic.
;-)
Whether my knees go below the glove box is irrelevant, there's not enough room in his truck.
It's okay though, because the only time I have to ride in it is when he helps me move to and from school
Bob Barr is a sponsor of the Defense of Marriage Act and has been fighting the "War on Drugs" for his entire political career.
As a sibling post mentioned, he also voted for the PATRIOT act, and wants to ban folks of certain religions from military service.
By no stretch of any reasonable person's imagination, is Bob Barr a libertarian. So, most libertarians (non LP members, read: real libertarians) don't have a candidate they can feel comfortable voting for this election.
Ron Paul might have been an option, but he has stated that he has no plans to run as an independent.
What's wrong with small cars for big people? I drive a kia spectra, and it's got more leg room than my dad's F-150. However, my dad also has a honda civic, which has more leg room than even my kia (although the civic is a 2-door, and the spectra is a 4-door which is useful for me since I go out as the DD with my friends a lot).
;-). Both are stick shifts, which are great for gas mileage (as well as forcing you to pay attention when you drive).
For reference, I'm 6'6", 220 lbs (google says 1.981 meters, 99.7903214 kgs for those of you across the pond). The civic gets 45 mpg city. My kia gets anywhere between 30 and 34 mpg city, depending on the city
Also, for those of you (like me) who were wondering what exactly they did:
Bob Barr isn't a real libertarian, though. Don't vote for him just because his party's first letter is "L".
Like who? All we've done is sell the debt to the Chinese and the Japanese. We'll hurt in 20 years (when my generation has to deal with it), though.
For what it's worth, I think you're right. However, I've been using conky (http://conky.sourceforge.net/) forever, and I think it's great. That's about as close to gadgets as I come, though.
I've been in the market for one of these minilaptops (ultraportable, sub-notebook etc.) for a while, and it seems the market is evolving very quickly, so I should wait a few months and see what happens.
From what I understand, the Atom is designed for about 2W of power usage (under load?). This should make these computers have batteries that last forever, which will be really nice.
I like the idea of a solid state drive in laptops (resistant to drops, low power consumption, etc), but I haven't found a minilaptop that meets my needs:
1. ultra low power for a 4-6 hour battery life.
2. solid state drive (I could do this after market, if the thing meets all of my other needs)
3. 3G modem that's not a PCMCIA card (or whatever the equivalent addon bus is now)
4. preferably larger than 8", as I'm a large person myself.
5. linux compatible hardware (wireless card, mostly). I'm totally comfortable installing it myself, though.
Does anyone know of anything like this? I realize the EEE has everything but the 3G modem, and it's at the top of my list of picks right now. I'll probably wait for the Atom model and see how the battery life is with that one. However, I figure someone here knows about something that I've missed.