The JRE is currently the #1 malware vector, even above Flash and Acrobat.
Citation needed - but you are comparing vulnerabilities in a runtime system where people often execute malicious code(!) to sloppily written trusted(!) code leading to the same type of vulnerabilities. Why don't you compare it to downloading and running random malware.exe's from the web on Windows and see how safe that is in comparison to the JRE? That would be more valid.
You know, I'll take "cool projects held back by Java" any time over equally cool projects written in C that need to be patched 5 times a year for the next 10 years because of sloppy programming leading to arbitrary remote code execution vulnerabilities. Please, just let software written in C die with dignity, the language had its decades of glory before everything was accessible over the 'net...
The problem is that most of the uneducated masses don't care about privacy and don't see a need for it.
No, just no. The unwashed masses simply and understandably don't want lacking usability and battery life as a trade-off for more privacy, just because that's the choice products on the market offer. Since the small advantages of Andoid regarding privacy options are destroyed by vendors (with their tinkering and apps) and carriers, the best compromise is still a dumbphone if you can live without a mobile browser, or otherwise iOS if you can't and don't want to spend days trying to figure out how to make your Android installation secure (doubtful if you can).
tl;dr - guy uses 10 years old hardware and wonders why an OS that works fine for him doesn't appeal to everyone else...
We switched our last servers from FreeBSD to Linux about 10 years ago because FreeBSD had crappy SMP support. Seriously, why does something like this get posted to/.?
Language is a funny thing. "Funny" as in, you have to laugh, or it'll make you cry.
I am a firm believer in the theory that spelling/grammar skills of readers are more strongly influenced by such casually read texts than one would think. The "it's" vs. "its" problem is a real epidemic, especially among people with IT background/interests (coincidence?). So we have to fight it aggressively, even though it gets boring to post 'it's "its", not "it's"' every time this happens.
It's time for religion to be closed out from the scientific debate altogether
That doesn't go far enough. It should be treated as a mental disease, since it doesn't only look exactly like a psychosis, it also frequently motivates affected people towards antisocial and dangerous behavior, so society needs to be protected from it. Unsurprisingly, it is also not uncommon for psychotics/schizophreniacs to display strong religious delusions.
If a creator independently designed each organism, then lots of stuff that shouldn't be there somehow made it into the finished product.
So? Perhaps God did it for amusement, perhaps he's artistically inclined. Look at the average painter's paintings (and the stuff the doesn't even like himself and destroys/hides), does he produce useful or aesthetically perfect paintings? How can flaws in nature be an argument against creationism any more than they can be used against evolution theory, when evolution supposedly optimizes away flawed designs in the long run?
(before you ask, I'm an atheist/agnostic, but I find it pointless to even debate particular ideas of people suffering from a popular form of mass psychosis)
Call me paranoid, but with Germany's police track record, I have few doubts that they'll just organize some fake (or real) terrorist attacks to get rid of these negative headlines and get the people back into sheeple mode... It may have already started.
I used that before, but drew the line where I had to get ~30 people in the office to install it and load my code for everyday use... XPI seemed to be the better choice at that point, until the last couple of stupid browser version changes.
Again I have to do the same pointless upgrade work to upgrade homebrew addons:
Change the maximum version number in the install.rdf and generate the XPI
Ask myself why it still won't load
Mess with the upgrade URL's RDF and change version numbers there
Still ask myself why it won't load
Upgrade the addon SDK since the previous one will only generate XPIs incompatible with 7.0
Curse Mozilla for all the pointless, braindead XML editing and wasted time since the code didn't need any changes at all
I've never seen an SDK make such a big fuss about absolutely nothing and never felt my time so pointlessly wasted, and I've seen plenty of SDKs in the past 20 years...
In 25 years or so, the USA can send people to the moon again by purchasing a ticket from some chinese company offering commercial space flight... It's perfectly fine to waste money on stupid wars and let others do all the R&D!
You don't stop using a language for a particular purpose while it is the best-supported, most widespread and most evolved language for the job. You kill it when you have a better alternative and everyone is starting to use that. Google (and others) are just trying to spread FUD about JS to get people to use something they control, not because JS is so terrible... (in fact, it has become a very decent language both for server-side work with CommonJS/RingoJS and NodeJS and recent client-side implementations are already competing with Flash performance-wise).
MIT epitomises the competitive, winner-takes-it-all, might-makes-right environment which is keeping half the world in poverty.
I have my doubts that "competitive" is the problem. If you ask people to participate in improving something, some will join for the sake of it, for some greater cause, but only if they perceive the goal to be of equal benefit to everyone. If instead the goal is considered profitable for a corporation or person, they will demand a prize or refuse to participate even on a winner-takes-it-all basis and ask for renumeration whatever the outcome / the quality of their contribution. Conclusion? Most goals we are taught or asked to pursue are perceived as "not for the greater good" and of less benefit to the pursuer than to someone else, including academic honours and solutions to global issues - and our time is our money, we're all capitalists now. Furthermore, I haven't noticed (non-competitive?) women standing out from the crowd... But what would make you design a $1000 shelter for earthquake survivors? The absence of a prize? An NGO starting a competition instead of MIT? 100 people already working on a design and publishing their work for free? Renumeration for your time?
There's no 100% safe method to provide an internet connection for employees and prevent abuse. So if these ridiculous laws persist, you will need to transfer ownership of each employee's internet connection to said employee. Ask your lawyers how to accomplish that...
Here's another one: Woman has to pay $1,122 medical bill after being forced to undergo a cavity search by police who allegedly acted "on credible information from a reliable source". Makes me wonder what's next on the agenda for the United Slaves of America...
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The JRE is currently the #1 malware vector, even above Flash and Acrobat.
Citation needed - but you are comparing vulnerabilities in a runtime system where people often execute malicious code(!) to sloppily written trusted(!) code leading to the same type of vulnerabilities. Why don't you compare it to downloading and running random malware .exe's from the web on Windows and see how safe that is in comparison to the JRE? That would be more valid.
cool project is going to be held back by Java.
You know, I'll take "cool projects held back by Java" any time over equally cool projects written in C that need to be patched 5 times a year for the next 10 years because of sloppy programming leading to arbitrary remote code execution vulnerabilities. Please, just let software written in C die with dignity, the language had its decades of glory before everything was accessible over the 'net ...
The problem is that most of the uneducated masses don't care about privacy and don't see a need for it.
No, just no. The unwashed masses simply and understandably don't want lacking usability and battery life as a trade-off for more privacy, just because that's the choice products on the market offer. Since the small advantages of Andoid regarding privacy options are destroyed by vendors (with their tinkering and apps) and carriers, the best compromise is still a dumbphone if you can live without a mobile browser, or otherwise iOS if you can't and don't want to spend days trying to figure out how to make your Android installation secure (doubtful if you can).
tl;dr - guy uses 10 years old hardware and wonders why an OS that works fine for him doesn't appeal to everyone else...
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We switched our last servers from FreeBSD to Linux about 10 years ago because FreeBSD had crappy SMP support. Seriously, why does something like this get posted to
About $2160 before the OS.
And before getting it to look good ... and before adding the cost of his own time that went into assembly and testing.
"lose" vs. "loose"
This is probably more common among non-native speakers, who get confused by the nearly identical pronounciation.
Language is a funny thing. "Funny" as in, you have to laugh, or it'll make you cry.
I am a firm believer in the theory that spelling/grammar skills of readers are more strongly influenced by such casually read texts than one would think. The "it's" vs. "its" problem is a real epidemic, especially among people with IT background/interests (coincidence?). So we have to fight it aggressively, even though it gets boring to post 'it's "its", not "it's"' every time this happens.
as a non-native speaker, I find it painful to read "it's" instead of "its" in almost every /. post ...
Perfect in every way
Hyperbole and everone knows it, he cannot even create a rock too heavy for him to lift, like we used to say.
It's time for religion to be closed out from the scientific debate altogether
That doesn't go far enough. It should be treated as a mental disease, since it doesn't only look exactly like a psychosis, it also frequently motivates affected people towards antisocial and dangerous behavior, so society needs to be protected from it. Unsurprisingly, it is also not uncommon for psychotics/schizophreniacs to display strong religious delusions.
If a creator independently designed each organism, then lots of stuff that shouldn't be there somehow made it into the finished product.
So? Perhaps God did it for amusement, perhaps he's artistically inclined. Look at the average painter's paintings (and the stuff the doesn't even like himself and destroys/hides), does he produce useful or aesthetically perfect paintings? How can flaws in nature be an argument against creationism any more than they can be used against evolution theory, when evolution supposedly optimizes away flawed designs in the long run?
(before you ask, I'm an atheist/agnostic, but I find it pointless to even debate particular ideas of people suffering from a popular form of mass psychosis)
Have any of those cool new fasionable nerd-wannabees actually invented something ingeniously useful?
In any case, shame on you, Google. But it had to be expected, after all, you're evil now.
Call me paranoid, but with Germany's police track record, I have few doubts that they'll just organize some fake (or real) terrorist attacks to get rid of these negative headlines and get the people back into sheeple mode ... It may have already started.
I can imagine that the other compromised CAs by the comodo hacker have made Wikipedia an offer they couldn't refuse.
Cri-Cri electric plane ;-)
time to use jetpack ;-)
I used that before, but drew the line where I had to get ~30 people in the office to install it and load my code for everyday use... XPI seemed to be the better choice at that point, until the last couple of stupid browser version changes.
I've never seen an SDK make such a big fuss about absolutely nothing and never felt my time so pointlessly wasted, and I've seen plenty of SDKs in the past 20 years...
Wuala is a recent example, developed at the ETH Zürich, then spun off and bought by LaCie.
In 25 years or so, the USA can send people to the moon again by purchasing a ticket from some chinese company offering commercial space flight ... It's perfectly fine to waste money on stupid wars and let others do all the R&D!
You don't stop using a language for a particular purpose while it is the best-supported, most widespread and most evolved language for the job. You kill it when you have a better alternative and everyone is starting to use that. Google (and others) are just trying to spread FUD about JS to get people to use something they control, not because JS is so terrible ... (in fact, it has become a very decent language both for server-side work with CommonJS/RingoJS and NodeJS and recent client-side implementations are already competing with Flash performance-wise).
MIT epitomises the competitive, winner-takes-it-all, might-makes-right environment which is keeping half the world in poverty.
I have my doubts that "competitive" is the problem. If you ask people to participate in improving something, some will join for the sake of it, for some greater cause, but only if they perceive the goal to be of equal benefit to everyone. If instead the goal is considered profitable for a corporation or person, they will demand a prize or refuse to participate even on a winner-takes-it-all basis and ask for renumeration whatever the outcome / the quality of their contribution. Conclusion? Most goals we are taught or asked to pursue are perceived as "not for the greater good" and of less benefit to the pursuer than to someone else, including academic honours and solutions to global issues - and our time is our money, we're all capitalists now. Furthermore, I haven't noticed (non-competitive?) women standing out from the crowd...
But what would make you design a $1000 shelter for earthquake survivors? The absence of a prize? An NGO starting a competition instead of MIT? 100 people already working on a design and publishing their work for free? Renumeration for your time?
There's no 100% safe method to provide an internet connection for employees and prevent abuse. So if these ridiculous laws persist, you will need to transfer ownership of each employee's internet connection to said employee. Ask your lawyers how to accomplish that ...
Save some energy, switch it off until you find something useful to do with it. It's the Right Thing to do. ;-)
Here's another one: Woman has to pay $1,122 medical bill after being forced to undergo a cavity search by police who allegedly acted "on credible information from a reliable source". Makes me wonder what's next on the agenda for the United Slaves of America...