What this means is, that the NSA will read the mail of only the innocent. If you really have something to hide, it's easy enough to use PGP/GPG. Not even the NSA will be able to know what you're up to, or even know that you are up to anything at all. Intercepting mail/phonecalls has absolutely no positive impact on reducing terrorism.
Well, perl and python have their history in UNIX, so I suspect most developers using these languages are comfortable using UNIX editors as well (vi/emacs). Besides, VS is usually only advantageous (if at all) over vi/emacs when developing really big programs, while Perl and python are scripting languages that are generally used for quick and dirty programs that seldom exceed several thousand lines.
So you want to port one of the more annoying features of the web to the real world? Can't wait till they start adding viruses, worms and pr0n to their cereal.
(ok, I do realize that the web = real world for some of you)
Nobody questioned whether Google "could" do something. By now they probably "could" do just about anything. The real question is, what they "should" do.
Or the 3117 [sic] haxor who used the latest TMP chip crack to change their TMP ID to be the same as yours, which they got from the worm that still can get installed on your machine...
Well I've heard of people misspelling words, but who'se heard of somebody misspelling a number? It's called 1337, dude.
"mostly right, most of the time, for most of the people."???
Is this the standard by which the Ruby community judges software goodness? I'm speechless.
It certainly is better to know the problems/that there are problems in a piece of software, rather than having problems that are kept secret - the way MS, etc do it. Software is never perfect, whether you admit the problems it has or not.
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I do all my programming with 'cat'.
no, no, no, you got it all wrong!
Everybody knows that ed is the standard text editor!
What this means is, that the NSA will read the mail of only the innocent. If you really have something to hide, it's easy enough to use PGP/GPG. Not even the NSA will be able to know what you're up to, or even know that you are up to anything at all. Intercepting mail/phonecalls has absolutely no positive impact on reducing terrorism.
Well, perl and python have their history in UNIX, so I suspect most developers using these languages are comfortable using UNIX editors as well (vi/emacs).
Besides, VS is usually only advantageous (if at all) over vi/emacs when developing really big programs, while Perl and python are scripting languages that are generally used for quick and dirty programs that seldom exceed several thousand lines.
So you want to port one of the more annoying features of the web to the real world? Can't wait till they start adding viruses, worms and pr0n to their cereal.
(ok, I do realize that the web = real world for some of you)
Nobody questioned whether Google "could" do something. By now they probably "could" do just about anything. The real question is, what they "should" do.
Or the 3117 [sic] haxor who used the latest TMP chip crack to change their TMP ID to be the same as yours, which they got from the worm that still can get installed on your machine...
Well I've heard of people misspelling words, but who'se heard of somebody misspelling a number? It's called 1337, dude.
"mostly right, most of the time, for most of the people."???
Is this the standard by which the Ruby community judges software goodness? I'm speechless.
It certainly is better to know the problems/that there are problems in a piece of software, rather than having problems that are kept secret - the way MS, etc do it. Software is never perfect, whether you admit the problems it has or not.
Well, as long as it's only in the rear engine compartment... Imagine what could happen if all that oxygen got at the crew!
So which one of these truths applies to this server being down?
wait a sec... you seriously expected a _new_ blog to be posted on slashdot?
and guess how many people died of anthrax - 5
compare that to how many people starve each day, or get killed in Iraq for that matter...