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Comment Re:They forgot the best feature.... (Score 4, Insightful) 80

BSD is a major commodity ecosystem for end-consumer products. I'd wager that there are more MacBooks and iPods out there running OSX and iOS flavors of BSD than there are Linux ones. They just suck in the server space, though, and that's where Linux cannot at the moment be questioned, let alone defeated.

My FreeBSD servers run just fine, thank-you. I moved those servers from Linux to FreeBSD a number of years ago, and never had the need to look back.

Comment Re:Also, stop supporting sites with poor encryptio (Score 1) 324

You should find another bank.

Yep. There are plenty of banks to choose from that - whatever their other flaws - at least take security seriously. If your bank can't or won't lock down their website, then you already know that they're negligent in at least one area. What else are they neglecting?

Comment Re:Wait a minute... (Score 1) 324

I don't think it's extreme at all. I think we're past the point that's it's socially reasonable or responsible not to encrypt all traffic by default.

Even if you're 100% OK with visitors to your site being snooped on, consider that adding to the amount of crypto in use worldwide makes it hard for repressive governments to tell what their citizens are doing online. Maybe your site would be the straw that broke the Great Firewall's back and lets some kid read uncensored news.

Comment Money given to the people that screwed up... (Score 3, Insightful) 76

So let's see... from what I've read the OpenSSL project was a mess, poorly managed, with bad code and a very lax attitude towards fixing bugs that were reported.

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So how was the problem with OpenSSL solved?

Well, the same people, with their same ideas, who could not run a successful project in the past were given large amounts of money to run the project in the future. The summary for this thread reads more like a self-congratulatory press release from the OpenSSL people, rubbing in our faces that they managed to get money to continue their poor project management.

Comment Re:Haskell? (Score 1) 138

This isn't even a good troll. If you don't know one actor-model programming language and one pure functional programming language, then you have no business describing yourself as a programmer. You certainly don't get to use your ignorance as the benchmark for others.

Comment Re:Haskell? (Score 1) 138

Python brought a unique mixture of functional and imperative syntax and semantics

Various ML dialects had that before Python. The thing Python brought was a poor performance implementation of a language from the C++ school of language design: keep adding features without regard to how they interact and expect programmers to know all of them (if they ever work with anyone else) but only use a subset if they don't want totally unmaintainable code.

Comment Re:Waitasecondhere... (Score 1) 403

Outside of Portland, what percentage of the population has full sleeve tattoos? 1 in 10,000, maybe? I'm not asking to be funny; except for in very certain cities, those are almost unseen. Even working in San Francisco I see very, very few. Oh, there are lots of smaller tattoos, but sleeves are unusual.

I'll bet more people are sensitive to the materials used to make the watch than are unable to use it because of their ink. That's not Apple's fault or a flaw in the watch, though: no one product can be useful to everyone.

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