Isn't that argument a bit like "I plan to live forever, so far so good"? After all, if it did wipe out all life well then we'd be dead so obviously it hasn't happened yet. Some large extinction event seem to happen once every 50-100 million years, what does a once in a billion year event look like? Ceres, the biggest object in the asteroid belt is about a million times bigger (10^20 kg vs 10^14 kg) than the dino killer. That one isn't going anywhere, but there's clearly quite a few potential total extinction candidates if they came to intersect with Earth's orbit.

Believe it or not some of us like the fatty cheesy goodness on Pizza Hut pizzas, and as for meat feast, ohh baby.

Oh, trust me, I've been to a Wal Mart in the US, I know it's real.

Just don't expect anybody to take your opinion seriously about what is tasty food when you eat like a 7 year old.

Pizza Hut is grease, piled on top of oil, to the point that the bottom of the crust is fried (and this is by design). And that's quit disgusting.

I'm under the impression that: as currently lots of the precussors of future IoT projects are from the maker culture it's probably one of the more hipsterish languages like Python and Ruby which might see more rise.

If you think of it, currently it's platforms like Raspberry Pi which are the forerunner of all the future connected small things. It's the "plant tweeting when it needs water" of today, that are the "intelligent fridge which automatically fills your grocery list" of tomorrow.
And currently, Python is *the* most popular rapid prototyping language on these platform.

Well, try to be gentle with them. Do to run too fast so they can try to pretend they can keep up. And while running, please push aside all the various garbage laying on the ground so that these Javaminators don't trip on them and fall (or stop to automatically collect it up).

Also be kind: if you meet more than 1 of them, it would be proper etiquette to act as a translator between them so they can understand each-other (specially if one of them speaks microsoft dialect)

Try also to be understanding toward their sensitivities. There are a few of their kind that the remaining Javaminators consider untouchable (specially the one called Dalvik). Try not to madden them because you don't agree with that rejection (Even if you consider that actually that pastry-obsessed-outcast is the cool guy you want to hang around with).

Excessive hyperbole is silly, yes...

Global warming is a sloooooooooooooooooow process and even if you burned every bit of coal and oil you wouldn't make Canada into Sahara, it's hardly an extinction level event. A modern day pandemic could presumably kill millions, but it's hardly an existential threat to the human race. Same goes for total thermonuclear war, there's be a lot of direct deaths and many more indirects deads from nuclear winter and starvation but not enough to wipe us out.

Tsar Bomba (most powerful nuke): 50 MT
Chicxulub asteroid (dino killer): 100,000,000 MT

We're not even remotely in the same league. The odds are small that it happens tomorrow but in terms of "worst case" asteroids have everything us humans can come up with beat by far.

This. It seems sexual preferences, age and location is rather essential for the service they provide and email, well how else are they going to notify you that someone has taken an interest in you or that you got a reply? You can't ask a doctor to not work with medical data, there's of course good and poor security but at the end of the day if there's a total system compromise you're screwed.

Best practice seems to be as follows:
1. Public facing server makes web service call to locked down proxy server.
2. Proxy server validates every request thoroughly, everything that looks even remotely funny is rejected.
3. Proxy server queries stored procedure in locked down database, no SELECT * for you.
4. The results are serialized back to XML and sent to the public facing server for display.

A lot of work if you want to do it right, but you get a fairly good barrier to a total breach from the outside. Of course they could compromise your web server and start harvesting data, but you should have some sort of tripwire system for that with audits and logs checking for abnormal activity.

The other way in is of course from your network, if they can compromise someone on the inside with database access or developers to plant vulnerabilities that'll go into the production system. But that's usually a much tougher route and really no different from breaking into any other secure network.

Funny that here around I've regularly seen and read different numbers (random source in fr. key point < 10% for latex based condoms, < 5% for polyurethan. that's just a random example. I don't have enough time to kill to do a complete litterature mining and meta analysis)
Either North American are much dumber or worse at using condom than European, or your condoms tend to be made of a self-destructin material~
Xenophobic jokes aside, actual result vary *wildly* depending on the considered population, specially the level of sex-ed.

*when used properly* condoms can be very much safe. When used *haphazardly* not so.
See this table (again quick search). Pregnancy rates vary a lot. (See the specially low level among "motivated women" in israel. They probably had better knowledge on proper prevention than the (poor) women in the philiphine that still did get pregnant up to 60%).

The difference in number seem to be linked in the level of education and motivation of the people. A *properly* used condom is effective. That means that you need to educate better the people, to that they use the prevention better.
(instead of completely ignoring condoms, and opting to outcast HIV positive people, as suggested by top troll).

(I know it's only an anecdote, but that also match my personnal experience with <1% breakage among the hundreds of protected intercourses I've done. But both I and girl(s) knew how to use a condom properly and the necessary precautions to take).

You realize that putting quotes around it usually indicates that there is a nudge and wink going on at the same time

And you realize that *straight*, as written by the poster, would produce bolded text in many editors, right?

So, maybe you're not as "clever" as you think?

And, of course, let's not stop there ... let's move to the managers, executives, and sales/marketing assholes who force this shit out the door.

The poor bastard of a programmer who has been told by the VP or the CEO (or the sales wanker) that the product must ship now, or that security doesn't matter is not always the cause of this. Sometimes they're the ones saying "umm, guys, this could be a problem".

So, if we're assigning blame, let's go with the people who are actually to blame and who make the decisions.

In the military, "just following orders" may not be a defense. But in private industry it's often the management who create these problems.

Which is precisely why I say that corporations should be held to a legal standard for the protection of personal information, and should carry penalties for failure to do so.

As long as corporations just say "oh, bummer dude" and have no penalties, they'll continue to cut as many corners as possible. Because there simply is no consequence for them.

I'm as concerned about the management people who don't give a damn. Because they're the ones who make policy and decide that not sucking at security is too costly.

So, want a secure internet? Kick an MBA or a CEO in the nuts, and tell them you'll keep doing it until they insist on secure code.

Well, if they choose to make it opt-in, then awesome, no harm no foul, and only people who turn it on will have it.

But when it is made opt-out, it says "fuck you, we'll track you unless you know enough to stop us".

And it's that kind of behavior which really pisses us off. It shouldn't be up to the average user to have to know where to disable this crap.

Just like they backed down on 3rd party cookies to keep the ad companies happy -- it's a sign that increasingly they're driven by money, instead of writing a good browser which doesn't have all of this shit in it.

If they make this crap opt in, nobody will bitch at them. But they haven't. And we're pissed off.

Do Not Track is useless garbage.

It doesn't stop any tracking. It's a voluntary program which doesn't mean what you think it means:

Even if you have Do Not Track turned on, that information will be collected and stored and used to create a profile of you that may or may not be accurate. That profile can be used by credit agencies, big corporations, and health insurance companies to make decisions about you that can literally affect your life and livelihood.

And it's not just the tracking industry that is ignoring the intent of Do Not Track.

If Firefox is relying on a useless fucking setting like Do Not Track to disable this advertising, then they're assholes.

Do Not Track is a complete lie in order to give the illusion corporations give a crap about your privacy or your wishes.

Want to stop being tracked? Run every ad blocker and privacy extension you can find. Because relying on some marketing asshole to not track you anyway is just stupid.

It's the piles and piles of third party shit on the internet embedded in every page which you need to be blocking.

"With Suggested Tiles, we want to show the world that it is possible to do relevant advertising and content recommendations while still respecting users' privacy and giving them control over their data."

How about no? How about some of us don't want advertising? How about you better give a mechanism to disable this crap?

What part of "not interested in your damned ads" is hard to understand?

VirtualBox we more or less kinda allowed it to die

Ummm ... what the hell are you talking about? I use it daily, I get updates for it regularly, and it's anything but dead.

VirtualBox is alive and well.

Then I suggest finding a real Italian restaurant with a real wood-fired oven, making thin crust pizza at high heat, and with good quality toppings.

Things like Dominos and Pizza Hut? Well, they're pretty much the most nasty form of disgusting greasy pizza known to man.

If you're using those as your benchmark for pizza, you're doing it wrong. Just like if you're using McDonald's as a benchmark for what a good burger should be.

Oh, sorry, should I have found some garbage rag dedicated to excusing and covering up the left's mistakes? There are certainly a LOT more of those to choose from.

Actually, you are an ignorant douchebag with no clue about anything, and a shill for the vastly harmful pharmaceutical industry.

Well, if you only have a nice academic abstraction in a book which is the language ... sure, that's awesome and all.

And then in the real world the platform, and its many variations, becomes an issue.

It's been years since I wrote in Java, but we'd get the regular updates of the platform, which may or may not have broken something. You'd get every vendor having their own JVM, or their extensions.

So you'd write a webapp for one platform and test it, and then someone would cram it into yet another proprietary variant which wasn't compatible. Which usually left the customer screeching that when you listed the platforms you supported, that it didn't work on the one they had which you'd never tested against.

And don't even get me stared on the shitware which Java wants to install now. Sorry, Oracle, but we don't give a fuck about your stupid Ashole.com toolbar.

So, yes, maybe in some perfect little bubble which doesn't depend on the platform Java is an awesome language. But in the real world, it seems like many things were a moving target, and that the platform gave you more sources of grief than the language.

I've lost count of the number of applications I've seen which the vendor basically says "we are compatible with this version of Java, and nothing else".

In that regards, as much as I like the actual language ... the platform can be a pain in the ass.

I don't know what it's like now (as I said, haven't directly used it in years). But there was a time when there was so much fragmentation as to make the "write once/run anywhere" a really bad joke.