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Comment We really should rethink web encryption. (Score 1, Interesting) 53

I am not a full time systems administrator, but I have setup ssl sights before. And if you don't do it all the time or at least one every 6 months. The process is cumbersome and difficult.
We have the cert agency otherwise the popular web browsers we'll create alerts stating how much of a horable institution you are for not shilling out cash for a key.
Then IIS vs Apache vs other browsers have different rules to setup and sometimes it just doest work when you follow the instructions.

It is a process that should be easier to setup.

This difficulty is why organizations may not go that route. They can't risk taking there servers down for a day to get their site secure. If the choose the wrong cert company they either spend a ton of money, or risk getting a company not recognized by the web browser. Scaring off users.
Then you have security updates. Which may break what you have setup.

I personally think ssl should be enabled by default by the web server, then you send the cert company your key made during the install process. Then they will give you a data set that you add to your configuration to tell the browser to check against that cert location. Then the browser can decide the quality of the cert verifier.

Comment Re:Now get Pluto designated a planet (Score 3, Interesting) 68

I learned a long time ago, the stuff I was taught in elementary school was nearly all wrong.
So when I hear that established fact has changed, it doesn't bug me so much. It is just part of the normal course.

Truth is the opposite of lying, Truth isn't absolute fact.

Scientific Truth, is the best guess on how things are based on evidence. As we get more evidence the nature of the scientific truth changes. The outdated scientific truth was truthful when it was new, as with the evidence it was the best case to follow. Then we find more and a better idea.... Sometimes we realize after we get even more the original idea was better.

Comment Re:don't need to look it up (Score 2) 53

I think the point was that they could have made autonomous driving cares for 20 years.

However... I expect there are a bunch of other factors.
1. 3,000 miles isn't really a lot of miles, over a 4 month time frame. I expect it was only tested in ideal conditions.
2. Software quality in 1995 was horrible! Not just with microsoft windows. But with Unix systems as well, these systems were touting 99% uptime. So that is a 1% failure rate... or 3.65 failures per year.
3. Lack of interests. We were in SUV height. Cheap gas, and everyone wanted to go off roading.

Comment Re: We need More Pork! More! (Score 4, Insightful) 370

The republicans do not have a good spending record either. They cut democratic lead initiatives, and put money in their own, then they cut taxes that they really don't have budgeted to do. So they raise taxes other ways.
The democrats when in charge will cut republican lead initiatives, put money in their own, they will not revert the tax cuts that the republicans made, even though it doesn't solve the budget, so they raise taxes in other ways.

The real problem is the polarization of the normal citizen. The politicians will only cater to them. Those damn moderates who sway the elections are who the politicians should be really kissing up to... But moderates have been toss aside, figuring they do no have any political ideals. Because the more extreme on the Right and Left have pulled many of them who are in the edges away.

Comment Re:Too many pixels = slooooooow (Score 1) 263

I had a book on GW Basic back in the late 80's
Under displays it had the following.
Screen 0 Text only 80x25 16 foreground colors, 8 background colors.
Screen 1 Graphics 320x200 and Text 40x25. 4 colors, choice of 8 background colors, and bad choices for foreground color.
Screen 2 Graphics 640x200 (High Resolution) and text 80x25 2 color. You had 16 colors to pick for the forgound color and 8 to choose for the background.

My computer only had a CGA compatible display so the below wouldn't work.
Screen 7,8,9, 10 were for EGA,
Screen 13 was for the VGA 320x200 256 colors. You got to mix pallets to do a bunch of cool stuff.

Comment Re:Like Coca Cola, git is the real thing (Score 1) 203

There is a difference between Serious Code and Distributed code.
You could write serious code without any sort of Source Control... However it isn't recommended.
But sometimes having a small term working a program is much better then having hundreds of people. So for the smaller teams GIT is too cumbersome.

Comment Re:And yet, no one understands Git. (Score 1) 203

I think it is a bit of all of it.
Git isn't for everyone or every project... For some people they are better off with Subversion or something else... Just because their project may have a structure that makes their tool easier to handle.

However I expect, there is a lot of room to make it easier to use, that the end users do not want to embrace, Primarily because they have gotten use to how it is now, and doesn't want to change their methods. But also as a way so they feel good that they are somehow special that they figured out this tool, more than someone else.

Part of the problem a lot of people think linearly. SourceSafe CVS Subversion GIT However they are all designed to solve a particular problem that they have. Sourcesafe which I personally and vehemently dislike, is simple to use and follows a simple methodology that people can understand, following the libary book model. This allows for easy adoption to using source control, thus better then not having a source control.

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