Living in Houston is like living in a dog's mouth. Hot, wet, and smelly.
It is the armpit of Texas.

This one never gets old
http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

Wake up pspahn. The matrix has you.

And that makes it better? Sounds like more rent seeking.

By inspection, Ft. Worth is above and to the left of the centroid of the state. Therefore Northeast Texas.

Yes, you could do that, but then you'd have to distribute the updated cacerts to all desktops that need to run your app, and keep it updated whenever a new JVM comes out.

Oracle did implement a runtime configuration file that could be used to whitelist certain hosts, but the distribution problem remains.

This would not affect Eclipse, no, but it does affect locally produced applications that are distributed from an intranet web server with Java Web Start / Java Network Launch Protocol.

Previously, we could just self-sign our app and users could choose to accept the app once and for all and not be bothered so long as the signing cert didn't change. Now, all of our users running Java 1.7.0_40 are given the threatening dialog each and every time they run our internal app, and they can't get rid of it.

We're going to pony up for a code signing cert from a (Java-recognized) certificate authority to make the dialog go away. It's a hassle, but probably still the right thing for Oracle to do at this point.

Okay. I'll bite. Where is the inflation?

Fine. Except fracking has been specifically excluded from the current EPA regulations regarding drilling and contaminated groundwater (thanks, Cheney!).

The way I see it, we just need to shave one of those neutrons off. Like, say, with another neutron. What could possibly go wrong?

You are missing the point. With increased automation, the cost of production is moving from a labor cost to a capital cost. So the profits going to the owner said capital are not necessarily increasing, but they are definitely increasing when compared to the falling profit going to labor. Which is pretty cool if you happen to be capital. And kinda sucks if you happen to be labor.

In a first approximation, all of biology is a series of cascading chemical reactions. Why should cilia be any different?

Ah. Remember way back when? When internet connections turned off.

Now if you will excuse me, I need to check on my 1984 torrent.

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