Comment Short version (Score 4, Insightful) 376
We heard you're making the next Star Wars movie. Please don't fuck it up like George Lucas did with the first two prequels.
Thanks,
Star Wars fans everywhere
Much more likely is that "unauthorized" Java VMs will start to crop up that let the user whitelist applets rather than relying on Oracle's certificate system.
Doesn't OpenJDK already do this? I haven't done Java in years so I'm a bit behind the times.
Actually, some WYSIWYG editors like Amaya can produce standards-compliant code these days (since Amaya is the W3C's own tool, I would sure hope it produces compliant code). I use Amaya for creating web-based documentation. I initially code the document template by hand and then use the WYSIWYG tool to add the actual content because doing all that by hand is downright tedious. When I'm writing, I like to focus 100% on content without having to worry about the HTML.
The only gripe I have with Amaya is that the interface is a bit clunky (even though it still works great) and I just can't make the damn thing work on Linux Mint 15 even with the official deb packages.
Have you ever seen the applications people build around MS Access back in the day? It was, I am not exaggerating, a nightmare. You could really have bad dreams about that sort of thing, because it felt like what getting lost in the woods at night feels like.
The Visual Basic 6 monstrosities people used to cobble together back in the '90s were just as bad.
The thing I'm not sure about right now is whether the RSA method itself is becoming insecure or if standard-size keys can simply be brute-forced. If it's a question of key size, then why not use larger keys?
The last time I checked, it is possible to increase the size of RSA keys quite a bit. Most frontends for PGP/GPG only allow keys up to 4096-bit to be created but several years ago I was able to generate valid key pairs up to 11296-bit. I had to modify the GPG source code and recompile it before it would let me create oversize keys but my 11296-bit key is still compatible with stock GPG.
Big companies hire developers fresh out of college constantly.
Sadly, it didn't work out that way for me when I got out back in 2008 (right before the economy went bad). I wasn't a seasoned veteran but I wasn't a green developer with no experience either (I even had a small portfolio at the time).
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr