The Elder Things and the Shoggoths would disagree.

On these logs, as is the norm, every web request was recorded (more than 376 million HTTP requests in total). It is certainly unfortunate this information was leaked out, and who knows who got it before it got fixed.

You could, you know... look in the logs to find out?

Or that they've always silently thrown away anything past the 16th character.
This used to be the case with old Unix passwords too, except that the limit was 8 characters: if your password was hunter123, you could log in with hunter12, hunter124, etc.

CJ

Exactly. The German translation is horrible. It looks like one person just went over the keywords and translated them without considering the context they'd be used in. I'm pretty sure that nobody else checked on that translation before they decided to go with it.

The main problem seems to be that the translator decided to use the infinitive verb form for command/method names, when the imperative form would have been more appropriate.
E.g., arr.zerteilen(x) literally means arr.to_slice(x), not arr.slice(x).

They're not even consistent in that usage:
decodeURI --> dekodiereURI (imperative)
break --> abbrechen (infinitive, "to break")
try --> versuche (imperative)
throw --> wirf (imperative)
catch --> fangen (infinitive, "to catch")

Some translations are incorrect or just plain weird:
length --> länger ("longer")
parseFloat --> parseGleitkommazahl ("parse" is not a German word)
parseInt --> praseGanzzahl (neither is "prase", obviously ;-)
return --> rücksprung ("the jump back", awkward when used with values)
escape --> umsetzen (??)

This clearly needs more work. Which is a shame, because I'm teaching programming to an 11-year old who only has a rudimentary grasp of English. This could have been used as a stepping stone to the real thing, but not in this state. It's probably a good thing, anyway. It won't hurt the kid to learn some more English.

CJ

He isn't completely gone. He just looks smaller, now that you're all grown up.

The good news is he may have a twin brother, so you get two dogs for the price of one.

The person who leaked this memo did so for a reason. He believes that things like confidential notices to Mozillians and planned press releases a few days later are part of where Mozilla is going wrong. The community should be informed and their feedback should be discussed openly before such decisions are made. The way that Mozilla operates today is more like any other large and secretive company than a community-driven effort. Which is, arguably, what they have become (at least judging from their revenue and the large number of employees).

Wherever you stand on this decision, the person who pasted the confidential message to Pastebin didn't do so out of spite, or because he was being "a dick", but because he's concerned about what Mozilla is becoming. Here's the commentary at the end of the leaked memo:

And a more broadly focused post script that won't necessarily make sense to those outside Mozilla (or even a good chunk of those within): The fact that this message was marked "confidential" is part of a deeply, deeply troubling trend. The biggest irony? Uninitiated employees--those being discussed in .governance right now, and who feel that there's actually quite a lot at Mozilla that shouldn't happen in the public--will point to this incident to try to make their point, in a tremendous display of Not Fucking Getting It. Let's rewind a year or three, MoCo.

CJ

This sounds tremendously useful, but I can't find any way to edit the message source at all. All I see is the "View source" menu item (or Ctrl+U shortcut), which gives me a read-only view of the source. Can you please explain how you get to a source editor?

Assuming you're in the US, that's just not true. The United States have had observer status at CERN since 1997.

Here's a quote from the relevant press release:

Council delegates applauded warmly as representatives of United States of America were welcomed to the Council session for the first time as official Observers. This new status follows the agreement between CERN and the United States for a contribution of $531 million to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project which was signed in Washington on 8 December (see PR07.97).

It's quite likely that more funds have been contributed by the US in the 15 years since then.

So thank you for your contribution. You were part of the LHC project from the start.

CJ

I'm not a physicist, so please correct me if I misunderstood. Are you saying that this field surrounds us and penetrates us, and that it binds the galaxy together?

Damn it, this really bothers me. I'm usually very careful to check my theories and hunches before I post a comment, but I really messed that one up. Now instead of modding me down, like I asked, people are modding it up. Apologies to Roberto Lim and Robin Miller, and anybody who read what I wrote but missed the AC's correction.

I want to blame the Euro soccer finals and copious amounts of alcohol, but I should know better than to drink and post.

Agree.

Just for the record, "acknowledged Mobile Raptor blogger Roberto Lim" = Roblimo (357), former Slashdot editor.

TFA follows the same scheme as many recent Slashdot submissions - ask an inflammatory question (to which to answer is usually "no") to generate page views and a heated discussion. I read (part of) TFA, and the only thing it does is present some pros and some cons and leave the question open.

In summary, nothing to see here, move along.

Right. It would be interesting if we could use something like this to train Photoshop filters to get closer to the result we want...

On a side note, one of the example photo conversions on page 7 of the PDF (or here from the third link) has the i-programmer writer commenting "I can't help but think that the bird looks a lot like something from Angry Birds...". That's not an accident: the original source image is this photo of a red cardinal bird, which was photoshopped by DeviantArt user mohamedraoof to look like a "Natural Angry Bird". All three images, the original photo, the deviation, and the sumi-e version look very nice in their own way.

So would I.
I especially like how he asked Rasmus Lerdorf to "escalate this bug to someone"...

CJ