>but until they learn what a compacting garbage collector is Tada! http://www.mono-project.com/Compacting_GC The new GC is bundled with 2.8 and will become the default in 2.10. Mono's VM is pretty nice overall, its the GC that caused pain in long running process scenarios. Its not so much that the GC wasn't compacting either, it was more an issue because it was a conservative scanner which lead to leaks.

No, actually the system is C++.

I want to capture digital output from my cable box to my computer. The cable box refuses to talk to my computer because it won't do the HDCP handshake.

>If the padding is invalid, the error message that the sender gets will give him some information about the way that the site's decryption process works.

This is one reason you should send user friendly error messages to your consumers instead of stack traces, stack traces can contain details that an attacker could use against you. It sounds like you're safe if you're following best practices already.

My thoughts exactly. Just when I thought we were getting somewhere on standardizing small devices on micro USB, Samsung teases us with an awesome device with this crazy crap on it.

You might not have heard if you have been living under a rock for the past 2 or 3 years, but Android uses the Linux kernel. Whether you can run your _own_ Linux distribution on there is another question entirely. Sooner or later, I'm sure someone will crack it if Samsung has decided to lock it down. As with most (all?) Android devices, you're not forced to use the market.

You don't own the software, you license it. Use your own software, or software without copy protection, and copy away.

The article never mentions sodium chloride, I though that sounded a bit off when I read the summary.

Yes. Basically Java went the backwards compatible approach and C# went the "correct" approach.

Seeing how Java is a much more mature and widely used language, the decision made a lot of sense. Companies that were using old Java stuff wouldn't be very thrilled to learn that they couldn't use generics or any libraries that used generics.

.NET on the other hand was still rather young. They could afford to ditch backwards compatibility for long term gains.

Its not the compression ratio that gives you good engine braking. Think about it, although it may take a fair amount of energy to compress all the air in the cylinder; you get most of it back when the piston comes down on the power stroke. The exception to this is if you have an engine brake which opens the exhaust values early so the energy you stored up as compressed air gets shot out the exhaust instead of pushing the piston back down (it also makes a nice loud sound in the process).

What gives you decent engine braking in a gas engine is having to pull air past a mostly closed throttle. In diesels, there typically is no throttle so you get very poor engine braking. I'm not sure what kind of diesels you have been driving, but they're not typical.

Screw the Red Cross, I'm going to start selling my blood to rich old people!

I think you meant Theora, as Vorbis is an audio codec. Or maybe you'd like to go watch some MP3 videos.

How many times does this link need to be posted for people to stop the Theora/Vorbis FUD? http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html