My experience is these newfangled API's perform poorly across the board.

For example, LocalStorage was great, it's fast, it's easy but is hamstrung by it's limits. IndexedDB is another beast entirely with severe performance and implementation issues and total non-resemblance of what an actual database interface should be.

I find Firefox to be slow and bloated. Using 500MB of RAM for 2-3 tabs is ridiculous. Perhaps the plugins are the reason but Safari + AdBlock + Click2Plugin is very, very responsive.

Sites breaking is that site's issue, not a Safari issue and avoiding the site or fixing the site is usually the correct response. You can probably replicate the same issue on Chrome and other WebKit browsers.

I like Safari's developer functions, Mozilla even copied them (poorly). For instance Safari allows you to see what actually happens on any site you just visited. Mozilla changes the way 304's and similar caches work in dev mode causing issues to disappear in dev mode.

This is Slashdot, not CNN. I am a geek/nerd with 2 decades worth of experience in computer programming and currently working close with people in the field of evolutionary biology. If anything, I'm excited that a computer sees what the religious right doesn't.

Perhaps they meant that the data is available but it's origin isn't. So you can safely publish your customer data for analysis because (in theory) the data source is anonymized.

Homomorphic encryption is a pipe dream thus far.

Some Engima messages have thus far been undecrypted. Enigma was an awesome encryption tool and in theory (especially at the time) unhackable. The issue came in, as most/all encryption systems are vulnerable to the famous PEBKAC. A device was stolen/recovered by the allies allowing for the discovery of it's mechanism which was based around a one-time-pad rotating ciphers every so often (it would be similar to getting your hands on the source code of the algorithm of more modern encryptions and the rotating key was a frequently changing 'private key'). Later on, code books were stolen/recovered as well which were not/improperly destructed (similar to getting your hands on the set of private keys). Substantiating those compromises were the fact that some officers used the same key over and over opening the door to linguistic analysis. Later on, versions of Enigma machines had rotators removed in order to cut costs.

The problems wasn't with the tool but with the PHB's in charge (much like current encryption systems).

Sure 16 cm of borosilicate glass could do the job of holding back 1300 PSI but where is the air conditioner going to dump the heat? And people will go outside through a "lock" in a "suit" to do what on plains of hardened lava? That's a weird kind of hot loving robot's job, exploring the surface of venus.

No, some of the Soviet Venus probe lasted more than an hour, some less https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not everyone has a brand-new computer; The manuscript of the book I'm about to publish is in Open Office Word, about 400 pages and full of large images, and autosave is a real pain because it takes minutes to save the file.

Like another commenter said, I wouldn't make it the most important thing, overall efficiency is. But software speed is important to anyone with an older computer, especially a Windows computer, because the computer slows as the registry grows, and the registry never gets smaller, only bigger.

It's impressive that it can even recognize and classify things as such. Great apes and humans share about 99% of our DNA, any 'alien' entity would classify us amongst the apes.

The fact that black people are black and thus have a closer resemblance to the generally 'darker' great apes is not racist because an algorithm that is not programmed to have biases cannot be racist. It's just peoples interpretation of the facts that makes things 'racist'. Superficially, black people and apes look mathematically more alike than white people and apes. If the thing was trained on albino apes (which do exist), white people would be considered apes AND NOBODY WOULD THINK IT WAS RACIST.

What's sad is that UOP really could have done it! If they offered actual counseling guidance, and curricula that didn't just suck, and made sure that their clients passed classes with rigor, they could have *easily* made a profitable college with good reviews and earned trust.

Instead, they violated that trust, and probably deserve to be shut down.

Depends, they could easily have made 6000 Perl one-liners.

Lines of code is really a bad metric. If you have 6000 lines written by a team of bad programmer (which is typical for startups) vs 6,000,000 by a set of really good programmers makes a huge difference.

The is about the oldest game in business dealings and legal ranging. You toss together a huge pile of largely irrelevant material to "support" your argument, banking on the other guy deicing its to hard to go thru it all or if he can't connect the dots (because there really are none) he must be stupid and won't want to admit it.

No I am sure they don't want to redo a warrant, I am also sure if one comes over that is an inch think its 98% or more BS.

Yes its sad but true. The progressives win out in then end. They have succeeded, in undoing the work Hammurabi did all those years ago. Sure we still have codified law but it really does not matter. The government is bound by common definitions of works or shared understanding; let alone the notion that laws ought to be read using the prevailing definitions of the day when they were drafted. Now anything can mean anything at all.

You are free to associate unless its with a group someone has labeled terrorists. Oh and don't go thinking you have a choice in not associating. If you say don't want to join a heal insurance pool than you shall be taxed. Sounds striking similar to what was required if you chose not to join the Anglican Church in the seventeenth century. Don't wish to allow a certain group to associate with you your business etc, to bad you will sued into oblivion by an attorney general with a chip on his should. It matters not whether your reason are simple bigotry or sincere religious conviction or anything else.

The lower house the peoples house gets to allocate the purse. Nope not since the advent of budget reconciliation, and the idea the president somehow has the power to continue to spend on "critical activities" and to decide what is critical if the body won't authorize a budget he likes.

The Senate shall provide advice and consent to treaties, well consent any way and we shall see how long that lasts, thanks to TPP Fast Track.

The president isn't allowed to declare war, oh well the war powers act gives him sixty days; what its past that well no matter, its not a war its a "kinetic military action".

Al-Qaeda / ISIS Iraq / Syria those are pretty much the same right we can just say the old the AUMF covers that..

Face it folks we have shaken off the last vestiges of any kind of "Rule of Law". With Secret courts that do whatever they want and a Supreme Court that issues opinions that seem more driven by poll numbers than ideas about language, law, and facts its all a bad joke. Freedom ends not with bang but a whimper.

That is the sort of lets compare penis size thinking that gets us in wars in the first place. If bravery means putting your self in harms way when there is an equally effective and far less costly solution that does not place you in personal jeopardy available, than bravery has become synonymous with idiocy.

Its costs more per hour for a maned aircraft to be in the air, a pilot who is under some threat however small stuffed in a cramped cockpit is not going to make a better last moment decision about a target than a drone pilot, who has more time to think about the immediate state on the ground.

The problem is we are selecting targets based on shitty intelligence and in many cases nothing but metadata and then dropping bombs on people. Yep drones have become a flashpoint around the world for outrage. I don't really see any evidence to suggest sentiment toward maned American military aircraft would be much better if we were using them the way we are using the drones. Most of the targets don't really have the capacity to shoot back at something like jet fighter-bomber anyway.

BUNK!

Drone piolots have no doubt done somethings history won't look kindly on but so has basically every fighting man using whatever technology and tactics. Sure maybe some just do it for the pay check or lack of other options but most of the people that enlist in our volunteer armed services have some conviction about defending the nation.

They are fed probably ten times as much propaganda about the enemy as the rest of us and yet 9999 times of 10000 or more they continue to treat the enemy humanely and frequently place themselves in grater danger to do so. Drone pilots might not face that personal danger and not facing that choice probably makes them better not worse when it comes to "doing the right thing". Suppose all the drone missions were instead flowing with manned aircraft, with pilots always wonder when they might be surprised by some AA device left over from previous conflicts. Do think they would make more or fewer errors?

Militaries kill people and break things, its what they do on a very very fundamental level. Whatever the mission is that is ultimately how it will be effected if you employ the military to do it. Sometimes that is the right thing. I'll be the first to say the middle east aint our fight, and we should bring both the troops and the drones home. Please though lets put the blame for those casualties where it belongs. On the people giving the orders and overseeing the programs. Not on our pilots, sailors and soldiers who really are just following orders.

If your CO handed you a photo of a nondescript building and said "Intel says a terrorist cell is hiding out here, hit it with a hellfire" What would you do? You would probably do what most of us would take them at their word and follow the order. When you read next week in the Time about how the CIA fucked up again and the place was full of civilians you'd feel guilty and not re-enlist when the time come, a problem the Air Force currently is having.

I hope you take some responsibility for it when you next visit the ballot box and cast your vote for someone who will stop doing this crap.