Soon to be the official SI unit describing the minimum distance between two blunders.

What is Jobs doing now? Oh right he is dead.

Which he probably would still be and quite possibly would have been sooner if he had risked any of his success to tread his daughter better.

So there are two conclusions you can draw (probably others as well).

1) you only live once and death is certain; best live life to the fullest enjoy it as much as you can. If you don't think there is more pleasure to be derived from things like family or other social responsibilities than the alternatives FUCK IT and move on to something more entertaining because you will end up a rotting corpse or pile of ash either way.

2) death is certain, therefore what you leave behind matters because if you don't leave something or someone behind to be remembered for or to remember you than there will be nothing left.

If it's Ubuntu, it's a new problem, or only affects certain makes and models. I ran kubuntu on an Acer notebook for quite a while, and its wifi was far better than Windows.

I suspect it's an issue with drivers; Linux has had driver issues in the past, especially with newer equipment.

And this is how copyright caused thousands of deaths because the life saving checks could not be implemented.

I feel like a story coming to me...

not true, firewalls can do wondrous things nowadays to isolate

Not lack of skill, things are very nice when you can use real addresses for everything. I worked at national lab that is still that way even now

My pet Dalek sounds like that when he has a stuffed proboscis

that sounds like...MOLE TALK! *blam* *blam!*

But that is the case with any security project. You cannot keep the stupid from doing stupid things and they're the weakest link. Only by removing THEM do you remove the threats to any security system.

If your private keys are compromised, would you keep using them? Some in this world think it would be acceptable simply because the cost of replacement ($25-150 for a new certificate). Eventually the PHB's take over a perfectly working project and cause it to be declared insecure.

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.