It's been a log time since I worked in the industry (I did programming in Health Physics at San Onofre many years ago) but I know that at the time, France was considered to have the safest reactors, operating rules, and procedures. Their Health Physics rules were particularly admired. Of course, this makes sense, because historically, isn't France the country with the widest deployment of and most reliance on nuclear reactors? But, now France has decided on a long-term goal of phasing-out nuclear power. Perhaps the best way to win this game - is to not play at all.

Oh. The P.P.S. is a bug report. Sorry. I will report it.

It's not a bug report, though. It's news.

Hmmmm.... somehow I thought that knockoffs are legal in China? Maybe only if they knockoff another Chinese manufacturer? Maybe only if they sell it to a Chinese person?

Because otherwise, how can you explain why so many different factories make exactly the same product?

Now, legitimately, maybe IP-holders in China license multiple factories to make the same product, and then each factory sells the items directly from the factory, and pays a royalty to the IP-holder, but...

No.

Still, my advice on buying from Alibaba I think still stands:

• Go to Target. Walmart. Etc.
• Find a cheap product you want to buy.
• See if it's in the original box. If not, skip it. (Look at the overstock above. You might see the original case box.)
• Get the name and address whatever details you can from the box
• See if you can find it on Alibaba Direct.
• For best results, match the factory
• Buy it for 1/3 the price or less

You will PROBABLY get the same item.

But frergidiabout buying any kind of electrical meter with a yellow bezel. Fluke will have it stopped at the border.

Why does it make sense? Because America?

Yes.

And because when Syria takes over France.

Very, very old news.

We did this circa 1971 in High School, Cass Technical High School, Detroit, Michigan placing an AM radio on the console of an IBM 1620.

There was a program you could load that would play a tune. But we would also just leave the radio there during normal use. We swore we could tell when the Fortran compiler was processing a FORMAT statement:

Bloop! Bloop! (pause) Bloop! Bloop! (pause) Bloop! Bloop! (pause) Brawwwww! Brawwwwww! Brawwwwww! Brawwwwww!

(The last bit is the FORMAT statement...)

In any case, it was pretty clear when your program was in an infinite loop, and so we used it for some debugging.

So, in 45 years, we've advanced to recognizing keystrokes. Good job, git!

How much of this, though, is due to abusive practices like traffic pumping?

There were hearings and talk of reform. Did anything every happen?

Is it possible that the reasons that long-distance calls (in or out) don't complete because they've been too greedy abusively-routing 900-calls and the like through these areas?

Wait. Do you mean that Apple has just agreed to allow the Chinese to audit the Chinese-made iPhones that have Chinese malware that the Chinese put in to the iPhones that Apple is shipping from China to China? Next they will be wanting to audit the Chinese-made iPhones that have Chinese malware that the Chinese put in to the iPhones that Apple is shipping from China to the U.S. as well? Before or after the NSA interdicts the Chinese-made iPhones made in China by Chinese and shipped (via some secret stop-off) to the U.S.? Will they audit to make sure that both the Chinese and NSA-installed malware is still present?

That doesn't mean they should be free to endanger others with their bodies.

As long as they remain isolated, and do not go out in public that is fine. Where do these people get off refusing immunizations, and then sending their kids out infecting others? If you refuse immunization, you should not be able to participate in modern society - beyond the boundary of their four walls and a keyboard, anyway. PERIOD. It is too much of a risk to society.

Diseases that were eradicated within my lifetime are back, thanks to these idiots. Polio was eradicated in the U.S., for example. It was a scary thing, an awful, crippling disease. I was in the first lucky generation to get the sugar cube and not have to worry about it. Now it is back, because of some ass-hats that put their own religious beliefs aheads of everything else, including the safety and, yes, lives of others.

I would go so far as to call it a form of terrorism. At least it is the SAME attitude that is driving, for example, Muslim extremism.

So, maybe you aren't "anti-vax" yourself. But by supporting the "right" of others to kill in the name of their beliefs, you are supporting terrorism.

I saw the story the other day about the sect that refuses medical care altogether. They have this graveyard just packed with the kids that die at birth, 1 month, 6 months, 1, 5, 12... when they get some minor ailment. Just tape that graveyard off with biohazard tape, and corral the kids in there until they meet their inevitable fate, and make it clear to the rest of the public that they ought to stay away or they will get what their stupidity deserves.

I say require immunization certificates from the visitors, as well.

Of course, that is not practical. So, let's fix our public-health policy to remove these ridiculous exemptions that are bringing back eradicated diseases.

And for Ruby fans there are Middleman and Jekyll (among others) with [favorite Ruby template system here].

In fact, you can mix and match templates from like a couple-dozen choices, (using partials) even in the same page. Write headers, footers, menus, etc. in Slim, body text in Markdown, head material (script and style links, etc.) in ERB etc. etc. etc.

Slim is great for fine-grained elements - it's got the wierd HAML-like syntax but without the stupidity of HAML. Takes some getting used-to, but perfect for the 2 to 10-line partials I write for table cells, list items, list containers, menu choices, etc. Markdown is great for writing text content that is actually readable in source form. sometimes you just want good-old ugly ERB.

I use Middleman for PhoneGap/Cordova projects. I want to throw things when I see people hand-coding Phonegap documents and then doing mass edits when they change their minds about structure or appearance! Use a damn SSG! Please stop the cut-and-paste madness!

I also use build tools like rake to make custom "pre-build" systems even when I DO have a framework. I've done this to create a family of similar mobile apps. Here's a presentation I did on it at Motorola AppForum 2014. The first half is probably of interest here. (The second half is way RhoMobile Rhodes-specific, and afraid it is lacking the audio - the first half is pretty understandable from just the slides.)

Large-Scale Multi-App Development Using Rhodes

While I don't typically create websites (I write hybrid mobile apps) this can also be a great approach for websites if you need to "brand" similar sites for multiple clients, and then each site wants somewhat different features. The above link shows how I created 6 form-filling data-collection apps with similarities but considerable different details, with something like 80% of the app code shared. The same techniques can be applied to websites.

He already chose a CMS - just one with a stutter. (I thought it was a typo at first.)

I don't understand how he considers that "from scratch"...

Well, letsee, I'm a developer, I hate Java programming, I don't write Java, but I need to have it installed. Why?

- Android developers need Java, even if they don't write Java. Writing a hybrid app using, say, PhoneGap/Cordova, Rhodes, Titanium, etc? You need Java.

- Backup with CrashPlan? You need Java. CrashPlan is not alone here. Many similar programs need Java.

- Many other disk/file type utilities use Java. Pretty much any of those nifty applications that show you what's using all your disk space using graphics.

- I have a home automation controller (isy99i). It has a web UI, but that still needs Java. (You can use it in a browser or on desktop, but either way the UI uses Java.)

- Again for developers, way too many build processes that aren't Java-based seem to throw in one little part of the build process that uses Java. (That is, say, they use rake, Grunt, etc. I guess they had one developer who was in-disposable and that just couldn't go along with the program.

- Developer using Eclipse IDE? Or many other development environments that use a bundled Eclipse? You need Java. (I try to avoid these if at all possible, but sometimes it is unavoidable.

Do you see the scary thing here? Java is used by a lot of software developers, even if they don't program in Java. It's also used for a lot of backup and file utilities. Perfect vectors for mischief.

"Twenty-eight of these may be remotely exploitable without authentication and can possibly be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password."

Which?

The original bugs, or the new security fixes?

Birds do not have rotors.