Agreed. However fixing obviously brain damaged code is a start.

Not me. Exposing ssh to the entire internet unless required = retarded.

Not necessarily. They are ripping out a lot of crap, much of which is portability done badly. The priority, it appears to is get back to a minimalist, secure code base, and then re-port it (to selected, actually used architectures, not big-endian x86 for example - which was some of the code removed) as time permits.

Yup. I can't believe that there were such dodgy trade-offs made for SPEED (at the expense of code readability and complexity) in openSSL. SSL/TLS is one of the things I don't care about speed on. I want a secure connection - i'll take my ADSL running like a 28.8k modem if that's what it takes.

CM is there for both preventing fuck ups and dealing with them when they occur. First things first: do you have a test environment? If not, build one. Do you have documented processes? If not, document them.

Proper change management ensures that: 1. people in the group know what is going on. 2. you have a second/third set of eyes to ensure that you have both a plan, a backout plan (or plan B in case it can't be backed out) and a test methodology to ensure that a change hasn't broken things. 3. to make you think about the implications of what you are doing, and 4. that business stakeholders are informed and know how to plan around any impact both expected and unforeseen.

If you aren't doing all of those things already, sorry dude but you are just winging it. That's efficient, etc. until one day it all goes horribly wrong and you need to figure it out on the fly how to get back to normality, with unpredictable outage durations, etc. All of that should be worked out before going live with your changes.

Yes, it sounds like a lot of faffing about for no real benefit, but really, one day it will save your arse. And really, you will be surprised at just how many effects even a single change to a production system can have.

Nuclear fusion = not required.

Not if you run nuclear, solar, wind, etc.

really? can you tell me the key you hit before Y?

Take a trip to Germany, and hire a car. Drive to a few countries.

originally posted on another forum in 2006, it is now 2014. way to go, Slashdot!

Not necessarily. There is talk of energy being 10,000x more abundant for humanity if we were to put development into the LFTR reactor. If we have cheap electricity via safe nuclear power, then using some of it to generate fuel from sea-water is surely a lot better than putting the effort into getting it out of the ground and then shipping it half-way around the world.

Then again, with cheap nuclear power, we can also effectively supply hydrogen (which is obviously much cleaner) for other internal combustion engines.

If only we could extract CO2 from the atmosphere

You realise that doesn't make it a FOSSIL fuel right?

You mean like this?

Also, its about time we had another look at the LFTR reactors.