Instead of directly managing and funding research, the government could provide tax breaks for companies who hire programmers that contribute to open source (presumably on projects beneficial to said company). They could also provide funding in the form of grants to orgs that create new and useful software, of which society as a whole benefits from.

Hello fellow Seattleite. I will keep an eye out for your work. :)

Meant to say creating and deleting files. Editing would actually be protected by umask, but is not the issue here.

Nice snark there rtard. If a user has permission to "edit" a directory, this includes both editing and deleting files owned by the same user. File permissions or umask will not help you there. I suppose you could rig the system to create a new user for every mac address that connects, but that could be easily circumvented. Im sure it's possible someone, just not as easy as googling how filer permissions work.

You just have crappy Java developers, it has nothing to do with Tomcat. The same thing would happen to any "always on" Java program that loads leaky external code. Don't feel bad, most of the Java code I've seen is total crap. You usually just don't notice it because of the short life-cycle of the process, unlike Tomcat.

You say it as if fact, but you must have missed this line in the article: "No evidence is offered for the assertions detailed above."

True, but it seems like Linux would have a better separation between the running process and a usable system environment, making that kind of attack more difficult. I'm sure these guys would have thought of that though. It really all just depends what is accessible from the root process. Sounds like fun.

I can tell you have never used an SSD. At a certain point, more RAM becomes hardly noticeable. That SSD drive I got was the single most noticeable improvement in productivity I've gotten out of a computer part.

I am both of those things. I agree my choice of words were poor. When i say over weight, I was really meaning obese, such as I was not so long ago. It definitely detracted from my point, which was to say that A) It wasn't until I had a reason to really want it that I was able to start living a healthy life style, and B) There are some advantages to being a big guy who eats well and exercises.

Having a night to sleep on it, I suppose I should consider myself lucky that my only excuse was my own lack of will. It was inconsiderate of me to think that everyone is so lucky.

I think you missed my point. I'm still quite round myself (and I like it that way). I realize I will never be as skinny as some people who never have to lift a finger. Although I think you will find quite a few women who prefer a man with some meat on their bones. ;) That doesn't mean I can't still be healthy. Being healthy and fit has nothing to do with your size, and everything to do with how you choose to live.

I didn't mean to sound insensitive. I agree there are many reasons why it can it can be harder for some people to lose weight. I know I have to work very hard at it, and I will never be as thin as some people. At the end of the day, I have never met an obese person who ate healthy and exercised. You can always try harder. That's the one reason we have control over, and the only one that matters. Maybe there really are reasons that make it impossible to lose weight. Probably more often than not it's simply a matter of will, and how badly you want it.

Actually, no. Laziness and/or lack of discipline is the reason for being over weight. While it may be more difficult for people who are "naturally fat" (such as myself) to get fit and toned, putting in the required effort does in fact work. Not only that, you will have a better body than people who are "naturally skinny." I used to weigh 300 lbs @ 6'6" before I started doing martial arts. It's only been a year and I'm down to 235. I pound the crap out of the skinny guys (all in good fun of course). The key to getting fit is finding a physical activity you enjoy, and try to be the best at it. I don't eat well because I want to lose weight. I do it because I want to be good at martial arts.