Why dev... developers are not exclusive to Google. dev is as generica a domain as you can get, hence TLD hence not google only.

I also have memories of my father from a younger perspective. I too would like to learn more about him from my perspective now, to ask questions and have conversations i would not have as a child. However... perhaps the fuzzy memories of a child are more flattering and leave the adult mind with some wonder compared with the more lucid and analytical memories created by your present self.

My dad is quite creative and technical in a variety of ways, he shared some of that with me when i was young, that provided great inspiration for me and gave me some happy memories of the time i spent with him. The silly thing is that he's still alive... but has always lived far away, now further than ever in an isolated part of another country above the clouds (literally not metaphorically).

I guess the nugget of wisdom to be extracted from this is: memories are good, so spend your time and effort being together. The better the time and the stronger the emotion - the more potent and lasting the memory will be.

... even when used with good intentions.

It may do good in the short term for some people, much the same as a placebo, but unlike a placebo it brings with it a whole load of baggage (like homoeopathy and it's pseudo science research that was government funded in the UK until only recently).

The last thing anyone wants to see is astrology becoming more widely accepted as anything other than fiction... Stick with the placebo pill, it has the same effect and is a plain white lie with no baggage polluting minds of the mass ignorant.

This guy is the low hanging fruit that keeps all those automated attacks from China from developing something more sophisticated :P Not that i'm suggesting security through obscurity is the only way or anything... just an extra line of Darwinian defence.

Yes they do, yes they could, no it's not news, it's on the current branch... In true BSD style i'm going to say RTFM: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en... Current is not intended for production, end of.

Bleeding edge software has bugs?? what

If only commit hashes were ordered

I did not say that individuals involved should not be punished, i said that the consequences for a government agency (in it's entirety) should not be the same as they are for an individual, and this ruling is for the GCHQ's actions not "higher up at [spy agency] and his obedient minions"... I don't think individual punishment alone solves issues that span an entire organisation either.

It would make sense that individual trials result from this ruling to determine individual liability.

Makes it sound like what determines a version bump is somewhat arbitrary, are kernels just too complex for them to fit into a simple versioning convention?

1. There are statistical differences of interest between the genders, some subjects more than others, this leads to different proportions of gender in various subjects.

2. Given a strong enough natural bias of proportion (not individual ability), over time stereotypes will emerge that magnify those biases.

3. Inevitably, teachers (being human and all), will subconsciously be affected by these stereotypes.

It's important that in a subject where women are a small minority that people in teaching positions make a concerted effort to be unbiased and try to remove stereotypes from their judgement. However "reversing the bias" will do as much harm as good, it's almost as misguided as trying to create a perfectly equally diverse workforce in a region where the diversity of the population is not equal. While determining the natural bias in cases like this may be near impossible, people in positions of influence can at least try to be unbiased to reduce the impact of stereotypes on minorities.

Yes but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to because it's pure opinion. People should also be able to disagree with you because they think you "should not" but that doesn't mean anyone should have absolute authority over what you are and are not allowed to say - that's why it's a freedom of speech issue.

Out of interest (I'm primarily a web dev) what sites / content do you use that demands flash? I browse with plugins enabled on a click to play basis but i'm finding very few places these days where i ever need or want to enable flash content, especially with video content being fairly quickly replaced by h.264 and so forth.

The source is open, but i read about how chromium's way of packaging dependencies with itself has had it rejected from official software repositories on various linux distros. Perhaps this also reduces it's portability.

On an unrelated note, you shouldn't judge a browser on it's ability to support java and flash, that's really not how the web should work or will work in the future. (for the record i'm fairly browser agnostic, except when talking about IE of course :P).

Consequences to a government agency are not and should not be the same as they are for an individual... When a great wrong has been done by an individual, punishment is arguably useful and usually satisfying from other individuals perspective, but retribution for an organisation (esp government) it's not very useful to anyone.

Also the legality of this ruling should not determine punishment or justification, it should determine change. If the ruling was "lawful", then clearly the laws involved are not comprehensive enough or are poorly defined.

Whatever the ruling, it's clear that the GCHQ overreached. Inadequate oversight, bad policy and fallible laws could be the cause. The ruling and findings along the way can provide insight into how much of each is to blame.

Regardless of their meaning that's a ridiculous things to say, obtaining evidence to show the flaws haven't been exploited is infeasible. It's like saying there is no evidence proving that god does not exist.