Comment Re:The inevitable Slashdot response... (Score 1) 149
The slashdot crowd sits in front of a computer. All day. Every day. Why have a phone that does stuff other than making calls when you have a computer in front of you all the time?
The slashdot crowd sits in front of a computer. All day. Every day. Why have a phone that does stuff other than making calls when you have a computer in front of you all the time?
If you have a keylogger, the attacker also has your machine password, and can get your ssh keys. SSH is great, but it doesn't protect you from keyloggers.
You're building a new OS based on the Linux kernel + Chrome Browser, which is cool because these are both high-quality Free Software projects. But then you wander off and sidle up to Adobe instead of working with Free Software such as Gnash.
Gnash is all fine and good, except that it's a piece of shit and doesn't work. Just like open-source Java.
Look, I like open source as much as the next guy (more, probably), but more than anything I like working software. Google can either spend lots of man-hours making Gnash work properly with all the Flash out there on the web today, and then spend more man-hours keeping it up-to-date as Adobe adds new features that various popular websites take advantage of, or they can just partner with Adobe and use real Flash, spending just a few man-hours to integrate it into their system. Google is a business, and while they may make some choices ideologically, in most cases they need to use the best tool for the job. In this case, that tool is Flash.
An IP address DOES identify a computer- but not the way the judge thinks. My IP address identifies my router, which in turn owns 5 to 6 computers. With the wireless open, it could refer to the whole neighborhood, for all I know/care. They need to revise, an IP address identifies a NETWORK, but not neccessarily conclusively any particular computer.
A router is still a computer. An IP address identifies a computer. Whether that computer has other computers connected to it, and forwards traffic from those computers using its IP address, is an entirely separate matter.
Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein. Anyone who wishes to call him or herself a computer scientist must have a copy of this.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.