> Nothing whatsoever has changed in the way government agencies spy on US citizens

So Al Queda wants business as usual? That doesn't make sense.

I'm going to beat the rush and bring my Roomba to the passport office tomorrow morning.

Did PHP kill your mother? What is the metric for being horrible? Is it based on lack of adoption or is it some score or is it something you only know when you see it?

> PHP is a significant barrier for existing projects.
> Look at the pile of crap that is Wordpress or any PHP CMS for that matter.

WP is confusing, unmaintainable code, except for the brave few who do. Those outliers aren't really important in the grand scheme. I have encountered many proprietary CMS systems that were maintainable and maintained for years. I implemented diff in PHP in 1999. It was incomprehensible but it was used as an internal visual tool. The language is for facilitating a functional program and later for other programmers to understand and change. In this way, the projects of WP and my diff were horrible (they failed half their purpose). I cannot attribute your outrage to the language.

> Ask Facebook how much money and time they have spent trying to hack around PHP's many warts.

FB rewrote the JIT (which allowed for language changes) but it wasn't to get around the warts. They have explicitly said it was for performance reasons - http://readwrite.com/2010/02/0...

> A good programmer knows not to use substandard languages like PHP.

A good programmer understands what standards to adhere to.
Try not to be a stickler for metrics that have become religious for you, as they do not seem to be significant barriers to existing projects.

> Open sourcing is a good first step toward making Swift a candidate for replacing C++ and Java,

It helps Swift replace Objective-C. Why would you think Swift is appropriate to "replace" C++ or Java?

> you can only legally justify H1Bs on the basis that there's no qualified US residents for the position

That statement is a reasonable description of one requirement for a work visa in Canada.

In the US, it's not part of the H1B process:
http://www.nolo.com/legal-ency...

> 15 years ago your recommendations would have been things like CAT5e drops in multiple spots in every room

Last year I did something similar to that. Why wouldn't you? The drops are separate from the hosted technology.

Coax, Ethernet, power, ducting, double pane glass in vinyl frames, electronic outer door locks, cameras, inset LED ceiling lights, tankless water heater (if you live in temperate parts of the US and need the space), solar panels depending on a number of concerns that affect cost-benefit.

Yeah, and also meant my public key.
Derp.

Anyone who encrypts mail to me does it from their own machines. This is for Facebook mail to you. If a user grabs your keys they can also send you mail directly without going through Facebook.

Facebook lets you control your public keys as if it were any other information: public, friends only, etc.

Them having my private key is not a problem. This encrypts email one would normally get. I don't work for Facebook.

What is the problem you are eluding to?

If they have only your public keys, what is the harm in them running a keyserver?

I don't use the gmail web client. I have the a GPG plugin (GPGMail) on my laptop's email and a GPG client (oPenGP) on my iPhone.

There are GPG plugins for the web client but I have not used them.

a) for some things, yes.

b) It's worth encrypting everything. This protects your data not only from the spooks, but from gmail/live/your ISP/whatever free client you may use.

Just added my keys. Not that I care about the notifications that "Billy scored X on Y Game", but anything that obfuscates and encrypts data on the wire is a good thing. It's not just the NSA, how many of you use gmail? This will keep them from scanning your mail.

>In fact I may enable a bunch more useless notifications and set up a rule to delete them at my end as they arrive.

>> Are all the subsidies going to employees? That doesn't seem realistic, at a glance. -- Jack9
>> Sure it does. -- sumdumass

Since you can't reconcile your own assertions, there's nothing more to intelligently discuss. Have a nice day.