Comment Re:News for Nerds... (Score 1) 710
The scientific method need not constitute the entirety of a person's belief system for them to decide that, based on its eminently observable practical applications, it is a useful tool.
Comment Re:News for Nerds... (Score 1) 710
Yes. One might come to the conclusion that certain other explanations for existence are improbable or unnecessary, as well.
Comment Re:ya know... (Score 1) 710
I thought that man was "ish" (aleph-yod-shin) and woman was "isha" (aleph-shin-shin-he).
Comment Re:I think you've missed something . . . (Score 2) 161
While I will agree that 65 million years is not long in geological time, any novel life forms trying to develop on Earth have to compete for limited resources with existing organisms that are already well-adapted to their environments. It is probably much less likely for some alternative to cellular life as we know it to develop here in parallel with existing life than it is somewhere that we seed a supply of proteins and amino acids and watch to see what happens.
Comment Re:Can they get phone stores to install it? (Score 1) 143
Curious, has Google said or implied anything about plans for separating the radio drivers form the kernel? If so, could someone point me to it?
Comment Re:Red Hat's plans (Score 1) 159
A bit late, but Ceylon creator Brian Krig answered the following question in an interview posted today:
Finally, going forward, do you think that going forward, Red Hat will start coding more in Ceylon?
The first step for us will be to bring some of our pieces that we have in the JBoss ecosystem that we delivered as pieces of the application server, and repackage them, and make them modular, and make those modules for the Ceylon platform.
At the same time as that, we're taking Ceylon, and we're enabling deployment to Openshift. Once we have then the capabilities that we have in JBoss, also for Ceylon, then it's going to be a lot more interesting - what can we do in Ceylon that we can currently do in JBoss?
People often ask me, does RedHat use Ceylon to build internal projects, and I'm always kind of like, I don't quite understand, we don't have internal projects, we're a product company!
Comment Red Hat's plans (Score 5, Interesting) 159
I am curious as to Red Hat's practical motivations for creating this language. Specifically, do they plan on integrating it in their existing business or projects in any way?
Comment Re:Brain Dead (Score 4, Insightful) 159
People do not think in types.
Piaget would disagree with you.
Comment Re:Ur/Web? (Score 1) 159
Not sure why parent is modded down, Ur/Web does have relatively little to do with Ceylon.
French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley 180
Virtucon writes "This one goes to the old adage 'closing the stable door after the horse bolted.' A French court on Wednesday ruled that Google must remove from its search results photos of a former Formula One racing chief, Max Mosley, participating in an Nazi-themed orgy. Google could be fined up to 1,000 Euros/day for not complying. What's strange here is that Mosley A) Sued in a French Court B) Didn't go after anybody else other than Google and C) has definitely strange tastes in extracurricular activities. In this day and age it's laughable to think that once your private photos/videos hit the Internet that you have any expectation of reining them in or filtering the embarrassing parts out. Google isn't the only game in town so to speak in terms of Internet search. I wonder if his lawyers checked out Yahoo or WebCrawler?"
Comment Value added? (Score 2) 304
I legitimately wonder how many (if any) of the features covered by the patents in question would not have been implemented in Android if not for the work of whoever filed the patent. If the answer is few or none, then patents are subtracting rather than adding value to society in this domain. If the answer is many, then there is at least an argument to be made.
Comment Re:Am I imagining it? (Score 1) 230
While it is true that some security issues are outside of your awareness and control, following best practices makes it less likely for a single point of failure to provide attackers with access to sensitive data.
Comment Re:Am I imagining it? (Score 1) 230
Personally, I would never allow sensitive user data to be used in a Dev environment in the first place. You shouldn't need to, and it creates an additional potential target for attackers.
Comment Re:Phishing going on too (Score 1) 230
It doesn't help that a lot of sites use policies that make it harder to practice good password habits. Examples:
- Unnecessary limits on password length or allowed characters. These make passwords weaker and serve no purpose that I am aware of. They also make it harder to use consistent conventions between services.
- "Security Questions" that would be easy for others to know if answered honestly.
- "Password Hints". I don't think I even need to explain why these are a bad idea.
- Requiring users to change their passwords regularly. Such rules often result in users picking weak passwords or taping them to their monitor or keyboard, and so in my opinion, reduce rather than increase security.
Comment Re:Am I imagining it? (Score 4, Interesting) 230
I agree. I could do without "security questions", as well. Some sites allow you to reset your password using just the security questions, which is ridiculously insecure if credulously answered, given how easily available some of the information is. I used to put long strings of garbage as the answers, knowing that I would never lose my password. I can't do that anymore, because a lot of companies seem to have decided that it is a good idea to require answers to the security questions to do relatively routine things like log in from a different IP address. Now it is essentially one more password that I have to keep for each such site, which if you are choosing strong, unique passwords, is pretty much a waste of time.
