Well done. Pointing out that inability of the iPhone is funny, flamebait and interesting all at once.

Assuming the compromised database had proper hashing with per-user salts, you are right. In any other case, the vulnerability here was the third-party storage and not the password strength. (On top of password re-use, of course).

Or just not send HTTP requests to facebook.com?

I agree that it is confusing how ambiguous the term Christian (or Muslim, for that matter) has become and that an elaborately filtered or revised denomination would be very beneficial to non-believers and possible even more so the believers themselves. But the majority of modern day believers indeed applying filters is ultimately a lot more important.

In Matthew and Luke, Jesus frequently advocates violence or condemns those who do not submit to him. Like father, like son.

I like most modern day Christians a whole lot better.

I don't think it's childish at all. Star Trek wasn't just coincidentally dealing with us, humans. While it included a great deal of generic humanist issues, most of them purposefully reflected on actual human social issues. Quite often it explicitely explored the differences or lack thereof between humanoids in general and homo sapiens sapiens specifically. Maybe the background of Star Wars was merely stage setting, but in Star Trek it was a deliberate choice. If that allows a greater or different audience to relate to the stories and reflect on them, or the same more intimately, then the setting is all but irrelevant.

They should build a robot 120 times taller than a human. It could run a marathon in a minute, or LA-NY in an hour and a half.

The difference is that they ban both, and more.

If they were smart, they would stop overestimating the value of the Atari trademark. Most mobile gamers are too young to have a positive reaction to the name itself. The rest are probably old and experienced enough to realise their past achievements are not relevant today. Just find a new name. It is actually possible to launch a succesful brand with a name unknown twenty years ago, you know.

The same has probably once been said about paper. But then we invented pesky technologies such as photography, handwriting identification, watermarking, and fingerprinting... there is nothing inherently anonymous or private about digital communication. Privacy can exist due to technologic constraints and designs can be made to counteract advances in (digital) forensics, but privacy is inherently incompatible with any kind of exchange. Bits are routed, waves have signal strength, fotons cause sight, mass attracts other particles. If you want to be truly anonymous, be Schroedinger's cat.

I don't know what your talking about, then again I don't befriend/follow/circle the stupid of the world that much. If you stick to networking with actual friends, peers and organisations of interest, the social networks are a much happier place.

Terrorists use eight year old kids as vessel for their explosives, precisely because security is sometimes lowered for obviously innocent types. Not to say I appreciate the security bloatfest of the past decade, absolutely not... but being old or disabled is not a "get out of security checkpoints free" card and never should be. Can't respond on the individual case, I wasn't there.

As a beginner, you're not refactoring OOP abstract classes to optimise compiler performance in a distributed system.

You edit string values generated by simple if/else statements in trivial pieces of code. And you can do that in nearly any language. You pick up more details as you progress. If you don't progress or lose interest, you're not a programmer. If you are, any language will do to find out.

Cuddly, furry ones. And trouser snakes.

Maybe where you live. Here in the Netherlands, that's simply not true. Good coders are appreciated, well-paid and treated as humans. But the latter part might not be related to the profession and more with a difference in work ethic between the US and Europe.