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Comment Re:Wake me up when the Scala comparison is done (Score 1) 238

by delirium28 (#37976648) Attached to: Eclipse Launches New Programming Language
I honestly wouldn't let that hold you back. It's almost as bad, if only because you don't control how the resulting Java code looks, and the mapping from the Java code back to your original code may be difficult. :-) I'd rather see the Eclipse foundation step up and help make Scala a first-class language in Eclipse rather than letting Typesafe struggle to do it on their own.

Comment Wake me up when the Scala comparison is done (Score 1) 238

by delirium28 (#37970598) Attached to: Eclipse Launches New Programming Language

Seriously, this smells so much of Scala it isn't even funny. I'm all for another great language on the JVM, but how is this different from Scala? A lot of the concepts are the same, and the syntax is likewise quite similar. Combine this with other Scala knock-offs like what JetBrains was doing and it's just sad.

People keep talking about how Oracle is killing Java, yet this NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome that's plaguing the non-Java world is just as bad if not worse. Let's rally behind Scala, fix it up as you see fit, and get some great tooling behind it. That seems to be the biggest issue with Scala to date. IntelliJ is nice, but I like Eclipse, and that just sucks even with the recent push.

Comment Re:Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong - it will have email (Score 1) 163

by delirium28 (#37849076) Attached to: RIM PlayBook Email App Nowhere In Sight
They did this time, unfortunately. It was eWeek that actually says that BBM == enterprise email.

"...revealed that the new version will not contain the long-awaited BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application, which would allow Playbook users to access BlackBerry email without hooking up to a BlackBerry phone."
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Submission + - Indie Music the Real Killer for Major Labels? (queru.com) 1

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Eugenia Loli writes: "After Slashdot reported on the news that music execs now blame streaming for lost revenue, I did some digging about the state of the music industry. Except the known culprits (piracy, free streaming, lack of music and business innovation, financial crisis), I found that the rise of indie music in the mainstream might be more of a cause than previously thought. In the past few weeks, 80% of Rolling Stone magazine album reviews are about indie acts, while in the '90s there was only a single indie band that got reviews (Pavement), and in the beginning of the last decade there were just about 2-3 such reviews per year. But something clicked towards the second part of the decade, and especially after 2009, there's a surge in the press pushing consumers towards indie purchases. Maybe when RIAA complains to the Government about their failing revenue and asks for stricter laws, they should show a more complete picture of music sales, rather than the sales of just a few [ex-]major labels."

Comment Re:Which one is the detector? (Score 1) 410

by delirium28 (#31485754) Attached to: How To Guarantee Malware Detection

For that matter, it isn't possible for you or I to know if we are real biological beings or if we're some simulation in some gigantic computer somewhere. Indeed, even our perception of the nature of space and time could be nothing more than the result of a bunch of 14-dimensional beings saying "gee, what would life be like if there were only three dimensions of space - what if we go ahead and create a 3D world and stick a bunch of AIs in it?"

Seems like you've been reading Descartes or watching eXistenZ or The Thirteenth Floor.

Comment Useless if you're no in the US (Score 1) 542

by delirium28 (#29813995) Attached to: The Kindle Killer Arrives

Up here in the great white north we are still left out in the cold wrt eBook readers. Even the Kindle isn't shipping here yet (assuming I would want one, which I don't because of their damn kill switch). So I have an impromptu "Ask Slashdot" question. Does anyone know of a decent eBook reader that isn't DRM crippled that can display PDFs? And I'm looking for real owners, not responses from people who have read a spec on a website somewhere.
Privacy

Submission + - Canada Privacy Commish Rules Facebook Violates Law

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has ruled that Facebook is violating Canadian law. A summary of the decision notes that key areas of violation include third-party applications, account deactivation, and the use of the personal information of non-users. The Privacy Commissioner may go to Canadian court to enforce the finding if Facebook refuses to implement suggested changes.
Social Networks

Submission + - Facebook in violation of Canadian Privacy Law (canada.com)

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Canada's privacy watchdog says Internet phenomenon Facebook breaches the law by keeping users' personal information indefinitely — even after members close their accounts. Jennifer Stoddart says the popular social networking site should hang on to the data only for as long as truly necessary. In a report today, Stoddart urges Facebook to remedy the problem, one of several serious privacy gaps she discovered."
Privacy

Spyware In BlackBerry Updates For Users in the UAE 116

Posted by timothy from the this-could-happen-in-$yourcountry-too dept.
mulaz writes with this excerpt from The Register: "An update pushed out to BlackBerry users on the Etisalat network in the United Arab Emirates appears to contain remotely-triggered spyware that allows the interception of messages and emails, as well as crippling battery life. Sent out as a WAP Push message, the update installs a Java file that one curious customer decided to take a closer look at, only to discover an application intended to intercept both email and text messages, sending a copy to an Etisalat server without the user being aware of anything beyond a slightly excessive battery drain."
Medicine

Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal 700

Posted by timothy from the to-make-a-grown-man-cry dept.
palegray.net writes "CNN is running an article on the notorious effects of caffeine withdrawal, a problem that seems to be affecting an increasing number of people. Citing numerous reasons why people might need to cut back on their caffeine intake (pregnancy, pre-surgery requirements, etc), the story notes a significant number of people who are simply unable to quit. I drink around eight cups of coffee a day, along with a soda or two, and I definitely suffer from nasty withdrawal symptoms without my fix."

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