Pilots either need more control or we should admit that they're just safety technicians in case something goes wrong and train them accordingly - an air marshall for the plane itself who doesn't do anything under normal circumstances.

Actually politics is one of the most 'nerdist' topics. Nerds tend to obsess over topics most would rather ignore.

(looks up 'Klingon translator' on google, finds oddly enough that Bing translator is the first hit)

"QIp vIghro' pum" translates to "stupid cat falls" without a 'investment' and braving more than a decade of dust.

Not only a security problem, that's just the surface, but the smothering care of Oracle plus the whole 1999 feeling makes for a combination that made this step necessary years ago.

Pass what? All I see is another crybaby objectivist whining that 'things were better when I was young'. Maybe the editor removed the 'stay off of my lawn' from the first draft.

Really? A TV show using made up science, next you'll claim that Scottie of Star Trek didn't really have any engineering skills and was simply some actor spouting out nonsense.

I agree! Anyone who believes in such junk science should be immediately removed from society.

There's gold in them thar hills, literally and figuratively.

Is it some proxy? Is it a weirdly labeled block of IPv4 addresses? Is it some DNS level trickery?

The real thing that's turning javascript into the lingua franca of the web are really three things:

1. JS is already supported by all major browsers, modern ones with JIT

1. asm.js - which turns anything from a LLVM intermediate representation into javascript code that runs around 2x the speed of native c/c++ code in supported browsers and as fast as any other piece of JS code in all the other browsers

1. HTML5, WebRTC

It's an inside-out stack.

Actually, the Whig party fell apart before the GOP was formed, most of its northern based joined the new party. If (when) the GOP fails another party will gain steam, but not before.

If we ask the question: "for how many days in a year is a specific browser/application vulnerable to an unpatched exploit?", then we get awful numbers. There are plenty of applications used by millions of people where that number is more than half of the year.

The 7 day limit is probably a compromise between trying to get the vendor to fix the vulnerability that is actively being exploited and disclosing the information and thus increasing the pool of people who'd use the exploit.

For vulnerabilities where there is no known active exploitation, we should assume that there is. 30/60day delays are unforgivable.