You would switch to fabric if you are concerned with security, eventhough it will have found its way into your code without fabric, the point is fabric is security oriented making it HARDER to do insecure things. On top of that it would seem your argument about coding your own mechinism being deemed insecure, im sure that would be a user error as opposed to a problem with the language itself as there has to be a mechninsm to specify what is and is not to be trusted within the language, if you wish to do such things to mark the system you need trusted as trusted? and finally, no i wouldnt expect people to adopt fabric overnight, just like they didnt adapt java, python, or php overnight, however one thing is certin, they will never adopt it if it does not exist. As far as the learning curve associated with it, its basically java, you just need to learn some new modules etc, syntax should be very javaish.... keep in mind this is aimed at large networks that may or may not have a central security authority, its ment to help developers of large networks (like facebook) design more secure and robust systems from the ground up, while providing a extra layer of "security". Im sure if you try hard enough you can manage to break it, as everything is only secure as it is accessable, someone somewhere will break it if they want to.

I think Google has offered to delete the data, but some goverments ordered them not to. If i were google, i wouldnt go the "extra mile" as it may cause them a law suite. I would contact the other goverments where data has been collected (which they already have) and try to work out a resolution with them that ends in deletion of the collected data (which is still pending in many countrys, see germany). I would like to see Google follow the purposed requirements, as well as take it a step further and possibly found or donate to some orginization that helps users and citizens protect their digital privacy.

I think this is more of a "media event" to promote sciences and education more than trying to prove anything. When the goverment wants to prove something, they dont turn to Adam and Jamie, they hire scietists with billion dollar budgets and secret labs. This is more just the president trying to get more kids involved in science/history etc.... i doubt he even thinks their orignal conclusion was wrong, just wanted a intresting "Myth" for the duo to revisit that might turn a few heads. Take this for what it is.... a attempt to revive education in the american youth.

This just in, 93.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot!

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1818524&cid=33877336 - you contradict yourself? so which is it? you ARE or ARE NOT religous?

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1821554&cid=33901882 you contradict yourself?

This points out a major issue, many non technical users often do not know the difference between security of the router and security of the wifi signal itself. Many people just change the router's password and think they are "safe".

you might want to include who "out national population" is as not being canadian, i read this as "the population of california alone is greater than the population of the united states" which makes NO sense. I assume from your suggestion about 100% of canadian computers being infected implys you are Canadian, but it does not read that way. Thanks!

Working on the space shuttle really isn't all that hard for the most part. It's time to stop equating yourselves to rocket scientists. Again, for the most part.
being a CEO really isn't all that hard for the most part. It's time to stop equating yourselves to big shots. Again, for the most part.
Designing Bridges really isn't all that hard for the most part. It's time to stop equating yourselves to engineers. Again, for the most part.

etc...

You have the right to not provide the combination, which would result in them getting a safe cracking team in and adding that onto your legal fee's should you lose your case. You have the right to not provide your passwords, which will result in them getting a crypto team in to crack the password and adding THAT to your legal fee's WHEN you lose your case.

It used to be a sophisticated light weight feature rich firewall for windows.... it allowed rules and whatnot.... now... its a bloated flaming pile of sh*t sinking with a horrible company that deserves to be put out of business for its questionable marketing practices and horrible customer support.

do you have a copy of the schematics? id so, i would love to take a look.... im sure it would be fairly trivial to build/flash such a device if the full schematic existed? My guess is that the schematic needed for this to work isnt "readily" avalable, and wont be for some time (a few months?)

there is no way to do HDCP decryption in software on a computer, this is all handled automagically by the controller on each end, HDCP only exists "on the wire" because as soon as it gets to eitther end, the controller decrypts it and handles content protection from there.... cracking HDCP allows ANYONE to build a new controller which is able to link up with existing HDMI equipment and decrypt the information without all that nasty content protection stuff as well, but to do this the HDCP decryption would need to be on-chip in a custom built HDMI interface, which is not easy/cheap to do (according to intel), so until complete schematics and a flashrom show up, this is pretty much useless to anyone wanting to use it.

wow, that was actually a very imformitave link... mod parrent up! I have never really sat down and read about the reasons for standardizing the power frequency until you posted that!

50 light years is relatively close, cosmically speaking. It has taken 50 years from light from this diamond to reach us, thats pretty damn quick, the point of the GP is about intelligent life out there, they are likely hundreds of millions of light years away, if not more. The milky way galaxy alone (but a small drop in the bucket cosmically speaking) is 100,000 light years across, and distances only get astronomically greater from there, so yes light from this diamond is not from a "long time ago" but many things in the sky which we have observed are from a LONG LONG LONG time ago.