Agile is pretty much crap. You don't build a bridge that way, nor any other project, except maybe landscaping. If you have enough to sketch out a plan, you have enough to plan. You can't build something if you don't know what your target is.

When I have one of those... I just say - well, if it should stay the same, why don't we just change that one line back. There's no difference according to you.

Or a District 9 sequel.

I'd rather go to a roll my own model for everyone. I do it now....

This is incorrect at this point, I'd say it's more like a postcard pinned to a bulletin board in the hallway, with everyone passing being required to take whatever cards are going to where they are going, with the requirement that multiple copies be made and dropped at every corner on the trek. That's probably more accurate as an analogy of today's email situation. The implication being, obviously, that email is visible to everyone on the trip, and copies are made and kept.

As for the rest, there are ways around a lot of that, but we're not there yet. Your analysis of webmail is spot on, webmail as it lives today should die a very very quick death. The sooner, the better.

While normally I'd say no, in this case, the only way this judge will see the light is to personally experience just exactly what it means to be hacked. He's already demonstrated a total lack of understanding with actual evidence thrown in front of him, so maybe the experience will enlighten him. Would his position be the same with the meth-addicted gun toting neighbor that shoots randomly into the neighborhood yesterday, that he's not an imminent threat today.... some people are just idiots.

And yet you post as AC.....

It already happened to Sony, recall the CD rootkit incident? That was even more evil, as it wasn't just malware, but an actual attack. Sony's still around but they seem to be having some financial trouble of late or something. Karma sure can be a bitch.

You are serious? Your reading comprehension is that contemptible? Show me the wonderful set of JS apps for mobile. Anything in the top 100 for any of the 4 top smartphone OSes (yep, I'll even let you go down to Blackberry).

HTML5 - huge reduction in JS needs.

Because there's nothing better? At least CoffeeScript has fallen by the wayside.

Having been down the path of using JS on the server, I can unequivocally state "hell no". Debugging that crap is worse than debugging on a browser, where at least the toolset and use cases are somewhat limited. Try handling JS requests running against shared data. Oops, multi-threaded what? Node.js does not have a benefit with non-blocking IO, as that's been around in Java since Java6, and is now in its 3rd generation. It's unlikely JS will ever catch Java in performance, security, maintainability, nor just ease of use.

What's truly funny about your 1 sided viewpoint is that it's purely based on the browser. JS failed on mobile, completely, because it sucks so badly. The browser has been evolving to reduce or eliminate the need for JS as much as possible. (Have you even looked at HTML5?) New frameworks and "wrapping languages" keep popping up purporting to "fix JS", there's a hint, it's not because JS is great. So far everything has failed with the possible exception of jQuery, which actually has lasted and remained somewhat useful, primarily because it's a toolset that reduces the JS disaster to something manageable.

Where on earth do you get this info? Java, depending upon the usage, can run faster than equivalent C code. If you're talking about micro-benchmarks, then I'd agree. Generally speaking, I don't write micro-benchmark type code. I agree with the rest of your sentiments however.

Out of the mouths of babes...

sometimes only comes prattling nonsense.

some random node anywhere....

USA - and first sale allows you to resell or otherwise do what you want with a copyrighted work, ie, right to distribute.

Disney already dumped millions into John Carter....