Git is a great system, but it relies on SHA1. If SHA1 has feasible attacks, is git going to stay on SHA1 or will it move to something more secure? Can it even do so without breaking compatibility?

The problem you're having is that users don't know what they need, they just know they have problems and they are suggesting solutions for you to implement they think will solve them. The problem with that is they don't know what computers are good at so they make suggestions that sound good but are not likely to work well in practice. You need to take their requests and see what the real problem they are trying to solve is. Then point out the problems in their solution and suggest features that can solve the real problem for them. Just remember to be nice about it so they will learn to trust your judgement. Nobody wants to give in to the guy who loves to yell "I told you so"

It's perfectly ok to sell Android and Linux according to the GPL, the license used by Linux.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney

The lightning connector is nice, but it's limited to only Apple products, thus its usefulness as a technology is limited. To reduce waste and for convenient charging, I wish everyone would agree on a nice reversible connector that is an industry standard, charges quickly regardless of manufacturer, and "just works". I somehow doubt Apple would go for that.

Micro USB is fine except the cables are always upside down (as they seem to exist in 4 spacial dimensions) and the cables break easily if you charge the phone while they're in your pocket, such as when using a portable battery.

Java and Scala can both be run in the console but, as the video shows, Scala can be run AS a console. Scala code can be run one line at a time in a Scala console or compiled. Java code can only be compiled. By the above given definition, this makes Scala a scripting language.

Scala does have similar support to eval with the ScalaInterpreter class.

The wiki def for a Scripting language is "A scripting language or script language is a programming language that supports the writing of scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that can interpret and automate the execution of tasks which could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator." Check out this video and you'll see that Scala can do this. Scala is a weird hybrid. It's a full powered language build on top of the JVM that can run as a script or be compiled directly in to Java bytecode.

Seriously bro? Any miniature benefit that digital audio signals would have given you is completely blown away by using speakers that are integrated into your monitor. Integrated speakers are just universally bad, full stop. I'm not talking about an audiophile's definition of bad, either; I bet my grandma could hear the difference.

I'd wager that given the same sound source, a stereo analog signal going into standard desktop computer speakers will sound better than your pure digital setup through your computer monitor.

If this was a troll, well, you deserve a beer, cause you got me.

Why do these assholes care so much?

It isn't just slashdot either. Extraordinary claims + no extraordinary evidence = BAM front page of major news site + accepted as fact by 1/3 of our facebook friends.

This story is far fetched and is definately not the simplest possible explanation. I call bullshit. Slashdot should know better.

This pic says it better than I can.

The idea that "A calorie is a calorie" has been widely accepted as false by the medical community due to recent studies. What kinds of foods you eat greatly effects how much is stored as fat and how hungry you are.

The slow release makes all the difference. The huge insulin spike that triggers the storage of ALL fat only happens when the glucose hits all at once. Slow release insulin means that both glucose and fat can be burned simultaneously as your body continues to digest the food and introduce more glucose in to your bloodstream.

Or the grains changed recently. White rice and white flower are much, much more recent inventions. Add to that things like the sugar water (soda, juice, and even beer) that we drink at nearly every meal and you can see how much our much our diets have changed in just the past 100 years.

It sounds like your hinting at the Paleo diet with all this. That diet does work but that's because it's a much more strict version of a low GI diet. I'm not going to argue that low GI is just as good as Paleo but it's certainly much simpler to implement and has most of the same benefits.

For anyone who is interested in the details of why low GI diets work and how we are where we are today I recommend the book Good Calories, Bad Calories

You're correct but his point is still a valid answer in the general discussion. Most of the studies I've seen point to the main problem with high carbohydrate diets the Glycemic index of the foods eaten, not the number of carbs the food has. Switching over to very low GI foods is comparable to switching to a low carb diet. The short story is the rapid insulin spike and high amounts of glucose slowly causes major damage in the human body. We have little defense against these problems because never before in our history have white bread, white rice, big starchy potatoes, and sugar water been such a large persistent part of our diet. The change in our diet has far out paced evolution.

The radio/address thing is likely more about the lyrics. The human brain can only process one stream of language at a time. Compare reading a book when listening to music with lyrics vs music with out lyrics.

IANARS*, but 40 didn't mean "new Integer(40);" in biblical times, it was equivalent to when we say "a million" today; it means "a hell of a lot".

To me, 40 - 1 means to beat someone within an inch of their life.

*I am not a religious scholar

There is a 3rd choice that is usually ignored in these discussions: support the feature if it's present on the device, but do not require it. Continue running the app without the functionality if it is not available on the device. The term is graceful degradation.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-feature-element.html#required