I've whipped out my jailbroken phone, gone into terminal mode and then SSH'd into a computer on my internal network through my router to work on some functionality for a project while on a Camping Trip before. Unless you have no signal - you have no excuses.. and you must, since you just posted on Slashdot! Damn your eyes!

Exactly. Why should a non-american trying to search a access *outside* the U.S., limited to a list of sites approved by the U.S. law? Just because he's using an american search engine?

This sucks. It seems it wasn't enough for the U.S. to destroy the global economy, they want to destroy the internet, too?

I completely agree. I've come to believe that Agile development is a fad invented by some marketing genius to get big loads of buck from gullible enterprises. While TDD might be useful for, say... a linux kernel module, there's very little use for it in your standard "make me a module which reports in detail our budget surplus and deficits" project.

It's much more efficient to hire a small team of beta-testers available on-demand ("Jim wrote this new model, can you test it please?") than wasting hundreds of man hours per-month in "agile" development.

It doesn't compute because they're brainwashed by Enterprise flim flam. "Degree this! Company that!" They don't understand shit except for whatever a company shows them with nice colorful pie charts. But here's a hint: There ARE good companies who exactly know what they're looking for. At the company where I work at, we give candidates a skill test: Make a blog application in PHP without using any external libraries (except if you've developed them yourself). So, you got a degree in web development, huh? Let's see if you really know what your title says you should know.

Get it while it's hot!

I think the only part that I got interested in was Quorra becoming human. They could make a WHOLE movie about that, did you know? What does it mean to be human? Why is pain so awful? What are these things called emotions? Et cetera.

I expected to see more stuff about "the user has superpowers" that Flynn displayed in the original TRON (after all, he's the USER). But I guess they chickened out from being compared to Matrix just because the user can do things that programs can't.

Anyway, the 3D was awesome and I got out of the theater with a smile. It was a nice weekend.

In addition to salting the password, I design my systems to sleep for one second after each failed password attempt, and for 3 seconds before booting the guy off. That should take care of brute force attacks.

I was thinking more or less the same thing.

The point is that a good domain name system implementation needs to be secure against protocol attacks. DNSSEC secures it against hackers, but makes it more vulnerable to political attacks. Because DNS was designed to be centralized.

The problem with currently emerging alternatives is that they're designed to be decentralized, making them vulnerable to protocol attacks. However, a good p2p implementation would use an underlying hierarchy based on the anonymity of the name authorities, and they would be able to establish further authority points. But that protocol isn't even invented yet as far as I recall, and it would require a hell lot of thought and encryption.

In any case, more cryptographic security is better, not worse. If you want someone to blame, it's the inventors of DNS for establishing a US-based name authority. Oh wait, the Internet was invented in the US, by none other than the DARPA. Go figure.

I guess this is the time when the veil's opened and we realize that the web designed by Tim Berners-Lee, is dead.

The Internet has stopped being the land of free-speech as we know it. At any time that corporate or government interests are against free speech, they just hit the political off-switch. If someone decides to install internet routers and domain systems in another country, expect that country to be labelled "terrorist" and invaded by those with power.

Expect peer-to-peer information sources and services to be outlawed. Guess the cyberpunks authors got it right after all.

I read TFA, and they're storing the data in the Bacteria's DNA. I assume there is a minimum chance of this happening, but if somehow the bacteria mutate and reproduce, perhaps with horizontal gene transfer, I don't know what could happen to existing species. What if suddenly one gene is changed and suddenly harmless bacteria become harmful?

Seriously, have they done a study on the safety of this method? Worst of all, we're not talking about a species which can easily be handled and captured if it ever escapes. We're talking about freaking bacteria.

RTFA. (Or the summary, for that matter). The oil there is produced ABIOTICALLY. i.e. from chemical reactions that have nothing to do with dinosaurs, OR bacteria. That, and the bacteria found there don't produce, but eat the hydrocarbons.