Comment: Scala is not dynamic! (Score 1) 338
FTA:
A key feature of Java SE 7 is its accommodations for dynamic languages, which are becoming prominent on the JVM lately, thanks to the emergence of languages such as JRuby and Scala.
Scala is _NOT_ a dynamic language!
Comment: Re:Duh. (Score 1) 897
Comment: Re:So... (Score 1) 245
Comment: Re:How about heating and airconditioning? (Score 3, Interesting) 324
Comment: Re:skeptical ... (Score 5, Insightful) 377
And what's this thing about "the engine is only suited for hybrid-electric vehicles, but that's okay. "
Most likely it means that the engine has terrible spin up/down times and/or is inefficient at doing them. Its best operated at constant speed, generating electricity for an electric motor which actually pushes you forward.
Comment: Re:C# (Score 2, Informative) 583
Comment: Re:Java? (Score 1) 452
Comment: Re:Hooray for freedom (Score 1) 747
Can you cite any problems Linux has had due to HDCP?
I want to capture digital output from my cable box to my computer. The cable box refuses to talk to my computer because it won't do the HDCP handshake.
Comment: Not so bad after all... (Score 4, Informative) 156
>If the padding is invalid, the error message that the sender gets will give him some information about the way that the site's decryption process works.
This is one reason you should send user friendly error messages to your consumers instead of stack traces, stack traces can contain details that an attacker could use against you. It sounds like you're safe if you're following best practices already.