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Comment: Re:Security is the real advantage (Score 2) 183

by ForumTroll on Friday February 25 2011, @02:19AM (#35309748) Attached to: FreeBSD 8.2 Released

The vast majority of those servers are being compromised through insecure web applications and misconfigured mail servers. The underlying platform has almost no bearing on that. From an attacker's perspective, there's little difference between a Linux box and a FreeBSD box running nothing but SSH.

Comment: Re:who wrote this?? (Score 1) 583

by ForumTroll on Friday November 12 2010, @03:05PM (#34209546) Attached to: The Coming War Over the Future of Java

Let's be fair here, Python 3 is almost as slow as Ruby, and Ruby doesn't have real threading either. I'd say that they're about equal in terms of being complete and utter garbage.

Comment: Re:Slashdotters get Java wrong, again (Score 3, Insightful) 583

by ForumTroll on Friday November 12 2010, @02:31PM (#34209140) Attached to: The Coming War Over the Future of Java

Finally a comment from someone with a clue. The Python and Ruby communities really don't seem to realize how primitive the mainline implementations of their languages are. They're a complete joke when compared to the JVM, the CLR, LuaJIT, SBCL, Clozure or numerous Smalltalk implementations.

Even the mainline implementation of Factor, which is primarily programmed by one person, makes CPython look utterly terrible.

Comment: Re:Okay but where does this end? (Score 1) 890

by ForumTroll on Tuesday May 26 2009, @07:12PM (#28102353) Attached to: Church of Scientology On Trial In France

How about World of Warcraft. Isn't that sort of a cult?

No, it's nothing like a cult.

Comment: Re:hahahahaha (Score 1) 186

by ForumTroll on Thursday May 21 2009, @12:39AM (#28035881) Attached to: Budget Graphics Card Roundup

I bought one a few months ago and had absolutely no problem getting the $50 rebate.

Leopard doesn't play nice with Java 0

Submitted by Count Blah on Friday October 26 2007, @08:45PM

Count Blah writes "While Macintosh users are enthusiastically putting the new version of OS X through its paces, one problem has cropped up early: problems with Java and Adobe Flash. In fact, one formerly happy Java developer says Mac users ought to just run Linux."

iPhone Contains Secret Keylogger-> 0

Submitted by on Friday October 26 2007, @03:45PM

An anonymous reader writes "Not quite a keylogger, but still disturbing. It's been discovered that a file on the iPhone automatically stores new words that are typed on the phone for its auto correction feature. So far, so good, but unfortunately it also appears to store passwords in plain text within the file. With all the methods of accessing the iPhone filesystem, this is bad news for people who lose their iPhones or sell them without a full wipe."
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Apple Fires 800 Employees For Using iPhone Rebate-> 0

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RockoTDF

on Sunday October 21 2007, @06:14PM

RockoTDF writes "Apple has apparently fired 800 employees for using the $100 rebate on their free iPhones. By being apple employees they broke the terms of the rebate. I have to say that 800 employees sounds like a LOT of people to just fire like that."
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James Watson's Speech Blocked In A Race Row 0

Submitted by bioluminescence on Thursday October 18 2007, @12:51AM

bioluminescence writes ""Dr James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, was due to speak at the venue on Friday. But the museum has cancelled the event, saying Dr Watson's views go "beyond the point of acceptable debate," reports BBC. "In an interview with The Sunday Times, the 79-year-old said he was 'inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa' because 'all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really'. He went on to say he hoped everyone was equal but that 'people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true'.""

Nobel Bio Win: Blacks/Whites unequal intelligence 0

Submitted by on Thursday October 18 2007, @12:21AM

An anonymous reader writes "Okay, there is no way I am going to post this as anything other than an Anonymous Coward. James Watson, one of the three possibly greatest biologists since Darwin (Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin are the other two), thinks "there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples ... should prove to have evolved identically". He also states some other observations that are, at the very least, controversial. http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2007/10/james-watson-dn.html

Anyway, when I submitted this, I was hoping that there would be a Section "Flamebait" and a Topic "Race" but because he IS a extremely famous scientist and this, at least, touches peripherally on his subject of expertise (as opposed to say William Shockley) I put it under the Section "Science". Secondly since at least one group has withdrawn an invitation for him to lecture, I put it under the Topic "Censorship".

So what do you think? (I'm sure we'll all know soon enough what you feel!)."