And you are still wrong. I didn't say squat about low right mode and good AV. Under windows, even windows 7, this means absolutely nothing thanks to a common and easily abused DLL injection mechanism and a completely retarded security model.

Considering that it's not really meant to be used in a browser (yeah, surprise, it's not), it's amazing that people still try to use it this way.

I believe that's why you would buy one.

You are so hellbent on a crusade you're sad.

Read your post - Browser site browser browser download webpage......

You do realize that the "jar" could also be an EXE, or some sort of script, or any numerous other entry points. It could even be a jar that contains an EXE that it then copies and executes. In any case, it's either a trojan (read that as you're a moron for running untrusted code) or a plugin. So, you're still wrong. Enjoy.

I am not worried. At the end of the day, MS has the absolute worst security record out there, by any definition you care to make. Remove the browser and run Java with known code, amazingly, it's quite secure and powers all sorts of web sites that deal with PCI, PPI, and more. Anything MS has to get an exception.

Seriously, do you even read what you write? it's broken, it's not the reference implementation, that would be Sun's, and now Oracle. There are other implementations that work - namely Apple, IBM, and BEA's renditions (also now acquired by Oracle). So there's no excuse for the horror that is OpenJDK, so the "spec is nearly useless" is provably false. You may not like it, it may not be the idealist's preferred outcome, but Java does work.

Google's Dalvik VM was never mentioned as a replacement, just as an implementation. You appear to want something ideal, prepare yourself for disappointment.

NDA's are a contract that something is disclosed to you, you generally cannot use nor disclose that information. Your own time is irrelevant. If you use that information to learn something else, you still can't disclose that something else if it requires disclosing the NDA covered information. NDAs usually have time limited clauses and/or clauses that you can discuss the information once it's made public by the originating party.

You noted that I didn't talk to Android, because that one works, whether Oracle likes it or not. OpenJDK just wasn't there, and probably won't be there for a while, especially in the areas of truly interesting functionality, such as NIO. (To me anyways, I write mostly server type code, for non mobile clients anyways).

I do take exception to your claim of Java being a massive security breach, because it's not. What is a screaming pile of cracker opium are the browser plugins. Yes, the security manager / sandbox implementation appears to have a flaw or two. But the real issue is when you run unknown code on a system that has full access capabilities, do you expect full security especially when it's layered through at least 2 other levels of applications? If you do I have some prime ocean front property south of New Orleans to sell you too. (Note that just about every security flaw reported mentions in the description "when run in the browser")

If you're impaired, you're impaired. It doesn't matter the cause, nor some arbitrary tests. There are people that can drive fine at over 0.10, and there are people who are entirely dysfunctional at 0.01. There are also people that are wholly impaired at 0.00, generally these would be sleep deprived folks, some even on loads of caffeine or other uppers (witness all those single truck accidents - driver "fell asleep". Note that truckers can only drive 11 hours at a stretch according to federal law .

So is 0.05 ridiculous? Yes, for some it's too high. For the large majority of the population, it's ridiculously low. It's also gender biased. Women are more deeply affected by alcohol so should men be held to the same standard?

What's the real answer to this problem? Making a license a privilege, and losing one meaningful and a much more realistic option.

That is purely a function of whose buying and what the purpose is. For a home NAS, I certainly wouldn't have plunked down $2K. I might have started with 4 of those drives in RAID-10 - more than sufficient to handle your current load. I also might just have done 2 drives with 2 for backup, and been done.

The mods must find it interesting that you're wrong, or that you find Oracle wrong? I don't know. But even basic code had challenges running on OpenJDK. Do a few multithreaded pools with some DB access and synchronization and whoopsie....

Interesting that the systems I've worked on for more than 10 years, some still running, don't seem to have these security issues you're whining about. Is that, perhaps, because they're almost all wholly related to the browser plugins? Disable that and woah... you don't have security problems.

Ugh, no.

My last two forays with OpenJDK have led me to never ever use it again. It is not compatible.

Your services are known only by what you use - VPN and tower connectivity. If you've jail-broken your phone, all your calls can be done via the VPN as well, although call quality will probably be unusable with today's networks. You don't have to transmit any GPS data, but your device's location can still be known, as long as you're connected to the network.

As long as it is applied evenly across all affects, a carbon tax will not harm the economy. The problem is taxing imports (allowed under the Constitution) and applying such a tax to even out costs.

I'm of the "GM might be ok if" variety. The biggest part of that "if" would be the banning of introducing external genetic information into an organism. Doing potentially naturally occurring mutations is one thing, bringing in genetic information from other organisms.... probably not a good idea in most cases.