That simian-masturbatory maniacal focus on security is exactly why I use OpenBSD. If I was a monkey, and jacking off was a primary mission goal, then clear, consistent priorities would have to made and adhered to. All other considerations would have to be shelved. These are necessary and vital preconditions for anyone who lives in a zoo.
I don't know about the CS prof theory, but I'm not really willing to simply dismiss it offhand.
There is a definite schiziodal declaration and different psychological knowledge embedded in their intent statement. The tracts of their manifesto (what I could find) struck me as doctrinaire, and para-moralistic: precisely the type of High Ideal/Low Internal Projection thinking that sucks in well intentioned but young, frantic, and inexperienced activists. They feel their cause is bigger than the damage they inflict on innocent by-standers, when in fact it is because their cause lies just slightly outside the normal person's worldview IMHO. They are becoming frustrated. They have to attack in order to be heard. They've already subverted their own cause in this regard. They've doomed themselves.
Security by obscurity is proven myth. I would hate to have to be on the wrong side of that debate. Doesn't sound like much fun, and anything you say or do is only going to serve to strengthen your opponent's position.
Ah, to be young again... and have absolutely no idea what I am doing...
Bang!
As per release notes, this is an experimental feature. It may be that Sun intends to provide it only to paid customers or it may be that they want to make sure you don't use it in "production" environment until it's ready and then whine that Java is buggy if it doesn't work 100%.
The timing. Companies are getting desperate to generate new revenue streams, and preserve old ones. Certainly doesn't mean you are wrong, it just means that crummy economies help reinforce paranoia.
I don't know which is true but the second possibility seems far more likely to me, making this story completely pointless and unfair - but hey this is slashdot.
On slashdot, paranoia takes on a tawdry escapist quality.
Btw, off topic but is it just me or the subjects in replies are showing up as white text on white bg in Firefox but look ok in IE. I even tried in on another pc and same thing.
I'm not having that issue with FF v3.0.10.
I love it when these guys just come out and say what is on their minds. Makes it easier to determine whether or not their skills and talents are commensurate to the position they hold.
That would make a good Chick publications cartoon tract!
Q: Who spends +mod points on AC trolls?
A: Sock puppet retards.
Problem is.... parent is correct (bad form not withstanding). OP is pure over-generalized rhetorical spewage.
Because taxpayers want something for nothing.
I call bullshit on that one. When in the last 8 years have taxpayers ever really had a say in how federal tax funds are used?
C is also a ubiquitous common denominator with respect to programming in general. Many books, and programming tutorials relate back to C or use C examples in their texts.
Many programming languages are implemented in C and inherit semantics from the C compiler used to build their interpreter.
Also, many languages have some sort of FFI (Foreign Function Interface) or external linkage scheme that allows a developer to extend that language. C is common to most of these; (ie perl modules, extern C linkage in C++, and on and on...).
Still others use a compiler that converts it's native source to C code for subsequent compilation by a C compiler -- in an effort to leverage C compiler optimizations in the resulting binaries.
C is all over the damn place, and there seems to be no end to it. One of the most jaw droppingly stupid things I have ever heard repeatedly uttered over the years was the remark: "C is a dead language." My response is always "yeah kid, you keep telling yourself that."
The "Josh" character strikes me as an extreme case of Asperger's Syndrom:
Low self awareness, inability to intuit psychological situations, low empathy, manipulative, ruthless, cunning, flatness of affect but unlike true psychopaths he retains technical skills, is hygienically agnostic, and totally unconcerned with his personal appearance.
Often, when a particular area of the brain does not function well (if at all), other areas of the brain overdevelop -- in an effort to compensate for the missing brain function. His "genius" could stem from that... he could have an IQ as high as 180, but with no grasp of psychological reality, zero team integration, and a truncated worldview... he is virtually worthless.
And thats before you let him log in to your cvs server and create downstream mayhem!!!!
. . . Good for the managers. Personal problems shouldn't affect their decisions. What, the managers should instead lay off a better employee because they're feeling sorry for this woman?
The notion assumes way to much on several fronts:
1) That the managers laid off their lowest performing employee, and the lay-off was due to performance related issues (read: blame the victim).
2) Management is incapable of being callous or psychologically brutal because everything they do is strictly a "Business Decision". (ie. a person's livelihood is nothing they should take personally).
3) Psychopathy has been debunked. Nowadays we call it "Good Business Sense". Only "criminals" can be psychopaths. Right? Oh and by the way, could you hurry up with that bailout money?
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
