Well, I know what this poster was thinking: "Quick! First post it, before someone else who can type faster than 9 words a minute writes an insightful and informative post giving away the secret sauce!"

Non-bullshit, redacted by lawyers version:

Anyone with access to the NAS over the network and an SSH client can enter a username and password, gain elevated privileges to the cluster, and while not allowing access to the data directly from that interface, access can disable the cluster or delete all the data within it, as well as wiping out partition information, etc.

The password you're looking for is badg3r5. So there. Go forth, my minions! In other news, Slashdot's corporate overlords apparently no longer believe in full disclosure, as it had in the past, and now omit critical information probably because their lawyers have more say in the editorial process than the submitter, editors, or anyone with a clue to spare. :(

What are you talking about? From that article they made a few comments about how they wish to move away from Google's Android. And actually here's the exact quote that sentiment was extrapolated from:

That's a quote from some Chinese Ministry, not even a group of Chinese developers. I hear that more like "Chinese are reluctantly still installing Google's Android on most of their phones. Google's Android use still rising sharply in China with no end in sight." Can you point me to the Chinese repo for the forked source to android? Surely if it's widely distributed it must also make the source available?

'Gleefully gone their own way'? Yeah, tell you what, fork Android for China and let's compare the two code bases for support and worldwide use one year later. I suspect the glee will be entirely one-sided and it's not going to be China's Android.

The problem though is that pedophiles are experienced and know how to evade traps. They're like cochroaches -- for every one you find, there's fifty more you don't. And considering that western society likes to lock these people up and let them be raped and murdered, instead of studying what the glitch in their wetware is to devise a treatment, or treating their prisoners with compassion... there is a major incentive to not come forward if you're one of the afflicted... and being so afflicted... still more incentive to act out on the impulses.

A pedophile is therefore completely devoted to the task at hand. They will find out how to detect chat bots, and quickly too. Ask about personal history, how they feel about family members... things that a database of responses and algorithms can't simply create on demand and be believable. Most of our brains are devoted to social interaction -- trying to fool it is a frustratingly complex task.

You may catch the 'weak' ones, the low hanging fruit... but all you've done then is strengthen the remaining community... just like overuse of antibiotics. If bacteria can evolve, so can people. This chatbot is a novel approach... but it won't fix the problem. The only thing that'll fix the problem, is fixing the people with the problem -- by figuring out what causes pedophilia, and treating it.

And while we're at it, it might not be a bad idea to start treating our prisoners and mentally ill (largely the same group, if you look at the numbers) with compassion instead of clinging to primitive caveman ethics about needing vengance and going on at length about morality. At the end of the day... if you can't stomach killing people yourself, then you need to figure out how to live with them. And if you can stomach it... you may belong in with them, instead of out here with the rest of us.

Yeah, but mobile devices are just like our brains... we're really only using 10% of it... the rest is overhead for the operating system. x_x

Thing is, he's not wrong. Most consumers won't notice. But then, most consumers wouldn't notice if their computer ran on little gerbils inside and the internet was just a series of tubes. But that's no excuse for his handwave. Fragmentation is a problem. Maybe it's not a severe one -- maybe not yet. Maybe developers can muddle through. Maybe, even everything is fine. For now.

But complacency will always get you a kick in the ass by the next best thing in technology, and you can go from cutting edge to curdled milk in no time at all. Iconic brand names of even a few years ago are now nothing more than sign posts in the desert -- Compaq. E Machines. 3Com. They were once all major brands and now they're dust. If you want to stay on the leading edge, you have to push the boundaries. You have to innovate, improve, refine, create. You can't talk about "ecosystems" and "platforms" like they're going to just go right on existing on their own, like they're some timeless thing.

They won't. Android will die someday; Everything does. The only question is how long it'll last -- and if you want that question to be "For a long time yet," then you best listen to the people who work with it every day and say "This is a problem." And you'd better answer back with something better than "No it's not." Address the problem now, while it's small... because trust me when I say... if there's one thing computers are good at, it's multiplying trouble. Exponentially. Don't wait. Fix it. Fix it now. Before you're sitting on the ruined throne of a kingdom of dust.

We'll get to that, but first we need to talk about these things called deadlines, managers, and paychecks. After I'm done with the Q&A about those three things, anyone who still wants to seek the Grail may sign up on the sheet here on the desk... (blows away some dust)... Now, open your text books to page 25...
-- Ada

Those "write app get rich" idiots are likely your future employers. They don't know how to program, and they have markedly little understanding of it; That's your job. Oh, and they want it done fast, cheap, and right. Think you can score all three? No? Okay then -- maybe you need to take a step back and realize that programming for money these days is about building a program using a finite number of tools and resources, on a budget, and under a deadline. And I have yet to work on a project where there was enough of anything I needed to do it fast, cheap, and right.

So either I'm one of those "write app get rich idiots", or I'm one of those in the unemployment line I guess. Three guesses which one I picked -- first two don't count. These are the realities of professional programming; We don't have time for perfect... we'll settle for "it compiles" and using something that after hours of beating it with a hammer just started working, but we don't know why... that's just how it is. I didn't write the rules, I just write the code.

If memory management was so easy, we wouldn't have devoted so much of our programming guides, style manuals, etc., to it. It's not a simple matter of "I wave my hand and the problem goes away." It has existed since before there were "dozens of fucking libraries and frameworks" and at a time when people did know how to "really code"... it has existed since the very. first. computer. And it hasn't been solved to this day.

The main reason, I suppose, is the same reason why we haven't yet found The One True Concrete that all things can be built out of, or the One True Operating System upon which everything can run, or the One True... you get the damn idea. Men much smarter than you have devoted their entire careers to trying to solve the problem, and it's incredibly pretentious of you to toss off a one liner like it's (puts on sunglasses) just a simple matter of programming.

Achievement Unlocked: Missing The Point
Level: 99

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of a stampede of raging Tu Quoques, Ad Hominids, and Appeals to Emotion...

No. We're currently being run into the ground by Baby Boomers who have sucked the life out of the country's economy, destroyed the environment, let critical infrastructure rot, and have made education and healthcare nearly unattainable for anyone but themselves. As a result of that "we" (as in the non-boomers) are living hand to mouth, and the only thing that gets us through our meager, shitty, two-part-time-jobs-60-hour-a-week lives is the mediocre entertainment products that we can no longer afford to own but merely "rent" at exorbinant fees under the guise of its convenience.

We're not apathetic, vapid, trivial, or shallow -- we're simply working ourselves into an early grave trying to support the dead weight of the assholes that bankrupted our country to support their own vanity and selfishness... which means we hardly have the energy to give a damn about anything but whether we'll make it to the next paycheck and wondering exactly how many pounds of ramen noodles a person can eat before it kills them.

So I assume then that if hetero couples don't get their bang on the night of the wedding, their marriage is anulled? I assume you were in the front rows of the "Sanctity of Marriage" walk to boot Brittney Spears and so many other celebrities from your ranks? I also suppose then that couples that are sterile and choose to adopt actually won't have the choice to adopt, because we feed all the children into a meat grinder instead? Because if we're going to go there, buddy, let's fucking go there.

I think the GP has managed to confuse majority by numbers and majority by power. It's a common newbie mistake for people who spend too much time on the internet. ;)