Used to come here a lot ten years ago, and I know it's not as "popular" as it used to be, but it seems like the smartest people stayed. Really enjoying the commentary.

I thought WikiLeaks was supposed to protect it's sources. If he implied 'not too subtly' that it was this DNC staffer, then I guess he just killed the only reason to trust WikiLeaks. When the heat is on, Assange just might give you up. It's super-convenient that the guy's dead, so no one can run that down.

Assange feels like an ass, because he got played by an intelligence agency, and he knows it.

Fuck them.

Synergy used to have a specific meaning in business; it pertained to mergers and acquisitions. The point of a merger was to achieve 'synergy' because the two companies owned or produced something that would improve the overall product in some way.

Now, of course, it means fuck all.

So what is that? Pen-pals?

Yeah, well, I'm guessing that this is the most exciting thing for Irving PD to deal with in a long time. Picking up Bubba and throwing him in the drunk tank every Firday and Saturday night gets old.

The U.S. has been known by many names, but 'Land of Tolerance' has never been one of them.

There's only one reason to buy an expensive watch. They last a long, long time if you take care of it. You can pass it on, it becomes a sentimental heirloom.

I have my grandfather's gold pocket watch. No one uses pocket watches anymore. I have it because it's something he carried around every day.

10k on an Apple watch is ridiculous. What are you going to do? Pass on a non-functional lump of gold to your progeny? At least my grandpa's watch can tell time. Doesn't even need batteries.

slashdot = stagnated

what would you call the act of dispersal of a fart in a room? how about the dispersal of lipophilic compounds in oil?

ur mum's face is a shovel, idiot.

you are NOTHING

i do really have exact ideas about the n1 architecture, battery technology, and the native flash environment implementation, and the implied extra layer necessary to do the interpreting.

i also really have many exact ideas about the implementation of applications in flash not being optimal relative to latency, cpu usage, and battery life, compared with a native app capable of recreating any interface flash is capable of. why let the developer shoot themselves in the foot just because they think different about shooting themselves?

maybe you should have one of those ideas.

you are NOTHING.

there is the one way about it when backward compatibility is achieved through the application of emulation and virtualization... but that would make you the fucking idiot.

you're an anonymous coward. ur mum's face is no other way about it.

you are NOTHING

yeah, why reinvent web search when altavista and webcrawler dominate the market?

the implication that someone might expect or hope that flash would go away, thus requiring the claimed reasons why it would not.

i'd rather if the article author and slashdot editors would go away.

save for theoretical quantum encryption, there is always the potential for a MITM attack. ALWAYS.

using a 3rd party is only effective as it is an order of magnitude more difficult to middle both connections simultaneously... theoretically if you could do that, you either have access to sniff the whole internet or the 3rd party's local network or the local networks of both ends... if you already have that level of access, it's already game over. do you trust the tumbler lock on your front door, or do you nail boards over the door and barricade it with a boulder every night?

i have a legal freeware program that sniffs wireless networks to analyze them for quality of service. this will include pieces of unencrypted IP packet data. google recently used similar tools and accidentally obtained sensitive data.

add on top of SSL pre-defined challenge questions, and a message or image defined by the user and presented by the service and you've got the same level of protection as a valid SSL certificate. combining them helps even more, but there are still attack vectors.