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.

and that works fine until your "sheep" start asking why "God" only applies to an arbitrary land border.

if you truly believe "God" is real, it is hypocritical to not assume his word applies everywhere.

so you're calling them on it... when they have nuclear weapons... to the end of what? fighting a nuclear war over someone asking you not to provide to their countrymen images of a "God" you wouldn't even know to defame if they didn't define him to you? defaming their "God", if anything, is no more than an acknowledgment of your fear of that "God"... otherwise, what is the point? because you can? they CAN detonate nuclear bombs, and they're more likely to do so the more you exercise your rights to provoke them.

ok... yes, i suppose you did, lady. are all women as smart as you?

no woman in my family presents herself as a man, because no woman in my family is a nutcase, and only a nutcase woman would present herself as a man named "tom".

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Google already told me how to optimize my PHP...

Not sure why this was modded "funny": it should have been modded "insightful".

Compensation for what? In the modern Western world, quaint notions of property rights and due process have been deprecated in favor of civil forfeiture, eminent domain for transfer to other private parties, stare decisis, and political connections.

You can't really own property anymore so much as lease it from the government for a yearly fee. (If you disagree with this viewpoint, try not paying your property taxes: then you'll find out who the real owner is.) Therefore, since the government owns all your stuff anyway, they have no need to compensate you for damages, since the government only damaged their own stuff.

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In particular, the thing that I like better in Mass. is the new Marijuana laws. It is one of the few states in the union that doesn't put you in jail for possession of a plant. This could change of course :-(

I think NH is much more likely to decriminalize marijuana sometime in the near future than MA is to *ever* decriminalize legal gun possession (snark), or lower its taxes, or repeal the zoning laws that make it so expensive to live near the wealthy people who elect the zoning boards.

Besides, I am willing to assert without evidence that tens of thousands of NH residents smoke up on a regular basis without anyone knowing. It isn't the best situation because of course it would be better if the state recognized an individual's right to engage in *any* peaceful behavior, but as a practical matter you can already exercise your right to love you, Mary-jane...

More importantly, there is actually a non-trivial percentage of people in NH who understand and believe in liberty: the same simply isn't true of MA, partly because NH is so close and attracts them.

I would like more specifics, though I'm not going to be a tool asking you.

In MA:

(1) Gun laws are ridiculous. Not worst in the nation IMO, but certainly in the bottom five. You want that Kimber .45 that is fully parts-interchangeable with the Para 1911? Sorry; those aren't approved for sale here! You want to remove that front sight from your Bushmaster and replace it with an aftermarket gas block with a flip-up front sight? Sorry; you have a pinned muzzle brake, because for some reason threaded muzzles are too dangerous! Dumbasses.

(2) Housing is way too expensive, mostly because of local zoning ordinances that restrict the density of housing. I'd love to live within a walk or a 10-15 minute T ride from where I work, for instance, but I'm not going to pay $500K for a 1400 square foot condo: it just ain't gonna happen. And there's no reason for it to be that way except for the artificial scarcity of housing within the Cambridge/Somerville/Boston/Arlington city limits.

(3) Local government is openly corrupt. Virtually every politically-connected demographicâ"the unions, the politicians, cops, large corporations, and many of the rich local property ownersâ"colludes to transfer wealth from everyone else to themselves. Taxes don't primarily go toward public goods and common services. My total tax burden is roughly 50% than it would be were I living in NH, and yet the roads in MA (for instance) are absolute shite. I've already had to replace one $500 rim from striking a huge pothole at night this year. While it's perfectly rational that things would work this way under a democracy, there's no excuse for it when there's so much waste, fraud, and pork to remove from the budget.

(4) 12% short term capital gains tax. OMFG. That alone cost me a huge amount of money over the past two years.

That's just what I can think of off the top of my head.

The downsides to NH from friends seem to be (a) the state-owned liquor stores have a generally poor selection, though they can order what you want; (b) getting zoning approval for houses outside of established neighborhoods is a PITA because they require you to upgrade the road if it isn't class V or better; (c) property taxes are generally higher than in MA. In return, they get a part-time legislature; generally more responsive local government; less local- and state-level corruption; less sprawl and more natural areas; better roads; and lower overall taxes.

As a long time MA resident, I find it's still better than MA... do you not agree? If you disagree, I'm honestly curious to know why.