Comment Re:take my money (Score 1) 219
Reading this on a T42 with a 4:3 1400x1050. Will use it 'till one of us dies. Would love to by the same thing new.
Comment very few web surfers are consumers (Score 1) 618
The problem stems from the assumption that everyone surfing the web is a consumer. That is not often the case.
Comment Re:Teach them Java or C# (Score 1) 648
I strongly agree with this approach. Do some (admittedly toy) simple stuff in assembler first.
Then move on to C as their 2nd language.
Their 3rd language... can be whatever they want to implement in C.
Comment Re:This guy hasn't done his research. (Score 1) 648
C can teach you about navigating pointers and about memory leaks. The point here isn't to create great applications, it's to teach programming. If you start with python, you have no idea what python is doing, either for you or within your programs. Much better to implement hashes, linked lists, etc. before jumping into languages where all that stuff remains magical -- and apparently cost-free -- to the coders without that experience. It has nothing to do with which language is better to write applications with; it's to develop an understanding of what programs are.
Comment won't somebody think of the revolutionaries (Score 1) 575
What about the privacy of the people planning to overthrow the government when it is no longer following the constitution?
Comment Re:Don't try (Score 1) 143
This. Or, more to the point, start your own business doing the same job the right way, as you see it. If you succeed, you were right (and lucky).
Comment Looking for a solution in search of a problem? (Score 1) 1
You know perl, you're supporting perl now, and you have no compelling reason to do something else in particular. So, two things:
- Your company should keep using perl.
- You should get a job you like.
Comment What, is Ctrl-R so hard? (Score 1) 521
I've been using computers for over 30 years and have never once used this keystroke.
Is it telling that I ran across this article twice and both times thought "What's the problem? just hit Ctrl-R and get on with it!" Now what's this "application" you speak of?
Comment They know something (Score 2) 133
Sounds like M87's Puppeteers know something and are heading for higher ground.
Comment Re:OpenOffice? (Score 2) 285
If that were true then there would not have been 100 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice, would there? Therefore...
Sorry, that was me. I left curl running in a loop on a 56kb dialup and went on vacation. My bad.
Comment There's at least one left (Score 1) 1
We've still to find any warp particles.
Comment Re:Hack it to add American names like "John Smith" (Score 2) 286
I have a friend who's son is on the no-fly list since he's 3 years old! He's twin brother is not.
Oh yeah, will I'm DEAD and on the no-fly list, and they can't fly my body back to my hometown for burrial. So there!
Submission + - Bug in the GnuTLS Library leaves many OSs and Apps at risk (arstechnica.com)
williamyf writes: According to our friends at ArsTechnica:
"The bug in the GnuTLS library makes it trivial for attackers to bypass secure sockets layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protections available on websites that depend on the open source package. Initial estimates included in Internet discussions such as this one indicate that more than 200 different operating systems or applications rely on GnuTLS to implement crucial SSL and TLS operations, but it wouldn't be surprising if the actual number is much higher. Web applications, e-mail programs, and other code that use the library are vulnerable to exploits that allow attackers monitoring connections to silently decode encrypted traffic passing between end users and servers."
What's even more, the coding error *may* have been present since 2005, so one has to wander, again, where were those "many eyes that render all bugs shallow" one keeps hearing about...
"The bug in the GnuTLS library makes it trivial for attackers to bypass secure sockets layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protections available on websites that depend on the open source package. Initial estimates included in Internet discussions such as this one indicate that more than 200 different operating systems or applications rely on GnuTLS to implement crucial SSL and TLS operations, but it wouldn't be surprising if the actual number is much higher. Web applications, e-mail programs, and other code that use the library are vulnerable to exploits that allow attackers monitoring connections to silently decode encrypted traffic passing between end users and servers."
What's even more, the coding error *may* have been present since 2005, so one has to wander, again, where were those "many eyes that render all bugs shallow" one keeps hearing about...
Comment Lay what? (Score 1) 112
The charging stations could be embedded in asphalt or pads that lay on garage floors.
They lay... power-up eggs that the pac-man vans pick up? This makes no sense.
Comment Re:favorites... (Score 1) 204
Okay, I'll run with that. So documentation is really just code that we run on users. Suddenly writing documentation has much more entertainment potential.
