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I'd like to inform you that you have bad taste and your post doesn't have anything to do with the article.

He doesn't have to have the private key, only a private key that was signed by any of the hundreds (counting intermediate CAs, thousands?) CAs trusted by his browser.

>In C you could have made some 'safe buffer'

No you couldn't've. C is fundamentally unsafe language and people like you should stop pretending it isn't.

Your question is essentially "why is there a difference between theory and practice?".

That would be because GNU decided that man pages weren't good enough for them and decided to use info pages.

Doesn't seem to support backquotes? For example

    for x in `ls ~/foo`; do echo $x; done

doesn't yield anything remotely interesting.

> this is typically the end game for capitalism and globalisation

Say what?

tl;dr if you don't know what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing.

Game programmers are weird.

Java.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?

Good. Please keep them there.

That's just beyond retarded. I weep when people have been conditioned by Canonical (and Microsoft) to accept this.

"Nobel" in economic "science".

I disagree. A 182cm (6ft) person can weigh only 82 kg (~180lbs) to be not considered overweight. If you have any amount of muscle and don't have a single digit bodyfat percentage, you're easily overweight according to BMI. And it only gets worse when you get taller. Similarly, short people can be seriously fat and not be considered overweight according to BMI. The exponent in the BMI formula should be larger than 2.

"One of the first things you will notice is how short people there are. The second thing you'll notice is that food portions in restaurants and cafeterias are much larger. Strangely, everybody feels hungry all the time."

> as a simple example, recumbent cycles are faster under many conditions.

I highly doubt that. Everybody knows that ugly bikes are slow, and recumbents are as ugly as they come. /s

> This right here is why security will never be mainstream, because consumers value convenience over the ability for their browser not to run arbitrary code.

You say that as if it's a bad a thing.

It took me a while to realize that it didn't mean writing code that ran aboard an airplane, but code that was written while on an airplane. Somehow the latter didn't even cross my mind as something that could be considered impressive.

Huh? Of course it is a feature. My point is that if something as innocent looking as property access can be an arbitrary method call, it may make understanding a piece of code more difficult. From the point of view of debugging existing code, which I've done a lot lately, hiding details that may matter in corner cases is not something that I want the language to encourage.

It's quite sad that you must specifically ask for conformance.

Portability, memory safety, speed of compilation, retaining the sanity of developers.

> In fact, it's unclear to me where java might be optimal.

I'd say server side processing of whatever. That's what we use it at work for, and I don't see how any of the mainstream languages would be much, if any, better. Our software has to run on our customers' servers, so portability is of utmost importance since we don't want to need to compile it for random OS's. This rules out languages that need native binaries. Performance is also important, since people don't want to buy bigger machines just because you wrote your software in Python/Ruby/whatever and is 10+ times slower than it needs to be. Also, our software is old enough that C# didn't even exist for many years.

Doesn't C# have "magic" getters and setters, where code like "foo.bar = quux;" might mean a function call? To me, that's not clearer at all.

Somehow I'm tempted to click the "report abuse" button.

> A recent survey found that 76 percent of consumers check online reviews before buying

Bullshit.

This seems more accurate to me than the OP.

Ok, fair enough. But I still think that the choice of the default desktop strongly suggests what most people should use, at least with a distro like Ubuntu that is supposed to be newbie-friendly.

By making custom tooth-brush cleaning brush cleaning brushes that are tailored to each tooth-brush cleaning brush they produce?