diltonm's comments

Here is a check for the IP for freakattack.com:

http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/ip-address/141.212.122.194

Edit: They have been on that list for a while, so either the staff at the University is incompetent or they don't care; what was your point again?

In the first case I read you as saying it's OK to commit a crime against a civilian in the United States as long as [the person didn't mean to] and in the second case that since not all .COM domains are used for commercial purposes and since this one seems to be information only at the moment; that our tax dollars which helps Universities across the United States to run can be used to fund whatever .COM sites students feel so inclined to register and for whatever reason they feel is justified.

freakattack.com is an IP owned and managed by the University of Michigan. I could not visit the site due to them being in my firewall's ban list caused by unauthorized vulnerability testing against my home network.

As an aside I wonder why our tax dollars are being used to support unauthorized vulnerability attempts and for hosting a .com commercial site?

Is it legal for the person/people operating freakattack.com to use US Tax Income to fund their own commercial efforts using University resources? I didn't graduate college, maybe it's legal for them to do this?

That's true and very admirable but not what I was objecting to. It's this line that I find objectionable:

"we paid more than $7 billion to developers"

No, the Marketplace enabled $7 billion in transactions between the customers and the developers, that would have been a more correct way to state it.

"In fact, in the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and games on Google Play."

Do they mean when I buy someone's app and send them my money that they are taking the credit for "paying" the developer? If so then that's wrong. My bank doesn't pay my bills. I pay my bills using my bank's system.

I just ran a comparison with Expedia (which seems to no longer be ASP.NET based as an aside); not too surprised, Expedia found the cheaper flights. Read, cheaper, not necessarily better.

I gotta say this is a pretty cool app. A lot of the UI seems to be declarative. Very nice, considering donating.

If Stripe is doing Bitcoin then I now know to stay from and recommend others to say away from Stripe.

>> we have to use Wayland instead of X11, because X11 is impossible to secure.

Yet X11 was designed in the prime example world of a mult-user OS, UNIX. Hmm.

>> We also need to use kdbus to allow desktop integration that is properly filtered at the kernel level.

Didn't I read an article on HN recently talking about a vulnerability in Windows and the subject of too close a relationship between the kernel and the end user graphics came up?

We could have used this last week. A pole was damaged (I don't know how, just that it was damaged) and in the middle of a sunny day we lost power for 1.5 hours. Really looking forward to this technology.

I tried to like LISP many times since the 1980's when I was experimenting with it on the side, it just did not click for me like C/C++/Java/C#.

If they could make it last as long as solar cells are described to last, 20 years or so, then I'd consider it.

I see, well as a test you could download the Ubuntu fonts and switch to them for comparison.

PS I agree too, they look better in Chrome, don't know why.

They don't look too bad on the same Firefox on Ubuntu 14.04:

http://imgur.com/6nKzwZq

What Linux are you running? "fc20" I guess that's Fedora? So it looks bad on Firefox on Fedora but fine on Ubuntu. That's a Fedora issue not a Firefox or general Linux issue.

I vote for not making the language more complicated than it already is in Java 7. Oh but we have Java 8 with closures and stuff, well OK how about no more complicated than Java 8. Please? Instead maybe introduce useful things that make programmers more productive. How about implicit generics. Where this whole mess of T and Any and <: extendsT< gobbldygook> melts away. Notice how a new class extends Object automatically? It always has. Why do I have to muck about with all the fancy and overly complex syntax. Give me the features of all of that but abstract it away so I can just write what I need to and it works implicitly. Either that or just leave the dang language alone and go make some cool libraries.

Checking out some of the Fresnel videos on Youtube really helps one appreciate the power of the Sun. If the new material can withstand 700 C then point a Fresnel at it and hook up the output to a Stirling engine for conversion to electricity.

Agreed, I've bought several games from Steam since it became available on Linux, the process is easy and most of the games have been great.

Agreed, the designers of X made some truly brilliant decisions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Client_Communication_Conv...

Edit: I don't have a dog in the hunt on systemd but if it really is tight coupling then history might prove it was a bad decision. There was a lot of let's say strong opinions against Pulse Audio on Linux but I find (once we got through the growing pains) that it's a blessing. It's far superior to Windows 7's basic audio management in my opinion. I've no idea about Windows 8.

It's ironic that Android isn't on the desktop, given how much greater access they would have to expand their brand.

If they made a single touch/click that pulls the top menu _all_ the way down, then it would be easier to use on the phone and on the desktop.

First, I don't grok the vocal minority's vehement opposition to systemd.

Second, loose couplings are great for those who want to tweak to their heart's content, people who know what they're doing. I used to tweak the heck out of Gnome 2. I grew tired of it and appreciate the simplicity and elegance of Unity and dislike the "we know what's best for you" attitude that Gnome 3 conveys to me. Unity just needs to have 3 sane defaults reverted that I've mentioned in other comments.

Third, you can still tweak Linux to use whatever desktop you want. Back when I was on Windows I even hacked the registry to make the DOS command prompt my UI as a joke and it worked. Booted, no explorer running at all. Just the Windows XP kernel, few processes it started and DOS CLI that was it. It taught me that most of the stuff users interacted with on XP was actually started by and run by explorer which explained why the system grew so unstable when it crashed and I had to restart explorer.exe from the Task Manager by hitting Ctrl_Alt_Delete IIRC.

Having a common UI/UX is great for a lot of people out there including those of us who know all about loose coupling and tweaking things but usually just want to do what we want to do without all of that tweaking. Except on those weird days on the week-end when we try new stuff out like a checking out how KDE is coming along. Still too complex for my tastes but it looks great!