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Comment: Re:No (Score 1) 339

by buchner.johannes (#47441071) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch?


A smart phone is a laptop with less functionality that you have to put in your pocket. I don't understand the appeal at all. Everything it does a laptop does better.

Comment: Re:Python (Score 5, Informative) 466

There are two possible answers to the question: Python and Javascript.

Python is a general-purpose language, with a large number of user areas. It is your best bet for general applicability.
However, if you want to aim for the web market -- which, granted, is huge -- go with Javascript.

That's pretty much all you need to know to make your decision.

Comment: Re:Eskimo?! (Score 1, Interesting) 166

Alaskas perspective: http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/resour...



Perhaps we are trying to force a term on a group of peoples which never considered themselves as a group of peoples.

Comment: Re:Eskimo?! (Score 4, Informative) 166

Some Inuit in Canada and Greenland object very strongly, which is as good a reason as we need not to do it.

This whole topic is a bit of minefield, it's fair to say. We can initially divide the Eskimo/Aleut people into three - the Inuit, the Unangax (Aleut), and the Yupik.

The Unangax of the Aleutian Islands don't care to be called Inuit or Eskimo. They see themselves as distinct from Eskimos and don't mind being described as Native Americans; other Eskimo/Aleut people don't identify as being such. The Unangax are easily distinguished by their language (many borrowings from Russian, including the system of verb inflexions) and their religion (most are Russian Orthodox).

The Yupik have no objection to being called Eskimos, and will use that term to encompass both themselves and the Inuit. The main groupings within the Yupik are the Alutiiq of the coast, the Yuit or Siberian Yupik, and the Yup'ik of Central Alaska.

Then we come to the Inuit. The two largest groupings are the Canadian Inuit and the Kalallit or Greenland Inuit, both of which would prefer you not to call them Eskimos. (The Greenlanders are happy with Inuit to mean both themselves and the Canadians.) Ethnically speaking, two smaller groupings - the Iñupiat of the North Slope and the Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic - are also Inuit, although the Iñupiat would rather be described as Eskimo.

I said it got confusing ...

by "suze", from http://old.qi.com/talk/viewtop...
further in http://old.qi.com/talk/viewtop...





Wikipedia is not informative on why/where it is considered offensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... But it has a nice map of the tribes.

Comment: Open Source it (Score 1) 131

by buchner.johannes (#47149619) Attached to: TrueCrypt Cryptanalysis To Include Crowdsourcing Aspect

If TrueCrypt devs really gave up because they think it is pointless, then they should open source the code (BSD, Apache2, GPL, MIT). There is no reason not to, unless they had contributers who passed away.

So finally, was the duress canary activated or not? If it is "still there" as according to that tweet, that should mean it was not activated.

Btw, tc-play is not a solution, because it is Linux/BSD only.

Comment: Re:It's like Swatch .beat Internet time all over (Score 1) 209

Complicated totally unfamiliar representation of date and time for the "information age"?

Why is it unfamiliar, it is almost the same as current representation:
RFC3339 is

And that May 31st corresponds to 5.20. is logical, as there are fewer days in their month.

Comment: Zero-Day allowing the attacker run arbitrary code (Score 2, Interesting) 134

by buchner.johannes (#47064203) Attached to: New IE 8 Zero Day Discovered

"Zero-Day exploit allowing the attacker to run arbitrary code"

I thought these words should be history based on the implemented NX bit, sandboxing, multiple lines of defense and Data Execution Prevention features of MS Windows after XP.

Why do all these features fail, when they are specifically designed for exposed code like IE? Or does this warning assume the worst case, where all these other features are turned off?

User hostile.