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Comment Implement your own secure storage strategy (Score 2, Interesting) 177

by nick1000 (#33461836) Attached to: Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties

As a Linux application developer who has used keyring/kwallet for saving secure passwords in the past. I'd recommend not to use them.

Various different distributions have different versions of the these utilities and their libraries. There are so many variations that it becomes hard to support all versions. Most desktop linux end users have never used them and when they see a warning window popping up (which these utilities tend to show). They cancel the window rather than going through the authentication process.

Just my 2 cents.

Comment Re:Why else might he want high schoolers? (Score 2, Informative) 612

by nick1000 (#32768744) Attached to: Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers

Any other reason? Perhaps they are a bit cheaper?

Thank you. Finally somebody gets it.

Indian college educated programmers are cheap. Really cheap. I am an Indian and I can tell you that the reason Zoho does not get good programmers is because they pay ridiculously low compensations.

Sridhar talks about people not being willing to join because his company is not a big name? I'll give him the benefit and say he is being naive. There are tons of startups (or small growing companies like Zoho) in India that get fairly good people. Some I know get outright brilliant people. The trick is to pay people on par with the industry standards and hire the best people you can get to create a good work culture.

As a developer, I do not want to work at a place where people who couldn't even complete their degrees are running riot.

Comment Re:m$ and browsers (Score 1) 458

by nick1000 (#32373218) Attached to: The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6
Apple used BSD and did not contribute anything to the community.

They took KHTML and forked it out. Webkit was just an improved Mac port of KHTML when Apple was working on it. It was only when others like Nokia(who took it to Gtk/Linux), Adobe (who took it to Windows), Qt folks and later Google (who made a skia port) and integrated a new JS engine, it actually started working on it that .

So don't tell me that Apple is some great saviour of open source or anything.
The Internet

Submission + - Adobe founders on Flash and internet standards

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: An interview with the founders of Adobe (and creators of PostScript) Charles Geschke and John Warnock. Three interesting quotes:

"It is so frustrating that this many years later we're still in an environment where someone says if you really want this to work you have to use Firefox. The whole point of the universality of the Web would be to not have those kind of distinctions, but we're still living with them. It's always fascinating to see how long it takes for certain pieces of historical antiquity to die away. The more you put them in the browsers you've codified them as eternal, and that's stupid".

"With Flash what we're trying to do is both beef it up and make it robust enough so that at least you can get one language that's platform-independent and will move from platform to platform without hitting you every time you turn around with different semantics".

"You can see why, to a certain extent, Apple and Microsoft view that as a challenge because they would like you to buy into their implementation of how the seamless integration with the Web goes. What we're saying is it really shouldn't matter. That cloud ought to be accessible by anybody's computer and through any sort of information sitting out on the Web."

Comment Re:He Is Quick to Forgive Apple, Of Course (Score 1) 944

by nick1000 (#32035042) Attached to: Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash"

Apple is pulling wool over everyone's eyes by talking of HTML5.

Apple has never promoted an HTML5 based OpenWeb. They are moving the web to Internet enabled mini applications aka Apps from the iTunes apps store. Netflix, Hulu , DC, tons of publishers have all gone to this closed application model. They have not moved to HTML5.

This is dangerous since it makes the web accessible from only one class of devices.
I really wished we in the Open/FOSS community would realize this danger.
Censorship

A Detailed Dive Into China's Information Underground 65

Posted by CmdrTaco from the censor-this dept.
eldavojohn writes "MIT's Tech Review has an article on the current state of Internet censorship in China. We've read the stories about Green Dam and the Great Firewall, but this article relates the story of one of the many ways around these tools and how they're little more than an added complexity to getting what you want from the Internet in China. The article starts out with an aliased user named Xiaomi who wakes up and utilizes Google Docs to collaborate with other Mandarin-English speakers so they can translate the day's news. Once it's there she makes it public and sends out a note on Twitter and Buzz to her followers, who copy the document to their blogs and link back to the public Google Document. The blogs survive for various lengths of time, but while they are up more people read and publish to their blogs, and the pyramid branches out." (Read more, below.)

Comment Re:You Pretentious, Nieve Twit (Score 1) 789

by nick1000 (#31806478) Attached to: Adobe Evangelist Lashes Out Over Apple's "Original Language" Policy
Dear mqbastard, you sir are incorrect.

Have you ever used ActionScript? It seems to be that you are ranting about something you have no idea of.
The moment you tell me Steve Jobs coded, I realize that you have drunk way too much Job's kool aid.

Apple is closing down the web by forcing rich internet applications to be built using a platform/sdk that runs only on apple devices.
Flash despite its inconsistencies run all major OS/devices.

Just ask Tim Berners Lee which side of the debate he is on, Adobe's open platform or Apple's closed platform. Maybe you'll realize that you are drinking Steve Job's rather than Lee's kool aid.

Comment Re:Herbal medicine has limited value (Score 1) 713

by nick1000 (#26182017) Attached to: Trick or Treatment
Mods on Crack or what? Who modded this insightful?
Social Anxiety Disorder is a very real disease, quite different from shyness. It has very real physiological factors which can be countered using proper treatment and medication.
So let's not spread such wrong knowledge on slashdot.
Space

Group Plans to Bring Martian Sample to Earth 84

Posted by samzenpus from the plot-to-a-made-for-tv-movie dept.
sm62704 (mcgrew) writes "New Scientist has a story about IMARS (the International Mars Architecture for Return Samples) planning to bring samples of Martian soil to earth. The robotic mission would be a needed precursor to manned trips to the red planet. Also, international cooperation is necessary since the US has already nixed bankrolling manned Mars missions."
Google

Judges Reinstate Charges In Google Age Discrimination Suit 291

Posted by Zonk from the oldies-but-goodies dept.
theodp writes "A California appeals court has reinstated former Stanford prof Brian Reid's age-discrimination suit against Google, ruling that a lower Court erred in siding with Google and rejecting Mr. Reid's claims. From the Court Decision (PDF): 'We conclude that Reid produced sufficient evidence that Google's reasons for terminating him were untrue or pretextual, and that Google acted with discriminatory motive such that a factfinder would conclude Google engaged in age discrimination.' As side notes, helping Reid make his case is CS Prof Norman Matloff, while Google's actions are being defended by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati of pretexting-was-not-generally-unlawful fame."

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