felice_landry

We tend to forget every evil, the off-shore banking accounts, the oil and banking ones, but the TPP... can we just agree we don't want the US bullshit in the rest of the world? And can we try and contain it and suffocate it?

Strictly speaking I was born in Iowa so I signed it using those creds, but I don't think any of it matters, to be honest.

It's hilarious I think. It's sort of the same end result, but the means to get there are a bit different.

Having a Citizen Score would send me into a fit of rage, but I probably have some kind of other score I don't know about. Or I'm on a List. Those Lists. Must take much money to maintain them.

I'm not a historian, but consider that the "medium" if you like, the Internet, all it's awful mudpie history of protocols etc, is ripe for the plucking by both sides.

Do you stand idly by while the hostile ones (whatever that might mean) use it to their advantage, or do you get your government with their huge funds to help in this regard?

The latter, of course. Trouble is when that agency becomes rogue, which it certainly seems like the NSA have, with rubber stamping.

But we still need some form of accountable defense I think. It's just gone horribly wrong.

It's awful that you are thinking about this, imho, as am I. I signed it, because I'd prefer not to live under an unaccountable surveillance superpower.

Being in Australia, I'm at best, someone that kowtows to a surveillance superpower. Sucks to be me, I can't even vote to not be surveilled.

Over about 20 years of Java I've personally had to deal with JBuilder, Visual J++, Eclipse, IntelliJ and NetBeans and probably some I've forgotten. I don't understand where all the Eclipse hate comes from - it's fast, responsive, extensible and works well. Looks elegant to me too, where is that vitriol coming from in the article?

I've certainly seen configurations of Eclipse that are abysmal (Rational Application Developer) and/or frameworks that make things unbearable (moreso in the past). But it's always felt more usable and productive than anything else I've tried. I don't understand the passion I see from IntelliJ users either... it's about as ugly and unintuitive to me as NetBeans was. Perhaps it's just what you're used to.

One positive people tend to raise in support of IntelliJ IDEA is it's refactoring support... I've honestly found Eclipse's to be better. Normally I wouldn't defend anything so heavily backed by IBM, but objectively it's far better than anything else as far as I've found.