MrArtichaut

  - doesn't seem to offer anything new compared to the JDK
  - sadly not mean to be a high level library as Keyczar 
  - can use OpenSSL as crypto engine. Is it really a good idea ?
  - doesn't even support GCM ...
  - nothing about modern algorithms like Chacha20

I'm aware that it's a 1.0 version but really I don't see the point to have another low level Java cryptography library which will, once again, allow you do make a ton of mistake.

And do you think Bill Gates would approve killing whole species ?

I honestly don't known but he seems to be a very clever guy and eradicating species doesn't sound to be a clever solution and really not a good long term solution.

What if you break a whole ecosystem ? What if those mosquitoes contain invaluable genes for future medicine? What if they offer a unique window on the evolution of insects?

But hey, who care? Kill them all..

I'm the only one not comfortable with the idea of wiping whole species just because we don't like them? I mean, I'm far fromthe Gaia thing, but what rights do we have to do that? And next? Rats, cockroaches? Hey, this specie of birds doesn't do anything useful and eat our fruits, why not killing them all?

Mosquitoes aren't even "responsible" for those diseases... Maybe we should invest in proactive body defenses against virus instead of just killing some random things.

Even if we just kill those mosquitoes species you know what? Nature evolves. Other mosquitoes and viruses will come. Do we kill them too?

Winner from the Password Hashing Competition http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2658

My mistake : I meant Eukaryote not multicellular.

Archea are less related to bacteria that we thought some years ago. They are as different from bacteria that eukaryotes are different from bacteria. So a new branch of life is justified here since the basic parts of the cell are differents.

I don't deny the importance of the finding. Bilateria and non-bilateria are huge groups in the animal kingdom and if this animal doesn't fit in one of them is really something.

But (for now, without ADN analysis) it's just a new structure plan. I just find the title about "a new branch of life" a little sensationalist :)

"The new organisms are multicellular but mostly non-symmetrical"

So it's not really a new branch of life if it's multicellular but just non-symmetrical ...

Maybe a new sub-division in the multicellular kingdom but not a whole new branch at the same level as bacteria, archaea and multicellulars...

edit : bacteria, archae and EUKARYOTE not multicellular