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You can compile invokedynamic into reflection pretty easily. Obviously you lose the method call optimization, but you can keep the syntatic sugar.

I would be very surprised if the backports folks didn't offer this within a few months.

Now your dancing around the wording. This one boy got pleasure bullying the rest of us neighbor kids, and more disturbingly, killing and maiming animals for fun.

This was elementary school since he was shipped off to some special place by middle school. He had two really nice brothers who seemed as relieved as the rest of us when he was gone.

As already recommended in this thread, I urge a viewing of "We Need to Talk about Kevin"

Asshole, brat, jerk ... We all might fall in and out of these fugues as we mature. But, very few of us are evil. You do disservice to those trying to understand these conditions (whether biological or environmental) by minimizing them.

And kids, like one who grew up on my block, who got their kicks dunking people's cats in gasoline and throwing fireworks at them? Was that just being a brat?

Yes, they are called "hackers" .. Especially the black hat kind.

Clearly unencrypted. They dedup, enable OCR searching, transparent online access to office style documents, etc.. These features would not be possible if they encrypted your bytes before being sent over the wire.

You might want to look into Tarsnap. It's more expensive and you don't get the fancy features, but they offer opaque encrypted file handling. Also, there have been a couple niche strong privacy centered providers that have commented in this thread.

I suppose one could create a Truecrypt container and have GDrive sync it in the background. Wonder if Google will ever complain about files they can't process.

There was the small speedbump of Sun dying and being purchased by Oracle in the process.

I'm no Oracle fanboi, but I bet without the legal and corporate circus, they will iterate faster.

Ah,rachelbythebay, you caught him for being "technically incorrect". Which, depending on how you look at it, is either the best or worst kind of correctness.

Oh man, nothing like the hurt feelings of the structured data guys. They've been pushing various designed by committee, magical taxonomy of the universe, semantic web hooey for years.

I especially love the statement from @manusporny that RDFa has grown 500% in the last year... So, 5 people using it now?

I say good on the vendors for jumping out of the analysis paralysis and making something work. We'll improve on it as we go, but a working, living start, is better than a never ending W3C working groups. [see html5 vs xhtml 2.0 and json vs xml]

fyi - with the JDK7 - the JVM can also target the LLVM (for JIT'ing) through Project Zero (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/zero/)

One Bytecode to rule them all, One Bytecode to find them, One Bytecodeto bring them all and in the darkness bind them

:-)