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God damn. What a downfall for Java in the browser.

• moccajoghurt 14y ago
  And Oracle is to blame.
• eli 14y ago
  It's only until there's a fixed version, it's not permanently banished from the browser.
  • thaumaturgy 14y ago
    Not necessarily. I'm sure there will be discussion at our next consulting meeting with at least one of our business clients on whether or not they should bother re-enabling Java after this; given that DHS also published a somewhat rare recommendation to completely disable Java, I could see a number of other corporations having the same conversation. And sometimes that's all it takes to cripple adoption of a platform. I wouldn't be sorry to see it go.
    • eli 14y ago
      About a year and a half ago, I started disabling Java on new or newly reimaged computers for my users. I got quite a few complaints. It had many more uses than I expected.
    • democracy 14y ago
      You just have to mention this is backed by Oracle and I doubt any suit would dare say something.
  • pekk 14y ago
    This keeps happening, so maybe it should be. I don't want to discover that this has happened yet again, the hard way, before there is another noisy public disclosure. Not interested.
• drivebyacct2 14y ago
  Am I the only one that assumed steeve was joking? I still think he is and find the sarcasm quite poignant and amusing.