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by Niten 15y ago
Well clearly there are two things going on here, assuming VUPEN is on the level: 1) A remote code execution exploit in Chrome 2) A privilege elevation exploit allowing the hijacked browser process to break out of its mandatory access contro
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by Niten 15y ago
If you want to be safe, run a VPN on the phone and route all your traffic, tethered or not, through that.
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by Niten 15y ago
Someone probably did a focus group and found out people got 47% more warm-fuzzies from the word "promise".
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by Niten 15y ago
> however it's this [...] that I think will keep it from being especially useful on non-Windows platforms. Sure, and I acknowledge as much in my post above, that PowerShell's object orientation is most appropriate for the Windows enviro
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by Niten 15y ago
This isn't pointed at you, keyle, but here PowerShell seems to be one of those things that's universally panned by people who don't understand it, or who refuse to give a serious chance to anything that isn't a traditional Unix shell... To
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by Niten 15y ago
Ha! Suing competitors over dubious patents; pushing for legislation to punish people for using their own hardware how they see fit; trying their hardest to keep people from using iPods and iPhones with anything but iTunes; designing special
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by Niten 15y ago
Great app, I really like the way it deals with nested comments. Just a couple suggestions: * Maybe you could visually distinguish the "headline" item in any given view from the items under it? E.g. when you're looking at a story and its c
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by Niten 16y ago
DynDNS
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by Niten 16y ago
Heck, even their Expression Blend and Visual Studio WPF and Silverlight designers assume you'll want to edit XAML by hand. Microsoft's current generation of development tools emphatically are not in the business of hiding markup language a
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by Niten 16y ago
I really happy to see the option to disable auto-saving contacts. Now what about fixed-width fonts in plaintext messages? :-)
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by Niten 16y ago
Huh? As far as "native" goes, the Android browser is just as fast as, or faster than, the iPhone's. And Adobe has already confirmed Flash for Windows Phone 7.
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by Niten 16y ago
I'm comparing to Firefox 3.6; Firefox 4.0 isn't released yet. But everything I've read indicates that Firefox 4.0 will still have a single-process, non-low-integrity process model, with all the security and reliability implications that go
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by Niten 16y ago
For one thing, IE 8 is arguably a more secure browser than Firefox due to its use of low-integrity process isolation on Windows Vista and 7. It's also more stable than Firefox in my experience, probably because of the way it isolates brows
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by Niten 16y ago
But read the article. This specifically affects web apps run launched as fullscreen applications from the iPhone home screen, as opposed to other applications making use of UIWebView.
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by Niten 16y ago
And what point are you trying to make? Their game is getting 12-13k downloads per day and has made best-of lists on Mashable and MSNBC; clearly they are well known, even if you are not personally aware of them.
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by Niten 16y ago
> if it covers everything on the HD and does so automatically, that's pretty awesome. It doesn't. "*Available with apps that have been developed to work with Lion."
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by Niten 16y ago
> To be clear, we believe you have every right to push forward such a policy. In our view, it’s your hardware and your channel and you can put forth any policy you like. It isn't Apple's hardware; let us not forget the hardware belongs
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by Niten 16y ago
Not at all. Because unlike Apple, Google isn't forcing people to play by their rules; they're just holding this out as an option for those developers who choose to use it.
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by Niten 16y ago
> Finally, laypeople will benefit from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) mad scientist projects Yeah, because that whole Internet thing and GPS didn't really count for much...
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by Niten 16y ago
Well I've been running my personal email server (Postfix on a FreeBSD VPS) for four or five years now, and spam just hasn't been an issue for me. Between the Spamhaus ZEN DNSBL, greylisting, and SpamAssassin, I just don't get any appreciab
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by Niten 16y ago
I'm surprised there was no mention of WebSharper in here, it's almost exactly what the author is asking for. And it's implemented in a functional programming language too...
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by Niten 16y ago
Now that I've actually seen the ad -- no, it didn't insult you any more than the Mac vs. PC ads "insult" the PC user. If you take knocks on Apple products as some sort of personal insult, you might want to step back and take a couple deep
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by Niten 16y ago
So you know what's funny? For some reason the image failed to load when I first visited the page, and I was left wondering what the fuss is all about. Hence the parent comment. But now that I actually see it, I think it's a good ad. Norma
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by Niten 16y ago
You say this based on what, exactly? It sounds to me like they just need to finish working on their web site, and one can't really take more from it than that without inserting one's own personal biases.
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by Niten 16y ago
I use JavaScript obfuscation: a tiny WordPress plugin I wrote that essentially embeds the email address on the web page in scrambled form, and then transforms it to a clickable `mailto:` link client-side in the user's web browser. A messag
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by Niten 16y ago
Chance this arbitrary statistic matters to real world Android users? 0.4% Chance
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by Niten 16y ago
No, they explicitly stated that their demonstration did not consist of virtualized or emulated x86 Windows . That doesn't at all rule out a dynamic translation layer for x86 apps.
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by Niten 16y ago
I just hope that, from the end user's perspective, they pull this off as smoothly as Apple managed the PowerPC to Intel transition. I'm taking it for granted that most .NET applications will work on Windows ARM out of the box, but that won
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by Niten 16y ago
I think it's a good idea to strip read receipt request headers from mailing list messages; they just don't make any sense in that context. But more generally, MDNs and DSNs do serve a useful purpose when used conscientiously, and I don't th
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by Niten 16y ago
Having used Outlook with Exchange myself, I agree that it has some wonderful functionality. But if Outlook will do something as sloppy as sending a batch of read receipts when it makes absolutely no sense to do so, that doesn't instill a l

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