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by Niten 15y ago
nginx doesn't have to be a drop-in replacement for apache in order for it to succeed apache as the base system's web server.
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by Niten 15y ago
But that's exactly what you're arguing: > We could easily unleash almost twice as much human potential of the human race we are right now in coding, and engineering and science in general, if we go back and inspect all the hideous det
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by Niten 15y ago
Where are all these obstacles you refer to? You're immediately jumping to the dogmatic conclusion that if there are less women in computer science right now, it must be because someone else is setting up obstacles to hold them back. But
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by Niten 15y ago
That they tried to exert too much control over their platform and lost out to competitors who could offer more choice and better value? Yes the same thing has happened here, but the answer is not for Apple to abuse the legal system as a su
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by Niten 15y ago
> What confuses me is why anyone would switch from Linux to Windows if they do anything where Linux had the upper hand? Makes as much sense as switching to OS X. The Mac OS is not Linux. If you're developing for Linux, or using somethin
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by Niten 15y ago
These poorly-designed adapters have a history of shorting out and catching fire. Yes, I am surprised that anybody would think "looks nice" is a more important feature than "won't burn our customers' houses down".
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by Niten 15y ago
I've had the same experience with my Incredible. The fact that CyanogenMod 7 is Android 2.3 based, while there isn't an official Gingerbread ROM for the phone, is probably also a factor.
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by Niten 15y ago
Ironically requiring that they make more copies, if this is true.
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by Niten 15y ago
I agree (and I have no idea why you're being downvoted). I don't always need Flash on my phone, but in the situations where I do I'm really grateful to have it. And click-to-flash is the ideal way of handling this.
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by Niten 15y ago
Oops, thanks... missed that last paragraph there.
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by Niten 15y ago
Too bad he didn't get into any of the stuff that really makes C# nicer than Java, in my opinion: lambda expressions and closures, LINQ, expression trees, dynamic typing, type inference, P/Invoke vs JNI. Also the event / delegate thing makes
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by Niten 15y ago
He/she never said "biggest". But an increase in corporate penetration would increase the value of OS X as a malware target, and that is what drives malware.
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by Niten 15y ago
Wait, am I missing something here? How is this anything but a patent on the not-exactly-cutting-edge concept of a web application? Even if you think that performing some rendering computations server-side is somehow a patentable innovation,
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by Niten 15y ago
I agree... although it would be nice if they would step up for their customers in this regard, I just don't see a scandal here. (That's just The Register's style of reporting I guess, not to diss them or anything.) However, the letter itse
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by Niten 15y ago
> I don't think antimalware is anything I'd ever want to run on a computer I control. Why not? I mean this as an honest question. EDIT: If you're concerned about performance or system resources, try a PC with MSE sometime, I think you'
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by Niten 15y ago
> nope. by the user running an installer when requested by a browser ad popup. I agree that this is how most malware happens in general, but I was talking specifically about the subset of malware installations that are drive-by download
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by Niten 15y ago
Oh they absolutely would. Heck, Windows Defender is the same engine as MSE, they just had to limit its functionality to keep from getting sued. They were even threatened by the third-party antivirus companies when they promoted a link to MS
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by Niten 15y ago
> An uptick in users installing adware on their computers (yes, you have to manually install it) is a far cry from having a platform blighted by drive-by infections and autonomously spreading worms as Windows was in years past. Well yes
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by Niten 15y ago
Most Windows viruses these days have the exact same attack vector, simply tricking the user into installing them. All we're seeing here is that: (1) Despite the marketing, the Mac is not magically immune to these things any more than Windo
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by Niten 15y ago
> Microsoft doesn't remove malware that Windows users install either. Yes they do: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129972/en-us "Call 1-866-PCSAFETY or call 1-866-727-2338 to contact security support." > Two hundred clueless posts
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by Niten 15y ago
True. I wouldn't claim it's any suckier than PHP, for example. Both "suck", but both have their uses.
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by Niten 15y ago
As much as VB6 sucks as a programming language, this will honestly be useful to a lot of people out there. Because whether it sucks or not, if you've inherited a VB6 codebase then that's what you have to work with.
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by Niten 15y ago
Finally signed on for a Netflix trial so I could try this on my rooted Incredible running CM7. Works great.
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by Niten 15y ago
To play devil's advocate, this isn't out of the question. 1) Macs do tend to run hotter than PCs, and this could decrease HDD lifespan. 2) We've seen in the past that OS-specific power management settings can be detrimental to hard drives,
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by Niten 15y ago
"Chrome's sandbox" is the Windows "low integrity mode" mandatory access control mechanism. If the process elevation was achieved through a privilege escalation attack against this mechanism rather than by attacking the non-low integrity mod
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by Niten 15y ago
I think you're being too loose with language here. The implication was that Google doesn't use Windows because Google is cutting-edge; this is a claim about the technical merits of Windows, not the direction of Microsoft's leadership.
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by Niten 15y ago
Well it makes sense, given that Google is predominantly a linux-based company. But it's a fallacy to equate "cutting edge" with "not Windows". Windows may not be as fashionable in the same way that Macs are with the Starbucks/college campu
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by Niten 15y ago
That's absurd. The general public doesn't know or care about the difference between Android versions any more than they know about the difference between iOS versions.
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by Niten 15y ago
"Big government" in the most literal sense :)
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by Niten 15y ago
I wouldn't assume that. I think the big deal here is that they managed to break out of the Windows sandbox; that's what makes the exploit particularly interesting. The same vulnerability could exist on Linux too, but they just didn't inve

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