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Warning: It's not exactly a simple or intuitive process,Seems reasonably straightforward to me.
-40hz (February 16, 2013, 07:38 PM)
I wouldn't count on it. Sure, it makes it a bit harder to get hold of your IP address, but anybody remember HideMyAss? "Secure and anonymous" my ass.I wonder what people use these VPN services for? About the only useful thing I can think of is subverting sites that try to geo-restrict you based on IP.Don't they provide anonymity for torrent downloading?
For anybody thinking they get any kind of "security" from it...-f0dder (February 15, 2013, 09:23 AM)-edbro (February 16, 2013, 11:15 AM)
Not I. But grugq definitely isOPSEC for hackersAh! We have a real pro in the crowd~!-f0dder (February 16, 2013, 06:40 AM)
-Renegade (February 16, 2013, 10:40 AM)
Handy if you're in an emergency where you need to beat somebody up?
- paracord line - dunno what to do with it
-fenixproductions (February 16, 2013, 12:02 AM)
but still, adding in a VPN there is still a good idea. TOR also helps. But a VM is a must.Adding a VPN is an OK idea, but in and by itself it brings you pretty much nada security.-Renegade (February 16, 2013, 06:09 AM)
Give it to my mum, for 2 hours...it will crash...I guarantee it.In seriousness, this is the kind of thing that would be a big scientific breakthrough - securing against end-users. I am going to be very impressed when that happens.-Stephen66515 (February 15, 2013, 09:05 PM)
It would be nice though... Still, I'm sure that NVIDIA and ATI could manage to crash it. They have years of experience!To be fair, I don't recall seeing an nvidia driver *crash* (as in BSOD, not "things went flaky, screen flickered, and things were restored") since Vista, when Microsoft yanked big parts of the graphic driver stack back out from kernelmode to usermode. Used to be that way in the early NT days for über security, but most stuff was moved kernelmode in... NT4?... for performance reasons - CPUs were slow back then. Linux is finally catching up on (the right) split between kernel- and usermode, and OSX still has too much kernel (remember the Chrome-can-crash-OSX debacle last year? That was a mix of small bug in chrome, bigger bug in Intel video drivers, and ugly OSX architecture :-)).-Renegade (February 15, 2013, 06:37 PM)
Even when it feels like your computer is running all your software at the same time, it is just pretending to do that, flicking its attention very quickly between each program," Bentley says....has Bentley been living under a rock for the last, dunno, 10 years? We've had multicore machines for quite a while. Sure, each core runs one step at a time, but cores do run in parallel :-)
After Java and Flash, now PDF Reader is under attackThose have been the three major ways for malware to enter Windows machines for a while-Tinman57 (February 14, 2013, 06:30 PM)
Hmm, I read those articles as saying that the only browsers they allow are things that use the deep Safari core, and not just any old browser like for example if MS wanted to stick IE on there, or Firefox.Dunno if they only allow safari core, but disallowing access to JS JIT (even for alternate browsers that use the safari core, as far as I understand) make the point pretty moot.-TaoPhoenix (February 14, 2013, 05:57 PM)
A guy at Softpedia thinks that Apple's refusal to allow browsers in the App Store is behind this.Apple does allow browsers (unless something has changed), but (as you mention later) they don't allow access to the JavaScript JIT'er. While they probably don't mind the added monopoly value, the prime reason cited is security - it's very likely that their JS JIT'er could be used to generate pretty much whatever native code you want, thus making it much easier to jailbreak the iOS devices.-TaoPhoenix (February 14, 2013, 12:05 PM)
The Pirate Bay is well-known for not removing torrents to any content, unless it’s criminally illegal in Sweden or contains malware or a virus. So with this in mind, try searching for Anodyne on the site. Actually, save yourself some time and don’t bother. The torrent, which was uploaded by a user called Frewyrn, has been deleted.So, who deleted it? TPB admins or Frewyrn?
Self-interest in platforms is the real destroyer of the web. If companies/whoever actually built browsers for designers, programmers, and users, we'd have none of this silliness.The problem is a mix of silly designers that want to use bleeding-edge experimental features in production websites, and a standards committee that works way too slowly... instead of trying to make The Next Big Standard, perhaps they ought to try incremental releases.-Renegade (February 13, 2013, 06:51 PM)
As a user I'm not sure it will make much difference to me. It's a long time since the engine was one of the reasons I chose Opera as my primary browser. What would make me unhappy would be a takeover by Facebook.Without competition between Firefox and Chrome, what would Javascript performance be like today?-Dormouse (February 13, 2013, 04:41 PM)
If they adopt Chrome's rendering engine they become just one more "me-too" repackager trying to sell yet another pretty interface.Spot on the sugar. Again: what is their Raison d'être going to be?-40hz (February 13, 2013, 06:17 PM)
That course looks interesting -- it looks like it's taught by the creator of Scala.Yup, Martin Odersky himself doing the videos. Iirc he had some other people make the assignments (or help him come up with ideas), and there's a lot of work behind the automated testing/grading platform.-ewemoa (February 13, 2013, 07:38 AM)
A brief search seemed to indicate that Eclipse has more (and more up-to-date) plugins and tends to be supported earlier than IntelliJ (if the latter gets support at all).How many plugins do you need - what kind of plugin quality do you need?-ewemoa (February 12, 2013, 04:52 AM)
Core-functionality-wise I got the impression that they aren't all that different from each other with more comments about IntelliJ being less confusing to use than Eclipse (may be it's just a matter of what one is used to...).What I hear from the coworkers that praise IntelliJ is that it's "more powerful" - stuff like better refactoring support, and tooling for various frameworks (the latter probably mostly important if you work on larger/commercial projects). Also, (at the expense of somewhat slow startup time?) it's supposedly a fair bit faster than Eclipse at doing refactorings, project-wide searches (not just full-text search but semantic searches), et cetera.-ewemoa (February 12, 2013, 04:52 AM)
On a non-Java note, I'm looking into Scala and noticed that IntelliJ has some kind of support and there's this plugin(?) for Eclipse: http://scala-ide.org/ -- has any one had experience and opinions on the latter?My general impression is that Scala tooling is still pretty rought around the edges in general. I took the Coursera Functional Programming Principles in Scala course, using Eclipse. It was a major PITA to get the right plugin versions set up - nightly vs. semistable channels, and different versions (for different versions of Scala) added to that mix. Also, I had some weird fluke-outs where Eclipse wouldn't recognize scala files, or would throw very weird errors, or where the Scala Worksheet would mess up and be wonky.-ewemoa (February 12, 2013, 04:52 AM)
So no IntelliJ users?<duck-and-cover>
Looking for an excuse to try it-ewemoa (February 11, 2013, 07:22 PM)
