Comment Re:Good for devs. (Score 1) 270
You talk as if COM went away. Protip: It didn't.
Comment Re:is libel or slander? (Score 0) 53
Why do you assume the American public is not capable of locating other media outlets across the world?
No need to assume anything. It's just simple reality.
Comment Re:is libel or slander? (Score 1) 53
Even in the US saying/writing something incorrect is still not libel/slander without proving malicious intent which is, as you mentioned, has a high bar. It's why the former Weekly World News, National Enquirer, etc. can get away with printing lots of nonsense.
Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 53
Embryo or adult feet?
Comment Re:Feel free to do so! Just recognize that your (Score 1) 477
Then don't bitch when someone else is able to buy a bigger house in a nicer neighborhood with better schools.
I don't. Most of those McMansions are crappily built anyway. And once your dead, who cares?
Or afford better healthcare. (And expecting "free" healthcare is in some ways a form of bitching about others being more successful...)
Again, I don't and neither will the French since they aren't forced to choose between dying and bankruptcy.
Comment Re:Feel free to do so! Just recognize that your (Score 1) 477
Feel free to do so! Just recognize that your co-workers who are willing to go beyond the strict 9-5 will get all the brownie points and the bigger raise and the better office.
Great for them. I'm sure those things will be great and wonderful after they're dead. Some of us actually think life is much more than money and big offices.
Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation 239
An anonymous reader writes "Since the announcement malicious actors have been leaking software library data and using one of the several provided PoC codes to attack the massive amount of services available on the internet. One of the more complicated issues is that the OpenSSL patches were not in-line with the upstream of large Linux flavors. We have had a opportunity to review the behavior of the exploit and have come up with the following IDS signatures to be deployed for detection."
Comment Re:Money and marijuana don't mix (Score 1) 92
You act like that isn't a huge difference. It is.
Comment Re:We don't do flash (Score 1) 53
Not entirely true. The container standard does actually specify supported formats. Now you can put unsupported formats into the container but there's no guarantee any specific parser written to the standard will support them.
Comment Re:Nah...TL:DR (Score 1) 115
Because patents have prevented H.264 hardware acceleration in mobile devices... Oh wait.
Comment Re:Rather have vector (Score 2) 115
Ignoring the fact that most images on the web are not vector-based to begin with?
Comment Re:It looks ugly (Score 1, Troll) 115
Well good news! Once Firefox fully apes the Chrome UI they can both look equally ugly!
Video A Conversation with Ubuntu's Jono Bacon (Video) 53
Comment Re:Nah...TL:DR (Score 1) 115
But it's "on the web"!!!!! That's totally new!!
Google Chrome 34 Is Out: Responsive Images, Supervised Users 115
An anonymous reader writes "Google today released Chrome version 34 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version includes support for responsive images, an unprefixed version of the Web Audio API, and importing supervised users. You can update to the latest release now using the browser's built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome."
