You do know the JVM and the browser plugin are two separate things?

Oracle may choose to bundle them together in a fancy installer for Windows but the plugin itself is unnecessary unless you load Applets.

e.g. on debian, 'Java' is packaged as openjdk-7-jre, while Applet functionality is provided by icedtea-7-plugin.

Cone of Silence?

Well that's good for the presidential budget - plenty of cheap spare 747 parts for decades!

NPAPI is on life support, with Mozilla whitelisting some plugins temporarily

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugi...

B2G doesn't support NPAPI and I doubt servo will either.

Wow you have ANSI color on your terminal?

luxury.

I once marked CS homework and uncovered cheating for an 'individual' assignment.

A group of students had debug comments in their code - the giveaway? spelling mistakes.

Coding standard adoption can provoke holy wars but at the end of the day, you're a team. Though idiosyncratic decisions irk me, such as prefixing instance variables with underscore. Any decent editor will make such a distinction between scope via colours.

Pretty printing tools and style checkers present in any decent editor will enforce coding standards with minimal fuss.

So today's /. project is to implement Go in the Go language?

It's creating a common skin for phone, tablet and workstation.

modern day ARM GPUs have enough 3D acceleration for eye candy. Simpler rendering conserves battery life, perhaps.

Posting from Vivaldi. :)

the browser seems to generate revenue from affiliate sites - links on the homescreen and prepopulated with shitloads of bookmarks to online services.

Which doesn't bother me in as much as the default theme is ugly but more importantly, page loading is dog slow.

an infamous US naval base is on Cuban soil.

Gallium3D (used by nouveau and others) includes a 'state tracker' for Direct3D. So in theory its possible to port Windows games across.

That's xorg only - I believe Android has a custom NiH framebuffery GL ES approach.

Sun Mar 31 17:22:15 PDT 2013

April the 1st, east of the Atlantic.

GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

Addition commonly uses the symbol '+' . Hence shouldn't that be

"GNU divided by Linux" ?

I use firefox for general browsing and paste the URL into Chrome for the remainder of sites that need flash (or choke Firefox's HTML5 video implementation)

Bottom line, Flash is still an attack vector but at least I know I'm conciously invoking it each time rather than relying on the vagaries of a blocker or click-to-play.