Comment: How many clicks? (Score 2, Interesting) 583
There's some irony in the fact that you have to hit this website over 20 times in order to read the article...
Comment: Re:And... (Score 1) 114
Whilst the ad-supported Spotify is free on your PC, a premium subscription (£10 in UK) is required for iPhone use.
Comment: Re:Scala seems to be Java+/- (Score 1) 324
Something that gets attention from Java developers is Scala's implementation of the Actor concurrency model, which is a fundamental alternative to the shared-state locking that Java provides. Erlang has offered this for many years, but Scala offers it with a more familiar syntax, and is likely to get a more enthusiastic uptake for that reason alone.
As well as this Scala is functional (first-class functions, currying etc) as well as OO, and Scala programs can use the standard Java libraries if they wish, which again makes the transition easier for Java developers.
As well as this Scala is functional (first-class functions, currying etc) as well as OO, and Scala programs can use the standard Java libraries if they wish, which again makes the transition easier for Java developers.
Mac, BSD prone to decade old attacks 7
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BSDer writes "An Israeli security researcher published a paper few hours ago, detailing attacks against Mac, OpenBSD and other BSD-style operating systems. The attacks, says Amit Klein from Trusteer enable DNS cache poisoning, IP level traffic analysis, host detection, O/S fingerprinting and in some cases even TCP blind data injection.
The irony is that OpenBSD boasted their protection mechanism against those exact attacks when a similar attack against the BIND DNS server was disclosed by the same researcher mid 2007. It seems now that OpenBSD may need to revisit their code and their statements.
According to the researcher, another affected party, Apple, refused to commit to any fix timelines. It would be interesting to see their reaction now that this paper is public."
Preventing Global Warming Costs Only 0.1% GDP
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Brazil to break AIDS drug patents
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Lisandro writes "BBC News reports that Brazil will become the first country to to break patents on an AIDS treatment drug. The drug, called Nelfinavir, is patented by Roche, and the move aims to reduce its' cost as much as 40% by allowing generic versions of the drug to be produced by third parties."