Comment: Re:The Oracle at Delphi, Indigenous Tribes, Coffee (Score 1) 428
All of this has happened before...
Comment: Re:CL safer than other methods? (Score 1) 522
Comment: Re:Are They Employing an Event/Listener Paradigm? (Score 1) 119
The Twitter API does indeed cover the kind of thing you're talking about. If you scroll down to the very bottom of that API page you linked you'll see a link to the "Streaming API", http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api
This allows you to receive tweets in real-time over a persistent HTTP connection.
It's rather well hidden though, perhaps they don't want people finding out about it for whatever reason (performance?).
This allows you to receive tweets in real-time over a persistent HTTP connection.
It's rather well hidden though, perhaps they don't want people finding out about it for whatever reason (performance?).
Comment: Re:For those which don't know (Score 3, Informative) 273
Indeed, it is:
1113982824 -> 0x42660768
0x42 0x66 0x07 0x68
__66_.102_.__7_.104
104.7.102.66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR lax04s01-in-f104.1e100.net.
I did not know you could do this until just now, so thanks GP!
(Also slashdot's layout mangling is awful, so please excuse the underscores)
UK Video Game Tax Relief Cancelled 106
Posted
by
Soulskill
from the you-just-lost-the-angry-video-game-nerd-vote dept.
from the you-just-lost-the-angry-video-game-nerd-vote dept.
Stoobalou writes "UK game developers have just been dealt a financial blow by Chancellor George Osborne in his first budget, which sees the coalition government scrapping the video game tax relief plans promised by Labour. In his speech today, Osborne simply said the 'planned tax relief for the video games industry will be cancelled.' According to the government's budget report, the cancellation of video game tax relief will save the government £40 million in the 2011-2012 financial year, and a further £50 million in each subsequent year."
Comment: Re:How to disable Java? (Score 2, Informative) 164
Replying to myself, I know. I also just read TFA (!) and disabling the Java Platform plugin alone isn't enough!
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Affected Software
------------------------All versions since Java SE 6 update 10 for Microsoft Windows are believed to be
affected by this vulnerability. Disabling the java plugin is not sufficient to
prevent exploitation, as the toolkit is installed independently.
There's a seperate plugin called something like Java Deployment Toolkit which you also need to kill.
To check if you're vulnerable, PoC is here: http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/bb5eafbc6c6e67e11c4afc88b4e1dd22/testcase.html
Comment: How to disable Java? (Score 2, Informative) 164
In recent times firefox seems to have removed the little "[ ] Enable Java" checkbox from the Options > Content page, however I've found if you go into Tools > Add-ons > Plugins you can disable the Java(TM) Platform SE 6 Uxx plugin from there, which seems like it does the trick.
Comment: Re:Install your own 6to4 tunnel today (Score 1) 467
Hey,
Thanks for the reply, it appears to be working!
Just as a note for others: I had to grab an updated shorewall package from debian testing because the version shipped with lenny doesn't support ipv6 properly and was blocking my packets. If ping6 tells you Operation not Permitted then that is the solution.
Comment: Re:Install your own 6to4 tunnel today (Score 1) 467
Hi there,
What are the variables SLA_INTF and INTF_ID supposed to be in your script above?
Without them it calculates my ipv6 address as: 2002:5e4b:cf23:0000::0000 (from 94.75.207.35) which doesn't look right to me.
Thanks
Comment: More likely to die. (Score 3, Insightful) 383
extremely obese people were 36 percent more likely to die
That's nonsense.
Everyone dies.