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Comment Re:URL shorteners, anyone? (Score 1) 198

by Polizei on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @09:45AM (#39483879) Attached to: Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger

No you don't, they actually resolve the target links, at least for the common URL shortener services.

Well then, this gives one the opportunity to DDoS either URL shorteners or MSN servers. Imagine a 1,000,000+ shortened URLs within 5 minutes - make a HEAD request for each, now that's a flood!

Comment URL shorteners, anyone? (Score 5, Informative) 198

by Polizei on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @05:56AM (#39482527) Attached to: Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger

So they block URLs, marking them as spam. Use a URL shortener, like t.co / bit.ly / what.ever, so you can bypass the scheme.

Comment libpeas, anyone? (Score 1) 425

by Polizei on Thursday September 01, 2011 @04:38AM (#37273014) Attached to: Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language

How about libpeas, or something like that?
At the moment GNOME provides extending with Python, JavaScript and C via some FFI magic stuff...
I'm sure they can make something like that *if* they really decide to do it...

Comment NaCl - the new ActiveX. Yuck! (Score 1) 124

by Polizei on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @09:09AM (#35806548) Attached to: Tcl Announces NaTcl: Native Client Tcl

Yeah, Chrome attempts to bring ActiveX back!
I just wonder when will M$ get consumed by Google and they turn "evil".

Comment 14 weeks seem way too much.. (Score 1) 246

by Polizei on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @12:17PM (#33723716) Attached to: Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag

I don't know if she survives, yet I was born ~25 days prematurely.
It's still very impressive, though.

Comment Crap (Score 1) 546

by Polizei on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @07:46AM (#32416746) Attached to: GCC Moving To Use C++ Instead of C

And, of course, this will slow down the compiler at least twice, maybe even more.
C++ is good, but C is best. Ever wondered why the kernel is written in C (with lots of assembly spices), not C++?

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