Comment Re:Same Origin Policy (Score 1) 111
The article you posted does not bypass the same origin policy, as mentioned in the comments below the article.
The browser will still disallow cross-site attempts.
Astronomers Discover 33 Pairs of Waltzing Black Holes 101
Astronomers from UC Berkeley have identified 33 pairs of waltzing black holes, closing the gap somewhat between the observed population of super-massive black hole pairs and what had been predicted by theory. "Astronomical observations have shown that 1) nearly every galaxy has a central super-massive black hole (with a mass of a million to a billion times the mass of the Sun), and 2) galaxies commonly collide and merge to form new, more massive galaxies. As a consequence of these two observations, a merger between two galaxies should bring two super-massive black holes to the new, more massive galaxy formed from the merger. The two black holes gradually in-spiral toward the center of this galaxy, engaging in a gravitational tug-of-war with the surrounding stars. The result is a black hole dance, choreographed by Newton himself. Such a dance is expected to occur in our own Milky Way Galaxy in about 3 billion years, when it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy."
Comment Re:I especially like.. (Score 1) 230
Straw-man argument. Of course the compiler can affect CPU performance. The point I was trying to make is that I agree with HarrySquatter's comments above - as far as I know, Intel is not forcing people to use their compiler.
Any other practices by Intel, anti-competitive or otherwise, don't apply to this particular chain of comments.
Any other practices by Intel, anti-competitive or otherwise, don't apply to this particular chain of comments.
Comment Re:I especially like.. (Score 1) 230
A dominant share of the compiler market or processor market?
That's really what I was getting at, not monopoly status.
The compiler favors Intel CPUs. There are other compilers out there that don't, I imagine. gcc is pretty popular, etc.
The issue raised above was whether Intel had an obligation to not cripple their product, and EndlessNameless responded with the anti-trust act. In this case, the product is not a CPU, but a compiler. I'm asking, does the anti-trust act apply to this issue, when there are plenty of competing compiler products out there.
That's really what I was getting at, not monopoly status.
The compiler favors Intel CPUs. There are other compilers out there that don't, I imagine. gcc is pretty popular, etc.
The issue raised above was whether Intel had an obligation to not cripple their product, and EndlessNameless responded with the anti-trust act. In this case, the product is not a CPU, but a compiler. I'm asking, does the anti-trust act apply to this issue, when there are plenty of competing compiler products out there.
Comment Re:I especially like.. (Score 1) 230
Wouldn't this only apply if Intel had a monopoly on compilers?
Comment Re:Read what you just wrote. (Score 1) 1255
Statistics aren't everything. [snip]
The 1.5% says to me [snip]
Did your first point just invalidate your second?
I think khasim brings up a good point. If your argument hinges on quoting a statistic and inferring all sorts of things from that, it seems fair to invalid it with another statistic.
Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing 230
Jaeden Stormes writes "We just started getting word of a new browser hijack from our sales force. 'Some site called Bing?' they said. Sure enough, since the patches last night, their IE6 and IE7 installations are now routing all NXDOMAINs to Bing. Try it out — put in something like www.DoNotHijackMe.com." We've had mixed results here confirming this: one report that up-to-date IE8 behaves as described. Others tried installing all offered updates to systems running IE6 and IE7 and got no hijacking.
Update: 08/11 23:24 GMT by KD : Readers are reporting that it's not Bing that comes up for a nonexistent domain, it's the user's default search engine (noting that at least one Microsoft update in the past changed the default to Bing). There may be nothing new here.
Update: 08/11 23:24 GMT by KD : Readers are reporting that it's not Bing that comes up for a nonexistent domain, it's the user's default search engine (noting that at least one Microsoft update in the past changed the default to Bing). There may be nothing new here.
Comment Re:Think of the towers (Score 5, Insightful) 495
And does anyone seriously believe that someone willing to launch a DoS on a cell phone tower would be deterred because the jailbreaking process isn't legal?
Comment Re:A little pseudocode is in order... (Score 1) 137
Some languages require this.
Asking
if( someObject )
Asking
if( someObject )
will return true if someObject is defined, regardless of whether someObject = true/false, so you have to compare it to a value.
Comment Stealth nerf (Score 1) 1582
Cmdr Taco - this wasn't in the upcoming patch notes!
They totally stealth nerfed 6 digit UIDs :(. Can blue post on this please?
They totally stealth nerfed 6 digit UIDs
Comment Re:Get your facts straight (Score 1) 394
We have found our solution to global warming!
Heat the earth up with our emissions, cool it down with nuclear winter. Rinse and repeat.
Heat the earth up with our emissions, cool it down with nuclear winter. Rinse and repeat.
Comment Re:is it an rfc-822 compliant e-mail address? (Score 1) 516
I did something similar with javascript a few years ago. The javascript is used to codify the RFC BNF, which then generates the regex.
http://www.digitalxen.net/files/emailValidation.js
The other one was a regex for validating phone numbers (at least in the US). It was based on standards from NANPA and ATIX. It worked great until a phone company "accidently" started issuing numbers using one of the exchange codes set aside for testing.
