bazfum - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Jobs isn't betting his platform on it... (Score 1) 483

by bazfum on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @05:02PM (#33280998) Attached to: Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away

I know it's not nearly as nice as Adobe actually supporting x64 Linux, I've not had Flash 10.1 running in nspluginwrapper crash on me yet. I think it's a combination of Firefox running plugins in their own process now, and the FlashBlock extension.

Comment Re:Competition (Score 1) 222

by bazfum on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @05:29PM (#32906810) Attached to: Mozilla's New JavaScript Engine Coming September 1

I wasn't making any point about Firefox's inability to multi-thread. I was pointing out that he seems to think that the Firefox devs should be able to somehow magically make JavaScript code not freeze up when run.

Comment Re:Competition (Score 1) 222

by bazfum on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @01:45PM (#32903740) Attached to: Mozilla's New JavaScript Engine Coming September 1

If a Net facing application, which is meant to process data acquired from untrusted sources freezes because it's fed bad data, it's entirely that application's fault. I don't care if Slashdot was coded by the Devil himself, if Firefox freezes on Slashdot then Firefox has a bug.

If that "bad data" is actually code, you may not be able to do anything about it locking up. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Halting_problem

Comment Re:Read-only switch for USB sticks? (Score 1) 288

by bazfum on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @09:45AM (#32810002) Attached to: Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices

I have one right here in front of me. I bought it for exactly this kind of thing. I have it loaded up with PC repair tools, if the machine needs to be fixed, I sure as hell don't trust it to write to my drive.

Comment Re:Congress (Score 1) 427

by bazfum on Thursday March 25, 2010 @04:15PM (#31616748) Attached to: BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More

IT Guys ask "Are you SURE it's plugged in?"

Comment Re:Winning in this market will be easy... (Score 2, Insightful) 304

by bazfum on Saturday June 17, 2006 @01:10AM (#15553681) Attached to: Microsoft Developing iPod, iTMS Competitor

What wasted disc? CD-RW...

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