Re: Oatmeal?
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A number that is supposed to be secret?
That's a new one in deeper levels of retardation.
They could have called up "disclosure of trade secrets", but still...
If they had registered a trademark on that number, it would make sense, but then it would no longer be a secret.
Fuck all these people and the shit they are peddling.
"Customers who are embracing Current Branch for Business do need to consume that feature update within the allotted time period of approximately eight months or they will not be able to see and consume the next security update,"
So, we are now "consuming" security updates. Om Nom Nom Nom.
I hope CDC erroneously mails live anthrax to Redmond.
Why? Each process comes with its own baggage, if you have more of them running at once there is more baggage.
BULLSHIT LEVELS OF CRUD! That "baggage" is EXTREMELY MINIMAL. Synchronization, locks and context switching won't magically disappear. Threads give you tons of problems in return that you need to keep in the box. Today one has supercomputers on the desk and processes are "too much baggage"? Why dontcha go for fibers while you are it. Processes were ok in the 70s and 80s but now that all the cool kids absolutely need to shoot themselves in the foot (while tweeting while taking selfies while falling downstairs thinking about how cool Node.js is) by ill thought-out multiprocessing ideas that were borderline braindead (unless used for very specialized contexts), which used in wholly inappropriate contexts using wholly inappropriate abstractions in stateful programming environments. LIFE IN "IT" IS ETERNAL COMEDY!
Why Threads are a Bad Idea (for most purposes) -- John Ousterhout.
One process per tab is exactly the type of bloat that makes other browsers so heavy on overhead, CPU and memory.
Err... hello? Care to explain WHY?
Modern machines and OS are MEANT to run multiple processes and processes share identical memory pages and communicate via shared memory. Single-process architectures are just arse-backwards UNLESS you are very sure of your capability to run threads and very sure about the security of your single process. Or you want to accept the security risk to do fast even processing (and even then, please write in Erlang). But Firefox is not Nginx.
I'm running v28. The security issues for this version are totally inconsequential
SPLUTTER
I do hope you are running in a VM, dude.
Or do are your really sure that all of these in now way affect the codebase of 28.
Protip: The fact that no-one in a shitty forum takes you up on your offer to hack an exploit for your venerable codebase browser means nothing.
Security by obscurity is a much better system.
Is this like whitey playing it cool in the ghetto?
In 1964, American physicist Murray Gell-Mann made the wild suggestion
Yup, after having rubbished the idea thoroughly when his colleagues came to talk about this. He always insisted that it was just a "mathematical shortcut" for hadron structure, then ran with the idea when experimental data came in.
As to the name... from Frank Close's book on the Higgs:
By the 1960s, experiments with cosmic rays and at accelerators had revealed scores of hadrons. In 1962 Gell-Mann found a way of gathering the mushrooming hadrons into families, most famously containing sets of eight. He poetically named his scheme the "Eightfold Way" after the Buddhist path to truth. The mathematics behind this involved group theory, and the particular group known as SU(3).
In March 1963 Gell-Mann gave a talk at Columbia University about his new SU(3) theory. A couple of weeks earlier another theorist, Gian Carlo Wick, had given an introductory seminar about SU(3); upon hearing it, Robert Serber realised that in addition to families of eight and ten, which had already been discovered, there should be a basic family of three (as in SU “three”) and, moreover, the octets and tens could be built up as composed of groups of these more basic entities. As Serber later recalled: “The suggestion was immediate; the [hadrons] were not elementary but were made of [what we now call] quarks."
A fortnight later, Gell-Mann was in town. During lunch at the Faculty Club, Serber explained the idea to him. Gell-Mann asked what the electric charge of the basic trio is. Serber had not looked into this, so Gell-Mann figured it out on a table napkin. The answer turned out to be 2/3 or -1/3 fractions of a proton’s charge, which was an “appalling result”, as no such charges had ever been seen. Gell-Mann mentioned this in the colloquium, and said that such things would be a “strange quirk of nature”. Serber remarked later: “Quirk was jokingly transformed into quark.”
Finnegan's Wake? Not so much. But so history is made.
They could recode the Flash runtime in Java.
Then one would only have ONE sandbox to worry about. Plus Flash would be able to auto-install on need (and you would profit from a new search bar!!)
Unfortunately it would mean Oracle and Adobe would enter into the HYPERCLASH OF THE IP WANKERSDJIANTS!
Come on, it's not revolutionary stuff.
Why, did you expect an unpublished pamphlet of Leon Trotsky in the stack?
Of course it's not "revolutionary". But so what. You are 1980's coder, you should diregard the inner child demanding "teh new" every single morning. The future is just like the past, only more so.
"Moonlight'f Charon"
The last time she saw Pluto's south pole
Carried away by a moonlight'f Charon
It passed on blackened and frozen still
Carried away by a moonlight'f Charon
Lost in a riddle that Tuesday night
Far away on the other side,
It was caught while speeding to Kuiper belt
And she flew by and radioed home
Why you not link properly? https://www.toronto2015.org/
I like the "unfettered discretion" arrogated to themselves by totoro2015.org lawyers.
Imagine if Vikings had declared "unfettered discretion" to burn down & loot monasteries on the coast.