Dear Genius, it’s called The Statue of Liberty. P.S. What the fuck is wrong with your brain?
Maths is hard.
The only decision, need I bother commenting on this, or is it all better left unsaid? Such a bind.
Dear TV3, maybe when the CV says their last job was at the Herald, you should keep a closer eye on their work output.
More Reasons to Love Chrome – Security
You may have heard of the Pwn to Own competition. It’s a hacking competition run annually at the CanSecWest conference, it involves configuring several laptops (both Macs and PCs) with a normal payload of software, and then running three contests – all involving letting hackers attempt to get in and take control of the machine, with gradually lightened restrictions at each stage. If you’re first to hack your way into (i.e. ‘pwn’) one of the machines – you get to keep it, a hefty cash prize, and bragging rights.
If you’re a macophile, it might be a good thing if you haven’t heard of it yet. Â As this year Apple’s web browser Safari was the first to go down. Taken out in mere seconds… such an embarassment.
Firefox and IE8 were both taken out as well, but they lasted longer.
Last year was a pretty bad year in the Pwn to Own contest for the macophiles as well, though Safari did better then – lasting entire minutes. Ruh-roh.
Apple are generally considered to have a fairly secure system platform, primarily as OSX is based on a community developed BSD project, but they’re also widely acknowledged as being very unresponsive when it comes to patching up holes in their software when they are discovered.
This isn’t usually a big problem, the userbase is still small enough that all of the scummy little malware developers still focus their efforts where they can get the most effect: Windows XP.
But if current trends continue, this is going to change – and one thing Apple definitely has (in spades) over Windows, is a completely false sense of invulnerability – most Mac users don’t even have any antivirus installed – so when the fall comes, it’s going to be hard.
So, no good news for Apple, but they’re in good company – as it was bad news for all of the major browser vendors.
But here’s the thing, one browser made it through the entire contest unscathed. One browser was not pwned. And do you know which browser it was? Hint 1: it’s Windows based. Hint 2:Â I’ve completely given it away in the title of the post.
Yes the answer, my dear friends, is Google Chrome.
Yet another reason, as if you needed it, to just go and blimmin’ well try it out already. You know you want to.
(Still not released for OSX, but if Apple are smart, they’ll copy all of the clever tricks Google have implemented in Chrome into Safari anyway. Which is a win-win-win all around.)
Chrome, Glorious Chrome
I’m increasingly besotted by Google Chrome – I’m using it almost exclusively at home now, and about 50% of the time at work.
One of the many reasons to like it is the way it handles tabs, each one is it’s own thread, so if a plugin goes spack, only the tab the plugin was running in is taken down – see the grab, a moment later I got an IM in the Gmail tab, and hitting reload on the crashed tab brought Quicktime back immediately too. In Firefox or IE, the whole browser would have been taken down.
Of course it’s only happened once, and it’s not like it’s a giant chore, to restart a browser, but everything that makes things better makes things better.
Other reasons to love Chrome, aside from the delightfully simple UI, blazing fast speed, and brilliant stability? Well you don’t really need any. But…
I really love the way tabs work. Playing a video in one tab and want to read your feeds? No worries, drag the video tab away from the window, it forms it’s own new browser window, and continues without so much as a pause. Want to bring it back? Drag it back, it’ll smoothly remerge back into your browser window. Again without so much as a stutter of the video playback.
God it’s just so good.
And no surprises that it was Quicktime that tried to take my browser down, it seems from the outside that Apple only “make” good software when they take other people’s (usually opensource) projects and rebrand them. (See: BSD. Webkit. The computer mouse. The GUI.)
YES I SAID IT.
Twins for dinner.
Not exactly the twins I had in mind, but they’ll do… What with their wicked blend of organic wholesomeness and sizzling good looks and all.
Underway.
There was more, but that’s not important. What a fun evening.
No you!
So rude.
Hello, my name is…
I was eleven years old. And when I was strong enough, I dedicated my life to the study of fencing. So the next time we meet, I will not fail. I will go up to the six-fingered man and say, “Hello. My name is Outlet V3 IS Ext 7525. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
Voilà !
In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
Asus Don’t Care About Geography
Asus seem to be pretty good at making small & cheap laptops, but don’t trust them to teach your children geography. Not only do they plant New York in the middle of Canada, but they also appear to think London is somewhere in Russia.
Or perhaps they just use a really budget airline?