Saturday, February 25, 2012

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  • ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2012) — Cyber security is an ever changing and growing concern. Nearly twice as much cyber security funding proposed in the 2013 budget underscores the need for improved computer network defenses. Inadequate security configurations are blamed for 80 percent of the United States Air Force network vulnerabilities.

    tags: technology

  • It's a new PHP library that allows you to access a very fast JavaScript interpreter (called V8) from within PHP. Some people aren't too happy about using JavaScript inside of PHP, their reasoning probebly being something like this:
    PHP is objectively a somewhat poor language. Some of the reasons for this include an inconsistent, redundant standard library that doesn't match current best practice, features that don't work together optimally, redundancy, new language features that are later once again removed, lack of various popular features that many people feel are important for high productivity.
    It is felt by some that PHP by virtue of being a poor but popular language has attracted a large body of sub-par programmers.
    JavaScript is not as universally loathed as PHP, but even it's admirers admit that JavaScript has seem peculiarities that make it uncomfortably easy for bad programmers to write very bad code.
    For the above reasons, people fear that once the PHP coders get a chance to start using both PHP and JavaScript together, the result will be the most spectacular clusterfuck of all time.

    tags: programming

  • Google will add support for anti-tracking tech to Chrome browser before year's end

    tags: technology

  • A former spy for Scientology came clean on abuses. Now, she says, the church is chasing her

    tags: culture

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