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HarryNyquist

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  1. I wonder how many more times they'll get people to buy their classic games... SMFH. At this point I'll just buy a damn GBA off eBay.
  2. You could also obfuscate your code using various tools. The problem is, if someone REALLY is dedicated, they'll get in, regardless of the language used.
  3. "Secure internal logs" with passwords? Why exactly? Any log entry should just say "User 21857629 changed password at time". No need to include any passwords, plaintext or encrypted.
  4. Lol what. Are they gonna extradite the entirety of EA to Belgium to serve a 10 year sentence? Like I said in the past, all this kind of legislation will do is bar games from appearing in specific jurisdictions. It will have no effect outside that location.
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer) I'm pretty sure that whatever you're making is not as simple as you think it is.
  6. You're forgetting microsoft's most important line, enterprise usage. Win32/MFC/ATL/etc will all stick around in some form for a very long time, probably in Pro or higher editions of Windows, solely because so much business software ONLY runs on Win32 and the companies who made the software are either gone or have other dependencies that don't allow updating to UWP.
  7. There's no "right" setup. If using those 3 apps works for you, why change? About the only thing full Visual Studio would offer is the addition of desktop development.
  8. #XVAL (I assume) is a number, and your x-axis labels are strings. If you want the tooltip to display the string label, you need to use the #XVAL to pull the right x-axis label, something like this: ds.TooltipText = "Series = {#TEXT}" + ControlChars.Cr + ControlChars.Lf + "X = {items(#XVAL).ToString()}" + ControlChars.Cr + ControlChars.Lf + "Y = {#YVAL:0.00%}"
  9. Nope. Passwords may not be as secure, but there is a legal precedent that says passwords can't be divulged or forced out of someone during an investigation. Biometrics share no such precedent; in fact, they share the OPPOSITE precedent. You can (and likely will) be compelled or forced to biometrically authenticate during an investigation.
  10. I had a friend whose real-time clock on their motherboard died and it wouldn't keep time properly until windows synced it. Time would be fine for a few hours, then go back to being inaccurate or freeze for a while only to continue on occasion. This happened even after switching to Ubuntu and back to Windows. How old's your motherboard? Is it possible something has malfunctioned?
  11. That's probably the exact reason it's done, otherwise they can't monitor or filter HTTPS traffic. Remember the old trick of getting around SonicWall and WebSense by using HTTPS? Not a problem if IT installs a cert to decrypt the traffic.
  12. Standardization is all-or-none. Either something complies with a standard, or it doesn't. The whole point of a standard is to avoid confusion. That's half the damn reason we have a billion standards, someone implements an "optional" part of another standard, and standardizes it.
  13. Make the call on the server-side and it should work. Grabbing the data from the web from, say, a PHP script you write, does not have CORS restrictions attached to it. Calling it from client-side (web browser) is subject to CORS.
  14. You'd think this, but: People store their entire databases, configurations, etc. inside docker containers too, rendering that security completely moot. If you're hosting a website through Docker, like Discourse, you have to proxy INTO the container's server using something like Nginx, which begs the question of why you need a whole virtual machine running 2 different database servers if you STILL have to manually set up a web server. Ease of Deployment is moot in my eyes as well. An install script would be able to do the exact same things, interactively, without the need to fuck around with cryptic YML files written by a point-and-click game developer; the names of configuration keys only make sense to them, and there's no hints about what the keys do. Docker is a GOOD idea when done properly. I have seen zero applications in Docker containers that are done properly. If an app's configuration is so complex that it needs to completely isolate me from "messing it up" then it's too complicated. Simplify it. Part of the reason I absolutely hate the push towards MVC and MVVM/Single-page web applications that's happened in the past few years. Sure it looks fantastic, and sure the "modeling" part of MVC is great, but the rest of it just overly complicates things that were previously very easy to achieve. Docker is the exact same way. It looks great and shiny but it's just complicating things that should be simple.
  15. Also https://darksky.net/dev/docs/faq#cross-origin Might want to delete that part of your original post...
  16. What's your code look like?
  17. Apache is best for out-of-the-box servers. Compared to Nginx or IIS, apache really just works. Configuration is mostly obvious, though certain features like reverse proxying are slightly complicated to set up. Nginx is fantastically light and great for proxies and load balancing, and is also a pretty decent web server. Configuration is far more complex as a result; from personal experience I can have Apache up and running PHP in a few seconds, but Nginx frequently requires me to fiddle around some more. IIS, in my opinion, should only be used for ASP.NET websites. Even then, once Mono supports more of the web side of .NET, the point will be moot.
  18. Nah, one password-protected ZIP is plenty. I more meant like #1 is "only give the link + password to people who are supposed to have it", and #2 is "don't give the link OR password to anyone who shouldn't." If people are selling "adult" stuff, then the link + password combo is like a license key. It should be sent to the purchaser in a secure fashion that can't be read by others. If it's meant to be accessible by anyone EXCEPT for Google, one could put the link to the GDrive file and zip password off-site in a pastebin or the like. Of course, that requires effort, and people are lazy, hence this news.
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