Java 7 Ships With Severe Bug 180
Lisandro writes "Lucid Imagination just posted an announcement about a severe bug in the recently released Java 7. Apparently some loops are mis-compiled due to errors in the HotSpot compiler optimizations, which causes programs to fail. This bug affects several Apache projects directly — Apache Lucene Core and Apache Solr have already raised a warning, noting that the bug might be present in Java 6 as well."
Should I turn off javascript in my browser for now (Score:4, Funny)
Or is it only a desktop problem?
Re:The bug is widely known... (Score:0, Funny)
Java is amongst the world's most widely installed malware. For some reason, Oracle was even championing the fact that this malware had over 1 billion downloads.
Re:Should I turn off javascript in my browser for (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Should I turn off javascript in my browser for (Score:4, Funny)
You may think that the joke was obvious, but today is System Administrator Day. People who don't know that difference (or the difference between a CPU and hard drive, for that matter) is what sysadmins deal with every day. Nine times out of ten when users ask a really stupid question it's because they really don't know.
You would probably think I was joking if I told you that a user was worried because his java had a hot spot. The joke would be on you.