On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:54:03 +0200, Phil <p...@surfsoftconsulting.com>
wrote:
As a big F1 fan I should have dropped this one in sooner - F1.com uses
Java for their live timing application. They originally dud this
primarily, I think, because it made it difficult to harvest the data.
Hmm... I disagree. It perhaps makes it harder than a JS stuff which could
be cracked by 1,000,000 of teenagers; in any case anything like that even
in Java is crackable by probably tens of thousands of teenagers. The end
result is that somebody cracks it anyway, so I wouldn't waste time picking
a technology only because a just smaller crowd can hack it.
Unfortunately I was involved with F1 only a couple of years ago when Java
was starting to make its way into telemetry and I don't know anything
since 2007 - and I admit I've never looked at the recent F1.com live
timing application and didn't think that it could be Java - but I suppose
this environment is one of those where Java delivers a better solution
even on the client.
BTW, LOL: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2796553?start=0&tstart=0
However I'm now seeing alternative Live Timing applications in the
Google Play app store where people have reverse engineered the data
stream.
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