It's been discussed for about an hour in the corridor at FOSDEM after Ted T'so's talk about ext4... Basically he said app writers are to blame for abusing fs-specific behaviour:P
Flash is *not* a W3C standard -> Flash is *not* part of the Web. In no way does Flash match the definition of the Web from Tim Berners-Lee, which is information to *anyone*. http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
Anything calling itself a "website" that has flash inside should be charged with false claims.
While ISP are required to keep logs already, on tuesday when introducing the debate on yet another clueless copyright bill, the Minister of Culture told her intentions of requiring public access wifi (schools, towns,..) to only allow a whitelist of sites. The opposition deputee ironized telling it could include the governement and the UMP (the majority party) sites...
Yeah, old sparc stations at my school used to be named after firstnames of jazz singers/musicans... ella, thad, billie...
(before the sysadmin got replaced by an NTist who doesn't care about hostnames:-( )
to check the figures... Oh wait, no, he managed to destroy three quarters of a solar system! Actually five sixth. Well it's not exact science;)
http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s2/206.shtml
It happened to me some days ago that my ISP refused to send a mail to a mailing list because it was using sender verification just like itself, and it was causing too many errors (because it's actually starting to send a mail before bailing out).
It happened today to someone trying to send a mail to my someone on my ISP...
It seems this thing doesn't really work both ways:D
flash is not a standard. it's closed source, so not available everywhere, and unaccessible, unindexable... exactly what the web is not supposed to be.
cf. http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
Sorry no, gnash or swfdec are not there yet, besides, whoever looked at porting them must have noticed they aren't portable despite being opensource, dependancy hell here I come. Just check the never finished BeOS port of gnash.
I don't see silverlight being better anytime soon.
At least Java is open now, so it can be ported.
But it's not accessible to blind people for ex.
Back not too long ago, in my class we had 3 ORIC Atmos at the back of the room. We used educative software on them, but also we could program them with BASIC.
Later on the new teacher switched to Apple IIe or something, they used LOGO also.
It's important to learn how things work, and not take them as black boxen. It's how I went to CS myself. I started using the box, then coding for it, in BASIC. Then I noticed it had a smaller black box inside called microprocessor, and I wanted to learn about it. Then I learnt there were smaller black boxes inside it called transistors. Then I studied electronics.
It's also a good intro for math concepts like functions...
I do search often here... in BeOS (or Haiku).
but usually I search for things that are in the BFS indices, which are maintained automatically from the xattrs. So it's way faster than find. And if I really need I use grep (or TrackerGrep). We now only need something to fill the xattrs for arbitrary files like the mail daemon does for mails. SkyOS ported OpenBFS and added an indexer daemon atop to support full content search.
I still need to see Linux or Vista do it.
such as an old PalmPilot or Psion, but with a better screen and a proper keyboard.
Forgive me but PSION devices *had* proper keyboards, unlike many others for the time (Jornada anyone ?:p).
And btw, what's with this "netbook" buzz ? "netbook" is a trademark from PSION, or at least was. And it was a machine very much alike those we are discussing here, just 8 years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBook
Why is I always think about stuff and see them years later patented by some company... like dimming backlight with a photoresistor... oh well, if only they would do the other things I thought of, like real SMP laptops so you could power down cpus to save battery...
Lol, sure, the website for the first french public channel (france2) also wants you to install this crap... at least it doesn't require it (but still uses wmv and other stupidities).
Yes there are alternatives. The embed, object and video (html5) tags are meant for this, when used with a standard (read: documented, royalty free) format. That's how people did it for years before, just with closed formats, and it usually worked. Of course it meant people had to install a player plugin... so do they need for flash! The difference is, when it's done correctly (which isn't always the case), the tag doesn't refer to a specific plugin but to the mimetype of the file format, allowing any supporting player to use it. If you have realplayer it uses realplayer. If you have WiMP it uses WiMP.
The fact it's easier to capture is moot, security through obscurity has no standpoint. And yes, you do can put custom controls for players, the embed tag (or the object one at least) allows specifying it a 2nd time for the control buttons and use ugly ones instead if you want, and use JS+DOM to bind them.
There is also Java. It's totally possible to make a java player instead. It wouldn't help me on BeOS/Haiku because we're still at our nth attempt at porting it (this time officially at OpenJDK), but at least it would use a Free platform. (no, java isn't that slow, bad code is.)
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We know it's an OS :P
Many volunteers from La Quadrature du Net did an amazing job at transcripting the ugly PDF scan, the result is available here:
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/ACTA_20100713_version_consolidated_text
It's been discussed for about an hour in the corridor at FOSDEM after Ted T'so's talk about ext4... :P
Basically he said app writers are to blame for abusing fs-specific behaviour
Flash is *not* a W3C standard -> Flash is *not* part of the Web.
In no way does Flash match the definition of the Web from Tim Berners-Lee, which is information to *anyone*.
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
Anything calling itself a "website" that has flash inside should be charged with false claims.
Besides even on XP, flash sux (both the cpu and itself):
http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_I_banned_flash.png
http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_flash_sux_even_on_linux.png
While ISP are required to keep logs already, on tuesday when introducing the debate on yet another clueless copyright bill, the Minister of Culture told her intentions of requiring public access wifi (schools, towns, ..) to only allow a whitelist of sites.
The opposition deputee ironized telling it could include the governement and the UMP (the majority party) sites...
What a shame, really!
Yeah, old sparc stations at my school used to be named after firstnames of jazz singers/musicans... ella, thad, billie... (before the sysadmin got replaced by an NTist who doesn't care about hostnames :-( )
fire everyone from the doc dept then...
to check the figures... Oh wait, no, he managed to destroy three quarters of a solar system! Actually five sixth. Well it's not exact science ;)
http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s2/206.shtml
created by a racnoss spaceship attracting other stuff to it? The Doctor said so! http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Runaway_Bride
It happened to me some days ago that my ISP refused to send a mail to a mailing list because it was using sender verification just like itself, and it was causing too many errors (because it's actually starting to send a mail before bailing out). It happened today to someone trying to send a mail to my someone on my ISP... It seems this thing doesn't really work both ways :D
and ask for her position on that ?
flash is not a standard. it's closed source, so not available everywhere, and unaccessible, unindexable... exactly what the web is not supposed to be.
cf. http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
Sorry no, gnash or swfdec are not there yet, besides, whoever looked at porting them must have noticed they aren't portable despite being opensource, dependancy hell here I come. Just check the never finished BeOS port of gnash. I don't see silverlight being better anytime soon.
At least Java is open now, so it can be ported.
But it's not accessible to blind people for ex.
Why don't they make websites instead ?
I told here many times this was a PSION trademark... the netBook was actually a nice device, appart from the unfinished JVM.
Back not too long ago, in my class we had 3 ORIC Atmos at the back of the room. We used educative software on them, but also we could program them with BASIC. Later on the new teacher switched to Apple IIe or something, they used LOGO also.
It's important to learn how things work, and not take them as black boxen. It's how I went to CS myself. I started using the box, then coding for it, in BASIC. Then I noticed it had a smaller black box inside called microprocessor, and I wanted to learn about it. Then I learnt there were smaller black boxes inside it called transistors. Then I studied electronics.
It's also a good intro for math concepts like functions...
CS definitely is about communication skills. Software is speech. And it's vital to understand if not how it works, at least that it's not magic.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=rxfzm9dfqBw :D
I do search often here... in BeOS (or Haiku). but usually I search for things that are in the BFS indices, which are maintained automatically from the xattrs. So it's way faster than find. And if I really need I use grep (or TrackerGrep). We now only need something to fill the xattrs for arbitrary files like the mail daemon does for mails. SkyOS ported OpenBFS and added an indexer daemon atop to support full content search.
I still need to see Linux or Vista do it.
Because it might make google work better without having the need to gather user specific datas we don't want it to have ?
Sorry I use the metric system, how tall is that ?
The netBook really had a better keyboard than many other devices at the time, and even now.
such as an old PalmPilot or Psion, but with a better screen and a proper keyboard.
Forgive me but PSION devices *had* proper keyboards, unlike many others for the time (Jornada anyone ? :p).
And btw, what's with this "netbook" buzz ? "netbook" is a trademark from PSION, or at least was. And it was a machine very much alike those we are discussing here, just 8 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBook
but we must finish R1/alpha first :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob :D
No need to play lottery today I guess :D
Why is I always think about stuff and see them years later patented by some company... like dimming backlight with a photoresistor... oh well, if only they would do the other things I thought of, like real SMP laptops so you could power down cpus to save battery...
First post ?
Lol, sure, the website for the first french public channel (france2) also wants you to install this crap... at least it doesn't require it (but still uses wmv and other stupidities).
Yes there are alternatives. The embed, object and video (html5) tags are meant for this, when used with a standard (read: documented, royalty free) format. That's how people did it for years before, just with closed formats, and it usually worked. Of course it meant people had to install a player plugin... so do they need for flash! The difference is, when it's done correctly (which isn't always the case), the tag doesn't refer to a specific plugin but to the mimetype of the file format, allowing any supporting player to use it. If you have realplayer it uses realplayer. If you have WiMP it uses WiMP.
The fact it's easier to capture is moot, security through obscurity has no standpoint. And yes, you do can put custom controls for players, the embed tag (or the object one at least) allows specifying it a 2nd time for the control buttons and use ugly ones instead if you want, and use JS+DOM to bind them.
There is also Java. It's totally possible to make a java player instead. It wouldn't help me on BeOS/Haiku because we're still at our nth attempt at porting it (this time officially at OpenJDK), but at least it would use a Free platform. (no, java isn't that slow, bad code is.)