The browser already has a location from the href, it doesn't care what the ping response(s) are, except for the headers (so that cookies can be updated), so HTTP HEAD would suffice.
Let me start out by reminding everyone that when Netscape came up with Cookies, everyone thought they were fine. Now, thanks to 1 pixel images and other tracking methods, cookies are the key to online companies aggregating bits of "anonymous" data into an identifiable profile of a person. Does Google know only as much about you as you would like? In fact, they know far more about you than you would expect, even if you don't use GMail.
The single biggest shot across the bow to privacy in HTML5 is the ping attribute. It may seem innocuous at first glance, but according to MozillaZine, it sends an HTTP POST request to each url. Why not GET instead?
This will allow Google, Alexa, FaceBook, or any "partner" to track users, if a site implements ping, easier than ever before. Some say trackers will migrate away from redirect URLs, but I say they will do both, if only to sop up every last piece of data they can.
I can see ping being used as a stealth DDOS attack, if enough malicious links can be distributed. Some content provider web API gets hacked, thousands of sites load up links (via AJAX) that ping slashdot.org, and Slashdot goes down. Will ping implementations be smart enough to reduce the list of URLs down to unique values? How many times does ping="slashdot.org slashdot.org/foo slashdot.org/comments.pl slashdot.org/article.pl" actually hit the poor, unsuspecting server? There's no apparent limit to how many URLs can be stuffed into a single ping, either.
I'm sure the black hats will think of other ways to exploit this. I agree that tools are neither evil nor good, but this is ripe for unintended consequences.
Last summer when Mountain Dew Throwback came out, I switched to it from regular Dew. I was drinking 4-6 a day at the time, and after 3 weeks, I had lost 10 pounds. With no other change in my diet. I won't touch HFCS Dew now.
PC gaming is better, really? I can deal with mapping most game keys to the keypad, but when was the last time you saw a lefty mouse? Not one of those hand-agnostic beans, but one designed specifically for use in the left hand.
In 3 to 5 years when all the CFLs start dying, there will be a huge furor over the mercury they contain leeching into landfills.
Coincidentally, at the same time LED bulbs will become cheap enough to replace them. The pitch will be "Sure they're $5 to $10 each now, but they'll only get cheaper, and they last for 20 years!" Sound suspiciously like the CFL pitch.
I worked for Western Union for over 6 years, they are subject to many, many banking regulations. Since PayPal is a money transfer service, it should fall under the same regulations.
It's too bad WU management is deathly afraid of the Internet (well, technology in general), otherwise they could have prevented PayPal from ever existing.
Everybody is talking about video, but what doesn't necessarily get talked about is a lot of the interactive elements.
Sounds like this guy understands that video is not the highest form of content in an interactive medium. I'm not defending flash, but let's face it, the web got big when HTML forms were introduced and information was able to flow both ways. By itself, video is still a one way street.
The paywall pretty much guarantees failure. Young people generally have a long list of things above "news" on which they choose to spend their small amount of disposable income. I applaud his astounding failure in advance.
I don't understand this hate for Assange and WikiLeaks. He isn't the one generating these documents. Any deaths that result from these leaks are casualties of this "war", and yes, that's tragic.
While we have this sycophantic media establishment, WikiLeaks is a brutal necessity.
All walled garden discussions begin and end with this: Internet vs AOL.
The outlands will always become more diverse and desirable than the garden. The garden's residents will therefore always abandon it. It is only a matter of time.
Windows, if they want an OS that claims to function, but requires constant attention. Linux, if they want an OS that will function after maybe a little bit of effort.
Windows, if they just want to browse FaceBook or play games. Linux, if they plan to actually accomplish anything.
By the way, Dell... where do we get to make this choice when ordering new hardware from you?
Seriously. This entire apparatus now seems to exist merely to sustain itself, and in spite of the warnings against it by great men, specifically Ben Franklin and Dwight Eisenhower.
If the government is capable of colluding with the Big Three to destroy Preston Tucker in 1948, what is it capable of now, with all the advancements since then?
(For those who don't know what Setec Astronomy is, watch the movie Sneakers)
All the while beating away their marketing department
This seems to somehow imply that the marketing department has not been dictating nearly everything the MS has done for the past 15 years or more. Marketing has been what MS does best, up until recently. If the developers were in charge, MS' reputation would be orders of magnitude better among other developers.
Plus, the income tax is actually unconstitutional! (Thats why they needed to pass a constitutional amendment for it to be in effect today)
Not to mention that the 16th Amendment's ratification by the States is a fraud. And no, it has nothing to do with irregularities in Ohio's statehood process.
Of the 36 states required (of 48) to ratify an Amendment in 1913, 11 didn't vote and 33 changed the language. Examples:
California's legislature never recorded a vote.
The Kentucky House ratified it and sent it to the State Senate, where it was defeated 9-22.
The Oklahoma House ratified it, but the State Senate passed a version with an amended, opposite meaning.
The Minnesota legislature never sent any documentation of its vote to Washington.
None of these stopped Secretary of State Philander Knox from declaring the Amendment ratified on Febuary 3, 1913.
The future of PCs is trying to be like the mobile phone industry today.
More like the last 25 years (since Windows 1.0) is trying to be like the mobile phone industry today. I see this "Windows Store" as one more step toward MS' goal of software as a service. How cynical is it to think that these virtual shelves will be stocked with:
Windows Update: $5/month
Microsoft Office Updates: $2/month per seat
Visual Studio Updates: $3/month per seat
And others. I would expect the retail price of these products to drop 15-20% to lure people into the (surprise!) required subscriptions. MS could then just put stub installers on the discs, which download the complete packages from the store anyway. Somewhere in the marketing rhetoric for this scheme would be something about combating piracy.
Of course, there would be deep volume discounts on the subscriptions to keep corporate bean counters from completely shitting themselves after doing some basic math.
Here's a hint: software is written, and therefore falls under the realm of copyright, not patent. Just as any manufacturing process would not be copyrighted, neither would any novel be patented.
Slashdot Mirror
The browser already has a location from the href, it doesn't care what the ping response(s) are, except for the headers (so that cookies can be updated), so HTTP HEAD would suffice.
Let me start out by reminding everyone that when Netscape came up with Cookies, everyone thought they were fine. Now, thanks to 1 pixel images and other tracking methods, cookies are the key to online companies aggregating bits of "anonymous" data into an identifiable profile of a person. Does Google know only as much about you as you would like? In fact, they know far more about you than you would expect, even if you don't use GMail.
The single biggest shot across the bow to privacy in HTML5 is the ping attribute. It may seem innocuous at first glance, but according to MozillaZine, it sends an HTTP POST request to each url. Why not GET instead?
This will allow Google, Alexa, FaceBook, or any "partner" to track users, if a site implements ping, easier than ever before. Some say trackers will migrate away from redirect URLs, but I say they will do both, if only to sop up every last piece of data they can.
I can see ping being used as a stealth DDOS attack, if enough malicious links can be distributed. Some content provider web API gets hacked, thousands of sites load up links (via AJAX) that ping slashdot.org, and Slashdot goes down. Will ping implementations be smart enough to reduce the list of URLs down to unique values? How many times does ping="slashdot.org slashdot.org/foo slashdot.org/comments.pl slashdot.org/article.pl" actually hit the poor, unsuspecting server? There's no apparent limit to how many URLs can be stuffed into a single ping, either.
I'm sure the black hats will think of other ways to exploit this. I agree that tools are neither evil nor good, but this is ripe for unintended consequences.
They've since moved on to other ways of masking their incompetence, which are mostly the old ways wrapped in a new super-secure API.
Anyway, there are a few ways to read this statement:
I dare MS to show their competence by releasing all their source code.
Last summer when Mountain Dew Throwback came out, I switched to it from regular Dew. I was drinking 4-6 a day at the time, and after 3 weeks, I had lost 10 pounds. With no other change in my diet. I won't touch HFCS Dew now.
Still makes us all fat.
PC gaming is better, really? I can deal with mapping most game keys to the keypad, but when was the last time you saw a lefty mouse? Not one of those hand-agnostic beans, but one designed specifically for use in the left hand.
In 3 to 5 years when all the CFLs start dying, there will be a huge furor over the mercury they contain leeching into landfills.
Coincidentally, at the same time LED bulbs will become cheap enough to replace them. The pitch will be "Sure they're $5 to $10 each now, but they'll only get cheaper, and they last for 20 years!" Sound suspiciously like the CFL pitch.
I worked for Western Union for over 6 years, they are subject to many, many banking regulations. Since PayPal is a money transfer service, it should fall under the same regulations.
It's too bad WU management is deathly afraid of the Internet (well, technology in general), otherwise they could have prevented PayPal from ever existing.
That the world needed a free lesson in how not to develop secure software?
Sounds like this guy understands that video is not the highest form of content in an interactive medium. I'm not defending flash, but let's face it, the web got big when HTML forms were introduced and information was able to flow both ways. By itself, video is still a one way street.
The paywall pretty much guarantees failure. Young people generally have a long list of things above "news" on which they choose to spend their small amount of disposable income. I applaud his astounding failure in advance.
I don't understand this hate for Assange and WikiLeaks. He isn't the one generating these documents. Any deaths that result from these leaks are casualties of this "war", and yes, that's tragic.
While we have this sycophantic media establishment, WikiLeaks is a brutal necessity.
All walled garden discussions begin and end with this: Internet vs AOL.
The outlands will always become more diverse and desirable than the garden. The garden's residents will therefore always abandon it. It is only a matter of time.
If you really want to demonstrate your commitment to openness, let us buy laptops with Ubuntu.
Windows, if they want an OS that claims to function, but requires constant attention. Linux, if they want an OS that will function after maybe a little bit of effort.
Windows, if they just want to browse FaceBook or play games. Linux, if they plan to actually accomplish anything.
By the way, Dell... where do we get to make this choice when ordering new hardware from you?
Seriously. This entire apparatus now seems to exist merely to sustain itself, and in spite of the warnings against it by great men, specifically Ben Franklin and Dwight Eisenhower.
If the government is capable of colluding with the Big Three to destroy Preston Tucker in 1948, what is it capable of now, with all the advancements since then?
(For those who don't know what Setec Astronomy is, watch the movie Sneakers)
...Just gasped in his grave.
(Bible belt state) + (Activity parents will do not explicity approve) + (Child with psychological issues [see above]) = DEMONS!
Which is the one describing when real sugar replaces HFCS across the product line.
This seems to somehow imply that the marketing department has not been dictating nearly everything the MS has done for the past 15 years or more. Marketing has been what MS does best, up until recently. If the developers were in charge, MS' reputation would be orders of magnitude better among other developers.
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Not to mention that the 16th Amendment's ratification by the States is a fraud. And no, it has nothing to do with irregularities in Ohio's statehood process.
Of the 36 states required (of 48) to ratify an Amendment in 1913, 11 didn't vote and 33 changed the language. Examples:
None of these stopped Secretary of State Philander Knox from declaring the Amendment ratified on Febuary 3, 1913.
It was only last week that I read a rumor that only about 500 of these things had been sold. Perhaps the kids they were marketing these to have Macs?
More like the last 25 years (since Windows 1.0) is trying to be like the mobile phone industry today. I see this "Windows Store" as one more step toward MS' goal of software as a service. How cynical is it to think that these virtual shelves will be stocked with:
And others. I would expect the retail price of these products to drop 15-20% to lure people into the (surprise!) required subscriptions. MS could then just put stub installers on the discs, which download the complete packages from the store anyway. Somewhere in the marketing rhetoric for this scheme would be something about combating piracy.
Of course, there would be deep volume discounts on the subscriptions to keep corporate bean counters from completely shitting themselves after doing some basic math.
Here's a hint: software is written, and therefore falls under the realm of copyright, not patent. Just as any manufacturing process would not be copyrighted, neither would any novel be patented.