If Microsoft really cares about these things, why have they continued to hack on Trident, which has been so far behind in both of those areas? Why not just adopt Gecko or Webkit as the IE/Windows rendering engine?
Would anyone mind explaining the byzantine multi-licensing Mozilla uses? I'm curious whether M$ could do that if it wanted to (I make no assertion as to what M$ may or may not wish to do -- in other words, I'm not refuting parent's argument).
If the laptop is unlocked you just copy the drive to some other device. That's been the gaping hole in every OS back to the analytical engine.
There, fixed it for you (the first software was not written for the abacus but for the analytical engine. That said engine was never in fact built (until the 20th century) is entirely beside the point. The abacus is not and was never Turing complete.)
According to TFA the parent linked to (the FAQ), the patent agreement appears to comply rather nicely with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (which are identical to the requirements OSI published) since according to the FAQ, "You are free to download VP3, use it free of charge, implement it in a for-sale product, implement it in a free product, make changes to the source and distribute those changes, or print the source code out and wallpaper your spare room with it. "
If Linux doesn't count, that gives Apple and M$ an oligopoly. Technically, it is to their legal interest to ensure that I can do everything with Linux that I could with Windows, since otherwise the "only" OSs out there are Windows and Mac, creating, as I said before, an oligopoly (please don't preach to me about BSD etc., the principle just extends to multiple non-(Apple|M$) systems). M$ has been examined for this type of thing once in the U.S. and multiple times (as of ~a few months from now IIRC) in the E.U.. They (Apple & M$) don't want to get dissolved/broken up. IANAL, this is not legal advice, don't sue me if you lose a lawsuit.
I'm not talking about the plugin market, I'm talking about the OS market. (To mods: if you must mark this comment as redundant, please do the same to the parent).
I'm sure that they meant open as in open access. Assuming that they meant open software is a bit of a stretch.
It isn't open access. I'm running Linux and I can't use it. Therefore it is excluding me based on OS usage. I'd gladly use Adobe Flash (they make it for Linux)
Oh! the injustice. Having to load a browser plug-in! You think Adobe would handle a monopoly in any market differently than Microsoft? You must not use their products, then.
Adobe isn't Microsoft. M$ does this because Windows is competing with other OSs and M$ doesn't want Silverlight to work there. If Silverlight didn't exist Flash would still work on Linux. It's just that then we wouldn't have any compatibility issues since everyone would be using Flash. Finally, I'd gladly install the closed-source Silverlight plugin, but M$ won't let me.
If you are from the US and voted for Obama because you thought his platform was somehow anti-Microsoft, then, frankly, you're an idiot. This is it though...*this* is what lifted the veil and caused you to see the world for what it is. Silverlight. When there are lots of other options available, no less (maybe that's what they meant by "most open"?) Your trolling needs work.
If I had been old enough to vote and I had voted for him, it would have been because I expected him to take a sterner line against blatantly anticompetitive measures such as Silverlight. And about the "other options": What if e.g. Congress decided its website would only work on Windows? Certainly people using Linux/Mac/whatever can get the information via news sources etc. right? The problem is that it becomes impossible to get the information straight from the horse's mouth (Why should I have to rely on The New York Times when their photojournalism is blatantly biases?).
*If you pay people to do something they are less likely to do it for free, and may derive less pleasure from it *Who defines "meaningfully", especially when you're discussing development with code-illiterate lawmakers?
That means your kernel, drivers, HAL, desktop environment, localization, firewall, network, background, theme, etc has to ALL fit in under 50MB. [snip]
Why not use DSL? (Damn Small Linux, not a second phone line)
The format just isn't as prevalent as MP3, but that doesn't automatically make it proprietary.
Except that MPEG-4 is proprietary (at least, it is in the U.S.), and AAC, which is based on MPEG-4, is therefore also proprietary. OGG, on the other hand, isn't.
RTFA: His (full (follow the link)) description of Foxmarks' security implies the Foxmarks server cannot possibly make a cleartext copy of any of your passwords (they're encrypted with a password that isn't sent to Foxmarks (i.e. you have to remember it yourself)), meaning even if you couldn't trust their server, as long as you trust the software to not lie to you about what it's doing (unlikely since they have a TOS etc and are based in the U.S. and therefore can't just vanish if you sue them (probably, IANAL)), your passwords are secure (unless the NSA gets the server, in which case all bets are off about encryption).
You're not creating one, it already exists (you are introducing the website in question to the OpenID for the first time). Since when is an OpenID sufficient to:
open a bank account
make money appear in that account out of thin air (he didn't have an account to begin with, so making one in his name is pretty useless since it will be empty... unless you can make money out of nothing, in which case what do you need his identity for? You'll just attract the attention of the secret service (who, oddly enough, investigate counterfeiting cases)!)
So you basically have no response to this? Do you seriously think that a it's impossible to get a usr/pass via the internet? I can think of a number of ways of getting openID information especially if I happen to be logging in to a public terminal.
It's a big issue and you shug it off like it's no big deal. This is one of the reasons why openID is unpopular, the unwillingness to face the reality of what a one user/password system brings.
If it's that easy to get passwords anyway, you're screwed no matter what and OpenID won't help b/c it isn't intended to help with that (for that, you need to put your computer in a Faraday cage in Ft. Knox. Loss of internet is a small price to pay for security).
Foxmarks (an addon) synchronizes passwords as well as bookmarks and other stuff. (The former are properly encrypted for transfer, don't have a heart attack)
Interestingly, they really didn't meet any of the conditions you stated!
A couple of bits from the first link:
The passage in the Defcon show guide describing their talk begins, "Want free subway rides for life?" That line was removed from the description of the talk posted at the Defcon Web site.
Can't see that as not causing trouble (at least from the MBTA's perspective...)
The researchers refused to give the transit authority information about security flaws in its system ahead of the talk, the filings state.
Which is not particularly polite - and in fact definitely takes them out of any resonable definition of "White Hat"...
And while hacking around on a smartcard they bought shouldn't be illegal (as long as they don't actually use it for free rides), this bit:
The students said they tried to contact the MBTA around July 20 through their professor Ron Rivest, who teaches in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, but did not actually connect with the agency until around July 30.
It's been a crazy week for Anderson, who looked haggard -- he said it took him 18 hours to travel by air to Defcon and he had not slept since Thursday.
Mahoney [the MBTA attorney] praised a security analysis the students had prepared for the agency, saying the information in it convinced them of the vulnerability.
Looks like you're wrong, or one of TFAs is wrong anyway.
Linux is user friendly. It's just picky about who its friends are
I'd like to point out that most of the hardware problems are in fact manufactured by none other than M$ (Mods:read that sentence twice before downmodding. M$ makes the problems, not the hardware.).
They can take your stuff. A civil judgment also stays good for 20 years (in most states), so they can garnish your wages once you DO get some jing.
I thought you'd just declare chapter 7 bankruptcy, ruin your credit rating, lose assets (other than your house and sometimes your car, and some others), and if they are insufficient to pay the creditors, the government simply wipes the debt out...
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If Microsoft really cares about these things, why have they continued to hack on Trident, which has been so far behind in both of those areas? Why not just adopt Gecko or Webkit as the IE/Windows rendering engine?
Would anyone mind explaining the byzantine multi-licensing Mozilla uses? I'm curious whether M$ could do that if it wanted to (I make no assertion as to what M$ may or may not wish to do -- in other words, I'm not refuting parent's argument).
What about Windows 7?
What if <whoever made the computer> decides to fsck with you?
If the laptop is unlocked you just copy the drive to some other device. That's been the gaping hole in every OS back to the analytical engine.
There, fixed it for you (the first software was not written for the abacus but for the analytical engine. That said engine was never in fact built (until the 20th century) is entirely beside the point. The abacus is not and was never Turing complete.)
Although it does raise the question: How do you search the Internet for tips on how to search the Internet?
You click the help button (@ google.com).
I think $^#$!*#{NO CARRIER
According to TFA the parent linked to (the FAQ), the patent agreement appears to comply rather nicely with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (which are identical to the requirements OSI published) since according to the FAQ, "You are free to download VP3, use it free of charge, implement it in a for-sale product, implement it in a free product, make changes to the source and distribute those changes, or print the source code out and wallpaper your spare room with it. "
If Linux doesn't count, that gives Apple and M$ an oligopoly. Technically, it is to their legal interest to ensure that I can do everything with Linux that I could with Windows, since otherwise the "only" OSs out there are Windows and Mac, creating, as I said before, an oligopoly (please don't preach to me about BSD etc., the principle just extends to multiple non-(Apple|M$) systems). M$ has been examined for this type of thing once in the U.S. and multiple times (as of ~a few months from now IIRC) in the E.U.. They (Apple & M$) don't want to get dissolved/broken up. IANAL, this is not legal advice, don't sue me if you lose a lawsuit.
I'm not talking about the plugin market, I'm talking about the OS market. (To mods: if you must mark this comment as redundant, please do the same to the parent).
I'm sure that they meant open as in open access. Assuming that they meant open software is a bit of a stretch.
It isn't open access. I'm running Linux and I can't use it. Therefore it is excluding me based on OS usage. I'd gladly use Adobe Flash (they make it for Linux)
Oh! the injustice. Having to load a browser plug-in! You think Adobe would handle a monopoly in any market differently than Microsoft? You must not use their products, then.
Adobe isn't Microsoft. M$ does this because Windows is competing with other OSs and M$ doesn't want Silverlight to work there. If Silverlight didn't exist Flash would still work on Linux. It's just that then we wouldn't have any compatibility issues since everyone would be using Flash. Finally, I'd gladly install the closed-source Silverlight plugin, but M$ won't let me.
If you are from the US and voted for Obama because you thought his platform was somehow anti-Microsoft, then, frankly, you're an idiot. This is it though...*this* is what lifted the veil and caused you to see the world for what it is. Silverlight. When there are lots of other options available, no less (maybe that's what they meant by "most open"?) Your trolling needs work.
If I had been old enough to vote and I had voted for him, it would have been because I expected him to take a sterner line against blatantly anticompetitive measures such as Silverlight. And about the "other options": What if e.g. Congress decided its website would only work on Windows? Certainly people using Linux/Mac/whatever can get the information via news sources etc. right? The problem is that it becomes impossible to get the information straight from the horse's mouth (Why should I have to rely on The New York Times when their photojournalism is blatantly biases?).
*If you pay people to do something they are less likely to do it for free, and may derive less pleasure from it
*Who defines "meaningfully", especially when you're discussing development with code-illiterate lawmakers?
Software bloats faster than hardware accelerates. It's a sad fact of life.
That means your kernel, drivers, HAL, desktop environment, localization, firewall, network, background, theme, etc has to ALL fit in under 50MB. [snip]
Why not use DSL? (Damn Small Linux, not a second phone line)
The format just isn't as prevalent as MP3, but that doesn't automatically make it proprietary.
Except that MPEG-4 is proprietary (at least, it is in the U.S.), and AAC, which is based on MPEG-4, is therefore also proprietary. OGG, on the other hand, isn't.
These idiots are still around now that M$ isn't funding them and Novell is winning? What, exactly, is this CEO's reasoning?
What are they even suing over at this point? We've already established that Novell owns UNIX, so what else is there to sue over?
RTFA: His (full (follow the link)) description of Foxmarks' security implies the Foxmarks server cannot possibly make a cleartext copy of any of your passwords (they're encrypted with a password that isn't sent to Foxmarks (i.e. you have to remember it yourself)), meaning even if you couldn't trust their server, as long as you trust the software to not lie to you about what it's doing (unlikely since they have a TOS etc and are based in the U.S. and therefore can't just vanish if you sue them (probably, IANAL)), your passwords are secure (unless the NSA gets the server, in which case all bets are off about encryption).
Oh, come now! True cloud computing isn't going to happen for at least a few years (if at all).
You're not creating one, it already exists (you are introducing the website in question to the OpenID for the first time). Since when is an OpenID sufficient to:
?
So you basically have no response to this? Do you seriously think that a it's impossible to get a usr/pass via the internet? I can think of a number of ways of getting openID information especially if I happen to be logging in to a public terminal.
It's a big issue and you shug it off like it's no big deal. This is one of the reasons why openID is unpopular, the unwillingness to face the reality of what a one user/password system brings.
If it's that easy to get passwords anyway, you're screwed no matter what and OpenID won't help b/c it isn't intended to help with that (for that, you need to put your computer in a Faraday cage in Ft. Knox. Loss of internet is a small price to pay for security).
If it isn't, why are you worried?
Foxmarks (an addon) synchronizes passwords as well as bookmarks and other stuff. (The former are properly encrypted for transfer, don't have a heart attack)
write an addon for Fx or something...
They can claim they didn't release it, but will the US PTO believe them?
Interestingly, they really didn't meet any of the conditions you stated!
A couple of bits from the first link:
The passage in the Defcon show guide describing their talk begins, "Want free subway rides for life?" That line was removed from the description of the talk posted at the Defcon Web site.
Can't see that as not causing trouble (at least from the MBTA's perspective...)
The researchers refused to give the transit authority information about security flaws in its system ahead of the talk, the filings state.
Which is not particularly polite - and in fact definitely takes them out of any resonable definition of "White Hat"...
And while hacking around on a smartcard they bought shouldn't be illegal (as long as they don't actually use it for free rides), this bit:
[snip]
From another FA
The students said they tried to contact the MBTA around July 20 through their professor Ron Rivest, who teaches in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, but did not actually connect with the agency until around July 30.
It's been a crazy week for Anderson, who looked haggard -- he said it took him 18 hours to travel by air to Defcon and he had not slept since Thursday.
And another:
Mahoney [the MBTA attorney] praised a security analysis the students had prepared for the agency, saying the information in it convinced them of the vulnerability.
Looks like you're wrong, or one of TFAs is wrong anyway.
Linux != user friendly.
There, fixed that for you.
OTOH, you may want to consider:
Linux is user friendly. It's just picky about who its friends are
I'd like to point out that most of the hardware problems are in fact manufactured by none other than M$ (Mods:read that sentence twice before downmodding. M$ makes the problems, not the hardware.).
They can take your stuff. A civil judgment also stays good for 20 years (in most states), so they can garnish your wages once you DO get some jing.
I thought you'd just declare chapter 7 bankruptcy, ruin your credit rating, lose assets (other than your house and sometimes your car, and some others), and if they are insufficient to pay the creditors, the government simply wipes the debt out...