> At the same time the fact that these codecs are being pushed opposite the existing MPEG codecs only fractures the market and slows the adoption of new video technologies. We end up with Mozilla and Google flailing around with alternative codecs rather than buckling down and doing what's necessary to secure the rights to use the MPEG codecs in the first place, only finally doing the right thing after they've exhausted every other option. Web browsers should have fully supported H.264 years ago.
It is not just a license to decode video in the browser. People should also have to be able to generate content for the web without asking permission, so everybody also need to have a free license to encode H.265.
There is a whole class of vulnerabilities related to maliciously crafted filesystem structures. You necessarily don't need to execute or open any files, you just need to try to mount it.
There is another class of vulnerabilities related to the preview feature of some Linux file managers. So you don't even need to open any non-executable files to be vulnerable either.
And then there if of course standard buffer overflows when opening non-executable files.
In the US, they keep pointing out that their program is only about terrorism, and only spies on non-US citizens.
Not so in the UK, where the program is apparently about spying on everybody, including Britons, even if no terrorism is involved. That is a significant admission.
So you need IE>9 for Google Apps. Since IE 10 is not supported on Windows Vista or Windoes XP, that means no more Google Apps on IE on those OSes. Windows XP is EOL in April 2014, so no big deal, but Windows Vista is supported by MS until April 2017.
Because the H.264 video format is only worth money because of the network and incumbency effects, not because it is better. A video format is a natural monopoly. VP8 is just as good as H.264, and free, but that is not enough to displace H.264 because H.264 has a monopoly via the network effect.
If we were talking about a program such as Photoshop, where the barriers to entry is most determined by your ability to make a better photo editor, it would not be the same thing. There is good reason that the other examples in the summary are "TCP/IP, HTTP, and HTML", all of which are not terribly hard to replace, but which have powerful positions because of the network and incumbency effects.
I have biked in 3 feet of snow here in Copenhagen. And in -11 celsius. Perfectly possible with the right clothing, and if the bike paths are cleared (which there are here).
There has been various accusations that Snowden leaked the documents to Russia, willingly or unwillingly. This should (in a perfect world) make those accusations less valid. Also, this shows against that Snowden is damn brave and clever - it must have been very tempting to hold on to the documents, which he paid so dearly for.
The funny thing is that today, the computer does output the right answer in response to the wrong input. Try writing "cmoputer" (sic) in Google search, for example.
> I'm hard pressed to think of anything really innovative Microsoft has done in years -- mostly they look at what others are doing and copy it (or buy it).
But was it for the better? The country might be better off if the criminals are exposed, and the battles fought, instead of festering as conspiracy theories.
> WikiLeaks would not have been able to post the unedited cables, as it ultimately did, heedless of the risk to human rights advocates, dissidents and informants named therein
The unredacted cables were published by accident, with Wikileaks and The Guardian being about equally neglectful. The op-eds claim of "[publishing] heedless of the risk" here is a lie.
I know that it is an op-ed, and therefore not the New York Times' opinion, but the New York Times still have a responsibility to do a basic fact check before posting it.
This is old news; see fx Wikipedia's coverage. Only buy SSDs with a battery or capacitor, or whatever is the in DRAM cache of the SSD will be lost on power failure.
Just right-click the link, copy, and paste into the address line. If the domain name portion of the link is to the right website, you know that the content is controlled by the owner of the domain name (with the exception of sites which permits user-generated subpages, such as google docs).
Or if you think your software is up to date, and your plugins are click to play, just click the link and then check if the domain name is correct.
Links are too useful to not be able to use them in emails.
So since you are also trying to influence politicians (by posting this message), should you also be thrown into jail for life? Lobbying is just telling politicians what your interests are. Which is necessary and healthy in a democracy (in moderation!).
That is not to say that was is going on here is right. But you can't just blanket condemn all "lobbying".
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Betteridge's law of headlines seems to apply here, though it isn't exactly a headline.
> At the same time the fact that these codecs are being pushed opposite the existing MPEG codecs only fractures the market and slows the adoption of new video technologies. We end up with Mozilla and Google flailing around with alternative codecs rather than buckling down and doing what's necessary to secure the rights to use the MPEG codecs in the first place, only finally doing the right thing after they've exhausted every other option. Web browsers should have fully supported H.264 years ago.
It is not just a license to decode video in the browser. People should also have to be able to generate content for the web without asking permission, so everybody also need to have a free license to encode H.265.
If NSA has a complete record of which tweets you read, then the NSA already knows a lot about you.
Perfect Forward Security is optional in SSL - you can run SSL without DH exchange. That is the whole point of the article.
Explanation of game 9: http://en.chessbase.com/post/chennai-09-thrilling-fight-tarnished
There is a whole class of vulnerabilities related to maliciously crafted filesystem structures. You necessarily don't need to execute or open any files, you just need to try to mount it.
There is another class of vulnerabilities related to the preview feature of some Linux file managers. So you don't even need to open any non-executable files to be vulnerable either.
And then there if of course standard buffer overflows when opening non-executable files.
In the US, they keep pointing out that their program is only about terrorism, and only spies on non-US citizens.
Not so in the UK, where the program is apparently about spying on everybody, including Britons, even if no terrorism is involved. That is a significant admission.
So you need IE>9 for Google Apps. Since IE 10 is not supported on Windows Vista or Windoes XP, that means no more Google Apps on IE on those OSes. Windows XP is EOL in April 2014, so no big deal, but Windows Vista is supported by MS until April 2017.
Because the H.264 video format is only worth money because of the network and incumbency effects, not because it is better. A video format is a natural monopoly. VP8 is just as good as H.264, and free, but that is not enough to displace H.264 because H.264 has a monopoly via the network effect.
If we were talking about a program such as Photoshop, where the barriers to entry is most determined by your ability to make a better photo editor, it would not be the same thing. There is good reason that the other examples in the summary are "TCP/IP, HTTP, and HTML", all of which are not terribly hard to replace, but which have powerful positions because of the network and incumbency effects.
I have biked in 3 feet of snow here in Copenhagen. And in -11 celsius. Perfectly possible with the right clothing, and if the bike paths are cleared (which there are here).
There has been various accusations that Snowden leaked the documents to Russia, willingly or unwillingly. This should (in a perfect world) make those accusations less valid. Also, this shows against that Snowden is damn brave and clever - it must have been very tempting to hold on to the documents, which he paid so dearly for.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174983/did-russia-china-harvest-snowdens-secrets#
On the other hand, every other smartphone seems to be working just fine with a $2 standard microUSB cable.
The problem is that the fingerprint scanner could create a false sense of security.
Sorry, wrong link, I meant this: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115
I am pretty sure they are refering to stuff like this: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html
The funny thing is that today, the computer does output the right answer in response to the wrong input. Try writing "cmoputer" (sic) in Google search, for example.
> I'm hard pressed to think of anything really innovative Microsoft has done in years -- mostly they look at what others are doing and copy it (or buy it).
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Only 22 light years away! If you go at the same speed as voyager 1, then it will only take 382122 years to get there!
Why not Ubuntu instead of Android, to get a more full-featured laptop?
Android doesn't even have official printer support.
But was it for the better? The country might be better off if the criminals are exposed, and the battles fought, instead of festering as conspiracy theories.
"Half truth"? Lie.
> WikiLeaks would not have been able to post the unedited cables, as it ultimately did, heedless of the risk to human rights advocates, dissidents and informants named therein
The unredacted cables were published by accident, with Wikileaks and The Guardian being about equally neglectful. The op-eds claim of "[publishing] heedless of the risk" here is a lie.
I know that it is an op-ed, and therefore not the New York Times' opinion, but the New York Times still have a responsibility to do a basic fact check before posting it.
This is old news; see fx Wikipedia's coverage. Only buy SSDs with a battery or capacitor, or whatever is the in DRAM cache of the SSD will be lost on power failure.
Just right-click the link, copy, and paste into the address line. If the domain name portion of the link is to the right website, you know that the content is controlled by the owner of the domain name (with the exception of sites which permits user-generated subpages, such as google docs).
Or if you think your software is up to date, and your plugins are click to play, just click the link and then check if the domain name is correct.
Links are too useful to not be able to use them in emails.
So since you are also trying to influence politicians (by posting this message), should you also be thrown into jail for life? Lobbying is just telling politicians what your interests are. Which is necessary and healthy in a democracy (in moderation!).
That is not to say that was is going on here is right. But you can't just blanket condemn all "lobbying".