When JailBreakMe 2 and 3 (the version that iOS 4.3.4 fixes being 3) were released, they came with a patch in Cydia to fix the underlying vulnerability. Not only are jailbreakers conscious of iOS's flaws, they're willing to clean up after themselves. The only people not protected against your drive-by hidden app are those smart enough to jailbreak but dumb enough not to patch, which is a fairly small market segment, because the usual "too-dumb-to-upgrade" population is replaced by the "click-yes-to-everything-iTunes-says" population.
Sorry, but even tried-and-true wisdom doesn't apply everywhere.
The first example is probably CTSS mail, which dates to late 1964. Not only is mail older than most people here, it's old enough to have gone out of patent coverage 1.5 times.
It's not actually link-clicking that's causing what you describe. A post with collapsed parents will expand the parents one by one (and jump uselessly) when anything within it is clicked. You'd think that would be obvious enough a UI design disaster to avoid, but apparently they really are brain-damaged here.
Everything is, unfortunately, relative. Who decides we should put a right to contraception in? Or privacy? Certainly not an elected representative—no one will ever be able to pick one! Keep in mind that the US Constitution wasa case of a few people going beyond their power to make sweeping reforms as they saw fit. On the whole, things turned out for the better, but conventional elected democracy is just going to create a mess.
The clock on the US legal system most definitely needs to be reset, however. I just hope that the people who obsess over trying to coordinate the logistics of such a reformation succeed in bringing enough important players to the table that something can actually get done. There are so many vested and conflicting interests that would rather things stay as they are than risk losing their dominance to another that the system is essentially too stuck to fix. Maybe if the economy collapses completely, people will take a chance to turn and listen.
FF8 is the nightly branch, FF7 is the smaller-than-beta branch ("aurora"), and FF6 is the alpha branch. Mozilla hasn't suddenly started to number their versions geometrically, although that would be hilarious.
Your first paragraph needs to be beaten into the head of the article authors, and perhaps Mr. Hayden himself. What kind of confusion of ideas could proliferate so far that we now consider a TLD to be a "network"? And how would you even audit every site in an entire TLD for security? (Wait, that one's easy. By paying the registrar out the wazoo for it.)
I've always voted for that future, too. I think it would be a nice future. Although see the comment below; it mentions wireless. Wireless is good. Also see this concept thing, which amounted, sadly/predictably, to nothing.
Some or all of your eternal soul. Also your... inalienable right to non-targeted advertising, I guess.
The privacy-drain of the internet has turned you into a husk of a human being unable to escape your own vices! You can do nothing but buy, buy, buy because all of the advertisements around you contain nothing but exactly what you want and/or need! You're nothing but a slave to your impulses now, controlled by your corporate masters! What has mankind done to the world of the future?
Frankly, I think services paid for by marketing research are probably on the losing end in the long run. Product placements can only get so subtle... and as they do, we're getting more adept at catching them and ignoring them. Viva la AdBlock.
Also, there's a chance that your mother's maiden name and/or credit card information could be leaked to someone unscrupulous in a developing country.
Ladies and gentlemen, I remind you about how well-documented this sort of thing is: the wheel of reincarnation. Personally, I'm betting that hardware is now so disposable that we'll eventually get to having our machines in one hunk of silicon, and the wheel will stall.
A WM isn't the whole story. You could end up still fighting the GUI toolkit all the way down if the application isn't built with foresight. Even something as simple as bad tab order between fields.
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When JailBreakMe 2 and 3 (the version that iOS 4.3.4 fixes being 3) were released, they came with a patch in Cydia to fix the underlying vulnerability. Not only are jailbreakers conscious of iOS's flaws, they're willing to clean up after themselves. The only people not protected against your drive-by hidden app are those smart enough to jailbreak but dumb enough not to patch, which is a fairly small market segment, because the usual "too-dumb-to-upgrade" population is replaced by the "click-yes-to-everything-iTunes-says" population.
Sorry, but even tried-and-true wisdom doesn't apply everywhere.
The first example is probably CTSS mail, which dates to late 1964. Not only is mail older than most people here, it's old enough to have gone out of patent coverage 1.5 times.
It's not actually link-clicking that's causing what you describe. A post with collapsed parents will expand the parents one by one (and jump uselessly) when anything within it is clicked. You'd think that would be obvious enough a UI design disaster to avoid, but apparently they really are brain-damaged here.
Everything is, unfortunately, relative. Who decides we should put a right to contraception in? Or privacy? Certainly not an elected representative—no one will ever be able to pick one! Keep in mind that the US Constitution was a case of a few people going beyond their power to make sweeping reforms as they saw fit. On the whole, things turned out for the better, but conventional elected democracy is just going to create a mess.
The clock on the US legal system most definitely needs to be reset, however. I just hope that the people who obsess over trying to coordinate the logistics of such a reformation succeed in bringing enough important players to the table that something can actually get done. There are so many vested and conflicting interests that would rather things stay as they are than risk losing their dominance to another that the system is essentially too stuck to fix. Maybe if the economy collapses completely, people will take a chance to turn and listen.
Dumb terminals or Sun workstations? There's a distinction now? *rimshot*
Can we replace the dead hooker with evidence that potentially supports the alleged death of a hooker?
Repeat after me: "JavaScript is Scheme in C's Clothing."
Sorry, but "finders keepers" is not actually a legal doctrine.
Not completely true. There's salvage rights, for one example.
Wait, no! I've got an even better analogy! It's like converting the data on a computer into a different format, and then forcing...
I think you lost the trail.
It might. They're planning on making it automatically update invisibly, like Chrome, but there could very well be an 11 before they get there.
FF8 is the nightly branch, FF7 is the smaller-than-beta branch ("aurora"), and FF6 is the alpha branch. Mozilla hasn't suddenly started to number their versions geometrically, although that would be hilarious.
Your first paragraph needs to be beaten into the head of the article authors, and perhaps Mr. Hayden himself. What kind of confusion of ideas could proliferate so far that we now consider a TLD to be a "network"? And how would you even audit every site in an entire TLD for security? (Wait, that one's easy. By paying the registrar out the wazoo for it.)
Maybe these mistakes are related! The summary author could have a lousy T key and meant to say "dealt with them all". Is not big surprise!
We'd honestly rather not take responsibility.
I guess I need a light-up "SARCASM" sign.
I've always voted for that future, too. I think it would be a nice future. Although see the comment below; it mentions wireless. Wireless is good. Also see this concept thing, which amounted, sadly/predictably, to nothing.
Hard to know. They have had spats in the past.
I don't think you get bonus points for reposting part of the summary.
Some or all of your eternal soul. Also your... inalienable right to non-targeted advertising, I guess.
The privacy-drain of the internet has turned you into a husk of a human being unable to escape your own vices! You can do nothing but buy, buy, buy because all of the advertisements around you contain nothing but exactly what you want and/or need! You're nothing but a slave to your impulses now, controlled by your corporate masters! What has mankind done to the world of the future?
Frankly, I think services paid for by marketing research are probably on the losing end in the long run. Product placements can only get so subtle... and as they do, we're getting more adept at catching them and ignoring them. Viva la AdBlock.
Also, there's a chance that your mother's maiden name and/or credit card information could be leaked to someone unscrupulous in a developing country.
Ladies and gentlemen, I remind you about how well-documented this sort of thing is: the wheel of reincarnation. Personally, I'm betting that hardware is now so disposable that we'll eventually get to having our machines in one hunk of silicon, and the wheel will stall.
Aww. Flamebait? Someone must really be insecure about their favourite programming paradigms.
Your typo is classless and causes your post to tupple over.
They changed the name from Google+ that quickly and quietly after announcing it?
Well, it's better than no change at all, I guess.
Now I'm left wondering why Google Takeout isn't a robodialer for Chinese food...
(The Jargon File once mentioned a potentially fictitious MIT AI Lab project to use text to speech to order pizza. Long live the space-cadet keyboard.)
BS on the "mysterious new service". A basic check on the whois data says that somebody is faking teh wentire Google oh NOES!
A WM isn't the whole story. You could end up still fighting the GUI toolkit all the way down if the application isn't built with foresight. Even something as simple as bad tab order between fields.