Not to downplay what Dropbox does, but I don't think they offer 10 times the product that Reddit does.
Why not? Dropbox offers a file storage service that works across a myriad of wildly differing device types and platforms using native platform development. Not to mention they store many orders of magnitude more data than Reddit.
Meanwhile, Reddit only provides community-moderated plain-text discussion threads via a lightweight web interface.
Just because Reddit has more content that is specifically valuable to you, how do you make the jump to assume that what they're doing is on par or more difficult than what Dropbox does?
What's so impressive about this isn't in the summary. The cool part is that they developers have already considered (and built prototypes) of all kinds of interactive models that this could support. Remote control, tactile user interfaces, light and color manipulation, soooo much more than "bring me my phone".
A brand name isn't worth anything anymore when you've killed the brand.
Except to a lot of people, they don't realize it's a brand. To the non-tech savvy, there's no difference between a branded service (like Skype or Twitter) vs. an open service (like email). Notice the GP mentioned old people going into Best Buy and asking for the tools to "Skype" not the tools to "video chat on the web".
All they know is that there's some kind of thing you can do on computers, and they want to make sure they can do that thing with the people on the other end that are important to them. They don't know (or care about) the difference between a proprietary toolchain vs. an open one.
We've made considerable progress in 15 years. 15 years ago, nobody thought the internet was much more than an academic curiousity
Bullshit, 15 years ago, AOL was sending floppies and CDs to everyone in America. The internet was still novel for most people, but it had grown orders of magnitude outside of academic circles.
The biggest reason why the major players of 1997's Internet aren't major players in 2013's Internet are because most of them* went under in the Dot-COM bubble.
*Amazon.com re-branded/launched in 1995 and by 1997 was already the biggest online retailer except for perhaps EBay (also 1995). BTW, why didn't EBay make your list (or for that matter, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, Disney/Go.com, Slate/MSNBC, or a slew of others)?
You know what's fun? When a so-called Java expert runs a PHP project...
Nothing but him bitching about how PHP sucks, and then discovering his code has factory factory factories in a central component that everything extended from (even when obviously unnecessary). And we wondered why we were having such performance issues.
Ever use email? Dropbox? Online games from your XBox or PC? FTP? VOIP? Bittorrent?
All these and thousands more are internet protocols that don't use WWW.
And, by the way, we do have multiple Internets (with a big I). Read up on Internet 2. And there's lots and lots of internets (with a little i) that you don't know about because they're not connected to the Internet (with a big i)
Plex is not Roku-specific. It's a great media management server/client app designed for a 10' interface with support across a wide range of platforms and the ability to stream to tons of different devices (including Roku):
Windows - Server/Client Mac - Server/Client Linux - Server Various NAS boxes - Server Android - Client iOS - Client Various "smart" TVs - Client
I bought a Roku specifically because it could do Plex streaming, not the other way around. If you really want to go straight from your NAS to your TV, then by one of those set-top boxes that have slots or USB ports for hard drives.
When large cities have nobody living where they work, they become Detroit.
No, Detroit's problem is that all the jobs disappeared and now no-one lives there. Abandonment is a completely different problem from urban density and mixed-used development.
What the article is describing in San Francisco is the opposite of the usual downtown/suburban mix. People are living in the urban area, but working in the suburbs.
So you're proposing every time the browser launches it gets the private key from Google?
Sandboxing to prevent javascript is already in place. So current scenario or your scenario, the risk of a content-based malware breaking the sandbox to execute code in user-land is the same. So it doesn't really matter if the private key is stored at Google or locally on the machine.
The only thing your scenario does over the current scenario is block the casual user from hitting "show password" if they step up to someone's unlocked machine while they're away from the keyboard. And even still, the UI could be programmed to display the password the way it currently does.
No matter what, it comes down to "if I trust the software to decrypt for me, then the software will decrypt for me, and anything that can act as me (without additional credentials) can trigger the decrypt"
The difference is that in an e-commerce site is that the private key is somewhere on the server where presumably a very limited number of people can access it.
If the private key that Chrome uses to decrypt your password chain is stored locally on your machine (somewhere in the Chrome binaries or user prefs) then it can be extracted by a local user. Doesn't make password attacking any more difficult (from a scripting standpoint) than it already is.
If the private key is hosted by Google, then Google is doing decryption of all your passwords. And there's already uproar about Google having wifi passwords saved in Google-hosted backups of Android devices.
It's really the same problem in both scenarios where people are screaming blood murder. If you trust the computer to be you, then the computer can do anything you can do. The only way to block it is to require the user to input a password every time (can be a master password), which is annoying for most people, and defeats the purpose of saved passwords.
Which means Chrome's private key needs to be stored in Chrome itself (unless you want to start shipping everything off to Google for server-side processing), and so can be plucked out of the binary for decryption purposes.
Apparently you watch too much CSI. GPS is a passive technology, you have a device which triangulates satellite signals and tells you where the device is by cross-referencing a map (usually stored locally). GPS devices do not broadcast their location.
It's an easy technical measure, but horrible for expressing meaning. I read up on the definition of a becquerel, and while I get it, I still have no basis of understanding what 20-30 billion becquerels means.
Plus, even in the explanation page, it seems that the becquerel is usually expressed with per-volume or per-weight measure. So using the unit by itself is useless to the lay person. How many becquerels to the banana?
It sounds to me someone used this unit with the express intent of making it sound big and scary, and that's disingenuous even if accurate.
Interesting idea, but it's clear that systems like Wolfram Alpha, IBM's Watson, etc, are making inroads into language processing which means it's only a matter of time before this would be broken as well.
Agreed that CAPTCHA is not a be-all-end-all tool. However, it is the most effective and easiest to implement solution for the particular problems it solves.
Until there is something more effective than CAPTCHA, and at least as easy to implement, we'll be stuck with it.
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I doubt conceal-carry or right-to-defend laws will protect someone if used in defense of a cop-killing incident.
Bullshit. Clearly someone knows nothing of the VFX industry and has never heard of SIGGRAPH.
Why not? Dropbox offers a file storage service that works across a myriad of wildly differing device types and platforms using native platform development. Not to mention they store many orders of magnitude more data than Reddit.
Meanwhile, Reddit only provides community-moderated plain-text discussion threads via a lightweight web interface.
Just because Reddit has more content that is specifically valuable to you, how do you make the jump to assume that what they're doing is on par or more difficult than what Dropbox does?
What's so impressive about this isn't in the summary. The cool part is that they developers have already considered (and built prototypes) of all kinds of interactive models that this could support. Remote control, tactile user interfaces, light and color manipulation, soooo much more than "bring me my phone".
The video blows the summary out of the water.
Except to a lot of people, they don't realize it's a brand. To the non-tech savvy, there's no difference between a branded service (like Skype or Twitter) vs. an open service (like email). Notice the GP mentioned old people going into Best Buy and asking for the tools to "Skype" not the tools to "video chat on the web".
All they know is that there's some kind of thing you can do on computers, and they want to make sure they can do that thing with the people on the other end that are important to them. They don't know (or care about) the difference between a proprietary toolchain vs. an open one.
Bullshit, 15 years ago, AOL was sending floppies and CDs to everyone in America. The internet was still novel for most people, but it had grown orders of magnitude outside of academic circles.
The biggest reason why the major players of 1997's Internet aren't major players in 2013's Internet are because most of them* went under in the Dot-COM bubble.
*Amazon.com re-branded/launched in 1995 and by 1997 was already the biggest online retailer except for perhaps EBay (also 1995). BTW, why didn't EBay make your list (or for that matter, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, Disney/Go.com, Slate/MSNBC, or a slew of others)?
Until you try to cross one.
Especially when you try to make it operate like Java.
You know what's fun? When a so-called Java expert runs a PHP project...
Nothing but him bitching about how PHP sucks, and then discovering his code has factory factory factories in a central component that everything extended from (even when obviously unnecessary). And we wondered why we were having such performance issues.
You can use any email client you want with GMail using IMAP.
Ever use email? Dropbox? Online games from your XBox or PC? FTP? VOIP? Bittorrent?
All these and thousands more are internet protocols that don't use WWW.
And, by the way, we do have multiple Internets (with a big I). Read up on Internet 2. And there's lots and lots of internets (with a little i) that you don't know about because they're not connected to the Internet (with a big i)
If you've ever made an online purchase with a credit card they already have the association with your IP/MAC/etc.
There NAS boxes designed to also be a set-top box.
Plex is not Roku-specific. It's a great media management server/client app designed for a 10' interface with support across a wide range of platforms and the ability to stream to tons of different devices (including Roku):
Windows - Server/Client
Mac - Server/Client
Linux - Server
Various NAS boxes - Server
Android - Client
iOS - Client
Various "smart" TVs - Client
I bought a Roku specifically because it could do Plex streaming, not the other way around. If you really want to go straight from your NAS to your TV, then by one of those set-top boxes that have slots or USB ports for hard drives.
No, Detroit's problem is that all the jobs disappeared and now no-one lives there. Abandonment is a completely different problem from urban density and mixed-used development.
What the article is describing in San Francisco is the opposite of the usual downtown/suburban mix. People are living in the urban area, but working in the suburbs.
That's exactly what they're saying, and providing a method for rating importance.
I know this is /., but did you at least read the summary?
So you're proposing every time the browser launches it gets the private key from Google?
Sandboxing to prevent javascript is already in place. So current scenario or your scenario, the risk of a content-based malware breaking the sandbox to execute code in user-land is the same. So it doesn't really matter if the private key is stored at Google or locally on the machine.
The only thing your scenario does over the current scenario is block the casual user from hitting "show password" if they step up to someone's unlocked machine while they're away from the keyboard. And even still, the UI could be programmed to display the password the way it currently does.
No matter what, it comes down to "if I trust the software to decrypt for me, then the software will decrypt for me, and anything that can act as me (without additional credentials) can trigger the decrypt"
The difference is that in an e-commerce site is that the private key is somewhere on the server where presumably a very limited number of people can access it.
If the private key that Chrome uses to decrypt your password chain is stored locally on your machine (somewhere in the Chrome binaries or user prefs) then it can be extracted by a local user. Doesn't make password attacking any more difficult (from a scripting standpoint) than it already is.
If the private key is hosted by Google, then Google is doing decryption of all your passwords. And there's already uproar about Google having wifi passwords saved in Google-hosted backups of Android devices.
It's really the same problem in both scenarios where people are screaming blood murder. If you trust the computer to be you, then the computer can do anything you can do. The only way to block it is to require the user to input a password every time (can be a master password), which is annoying for most people, and defeats the purpose of saved passwords.
And where do you keep the private key? Inside the distributed Chrome binary? That's locally accessible.
Which means Chrome's private key needs to be stored in Chrome itself (unless you want to start shipping everything off to Google for server-side processing), and so can be plucked out of the binary for decryption purposes.
Apparently you watch too much CSI. GPS is a passive technology, you have a device which triangulates satellite signals and tells you where the device is by cross-referencing a map (usually stored locally). GPS devices do not broadcast their location.
It's an easy technical measure, but horrible for expressing meaning. I read up on the definition of a becquerel, and while I get it, I still have no basis of understanding what 20-30 billion becquerels means.
Plus, even in the explanation page, it seems that the becquerel is usually expressed with per-volume or per-weight measure. So using the unit by itself is useless to the lay person. How many becquerels to the banana?
It sounds to me someone used this unit with the express intent of making it sound big and scary, and that's disingenuous even if accurate.
Interesting idea, but it's clear that systems like Wolfram Alpha, IBM's Watson, etc, are making inroads into language processing which means it's only a matter of time before this would be broken as well.
Agreed that CAPTCHA is not a be-all-end-all tool. However, it is the most effective and easiest to implement solution for the particular problems it solves.
Until there is something more effective than CAPTCHA, and at least as easy to implement, we'll be stuck with it.
Click on that audio button sometime and see if you can solve it.