The accusation implied in that response is that "open source must be weak because vulnerabilities are found".
Whether or not closed source is better is largely irrelevant. Whichever fulfills your needs the best (be they verifiable security, price, etc) is what is "better" for you.
The reason Netflix offers b movies and lesser-quality TV is because of the fee they charge. It's economically impossible to charge such a low subscription and provide higher quality content.
In other words, I can tell you that better streaming services are coming, but they'll cost more too.
[Preamble: I work in the industry, so this is an informed statement]
Viacom, Disney, etc cannot raise prices just for Dish. All the contracts include a "most favored nation" clause that forces the content provider to offer the same terms to all the distribution networks. It could be that Dish will be the first to see the price raised, but when Comcast's, and DirecTV's contracts need to be renegotiated, they will see the same increase.
Odd, that's exactly how I feel about MacOS. I accidentally hit the wrong f button and the screen zooms, or goes to an alternate desktop, or other such "useful" nonsense. It then takes me a while to figure out how to get back, and by then my train of thought is thoroughly derailed. I'm sticking with windows, thank you very much. I'm quite productive with it.
So many acronyms! It's a good thing I'm in the industry, or I'd have no idea what that headline means.
I imagine trying to communicate this to my friends and family: RMS (sounds vaguely British) urges WC3 (the successor to Warcraft II) to reject on principle DRM (Dr. Mario) in HTML5 (they've probably heard that buzzword by now)
As with most technology, can't Tor also be used to hide criminal acts? Wasn't this a case where the government of Austria (a country generally considered "free") saw evidence of a crime and traced through the web as far as they could-- and the tracks just so happened to end at this individual's computer (AKA Tor exit node).
It seems that along with running an open WIFI, running a Tor exit node could be an additional defense if you are caught breaking the law.
You can "regulate" it by making laws against using it at all. Enforcing them may be difficult, but it could come to the point of it being a criminal offense to even have bitcoin software installed on your machine.
I live in Utah, where we regularly get snow. We almost never close schools because of the weather, and I can think of exactly one time in my adult life when work was called off early due to snow (and that event fizzled into nothing).
In Texas, when they get even half an inch of snow, everything shuts down!
The point being that we are much more well equipped to deal with that kind of weather event here in Utah than they are in Texas. I imagine some of the same is in play in your situation.
I also noticed that the JS benchmarks were completely incomparable. Each benchmark was for a different browser, and the browser company that made each test suite won (firefox won the kraken suite, and google won the V8 suite).
I would have been interested to see Chrome on Win7 VS Chrome on Win8, or FF on Win7 VS FF on Win8, but alas.
Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscious pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority, as they scurry about their short pointless lives.
Did anybody else hear this in Edgar's voice as they read it?
As always, a balance has to be made between public good and the freedom to act under your own conscience. In the case of backyard nukes, it is obvious that the potential public danger is high. With the case of vaccination, however, because of herd immunity, the potential public danger is not as high (though not non-existent).
Where do you draw the line? To use an exaggerated claim (though on the opposite end of the spectrum from yours), consider this: Falls are a significant source of injury, especially to the very young and very old. Would you have the government regulate shoe tread in an effort to reduce the number of injuries?
So, this isn't a choice that parents make that subject only their own children to risk, but it affects everybody. That makes it everybody's business, and hence in the realm of government regulation.
The same essential argument was used by the supreme court in Wickard V. Filburn. Unfortunately, IMHO, it is a line of reasoning that can be too easily abused to enforce by law certain viewpoints over others.
With credit cards, though, the cost of fraud is passed on to the merchant (apparently in an attempt to motivate them to improve their CC acceptance policies and procedures).
The actual cost is passed on to other customers of the defrauded merchants, NOT (as is commonly believed) to the pool of borrowers.
That's being pedantic. Whenever I hear HTML5, I don't think of just a document marked up with the 5th major revision of HTML, I think of a DOM (defined using the 5th revision of HTML) and enriched by functionality provided by one or more turing complete languages (usually javascript), and with presentation dictated by style rules (defined using CSS).
Does HTML5 mean to include CSS and javascript? Strictly speaking, no. But in practical usage, yes.
And what's with the firmware updates that are needed for some disks to work!? My 8 year old DVD player has never needed a firmware update and it plays all of the DVDs I own but I've already run into a couple disks that refused to work without a bluray player firmware update.
Most of those firmware updates just add extra keys to your bluray player. Newer disks often have newer keys that hadn't been generated when your player was manufactured, so you have to download the update to play the content.
DVDs don't have the concept of newer keys so you never need to update it.
I want backwards compatiblity as much as you, but the unfortunate reality of computing is that you can't quickly translate code that was custom-written for 1 architecture into another architecture. Console game developers do an awful lot of fine-tuning to achieve the performance you see, and much of it relies on the specific design of the chip being used in the previous system.
To whit, even emulating the N64 (16 years old) takes a reasonably beefy modern machine!
Simply put, the easiest way to emulate the previous generation is to include its hardware in the new generation.
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I'm more worried about the invalid correlations that will result from this data, given that the users will be self-selected, upper-class individuals.
Medical research (especially meta-studies) are already rife with invalid statistics. This can only exacerbate it.
The accusation implied in that response is that "open source must be weak because vulnerabilities are found".
Whether or not closed source is better is largely irrelevant. Whichever fulfills your needs the best (be they verifiable security, price, etc) is what is "better" for you.
Disclaimer: I work for a streaming company.
The reason Netflix offers b movies and lesser-quality TV is because of the fee they charge. It's economically impossible to charge such a low subscription and provide higher quality content.
In other words, I can tell you that better streaming services are coming, but they'll cost more too.
http://www.hdmi.org/learningcenter/faq.aspx#117
Officially HDMI supports closed captioning by deferring it to the set to box creating the HDMI signal. So HDMI supports it by not supporting it.
[Preamble: I work in the industry, so this is an informed statement]
Viacom, Disney, etc cannot raise prices just for Dish. All the contracts include a "most favored nation" clause that forces the content provider to offer the same terms to all the distribution networks. It could be that Dish will be the first to see the price raised, but when Comcast's, and DirecTV's contracts need to be renegotiated, they will see the same increase.
Odd, that's exactly how I feel about MacOS. I accidentally hit the wrong f button and the screen zooms, or goes to an alternate desktop, or other such "useful" nonsense. It then takes me a while to figure out how to get back, and by then my train of thought is thoroughly derailed. I'm sticking with windows, thank you very much. I'm quite productive with it.
So many acronyms! It's a good thing I'm in the industry, or I'd have no idea what that headline means.
I imagine trying to communicate this to my friends and family: RMS (sounds vaguely British) urges WC3 (the successor to Warcraft II) to reject on principle DRM (Dr. Mario) in HTML5 (they've probably heard that buzzword by now)
As with most technology, can't Tor also be used to hide criminal acts? Wasn't this a case where the government of Austria (a country generally considered "free") saw evidence of a crime and traced through the web as far as they could-- and the tracks just so happened to end at this individual's computer (AKA Tor exit node).
It seems that along with running an open WIFI, running a Tor exit node could be an additional defense if you are caught breaking the law.
Thanks for the great lead in to this
You can "regulate" it by making laws against using it at all. Enforcing them may be difficult, but it could come to the point of it being a criminal offense to even have bitcoin software installed on your machine.
I live in Utah, where we regularly get snow. We almost never close schools because of the weather, and I can think of exactly one time in my adult life when work was called off early due to snow (and that event fizzled into nothing).
In Texas, when they get even half an inch of snow, everything shuts down!
The point being that we are much more well equipped to deal with that kind of weather event here in Utah than they are in Texas. I imagine some of the same is in play in your situation.
It's ok, though, I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Gecko!
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(pun intended)
I also noticed that the JS benchmarks were completely incomparable. Each benchmark was for a different browser, and the browser company that made each test suite won (firefox won the kraken suite, and google won the V8 suite).
I would have been interested to see Chrome on Win7 VS Chrome on Win8, or FF on Win7 VS FF on Win8, but alas.
Forget all the others, just do this! (I have an Atrix, so I have at least some experience with this)
Senator Hatch, is that you?
Did anybody else hear this in Edgar's voice as they read it?
As always, a balance has to be made between public good and the freedom to act under your own conscience. In the case of backyard nukes, it is obvious that the potential public danger is high. With the case of vaccination, however, because of herd immunity, the potential public danger is not as high (though not non-existent).
Where do you draw the line? To use an exaggerated claim (though on the opposite end of the spectrum from yours), consider this: Falls are a significant source of injury, especially to the very young and very old. Would you have the government regulate shoe tread in an effort to reduce the number of injuries?
The same essential argument was used by the supreme court in Wickard V. Filburn. Unfortunately, IMHO, it is a line of reasoning that can be too easily abused to enforce by law certain viewpoints over others.
With credit cards, though, the cost of fraud is passed on to the merchant (apparently in an attempt to motivate them to improve their CC acceptance policies and procedures).
The actual cost is passed on to other customers of the defrauded merchants, NOT (as is commonly believed) to the pool of borrowers.
That's being pedantic. Whenever I hear HTML5, I don't think of just a document marked up with the 5th major revision of HTML, I think of a DOM (defined using the 5th revision of HTML) and enriched by functionality provided by one or more turing complete languages (usually javascript), and with presentation dictated by style rules (defined using CSS).
Does HTML5 mean to include CSS and javascript? Strictly speaking, no. But in practical usage, yes.
Most of those firmware updates just add extra keys to your bluray player. Newer disks often have newer keys that hadn't been generated when your player was manufactured, so you have to download the update to play the content.
DVDs don't have the concept of newer keys so you never need to update it.
"I'm gonna write myself a new minivan this afternoon!"
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-13/
Also:
http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/The-Defect-Black-Market.aspx
Wouldn't that be ARMbidextrous?
Technically, it's a ballistic missile since it doesn't carry it's own fuel. A laser guided ballistic missile launcher. Sounds cool!
I want backwards compatiblity as much as you, but the unfortunate reality of computing is that you can't quickly translate code that was custom-written for 1 architecture into another architecture. Console game developers do an awful lot of fine-tuning to achieve the performance you see, and much of it relies on the specific design of the chip being used in the previous system.
To whit, even emulating the N64 (16 years old) takes a reasonably beefy modern machine!
Simply put, the easiest way to emulate the previous generation is to include its hardware in the new generation.