It's absolute evil to block old versions without a real need. People may have reasons to stay with this version. And when they now make a hipster version, they have even more reasons.
You need to have a licence first. And the next person is bound to the licence. Only the term "you cannot sell" is invalid, but if you do not accept the licence at all, you do not have any right to use the code. That's a big problem with people just putting code on github without adding a licence, because it's totally unclear how you're allowed to use it. That was the reason, that github added the feature to initialize a repo with a licence file.
You still have a logic to implement and that's the real problem. There are hundreds of programming language syntaxes, often trying to be easy. But the real problem is to understand the algorithm. Or to invent some algorithm.
Make it more easy: Without a licence, you do not have rights and it's just piracy. Using and especially copying. With a licence (accepted by you), some rights are granted, when you accept some conditions. That's the whole point why dual licencing is easy. The licence you're not using when forking the project doesn't affect your usage at all, as you do not need to accept it.
The point is, when you implement non-trivial logic, the flow chart isn't easy anymore. It will look complicated and be hard to read even for the expert. Just because your keywords are inside circles it doesn't make the logic easier to understand.
Is a software licence a contract? This question is easy to answer, because YOU can answer it and you cannot do the wrong thing.
Two options. 1) You decide it is. You use the software and follow the terms of the licence 2) You decide it is not. Then you're not allowed to use the software, as its copyright protected and you have absolutely no permission to use it, while there is no binding contract which allows you to use it. So you don't use it.
When you finally have the language, you will realize that the hard part is not the syntax, but the logic. And that dragging boxes is way slower than writing keywords.
AirBNB is just like Uber... they do not want to do anything but having some website/app and getting money for provisions. So i guess they do not care at all who has which skin color.
People lend their appartments, people decide to whom. People may be biased or racist. People are nevertheless allowed to decide whom to lend their appartments and other stuff. So what? And why is it a problem of AIRBNB's business model?
This is no good idea. A rpi zero gets warm. A battery gets warm. A battery does not like to get too warm (a rpi neither). The battery may explode, burn, leak or do other things. The rpi may just break.
Seems like a nice idea to put software like steam into a flatpak, which isolates it against the system. The only question is, how much isolation against system properties will steam and other tolerate before they say "hey, our drm is not working, when we cannot read your primary MAC address and processor type!".
Implement it as a simple subset of HTML, a meta-tag and http-header (choose one for your site) to indicate its a amp site. Skip the part with javascript crap, especially skip the part of javascript-crap forced from the google-cdn. Now everyone can implement in their browsers, newsreaders, whatever a amp-parser, which can parse AMP-HTML really really fast. Further, simple html WITHOUT javascript, with basic inline css and a limit how big images may be (else the amp-browser stops loading) will have really fast transfer times as well.
But no, let's make it google crap and fuck the rest of the world.
Combining two of the worst languages. Why?! There are so many so great programming languages. And he uses Perl (5!) and compiles it into JAVA! Why would ANYONE want this?
It's the first time ever i heard from it. So i believe there is some initiative, but that does not mean, that this is "Germany's plan". It's just another corporate dream. Or like our politicians tell us "the internet is new land for all of us" (Angela Merkel).
We have a thing, which is the ePerso (electronic identification built into our identity card), which nobody uses either. In theory it can do a lot of cool stuff, including ideas like providing a pseudonymous identity to websites which is backed by a real identity you do not need to reveal, which should be able to be used to authorize for official tasks for tax and others and provide some more things. In reality nobody is using it, nobody is implementing it and the people able to use such techie-stuff know the problems with it and are a bit paranoid (they may have a cause) about what the government may be able to do with it, when it gets established.
Back to the article: BULLSHIT. Nobody is killing online registrations, some companies are just trying to reinvent something again in ambitious ways. They may be soon some headlines about it then everybody forgets it again.
I think we will never ever eliminate the uniqueness of modern browser's fingerprint while keeping its features. You may have the same fingerprint when using something like tails in a VM. But start installing addons and you're changing it.
But you can try to randomize everything everytime. The problem is, while you may think "i fooled panopticlick to think i am always another unique person", the real fingerprinting service will not only take the full fingerprint, but try to analyse it. Something which is with big data and machine learning easier than ever before. And then they have the four properties, which correlate even while you're constantly changing them in a way, which can be used to fingerprint you again.
I tried the HTTP-Header stuff from the article about 10 years ago, it could even spot the google bot. Now the results are incorrect because i never updated it, my current firefox seems to be an opera (12.x version). https://laxu.de/useragent.php
> But you are not, however, free to falsify your credentials Of course you are. Because most ToS do not include anything about browser modifications or even any requirements which browsers you are allowed to use.
> I have yet to be able to produce a browser fingerprint that isn't unique using any combination of addons. You do not need to. You just need a fingerprint, which is different *every* time. Instead of being one in a group of 100, you're unique, but you are unique every time you re-visit the site.
Slashdot Mirror
You, Sir, are the worst spy ever. rofl
Are you now happy?
No significant result possible.
But it's not your power bill, when you're a hacker.
Who cares, which network created a show? I am only interested in where i can see it. And usually its sometimes this station sometimes that station.
Yeah, i should really sue them. My username is older than google ...
It's absolute evil to block old versions without a real need. People may have reasons to stay with this version. And when they now make a hipster version, they have even more reasons.
You need to have a licence first. And the next person is bound to the licence. Only the term "you cannot sell" is invalid, but if you do not accept the licence at all, you do not have any right to use the code. That's a big problem with people just putting code on github without adding a licence, because it's totally unclear how you're allowed to use it. That was the reason, that github added the feature to initialize a repo with a licence file.
You still have a logic to implement and that's the real problem. There are hundreds of programming language syntaxes, often trying to be easy. But the real problem is to understand the algorithm. Or to invent some algorithm.
Make it more easy: Without a licence, you do not have rights and it's just piracy. Using and especially copying. With a licence (accepted by you), some rights are granted, when you accept some conditions.
That's the whole point why dual licencing is easy. The licence you're not using when forking the project doesn't affect your usage at all, as you do not need to accept it.
The point is, when you implement non-trivial logic, the flow chart isn't easy anymore. It will look complicated and be hard to read even for the expert. Just because your keywords are inside circles it doesn't make the logic easier to understand.
Medium should start with removing header images which are larger than the text. This is absolutely the worst thing.
Is a software licence a contract? This question is easy to answer, because YOU can answer it and you cannot do the wrong thing.
Two options.
1) You decide it is. You use the software and follow the terms of the licence
2) You decide it is not. Then you're not allowed to use the software, as its copyright protected and you have absolutely no permission to use it, while there is no binding contract which allows you to use it. So you don't use it.
You cannot do the wrong thing.
When you finally have the language, you will realize that the hard part is not the syntax, but the logic. And that dragging boxes is way slower than writing keywords.
Someone is always owning the last mile. But often they need to rent it to the competition (hopefully at a fair price).
AirBNB is just like Uber ... they do not want to do anything but having some website/app and getting money for provisions. So i guess they do not care at all who has which skin color.
People lend their appartments, people decide to whom. People may be biased or racist. People are nevertheless allowed to decide whom to lend their appartments and other stuff.
So what?
And why is it a problem of AIRBNB's business model?
This is no good idea. A rpi zero gets warm. A battery gets warm. A battery does not like to get too warm (a rpi neither). The battery may explode, burn, leak or do other things. The rpi may just break.
Seems like a nice idea to put software like steam into a flatpak, which isolates it against the system. The only question is, how much isolation against system properties will steam and other tolerate before they say "hey, our drm is not working, when we cannot read your primary MAC address and processor type!".
Implement it as a simple subset of HTML, a meta-tag and http-header (choose one for your site) to indicate its a amp site. Skip the part with javascript crap, especially skip the part of javascript-crap forced from the google-cdn.
Now everyone can implement in their browsers, newsreaders, whatever a amp-parser, which can parse AMP-HTML really really fast. Further, simple html WITHOUT javascript, with basic inline css and a limit how big images may be (else the amp-browser stops loading) will have really fast transfer times as well.
But no, let's make it google crap and fuck the rest of the world.
Combining two of the worst languages. Why?! There are so many so great programming languages. And he uses Perl (5!) and compiles it into JAVA! Why would ANYONE want this?
Who cares? This will only make them more irrelevant.
Hello from Germany here.
It's the first time ever i heard from it. So i believe there is some initiative, but that does not mean, that this is "Germany's plan".
It's just another corporate dream. Or like our politicians tell us "the internet is new land for all of us" (Angela Merkel).
We have a thing, which is the ePerso (electronic identification built into our identity card), which nobody uses either.
In theory it can do a lot of cool stuff, including ideas like providing a pseudonymous identity to websites which is backed by a real identity you do not need to reveal, which should be able to be used to authorize for official tasks for tax and others and provide some more things.
In reality nobody is using it, nobody is implementing it and the people able to use such techie-stuff know the problems with it and are a bit paranoid (they may have a cause) about what the government may be able to do with it, when it gets established.
Back to the article: BULLSHIT. Nobody is killing online registrations, some companies are just trying to reinvent something again in ambitious ways. They may be soon some headlines about it then everybody forgets it again.
I think we will never ever eliminate the uniqueness of modern browser's fingerprint while keeping its features. You may have the same fingerprint when using something like tails in a VM. But start installing addons and you're changing it.
But you can try to randomize everything everytime. The problem is, while you may think "i fooled panopticlick to think i am always another unique person", the real fingerprinting service will not only take the full fingerprint, but try to analyse it. Something which is with big data and machine learning easier than ever before. And then they have the four properties, which correlate even while you're constantly changing them in a way, which can be used to fingerprint you again.
I tried the HTTP-Header stuff from the article about 10 years ago, it could even spot the google bot.
Now the results are incorrect because i never updated it, my current firefox seems to be an opera (12.x version).
https://laxu.de/useragent.php
> But you are not, however, free to falsify your credentials
Of course you are. Because most ToS do not include anything about browser modifications or even any requirements which browsers you are allowed to use.
> I have yet to be able to produce a browser fingerprint that isn't unique using any combination of addons.
You do not need to. You just need a fingerprint, which is different *every* time. Instead of being one in a group of 100, you're unique, but you are unique every time you re-visit the site.