From TFA: "Thus, even if someone steals your username and password, they won't be able to get into your account unless they also use your computer and log in with your fingerprint."
I guess spyware producers will really like this feature.
Sure, after everyone switched to Ruby and OpenBSD, stupid programmers were prevented from create insecure code ever again and the world became a better place.
No it's not: http://www.nu.nl/news/628269/10/Analoge_tv_nadert_ einde.html Postponed till at least first of april. Not that most people would care with over 95% being hooked up to cable, it's just that there still is no DVB-T available for more than 80% of the population.
The GP's homepage mentions he was in the army, so he must have taken the oath of enlisment : "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
So much on the topic of seperation of state and religion
"javascript is pretty benign and to have to whitelist sites is hugely annoying, even if it takes only 10 seconds."
Don't worry, it takes between 2 and 3 seconds.
"i haven't gone so far as to code slideshows without js - too painful waiting for refreshes even on fast connections (heck even on localhost)"
Bad or lazy coder or just a troll?
1) Just use the tricks that have been around for ages. One page x you just have a 0x0 img of the next image. Only drawback is that the first page takes longer to load. 2) use the link element to specify the next page (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12 .3). Decend browser will preload that page. 3) add all the scripting you want on top of that.
Results in a fast slideshow without the need of scripting, when clientside scripting is enabled the user may even have a better experience. Added bonus might be better indexing by searchengines.
What is patentable about dragging images in a viewport (where the images are larger than the viewport) to view different parts of the image?
Image viewers have been doing this for decades. I know http://map24.com/ had it implemented in a java applet before I ever heard of g(maps|earth) (atleast I remember using a java map applet in 2002, could have been an other service though).
The leak is IMHO priority 1. Next is to fix the javaplugin. Java in firefox is teribly slow (if it works at all), Mozilla is much much faster with the exact same plugin.
This system is already in place in the many countries that tax media like tapes, cd/dvd and hd. I guess it works great since nobody ever complains about piracy and the artists get heir money.
Exactly, when Boxleitner http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000310/ "took over" I was horrified by his acting. Even though I remember this guy acting not to bad in Tron and TV shows like "Bring 'Em Back Alive', I stopped watching B5 altogether during season 2 (not that I really followed S01).
The last time I heard anybody mention B5 must have been somewhere in 1998/1999. Time to find a torrent:)
"that was what i loved about babylon 5: aliens made of energy. living spaceships... well... most aliens still looked like earth lifeforms"
They sure didn't have any of these in the pre-B5 $STARTREK.
I personally have seen many of the in this thread mentioned series mostly because there was nothing better on TV, but I could never bother to watch Babylon 5. To quote Mr. Horse: No sir, I didn't like it.
But is in effect now, the only reason why decss might be legal is that since it existed before the ratification it made CSS an ineffective encryption scheme today.
"EUCD Chapter III Articel 6 2. Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the manufacture, import, distribution, sale, rental, advertisement for sale or rental, or possession for commercial purposes of devices, products or components or the provision of services which:
(a) are promoted, advertised or marketed for the purpose of circumvention of, or (b) have only a limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent, or (c) are primarily designed, produced, adapted or performed for the purpose of enabling or acilitating the circumvention of,any effective technological measures."
So no equivalent for decss when hddvd or bluray come to the market, not from Norway nor the EU atleast.
So that suggests that circumventing copyprotection schemes is prohibited. CSS might be excluded on the basis one can consider it not being technically effective (today).
"After a few weeks, CNN was put back onto the network, for free."
Lucky you, over here channels that wouldn't pay got replaced by a homeshopping channel (it's pure speculation but I gues they do pay to get on the cable).
As always the car analogy is crap. The biggest difference is that you may not use the car in public places without having the correct license.
To get a license you have to show that you can handle the car and cooperate with the other users. And over here "handling the car" includes the most basic maintanence: what do those lights on the dashboard mean, how to check the various fluids etc.
On the other hand any idiot thinks he can use a computer and use the internet without any basic knowledge, totally oblivous to the fact that his machine is a playgorund for malicious software used to annoy other users.
You must have missed the IDN debacle earlier this year. RFC 3490 allows unicode domain/host names to be translated to the current DNS system with it ASCII limitation.
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What was I thinking? They switched to intel :(
From TFA:
"Thus, even if someone steals your username and password, they won't be able to get into your account unless they also use your computer and log in with your fingerprint."
I guess spyware producers will really like this feature.
I see Apple suddenly become a viable choice.
Sure, after everyone switched to Ruby and OpenBSD, stupid programmers were prevented from create insecure code ever again and the world became a better place.
BTW comparing a framework to a language is silly.
No it's not: http://www.nu.nl/news/628269/10/Analoge_tv_nadert_ einde.html
Postponed till at least first of april. Not that most people would care with over 95% being hooked up to cable, it's just that there still is no DVB-T available for more than 80% of the population.
I guess some place like Singapore that recently introduced the death penalty for copyright infringement.
The GP's homepage mentions he was in the army, so he must have taken the oath of enlisment :
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
So much on the topic of seperation of state and religion
"open you eyes. ignorance is deadly"
So you have you ever heard the phrase "for god and country"? What oath did you take again?
Exactly, all you need is a master "password": a way to generate "random" passwords.
http://passwordmaker.org/ is a good example of this. It comes in the form of plugins or a standalone application.
(I thought I posted on this already but I guess I forgot to hit submit)
"javascript is pretty benign and to have to whitelist sites is hugely annoying, even if it takes only 10 seconds."
2 .3). Decend browser will preload that page.
Don't worry, it takes between 2 and 3 seconds.
"i haven't gone so far as to code slideshows without js - too painful waiting for refreshes even on fast connections (heck even on localhost)"
Bad or lazy coder or just a troll?
1) Just use the tricks that have been around for ages. One page x you just have a 0x0 img of the next image. Only drawback is that the first page takes longer to load.
2) use the link element to specify the next page (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-1
3) add all the scripting you want on top of that.
Results in a fast slideshow without the need of scripting, when clientside scripting is enabled the user may even have a better experience. Added bonus might be better indexing by searchengines.
What is patentable about dragging images in a viewport (where the images are larger than the viewport) to view different parts of the image?
Image viewers have been doing this for decades. I know http://map24.com/ had it implemented in a java applet before I ever heard of g(maps|earth) (atleast I remember using a java map applet in 2002, could have been an other service though).
The leak is IMHO priority 1. Next is to fix the javaplugin. Java in firefox is teribly slow (if it works at all), Mozilla is much much faster with the exact same plugin.
That is why noscript is so great, you can (temporarily) whitelist the sites that need it (if you trust them).
This system is already in place in the many countries that tax media like tapes, cd/dvd and hd. I guess it works great since nobody ever complains about piracy and the artists get heir money.
I guess there are enough sheep for them.
"Flash has legitimate, appropriate uses, such as creating sites that go beyond simple click-to-the-next-page interfaces."
That is what AJAX is for nowadays.
Exactly, when Boxleitner http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000310/ "took over" I was horrified by his acting. Even though I remember this guy acting not to bad in Tron and TV shows like "Bring 'Em Back Alive', I stopped watching B5 altogether during season 2 (not that I really followed S01).
:)
The last time I heard anybody mention B5 must have been somewhere in 1998/1999. Time to find a torrent
60 minutes? Do you really believe the commercials are part of the story?
"that was what i loved about babylon 5: aliens made of energy. living spaceships...
well... most aliens still looked like earth lifeforms"
They sure didn't have any of these in the pre-B5 $STARTREK.
I personally have seen many of the in this thread mentioned series mostly because there was nothing better on TV, but I could never bother to watch Babylon 5. To quote Mr. Horse: No sir, I didn't like it.
But is in effect now, the only reason why decss might be legal is that since it existed before the ratification it made CSS an ineffective encryption scheme today.
"EUCD Chapter III
Articel 6
2. Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the manufacture, import, distribution, sale, rental, advertisement for sale or rental, or possession for commercial purposes of devices, products or components or the provision of services which:
(a) are promoted, advertised or marketed for the purpose of circumvention of, or
(b) have only a limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent, or
(c) are primarily designed, produced, adapted or performed for the purpose of enabling or acilitating the circumvention of,any effective technological measures."
So no equivalent for decss when hddvd or bluray come to the market, not from Norway nor the EU atleast.
"Forcing pornography to be distributed to communities that don't want it is violating their freedom to keep obscenity out of their community"
Cool are there really places where you are forced to accept pron! Tell me^Wus where.
Are you sure? According to http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status the EUCD is in effect.
So that suggests that circumventing copyprotection schemes is prohibited. CSS might be excluded on the basis one can consider it not being technically effective (today).
"After a few weeks, CNN was put back onto the network, for free."
Lucky you, over here channels that wouldn't pay got replaced by a homeshopping channel (it's pure speculation but I gues they do pay to get on the cable).
As always the car analogy is crap. The biggest difference is that you may not use the car in public places without having the correct license.
To get a license you have to show that you can handle the car and cooperate with the other users. And over here "handling the car" includes the most basic maintanence: what do those lights on the dashboard mean, how to check the various fluids etc.
On the other hand any idiot thinks he can use a computer and use the internet without any basic knowledge, totally oblivous to the fact that his machine is a playgorund for malicious software used to annoy other users.
You must have missed the IDN debacle earlier this year. RFC 3490 allows unicode domain/host names to be translated to the current DNS system with it ASCII limitation.
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You didn't RTFA, did you?