This looks a lot like what the guys at Jolla are doing, which is based of the N9/MeeGo. WebOS algo had a bit of this as well, although only on one edge.
Looks like it took a couple of years before everyone started becoming interested in edge-swiping, but this isn't new at all. I've been using compiz with move-mouse-to-corner-X-to-do-Y for plenty of years, yet people still prefer using using a taskbar instead of proper window switching.
That's just your case. Not everyone uses MS Office, or any other office suite for that matter. I'm a senior software developer and university teacher, and only use LibreOffice when I need to VIEW something that's been emailed to me (and never work-related). I've never had to edit anything on any Office suite.
Honestly, I think *office-usage is way overrated. Most people can make a living with nothing more than notepad. People who write for a living will used more specialized software (eg: latex).
Also, I belive GP's point was that there is no need for a school to pay for an office suite, they could have used a free one. Minor formatting issues in the actual file aren't relevant if you're only teaching how to use a software program.
This happens to me when switching between languages. I tend to write "como" instead of "come", since "como" is a rather common word in spanish (my everyday language is spanish).
Yeah, they need to actually validate the organization, which is plenty of work on their behalf, so that's why they charge for it. I don't think so much for the profit as it is to cover expenses.
You would not need a revocation if they had an appropriate recovery mechanism but they don't.
Recovery mechanism? StartSSL does not have access to your private key, you generate this yourself, they only have the signed public key, which you can retrieve at any time. If you're talking about the login private key (also the email one), it's locally generated by your browser, so, again StartSSL never has access to it.
Heck, I wouldn't even trust them if they demanded access to my private keys in the first place!
If you want to test stuff before you go to production, just use a self-signed one. Why would you care about who trusts in the CA?
I've nothing against CACert really. It's just a shame they're not trusted by most OSs/browsers yet, but I'd totally recomend them if they were.
It's generally bad practice to have more than one key for a certain domain. That's why you need to revocate the old one. In fact, many security extensions for browsers will WARN YOU if a key suddenly changes for a website you've been to before.
In any case, you should have backups of your private keys so you can't loose them - actually, you can make the backups before you even ask startssl to sign them.
I don't see what the big deal is. They charge you if you need a revocation. 1) All the other trusted candidates charge you for the certificate in first place. 2) Loosing a private key is not something that usually happens.
Revocation has a cost because it adds an overhead for everyone. Revocation would also be necesary in case of a very severe security breach, in which case, 25USD will probably be the least of your problems.
I don't think most users use all three of those things at the same time. In parcitular, you won't plug your digital camera if you're using a card reader (wouldn't you just use the card reader).
I understand we can list more than 3 usb devices, my point is that most people won't use more than two USB ports on laptops, even if 3 to 5 ports is quite common.
I've known plenty of people who are full time students by staying at home reading all the apropiate bibliography. There are some that are really good at learning by reading and suck at having this taught to them. It's stupid to make them go to class if they don't need to.
What for? Moderns motherboards have about 10, and I don't think most people use them for anything else than keyboard+mouse. And since this is a laptop, it unlikely even a usb keyboard would be used.
Just because they're cheap and everybody give you more than you use doesn't mean they're needed.
Why would I have to pay? I could just get a free cert from StartSSL, which is trusted by most mayor OS, browsers, and mobile devices. It's also trusted by chrome on *nix (in windows it uses the OS certificates - which include StartSSL).
Electricians, plumbers, welders, mechanics... the world needs more of these. They make more than most college graduates, after 4 years of getting paid instead of paying to learn a craft.
More people should take this to heart. There's nothing wrong with being a blue-collar worker. Some of those jobs pay very well. Notice though: some of them do. You can pull down $150k as a welder, but it's hard, technical work that you won't be doing forever.
That's actually quite true. The extreme example are garbage collector - they make more than me (I'm a rather well paid software developer). Of course, there's few people willing to pick that job up, but some things like plumbing aren't as unatractive really.
We had the tecnology to easily do this over five years ago. How is this news? Until developers stop using bitmaps instead of vectorized graphics and relative units, this won't change either.
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This looks a lot like what the guys at Jolla are doing, which is based of the N9/MeeGo.
WebOS algo had a bit of this as well, although only on one edge.
Looks like it took a couple of years before everyone started becoming interested in edge-swiping, but this isn't new at all. I've been using compiz with move-mouse-to-corner-X-to-do-Y for plenty of years, yet people still prefer using using a taskbar instead of proper window switching.
That's just your case. Not everyone uses MS Office, or any other office suite for that matter.
I'm a senior software developer and university teacher, and only use LibreOffice when I need to VIEW something that's been emailed to me (and never work-related). I've never had to edit anything on any Office suite.
Honestly, I think *office-usage is way overrated. Most people can make a living with nothing more than notepad. People who write for a living will used more specialized software (eg: latex).
Also, I belive GP's point was that there is no need for a school to pay for an office suite, they could have used a free one. Minor formatting issues in the actual file aren't relevant if you're only teaching how to use a software program.
This happens to me when switching between languages.
I tend to write "como" instead of "come", since "como" is a rather common word in spanish (my everyday language is spanish).
How does Facebook deserve this money?
It's not a matter of deserving or not deserving, it's a matter of people willing to give them their money.
I consider rape far worse.
If you're gonna call it by some name that doesn't apply at all, why don't you better say that they're "raping producers"?
"it is not our intention to sell your photos", we'll just add them to the ads we get payed to display.
Yeah, they need to actually validate the organization, which is plenty of work on their behalf, so that's why they charge for it. I don't think so much for the profit as it is to cover expenses.
You would not need a revocation if they had an appropriate recovery mechanism but they don't.
Recovery mechanism? StartSSL does not have access to your private key, you generate this yourself, they only have the signed public key, which you can retrieve at any time.
If you're talking about the login private key (also the email one), it's locally generated by your browser, so, again StartSSL never has access to it.
Heck, I wouldn't even trust them if they demanded access to my private keys in the first place!
If you want to test stuff before you go to production, just use a self-signed one. Why would you care about who trusts in the CA?
I've nothing against CACert really. It's just a shame they're not trusted by most OSs/browsers yet, but I'd totally recomend them if they were.
It's generally bad practice to have more than one key for a certain domain. That's why you need to revocate the old one.
In fact, many security extensions for browsers will WARN YOU if a key suddenly changes for a website you've been to before.
In any case, you should have backups of your private keys so you can't loose them - actually, you can make the backups before you even ask startssl to sign them.
I don't see what the big deal is. They charge you if you need a revocation.
1) All the other trusted candidates charge you for the certificate in first place.
2) Loosing a private key is not something that usually happens.
Wasn't AMD supposed to have it's 8000/9000 series release with their documentation for the OSS drivers?
This would be a good oportunity for AMD to release driver documentation, so dev can start developing FLOSS drivers for *nix.
Revocation has a cost because it adds an overhead for everyone. Revocation would also be necesary in case of a very severe security breach, in which case, 25USD will probably be the least of your problems.
I don't think most users use all three of those things at the same time.
In parcitular, you won't plug your digital camera if you're using a card reader (wouldn't you just use the card reader).
I understand we can list more than 3 usb devices, my point is that most people won't use more than two USB ports on laptops, even if 3 to 5 ports is quite common.
I've known plenty of people who are full time students by staying at home reading all the apropiate bibliography.
There are some that are really good at learning by reading and suck at having this taught to them. It's stupid to make them go to class if they don't need to.
What for? Moderns motherboards have about 10, and I don't think most people use them for anything else than keyboard+mouse. And since this is a laptop, it unlikely even a usb keyboard would be used.
Just because they're cheap and everybody give you more than you use doesn't mean they're needed.
You're right, they're not cheap. Actually they're free.
Why would I have to pay?
I could just get a free cert from StartSSL, which is trusted by most mayor OS, browsers, and mobile devices.
It's also trusted by chrome on *nix (in windows it uses the OS certificates - which include StartSSL).
Electricians, plumbers, welders, mechanics... the world needs more of these. They make more than most college graduates, after 4 years of getting paid instead of paying to learn a craft.
More people should take this to heart. There's nothing wrong with being a blue-collar worker. Some of those jobs pay very well. Notice though: some of them do. You can pull down $150k as a welder, but it's hard, technical work that you won't be doing forever.
That's actually quite true.
The extreme example are garbage collector - they make more than me (I'm a rather well paid software developer). Of course, there's few people willing to pick that job up, but some things like plumbing aren't as unatractive really.
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You haven't been reading slashdot the past few weeks, have you?
To me, the news is that Dell made phones/tablets. I'd never heard of them before, nor have I ever seen any.
Am I the only one here?
We had the tecnology to easily do this over five years ago. How is this news? Until developers stop using bitmaps instead of vectorized graphics and relative units, this won't change either.
I belive this only provides mouse movement data while the window hace focus.
I can't reproduce this. Maybe it's a windows-only issue?
Or those virtual keyboards some banks force you to use to avoid keyloggers.
He probably used the "git pull" command, that's why it's called pull; code is pulled from a foreign repository into Linus'.
Android lets users install software from other sources without voiding the warranty.