Yea, I don't get it either. They've had at least a dozen stories here each with 100's of comments with viable concerns and even listing out what's needed. yet they continue to go in the wrong direction.
Stable, Secure, light and fast, and user is in control with add-ons for extended features. That's what the vast majority of people are screaming for.
I mean, how stupid can Mozilla be, when they devise a UI to screen capture when there is already a button on the keyboard. Which them trying to force the minimization of the title/menu bar,and they go and add that?
They have done a lot, while I still occationally have FF crash, it's beeen the tabs, not the whole browser and simply reloading the tab means back in business. (I'm one of those with 100's of tabs)
Now as far as what everyone seams to be wanting: Pocket... Remove or have it as a default add-on that can be completely removed. Give the user more control over their web experience Always the ability to view source or download(Including any image or video) More control over scripts, cookies, and their use.(those are the most used extensions for a reason) especially 3rd party and untrusted. Locking down the finger printing and tracking exploits. Like WebRTC, Screen/Window sizes, fonts, etc. All your "new look" stuff has been crap. It's a chase down chrome and beat it, when your users don't want that.
In modern cars, when you turn on the defrosters or air on the windshield options the AC runs to draw out moisture before being heated so the air is dryer and will do a much better job of defogging the windows.
Israel doesn't need much military because it has most of the west, including the US. So that 5th grade kid has the backing of high schoolers the next block over, and sometimes visits for lunch.
Right, frequent changing of passwords was to make insecure passwords more secure.
Now with the ability to have strong passwords, the reason to force frequent passwords is lessoned, unless the rules for the secure password require unsecure methods to remember. Like sticky notes on monitor, unencrypted files on desktop, etc.
if the attacker knows the password rules, those rules end up lowering the entropy. Setting password should have not rules, but an algorithm that generates entropy, and only allow a minimum. Thus you don't create a set of rules that actually make it easier to crack. People could have Passw0rd@1974 or correct staple horse battery.
compiling oneself is hackish in that when something gets patched, you need to rebuild it again. Thus also shows why it's less secure because the unpatched version will run longer.
Now do this for a small company with only a handful to a few hundred systems. They had to compile this themselves for some backwards compatibility with some vendor or software, and now it may never get patched again.
Thus it's more secure to have it disabled by default rather than have it compiled out.
Why do they keep acting like it's a surprise! And keep asking and asking, the answers are always the same.
First, they need to know their audience! They can't compete with google/MS/Apple with the bundle and ignorant crowed. Who are they targeting? Those that know better or want something different than those.
Those that want something better don't want a clone. What do we want? A stable fast secure Web Browser, where the user is in control.
Only then, do we, the tech savvy, push FF onto our friends and family.
(I still use FF as my primary browser, and push it with some options reverted and plugins)
Thats because you're probably driving by after they have been picked up.
Seriously drive by 6-7am you should see half dozen on up guys looking for work, not just the stereotypical immigrants. Far side of the parking lot under a tree.
It may be my imagination but seams there is less of them since trumps been in office.
To bad you posted as AC, comment is worthy of +1 informative.... To see that Tesla paid off early to save 300 million or more in stock.
While that page does talk about how its a raw deal for the government which means the tax payer it misses the reason the government is doing the action. It's not investing to get more money, but investing in better technologies. If electric cars become a reality because of it, then its well invested.
Most crimes where "guns" are used, the gun is never fired. I quoted guns, because alleged and fake guns are often used.
So a stolen smart gun, while unable to kill, will still result in crimes, including rape, and even death by other means. (I just watched a solved cold case type show where a mother and baby was lured with a gun to the woods, gun jammed but was promptly beaten to death with it, baby left to die by the elements. And lots of others where intruders get in by use of gun and kill the victim in others ways)
Smart guns is a trap, of following one logical argument after another, where all the facts used to prop it up are not in fact facts.
I was once in DC, for work, during some protests where police corralled and arrested everyone on the street.
Once in front of the judge it only took a few min before the arrest was wiped from my record. Most of the people arrested had the same outcome, including those protesting. Although I would imagine they would later press charges against individuals who where let go after reviewing cameras and such.
Even though I was released with noting on my record I was pissed as hell, it stole almost a day. But the story is that they arrest everyone as a control tactic to clear it out, and sort it out after situation is controlled.
How does the military treat people with other medical problems, like needing glasses or getting cancer or suffering from PTSD?
In many cases they are forced to leave the military or given other tasks if possible. And in some cases, those that leave the military now get a good paycheck for the rest of their lives if the military is shown to to have any cause for the reasons of their disabilities.
I know of several people that have fallen into such categories.
Just go look at the older coal towns.(or mining) I've seen many through out the US.
They've dried up, the place remains a sad shell dependent on outside help. Many state and other officials try making deals with move in other industry, but it's never enough.
For example: Here in Utah, Price was a once such a town. They got Sorenson Communications to build a TTY(a deaf text to phone service) it still dries up.(w/ text being replaced by video)
Jobs don't materialize just because there are people wanting work. And not every person can be trained to do every position.
as he stated, buying the land for that use, rather than renting.
But there are others as well. Such as requiring small portions or large lands to be "native". Such as any farms over 1000 acres require.1% of continuous native landscape.(and other verbiage to prevent a mile long 1 foot wide strip for that purpose)
FIrst they are missidentifying their target audiance.
1. They are competing with products that people use that don't even know what a web browser is. You can't Win against bundled browers. They need to cater to those who know what browers are and don't want what comes bundled.
2. Also, they are chasing features brought forth by their competators, which causes 2 problems. Some of those features are not wanted by their users. And why would someone leave chrome to have a chrome like experiance?
Yes, they had a lot of users for a while, and they lost a bunch. But what was it that got them users? It was a webbroser that was lean, secure, privacy, and enabled the user to be in control. And of course the Add-ons(which further gave control)
What are some of the most popular addons, or mroe importantly, what do the most popular addons do, that firefox should look to grab hold of?... Well enablign security and privacy and control of the browser. Ublock Orgin, Disconnect, and a host of others all blocking malicious content(and some adds), then Noscript, umatrix furthering that control. And of course add block and flash block stuff.
It's all about not letting random sites control their web experiance, browsers and PC.
* The multi threads/procceses, there is a need, but would have liked a see it by say window not per tab, or nearly random groups of tabs. Or how about the ability to see what's consuming the resources and be able to do something about it. * There's no way I can have my family browse the web like I do(with noscript, etc) but Generic options for not loading untrusted 3rd party scripts(matching the cookies options) with say a choice of community "whitelists". There's still problems of popups/unders and other forms of hijacking a browser and this, or other ideas can go a long way to fix that. Or even intergrate what EFF Privacy Badger does. Not killing online adds, but force them to behave. * How about options to make the PC look more generic, like Returning a more generic answers to fonts, window/screen, etc.
Read through this bug on adding concurrency to Firefox to get a good feeling why Mozilla lost so much browser market share: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
After reading, what I get is the devs saying procceses/threads as dictated wont solve the problems being described. And that they will work to solve them a different way.
Because of other faults of Microsoft pushing updates that don't benefit the end user. Like void your installed windows, change your settings, or even broke your system.
MS can't be trusted. They use security updates to force what ever they want on end users.
There are lots of open source projects that attempt this.
I've tested a lot of programs from Mr house to Jasper and many others that all allow or use open source STT(Speech To Text) TTS (Text To Speech)
The Google STT was the best, followed by other clouded based solutions like AT&T and Wit.ai. The best open source ones pocketsphinx or Julius leave much to be desired.
For STT, open source fares better with MaryTTS being IMO the best, but very slow. It's also Java and eats RAM. But espeak can work good enough.
Sadly the end result is a gimmick that barely works in ideal conditions. Granted it was 6+ months ago since last I peaked so things may have improved.
Auto driving trucks stopping ever 300 miles for 30 min is not that bad.
1. Auto driving trucks don't need to sleep, and laws will most likely change to reflect that. 2. Current trucks take longer to fill their twin 70-150 gallon tanks. 3. Less parts to fail in electric autos, not just for a more reliable standpoint but there are laws for down time per truck regardless of driver.
On the flip side with their large tanks they could fill up once per day but the real limit is laws around drive and truck fatigue. Things that would change with auto driving trucks using a more reliable electric engine.
The reason for hydrogen is because it keeps the infrastructure in place. A big part of the auto industry is the oil industry. Did you really think the auto industry would alienate them?
Nothing really changes, still need gas stations and big companies rather than making oil make hydrogen. And guess what the best* way to make hydrogen is? Not from water but fossil fuels like NG.
Not to mention, a giant portion of the EV cost is battery which the auto industry lacks. Battery tech got better despite them not investing in it.
We are not on electric cars today because of the oil industry.(electric cars existed since early 1900's) This is why Tesla is important, they are shaking up the industry and putting out a real threat unless the auto industry changes too.
Systemd almost make sense, and at least stated by solving a problem. It's what they are doing on the network side that's more messed up. And of course NetworkManager that has no place in the server environment.
Systemd at least started by solving a problem. What problem was being solved by changing the ethernet naming scheme?
I've tried doing this, using various open source projects. I find it lacking, if others have more input to add that'd be great, but my findings... Sadly there are some windows/closed solutions that work better.
To start it all starts with speech recondition engines, called, STT, Speech To Text. Pocketsphinx, I haven't found one that really works. (you could "for limited use" use google's, or apple, but I'm excluding those two) Wit.ai has a dev one you can use pretty much unlimited that I find very inaccurate.
Then you need some engine to process and has out the text to form the work. Jasper, Simon, Mister House, etc. Mostly good enough and is easy enough to make or alter yourself. You can even pipe to wolfram as a last resort.
Now you need a Text To Speech, (TTS) while you can get good enough with espeak, MaryTTS is better but very slow and is java.. slow as crap on RPi's.
Hardware from x10, Insteon, raspberry Pi's, etc. Some notes: Raspberry Pi's don't quite have enough resources, also lack audio input. I have yet to find a microphone under $50 with any engine that I find "works". By works I mean not limited to very low noise and with in 3 feet. The real solutions you need a microphone that's really an array of microphones. The hardware for home automation, IMO, Insteon is best, but not cheap.
Side things, look up magic mirror, Facial recognition.
So yea, can do lots of cool stuff, but most STT sucks, and without that you can't really get the rest past novelty.
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Yea, I don't get it either. They've had at least a dozen stories here each with 100's of comments with viable concerns and even listing out what's needed. yet they continue to go in the wrong direction.
Stable, Secure, light and fast, and user is in control with add-ons for extended features. That's what the vast majority of people are screaming for.
I mean, how stupid can Mozilla be, when they devise a UI to screen capture when there is already a button on the keyboard. Which them trying to force the minimization of the title/menu bar ,and they go and add that?
They have done a lot, while I still occationally have FF crash, it's beeen the tabs, not the whole browser and simply reloading the tab means back in business. (I'm one of those with 100's of tabs)
Now as far as what everyone seams to be wanting:
Pocket... Remove or have it as a default add-on that can be completely removed.
Give the user more control over their web experience
Always the ability to view source or download(Including any image or video)
More control over scripts, cookies, and their use.(those are the most used extensions for a reason) especially 3rd party and untrusted.
Locking down the finger printing and tracking exploits. Like WebRTC, Screen/Window sizes, fonts, etc.
All your "new look" stuff has been crap. It's a chase down chrome and beat it, when your users don't want that.
No, Trump was elected because his opponent was Hilary Clinton.
Tump got the Republican nomination because Reps where sick of Reps Politicians.
Hilary would have lost to almost any Republican except Bush. IMO it's to bad McCain or Romney didn't run this time as it could have been them.
This being the perfect sort of news /. should have posted the day of or even after the incident. Not "last month.
And how about an interview and or posting questions to them and the EFF about the incident.
In modern cars, when you turn on the defrosters or air on the windshield options the AC runs to draw out moisture before being heated so the air is dryer and will do a much better job of defogging the windows.
Israel doesn't need much military because it has most of the west, including the US. So that 5th grade kid has the backing of high schoolers the next block over, and sometimes visits for lunch.
These suggest that Israel makes their own modern nukes.
https://www.thenation.com/arti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://nationalinterest.org/fe...
Right, frequent changing of passwords was to make insecure passwords more secure.
Now with the ability to have strong passwords, the reason to force frequent passwords is lessoned, unless the rules for the secure password require unsecure methods to remember. Like sticky notes on monitor, unencrypted files on desktop, etc.
if the attacker knows the password rules, those rules end up lowering the entropy. Setting password should have not rules, but an algorithm that generates entropy, and only allow a minimum. Thus you don't create a set of rules that actually make it easier to crack. People could have Passw0rd@1974 or correct staple horse battery.
They don't want old content to compete with new content.
compiling oneself is hackish in that when something gets patched, you need to rebuild it again. Thus also shows why it's less secure because the unpatched version will run longer.
Now do this for a small company with only a handful to a few hundred systems. They had to compile this themselves for some backwards compatibility with some vendor or software, and now it may never get patched again.
Thus it's more secure to have it disabled by default rather than have it compiled out.
Why do they keep acting like it's a surprise! And keep asking and asking, the answers are always the same.
First, they need to know their audience! They can't compete with google/MS/Apple with the bundle and ignorant crowed. Who are they targeting? Those that know better or want something different than those.
Those that want something better don't want a clone. What do we want? A stable fast secure Web Browser, where the user is in control.
Only then, do we, the tech savvy, push FF onto our friends and family.
(I still use FF as my primary browser, and push it with some options reverted and plugins)
Thats because you're probably driving by after they have been picked up.
Seriously drive by 6-7am you should see half dozen on up guys looking for work, not just the stereotypical immigrants. Far side of the parking lot under a tree.
It may be my imagination but seams there is less of them since trumps been in office.
To bad you posted as AC, comment is worthy of +1 informative.... To see that Tesla paid off early to save 300 million or more in stock.
While that page does talk about how its a raw deal for the government which means the tax payer it misses the reason the government is doing the action. It's not investing to get more money, but investing in better technologies. If electric cars become a reality because of it, then its well invested.
Most crimes where "guns" are used, the gun is never fired. I quoted guns, because alleged and fake guns are often used.
So a stolen smart gun, while unable to kill, will still result in crimes, including rape, and even death by other means. (I just watched a solved cold case type show where a mother and baby was lured with a gun to the woods, gun jammed but was promptly beaten to death with it, baby left to die by the elements. And lots of others where intruders get in by use of gun and kill the victim in others ways)
Smart guns is a trap, of following one logical argument after another, where all the facts used to prop it up are not in fact facts.
I was once in DC, for work, during some protests where police corralled and arrested everyone on the street.
Once in front of the judge it only took a few min before the arrest was wiped from my record. Most of the people arrested had the same outcome, including those protesting. Although I would imagine they would later press charges against individuals who where let go after reviewing cameras and such.
Even though I was released with noting on my record I was pissed as hell, it stole almost a day. But the story is that they arrest everyone as a control tactic to clear it out, and sort it out after situation is controlled.
How does the military treat people with other medical problems, like needing glasses or getting cancer or suffering from PTSD?
In many cases they are forced to leave the military or given other tasks if possible. And in some cases, those that leave the military now get a good paycheck for the rest of their lives if the military is shown to to have any cause for the reasons of their disabilities.
I know of several people that have fallen into such categories.
Just go look at the older coal towns.(or mining) I've seen many through out the US.
They've dried up, the place remains a sad shell dependent on outside help. Many state and other officials try making deals with move in other industry, but it's never enough.
For example: Here in Utah, Price was a once such a town. They got Sorenson Communications to build a TTY(a deaf text to phone service) it still dries up.(w/ text being replaced by video)
Jobs don't materialize just because there are people wanting work. And not every person can be trained to do every position.
After what happened to the CEO and such at Qwest, I don't expect CenturyLink to follow suit and end up in jail too.
as he stated, buying the land for that use, rather than renting.
But there are others as well. Such as requiring small portions or large lands to be "native". Such as any farms over 1000 acres require .1% of continuous native landscape.(and other verbiage to prevent a mile long 1 foot wide strip for that purpose)
FIrst they are missidentifying their target audiance.
1. They are competing with products that people use that don't even know what a web browser is. You can't Win against bundled browers. They need to cater to those who know what browers are and don't want what comes bundled.
2. Also, they are chasing features brought forth by their competators, which causes 2 problems. Some of those features are not wanted by their users. And why would someone leave chrome to have a chrome like experiance?
Yes, they had a lot of users for a while, and they lost a bunch. But what was it that got them users? It was a webbroser that was lean, secure, privacy, and enabled the user to be in control. And of course the Add-ons(which further gave control)
What are some of the most popular addons, or mroe importantly, what do the most popular addons do, that firefox should look to grab hold of? ... Well enablign security and privacy and control of the browser.
Ublock Orgin, Disconnect, and a host of others all blocking malicious content(and some adds), then Noscript, umatrix furthering that control. And of course add block and flash block stuff.
It's all about not letting random sites control their web experiance, browsers and PC.
* The multi threads/procceses, there is a need, but would have liked a see it by say window not per tab, or nearly random groups of tabs. Or how about the ability to see what's consuming the resources and be able to do something about it.
* There's no way I can have my family browse the web like I do(with noscript, etc) but Generic options for not loading untrusted 3rd party scripts(matching the cookies options) with say a choice of community "whitelists". There's still problems of popups/unders and other forms of hijacking a browser and this, or other ideas can go a long way to fix that. Or even intergrate what EFF Privacy Badger does. Not killing online adds, but force them to behave.
* How about options to make the PC look more generic, like Returning a more generic answers to fonts, window/screen, etc.
Read through this bug on adding concurrency to Firefox to get a good feeling why Mozilla lost so much browser market share:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
After reading, what I get is the devs saying procceses/threads as dictated wont solve the problems being described. And that they will work to solve them a different way.
Because of other faults of Microsoft pushing updates that don't benefit the end user. Like void your installed windows, change your settings, or even broke your system.
MS can't be trusted. They use security updates to force what ever they want on end users.
There are lots of open source projects that attempt this.
I've tested a lot of programs from Mr house to Jasper and many others that all allow or use open source STT(Speech To Text) TTS (Text To Speech)
The Google STT was the best, followed by other clouded based solutions like AT&T and Wit.ai. The best open source ones pocketsphinx or Julius leave much to be desired.
For STT, open source fares better with MaryTTS being IMO the best, but very slow. It's also Java and eats RAM. But espeak can work good enough.
Sadly the end result is a gimmick that barely works in ideal conditions. Granted it was 6+ months ago since last I peaked so things may have improved.
Auto driving trucks stopping ever 300 miles for 30 min is not that bad.
1. Auto driving trucks don't need to sleep, and laws will most likely change to reflect that.
2. Current trucks take longer to fill their twin 70-150 gallon tanks.
3. Less parts to fail in electric autos, not just for a more reliable standpoint but there are laws for down time per truck regardless of driver.
On the flip side with their large tanks they could fill up once per day but the real limit is laws around drive and truck fatigue. Things that would change with auto driving trucks using a more reliable electric engine.
The reason for hydrogen is because it keeps the infrastructure in place. A big part of the auto industry is the oil industry. Did you really think the auto industry would alienate them?
Nothing really changes, still need gas stations and big companies rather than making oil make hydrogen. And guess what the best* way to make hydrogen is? Not from water but fossil fuels like NG.
Not to mention, a giant portion of the EV cost is battery which the auto industry lacks. Battery tech got better despite them not investing in it.
We are not on electric cars today because of the oil industry.(electric cars existed since early 1900's) This is why Tesla is important, they are shaking up the industry and putting out a real threat unless the auto industry changes too.
Systemd almost make sense, and at least stated by solving a problem. It's what they are doing on the network side that's more messed up. And of course NetworkManager that has no place in the server environment.
Systemd at least started by solving a problem. What problem was being solved by changing the ethernet naming scheme?
I've tried doing this, using various open source projects. I find it lacking, if others have more input to add that'd be great, but my findings... Sadly there are some windows/closed solutions that work better.
To start it all starts with speech recondition engines, called, STT, Speech To Text. Pocketsphinx, I haven't found one that really works. (you could "for limited use" use google's, or apple, but I'm excluding those two) Wit.ai has a dev one you can use pretty much unlimited that I find very inaccurate.
Then you need some engine to process and has out the text to form the work. Jasper, Simon, Mister House, etc. Mostly good enough and is easy enough to make or alter yourself. You can even pipe to wolfram as a last resort.
Now you need a Text To Speech, (TTS) while you can get good enough with espeak, MaryTTS is better but very slow and is java.. slow as crap on RPi's.
Hardware from x10, Insteon, raspberry Pi's, etc. Some notes:
Raspberry Pi's don't quite have enough resources, also lack audio input.
I have yet to find a microphone under $50 with any engine that I find "works". By works I mean not limited to very low noise and with in 3 feet. The real solutions you need a microphone that's really an array of microphones.
The hardware for home automation, IMO, Insteon is best, but not cheap.
Side things, look up magic mirror, Facial recognition.
So yea, can do lots of cool stuff, but most STT sucks, and without that you can't really get the rest past novelty.