In Opera it works this way for all plugins including flash. It's not inconvenient, in fact it's very comfortable that I don't have to mess around with adblocking anymore. I whitelisted sites like youtube that require flash extensively and some of the rare sites that would break otherwise, and then it works like a charm.
I thought about this a lot and I don't think it's possible to create an Internet voting system that is comfortable, secure and anonymous. The biggest problem is vote selling, but there are a lot of others as well. For example, at some point you have to register yourself physically, wich would mean that you have to show up in an office anyway. Also, you can't just use your ID to vote because of privacy issues. But if you want the system to be secure you will need a unique code that only you know. But what about the person who gives you the code? There are many similar problems and while I hope there is a system that can solve all at the same time I am sceptical.
The idea of states controlling even parts of the Internet is grotesque. The Internet is a network where almost any two computers can communicate, and it doesn't care about national borders. Globalization makes single states and their governments less and less important, so they try to seize new forms of power: power over communication.
There are lot of things that can be done on the phone, but visiting a doctor is not one of them. Diagnosis requires physical presence, a doctor can't examine a patient that is not there.
Although it's a good idea to offer modularity instead of trying to fit everything into a phone this method looks very limited, working only with one electronic module.
Microsoft didn't patent modular phones, but a specific design that uses a slider to store the modules. At least theoretically, you can't patent an idea, only an implementation of it.
Legal systems are very badly constructed - after all, they are written by politicians. The problem is, if a system has even just one contradiction in it, then, by the principle of explosion, the whole system becomes contradictory, and you can come with legal reasonings that have different results for the same case. For any man tried, you can come up with a correct legal argument that makes him guilty, and another one that would show his innocence. This is why lawyers and judges have a sort of twisted logic to survive these contradictions, but this is very hard to teach to an AI. The only way I can think of is to let bots learn from previous cases but this would mean that we still would need humans for the robots to learn from.
I use 'design flaw' for bugs that can't be corrected without rewriting the whole code. Software with design flaws are not called 'bug-free', but 'defective by design'.
This is why nuclear power is ecologycal but biofuel is not.
That aside, this design could have potential in rarely inhabited regions where you can't get gas easily if you run out of it. If fuel efficiency would be made high enough, you could run a car on grass and leaves.
Sometimes people do things without expecting to be paid. There are a lot of people creating mods for games, most of them for free. They work for the fun of it, not money. It's similar to open source: you use the work of others and in return you contribute something back for free. Valve has always been very good at working with the community. Unlike other companies suing modders, they encouraged it, and in fact hired and paid people of the modding community. Accusing them of exploit is stupid.
This would be the case for an MMO but this looks like just a singleplayer RPG with maybe a few cooperative missions. This is not the game you are looking for.
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In Opera it works this way for all plugins including flash. It's not inconvenient, in fact it's very comfortable that I don't have to mess around with adblocking anymore. I whitelisted sites like youtube that require flash extensively and some of the rare sites that would break otherwise, and then it works like a charm.
Turning a scientific topic into a political one with the first post: just like in real life climate debates!
The majority of it are just messages and logs, I think they have kept the juicy stuff for themselves.
I thought about this a lot and I don't think it's possible to create an Internet voting system that is comfortable, secure and anonymous. The biggest problem is vote selling, but there are a lot of others as well. For example, at some point you have to register yourself physically, wich would mean that you have to show up in an office anyway. Also, you can't just use your ID to vote because of privacy issues. But if you want the system to be secure you will need a unique code that only you know. But what about the person who gives you the code? There are many similar problems and while I hope there is a system that can solve all at the same time I am sceptical.
True, but voters DO have physical control over the machine.
The idea of states controlling even parts of the Internet is grotesque. The Internet is a network where almost any two computers can communicate, and it doesn't care about national borders. Globalization makes single states and their governments less and less important, so they try to seize new forms of power: power over communication.
Removing it from the ToS does not necessarily means they won't sell the data.
They are the ones who really could do much against botnets by patching Windows vulnerabilities.
There are lot of things that can be done on the phone, but visiting a doctor is not one of them. Diagnosis requires physical presence, a doctor can't examine a patient that is not there.
What's the point of doing this it's not like they need approval to use it on people.
Although it's a good idea to offer modularity instead of trying to fit everything into a phone this method looks very limited, working only with one electronic module.
Microsoft didn't patent modular phones, but a specific design that uses a slider to store the modules. At least theoretically, you can't patent an idea, only an implementation of it.
Legal systems are very badly constructed - after all, they are written by politicians. The problem is, if a system has even just one contradiction in it, then, by the principle of explosion, the whole system becomes contradictory, and you can come with legal reasonings that have different results for the same case. For any man tried, you can come up with a correct legal argument that makes him guilty, and another one that would show his innocence. This is why lawyers and judges have a sort of twisted logic to survive these contradictions, but this is very hard to teach to an AI. The only way I can think of is to let bots learn from previous cases but this would mean that we still would need humans for the robots to learn from.
The problem is that the planet (if it is) is moving very slow so they have to wait years between the looks to see the motion.
I use 'design flaw' for bugs that can't be corrected without rewriting the whole code. Software with design flaws are not called 'bug-free', but 'defective by design'.
This is why nuclear power is ecologycal but biofuel is not. That aside, this design could have potential in rarely inhabited regions where you can't get gas easily if you run out of it. If fuel efficiency would be made high enough, you could run a car on grass and leaves.
This was a complete pointless waste of time. What on Earth bruteforcing a 9 character quote is good for, or why would it be newsworthy?
I don't know about FF but Opera has a similar option that does in fact block Facebook and other tracking cookies.
I'm not sure that not using Facebook will prevent tracking. You have to get rid of the Facebook cookies.
"Predicting" past events isn't predicting. He aren't saying anything about future events.
A lot of proxies get around this problem by launching a new site every few days.
This is cool but I would be far more interested in a card that does NOT detect microwave signals.
Sometimes people do things without expecting to be paid. There are a lot of people creating mods for games, most of them for free. They work for the fun of it, not money. It's similar to open source: you use the work of others and in return you contribute something back for free. Valve has always been very good at working with the community. Unlike other companies suing modders, they encouraged it, and in fact hired and paid people of the modding community. Accusing them of exploit is stupid.
This would be the case for an MMO but this looks like just a singleplayer RPG with maybe a few cooperative missions. This is not the game you are looking for.
They are already there.