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  1. Who cares about the absolute numbers on There Are Now Twice As Many Solar Jobs As Coal Jobs In the US (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    Just tell me how many people in the electoral college they represent, and I predict, the coal workers have more.

  2. This is bullshit on You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com) · · Score: 2

    If you allow every function to be an "operator", the solution is pretty trivial, as to construct any number p you could just simply take the constant function with 4 input parameters that has value p. If you allow only a finite set of "operators" you won't be able to construct any real from it with only finitely many applications of your operators, as there are unaccountable many reals.

    If you restrict yourself to rationals you can get everywhere by just writing / somewhere between the four's and applying increment/decrement on both sides often enough.

  3. I think its better to have population decline than population increase, as indefinite increase is not possible. You need to stop at some point.

  4. I think the reason for why they've picked flash to survive is that its by far the most popular plugin both in install base and in use in websites.

    https://w3techs.com/technologi...

    Flash is said to have 7.2% of use, while Java has less than 0.1%.

    Of course, it can be different for the sets of websites you visit.

    Flash install base is about 76%: https://metrics.mozilla.com/fi...

  5. Re:To much IT hardware needs java for management on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Then whitelist the IPs of the devices you maintain. Just make sure you don't use the older browser version as your main browser.

  6. Re:To much IT hardware needs java for management on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Well the switch manufacturers. Obviously, if your switch is already an older model and the manufacturer made js available only in the new iterations of it, then its excusable, but then you still are required to use older software. I mean, some software only runs on Windows XP, right? So you still continue to use Windows XP to operate that software. Same here. Plugins are an outdated concept and insecure, you shouldn't expect to be able to run them on the newest browser versions.

    You don't even need a vm, just download firefox somewhere, set up some little wrapper that starts it with a custom profile, and disable auto updates in that profile.

  7. Re:Mozilla...getting it wrong so you don't have to on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I said discovered and fixed, not existing. I didn't dispute that Silverlight had less security vulnerabilities discovered and fixed.

  8. Re:To much IT hardware needs java for management on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The plugins were totally unsecurable already. Just use that browser for accessing those devices only, without internet access.

  9. Re:To much IT hardware needs java for management on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And they should have moved to javascript a long time ago, requiring people to install modern browsers instead of continuing to use internet explorer 6 and microsoft XP without any service packs.

    Still, you can just back up Firefox 51 and put it to a live linux cd of some sort, then making it access the hardware you need via a VM.

  10. That is in fact their plan. First remove all NPAPI plugins except flash, then move flash over to use PPAPI, then remove NPAPI support entirely.

  11. Re:Mozilla...getting it wrong so you don't have to on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Flash only has so many security vulnerabilities discovered and fixed because its so popular. The other add ons are similarly insecure, they just don't get used by the malware authors because there is too few users to target.

    And the idea with flash is to move it to use PPAPI (project mortar) and then continue to work towards its deprecation.

  12. Firefox 53 won't be an ESR on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    ESR releases are only all 7 releases. So the one after firefox 52 will be 59.

  13. Re:No such thing as Net neutrality on FCC Rescinds Claim That AT&T, Verizon Violated Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The FCC will ban everything it considers to be fake news. Like those websites that spread the golden shower video rumors, or the newspapers that claim that the "BREITBART NEWS" website is fake news.

  14. No such thing as Net neutrality on FCC Rescinds Claim That AT&T, Verizon Violated Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    its a fake like climate change!

  15. Re:Wake me up on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Great idea, but you'd miss the elections, and if everyone except the Trump supporters did this, you'd have to sleep for another 4 years.

  16. Re: detection not prevention on Researchers Develop Compact Breathalyzer That Detects the Flu (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The main problem with antibiotics is not careless human use, its the often just precautionary antibiotics that's being applied to livestock. This is the biggest place where antibiotics are applied. To make it worse, they are also often applied in too low doses. This provides a breeding ground for resistant bacteria. I'm no vegetarian or anything, but I think this is definitely wrong.

  17. Re:On a dev mode Chromebook, data loss is the defa on Tim Sweeney Dislikes Windows 10 Cloud Rumors, Calls OS 'Crush Steam Edition' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting, didn't know of this. I've done some reading and apparently there is a "soft" developer mode and a "hard" developer mode. The "soft" developer mode invokes pressing some keys and buttons to install a different OS, the "hard" developer mode involves changing the BIOS write protect flag by turning a screw/setting a jumper and then flashing a new firmware (Chrome OS has open source firmware so this is possible). With hard developer mode I think you can simply edit the firmware source code (if there aren't edited versions out there) to remove that check. Its not easy but its doable.

    Probably not something you'd want your users to do :). But it could be outsourced to some shop. You send your laptop in, they turn that screw, unlock the firmware, send it back. 20 bucks plus shipping.

  18. Re:It had to happen some day with more HTTPS use on EU Announces Deal To End All Wireless Roaming Charges (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes sense for mobile ISPs with truly unlimited data (that doesn't get cut after some traffic quota is reached). BTS's are very sparsely located in many areas, and many people have to share channels. So videos are not really the thing you should enjoy via a mobile connection. T-Mobile USA is I think doing some throttling on video content that isn't encoded in low resolutions AFAIK.

    But for wired internet, there is not a big problem. Yes, videos generate vast amounts of traffic, and it will get more the bigger the resolution is, but the same time network hardware will get cheaper. Maybe ISPs will still require it because they want to inject ads or sell the data though.

  19. You can install SteamOS on Chromebooks on Tim Sweeney Dislikes Windows 10 Cloud Rumors, Calls OS 'Crush Steam Edition' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can install Steam OS on Chromebooks, just as you can on Windows machines. Its just the game industry that needs to support Steam OS, and he isn't locked in to Microsoft any more. And no, he won't be locked into Steam OS either, because if they start demanding more, he can just clone Ubuntu himself and distribute his game as OS. As long as new computers will allow free OS choice, there is no problem.

  20. Re:It had to happen some day with more HTTPS use on EU Announces Deal To End All Wireless Roaming Charges (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    HTTPS can be cached. Usually CDNs do precisely this. For caching content on the local disk, its unchanged as well. And in corporate networks, its possible to have MITM'ing proxies, adding certificates to the trust store. Everything still possible.

  21. Re:Great on HTTPS Adoption Has Reached the Tipping Point (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the animations today are done precisely within HTML5 with the help of JS libraries

    Flash is still installed on a large part of the desktop population and even if the animators have moved on to creating new things with HTML5, websites are still around requiring Flash.

    I don't know how you can compare HTTPS adoption (an standard) to the freewill or professionalism of the creator of the content in picking the wrong tool

    HTML5 is a standard as well. Flash is a proprietary technology with most parts like ActionScript being NIH of web technologies like JS, and where the only widely used and usually the only supported version is proprietary and full with security bugs.

    And flash is not just about animations. Github required Flash for a long time because of some dumb "put url into clipboard" feature, as do various video sites still today because either they don't care (if you set your user agent to iphone they will show an HTML5 fallback!) or because they believe Flash gives them better DRM than EME does.

    Have you ever actually browsed the web without flash? I've uninstalled it in 2011. Was a tough ride back then, you had to add ?html5=1 urls to youtube, and they at least offered a fallback. But I've seen how more and more content supported HTML5. Its still far from perfect, and I won't shut up until it is perfect.

    I was an early adopter of HTTPS too. It might seem unimaginable, but in the old days google was not encrypted by default. They launched an extra subdomain "encrypted.google.com" that was encrypted with HTTPS, which I then used.

    Yes, I'm calling 2010 "the old days": You are correct with your assessment of me being a millenial.

  22. Re:Great on HTTPS Adoption Has Reached the Tipping Point (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 1

    How easily can an animator make the transition from Flash to Hippani?

    I'm not an animator myself, nor do I know any animators so I can't help. But it seems you still can reply to "trash eighty" on that discussion thread, so maybe ask them.

    I would start looking into replacements for flash as browser vendors are actually wanting to get rid of it.

  23. Great on HTTPS Adoption Has Reached the Tipping Point (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 0

    Now take the strategies you've learned and do the same for flash vs html5.

  24. Re:Yes, but... on Google Quietly Makes 'Optional' Web DRM Mandatory In Chrome (boingboing.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google Chrome is not open source. Only Chromium is. And Chromium already has web DRM disabled by default. So you will only have to build Chromium, without any changes to the source code at all.

  25. Have they added DRM yet? on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually, such formats all include DRM. How do they make money without DRM??? If you believe the MPAA, they'd be bankrupt by now!