Several folks point out that they are "Replacing google talk with hangouts, which won't support xmpp."
Right.
I have a chat client that supports xmpp that I use with my gmail account. In my case that's ichat. Will my ichat client still be able to connect to a google xmpp server and do its thing? Note, this isn't a hangout client. I won't be able to talk to hangout users. But will I still be able to xmpp through google with other xmpp users?
I don't eat meat because I find animal food farming in this country (the US) abhorrant. I don't eat well treated food animals (free range, wild hunted, etc) because I find it simpler to draw the line at "I don't eat meat".
I'm looking forward to commonly available vat-grown beef. Once the price point hits a reasonable level, I think I will partake. Other people won't feel the same way.
But getting folks to understand security and encryption is pretty hard.
Hybrid solutions are what you often want for a business. If the client has encrypted the message, then great - forward it through. If it has not, then encrypt it on the gateway. If it can't figure out how (missing keys), then reject the message.
It's a shame there isn't a commonly used encryption standard. I blame the US government for making this basically illegal to implement without worrying about who a person is and what country they live in/are from.
If they think that people will subscribe to 10 different "streaming sites" like they do "cable packages", they are insane.
The sad thing is that they already do. Folks are used to paying multiple providers for content - and/or paying those providers for multiple packages. I don't think the internet will end up being any different.
Sad, but I'm afraid that's the way it's gonna go.
Hell, how many people have huge numbers of streams replacing what used to be the telephone? Email, twitter, facebook, their cell phone, their landline, text messages, etc.
Why didn't Microsoft make Silverlight platform independent?
Didn't they?
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ "Silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web and mobile applications. Silverlight is a free plug-in, powered by the.NET framework and compatible with *multiple browsers, devices and operating systems*, bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the Web works."
But seriously - why would they? With more than 90% of the world's computers on their OS, it doesn't make a lot of sense for them to spend any money on that kind of effort. Now that the phone (and tablet) market is kicking their ass, the tables have turned.
QuickTime, on the other hand, never had that luxury - Apple has needed to port it to other platforms to get anyone at all to use it.
If Netflix uses HTML5 DRM, I predict game over. All the other content providers will use the same thing. And by content providers, I mean folks who do not have a vested interest in their proprietary formats (Microsoft, Apple), though maybe even they will fall in line if it means more consumers of their data.
No, they don't. Web has been a major thorn in their side for many years. Big Media wants 100% control or they want it to die.
That may or may not be, but netflix, amazon, hulu, apple, microsoft, google, etc disagree with you. I think all of 'em would love to ship you copyrighted data over a standard DRM'd channel supported by many browsers.
I know nothing about this subject. But I recall someone asking about [open source] software to run a [set of] security cameras and complaining that there are a lot of different formats and no standards. It could have been on/., but I can't find a ref.
So it seems like this might be a real problem - if only one that affects very few people.
OK, I guess shipping product is a measurement of success. But if you want linux to be thought of as being more popular, maybe associating it with disappointing sales is not a great idea.
Maybe instead point at the bajillions of consumer products that people actually bought: TVs, BluRay, phones, etc.
Who the hell knows where it's really from? What does origination mean if there weren't distinct planets, yet? What the hell do we know about material that old - how much of it have we studied?
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File sharing is what you do with something you own.
Piracy is sharing files that you do not own.
Civil disobedience is peacefully breaking the law for reasons you feel are just.
Movies are about fiction (virtually always).
Some educator uploading material they do not own is piracy. It may also be civil disobedience.
Some 12 year old downloading Katy Perry is piracy. It probably is not civil disobedience.
Several folks point out that they are "Replacing google talk with hangouts, which won't support xmpp."
Right.
I have a chat client that supports xmpp that I use with my gmail account. In my case that's ichat. Will my ichat client still be able to connect to a google xmpp server and do its thing? Note, this isn't a hangout client. I won't be able to talk to hangout users. But will I still be able to xmpp through google with other xmpp users?
It's not clear to me whether or not they're totally going to drop it.
Still, I think this blows.
This is the basic goal of http://openid.net/
Using facebook's auth mechanism is mostly just a flavor of this.
Though see also http://supergenpass.com/
I don't know any of my passwords. I just know my supergenpass phrase.
Yes*
* Unless you don't think so.
I don't eat meat because I find animal food farming in this country (the US) abhorrant. I don't eat well treated food animals (free range, wild hunted, etc) because I find it simpler to draw the line at "I don't eat meat".
I'm looking forward to commonly available vat-grown beef. Once the price point hits a reasonable level, I think I will partake. Other people won't feel the same way.
But getting folks to understand security and encryption is pretty hard.
Hybrid solutions are what you often want for a business. If the client has encrypted the message, then great - forward it through. If it has not, then encrypt it on the gateway. If it can't figure out how (missing keys), then reject the message.
It's a shame there isn't a commonly used encryption standard. I blame the US government for making this basically illegal to implement without worrying about who a person is and what country they live in/are from.
If they think that people will subscribe to 10 different "streaming sites" like they do "cable packages", they are insane.
The sad thing is that they already do. Folks are used to paying multiple providers for content - and/or paying those providers for multiple packages. I don't think the internet will end up being any different.
Sad, but I'm afraid that's the way it's gonna go.
Hell, how many people have huge numbers of streams replacing what used to be the telephone? Email, twitter, facebook, their cell phone, their landline, text messages, etc.
So... There is that.
I never liked adobe, anyway.
If javascript is a functional language (because you can do monads?), then I guess C is also a functional language.
I think the definition of functional programming languages is more about what you can't do than what you can do - since they're all turing complete...
Hell, javascript functions don't even return a value by default. To me that screams *not a functional language*.
I'm just stopping by to say:
Jackasses.
Why didn't Microsoft make Silverlight platform independent?
Didn't they?
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ .NET framework and compatible with *multiple browsers, devices and operating systems*, bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the Web works."
"Silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web and mobile applications. Silverlight is a free plug-in, powered by the
But seriously - why would they? With more than 90% of the world's computers on their OS, it doesn't make a lot of sense for them to spend any money on that kind of effort. Now that the phone (and tablet) market is kicking their ass, the tables have turned.
QuickTime, on the other hand, never had that luxury - Apple has needed to port it to other platforms to get anyone at all to use it.
If Netflix uses HTML5 DRM, I predict game over. All the other content providers will use the same thing. And by content providers, I mean folks who do not have a vested interest in their proprietary formats (Microsoft, Apple), though maybe even they will fall in line if it means more consumers of their data.
No, they don't. Web has been a major thorn in their side for many years. Big Media wants 100% control or they want it to die.
That may or may not be, but netflix, amazon, hulu, apple, microsoft, google, etc disagree with you. I think all of 'em would love to ship you copyrighted data over a standard DRM'd channel supported by many browsers.
I'm sure the FBI / NSA has some supercomputers that could crack his computer in very short orde.
Then you simply watch too much television.
News at 11.
Thank you, /., for thinking this matters.
And not a helicopter or whathaveyou?
It's zero G's. I'm pretty sure that makes it nearly as easy as laying in bed. :-)
My sister does. She's had the account since before gmail existed. Why change?
I mean -- I would. But...
Right, and it's what I use and recommend.
Which begs the question: why do I have to install it? Why doesn't it ship with?
I mean, sure, someone is in bed with the various AV vendors. But when you ship an OS that is for use by joe-users, you really ought to keep it clean.
Whatever. I find it frustrating.
I know nothing about this subject. But I recall someone asking about [open source] software to run a [set of] security cameras and complaining that there are a lot of different formats and no standards. It could have been on /., but I can't find a ref.
So it seems like this might be a real problem - if only one that affects very few people.
No editing for you!
(you must be new here)
Highlights the success of google chromebook...
OK, I guess shipping product is a measurement of success. But if you want linux to be thought of as being more popular, maybe associating it with disappointing sales is not a great idea.
Maybe instead point at the bajillions of consumer products that people actually bought: TVs, BluRay, phones, etc.
You know, in Japan, parents tell their children that chicken tastes just like squid.
OK, seriously. They don't, do they?
Can't wait until Symantec, Kaspersky, etc. sell competing anti-spammer packages for phones.
My google voice number discards spam calls all the time. Including political calls.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/235637/google_voice_spam_filter_blocks_unwanted_calls.html
Best thing ever.
You and me, both. I reckon this mostly amounts to sensationalistic crap. The guess is they're 4.5 billion years old.
In theory, that's about how old the earth is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolutionary_history_of_life
which is also about the age of Mercury.
So the meteorite is about the age of the planets.
Who the hell knows where it's really from? What does origination mean if there weren't distinct planets, yet? What the hell do we know about material that old - how much of it have we studied?
And what does it matter?
So, yeah, sensationalistic crap.
As a user, how would you rate your experience of seive as a tool? Was it easy? Easy like configuring gmail filters?
Did it pretty much do everything you wanted? (sounds like it from the fact you've not recently edited filters)