Perhaps given your job title you should look at your own performance and take a closer look at home as to why Firefox doesn't do as well as it should. If you don't competition get out of the game.
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...
"Always with you what cannot be done."
$350M in funding per year, and they couldn't straighten out threads/processes. A bunch of crazy-ass trendy projects that got killed - those got millions of dollars in funding each. Users cursing at their slow browser - not even a priority.
If Chrome is winning (has won?), it's because its dev team seems to have an "OK, we'll fix that" attitude.
The half a million who switched to streaming services are the ones who are actually dissatisfied.* The ones who keep paying a monthly bill for cable TV are satisfied enough.
They'll whine to survey callers, but push comes to shove, the cable companies don't really care if the bills are paid and these people acknowledge sufficient value to continue.
Economists don't give surveys very much credence.
* excepting the very small minority who can get cable TV but not cable Internet
I agree, that JSON is easier to read than XML, but not easier enough to change the standard now.
Yeah, what is the _actual_ problem that RSS/Atom are causing now?
I've written several RSS/Atom readers and writers and never once did I worry about "how hard" XML is to parse. Heck, since like 2003 I've only ever use a popular language library to read/write those formats. Who needs to even parse the XML except the first person to write the library for a new language? I iterate over an object's member objects; I don't parse XML.
It seems like the real problem being solved here is that XML isn't "new hotness" like JSON is, not that anybody is having a problem parsing RSS/Atom feeds. Were we starting over today, sure, use JSON, but we're not.
Sigh. This is just more people looking to identify upon whom they can exact revenge if an error occurs.
Look, people, you're acting like psychos/and/ driving up the cost of healthcare at the same time, while slowing progress.
The AI's should be pre-certified by a standards body for being written as carefully as possible. If they are competently certified and you're in the false-positive or false-negative zones, that's just a natural consequence of participating in the medical care system.
Healthcare will/never/ be perfect. There will always be errors; information theory guarantees it. If the expected outcome of such an error is to seek vengeance, all that will do is to forestall the very innovation that will minimize those very errors. Do not participate in the system if you cannot value the risk rate in the system over the risk rate out of the system.
Some might wonder, "does it seem just to seek vengeance on the people who are causing that delay with their vengeance?" Everybody would do well to remember: âoeIf we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.â - MLKJr.
The backlash to ghost Republican voicemail spam will be so severe Reagan, Nixon, and Lincoln will all posthumously switch to the Democratic Party.
You say this like it's something new.
What they do currently is that they ring your phone, and then under two seconds later place a new call to your phone, which goes straight to voicemail, and then they disconnect the first call before your handset ever rings (usually).
This "new tech" was all the rage in 2014&2016.
The FCC filing says they have "proprietary technology" to connect directly to the carrier voicemail servers, but while that sounds like an SS7 or TCP connection, it could very well be the same old shit as used in past elections, just obfuscated with a syntactic destruction.
The problem is that I usually get documents sent to me that are saved in a Microsoft proprietary software and if I view them in LibreOffice I am not confident that everything in them is correctly displayed.
When you define interoperability as "impossible" then you aren't going to ever get interoperability.
I started to get interested, then this one character says his entire race was engineered for the sole purpose of "sensing death".
That's the stupidest thing I've heard on TV this year. Is there a writer's strike going on and the producer's fourteen-year-old nephew got the screenplay job?
Fire the script editor (and at least one writer) if you want this show to last seven years.
They need to promise at least 10 years before EoL if they're going to address the big middle bulge of the market. At least compatibility and security, if not new features.
To be fair, these are the people who make Echo and Kindle devices and they're either masters at building spy products or having their products not be abused as spy products. They _could_ do this right better than most people excepting possibly Apple and Google (though Apple thinks five years is just fine and Google gets distracted like a puppy with ADHD).
Why are you even still memorizing passwords? Mine are all random 13-letter strings that I store in a key safe.
Businesses don't care enough about security to make their employees take two minutes to log into their workstations in the morning. Anything more than seven seconds is likely to be dismissed by the decision makers.
Convenience pushes our 'lazy' buttons, and security is not seen as being worth the cost. Unless that changes, there won't be much change in overall security.
It takes some computational muscle, but I have no doubt the NSA has the tools.
But joke's on the perps - the way Bitcoin is now, confirmation times and fees are so high that the hospitals will probably be restored from backup before they get any decryption keys.
simple as that. Access cams from a local server, and access that server from the internet. ALL IP cameras are shit for security, just like Trump is shit.
No, it's not that simple - if your lightbulb is on the same LAN as the camera it can pass on an infection.
Now then, it's a _problem_ that IoT devices seem to now require MAC-level isolation. I already have my [wired] Chinese camera on its own VLAN with ingress and egress firewall rules, but my WiFi devices are behind Ubiquiti gear which is nice but only allows for four SSID's.
AP Isolation would help, but then things like Chromecast will all break (and maybe some lightbulb meshes?).
AFAICT, the threats are now ahead of the defenses and that's a real problem we don't have a solution for.
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Perhaps given your job title you should look at your own performance and take a closer look at home as to why Firefox doesn't do as well as it should. If you don't competition get out of the game.
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...
"Always with you what cannot be done."
$350M in funding per year, and they couldn't straighten out threads/processes. A bunch of crazy-ass trendy projects that got killed - those got millions of dollars in funding each. Users cursing at their slow browser - not even a priority.
If Chrome is winning (has won?), it's because its dev team seems to have an "OK, we'll fix that" attitude.
The half a million who switched to streaming services are the ones who are actually dissatisfied.* The ones who keep paying a monthly bill for cable TV are satisfied enough.
They'll whine to survey callers, but push comes to shove, the cable companies don't really care if the bills are paid and these people acknowledge sufficient value to continue.
Economists don't give surveys very much credence.
* excepting the very small minority who can get cable TV but not cable Internet
Let's be honest though: there has never been a time in history when the CIA or FBI were particularly competent.
So, repeal the Espionage Act of 1917 and be done with this colossal waste of money, both directly and in terms of blowback.
The US survived without it for 128 years, it can survive without it again. But it probably can't be Team America without it.
1 in 10 of them are willing to put the effort in and change their behaviour.
And 1 in 1000 are willing to switch to cold showers. But somebody else should make changes.
Is this still architected so that anybody who can stick a cable in the side of your computer can suck down its memory contents?
I agree, that JSON is easier to read than XML, but not easier enough to change the standard now.
Yeah, what is the _actual_ problem that RSS/Atom are causing now?
I've written several RSS/Atom readers and writers and never once did I worry about "how hard" XML is to parse. Heck, since like 2003 I've only ever use a popular language library to read/write those formats. Who needs to even parse the XML except the first person to write the library for a new language? I iterate over an object's member objects; I don't parse XML.
It seems like the real problem being solved here is that XML isn't "new hotness" like JSON is, not that anybody is having a problem parsing RSS/Atom feeds. Were we starting over today, sure, use JSON, but we're not.
Sigh. This is just more people looking to identify upon whom they can exact revenge if an error occurs.
Look, people, you're acting like psychos /and/ driving up the cost of healthcare at the same time, while slowing progress.
The AI's should be pre-certified by a standards body for being written as carefully as possible. If they are competently certified and you're in the false-positive or false-negative zones, that's just a natural consequence of participating in the medical care system.
Healthcare will /never/ be perfect. There will always be errors; information theory guarantees it. If the expected outcome of such an error is to seek vengeance, all that will do is to forestall the very innovation that will minimize those very errors. Do not participate in the system if you cannot value the risk rate in the system over the risk rate out of the system.
Some might wonder, "does it seem just to seek vengeance on the people who are causing that delay with their vengeance?" Everybody would do well to remember: âoeIf we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.â - MLKJr.
The backlash to ghost Republican voicemail spam will be so severe Reagan, Nixon, and Lincoln will all posthumously switch to the Democratic Party.
You say this like it's something new.
What they do currently is that they ring your phone, and then under two seconds later place a new call to your phone, which goes straight to voicemail, and then they disconnect the first call before your handset ever rings (usually).
This "new tech" was all the rage in 2014&2016.
The FCC filing says they have "proprietary technology" to connect directly to the carrier voicemail servers, but while that sounds like an SS7 or TCP connection, it could very well be the same old shit as used in past elections, just obfuscated with a syntactic destruction.
"We can't upgrade the servers because we have some crappy old photocopiers."
You know who says things like that? People who get WanaCry outbreaks in their systems.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
That's an unusual experience. Can you link the bug you filed?
Try the RC and see if the new kernel takes care of your new hardware.
The problem is that I usually get documents sent to me that are saved in a Microsoft proprietary software and if I view them in LibreOffice I am not confident that everything in them is correctly displayed.
When you define interoperability as "impossible" then you aren't going to ever get interoperability.
I uninstalled Flash about a year after Youtube went HTML5
You never edit videos on YouTube, do you?
who in their right mind would run flash on by default?
I was still using Macs when I installed the Flashblock extension on Firefox, so that was a good decade ago.
Who in their right mind ships a browser that has Flash autoplay enabled? Users were fed up before Flashblock was written (in response).
Reports are that all of Linus's code has also been posted to the Internet.
I started to get interested, then this one character says his entire race was engineered for the sole purpose of "sensing death".
That's the stupidest thing I've heard on TV this year. Is there a writer's strike going on and the producer's fourteen-year-old nephew got the screenplay job?
Fire the script editor (and at least one writer) if you want this show to last seven years.
We all know this is insane. BeauHD's playing a game to see how many /.'ers will spend time tying to refute a preposterous article.
cf. https://xkcd.com/386/
That's true, but let's see Amazon's cards.
They need to promise at least 10 years before EoL if they're going to address the big middle bulge of the market. At least compatibility and security, if not new features.
To be fair, these are the people who make Echo and Kindle devices and they're either masters at building spy products or having their products not be abused as spy products. They _could_ do this right better than most people excepting possibly Apple and Google (though Apple thinks five years is just fine and Google gets distracted like a puppy with ADHD).
I agree with you but the policy does have at least one good use - it keeps me from considering the UK for my vacation plans!
Why are you even still memorizing passwords? Mine are all random 13-letter strings that I store in a key safe.
Businesses don't care enough about security to make their employees take two minutes to log into their workstations in the morning. Anything more than seven seconds is likely to be dismissed by the decision makers.
Convenience pushes our 'lazy' buttons, and security is not seen as being worth the cost. Unless that changes, there won't be much change in overall security.
I can't believe it's 2017 and we have widespread adoption of digitally-distributed music but lyrics don't already come embedded, with time-codes.
You'd think with all the plastic they're saving they could afford somebody to key in some time codes.
is it really that untraceable?
It takes some computational muscle, but I have no doubt the NSA has the tools.
But joke's on the perps - the way Bitcoin is now, confirmation times and fees are so high that the hospitals will probably be restored from backup before they get any decryption keys.
In other words, Hanlon's Razor. [wikipedia.org]
Hanlon's Razor doesn't explain the employees who worked at Mozilla, Cisco, RSA, etc. and weakened products for nation-state interests.
You can expect to see a lot more people getting fired. It's Trump's modus operandi. He's basically threatening to fire people in this executive order.
Aren't incompetent government workers protected by their union? Is it only the agency heads who are fire-able?
And a colony that depends on regular shipments of fuel from Earth fails one of the very basic criteria of self-sufficiency.
This design would have been built if not for regulatory restrictions.
It provides 10MW of power for 30 years without maintenance. That's plenty to get a Mars colony up and running.
Sure, D-T fusion reactors will be great on Mars eventually, but let's not wait sixty years to get started.
simple as that. Access cams from a local server, and access that server from the internet. ALL IP cameras are shit for security, just like Trump is shit.
No, it's not that simple - if your lightbulb is on the same LAN as the camera it can pass on an infection.
Now then, it's a _problem_ that IoT devices seem to now require MAC-level isolation. I already have my [wired] Chinese camera on its own VLAN with ingress and egress firewall rules, but my WiFi devices are behind Ubiquiti gear which is nice but only allows for four SSID's.
AP Isolation would help, but then things like Chromecast will all break (and maybe some lightbulb meshes?).
AFAICT, the threats are now ahead of the defenses and that's a real problem we don't have a solution for.