Because all original works have inspiration from some other work. Here's sort of an extreme example, but if we can find something on which we can agree, we can argue inward from that point:
You had no part in creating the English language. Why do you feel entitled to distribute and share the revenue of works in this language?
I suspect that every symbol replacing text is another item they don't need to translate for non-English markets.
Only to have to end up spending money on translation anyway when marking up each icon with alternate text for users with disabilities in non-English markets.
I think the real problem is that while a mouse works well with long and skinny targets, a finger on a touch screen needs a more square target, and icons are more square than text.
I suspect that the "flat" designs were used because Microsoft wanted to bring Windows to $100 cost devices with minimal processor speeds and minimal amounts of memory. So they were doing everything they could to reduce processing cycles and memory use.
I don't understand how that'd help. Windows 95 ran with 8 MB of RAM and wasn't flat.
right now, I can buy a TV box running Android, 8 core, 4K res, and they cost $53.
That's without a cellular radio, display, touch screen, battery, and the cost overhead of miniaturization. How much does anyone estimate that those would add?
I realize that Apple probably has the term 'Secure Enclave' copyrighted, similar to 'Altivec Unit' and various other buzzwords from the past.
You don't "copyright" a brand name. You "trademark" it. Using "copyright" to mean "trademark" is about as bad as using "copywritten" to mean "encumbered by copyright". "Copywritten" is a word, but it refers to the state of an advertisement once its text has been created.
So anyway, Android's developer documentation appears to refer to a similar hardware device in Android phones called a "Secure Element". Different name, same function.
You think the boot process is as follows: 1. Use memcpy to move the OS and application from ROM to RAM 2. Jump to the RAM start address
This is not the case. In fact, the boot process is more similar to the following: 1. Use memcpy to move the OS and application from ROM to RAM 2. Calculate the hash value of the OS and application 3. Decrypt the previously stored hash value of the OS and application using the OS publisher's hardcoded public key 4. If the hash values differ, hang 5. Jump to the RAM start address
The attacks are on steps 2 through 4. The summary mentions a "chain of trust"; this is so-called because the bootloader verifies the kernel in this manner, the kernel the userspace, and the userspace the apps.
This is the web. People insert links with an excessively commercial nature into comment sections. Some comment sections on sites other than Slashdot reject comments containing a URL as a measure against spam. Some end users adapt to the different behavior of multiple sites' comment sections by sticking to the common subset of behaviors considered acceptable by all comment sections that the user frequently uses. In addition, the on-screen keyboard that comes with a mobile phone or tablet computer running a mobile phone operating system makes it a code to enter HTML tags, with the necessary punctuation (less than sign, greater than sign, quotation marks, equal sign) spread across multiple pages of keys. Furthermore, links break as web sites reorganize. So in many cases, end users end up using author and title as enough of a citation that any competent web search engine can retrieve the intended link.
Some organizations have valid reasons for running the extended support release of a web browser. In the past, before Firefox provided an ESR, these organizations "embraced" the lack of an ESR by sticking to IE. Firefox 57 will not be ESR upon release.
On what operating system did you try the Ctrl+Q test? The misbehavior is noticeable on Linux, perhaps less so on Windows and on macOS (where the shortcut in question is Command-Q rather than Ctrl+Q).
Mozilla has invited add-on developers to get involved from the beginning, two years ago. That's exactly what NoScript's developer did, two years ago.
And many of the APIs requested, two years ago, are not in the shipping version of Firefox, two years later. The article "NoScript’s Migration to WebExtensions APIs" by Caitlin Neiman states: "Some of the APIs required for full parity with the legacy version won’t land until Firefox 57." This means no feature-complete version of NoScript will work on both Firefox 52 ESR and Firefox 56 on the one hand and Firefox 57 and later on the other hand. This effectively forks NoScript into two extensions with disjoint codebases, and disjoint codebases mean disjoint bugs.
Perhaps I can express to you the practical effect on end users' perception of usability through an example: Please type your reply to me, press Ctrl+Q, and attempt to restore your reply.
Good post, except that Linux does not have user space device drivers, with a few exceptions such as X11 and FUSE.
Technically correct, as user-space driver subsystems like CUPS (for printing) and SANE (for scanning) don't depend much on anything specific to Linux proper. They're used with GNU/Linux, but they're also used with (say) FreeBSD.
Can I block unwanted content under FF which I wouldn't be able to block under Chrome?
The difference between the two is that unlike Chrome users, Firefox users don't have to install third-party extensions to block the common case of unwanted content, which is unwanted content that relies on third-party tracking. As described on the page "Security/Tracking protection", Firefox users need only visit about:config and set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true. My best guess as to why this isn't enabled by default is that anti-adblock scripts on popular sites misdetect tracking protection as ad blocking because they aren't set up to fall back to serving self-hosted ads when the ad network fails.
I don't have much sympathy for people who only rewrote to Jetpack a few months ago.
In many cases of a legacy pre-Jetpack codebase, there wasn't a business case to make a port that would be perceived as "chasing the latest fad" until multiprocess.
you could start using WebExtensions over a year ago
Many popular Firefox extensions could not exist if WebExtensions-over-a-year-ago were all that were available. A lot of APIs exposed by XPCOM and Jetpack have no equivalent in WebExtensions-over-a-year-ago. Some have no equivalent in WebExtensions even as of Firefox 56, such as those used by the Keybinder extension to override Ctrl+Q and other built-in shortcuts.
Hard encryption and signing on the lowest app protocol layer and by default with no option out
How do you recommend that the operator of an internal server on a private home LAN obtain a certificate for said signing?
baked font rendering
Perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by "baked font rendering", but how well will that work for people who use text-to-speech or a braille display to read documents?
The person should openly persue their respective country's govt to ask Google,Apple,Microsoft to stop restrictive trave practices (like Google making it mandatory for vendors to install g-apps on thier phones).
It's never been mandatory to install Google Play Store or other Google apps on a device running Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet and Fire Phone run Fire OS, an operating system based on AOSP without Google Play Store or other Google apps.
Have you ever looked at a product on Amazon, Target, or another online store, only to have banner ads for that product stalk you to other, unrelated websites? This is called "retargeting", and it's creepy, and it's powered by cross-site tracking.
Would you want an ad network or ad exchange to sell your browsing history, including websites about sensitive medical conditions, to your health insurer so that the insurer can raise your premiums based on the websites that you have visited?
Have you ever had an ISP that cuts you off or charges you extra if you exceed your agreed monthly allowance of Internet data transfer volume? Video ads on textual articles use a disproportionate data volume per page view.
Because I'm afraid I'll lose unsubmitted form data when I accidentally press Ctrl+Q instead of Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Tab, and Firefox 57's extension architecture provides no way for extensions to override this.
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Because all original works have inspiration from some other work. Here's sort of an extreme example, but if we can find something on which we can agree, we can argue inward from that point:
You had no part in creating the English language. Why do you feel entitled to distribute and share the revenue of works in this language?
Of course. Everything's voice activated now. "Speak 'friend' and enter."
their hands were tied because that was what the client requested.
It takes courage to add "Settings > Appearance > Flat / Natural".
I suspect that every symbol replacing text is another item they don't need to translate for non-English markets.
Only to have to end up spending money on translation anyway when marking up each icon with alternate text for users with disabilities in non-English markets.
I think the real problem is that while a mouse works well with long and skinny targets, a finger on a touch screen needs a more square target, and icons are more square than text.
I suspect that the "flat" designs were used because Microsoft wanted to bring Windows to $100 cost devices with minimal processor speeds and minimal amounts of memory. So they were doing everything they could to reduce processing cycles and memory use.
I don't understand how that'd help. Windows 95 ran with 8 MB of RAM and wasn't flat.
Because we will drop the sub after we watch the one show they have we want.
Until the service realizes this and jacks up the month-to-month rate.
People who create things are creators.
The copyright statute refers to someone who creates a work as its "author".
As a content creator
Why does that phrase make me think of "happy god"?
Apple must defend its copyrights or risk losing them.
True of trademarks, not so much of copyrights.
right now, I can buy a TV box running Android, 8 core, 4K res, and they cost $53.
That's without a cellular radio, display, touch screen, battery, and the cost overhead of miniaturization. How much does anyone estimate that those would add?
I realize that Apple probably has the term 'Secure Enclave' copyrighted, similar to 'Altivec Unit' and various other buzzwords from the past.
You don't "copyright" a brand name. You "trademark" it. Using "copyright" to mean "trademark" is about as bad as using "copywritten" to mean "encumbered by copyright". "Copywritten" is a word, but it refers to the state of an advertisement once its text has been created.
So anyway, Android's developer documentation appears to refer to a similar hardware device in Android phones called a "Secure Element". Different name, same function.
3 of the 4 don't come from China. NVIDIA and Qualcomm are US companies and Mediatek is based in Taiwan.
To what extent does Taiwan, Republic of China, have more practical autonomy from the PRC than, say, Hong Kong SAR?
You think the boot process is as follows:
1. Use memcpy to move the OS and application from ROM to RAM
2. Jump to the RAM start address
This is not the case. In fact, the boot process is more similar to the following:
1. Use memcpy to move the OS and application from ROM to RAM
2. Calculate the hash value of the OS and application
3. Decrypt the previously stored hash value of the OS and application using the OS publisher's hardcoded public key
4. If the hash values differ, hang
5. Jump to the RAM start address
The attacks are on steps 2 through 4. The summary mentions a "chain of trust"; this is so-called because the bootloader verifies the kernel in this manner, the kernel the userspace, and the userspace the apps.
Please see https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/08/01/noscripts-migration-to-webextensions-apis/. There are two separate codebases. Many projects are managed only well enough to raise the funds to maintain one codebase but not two.
So what you're saying is that you can't be trusted.
I'm saying that people on the web who can be trusted share the same web with people on the web who cannot.
This is the web. People insert links with an excessively commercial nature into comment sections. Some comment sections on sites other than Slashdot reject comments containing a URL as a measure against spam. Some end users adapt to the different behavior of multiple sites' comment sections by sticking to the common subset of behaviors considered acceptable by all comment sections that the user frequently uses. In addition, the on-screen keyboard that comes with a mobile phone or tablet computer running a mobile phone operating system makes it a code to enter HTML tags, with the necessary punctuation (less than sign, greater than sign, quotation marks, equal sign) spread across multiple pages of keys. Furthermore, links break as web sites reorganize. So in many cases, end users end up using author and title as enough of a citation that any competent web search engine can retrieve the intended link.
Some organizations have valid reasons for running the extended support release of a web browser. In the past, before Firefox provided an ESR, these organizations "embraced" the lack of an ESR by sticking to IE. Firefox 57 will not be ESR upon release.
On what operating system did you try the Ctrl+Q test? The misbehavior is noticeable on Linux, perhaps less so on Windows and on macOS (where the shortcut in question is Command-Q rather than Ctrl+Q).
Mozilla has invited add-on developers to get involved from the beginning, two years ago. That's exactly what NoScript's developer did, two years ago.
And many of the APIs requested, two years ago, are not in the shipping version of Firefox, two years later. The article "NoScript’s Migration to WebExtensions APIs" by Caitlin Neiman states: "Some of the APIs required for full parity with the legacy version won’t land until Firefox 57." This means no feature-complete version of NoScript will work on both Firefox 52 ESR and Firefox 56 on the one hand and Firefox 57 and later on the other hand. This effectively forks NoScript into two extensions with disjoint codebases, and disjoint codebases mean disjoint bugs.
Perhaps I can express to you the practical effect on end users' perception of usability through an example: Please type your reply to me, press Ctrl+Q, and attempt to restore your reply.
Good post, except that Linux does not have user space device drivers, with a few exceptions such as X11 and FUSE.
Technically correct, as user-space driver subsystems like CUPS (for printing) and SANE (for scanning) don't depend much on anything specific to Linux proper. They're used with GNU/Linux, but they're also used with (say) FreeBSD.
there has been plenty of time for add-ons to properly plan and execute the transition.
I don't see how time helps if the API on which a particular add-on relies has no counterpart in WebExtensions.
Sure, "retargeting" and unwanted video ads have happened to me. As a Firefox user. I don't really care about the former
May I cite your comment as an example of somebody who doesn't mind advertisers stalking him or her around the web?
As for selling my browsing history to my health insurer, that sounds like a something for law enforcement to handle, not my browser.
Good luck getting law enforcement to even give a care.
Can I block unwanted content under FF which I wouldn't be able to block under Chrome?
The difference between the two is that unlike Chrome users, Firefox users don't have to install third-party extensions to block the common case of unwanted content, which is unwanted content that relies on third-party tracking. As described on the page "Security/Tracking protection", Firefox users need only visit about:config and set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true. My best guess as to why this isn't enabled by default is that anti-adblock scripts on popular sites misdetect tracking protection as ad blocking because they aren't set up to fall back to serving self-hosted ads when the ad network fails.
I don't have much sympathy for people who only rewrote to Jetpack a few months ago.
In many cases of a legacy pre-Jetpack codebase, there wasn't a business case to make a port that would be perceived as "chasing the latest fad" until multiprocess.
you could start using WebExtensions over a year ago
Many popular Firefox extensions could not exist if WebExtensions-over-a-year-ago were all that were available. A lot of APIs exposed by XPCOM and Jetpack have no equivalent in WebExtensions-over-a-year-ago. Some have no equivalent in WebExtensions even as of Firefox 56, such as those used by the Keybinder extension to override Ctrl+Q and other built-in shortcuts.
Hard encryption and signing on the lowest app protocol layer and by default with no option out
How do you recommend that the operator of an internal server on a private home LAN obtain a certificate for said signing?
baked font rendering
Perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by "baked font rendering", but how well will that work for people who use text-to-speech or a braille display to read documents?
The person should openly persue their respective country's govt to ask Google,Apple,Microsoft to stop restrictive trave practices (like Google making it mandatory for vendors to install g-apps on thier phones).
It's never been mandatory to install Google Play Store or other Google apps on a device running Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet and Fire Phone run Fire OS, an operating system based on AOSP without Google Play Store or other Google apps.
Have you ever looked at a product on Amazon, Target, or another online store, only to have banner ads for that product stalk you to other, unrelated websites? This is called "retargeting", and it's creepy, and it's powered by cross-site tracking.
Would you want an ad network or ad exchange to sell your browsing history, including websites about sensitive medical conditions, to your health insurer so that the insurer can raise your premiums based on the websites that you have visited?
Have you ever had an ISP that cuts you off or charges you extra if you exceed your agreed monthly allowance of Internet data transfer volume? Video ads on textual articles use a disproportionate data volume per page view.
Because I'm afraid I'll lose unsubmitted form data when I accidentally press Ctrl+Q instead of Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Tab, and Firefox 57's extension architecture provides no way for extensions to override this.