I think the idea is that a certificate from an unknown issuer gives a false sense of security, while a cleartext URL clearly lacks the S in http:// and thus gives a true sense of insecurity. True > false.
Germany might be a special case because of Störerhaftung, its presumption of liabilty of operators of open Wi-Fi hotspots for their users' infringing or otherwise illegal activity. In any other country, users who rely on UMTS, LTE, or satellite can take their laptops to a restaurant or public library to use unmetered Wi-Fi.
If you cannot use the official Logitech Unifying management software because you use X11/Linux rather than windows, try compiling ltunify from source code. I own a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard with trackpad, and ltunify successfully configured it.
Chrome Apps are being deprecated because HTML5's capabilities now overlap pretty much 100%
Using the Chrome app titled "NaCl Development Environment", it was possible to develop in languages other than A. JavaScript or B. those few languages that compile to JavaScript with a compiler written in JavaScript or in a language that compiles to JavaScript. Say I want to code in Python, C#, or C++, without a continuous connection to the Internet. Is this still possible in HTML5?
Has Google announced plans to port the Chrome app titled "NaCl Development Environment" to "standards-compliant HTML5 / NaCl"? Because that's the only way I know of to develop software in any language other than JavaScript on an unmodified Chromebook. Let's say I use NaCl Development Environment on a Chromebook and another IDE on a desktop computer to work on the same project: the Chromebook while I'm riding transit or the desktop computer at home or at work. How would I go about synchronizing the project between both applications? I had assumed that if NaCl Development Environment were available on both the Chromebook and the desktop computer, I could use Google's sync. But once NaCl Development Environment can no longer run on a desktop computer, that option is off the table.
Application Cache has been deprecated in favor of Service Workers. But Service Workers require HTTPS, making it impractical to distribute web applications from a web server on an internal LAN that doesn't have a globally unique name, as there's no way to obtain a certificate for a machine on.local.
But what does Microsoft have that's remotely similar to, say, YouTube?
Vimeo
Vimeo isn't by Microsoft, as I had previously stipulated. And even if we agree to abandon this stipulation, Vimeo has drawbacks. From the Vimeo Guidelines:
"Upload only videos you created yourself." This means at least one of the authors of a video has to be a Vimeo user with a suitable Internet connection. Videos created by a minor child may not qualify, as the parent who uploads it might not be an author. Nor may videos created by someone who lives in an area where home Internet connections are harshly capped, as the author can't sneakernet the video to a non-author to upload to Vimeo unless the non-author pays $199 per year for Vimeo PRO.
"If you are a business or wish to upload commercial content, you must use Vimeo PRO. [...] Exception! If you’re an independent production company, artist, or non-profit, you may use any account type (Basic, Plus, or PRO) to showcase your creative work." But so far, I haven't found an easy way to tell what makes a production company "independent", nor where "showcas[ing] your creative work" ends and "promoting or representing a for-profit business or brand" begins.
From July 2008 through October 2014, there was a blanket rule against gameplay videos. During this period, Vimeo was handing the audience for video game reviews over to YouTube. And even after this period, the "commercial content" rule still raises doubt.
It would not have been hard though to allow "/" to be used as a switch character to COMMAND.COM, whilst still retaining its use as a directory separator.
I don't see how. Would dir/s produce a listing of all subdirectories of the current working directory? Or would it produce a listing of the s directory inside the root directory of the current drive?
True, Bing and Hotmail exist as Microsoft's alternatives to Google Search and Gmail. But what does Microsoft have that's remotely similar to, say, YouTube?
Chrome no longer has backspace=back by default, and I've disabled it in Firefox as well. Another trick is to write long comments in a text editor and then copy and paste into the browser once the first draft is complete.
It's a bit like the twit at Microsoft who decided to change the directory separator understood by COMMAND.COM from "/" to "\" because he wanted to use "/" for something else.
It was actually a twit at Digital who chose/ for command-line switches in the RT-11 operating system. This continued into Gary Kildall's CP/M (which became DR-DOS) and Tim Paterson's 86-DOS (a heavily CP/M-inspired OS which became MS-DOS), which used the same switch character for consistency.
Seriously, it's probably like 40 lines of code to have a config option
And how many lines to test the interactions of that option with other options? Moving functionality out to an extension allows defects due to unintended interactions to be reported against that particular extension rather than against the browser in general.
And how many lines of documentation to describe that option? And how many lines of code to run a tutorial lightbox to make sure the user finds that option among all the options?
And that came about because not everybody wants to have to make an application five times over: once for Windows, once for macOS, once for X11/Linux, once for iOS, and once for Android.
TPM does one thing and one thing only: it records the boot process. An operating system can just ignore the TPM entirely and still work.
You mentioned UEFI Secure Boot. Desktop and laptop PCs with an x86-64 CPU that come with Windows 8 or Windows 10 are required to support it. Those certified to run Windows 8 must give the user a way to turn off Secure Boot or change the keys it uses. Microsoft relaxed this in Windows 10, allowing manufacturers to ship PCs with Restricted Boot (FSF's term for Secure Boot that the user cannot alter). In practice, how common are PCs with Restricted Boot?
App Stores: Let me know when Microsoft eats its own dog food by putting Visual Studio in Windows Store as a UWP app.
The problem I have with some of the estimates for water include rainfall in their calculations which I don't think should be. It's been worked out that a certain plant requires a specific amount of water in laboratory conditions. I believe that only water that is added by us should be included in those calculations.
True, laboratory estimates would strictly apply only under the assumption of irrigating a desert. But rainfall isn't free: you need to rent land that receives rain.
Again with the assumptions: first, that all employers, including local small businesses, use "automated HR filters"; second, that "High-Quality Online Education" mentioned in the summary includes only free MOOCs and not degree-granting online programs by accredited state colleges; and third, that companies don't buy services from independent contractors.
Have you forgotten? [You can use a smartphone on AT&T with no data plan by buying the GoPhone SIM separately and activating it online.]
Except in this case (reporting a dead computer on a corporate network without using voice), you'd actually need the data plan if the network doesn't allow BYOD. You'd also need a data plan to report an outage of the corporate network.
Am I doing something wrong by paying only $90 per year for service my dumbphone on Virgin Mobile? Or am I doing something wrong by assuming that voice and data service on a smartphone would run me $400 per year?
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I think the idea is that a certificate from an unknown issuer gives a false sense of security, while a cleartext URL clearly lacks the S in http:// and thus gives a true sense of insecurity. True > false.
Germany might be a special case because of Störerhaftung, its presumption of liabilty of operators of open Wi-Fi hotspots for their users' infringing or otherwise illegal activity. In any other country, users who rely on UMTS, LTE, or satellite can take their laptops to a restaurant or public library to use unmetered Wi-Fi.
I wonder if someone has all the IPs used for updates, so it can be block without a fault at the firewall (not the "firewall" in windows)
Do USB cellular dongles for PCs have a built-in firewall (not the "firewall" in windows)?
"Shitty" can still be better than having to buy a different computer to (legally) run each app.
If you cannot use the official Logitech Unifying management software because you use X11/Linux rather than windows, try compiling ltunify from source code. I own a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard with trackpad, and ltunify successfully configured it.
Chrome Apps are being deprecated because HTML5's capabilities now overlap pretty much 100%
Using the Chrome app titled "NaCl Development Environment", it was possible to develop in languages other than A. JavaScript or B. those few languages that compile to JavaScript with a compiler written in JavaScript or in a language that compiles to JavaScript. Say I want to code in Python, C#, or C++, without a continuous connection to the Internet. Is this still possible in HTML5?
Has Google announced plans to port the Chrome app titled "NaCl Development Environment" to "standards-compliant HTML5 / NaCl"? Because that's the only way I know of to develop software in any language other than JavaScript on an unmodified Chromebook. Let's say I use NaCl Development Environment on a Chromebook and another IDE on a desktop computer to work on the same project: the Chromebook while I'm riding transit or the desktop computer at home or at work. How would I go about synchronizing the project between both applications? I had assumed that if NaCl Development Environment were available on both the Chromebook and the desktop computer, I could use Google's sync. But once NaCl Development Environment can no longer run on a desktop computer, that option is off the table.
Application Cache has been deprecated in favor of Service Workers. But Service Workers require HTTPS, making it impractical to distribute web applications from a web server on an internal LAN that doesn't have a globally unique name, as there's no way to obtain a certificate for a machine on .local.
But what does Microsoft have that's remotely similar to, say, YouTube?
Vimeo
Vimeo isn't by Microsoft, as I had previously stipulated. And even if we agree to abandon this stipulation, Vimeo has drawbacks. From the Vimeo Guidelines:
It would not have been hard though to allow "/" to be used as a switch character to COMMAND.COM, whilst still retaining its use as a directory separator.
I don't see how. Would dir /s produce a listing of all subdirectories of the current working directory? Or would it produce a listing of the s directory inside the root directory of the current drive?
The difference is that the APIs of Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox are more similar than the APIs of Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, iOS, and Android.
Until the Court of Appeals rules the other way.
True, Bing and Hotmail exist as Microsoft's alternatives to Google Search and Gmail. But what does Microsoft have that's remotely similar to, say, YouTube?
Chrome no longer has backspace=back by default, and I've disabled it in Firefox as well. Another trick is to write long comments in a text editor and then copy and paste into the browser once the first draft is complete.
Nexus phones have Google's name on them, and they still show any deficiencies inherent in Android.
It's a bit like the twit at Microsoft who decided to change the directory separator understood by COMMAND.COM from "/" to "\" because he wanted to use "/" for something else.
It was actually a twit at Digital who chose / for command-line switches in the RT-11 operating system. This continued into Gary Kildall's CP/M (which became DR-DOS) and Tim Paterson's 86-DOS (a heavily CP/M-inspired OS which became MS-DOS), which used the same switch character for consistency.
Seriously, it's probably like 40 lines of code to have a config option
And how many lines to test the interactions of that option with other options? Moving functionality out to an extension allows defects due to unintended interactions to be reported against that particular extension rather than against the browser in general.
And how many lines of documentation to describe that option? And how many lines of code to run a tutorial lightbox to make sure the user finds that option among all the options?
And that came about because not everybody wants to have to make an application five times over: once for Windows, once for macOS, once for X11/Linux, once for iOS, and once for Android.
Well you'll need to rent that same land just to keep the livestock in the first place, so it's a wash.
No, you'd rent different land, which is probably more expensive because it receives rainfall.
TPM does one thing and one thing only: it records the boot process. An operating system can just ignore the TPM entirely and still work.
You mentioned UEFI Secure Boot. Desktop and laptop PCs with an x86-64 CPU that come with Windows 8 or Windows 10 are required to support it. Those certified to run Windows 8 must give the user a way to turn off Secure Boot or change the keys it uses. Microsoft relaxed this in Windows 10, allowing manufacturers to ship PCs with Restricted Boot (FSF's term for Secure Boot that the user cannot alter). In practice, how common are PCs with Restricted Boot?
App Stores: Let me know when Microsoft eats its own dog food by putting Visual Studio in Windows Store as a UWP app.
The problem I have with some of the estimates for water include rainfall in their calculations which I don't think should be. It's been worked out that a certain plant requires a specific amount of water in laboratory conditions. I believe that only water that is added by us should be included in those calculations.
True, laboratory estimates would strictly apply only under the assumption of irrigating a desert. But rainfall isn't free: you need to rent land that receives rain.
Again with the assumptions: first, that all employers, including local small businesses, use "automated HR filters"; second, that "High-Quality Online Education" mentioned in the summary includes only free MOOCs and not degree-granting online programs by accredited state colleges; and third, that companies don't buy services from independent contractors.
Have you forgotten? [You can use a smartphone on AT&T with no data plan by buying the GoPhone SIM separately and activating it online.]
Except in this case (reporting a dead computer on a corporate network without using voice), you'd actually need the data plan if the network doesn't allow BYOD. You'd also need a data plan to report an outage of the corporate network.
Why haven't you put your pay-as-you-go sim into a smartphone?
Because Virgin Mobile uses CDMA2000 without CSIM. I'd have to switch carriers.
Am I doing something wrong by paying only $90 per year for service my dumbphone on Virgin Mobile? Or am I doing something wrong by assuming that voice and data service on a smartphone would run me $400 per year?