Contrary to popular misconception, Pinocchio is not a pathological liar in the story but instead someone who learns from his mistakes, including learning not to need to lie. If only Slashdot were the same way.
Which web-based or otherwise graphical tool to manage a Git remote on your own server, as well as issues and pull requests and other things that code hosting services do for their users, do you recommend?
Both Windows and macOS are as proprietary as Skype. Any free stand-alone application in the repository of a free operating system will have the same automatic update mechanism as the rest of the operating system.
To the best of my knowledge, a plug-in has to be released separately for each platform. The only plug-in of consequence ever made for Android was a version of Flash Player, and Flash Player is unavailable for devices running Android version 4.1 "Jelly Bean" or later. Are you seriously recommending use of outdated Flash Player in Pale Moon on outdated Android as an alternative to WebRTC?
If you really want in a browser provide a PLUGIN to.
Mobile browsers don't support plug-ins. Desktop browsers require a separate plug-in for each (browser, operating system) pair. Chrome uses PPAPI, Firefox uses NPAPI, and IE uses (used?) ActiveX. If you use a different browser or a different operating system from that used by the plug-in developer, you will miss out on the use of this plug-in. Besides, this sort of thinking led to the security hole we call Flash Player.
For the same cost of an Xbox One, I can get a PC that performs just as well as an Xbox One.
Games that aren't ported to X11/Linux and don't work in Wine require a Windows license, which costs $119. After Microsoft's price cut, this leaves you with $130 for the hardware. I'd be interested to read your $130 build.
Firefox does not verify signatures loaded through about:debugging, which are uninstalled when the browser is closed. If you're specifically testing retention of data across a browser restart, use Firefox Developer Edition.
Detectable obfuscation is, by definition, an obvious malicious pattern.
Not always. Sometimes it means "I licensed these functions from a third party under a contract that forbids me to disclose their source code." The Review Policies states: "If your add-on contains code that you don't own or can't get the source code for, you may contact us for information on how to proceed."
As in "not rigorous and when somebody gets in an argument about formal language use and you cite one, you get laughed out of the room."
I cited something. What did you cite?
"in British English periods and commas can go inside or outside (kind of like the American rules for question marks and exclamation points)."
British English apparently can't be arsed to make a consistent rule.
Yes it can. The cited article describes "the American rules for question marks and exclamation points" as follows: "If the question mark or exclamation point is part of your quotation, it stays inside; but if the question mark or exclamation point are not part of the quotation, they go outside the closing quotation mark." So under the British rule, iff the quoted text ends in a period or comma, the period or comma goes inside. Furthermore, page 2 of the cited article states that technical writing often uses the British rule for clarity.
The developer and nightly builds will require signing soon.
Citation needed. I thought the whole point of the developer build was to let its users develop websites and extensions, possibly using experimental features that'll be introduced two releases from now.
Without WebRTC, how is one supposed to build a web-based voice chat application or a web application that scans product barcodes? Or should such applications be forced to be native and thus unavailable on platforms other than the developer's?
"How to Use Quotation Marks" by Mignon Fogarty states: "in British English periods and commas can go inside or outside (kind of like the American rules for question marks and exclamation points)." I write in American English with two exceptions that I can think of: periods and commas interact with quotation marks in the British manner, and dates are in international form (yyyy-mm-dd). I've chosen to mix select aspects of one national style into another where I find it justifiable, and if that's inherently wrong, Oxford University Press must also be wrong for using -ize in otherwise British English publications.
Thinking back on it, as I recall every other version of Windows that's ever been released has been a closed-source, proprietary, commercial product.
Previous versions of Windows were proprietary software, I'll grant. But they did not require device drivers to be sponsored by a corporation or LLC. Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.x required device drivers to be digitally signed with a kernel-mode software publisher certificate, but they did not specifically require that the certificate be EV. As far as I can tell, only corporations and LLCs qualify for an EV certificate, not individuals.
punctuation goes inside the quotation marks
I was taught that this is true only if the punctuation is part of the material being quoted.
Checking for the most common patterns just means people will find less common patterns. It isn't hard to avoid with trivial obfuscation.
Obfuscation kicks an extension into the manual review queue.
Mozilla is not capable of hand-inspecting add-ons to that level of certainty, they either automate signatures or they take way too long.
Mozilla automates signatures for easy cases and admits to "tak[ing] way too long" for hard cases.
Someone that naive can be social-engineered into running a binary patcher too.
There exist both branded builds and unbranded builds. Unbranded builds allow use of unsigned extensions but lack the Firefox name and logo. This gives Mozilla a hook to sue the distributor of such a binary patcher for trademark infringement.
Make it warn at every startup before the add-on is initialized that they are using a questionable add-on.
Or provide a separate way to install unsigned extensions in such a way that they're automatically uninstalled when Firefox is restarted. This appears to be the current policy, implemented through about:debugging.
I count three differences that some may perceive as advantages for Xbox One:
Different set of exclusives
Xbox One plays Xbox One-exclusive games. I'll grant that preference for Steam-exclusive games or Xbox One-exclusive games is a matter of taste.
Smaller case
Xbox One, even the larger current (pre-S) model, is smaller than a typical tower PC and may fit in better next to your TV.
Lower price
Good luck building a gaming PC, including the Windows license to let you run Windows-exclusive Steam games, for the price of an Xbox One. This'll be a nice puzzle for Hairyfeet to solve. I'll grant that if you already have a gaming PC, you can use it with your TV using a $50 Steam Link extender and an Ethernet cable through the wall.
They could avoid this problem with one level of abstraction, you sign your own extension then they sign that signature.
Mozilla won't blindly countersign extensions because it wants to avoid a situation where you sign an extension and then distribute it to the public without Mozilla having a chance to check it for the most obvious malicious patterns.
The correct solution would be to have a signature checking config setting stored somewhere that is writeable only by an administrator account.
Firefox ESR releases have such a setting. Firefox current lacks this setting because Mozilla wants to avoid a situation where it becomes common to social-engineer users into elevating to change this setting. Home users are more likely to use Firefox current, but they're also less likely to need an in-house private extension. Home users who make their own extensions can use Firefox Developer Edition.
Is there anyone out there who'd love to buy an xbox but cant because its 2 inches too big??
Insane apartment rents in some markets, such as New York and much of Japan, cause people to try to save money by seeking smaller accommodations. This can lead to someone not buying a console because it's too "XBOX HUEG" to fit near the TV.
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Contrary to popular misconception, Pinocchio is not a pathological liar in the story but instead someone who learns from his mistakes, including learning not to need to lie. If only Slashdot were the same way.
Which web-based or otherwise graphical tool to manage a Git remote on your own server, as well as issues and pull requests and other things that code hosting services do for their users, do you recommend?
Most translations of the Bible into contemporary English are copyrighted and not free cultural works, with the exception of the World English Bible.
The British rule for one set of punctuation matches the American rule for a different set of punctuation. I see no inconsistency there.
You can also shoplift an Xbox One, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Both Windows and macOS are as proprietary as Skype. Any free stand-alone application in the repository of a free operating system will have the same automatic update mechanism as the rest of the operating system.
To the best of my knowledge, a plug-in has to be released separately for each platform. The only plug-in of consequence ever made for Android was a version of Flash Player, and Flash Player is unavailable for devices running Android version 4.1 "Jelly Bean" or later. Are you seriously recommending use of outdated Flash Player in Pale Moon on outdated Android as an alternative to WebRTC?
Or are you confusing plug-ins with extensions?
If you really want in a browser provide a PLUGIN to.
Mobile browsers don't support plug-ins. Desktop browsers require a separate plug-in for each (browser, operating system) pair. Chrome uses PPAPI, Firefox uses NPAPI, and IE uses (used?) ActiveX. If you use a different browser or a different operating system from that used by the plug-in developer, you will miss out on the use of this plug-in. Besides, this sort of thinking led to the security hole we call Flash Player.
It already is opt-in. The user has to click the "Allow" button for each origin that tries to enable WebRTC.
For the same cost of an Xbox One, I can get a PC that performs just as well as an Xbox One.
Games that aren't ported to X11/Linux and don't work in Wine require a Windows license, which costs $119. After Microsoft's price cut, this leaves you with $130 for the hardware. I'd be interested to read your $130 build.
Firefox does not verify signatures loaded through about:debugging, which are uninstalled when the browser is closed. If you're specifically testing retention of data across a browser restart, use Firefox Developer Edition.
Detectable obfuscation is, by definition, an obvious malicious pattern.
Not always. Sometimes it means "I licensed these functions from a third party under a contract that forbids me to disclose their source code." The Review Policies states: "If your add-on contains code that you don't own or can't get the source code for, you may contact us for information on how to proceed."
As in "not rigorous and when somebody gets in an argument about formal language use and you cite one, you get laughed out of the room."
I cited something. What did you cite?
"in British English periods and commas can go inside or outside (kind of like the American rules for question marks and exclamation points)."
British English apparently can't be arsed to make a consistent rule.
Yes it can. The cited article describes "the American rules for question marks and exclamation points" as follows: "If the question mark or exclamation point is part of your quotation, it stays inside; but if the question mark or exclamation point are not part of the quotation, they go outside the closing quotation mark." So under the British rule, iff the quoted text ends in a period or comma, the period or comma goes inside. Furthermore, page 2 of the cited article states that technical writing often uses the British rule for clarity.
The developer and nightly builds will require signing soon.
Citation needed. I thought the whole point of the developer build was to let its users develop websites and extensions, possibly using experimental features that'll be introduced two releases from now.
Without WebRTC, how is one supposed to build a web-based voice chat application or a web application that scans product barcodes? Or should such applications be forced to be native and thus unavailable on platforms other than the developer's?
"How to Use Quotation Marks" by Mignon Fogarty states: "in British English periods and commas can go inside or outside (kind of like the American rules for question marks and exclamation points)." I write in American English with two exceptions that I can think of: periods and commas interact with quotation marks in the British manner, and dates are in international form (yyyy-mm-dd). I've chosen to mix select aspects of one national style into another where I find it justifiable, and if that's inherently wrong, Oxford University Press must also be wrong for using -ize in otherwise British English publications.
Unlike Firefox current, Firefox ESR 52 will allow it to be turned off. From Add-ons/Extension Signing:
I have a bunch of old extensions that are not signed. [...] I sometimes like to edit extensions
If an extension is licensed for redistribution, you can solve cases 1 and 2 by submitting it to AMO as an unlisted extension.
Some extensions have code that can't be given to Mozilla for verification because the code is proprietary.
Organizations with in-house extensions experiencing case 3 can use Firefox ESR.
Thinking back on it, as I recall every other version of Windows that's ever been released has been a closed-source, proprietary, commercial product.
Previous versions of Windows were proprietary software, I'll grant. But they did not require device drivers to be sponsored by a corporation or LLC. Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.x required device drivers to be digitally signed with a kernel-mode software publisher certificate, but they did not specifically require that the certificate be EV. As far as I can tell, only corporations and LLCs qualify for an EV certificate, not individuals.
punctuation goes inside the quotation marks
I was taught that this is true only if the punctuation is part of the material being quoted.
Assuming that by "propitiatory" you meant "proprietary": Firefox ESR will continue to include a "disable signing" option.
Checking for the most common patterns just means people will find less common patterns. It isn't hard to avoid with trivial obfuscation.
Obfuscation kicks an extension into the manual review queue.
Mozilla is not capable of hand-inspecting add-ons to that level of certainty, they either automate signatures or they take way too long.
Mozilla automates signatures for easy cases and admits to "tak[ing] way too long" for hard cases.
Someone that naive can be social-engineered into running a binary patcher too.
There exist both branded builds and unbranded builds. Unbranded builds allow use of unsigned extensions but lack the Firefox name and logo. This gives Mozilla a hook to sue the distributor of such a binary patcher for trademark infringement.
Make it warn at every startup before the add-on is initialized that they are using a questionable add-on.
Or provide a separate way to install unsigned extensions in such a way that they're automatically uninstalled when Firefox is restarted. This appears to be the current policy, implemented through about:debugging.
And what does the Xbone do that steam can't?
I count three differences that some may perceive as advantages for Xbox One:
Different set of exclusives Xbox One plays Xbox One-exclusive games. I'll grant that preference for Steam-exclusive games or Xbox One-exclusive games is a matter of taste. Smaller case Xbox One, even the larger current (pre-S) model, is smaller than a typical tower PC and may fit in better next to your TV. Lower price Good luck building a gaming PC, including the Windows license to let you run Windows-exclusive Steam games, for the price of an Xbox One. This'll be a nice puzzle for Hairyfeet to solve. I'll grant that if you already have a gaming PC, you can use it with your TV using a $50 Steam Link extender and an Ethernet cable through the wall.They could avoid this problem with one level of abstraction, you sign your own extension then they sign that signature.
Mozilla won't blindly countersign extensions because it wants to avoid a situation where you sign an extension and then distribute it to the public without Mozilla having a chance to check it for the most obvious malicious patterns.
The correct solution would be to have a signature checking config setting stored somewhere that is writeable only by an administrator account.
Firefox ESR releases have such a setting. Firefox current lacks this setting because Mozilla wants to avoid a situation where it becomes common to social-engineer users into elevating to change this setting. Home users are more likely to use Firefox current, but they're also less likely to need an in-house private extension. Home users who make their own extensions can use Firefox Developer Edition.
Is there anyone out there who'd love to buy an xbox but cant because its 2 inches too big??
Insane apartment rents in some markets, such as New York and much of Japan, cause people to try to save money by seeking smaller accommodations. This can lead to someone not buying a console because it's too "XBOX HUEG" to fit near the TV.
What does S stand for in every other iPhone from the 3GS on?
What does S stand for in the Xbox Controller S for the original Xbox? Or in the Xbox 360 S?