I just read Mozilla's CA inclusion policy, and you appear correct. The browser maker doesn't get paid; the auditing firm "with access to the details of the subordinate CA’s internal operations" gets paid.
And a Search of the iOS App Store came up with an impressive list of Programming utilities and IDEs for a wide variety of languages.
Before I spend hundreds on an iPad, keyboard, and app licenses with which to review the functionality of said "impressive list", how can the user import a project into one of these IDEs? Some reviews in the slideshow you linked mention exporting but not importing. Must all projects originate on the device? Or does the editor run locally and the testing run remotely, such as through SSH, X11, VNC, or RDP? If so, my use thereof would require an expensive mobile broadband subscription because city buses don't have Wi-Fi. The description of Kodiak PHP on page 3 of 12 of the slideshow bears this out:
Note that if you want to use a database (typically MySQL), it will be on an external server, not your iPad; you will need connectivity.
Likewise, the description of Textastic on page 5 of 12 allows offline testing only for a small fraction of the supported languages:
Textastic is a Textmate-compatible text, code, and markup language editor for the iPad with syntax highlighting for more than 80 programming and markup languages. [...] It can do local and remote Web preview for HTML and Markdown files, but it can't run any other kind of code internally.
Nearly half of the apps in the slideshow were ancillary tools useful to some developers, such as SSH (again, useless on the bus), UI design, and GitHub issue communication. But that's like saying Stack Exchange for iOS is a "programming app". That leaves Kodiak PHP, Codea, and Pythonista. Why do these get a free pass with respect to the rule whose current text is "nor may they download, install, or execute code, including other iOS, watchOS, Mac OS X, or tvOS apps"?
Launcher replacements
I guess Cromulent Labs' "Launcher" must be misnamed, then.
After six months of rejections under the rule whose current text is "Apps that create alternate desktop/home screen environments or simulate multi-app widget experiences will be rejected." Though it has since returned to the App Store, Apple's inconsistency in interpreting its own guidelines is likely to have a chilling effect on would-be developers of other launcher apps:
If developers don’t have explicit guidelines to go on [...], our only choice is to potentially waste huge amounts of time working on apps that ultimately get rejected in an attempt to find something that will get accepted. [...] When pressed on the issue of their policies leading to wasted developer time, I was told, "If you are afraid something you are working on will be rejected, then don’t work on it."
And it still can launch only those apps that expose a URL scheme.
WLAN utilities, such as utilities for troubleshooting your wireless network or for contributing to a collaborative map of wireless networks (Apple deems AP enumeration in iOS to be private)
My favorite is "Fing"
The screenshots on Fing's website make it look like a tool for scanning a WLAN to which you have already connected, not enumerating the SSIDs of WLANs whose beacons reach your device. The API for the former is public; the API for the latt
In my experience, if you want to reply to an Internet comment with suggested suggest corrections to grammar, usage, or mechanics, one polite way to go about it is to frame the correction as a throwaway bit. First compose a topical reply to a post, and then state the correction briefly at the start, as if indirectly asking for a confirmation that your interpretation was intended. For example:
Assuming you meant "carte blanche":
Things like this are why Russia is going back to typewriters.
The Goatse and Rickroll fads relied on social engineering a user to visit an unintended site. If "not visiting the site(s)" were practical for a non-technical user to accomplish, then those fads would never have happened.
Assuming that you're referring to replacement of SWF wtih HTML5:
you replaced one format that [...] Was owned by a company that had no problem not only allowing it to be bundled with anything but ALSO allowed for FOSS alternatives
Initially, Adobe's SWF spec was licensed under terms that specifically forbade its use to create third-party players. Adobe didn't drop that provision until the Open Screen Project in the second quarter of 2008.
[Flash does] Not only did video but animation and gaming.
It's not mandatory. A web browser publisher can just choose not to support Netflix and Amazon video.
[HTML5 video] Requires a codec that is not only owned by one of the biggest patent trolls around but is openly hostile to FOSS
Where does the HTML5 spec require use of MPEG-4 codecs? Last time I checked, WebM (Matroska container, VP8 or VP9 video codec, and Vorbis or Opus audio codec) was also acceptable, and only pack-in browsers on proprietary operating systems (IE and Safari) fail to support WebM out of the box. Even Microsoft Edge will get WebM support come Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Besides, SWF also used H.263 and H.264.
MPEG-LA has made it clear they will sue FOSS companies which is why all work on supporting that format has to be done outside Berne convention countries
MPEG-LA licenses patents, not copyrights. The Berne Convention refers to copyrights, not patents. It looks like you've been bitten by the false equivalence of intellectual property.
Doesn't support half the features of the supposedly "inferior" format its replacing
Could you list some SWF features that aren't supported in HTML5 and can't easily be polyfilled? Because if there were, it wouldn't be possible to build Shumway, a polyfill for SWF itself.
Which is more likely to be accurate for someone whose billing address is in one country but is visiting another country on vacation or a business trip? The license prefers counting the play toward the revenue for the regionally exclusive distributor for the country in which the person is traveling, not that for the person's home. It's conceptually like visiting a movie theater while traveling.
If you can see it or hear it, it can be copied. Always.
Then perhaps this Widevine breach benefits video game distributors at the expense of noninteractive video services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. You can't see or hear video game rules; you must instead infer them from the picture resulting from their application.
If you're paying for your account with a US credit card billed to a US address, you should get US content when you login to Netflix no matter what your IP address is.
That would be correct if the license from the movie studio were "You may perform this motion picture to users who are tax resident in this area." But it isn't. Instead, it is "You may perform this motion picture in this area."
Nowadays I don't know anyone who doesn't have a PC or other computing device of his/her exclusive property, and gaming consoles are increasingly fitting into that reality.
You must not know a lot of children under 16 living in urban areas. In many (I'm guessing most) U.S. states, they are legally prohibited from performing the essential duties of most jobs in order to earn the money to buy their own PC or PlayStation 3 console.
Since intruders started using it to give root access to someone other than the phone's owner, such as someone using information stored on the phone for financial crimes.
An iPhone may be right for those people who are not interested and will not become interested in any of the following types of applications, which Apple expressly prohibits in the App Store:
Video games with realistic violence
Military simulations depicting the U.S. Civil War (Confederate insignia falls subject to the hate symbol rule and real entity rule)
Satire of an identifiable person or organization (real entity rule)
Video games published by companies now out of business (execute code rule)
Apps for learning to program that allow sharing your work with other users (execute code rule)
Launcher replacements for persons with disabilities
WLAN utilities, such as utilities for troubleshooting your wireless network or for contributing to a collaborative map of wireless networks (Apple deems AP enumeration in iOS to be private)
Web browsers that implement HTML features that Apple has left out of Safari (WebKit rule)
Professional-grade applications that the user needs to evaluate first (trial rule)
I've got other stuff to worry about than dumping $700 every other year into a PC just to play the same same games that are available on a $350 console that will last nearly a decade.
Not all games in which you may be interested "are available on a $350 console". There are many games for PC that are not available for PlayStation 3. In fact, I'd wager that there are more of those than games for PlayStation 3 that are not available for PC.
And since when does keeping up with upgrades require "$700 every other year"? Hairyfeet would disagree.
It will also require confirmation not once...but TWICE before it will perform the update removing OtherOS functionality.
As I understand it, it doesn't ask the console's owner twice. It asks the person sitting in front of the console twice. There's a difference. I remember reading sob stories in Slashdot comments of lost data due to someone else in the household accepting confirmation twice, unaware of the effect that it would have on other users of the same console. Or are multi-person households the edge case?
There are IP protections for artistic works where everyone involved in their creation are long dead. Now how does that help culture?
The rationale behind the present "life of grandchildren" copyright term is that those descendants who knew the composer personally would be in the best position to carry out the composer's will in commercially exploiting them.
Google recommends [FIDO] security tokens in the US as an alternative.
The page on support.google.com says this won't work with a web browser other than Chrome, such as if I'm testing my website's "Sign in with Google" functionality on other browsers (especially Firefox, Edge, and IE 11).
Plug one end of the audio cable into your DSi's headphone jack and the other into what? A lot of especially older car stereos have no aux in. Some have no tape deck, or they have one like my aunt used to own that ejects tape adapters. So you're stuck with an FM transmitter, if your country's radio regulator even allows them. (The US does.)
In the US the turning point was around the time of the Civil War (the 1860's) when it became legal to lobby Congressional representatives. I'm not sure of the exact date
Official recognition of the right of the people of the United States "to petition the government for a redress of grievances" was ratified in December 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights. A "lobbyist" is just someone whom people hire "to petition the government" on their behalf.
Slashdot Mirror
Browser vendors don't get paid by CAs.
I just read Mozilla's CA inclusion policy, and you appear correct. The browser maker doesn't get paid; the auditing firm "with access to the details of the subordinate CA’s internal operations" gets paid.
And a Search of the iOS App Store came up with an impressive list of Programming utilities and IDEs for a wide variety of languages.
Before I spend hundreds on an iPad, keyboard, and app licenses with which to review the functionality of said "impressive list", how can the user import a project into one of these IDEs? Some reviews in the slideshow you linked mention exporting but not importing. Must all projects originate on the device? Or does the editor run locally and the testing run remotely, such as through SSH, X11, VNC, or RDP? If so, my use thereof would require an expensive mobile broadband subscription because city buses don't have Wi-Fi. The description of Kodiak PHP on page 3 of 12 of the slideshow bears this out:
Likewise, the description of Textastic on page 5 of 12 allows offline testing only for a small fraction of the supported languages:
Nearly half of the apps in the slideshow were ancillary tools useful to some developers, such as SSH (again, useless on the bus), UI design, and GitHub issue communication. But that's like saying Stack Exchange for iOS is a "programming app". That leaves Kodiak PHP, Codea, and Pythonista. Why do these get a free pass with respect to the rule whose current text is "nor may they download, install, or execute code, including other iOS, watchOS, Mac OS X, or tvOS apps"?
Launcher replacements
I guess Cromulent Labs' "Launcher" must be misnamed, then.
After six months of rejections under the rule whose current text is "Apps that create alternate desktop/home screen environments or simulate multi-app widget experiences will be rejected." Though it has since returned to the App Store, Apple's inconsistency in interpreting its own guidelines is likely to have a chilling effect on would-be developers of other launcher apps:
And it still can launch only those apps that expose a URL scheme.
WLAN utilities, such as utilities for troubleshooting your wireless network or for contributing to a collaborative map of wireless networks (Apple deems AP enumeration in iOS to be private)
My favorite is "Fing"
The screenshots on Fing's website make it look like a tool for scanning a WLAN to which you have already connected, not enumerating the SSIDs of WLANs whose beacons reach your device. The API for the former is public; the API for the latt
In my experience, if you want to reply to an Internet comment with suggested suggest corrections to grammar, usage, or mechanics, one polite way to go about it is to frame the correction as a throwaway bit. First compose a topical reply to a post, and then state the correction briefly at the start, as if indirectly asking for a confirmation that your interpretation was intended. For example:
The Goatse and Rickroll fads relied on social engineering a user to visit an unintended site. If "not visiting the site(s)" were practical for a non-technical user to accomplish, then those fads would never have happened.
Assuming that you're referring to replacement of SWF wtih HTML5:
you replaced one format that [...] Was owned by a company that had no problem not only allowing it to be bundled with anything but ALSO allowed for FOSS alternatives
Initially, Adobe's SWF spec was licensed under terms that specifically forbade its use to create third-party players. Adobe didn't drop that provision until the Open Screen Project in the second quarter of 2008.
[Flash does] Not only did video but animation and gaming.
HTML5 also does gaming. See Cookie Clicker and Pirates Love Daisies, for example.
[HTML5 video] Had mandatory DRM baked in
It's not mandatory. A web browser publisher can just choose not to support Netflix and Amazon video.
[HTML5 video] Requires a codec that is not only owned by one of the biggest patent trolls around but is openly hostile to FOSS
Where does the HTML5 spec require use of MPEG-4 codecs? Last time I checked, WebM (Matroska container, VP8 or VP9 video codec, and Vorbis or Opus audio codec) was also acceptable, and only pack-in browsers on proprietary operating systems (IE and Safari) fail to support WebM out of the box. Even Microsoft Edge will get WebM support come Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Besides, SWF also used H.263 and H.264.
MPEG-LA has made it clear they will sue FOSS companies which is why all work on supporting that format has to be done outside Berne convention countries
MPEG-LA licenses patents, not copyrights. The Berne Convention refers to copyrights, not patents. It looks like you've been bitten by the false equivalence of intellectual property.
Doesn't support half the features of the supposedly "inferior" format its replacing
Could you list some SWF features that aren't supported in HTML5 and can't easily be polyfilled? Because if there were, it wouldn't be possible to build Shumway, a polyfill for SWF itself.
And I do understand that the story of my god sounds an awful lot like the religious myth of Zoroastrianism and Ahura Mazda.
The latter of which sounds like a good name for a car dealership.
Which is more likely to be accurate for someone whose billing address is in one country but is visiting another country on vacation or a business trip? The license prefers counting the play toward the revenue for the regionally exclusive distributor for the country in which the person is traveling, not that for the person's home. It's conceptually like visiting a movie theater while traveling.
If you can see it or hear it, it can be copied. Always.
Then perhaps this Widevine breach benefits video game distributors at the expense of noninteractive video services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. You can't see or hear video game rules; you must instead infer them from the picture resulting from their application.
So why don't you create these tv shows and movies yourselves
Probably for fear that someone else will sue me for the story, character design, or something else being "too similar" to an existing work.
I want media I buy to be mine
and distribute the content for free?
That's not what I think downright was talking about.
I don't block ads. I block services that track me across websites. Serve me ads that don't track me across websites, directly from a server whose FQDN ends in .wired.com, and I'll see them. But neither WIRED nor Forbes appears to be smart enough to set this up.
install uscreencapture dshow filter
Does that even work if a player application that uses Protected Media Path is running?
If you're paying for your account with a US credit card billed to a US address, you should get US content when you login to Netflix no matter what your IP address is.
That would be correct if the license from the movie studio were "You may perform this motion picture to users who are tax resident in this area." But it isn't. Instead, it is "You may perform this motion picture in this area."
Nowadays I don't know anyone who doesn't have a PC or other computing device of his/her exclusive property, and gaming consoles are increasingly fitting into that reality.
You must not know a lot of children under 16 living in urban areas. In many (I'm guessing most) U.S. states, they are legally prohibited from performing the essential duties of most jobs in order to earn the money to buy their own PC or PlayStation 3 console.
And since when is root "malware"?
Since intruders started using it to give root access to someone other than the phone's owner, such as someone using information stored on the phone for financial crimes.
stop being a cheap-ass and buy a new phone.
And put the old phone to what use? Adding to the growing e-waste problem?
An iPhone may be right for those people who are not interested and will not become interested in any of the following types of applications, which Apple expressly prohibits in the App Store:
(Reasoning)
I've got other stuff to worry about than dumping $700 every other year into a PC just to play the same same games that are available on a $350 console that will last nearly a decade.
Not all games in which you may be interested "are available on a $350 console". There are many games for PC that are not available for PlayStation 3. In fact, I'd wager that there are more of those than games for PlayStation 3 that are not available for PC.
And since when does keeping up with upgrades require "$700 every other year"? Hairyfeet would disagree.
It will also require confirmation not once...but TWICE before it will perform the update removing OtherOS functionality.
As I understand it, it doesn't ask the console's owner twice. It asks the person sitting in front of the console twice. There's a difference. I remember reading sob stories in Slashdot comments of lost data due to someone else in the household accepting confirmation twice, unaware of the effect that it would have on other users of the same console. Or are multi-person households the edge case?
Only those games that require a minimum firmware include an update on disc.
Is the minimum system software version for each PlayStation 3 game conspicuously labeled on its box?
acquire a second PS3
One can't "acquire a second PS3" for $55.
So I'm not allowed to play my guitar any more?
Not unless the public venue in which you play licenses the right to perform the songs publicly from ASCAP or BMI (or applicable foreign counterparts).
There are IP protections for artistic works where everyone involved in their creation are long dead. Now how does that help culture?
The rationale behind the present "life of grandchildren" copyright term is that those descendants who knew the composer personally would be in the best position to carry out the composer's will in commercially exploiting them.
A U.S. trademark cannot be used as an ersatz copyright. Dastar v. Fox.
Google recommends [FIDO] security tokens in the US as an alternative.
The page on support.google.com says this won't work with a web browser other than Chrome, such as if I'm testing my website's "Sign in with Google" functionality on other browsers (especially Firefox, Edge, and IE 11).
Plug one end of the audio cable into your DSi's headphone jack and the other into what? A lot of especially older car stereos have no aux in. Some have no tape deck, or they have one like my aunt used to own that ejects tape adapters. So you're stuck with an FM transmitter, if your country's radio regulator even allows them. (The US does.)
In the US the turning point was around the time of the Civil War (the 1860's) when it became legal to lobby Congressional representatives. I'm not sure of the exact date
Official recognition of the right of the people of the United States "to petition the government for a redress of grievances" was ratified in December 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights. A "lobbyist" is just someone whom people hire "to petition the government" on their behalf.