Then site operators can continue to track people and/or accidentally infect their PCs by making sites that don't work at all without script, and then telling people "Turn it on if you want it to work".
For the very few valid use cases, [SWF, JavaScript, or WebAssembly] can be whitelisted.
Among these "very few valid use cases" are web applications, such as Google Docs and Slashdot,* and sites offering vector-based animations, such as Homestar Runner and Weebl's Stuff. So how should the operator of a website hosting a web application go about demonstrating to users that the application is among these "very few valid use cases"?
* Try loading more than the 100 top-scored comments without script. If you succeed, reply and let me know what you pushed.
Flash Player (PPAPI version) for Linux is current. Flash Player (NPAPI version) 11.2 for Linux is outdated but in extended support until May 2017, during which it gets security updates but no new features. Fresh Player is a wrapper plug-in for an NPAPI browser that hosts PPAPI plug-ins.
It's a lot easier to limit SWF tracking without disabling essential functionality than to limit HTML5 tracking without disabling essential functionality. To limit SWF tracking, disable the Flash Player plug-in on sites outside the SWF whitelist (Newgrounds, Kongregate, Weebl's, Dagobah, Albino, Homestar). To limit HTML5 tracking, you need to install tracking blockers, and if you do that, some sites will refuse you service because they don't know how to present ads that don't track you. Sites using SWF tracking are less likely to refuse service on grounds of lacking Flash Player because then they'd be refusing service to viewers on smartphones and tablets that run a smartphone OS.
So you're saying that I can't play Nintendo games on my Playstation
You would be able to, except Nintendo messed that up by being late to notice a detail that Sony snuck into its publishing contract when the "Super Disc" peripheral for the Super NES was under development. This caused Nintendo to kill the Play Station, a second-source Super NES made by Sony with a built-in CD-ROM drive analogous to Sharp's Twin Famicom. Sony retooled it without a cart slot under the code name PSX, and the PSX project resulted in the PlayStation console that Sony put out in 1995. (The name "PSX" can still be seen in the "PS-X EXE" header in every PlayStation 1 game executable.)
or listen to CDs on my tape deck?
I've listened to CDs on a tape deck several times. One way is to use a CD player to make a private reproduction of the CD on cassette pursuant to 17 USC 1008. The other is to connect the CD's line-level audio output to a tape adapter. There is no analogous process for software because the execution models differ so much between platforms that an automated process run by the end user cannot bridge them lawfully and efficiently.* So are you suggesting that most people are supposed to buy and carry a MacBook, an iPhone or iPad, an Android phone or tablet with Google Play, and a Windows Phone? Because that's the only way to run the exclusive applications of all six platforms that I mentioned.
* I said "efficiently", and emulation usually isn't very efficient. I also said "lawfully", and the mobile operating systems I mentioned (iOS, Android with Google Play, and Windows Mobile 10) aren't readily available to the public for use in emulators. The Android components in AOSP are, but a lot of apps either depend on Google Play Services that aren't in AOSP or aren't available outside Google Play Store.
True, if Apple filed before Baili filed, shipped, or otherwise published its own design, Apple wins. But since the America Invents Act was announced, a lot of other Slashdot readers have posted comments under the mistaken impression that the replacement of interference proceedings with first-to-file somehow abridges novelty by allowing only patent applications to be prior art. For example, had Baili published a photo of its design before Apple filed, Baili might win.
I know nothing about Chinese patent law, other than that WTO membership requires China to have one. But in the United States, the switch to "first to file" did not abridge the novelty requirement. Anything published, even other than as a patent application, before a given patent application is filed is considered prior art and therefore "filed".
I have no idea how you would try to program a PMMU in C.
Any program requiring a processor feature not exposed by the definition of the C language can be written in a language that's a superset of C with either intrinsics for that feature or inline assembly. Intrinsics are more involved to implement but might be safer in the sense that more things can be statically proved about their behavior.
That and if you need to port your code to other architectures, such as x86 vs. x86-64 vs. ARM vs. MIPS, you can recompile C with only a minor loss in runtime speed due to loss of effectiveness of micro-optimizations.
What is next? I like to book a flight and make a money transaction and make two videos for it and post them to somewhere?
Server-side facial recognition to confirm your identity, so that you don't book a round-trip ticket and give the separate legs to different people to abuse the discount, would require a video.
but you have to auto-reject everything that is uploaded in a high vertical aspect ratio in an effort to end this 'portrait mode' plague.
Other than through vertical video, what's the best way to record someone using a treadmill? I've run into cases where I couldn't step back far enough to get both head and feet in a landscape mode shot and have had to resort to vertical video.
Other than through vertical video, what's the best way to record someone playing a portrait mode arcade game such as Pac-Man or Donkey Kong? Or should these videos just be rejected outright as alleged infringements of copyrights owned by Namco Bandai and Nintendo respectively?
People need to stop falling for the Fallacy of Duality [...] Together they are great when properly used.
In theory, older, more flexible technologies can coexist with newer technologies that are less flexible yet more appealing to the majority of the general public. But in practice, investors chasing the most profitable investment cause one technology to be maintained and others to end up discontinued, especially if the less profitable technology is ideal only for a distinct minority.
For example, 10-inch laptops are well suited for coding on hobby projects while riding public transit to and from your day job. They are less likely to hit the seat in front of you when opened than the more common 13-inch size, and they fit in a smaller, more discreet bag that's less of a thief magnet. But laptop makers stopped making the 10-inch size in 2012 in favor of a higher profit margin product called a "tablet". Even a tablet with a clip-on keyboard isn't a perfect substitute, as tablet user interfaces are based on smartphone user interfaces and thus tend to inherit design decisions made for a 4 inch screen, such as lack of side-by-side app views. Not being able to see your program and output at once makes debugging more difficult. Furthermore, this user interface is more difficult to replace because tablet operating systems tend not to give bootloader or even administrative access to the device's owner.
Any service that can say your new password is too similar to your old one has poor password security
Unless it requires you to enter your old password in order to set a new password. With both the old and new passwords submitted from the same form, the site's validator can use the Levenshtein edit distance call in many languages' standard libraries or commonly used add-on libraries. I'll admit this doesn't work for resets.
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Then don't use their site if they track you and/or accidentally infect your PC. This isn't rocket science.
Knowing that a site will do that if the user chooses to enable scripting for that site is rocket science.
"Turn it on if you want it to work".
Then site operators can continue to track people and/or accidentally infect their PCs by making sites that don't work at all without script, and then telling people "Turn it on if you want it to work".
The difference is that an iPad can render Waccoon's example but not yours.
For the very few valid use cases, [SWF, JavaScript, or WebAssembly] can be whitelisted.
Among these "very few valid use cases" are web applications, such as Google Docs and Slashdot,* and sites offering vector-based animations, such as Homestar Runner and Weebl's Stuff. So how should the operator of a website hosting a web application go about demonstrating to users that the application is among these "very few valid use cases"?
* Try loading more than the 100 top-scored comments without script. If you succeed, reply and let me know what you pushed.
Flash Player (PPAPI version) for Linux is current. Flash Player (NPAPI version) 11.2 for Linux is outdated but in extended support until May 2017, during which it gets security updates but no new features. Fresh Player is a wrapper plug-in for an NPAPI browser that hosts PPAPI plug-ins.
At the top of any SWF-based National Weather Service radar loop, you can follow the "Standard Version" link at the top to get an animated GIF instead. The "National Radar Mosaic Sectors" at the bottom are also animated GIFs.
It's a lot easier to limit SWF tracking without disabling essential functionality than to limit HTML5 tracking without disabling essential functionality. To limit SWF tracking, disable the Flash Player plug-in on sites outside the SWF whitelist (Newgrounds, Kongregate, Weebl's, Dagobah, Albino, Homestar). To limit HTML5 tracking, you need to install tracking blockers, and if you do that, some sites will refuse you service because they don't know how to present ads that don't track you. Sites using SWF tracking are less likely to refuse service on grounds of lacking Flash Player because then they'd be refusing service to viewers on smartphones and tablets that run a smartphone OS.
So you're saying that I can't play Nintendo games on my Playstation
You would be able to, except Nintendo messed that up by being late to notice a detail that Sony snuck into its publishing contract when the "Super Disc" peripheral for the Super NES was under development. This caused Nintendo to kill the Play Station, a second-source Super NES made by Sony with a built-in CD-ROM drive analogous to Sharp's Twin Famicom. Sony retooled it without a cart slot under the code name PSX, and the PSX project resulted in the PlayStation console that Sony put out in 1995. (The name "PSX" can still be seen in the "PS-X EXE" header in every PlayStation 1 game executable.)
or listen to CDs on my tape deck?
I've listened to CDs on a tape deck several times. One way is to use a CD player to make a private reproduction of the CD on cassette pursuant to 17 USC 1008. The other is to connect the CD's line-level audio output to a tape adapter. There is no analogous process for software because the execution models differ so much between platforms that an automated process run by the end user cannot bridge them lawfully and efficiently.* So are you suggesting that most people are supposed to buy and carry a MacBook, an iPhone or iPad, an Android phone or tablet with Google Play, and a Windows Phone? Because that's the only way to run the exclusive applications of all six platforms that I mentioned.
* I said "efficiently", and emulation usually isn't very efficient. I also said "lawfully", and the mobile operating systems I mentioned (iOS, Android with Google Play, and Windows Mobile 10) aren't readily available to the public for use in emulators. The Android components in AOSP are, but a lot of apps either depend on Google Play Services that aren't in AOSP or aren't available outside Google Play Store.
True, if Apple filed before Baili filed, shipped, or otherwise published its own design, Apple wins. But since the America Invents Act was announced, a lot of other Slashdot readers have posted comments under the mistaken impression that the replacement of interference proceedings with first-to-file somehow abridges novelty by allowing only patent applications to be prior art. For example, had Baili published a photo of its design before Apple filed, Baili might win.
those chipmunks that keep coming into my garage when the door is open sure as hell hear me when I enter.
Are they singing?
Insignia appropriated by National Socialism:
You have a right to bear arms (U+1F4AA). And bare arms. So join a boxing club and put your fists (U+1F44A) to good use.
I know nothing about Chinese patent law, other than that WTO membership requires China to have one. But in the United States, the switch to "first to file" did not abridge the novelty requirement. Anything published, even other than as a patent application, before a given patent application is filed is considered prior art and therefore "filed".
In the link you provide the operator of the web site is not even a contractor of one of the involved parties.
The United States isn't the only country that recognizes tortious interference as a form of secondary liability.
And in which country would that be legal? I mean not being allowed to resell something you got via a discount?
Any country with strong contract law. See, for example, the Skiplagged lawsuit.
I have no idea how you would try to program a PMMU in C.
Any program requiring a processor feature not exposed by the definition of the C language can be written in a language that's a superset of C with either intrinsics for that feature or inline assembly. Intrinsics are more involved to implement but might be safer in the sense that more things can be statically proved about their behavior.
No-one sensible is going to write an OS or low-level driver in C#.
Singularity was written in a variant of C#, using the .NET CLR's safety model.
"Singularity authors aren't sensible"? No true Scotsman.
That and if you need to port your code to other architectures, such as x86 vs. x86-64 vs. ARM vs. MIPS, you can recompile C with only a minor loss in runtime speed due to loss of effectiveness of micro-optimizations.
Queue the idiots screaming that Apple stole it from FreeBSD now
Is it "stole" as much as "used under license"? Darwin is FreeBSD's userland on a Mach-derived kernel.
You can do that in text as well: "eight is equal to and of the same type as D", or 8===D for short.
What is next? I like to book a flight and make a money transaction and make two videos for it and post them to somewhere?
Server-side facial recognition to confirm your identity, so that you don't book a round-trip ticket and give the separate legs to different people to abuse the discount, would require a video.
but you have to auto-reject everything that is uploaded in a high vertical aspect ratio in an effort to end this 'portrait mode' plague.
Other than through vertical video, what's the best way to record someone using a treadmill? I've run into cases where I couldn't step back far enough to get both head and feet in a landscape mode shot and have had to resort to vertical video.
Other than through vertical video, what's the best way to record someone playing a portrait mode arcade game such as Pac-Man or Donkey Kong? Or should these videos just be rejected outright as alleged infringements of copyrights owned by Namco Bandai and Nintendo respectively?
People need to stop falling for the Fallacy of Duality [...] Together they are great when properly used.
In theory, older, more flexible technologies can coexist with newer technologies that are less flexible yet more appealing to the majority of the general public. But in practice, investors chasing the most profitable investment cause one technology to be maintained and others to end up discontinued, especially if the less profitable technology is ideal only for a distinct minority.
For example, 10-inch laptops are well suited for coding on hobby projects while riding public transit to and from your day job. They are less likely to hit the seat in front of you when opened than the more common 13-inch size, and they fit in a smaller, more discreet bag that's less of a thief magnet. But laptop makers stopped making the 10-inch size in 2012 in favor of a higher profit margin product called a "tablet". Even a tablet with a clip-on keyboard isn't a perfect substitute, as tablet user interfaces are based on smartphone user interfaces and thus tend to inherit design decisions made for a 4 inch screen, such as lack of side-by-side app views. Not being able to see your program and output at once makes debugging more difficult. Furthermore, this user interface is more difficult to replace because tablet operating systems tend not to give bootloader or even administrative access to the device's owner.
Who is going to want to go through the work of making an entire video for a five word comment?
Vine manages this feat apparently.
Any service that can say your new password is too similar to your old one has poor password security
Unless it requires you to enter your old password in order to set a new password. With both the old and new passwords submitted from the same form, the site's validator can use the Levenshtein edit distance call in many languages' standard libraries or commonly used add-on libraries. I'll admit this doesn't work for resets.