I thought the DOJ could still press criminal charges pursuant to 17 USC 506 if the lack of license is obvious and the infringement is either for financial gain or over a certain dollar amount. Back in the day, the Slashdot effect was strong enough to be a surefire way of getting to that dollar amount.
The people who block execution of JavaScript as an intrusion on the privacy and security of their computers will block execution of WebAssembly for the same reason.
In the unlikely event that Der TrumpenFuehrer gets elected, he's dumb and cowardly enough to be talked into also continuing the fine tradition. He'll be a patsy like GWB was.
Leaving paranoia behind entirely, I'll reuse the example from my earlier post: a company's archive of already-released press releases. In this application, having information available to the public is a good thing, as surely you would want your company's legacy to be available for any positive public relations. Obviously, if the data is released (again), there is no negative impact to investors, customers, or your business.
If the data is falsified and then released, it can still harm your business. For this you need signatures for authentication and integrity even if not encryption for confidentiality.
Please tell me this wasn't meant as "I got mine". Otherwise, how many refugees from the surveillance regime in US and UK is your government willing to absorb?
You could not comply with EU privacy laws if your put your customers data in a US cloud.
If two jurisdictions each have privacy laws with strong incentives for local storage, where should data about a transaction between a user in one such jurisdiction and a user in the other be stored?
Not if it computes some f(a, b) that doesn't have a * b as a step but still has a distributive property such that decrypt(f(a, b)) == decrypt(a) * decrypt(b). See the explanation of Craig Gentry's Ph.D. thesis on "Homomorphic encryption" on Wikipedia.
On which operating system is Internet Explorer 8 still receiving security fixes? Windows XP and Windows Server 2013 are no longer supported. Nor are IE pre-9 on Windows Vista and IE pre-11 on Windows 7. And unlike other applications that require operating system versions that no longer receive security fixes, an application with "Internet" in its name can't reasonably be air-gapped from the Internet. Continuing to cater to IE 8 enables users' continued use of vulnerable software that puts their information at risk of a man-in-the-browser attack, such as a keylogger that installs itself through a security defect in IE 8.
I encourage you to check out the source to either JQuery or Sizzle. You'd be surprised how many workarounds are needed even for items like querySelectorAll and xhr2.
I encourage you to check out You Might Not Need jQuery. You'd be surprised how many workarounds aren't needed. This is especially true if you set the slider to exclude IE versions that have known unpatched security vulnerabilities (that is, everything before IE 9).
I thought fully updated both XP and Vista run Edge.
Only with paywalled upgrades. I think CritterNYC was referring to upgrades available without charge beyond the cost of Internet data transfer. The offer to upgrade to Edge without charge, which expires sometime next month, is available only to users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
What migration path do sites such as Weebl's Stuff, Homestar Runner, and Animutation Portal have to migrate their vector-based SWF animations off of Flash, other than by rendering them to MP4 or WebM? Rendering an SWF to MP4 or WebM bloats its size in bytes by a factor of ten in my tests.
A huge portion of our user base is in China where IE 7(!) and 8 are still VERY common. Unfortunately many of our users are on dedicated hardware that absolutely cannot upgrade to a newer browser.
Among this Chinese user base, what prevents Red Flag Linux or some other free operating system from booting? Heck, what keeps Firefox from running on their PCs that run IE 8? At least Firefox is less likely to expose your site's viewers to publicly known exploitable vulnerabilities.
Without JavaScript, HTML documents would have to be static, and apps would have to be native. Would you prefer having to download a separate native app for each Internet service you access through your PC? Would you further prefer having to buy another operating system license or possibly even another computer* if the app happens to be exclusive to an operating system other than the one your PC runs?
* OS X is exclusive** to Mac computers, which start at $499. ** Legally.
A USB keyboard draws a few milliamps of current at most.
How many is "a few"? And how much current does the rest of a phone or tablet draw? One would need these two figures to estimate how much using a USB keyboard reduces a mobile device's battery life compared to using a Bluetooth keyboard.
It was a trick question, as none of these were never released on DVD or Blu-ray in the United States. The Pinocchio sequel was VHS-only, and I've occasionally seen it in thrift shops. But the other two never got any U.S. home video release.
At what U.S. pawn shop can I buy a lawfully made DVD of Song of the South, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, or Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea? If "nowhere", that's only because the law empowers copyright owners to act like the proverbial dog in the manger.
Bluetooth human interface devices are self-powered, that is, they're powered by a battery inside the device. Most USB human interface devices, by contrast, are not self-powered, instead relying on bus power that the host or an intermediate self-powered hub must supply. Thus a USB keyboard through an OTG cable might drain the host's battery even faster than a Bluetooth radio. This is especially true if you have multiple active devices, such as a keyboard, mouse, and headphones, which would require a bus-powered hub that sucks even more power. Finally, Bluetooth headphones pose less of a strangulation risk during exercise than corded headphones.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought the DOJ could still press criminal charges pursuant to 17 USC 506 if the lack of license is obvious and the infringement is either for financial gain or over a certain dollar amount. Back in the day, the Slashdot effect was strong enough to be a surefire way of getting to that dollar amount.
However companies are free to setup here
Not if said companies' owners can't legally immigrate, or if engineers experienced with said companies' technology can't legally immigrate.
The people who block execution of JavaScript as an intrusion on the privacy and security of their computers will block execution of WebAssembly for the same reason.
Then have them use IE 8 for ActiveX sites and Firefox for all other sites.
In the unlikely event that Der TrumpenFuehrer gets elected, he's dumb and cowardly enough to be talked into also continuing the fine tradition. He'll be a patsy like GWB was.
Hills will be more direct.
What we need is another President Johnson. Independents agree.
Leaving paranoia behind entirely, I'll reuse the example from my earlier post: a company's archive of already-released press releases. In this application, having information available to the public is a good thing, as surely you would want your company's legacy to be available for any positive public relations. Obviously, if the data is released (again), there is no negative impact to investors, customers, or your business.
If the data is falsified and then released, it can still harm your business. For this you need signatures for authentication and integrity even if not encryption for confidentiality.
US and UK isn't my government.
Please tell me this wasn't meant as "I got mine". Otherwise, how many refugees from the surveillance regime in US and UK is your government willing to absorb?
You could not comply with EU privacy laws if your put your customers data in a US cloud.
If two jurisdictions each have privacy laws with strong incentives for local storage, where should data about a transaction between a user in one such jurisdiction and a user in the other be stored?
Not if it computes some f(a, b) that doesn't have a * b as a step but still has a distributive property such that decrypt(f(a, b)) == decrypt(a) * decrypt(b). See the explanation of Craig Gentry's Ph.D. thesis on "Homomorphic encryption" on Wikipedia.
Over 15% of my sites' users are using IE 8.
On which operating system is Internet Explorer 8 still receiving security fixes? Windows XP and Windows Server 2013 are no longer supported. Nor are IE pre-9 on Windows Vista and IE pre-11 on Windows 7. And unlike other applications that require operating system versions that no longer receive security fixes, an application with "Internet" in its name can't reasonably be air-gapped from the Internet. Continuing to cater to IE 8 enables users' continued use of vulnerable software that puts their information at risk of a man-in-the-browser attack, such as a keylogger that installs itself through a security defect in IE 8.
I encourage you to check out the source to either JQuery or Sizzle. You'd be surprised how many workarounds are needed even for items like querySelectorAll and xhr2.
I encourage you to check out You Might Not Need jQuery. You'd be surprised how many workarounds aren't needed. This is especially true if you set the slider to exclude IE versions that have known unpatched security vulnerabilities (that is, everything before IE 9).
I thought fully updated both XP and Vista run Edge.
Only with paywalled upgrades. I think CritterNYC was referring to upgrades available without charge beyond the cost of Internet data transfer. The offer to upgrade to Edge without charge, which expires sometime next month, is available only to users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
What migration path do sites such as Weebl's Stuff, Homestar Runner, and Animutation Portal have to migrate their vector-based SWF animations off of Flash, other than by rendering them to MP4 or WebM? Rendering an SWF to MP4 or WebM bloats its size in bytes by a factor of ten in my tests.
What measures has this "very large financial institution" taken against vulnerabilities in IE 8 for which Microsoft will never publish a patch?
A huge portion of our user base is in China where IE 7(!) and 8 are still VERY common. Unfortunately many of our users are on dedicated hardware that absolutely cannot upgrade to a newer browser.
Among this Chinese user base, what prevents Red Flag Linux or some other free operating system from booting? Heck, what keeps Firefox from running on their PCs that run IE 8? At least Firefox is less likely to expose your site's viewers to publicly known exploitable vulnerabilities.
Without JavaScript, HTML documents would have to be static, and apps would have to be native. Would you prefer having to download a separate native app for each Internet service you access through your PC? Would you further prefer having to buy another operating system license or possibly even another computer* if the app happens to be exclusive to an operating system other than the one your PC runs?
* OS X is exclusive** to Mac computers, which start at $499.
** Legally.
Do USB keyboards and USB gamepads work with iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad? Or do only Bluetooth keyboards and Bluetooth MFi gamepads work?
It can be done, as you later admit, regardless of there being multiple compilers for that language.
My point was that the Ken Thompson attack isn't quite as relevant for closed source compilers, as they're already less trustworthy for other reasons.
A USB keyboard draws a few milliamps of current at most.
How many is "a few"? And how much current does the rest of a phone or tablet draw? One would need these two figures to estimate how much using a USB keyboard reduces a mobile device's battery life compared to using a Bluetooth keyboard.
It was a trick question, as none of these were never released on DVD or Blu-ray in the United States. The Pinocchio sequel was VHS-only, and I've occasionally seen it in thrift shops. But the other two never got any U.S. home video release.
Yes, we realize that a device not physically connected to anything else has to have an internal power source. Thank you.
So which USB keyboards have an internal power source?
One thing I learned from watching Bad Lip Reading's music videos is that the iPhone poops. Consider the following BLR lyric:
Translating into logical notation and apply David Hume's is-ought guillotine:
Taking the contrapositive:
Substituting X = iPhone in preparation for some lighthearted equivocation:
The iPhone does not run a Google OS:
Translating back into lyrics that scan the same as the original:
For one thing, Canada has the digital locks bill, which is the same thing. For another, how may refugees from the DMCA is Canada willing to absorb?
At what U.S. pawn shop can I buy a lawfully made DVD of Song of the South, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, or Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea? If "nowhere", that's only because the law empowers copyright owners to act like the proverbial dog in the manger.
Bluetooth human interface devices are self-powered, that is, they're powered by a battery inside the device. Most USB human interface devices, by contrast, are not self-powered, instead relying on bus power that the host or an intermediate self-powered hub must supply. Thus a USB keyboard through an OTG cable might drain the host's battery even faster than a Bluetooth radio. This is especially true if you have multiple active devices, such as a keyboard, mouse, and headphones, which would require a bus-powered hub that sucks even more power. Finally, Bluetooth headphones pose less of a strangulation risk during exercise than corded headphones.
Just avoid their OS
Even if I do, my customers are unwilling to.