Then use progressive enhancement. In the HTML page, send a "To log out, close your browser" message. Attach a script that replaces this message with a button to log out as described in the linked answer. To get past the extension that blocks non-free scripts, distribute this script under a free software license and add appropriate metadata.
it's a bigger issue if certain content is only broadcast at that resolution so it's never possible to copy it at any resolution. It's not clear to me if that's the case
It is. The film Ishtar skipped DVD and went straight to Blu-ray. I imagine more are to follow.
[Policy misstep of U.S. Presidential candidate] [Policy misstep of U.S. Presidential candidate in opposite party] I suggest abstaining from voting.
Wouldn't a write-in be more apt?
How so? Write-ins are unlikely to be counted, especially for U.S. President and Vice President, because a write-in candidate has no slate of electors representing him or her.
The problem is that policies set by the big studios hurt the availability to the public of machines to manipulate video, even video that doesn't belong to said studios. Say I want to make a movie and distribute it on Blu-ray. I can't without paying for an AACS license because players refuse to play unencrypted BDMV discs. HD DVD didn't have this problem, but it isn't around anymore. Video game consoles have the same problem: DRM is mandatory.
However, the fact is that for Starz to be affected by piracy, piracy has to be removing subscribers who would pay to watch their series.
Or it's a condition imposed on Starz by the studios that license movies and TV shows to Starz. If Starz doesn't "do something about piracy", it would cause licensors to decline renew the licenses to exhibit movies and TV shows on Starz, and that would cause to drop their subscriptions.
And why are they going thorough the trouble of removing improvements from CFQ?
My guess is to establish a chain of authorship, so that that those things that BFQ shares with CFQ can be correctly attributed to the author of CFQ. Chain of authorship is very important to the Linux project. It dates back to the SCO lawsuit, which ends up being why Git has the --signoff option.
Why not just make an addition one named BFQ?
That might be the ultimate plan: duplicate CFQ, producing a second scheduler identical to CFQ, then apply the heuristic removal patch and the BFQ patch to "Copy of CFQ".
Perhaps you're right that my worldview is skewed by the fact that I work on an e-commerce site as my day job.
Anyway, yes, I would pass session ID in the URL (after all, neither cookies contain a cart's contents, just an ID), and would not worry about users. Those using URLs should know what that is, the rest have buttons.
And then you get people who return to the home page by using an in-browser function that deletes everything after the hostname, with the result "I went back to the front page of the store to look for something else to add to the cart. Why was my cart emptied?" Even people who know how a URL is structured don't know which specific query parameter holds the session ID. And even the tinier minority of users who both know how a URL is structured and correctly guess which query parameter is the session ID delete one too many characters from the URL.
Worse yet: "Why did this unauthorized charge appear on my account? I put in my credit card number but decided not to place the order." The answer is that you shared the URI of a product that included your session ID, and someone else completed checkout with your payment credentials.
Sony's original "fair use" argument for the legality of the Betamax VCR was that the time-shifted recording would be watched within the next two weeks. The "fair use" argument for archiving is less clear.
There is an option to "reopen last session" on start. You get all your tabs back:)
When I tried it, I got "Problem loading page: Server not found" as I switched to each tab. Firefox saves the URI, not the entire DOM, and it goes back to the Internet to re-fetch the page after I reopen Firefox. If I'm not connected to the Internet, such as if I'm on the bus to or from work or the grocery store, I get a dozen tabs of fail.
IE 11 alone has almost as many users as Firefox does in total. The same goes for iOS Safari 9.2.
That's because the App Store Review Guidelines forbid you from running any browser other than Safari on an iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad without discarding your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad. Chrome for iOS wraps Safari, as do all the other browsers on this list that aren't Opera Mini. Opera Mini doesn't run on the iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad either; it's essentially Remote Desktop to a proxy that can log your keys.
In short, I've never seen a good, clean, reliable way to link a user to a session that doesn't involve cookies. If you've got the magic solution to that, please...I'm all ears.
Have the user create a username and password and use RFC 7617 basic authentication. Or have the user create a TLS client certificate.
vast majority of websites do not really have to annoy their visitors with cookies popups, because they work just fine without cookies (and most of the rest could be made to work without them).
On an e-commerce site, how do you implement an "Add to Cart" button without cookies? Users expect one anonymous visitor's cart to be separate from another anonymous visitor's cart, and they don't expect to have to create an account and log in (through a cookie-free method such as RFC 7617 Basic or a TLS client certificate) before adding an item. Or do you instead plan to associate a shopping cart to a query parameter in the URI? That breaks when a user shares a link to a product.
as well as not giving the user a choice, such as a popup with only an OK button.
Then they give the user a choice that may be familiar to long-time users of porn sites: a popup with an Accept button and a Leave button that goes to a popular search engine or the front page of The Walt Disney Company's site.
Unobtrusive may fail to satisfy the requirement that the notice be "conspicuous". And in some places, such as the Netherlands, the law is or recently has been that a site operator must obtain the user's explicit consent before setting a persistent cookie. This leads to "Accept cookies and continue to website" interstitials.
In theory, independent creation is not infringement. In practice, good luck proving that.
A successful copyright infringement suit requires the copyright owner to show evidence of three things: the plaintiff's ownership of the copyright in suit, the alleged infringer's access to the plaintiff's work, substantial similarity between the plaintiff's work and the alleged infringer's work. The alleged infringer's defense can include evidence against these three elements, such as independent creation, or it can involve evidence of authorization, such as a license or a legally authorized use (such as fair use or other limitations 17 USC 107 through 123).
So if the plaintiff fails to prove the alleged infringer's access to the plaintiff's work, the judge will find no infringement. But there is a sliding scale: the more similarity the plaintiff can show, the less access it needs to show, and vice versa. A "striking similarity" creates a rebuttable presumption of access, and an alleged infringer is likely to have a hard time disproving that. Likewise, if the plaintiff's work has become widely exhibited in some market, a circumstantial argument that the alleged infringer reasonably should have had access to the work will put more pressure on the alleged infringer to prove dissimilarity. Thus flooding the market with trailers and merchandise, as the various companies in various countries' MAFIA (music and film industry associations) are known to do, makes it harder to prove independent creation.
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Then use progressive enhancement. In the HTML page, send a "To log out, close your browser" message. Attach a script that replaces this message with a button to log out as described in the linked answer. To get past the extension that blocks non-free scripts, distribute this script under a free software license and add appropriate metadata.
What does SpyHunter (supposedly) do?
Play the theme from Peter Gunn while you shoot enemy cars.
This answer has a script that logs the user out of basic auth by replacing stored credentials with wrong credentials.
it's a bigger issue if certain content is only broadcast at that resolution so it's never possible to copy it at any resolution. It's not clear to me if that's the case
It is. The film Ishtar skipped DVD and went straight to Blu-ray. I imagine more are to follow.
[Policy misstep of U.S. Presidential candidate]
[Policy misstep of U.S. Presidential candidate in opposite party]
I suggest abstaining from voting.
Wouldn't a write-in be more apt?
How so? Write-ins are unlikely to be counted, especially for U.S. President and Vice President, because a write-in candidate has no slate of electors representing him or her.
Big deal. Stop watching the content.
The problem is that policies set by the big studios hurt the availability to the public of machines to manipulate video, even video that doesn't belong to said studios. Say I want to make a movie and distribute it on Blu-ray. I can't without paying for an AACS license because players refuse to play unencrypted BDMV discs. HD DVD didn't have this problem, but it isn't around anymore. Video game consoles have the same problem: DRM is mandatory.
Did you get a chance to see how PBS compares to the BBC?
However, the fact is that for Starz to be affected by piracy, piracy has to be removing subscribers who would pay to watch their series.
Or it's a condition imposed on Starz by the studios that license movies and TV shows to Starz. If Starz doesn't "do something about piracy", it would cause licensors to decline renew the licenses to exhibit movies and TV shows on Starz, and that would cause to drop their subscriptions.
And why are they going thorough the trouble of removing improvements from CFQ?
My guess is to establish a chain of authorship, so that that those things that BFQ shares with CFQ can be correctly attributed to the author of CFQ. Chain of authorship is very important to the Linux project. It dates back to the SCO lawsuit, which ends up being why Git has the --signoff option.
Why not just make an addition one named BFQ?
That might be the ultimate plan: duplicate CFQ, producing a second scheduler identical to CFQ, then apply the heuristic removal patch and the BFQ patch to "Copy of CFQ".
Which means you can no longer provide "People who viewed X also viewed Y" or "People who viewed X ultimately bought Y" views to your shoppers.
I hope you do realize I did not say "all".
Perhaps you're right that my worldview is skewed by the fact that I work on an e-commerce site as my day job.
Anyway, yes, I would pass session ID in the URL (after all, neither cookies contain a cart's contents, just an ID), and would not worry about users. Those using URLs should know what that is, the rest have buttons.
And then you get people who return to the home page by using an in-browser function that deletes everything after the hostname, with the result "I went back to the front page of the store to look for something else to add to the cart. Why was my cart emptied?" Even people who know how a URL is structured don't know which specific query parameter holds the session ID. And even the tinier minority of users who both know how a URL is structured and correctly guess which query parameter is the session ID delete one too many characters from the URL.
Worse yet: "Why did this unauthorized charge appear on my account? I put in my credit card number but decided not to place the order." The answer is that you shared the URI of a product that included your session ID, and someone else completed checkout with your payment credentials.
Sony's original "fair use" argument for the legality of the Betamax VCR was that the time-shifted recording would be watched within the next two weeks. The "fair use" argument for archiving is less clear.
Yes, this just creates a market for recording devices that ignore the "do not copy" flag
And a market for lawyers to sue manufacturers, importers, and users of recording devices that ignore the "do not copy" flag.
There is an option to "reopen last session" on start. You get all your tabs back :)
When I tried it, I got "Problem loading page: Server not found" as I switched to each tab. Firefox saves the URI, not the entire DOM, and it goes back to the Internet to re-fetch the page after I reopen Firefox. If I'm not connected to the Internet, such as if I'm on the bus to or from work or the grocery store, I get a dozen tabs of fail.
IE 11 alone has almost as many users as Firefox does in total. The same goes for iOS Safari 9.2.
That's because the App Store Review Guidelines forbid you from running any browser other than Safari on an iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad without discarding your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad. Chrome for iOS wraps Safari, as do all the other browsers on this list that aren't Opera Mini. Opera Mini doesn't run on the iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad either; it's essentially Remote Desktop to a proxy that can log your keys.
And it allows the excuse "you're using too many extensions" for any and all RAM and CPU use complaints.
What method do you have for session management that doesn't require the use of cookies?
I mentioned a couple in my reply to LordKronos.
In short, I've never seen a good, clean, reliable way to link a user to a session that doesn't involve cookies. If you've got the magic solution to that, please...I'm all ears.
Have the user create a username and password and use RFC 7617 basic authentication. Or have the user create a TLS client certificate.
Forums have several options to keep a user logged in without a persistent cookie:
vast majority of websites do not really have to annoy their visitors with cookies popups, because they work just fine without cookies (and most of the rest could be made to work without them).
On an e-commerce site, how do you implement an "Add to Cart" button without cookies? Users expect one anonymous visitor's cart to be separate from another anonymous visitor's cart, and they don't expect to have to create an account and log in (through a cookie-free method such as RFC 7617 Basic or a TLS client certificate) before adding an item. Or do you instead plan to associate a shopping cart to a query parameter in the URI? That breaks when a user shares a link to a product.
as well as not giving the user a choice, such as a popup with only an OK button.
Then they give the user a choice that may be familiar to long-time users of porn sites: a popup with an Accept button and a Leave button that goes to a popular search engine or the front page of The Walt Disney Company's site.
and keep the user's session key in a chain of GET variables
A session identifier in a URI allows session fixation if a user ends up sharing a link.
You have chocolate cookies with lemonade flavored bits? Where can I get me some o' dat?
Unobtrusive may fail to satisfy the requirement that the notice be "conspicuous". And in some places, such as the Netherlands, the law is or recently has been that a site operator must obtain the user's explicit consent before setting a persistent cookie. This leads to "Accept cookies and continue to website" interstitials.
independently developing an idea is far different
In theory, independent creation is not infringement. In practice, good luck proving that.
A successful copyright infringement suit requires the copyright owner to show evidence of three things: the plaintiff's ownership of the copyright in suit, the alleged infringer's access to the plaintiff's work, substantial similarity between the plaintiff's work and the alleged infringer's work. The alleged infringer's defense can include evidence against these three elements, such as independent creation, or it can involve evidence of authorization, such as a license or a legally authorized use (such as fair use or other limitations 17 USC 107 through 123).
So if the plaintiff fails to prove the alleged infringer's access to the plaintiff's work, the judge will find no infringement. But there is a sliding scale: the more similarity the plaintiff can show, the less access it needs to show, and vice versa. A "striking similarity" creates a rebuttable presumption of access, and an alleged infringer is likely to have a hard time disproving that. Likewise, if the plaintiff's work has become widely exhibited in some market, a circumstantial argument that the alleged infringer reasonably should have had access to the work will put more pressure on the alleged infringer to prove dissimilarity. Thus flooding the market with trailers and merchandise, as the various companies in various countries' MAFIA (music and film industry associations) are known to do, makes it harder to prove independent creation.