Both major third-party evergreen web browsers (Chrome and Firefox) install a service to download and apply security updates. If the current user were an administrator, the browser could use a service-free update flow, in which an update is installed after the user has closed the browser. But if the current user is not an administrator, and no administrator is immediately available to enter the elevation password, a service-free update cannot complete.
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I could if my subscription package included Bloomberg News. But I don't feel willing to add yet another monthly fee for Bloomberg News just to participate in one Slashdot discussion.
If the AT&T feature you describe is anything like T-Mobile's "Binge On" feature, then it's throttling video to 1.5 Mbps, and the video provider is expected to detect that and switch the viewer to the SD stream.
I don't see how TLS PKI solves the problem of someone registering "WE11SFARGO.COM", obtaining a domain-validated certificate for "WE11SFARGO.COM", and using that domain name and certificate to impersonate Wells Fargo Bank.
TLD protection won't help you when a scammer buys "BankOfARNERICA.COM", or when a lot of legitimate businesses outside Colombia are setting up their online presence with a Colombian (.CO) domain anyway. Or would you prefer to contribute to Internet balkanization by blocking Irish sites like MODERN.IE (web dev resource by Microsoft) and British Indian Ocean Territory sites like GITHUB.IO by default if the device happened to geolocate to a different country at first browser launch? In particular, British Indian Ocean Territory is uninhabited.
The NATO "big-boy internets" on your side of the connection won't help if your colleague happens to be in a Cold War neutral country. And even if your country has NATO "big boy internets" inside an urban building, the experience in rural areas (satellite), outdoors, or in a vehicle (cellular) may be more like that of Cold War neutral countries. (I'm talking about the USA, if it matters.)
What were you planning on doing in Skype that needs a higher bandwidth than wideband voice?
To me, "light" refers to those EM frequency/wavelength bands that behave similarly to visible light in whatever way is important for a particular application. These are usually IR, visible, and UV. The 3 meter band used for FM radio, for example, isn't very light-like in how it is transmitted and received or how it interacts with the atmosphere and terrain.
Assuming "club" as metaphor for a particular website on a particular domain:
Once I have started another club to compete with the existing club, what steps should prospective members take to find my club, and what steps should members take to become notified about activity in my club? In the current web platform, unless I missed something, recommendations and notifications deliberately do not work across clubs.
GIFs are still better because they don't have sound.
Nor does a video played through a <video autoplay muted> element. And a video played through a <video autoplay muted> element costs less on average against your monthly Internet cap than an equivalent GIF.
Your attack model appears to involve misissuance based on a man-in-the-middle attack on the server's DNS at issuance time. A DV CA uses two countermeasures: verifying that that it receives the same result over multiple routes through the Internet (route diversity), and publishing logs of all certificates that it issues (Certificate Transparency). How would an attacker sustain an attack past these countermeasures?
First, a video that is downloaded but not played would still count against the monthly download quota that your ISP imposes on you, especially a satellite or cellular ISP. Second, playing a filmstrip through a canvas (as demonstrated in canvid) lets the video delivery script read the pixels in the canvas and relay back to the website that the video was decoded. Thus a video that was downloaded and played invisibly still uses CPU time and battery energy for decoding.
I believe that Chrome's treatment of each path in the file system as a separate origin is intended to prevent files downloaded from one origin from being able to see and exfiltrate other files that your user account can read.
What does Safari do instead to protect users from ISPs that insert deceptive or otherwise malicious scripts or other content into HTML pages delivered through cleartext HTTP? <cough>Xfinity by Comcast</cough>
I tried chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy in Chromium Version 68.0.3440.75 (Developer Build) built on Debian 9.5, running on Debian 9.5 (64-bit). It didn't block most of the test cases in my video blocking test suite. I guess that's because blocking all video playback is very much easier said than done.
- Block the <video> element, and sites will fall back to the less efficient <img> tag with GIF. - Block <video> and GIF, and sites will fall back to using JavaScript to rotate JPEG or PNG images into a container. - Block <video>, GIF, and script, and sites will fall back to using CSS sprites with stepped animations to rotate frames of a JPEG or PNG filmstrip into a container.
Lower bandwidth requirements by using some decent codecs.
Skype's been working on that for quite a while. The company released the SILK codec as free software and worked with Xiph in 2010 to combine it with Xiph's "CELT" research codec to form what is now known as Opus.
But then macOS is a special case, as its desktop environment has reserved a space at the top of the screen for menus since 1984 and for indicators since the addition of SuperClock to System 7.5 in 1994.
A smaller bezel means the laptop is physically less bulky for a given screen size. This means you can carry a 11.6" laptop as easily as an older 10.1" laptop, or carry a 13" laptop as easily as an older 11.6" laptop. (Granted, it also means less space for rechargeable batteries.) Conversely, it increases the screen size of a laptop that fits in a given bag.
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In my experience, it's not 2:1 but 10:1 in favor of video. Compare a 200 kB video to a 2 MB GIF at the same size and frame rate.
Leaving aside the thousands of military personnel
I was confused as to whether deployment to the Diego Garcia military base counts as legal residence.
thousands of Chagossians who continue their fight over the legality of their expulsion
Yet they remain expelled until they win said fight.
Both major third-party evergreen web browsers (Chrome and Firefox) install a service to download and apply security updates. If the current user were an administrator, the browser could use a service-free update flow, in which an update is installed after the user has closed the browser. But if the current user is not an administrator, and no administrator is immediately available to enter the elevation password, a service-free update cannot complete.
The answers are in the article and you could have read them with just a click
I could if my subscription package included Bloomberg News. But I don't feel willing to add yet another monthly fee for Bloomberg News just to participate in one Slashdot discussion.
If the AT&T feature you describe is anything like T-Mobile's "Binge On" feature, then it's throttling video to 1.5 Mbps, and the video provider is expected to detect that and switch the viewer to the SD stream.
Vertically narrow controls are harder to hit reliably with a finger on a 2-in-1 laptop's touch screen.
In practice, police tend to look the other way on the grounds of being overstretched in an era of property tax caps.
I don't see how TLS PKI solves the problem of someone registering "WE11SFARGO.COM", obtaining a domain-validated certificate for "WE11SFARGO.COM", and using that domain name and certificate to impersonate Wells Fargo Bank.
TLD protection won't help you when a scammer buys "BankOfARNERICA.COM", or when a lot of legitimate businesses outside Colombia are setting up their online presence with a Colombian (.CO) domain anyway. Or would you prefer to contribute to Internet balkanization by blocking Irish sites like MODERN.IE (web dev resource by Microsoft) and British Indian Ocean Territory sites like GITHUB.IO by default if the device happened to geolocate to a different country at first browser launch? In particular, British Indian Ocean Territory is uninhabited.
The NATO "big-boy internets" on your side of the connection won't help if your colleague happens to be in a Cold War neutral country. And even if your country has NATO "big boy internets" inside an urban building, the experience in rural areas (satellite), outdoors, or in a vehicle (cellular) may be more like that of Cold War neutral countries. (I'm talking about the USA, if it matters.)
What were you planning on doing in Skype that needs a higher bandwidth than wideband voice?
To me, "light" refers to those EM frequency/wavelength bands that behave similarly to visible light in whatever way is important for a particular application. These are usually IR, visible, and UV. The 3 meter band used for FM radio, for example, isn't very light-like in how it is transmitted and received or how it interacts with the atmosphere and terrain.
Assuming "club" as metaphor for a particular website on a particular domain:
Once I have started another club to compete with the existing club, what steps should prospective members take to find my club, and what steps should members take to become notified about activity in my club? In the current web platform, unless I missed something, recommendations and notifications deliberately do not work across clubs.
GIFs are still better because they don't have sound.
Nor does a video played through a <video autoplay muted> element. And a video played through a <video autoplay muted> element costs less on average against your monthly Internet cap than an equivalent GIF.
DNS is not secure so DV over DNS can't be secure.
Your attack model appears to involve misissuance based on a man-in-the-middle attack on the server's DNS at issuance time. A DV CA uses two countermeasures: verifying that that it receives the same result over multiple routes through the Internet (route diversity), and publishing logs of all certificates that it issues (Certificate Transparency). How would an attacker sustain an attack past these countermeasures?
Then you accept inability to test differences between Firefox behavior and Chrome behavior locally.
First, a video that is downloaded but not played would still count against the monthly download quota that your ISP imposes on you, especially a satellite or cellular ISP. Second, playing a filmstrip through a canvas (as demonstrated in canvid) lets the video delivery script read the pixels in the canvas and relay back to the website that the video was decoded. Thus a video that was downloaded and played invisibly still uses CPU time and battery energy for decoding.
I believe that Chrome's treatment of each path in the file system as a separate origin is intended to prevent files downloaded from one origin from being able to see and exfiltrate other files that your user account can read.
What does Safari do instead to protect users from ISPs that insert deceptive or otherwise malicious scripts or other content into HTML pages delivered through cleartext HTTP? <cough>Xfinity by Comcast</cough>
Have you tried loading your local files into the 200 OK! Web Server for Chrome?
I tried chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy in Chromium Version 68.0.3440.75 (Developer Build) built on Debian 9.5, running on Debian 9.5 (64-bit). It didn't block most of the test cases in my video blocking test suite. I guess that's because blocking all video playback is very much easier said than done.
- Block the <video> element, and sites will fall back to the less efficient <img> tag with GIF.
- Block <video> and GIF, and sites will fall back to using JavaScript to rotate JPEG or PNG images into a container.
- Block <video>, GIF, and script, and sites will fall back to using CSS sprites with stepped animations to rotate frames of a JPEG or PNG filmstrip into a container.
A larger bag is more likely to be seen as a laptop bag even when closed. This makes it a more attractive target for thieves.
Lower bandwidth requirements by using some decent codecs.
Skype's been working on that for quite a while. The company released the SILK codec as free software and worked with Xiph in 2010 to combine it with Xiph's "CELT" research codec to form what is now known as Opus.
But then macOS is a special case, as its desktop environment has reserved a space at the top of the screen for menus since 1984 and for indicators since the addition of SuperClock to System 7.5 in 1994.
A smaller bezel means the laptop is physically less bulky for a given screen size. This means you can carry a 11.6" laptop as easily as an older 10.1" laptop, or carry a 13" laptop as easily as an older 11.6" laptop. (Granted, it also means less space for rechargeable batteries.) Conversely, it increases the screen size of a laptop that fits in a given bag.
That's why nobody uses Chrome on Android.
Caniuse.com's usage table disagrees with that claim.
Chrome for Android: 32.65%
Firefox for Android: 0.18%
Nor is Firefox beating other mobile browsers.
Safari for iOS (11.2 and 11.4): 8.55%
Opera Mini (more remote desktop than browser): 2.29%
IE Mobile (10, 11, and Edge): 0.22%