later and would get it's patent approved. If it's a big company with big bucks for lawyers, even prior art wouldn't get it revoked. Most companies would not want and/or be able to afford to litigate (assuming the big companies would not immediately see it's value as happened with Tim's invention).
A complaint I often heard is that client-side Java required too large a download. Even the latest bloatware JRE 1.5 is 15 MB. Sounds to me like.NET with it's automatic download of 65 MB is one more way Microsoft is abusing its OS monopoly.
Perhaps the days of passwords are over and private keys will be use exclusively in the future? I know that I almost never type passwords any more. Although I guess the pass-phrases I use are liable to a similar attack, at least they are only 'stored' in the relative safeness of my private key.
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later and would get it's patent approved. If it's a big company with big bucks for lawyers, even prior art wouldn't get it revoked. Most companies would not want and/or be able to afford to litigate (assuming the big companies would not immediately see it's value as happened with Tim's invention).
A complaint I often heard is that client-side Java required too large a download. Even the latest bloatware JRE 1.5 is 15 MB. Sounds to me like .NET with it's automatic download of 65 MB is one more way Microsoft is abusing its OS monopoly.
Perhaps the days of passwords are over and private keys will be use exclusively in the future? I know that I almost never type passwords any more. Although I guess the pass-phrases I use are liable to a similar attack, at least they are only 'stored' in the relative safeness of my private key.