In my opinion, they should push NaCl even further: why not implement the browser itself inside NaCl? Then, when you visit a url, the correct browser for that particular website is downloaded (or pulled from cache). This has the huge advantage that web designers can publish for just one browser. This will mean, in turn, that the "market" for webbrowsers will suddenly become much bigger, and the nightmare of near-monopolies of the current browsers are over.
I wouldn't be surprised if, one day, W3C would add tetris to the (already hairy) HTML specification. Then, a mere 9 bytes would suffice:
<tetris/>
You see, sadly, the most effective language for targeting the web, HTML, was never designed for experienced programmers but for the average joe who doesn't care about formal languages anyway.
I always wonder why W3C didn't build password hashing into the HTML specification. It would not be the perfect solution, I know, but still it could have been a major improvement in online security.
The problem is that it solves the antenna issue, but causes the phone to be the wrong size
Indeed, as a compensation they might as well give everybody a box of matches so they can make smoke-signals for communication. Apple is a lousy company with lousy standards. But hey, what do you expect from a law-firm?
Since the big corporations have, wrongly, labeled copyright infringement with "piracy", perhaps we should consider to label corporate privacy intrusion with the term "voyeurism" or something similar.
So, unless the masses are going to build their own audio and video decoder chips, the content industry could use various types of watermarks to prevent piracy. Sad, but I guess that's what we're ultimately up against.
Perhaps facebook could open up their APIs so that other social networks would have a fighting chance of getting into existence, and we'd actually see some competition.
And perhaps twitter could do the same, so that we can choose whichever company we want as a tweet-service. Imagine that e-mail was handled by one company, quite a ridiculous situation!
This is precisely why we need new protocols for clouds, so that for example, if one provider shuts down, we can easily rely on redundant copies hosted elsewhere.
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In my opinion, they should push NaCl even further: why not implement the browser itself inside NaCl? Then, when you visit a url, the correct browser for that particular website is downloaded (or pulled from cache). This has the huge advantage that web designers can publish for just one browser. This will mean, in turn, that the "market" for webbrowsers will suddenly become much bigger, and the nightmare of near-monopolies of the current browsers are over.
I wouldn't be surprised if, one day, W3C would add tetris to the (already hairy) HTML specification. Then, a mere 9 bytes would suffice:
<tetris/>
You see, sadly, the most effective language for targeting the web, HTML, was never designed for experienced programmers but for the average joe who doesn't care about formal languages anyway.
Ok, but how do you show that the setting was not enabled _after_ the indictment? Or is there no such requirement?
I'll stick with Firefox and the PwdHash
I always wonder why W3C didn't build password hashing into the HTML specification. It would not be the perfect solution, I know, but still it could have been a major improvement in online security.
As best I can tell "Do Not Track" headers in the browser are there for legal purposes.
Any idea how one proves in court that these headers have been actually sent in specific cases?
If you believe in conspiracies, then it may actually be one of Apple's own lawyers who initiated the suit.
The problem is that it solves the antenna issue, but causes the phone to be the wrong size
Indeed, as a compensation they might as well give everybody a box of matches so they can make smoke-signals for communication. Apple is a lousy company with lousy standards. But hey, what do you expect from a law-firm?
And this makes me wonder what slashdotters are supposed to do now?
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Apple: paywalling the internet
... and made many lawyers filthy rich.
Since the big corporations have, wrongly, labeled copyright infringement with "piracy", perhaps we should consider to label corporate privacy intrusion with the term "voyeurism" or something similar.
Smart. But perhaps a better idea is to tell them that a virus changed your harddrive into random 1's and 0's.
I'll probably opt for a BASIC voice-and-text flip-phone of some kind
What is the command in BASIC for calling someone?
The closest I can think of is GOSUB, but I'm afraid that's not going to pull the trick.
iOS crashes more than Android
Can we sue them?
Just makes them seem like hypocrites and frankly, douches.
Doesn't matter. Just like nerds feel proud to be nerds, Apple douches feel proud to be Apple douches.
I believe the same is true of quantum computers
Because things we don't yet completely understand must have godlike properties.
No, didn't know.
But afaict, hdcp did not attempt to plug the analog hole. This is something that watermarks _can_ do.
Xerox machines are equipped with a mechanism to stop bank-notes from being copied.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
So, unless the masses are going to build their own audio and video decoder chips, the content industry could use various types of watermarks to prevent piracy.
Sad, but I guess that's what we're ultimately up against.
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_Anti-Piracy
While TPB has been blocked by court order in the Netherlands, it is for individuals, afaik, still legal to download music and movies over there.
So, Americans, next time you get sued by RIAA or MPAA, you just show them your flight ticket to the Netherlands.
Buy an i*****, not an Android.
If you're ignoring for the moment the spyware that's installed on an i*****, then yes, that's a good idea.
Perhaps facebook could open up their APIs so that other social networks would have a fighting chance of getting into existence, and we'd actually see some competition.
And perhaps twitter could do the same, so that we can choose whichever company we want as a tweet-service. Imagine that e-mail was handled by one company, quite a ridiculous situation!
So, is there a place where we can measure how well our websites conform to google's ideas of user-friendliness?
Or do we have to find out the hard way?
with an underground data hall
Yep, lock up those geeks in the basement again, they're used to it.
They'd better start treating their foreign workers better, because Steve Jobs might just have been reincarnated as a Foxconn drone.
This is precisely why we need new protocols for clouds, so that for example, if one provider shuts down, we can easily rely on redundant copies hosted elsewhere.
You're talking about backup only.
But what if, one day, a torrent pops up containing the contents of thousands of gmail accounts, including yours.