It still displays the URL, it just only does so when needed. That's an improvement over the previous, always on, status bar because it gets out of the way when it's not displaying anything. Addon buttons can be placed in the browser chrome at the top. I never find myself needing to resize a browser window, except to make maximize it or fullscreen, or using Aero Snap, so I can't see how a smaller space to grab is an issue but maybe it is for you.
Copy/paste? That's a keyboard command, always has been. Who uses the edit menu listing for that? Also, in OS X, the menubar is always at the top of the screen anyway, so I never have a hard time finding it. Same with bookmarks. There is a Bookmarks menu item at the top of the screen. I appreciate more screen space being devoted to content, even on huge monitors.
I could see how this might be an issue on Windows and Linux, though.
I'm probably alone, but I rather like the new UI. Reminds me of Chrome. I switched to Chrome recently because FF5 on OS X was just crashing too much and had gotten too slow, might switch back if this works similarly faster and is stable again.
If UI designers listened to the tech community we'd still be using something that looked like an early Netscape. There was plenty of room for improvement there, and a lot of things just don't make sense anymore and never really did anyway. Permanent status bars are a good thing to be rid of, for instance.
Like Ford said, if I'd asked people what they wanted they would have told me a faster horse.
I would point you in the direction of learning about the sociological legacy of 100 years of slavery and then 100 years of discrimination (first legal and overt, and then "illegal" and covert), but I doubt you'd care to educate yourself. Is any particular white person responsible for any particular black person's bad personal choices? No, of course not, but you're just ignorant if you think a group of people can just shrug off 200 years of that kind of negative social pressures and become the equals of their former masters in a relatively short span of time. We'll still be dealing with these problems for another 200 years. The effects of slavery that was practiced thousands of years ago have left imprints that still exist today in populations, with negative socioeconomic consequences for them.
The real question isn't why things are this way but what can we do about it? What is the appropriate response to the facts and our history? And yes, "do nothing" is a valid answer but every path will have consequences. Ignoring the problem won't make it any better, it'll just kick the can down the road for another generation to deal with.
Again, it's possible to literally be working as many hours as you physically can, you need some minimum amount of hours a day to sleep and eat, and still not be able to support yourself and your family. Your opinion is basically to tell them, tough luck, you guys should starve for your poor choices. Even that is rather presumptuous of you, you don't know everyone's situation or what pushed them into their state in life. It's absolutely your right to be that callous and indifferent, I just wish more people would come out and say that's how they feel. You think it's perfectly acceptable for people to starve to death in the streets. So you should really own that position you have, don't be afraid of it if that's how you feel. I think that's the best thing our country is if The Right would stop pretending they are doing people a favor and everything will be OK. If they came out and said, yeah a lot of you people who are voting for us are going to probably die or be cast down into abject poverty if we ever get our way and can really control all the decisions, then we'll finally have a government that really reflects people's values. No one will willingly vote to regress to feudalism, they have to be tricked into that by being made to thing they will be better off. So intellectual honesty from Republicans is the best thing to prevent that from happening.
And thanks to Obamacare I can afford healthcare for the first time in my life, or at least will be able to soon when all the provisions go into effect. I would have been uninsured and uninsurable before that Act, so I am intensely grateful that it was passed even if it was not the full reform I was hoping for. I do trust the government to make it work because I am the government. You are the government. We are all the government. It's us, and it will be as good as we are as a people. Many other peoples around the world make it work and we are just a good as they are. There's nothing they can do that we cannot.
And what about people who DO already work full time but still are struggling? Should we cut them off from the little support they still have which keeps them from complete destitution or death? What about people who work full time but have no health care and can't afford another bill? You're not accounting for the fact that in America today it is possible to work full time and still not make enough to get by even meagerly. I'm honestly desperate to understand what people like you think should become of those people.
Bullshit. You're assuming he has the power to instantly stop those things. He doesn't, even if the will is there. The Republicans and even a lot of Democrats wouldn't let him, so it's not his fault for being unable to work within our system to fix something someone else did. All those things require at least the cooperation of Congress, and there is a large group of people there who will simply not cooperate on anything he wants to do, no matter what, because making him look bad and keeping him as ineffective as possible is their number one priority, even above saving the US from default and financial melt down. They would rather the whole ship sink because he is at the helm. The idea of a Democratic president being successful is so much worse to them that they would rather watch the entire Republic burn around them than be party to helping him save it.
Republicans hate Obama more than they love this country. There's is an ideology of suicide out of spite.
We like to blame companies that do shit like this, or the lawyers and lobbyists that enable and push them on, but the real problem is the underlying system that makes the appearance of such entities necessary and inevitable. In a world where software patents exist, you will have patent trolls. In a world where the idea of "intellectual property" is taken seriously, you will have lawyers defending said property. Fix the system, and these sorts of behaviors will go away as they will no longer be economically productive. We've let it fo unchecked for too long, and now the big players put money into the feedback loop of lobbying to perpetuate the same system that allows them to make money to lobby with; I admit that I am at a loss for a solution to fix the problem while working within established channels. The average person has virtually no knowledge or understanding of patent law, and has no interest in becoming informed. The minority of us who do care and are informed are easily ignored with no political consequences for our elected representatives.
It seems that the best we can do on a personal level is make the choice to disregard those bodies of laws that are illegitimate, while shielding ourselves from repercussions as best we can.
I generally make my own food, or buy from local shops, because I prefer to. Since I can't make my own wine, it takes too much land and labor, I buy it--but the price is reasonable from local sellers. $16 would be very cheap for the service I described, it could even be higher. The point I was making was that they'll never deliver that service, for ANY price, and if they were to deliver such a service they would think they deserved hundreds of dollars a month for it.
The point is, studios don't get it. They've been overpaid for years, and the gravy train is over. They need to get used to make a modest profit, and actually competing. Bloated executive salaries have to disappear, and the middlemen who grew fat on the previous business model must be culled.
I think workers are squeezed to work harder and longer so that managers and executives can take more and more pay while doing less. Look at income inequality, it is as high as ever and gets worse every year. People aren't working harder because they have to, they are working harder for less to enrich the elite. It's clearly the studios and the producers side that needs to get used to doing more for less, the working class has been pushed hard enough, it's time the pendulum swings back the other direction to restore some sanity and fairness to the system.
I bought a redbox DVD recently and it was a pretty terrible experience. The DVD wasn't a normal copy, it was some crippled "rental" version that had 15 minutes of unskippable ads. Not just previews, ADS, for video games and online services. Trying to skip through them gave me an infuriating "Not permitted" message.
Once again, the studios take a good thing and ruin it by trying to make an extra buck. I feel no guilt from torrenting because they constantly pull shit like that. Just give me the content I want at a fair price in the manner I want it delivered to me. Until they do that I'm happy to take it for free on my own terms.
$16/mo would be fair for being able to watch what you want, when you want...but that's not what you get with Netflix streaming. You get to watch what the studios approve of, for as long as they think you should be allowed to. Content trickles into the streaming library at a snails pace, and movies are frequently pulled after a few weeks. It's not all HD either, even newer movies which should be. Just because other options are also similarly overpriced does not make it right. The studios need to adjust to the new normal where they make less profit, have to deliver a higher quality of service, and give consumers the choices they want. The alternative is to keep taking massive hits from Bittorrent and non-sanctioned streaming sites. Until they realize that their stranglehold on content has ended and they need to compete with free (and that's possible, it really is), they're going to keep making mistakes like this.
Instead of raising prices and locking down selections and distribution channels they should be lowering prices, making things more reasonable, enticing people who haven't been paying to go back to legitimate channels. Release movies on Netflix and DVD at the same time, open up their entire back catalogue, make it available wherever and whenever the user wants.
But of course they won't do that. Some executive thinks their bottom line is better served by giving people less choices, charging more, suing people, and generally making the legal services the worst option.
1. You don't know what method I used to create my password; whether it is random, a simple word, or uses haystack padding 2. Brute forcing a password only tells you if the password you guess is right or wrong, not if it's close
So you might be able to code a theoretical algorithm that would shorten the search time down from trying the entire search space, but you have no logical place to start. There are an infinite number of random ways to pad a password, and the password stem itself can also be random. So you COULD code it into a password cracker, but that would require knowledge of how I created my password, which you don't have. Take for example the password "0qWa89([pop]{pop})" I could remember that fairly easily actually. The only "random" part is the first few characters the rest follows a logical (visual) pattern. Now that password is actually a little longer than I would say is necessary, but for something like a WPA key that typically only need be entered once it would work great, and still is just as unlikely to be brute forced than an entirely random password of the same length.
I changed my passwords according to Steve Gibson's new paradigm of password haystacking. The basic idea is that you start with a short, non-dictionary but still memorable base and then increase the length with padding that is memorable to you. The concept is based on the fact that length trumps entropy when defending against a brute force attack, and that simple length is just as effective as complex length as long as the entire password doesn't appear in a dictionary. He made a page dedicated to the concept, it's worth taking a look at.
WPA has no structural flaws. It's as strong as the passcode you use. If I use a random 64 character passcode with a full alphabet (upper and lower case alpha, numerals, special characters) then I would comfortably give you until the heat death of the universe to crack it, that same password. It's not going to happen. You'd be better off kidnapping the owner and beating it out of them, that at least COULD work.
If labor is to be restricted from freely leaving one country and coming to another, then so too should capital be restricted. If I cannot walk across the border and sell my labor where it is more highly valued, why should the business tycoon on the other side of the line be allowed to set up a factory in my country and exploit my lower standard of living and lower wages? You cannot have an ethical and just system where only one form of immigration is allowed to be effectively infinite and the other is not. The restrictions on capital moving between borders should be similar to the movement of labor. I'd prefer this to be accomplished by loosening the restrictions on the movement of labor, not by restricting capital flow. Letting capital walk the earth freely while we keep workers chained to their place of birth is one of the primary tools of the capitalist elite ruling class and the Global North countries to maintain their hegemony over all peoples. It is directly opposed to the principles of self-determination and progressive philosophy.
They can either take the price I am willing to pay, or I can take the content for free. The dictatorship of the content-cartels is ending, the consumer now has the upper hand--as it should be.
Which is why it's so important for us to protect filesharing and defeat efforts to expand the breadth and depth of copyright. Anti-P2P and Pro-copyright movements by business are going to be the hammer with which the content cartels beat consumers against the anvil of higher prices, more restrictions on selection, and more DRM. If net neutrality can be enacted/maintained, and P2P remains legal then there is an effective release valve to mitigate anti-consumer abuses by content industries. If they start to get too greedy we can always turn to P2P and then they get NOTHING. Forcing them to compete with Bittorrent and unsanctioned streaming sites pushes down cost and increases quality of service--two things the MPAA/RIAA absolutely hate, but they are great for consumers.
Competition doesn't work when the entire industry is locked down by the same group of companies and people, so we need a third party to force them to compete. We need filesharing and net neutrality.
Well what they've succeeded in doing, in my case at least, is to force me back to illegal (but which shouldn't be) methods such as copying DVDs from friends and filesharing. I'd happily pay $10 a month for the rest of my life for streaming if the selection was as good as their DVD only selection. It never was as good, but it was still a fair deal since I also got to have the odd DVD I couldn't stream. I don't care who forced the price increase, the bottom line is I have to pay more, and I refuse to. They can either take the amount of money I am willing to pay for their bits (like they had been), or I can take them for free, which I am happy to do without compunction. They chose the latter, their loss, I still get all the movies and TV shows I want.
Not mine, not for now. And if they do, I'll just use a combination of open APs and encryption. My ISP also doesn't impose any bandwidth caps and has no plans to. So I'm good to go for the foreseeable future.
Congratulations! I will be canceling my account at the end of this month and switching entirely to Bittorrent. Thanks for making it even harder to do things the "legitimate" way. You killed the golden goose. You had a service that was actually easier and more convenient to me than downloading DVD rips from bittorrent; the price was right, the selection was adequate (but only just), and it was worth it to me to pay for it. Not anymore, I'll just take what I want for free from the superior service known as P2P filesharing. I suggest everyone else do the same.
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Indeed, in that it will be around for a similar length of time, probably longer. Win7 will still be with us in 2020. Think about THAT.
It still displays the URL, it just only does so when needed. That's an improvement over the previous, always on, status bar because it gets out of the way when it's not displaying anything. Addon buttons can be placed in the browser chrome at the top. I never find myself needing to resize a browser window, except to make maximize it or fullscreen, or using Aero Snap, so I can't see how a smaller space to grab is an issue but maybe it is for you.
Copy/paste? That's a keyboard command, always has been. Who uses the edit menu listing for that? Also, in OS X, the menubar is always at the top of the screen anyway, so I never have a hard time finding it. Same with bookmarks. There is a Bookmarks menu item at the top of the screen. I appreciate more screen space being devoted to content, even on huge monitors.
I could see how this might be an issue on Windows and Linux, though.
I'm probably alone, but I rather like the new UI. Reminds me of Chrome. I switched to Chrome recently because FF5 on OS X was just crashing too much and had gotten too slow, might switch back if this works similarly faster and is stable again.
If UI designers listened to the tech community we'd still be using something that looked like an early Netscape. There was plenty of room for improvement there, and a lot of things just don't make sense anymore and never really did anyway. Permanent status bars are a good thing to be rid of, for instance.
Like Ford said, if I'd asked people what they wanted they would have told me a faster horse.
I would point you in the direction of learning about the sociological legacy of 100 years of slavery and then 100 years of discrimination (first legal and overt, and then "illegal" and covert), but I doubt you'd care to educate yourself. Is any particular white person responsible for any particular black person's bad personal choices? No, of course not, but you're just ignorant if you think a group of people can just shrug off 200 years of that kind of negative social pressures and become the equals of their former masters in a relatively short span of time. We'll still be dealing with these problems for another 200 years. The effects of slavery that was practiced thousands of years ago have left imprints that still exist today in populations, with negative socioeconomic consequences for them.
The real question isn't why things are this way but what can we do about it? What is the appropriate response to the facts and our history? And yes, "do nothing" is a valid answer but every path will have consequences. Ignoring the problem won't make it any better, it'll just kick the can down the road for another generation to deal with.
Again, it's possible to literally be working as many hours as you physically can, you need some minimum amount of hours a day to sleep and eat, and still not be able to support yourself and your family. Your opinion is basically to tell them, tough luck, you guys should starve for your poor choices. Even that is rather presumptuous of you, you don't know everyone's situation or what pushed them into their state in life. It's absolutely your right to be that callous and indifferent, I just wish more people would come out and say that's how they feel. You think it's perfectly acceptable for people to starve to death in the streets. So you should really own that position you have, don't be afraid of it if that's how you feel. I think that's the best thing our country is if The Right would stop pretending they are doing people a favor and everything will be OK. If they came out and said, yeah a lot of you people who are voting for us are going to probably die or be cast down into abject poverty if we ever get our way and can really control all the decisions, then we'll finally have a government that really reflects people's values. No one will willingly vote to regress to feudalism, they have to be tricked into that by being made to thing they will be better off. So intellectual honesty from Republicans is the best thing to prevent that from happening.
And thanks to Obamacare I can afford healthcare for the first time in my life, or at least will be able to soon when all the provisions go into effect. I would have been uninsured and uninsurable before that Act, so I am intensely grateful that it was passed even if it was not the full reform I was hoping for. I do trust the government to make it work because I am the government. You are the government. We are all the government. It's us, and it will be as good as we are as a people. Many other peoples around the world make it work and we are just a good as they are. There's nothing they can do that we cannot.
And what about people who DO already work full time but still are struggling? Should we cut them off from the little support they still have which keeps them from complete destitution or death? What about people who work full time but have no health care and can't afford another bill? You're not accounting for the fact that in America today it is possible to work full time and still not make enough to get by even meagerly. I'm honestly desperate to understand what people like you think should become of those people.
Bullshit. You're assuming he has the power to instantly stop those things. He doesn't, even if the will is there. The Republicans and even a lot of Democrats wouldn't let him, so it's not his fault for being unable to work within our system to fix something someone else did. All those things require at least the cooperation of Congress, and there is a large group of people there who will simply not cooperate on anything he wants to do, no matter what, because making him look bad and keeping him as ineffective as possible is their number one priority, even above saving the US from default and financial melt down. They would rather the whole ship sink because he is at the helm. The idea of a Democratic president being successful is so much worse to them that they would rather watch the entire Republic burn around them than be party to helping him save it.
Republicans hate Obama more than they love this country. There's is an ideology of suicide out of spite.
We like to blame companies that do shit like this, or the lawyers and lobbyists that enable and push them on, but the real problem is the underlying system that makes the appearance of such entities necessary and inevitable. In a world where software patents exist, you will have patent trolls. In a world where the idea of "intellectual property" is taken seriously, you will have lawyers defending said property. Fix the system, and these sorts of behaviors will go away as they will no longer be economically productive. We've let it fo unchecked for too long, and now the big players put money into the feedback loop of lobbying to perpetuate the same system that allows them to make money to lobby with; I admit that I am at a loss for a solution to fix the problem while working within established channels. The average person has virtually no knowledge or understanding of patent law, and has no interest in becoming informed. The minority of us who do care and are informed are easily ignored with no political consequences for our elected representatives.
It seems that the best we can do on a personal level is make the choice to disregard those bodies of laws that are illegitimate, while shielding ourselves from repercussions as best we can.
I generally make my own food, or buy from local shops, because I prefer to. Since I can't make my own wine, it takes too much land and labor, I buy it--but the price is reasonable from local sellers. $16 would be very cheap for the service I described, it could even be higher. The point I was making was that they'll never deliver that service, for ANY price, and if they were to deliver such a service they would think they deserved hundreds of dollars a month for it.
The point is, studios don't get it. They've been overpaid for years, and the gravy train is over. They need to get used to make a modest profit, and actually competing. Bloated executive salaries have to disappear, and the middlemen who grew fat on the previous business model must be culled.
I think workers are squeezed to work harder and longer so that managers and executives can take more and more pay while doing less. Look at income inequality, it is as high as ever and gets worse every year. People aren't working harder because they have to, they are working harder for less to enrich the elite. It's clearly the studios and the producers side that needs to get used to doing more for less, the working class has been pushed hard enough, it's time the pendulum swings back the other direction to restore some sanity and fairness to the system.
I bought a redbox DVD recently and it was a pretty terrible experience. The DVD wasn't a normal copy, it was some crippled "rental" version that had 15 minutes of unskippable ads. Not just previews, ADS, for video games and online services. Trying to skip through them gave me an infuriating "Not permitted" message.
Once again, the studios take a good thing and ruin it by trying to make an extra buck. I feel no guilt from torrenting because they constantly pull shit like that. Just give me the content I want at a fair price in the manner I want it delivered to me. Until they do that I'm happy to take it for free on my own terms.
It doesn't, which is why neither are good deals. Like I said, just because other options are also overpriced doesn't make it right.
$16/mo would be fair for being able to watch what you want, when you want...but that's not what you get with Netflix streaming. You get to watch what the studios approve of, for as long as they think you should be allowed to. Content trickles into the streaming library at a snails pace, and movies are frequently pulled after a few weeks. It's not all HD either, even newer movies which should be. Just because other options are also similarly overpriced does not make it right. The studios need to adjust to the new normal where they make less profit, have to deliver a higher quality of service, and give consumers the choices they want. The alternative is to keep taking massive hits from Bittorrent and non-sanctioned streaming sites. Until they realize that their stranglehold on content has ended and they need to compete with free (and that's possible, it really is), they're going to keep making mistakes like this.
Instead of raising prices and locking down selections and distribution channels they should be lowering prices, making things more reasonable, enticing people who haven't been paying to go back to legitimate channels. Release movies on Netflix and DVD at the same time, open up their entire back catalogue, make it available wherever and whenever the user wants.
But of course they won't do that. Some executive thinks their bottom line is better served by giving people less choices, charging more, suing people, and generally making the legal services the worst option.
oops! Slashdot destroyed some of my password padding because it used angle brackets. You get the point though.
It's not bullshit for two reasons:
1. You don't know what method I used to create my password; whether it is random, a simple word, or uses haystack padding
2. Brute forcing a password only tells you if the password you guess is right or wrong, not if it's close
So you might be able to code a theoretical algorithm that would shorten the search time down from trying the entire search space, but you have no logical place to start. There are an infinite number of random ways to pad a password, and the password stem itself can also be random. So you COULD code it into a password cracker, but that would require knowledge of how I created my password, which you don't have. Take for example the password "0qWa89([pop]{pop})" I could remember that fairly easily actually. The only "random" part is the first few characters the rest follows a logical (visual) pattern. Now that password is actually a little longer than I would say is necessary, but for something like a WPA key that typically only need be entered once it would work great, and still is just as unlikely to be brute forced than an entirely random password of the same length.
I changed my passwords according to Steve Gibson's new paradigm of password haystacking. The basic idea is that you start with a short, non-dictionary but still memorable base and then increase the length with padding that is memorable to you. The concept is based on the fact that length trumps entropy when defending against a brute force attack, and that simple length is just as effective as complex length as long as the entire password doesn't appear in a dictionary. He made a page dedicated to the concept, it's worth taking a look at.
https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
WPA has no structural flaws. It's as strong as the passcode you use. If I use a random 64 character passcode with a full alphabet (upper and lower case alpha, numerals, special characters) then I would comfortably give you until the heat death of the universe to crack it, that same password. It's not going to happen. You'd be better off kidnapping the owner and beating it out of them, that at least COULD work.
My government and the capitalist ruling class are mostly the same group of people.
If labor is to be restricted from freely leaving one country and coming to another, then so too should capital be restricted. If I cannot walk across the border and sell my labor where it is more highly valued, why should the business tycoon on the other side of the line be allowed to set up a factory in my country and exploit my lower standard of living and lower wages? You cannot have an ethical and just system where only one form of immigration is allowed to be effectively infinite and the other is not. The restrictions on capital moving between borders should be similar to the movement of labor. I'd prefer this to be accomplished by loosening the restrictions on the movement of labor, not by restricting capital flow. Letting capital walk the earth freely while we keep workers chained to their place of birth is one of the primary tools of the capitalist elite ruling class and the Global North countries to maintain their hegemony over all peoples. It is directly opposed to the principles of self-determination and progressive philosophy.
They can either take the price I am willing to pay, or I can take the content for free. The dictatorship of the content-cartels is ending, the consumer now has the upper hand--as it should be.
Which is why it's so important for us to protect filesharing and defeat efforts to expand the breadth and depth of copyright. Anti-P2P and Pro-copyright movements by business are going to be the hammer with which the content cartels beat consumers against the anvil of higher prices, more restrictions on selection, and more DRM. If net neutrality can be enacted/maintained, and P2P remains legal then there is an effective release valve to mitigate anti-consumer abuses by content industries. If they start to get too greedy we can always turn to P2P and then they get NOTHING. Forcing them to compete with Bittorrent and unsanctioned streaming sites pushes down cost and increases quality of service--two things the MPAA/RIAA absolutely hate, but they are great for consumers.
Competition doesn't work when the entire industry is locked down by the same group of companies and people, so we need a third party to force them to compete. We need filesharing and net neutrality.
Well what they've succeeded in doing, in my case at least, is to force me back to illegal (but which shouldn't be) methods such as copying DVDs from friends and filesharing. I'd happily pay $10 a month for the rest of my life for streaming if the selection was as good as their DVD only selection. It never was as good, but it was still a fair deal since I also got to have the odd DVD I couldn't stream. I don't care who forced the price increase, the bottom line is I have to pay more, and I refuse to. They can either take the amount of money I am willing to pay for their bits (like they had been), or I can take them for free, which I am happy to do without compunction. They chose the latter, their loss, I still get all the movies and TV shows I want.
Not mine, not for now. And if they do, I'll just use a combination of open APs and encryption. My ISP also doesn't impose any bandwidth caps and has no plans to. So I'm good to go for the foreseeable future.
Congratulations! I will be canceling my account at the end of this month and switching entirely to Bittorrent. Thanks for making it even harder to do things the "legitimate" way. You killed the golden goose. You had a service that was actually easier and more convenient to me than downloading DVD rips from bittorrent; the price was right, the selection was adequate (but only just), and it was worth it to me to pay for it. Not anymore, I'll just take what I want for free from the superior service known as P2P filesharing. I suggest everyone else do the same.