To be fair, it's more like unlocking the cubboard, taking some cookies out for the kids, relocking it, and then finding our your kids ransacked it because the relocking takes 15 minutes to take effect.
At least, that's how I imagine parents would perceive it.
Flash is sandboxed in the most recent version, which should lead to better protection against exploits against Flash. And for a while now Flash should only crash itself if it crashes; not the whole browser.
The summary specifically cites online gaming, where you will send MANY packets a second to another server, which may very well be hosted from another home user's computer.
Valve discovered that if they release more translations of a game on the day of release instead of delaying for a few months, piracy drops and legit purchases go up. Turns out game crackers translate the games too.
Are you sure you're seeing leaks? Firefox will use a certain % of free memory for cache. Just because memory goes up and doesn't come back down immediately doesn't mean the application is leaking. Mozilla's position would seem to be, and I entirely agree, that as long as you have the memory you might as well put it to good use instead of letting it waste away as free memory.
Why would Docs have it? Every browser is going to print a little differently, there's no way for Docs to know what exactly to display.
As for Google, I agree that it is taking annoyingly long (there is a feature hidden behind a flag but last I checked it didn't do anything) but they may be trying to get it to work properly with Google Cloud Print, which would add a nice layer of complexity onto it.
Basically the idea of P=NP is summed up in this question: For any problem where it is easy and quick to verify if a potential solution is correct or not, is it also possible to find the solution in the same timeframe?
In compsci anywhere you have to brute force something, right now the answer is "No" but if it turns out to be true it would have the potential to make crypto useless (since crypto relies on N being a very large number, large enough to where it's not worth it to spend NP time breaking the encryption, but where P allows for realtime encryption/decryption.
I read a car example somewhere, probably slashdot. OK so if you have misplaced your car keys, this is a P!=NP problem. It's easy to confirm whether or not you have found your keys at any point in the search, but finding the keys themselves likely will require looking through all possible locations where they could be.
A possible P=NP variant would be if you had a buzzer attached to the keys triggered to make noise when you clap, then you just clap and walk to the buzzing. No wasted effort searching, P=NP (or at least, as close as you can get).
Google's already removed the field from a newer version of the entry form. will not store any collected numbers, and has explained the need for the city of birth (to help prove US citizenship as required by the contest).
It is certainly possible to check plugin versions through JS alone, though from reading mozilla blogs I understand it's tricky since not all plugins report their version numbers the same way. Mozilla's Plugin Check.
Addendum addendum: I just remembered there are third-party IE-engine plugins, but web pages cannot use the plugin component, only the extension can invoke it (when the user presses the "IE engine" button, an extension page is opened which invokes the plugin). This WMP plugin can be invoked at will by web pages.
Oh yeah addendum: It's not hosted on the Chrome Web Store, probably because it uses a plugin. Extensions using plugins have to undergo manual review to ensure they don't have gaping security holes, and THIS plugin launches WMP, which is perhaps too large a code base to test thoroughly for that kind of thing (if Google would even want to). Microsoft probably didn't want to risk extension rejection by Google, I think.
It looks like it's just a NSAPI plugin, with a content script that converts video tags to object tags for all mp4, wmv, mp4v, and m4v files, and uses Windows Media Player to handle them. It's a bit of a misnomer to say it's HTML5; basically it converts the HTML5 back to HTML4.
The best part is that it looks like the plugin can be invoked manually through an object tag, no video tag required. Now all three browsers (IE, Firefox w/a Microsoft addon, Chrome) can have WMP invoked at will, unsandboxed (Plugins aren't sandboxed by Chrome since most wouldn't work correctly, the one exception being a modified Flash). Great.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope
I see no addons or plugins here.
To be fair, it's more like unlocking the cubboard, taking some cookies out for the kids, relocking it, and then finding our your kids ransacked it because the relocking takes 15 minutes to take effect.
At least, that's how I imagine parents would perceive it.
Actually the Wiimote is pretty good for aiming, once you get used to it. Only flaw is turning is slow.
First thing I read: "The site is based on MediaWiki and is no longer collecting deleted articles or being updated."
Flash is sandboxed in the most recent version, which should lead to better protection against exploits against Flash. And for a while now Flash should only crash itself if it crashes; not the whole browser.
The summary specifically cites online gaming, where you will send MANY packets a second to another server, which may very well be hosted from another home user's computer.
Valve discovered that if they release more translations of a game on the day of release instead of delaying for a few months, piracy drops and legit purchases go up. Turns out game crackers translate the games too.
If your site does not support IE6 you might want something like this to let users know they can get more out of your site by upgrading.
Download the IE8 installer manually and run it. If it doesn't work at least you may be able to get a more sensical error message out of it.
To ensure this information is never stored in the first place.
Shhh don't give them ideas!
Are you sure you're seeing leaks? Firefox will use a certain % of free memory for cache. Just because memory goes up and doesn't come back down immediately doesn't mean the application is leaking. Mozilla's position would seem to be, and I entirely agree, that as long as you have the memory you might as well put it to good use instead of letting it waste away as free memory.
Why would Docs have it? Every browser is going to print a little differently, there's no way for Docs to know what exactly to display.
As for Google, I agree that it is taking annoyingly long (there is a feature hidden behind a flag but last I checked it didn't do anything) but they may be trying to get it to work properly with Google Cloud Print, which would add a nice layer of complexity onto it.
Basically the idea of P=NP is summed up in this question: For any problem where it is easy and quick to verify if a potential solution is correct or not, is it also possible to find the solution in the same timeframe?
In compsci anywhere you have to brute force something, right now the answer is "No" but if it turns out to be true it would have the potential to make crypto useless (since crypto relies on N being a very large number, large enough to where it's not worth it to spend NP time breaking the encryption, but where P allows for realtime encryption/decryption.
I read a car example somewhere, probably slashdot. OK so if you have misplaced your car keys, this is a P!=NP problem. It's easy to confirm whether or not you have found your keys at any point in the search, but finding the keys themselves likely will require looking through all possible locations where they could be.
A possible P=NP variant would be if you had a buzzer attached to the keys triggered to make noise when you clap, then you just clap and walk to the buzzing. No wasted effort searching, P=NP (or at least, as close as you can get).
If you've seen how Chrome does it, Firefox does it the same way now.
Except it's properly sandboxed so web code doesn't have admin-level access to your entire system.
I'll give them my password! But I was taught to change my password if I accidentally show it to someone, so I guess I should go change it now, too!
Google's already removed the field from a newer version of the entry form. will not store any collected numbers, and has explained the need for the city of birth (to help prove US citizenship as required by the contest).
It is certainly possible to check plugin versions through JS alone, though from reading mozilla blogs I understand it's tricky since not all plugins report their version numbers the same way. Mozilla's Plugin Check.
Steam runs fine under Wine, especially with the new webkit browser engine.
Except the answers are displayed in nice clear OCR-able text...
Addendum addendum: I just remembered there are third-party IE-engine plugins, but web pages cannot use the plugin component, only the extension can invoke it (when the user presses the "IE engine" button, an extension page is opened which invokes the plugin). This WMP plugin can be invoked at will by web pages.
Oh yeah addendum: It's not hosted on the Chrome Web Store, probably because it uses a plugin. Extensions using plugins have to undergo manual review to ensure they don't have gaping security holes, and THIS plugin launches WMP, which is perhaps too large a code base to test thoroughly for that kind of thing (if Google would even want to). Microsoft probably didn't want to risk extension rejection by Google, I think.
It looks like it's just a NSAPI plugin, with a content script that converts video tags to object tags for all mp4, wmv, mp4v, and m4v files, and uses Windows Media Player to handle them. It's a bit of a misnomer to say it's HTML5; basically it converts the HTML5 back to HTML4.
The best part is that it looks like the plugin can be invoked manually through an object tag, no video tag required. Now all three browsers (IE, Firefox w/a Microsoft addon, Chrome) can have WMP invoked at will, unsandboxed (Plugins aren't sandboxed by Chrome since most wouldn't work correctly, the one exception being a modified Flash). Great.