I pitched it as possibly draconian because they're basically proposing to kill the business of both WoSign and, more critically perhaps, Startcom. It might be presented as a one year timeout but, realistically, what business can survive for an entire year without actually being able to generate any revenue, and even if they survive that long have to jump through some pretty big hoops before they can start operations again - including having Mozilla appoint someone to audit them and their code?
What obligation does Mozilla have to include anyone's CA certificate with their products?
Therefore we propose that, starting on a date to be determined in the near future, Mozilla products will no longer trust newly-issued certificates issued by either of these two CA brands.
This doesn't mean that WoSign and Startcom can't issue certificates, it just means that end-users will need to do the extra step of importing and trusting their root certificates. You can view that as a bad thing, but in my opinion browsers currently ship with way too many trusted CA's. I have 176 separate root CA's in my keychain at the moment. People should be used to the process of adding additional certificates as needed instead of getting a huge set of defaults.
I don't want to pay for cable service, but Comcast requires me to sign-up for basic cable in order to get Internet service by cable modem. I'm paying a little more than $100/month for 25Mbit service which is about twice what I should be paying. Unfortunately there's no competition in my area, so I'm stuck with Comcast.
These days it is rare for an OS maker to also build the hardware that it runs on. Apple used to do that, but they switched to using standard Intel processors and GPUs a long time ago.
Hardware is hardware no matter what logo is stamped on the cover. The Intel chip that's inside your Mac is the same one that's inside your Windows desktop, which is the same one that's in your Linux system.
I'm back to buying television seasons on DVD and ripping them to a large portable drive.
Netflix was great at first, but I have slowly made my way through all of the their content that I was interested in. These days when I think of a movie I'd like to watch I'm finding that Netflix doesn't have it. I'm not really interested in any of their new content.
This study directly tested whether an activity tracker is a beneficial addition to weight loss counseling.
No, that's not what they did. That's what the OP is complaining about, there's no control group.
All participants were placed on low-calorie diets, prescribed increases in physical activity, and received group-counseling sessions on health and nutrition. ...At the first six-month mark, participants were divided into two subgroups: one that continued health-counseling sessions on a monthly basis and another that received a wearable device to monitor diet and physical activity.
...However, those who received health counseling throughout the study lost nearly twice as much weight as those who used wearable devices for three-quarters of it.
The group that got fitness trackers also stopped participating in the health-counseling sessions.
The conclusion that people using fitness trackers lose less weight isn't valid. Maybe the health-counseling sessions caused people to lose more weight? There should have been a group of people that got both fitness trackers and counseling.
I'm curious why Uber doesn't let the drivers set their own prices, that would seem to eliminate some of the complaints.
Allow drivers to set their own prices and view the prices of other drivers in the area. Customers get a list of drivers in the area with information like cost and estimated time to pick-up. They can choose to go with the cheap guy 15 minutes away, or the most-expensive driver that's just around the block.
That's what really bugs me about this situation, it's basically a million plus instances of wire fraud at a minimum. Wells Fargo's consumer bank should have been shut down. A two hundred million dollar fine will be considered just a cost of doing business to them.
With every other product in the world you have a refund period. Why should this game be any different?
Back in the day (the 80's) you used to be able to return games, music and movies just like other products. Then stores starting instituting no-return polices for these items because people were returning them in large numbers.
Many kids of my generation got burned reading video game magazines and then buying a stinker of a game. Retailers are not willing to take on the risk of people wanting to return a perfectly functioning game that they just happened to dislike.
I don't know about people needing 30-40 hours to realize there's no depth. I watched two or three hours of various people playing and it was pretty obvious that the game is just one big grind. All people were doing was mining, walking/flying around, learning alien words and buying/selling things at space stations.
People have a legitimate complaint about the developers talking up features that weren't there, but that's why you wait for the reviews and watch other people playing before you spend money on a game.
No, it is saying socio-economic factors make it less likely for African Americans to succeed, and this will not be changed for hundreds of years if society does not lend a hand.
If that were true, then why are we doling out extra assistance based on "race" instead of basing it on socio-economic status? The checkbox on the form asks to which "race" you belong, not how well off you are.
How exactly would you implement a moderation system like Slashdot's given how Twitter works? I suppose you could continuously compute a moderation score for each tweet, but that would become unwieldy pretty fast.
Twitter encourages what is basically a reflection attack. A user sends out one tweet and sometimes receives an order or two in magnitude (or more) of replies. Users like it when the replies affirm their tweet and don't like it when the replies are abusive (whatever that means to the person in question). How do you allow one without also allowing the other?
I suppose you could allow people to block direct replies when the replying user is not followed by the person who sent the tweet. That would probably cut down on the amount of abuse making it back to the user's feed at the cost of hiding some content. Have a second feed for viewing unfiltered replies.
15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20So then, by their fruit you will recognize them. -- Matthew 7:15 - 20
Just compare how Muhammed treated the woman who confessed to adultery to how Jesus treated the woman who confessed to him. It's pretty plain to see which one of them loves and which one of them hates.
Slashdot Mirror
Some industries have more stringent reporting requirements than others.
For example, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights maintains a site where they post any personal healthcare information breaches affecting 500 or more individuals.
What obligation does Mozilla have to include anyone's CA certificate with their products?
Therefore we propose that, starting on a date to be determined in the near future, Mozilla products will no longer trust newly-issued certificates issued by either of these two CA brands.
This doesn't mean that WoSign and Startcom can't issue certificates, it just means that end-users will need to do the extra step of importing and trusting their root certificates. You can view that as a bad thing, but in my opinion browsers currently ship with way too many trusted CA's. I have 176 separate root CA's in my keychain at the moment. People should be used to the process of adding additional certificates as needed instead of getting a huge set of defaults.
So buy the DVD version instead of Blu-Ray. VLC and Dragon Player's upscaling work quite well. Besides, SD content is good enough for many people.
I don't want to pay for cable service, but Comcast requires me to sign-up for basic cable in order to get Internet service by cable modem. I'm paying a little more than $100/month for 25Mbit service which is about twice what I should be paying. Unfortunately there's no competition in my area, so I'm stuck with Comcast.
These days it is rare for an OS maker to also build the hardware that it runs on. Apple used to do that, but they switched to using standard Intel processors and GPUs a long time ago.
Hardware is hardware no matter what logo is stamped on the cover. The Intel chip that's inside your Mac is the same one that's inside your Windows desktop, which is the same one that's in your Linux system.
I'm back to buying television seasons on DVD and ripping them to a large portable drive.
Netflix was great at first, but I have slowly made my way through all of the their content that I was interested in. These days when I think of a movie I'd like to watch I'm finding that Netflix doesn't have it. I'm not really interested in any of their new content.
This study directly tested whether an activity tracker is a beneficial addition to weight loss counseling.
No, that's not what they did. That's what the OP is complaining about, there's no control group.
All participants were placed on low-calorie diets, prescribed increases in physical activity, and received group-counseling sessions on health and nutrition.
...At the first six-month mark, participants were divided into two subgroups: one that continued health-counseling sessions on a monthly basis and another that received a wearable device to monitor diet and physical activity.
...However, those who received health counseling throughout the study lost nearly twice as much weight as those who used wearable devices for three-quarters of it.
The group that got fitness trackers also stopped participating in the health-counseling sessions.
The conclusion that people using fitness trackers lose less weight isn't valid. Maybe the health-counseling sessions caused people to lose more weight? There should have been a group of people that got both fitness trackers and counseling.
We need to find this Courage person at Apple and kick his ass.
I'm curious why Uber doesn't let the drivers set their own prices, that would seem to eliminate some of the complaints.
Allow drivers to set their own prices and view the prices of other drivers in the area. Customers get a list of drivers in the area with information like cost and estimated time to pick-up. They can choose to go with the cheap guy 15 minutes away, or the most-expensive driver that's just around the block.
Are we going to have special payroll police, with a list of professions, qualifications, and certifications, with a minimum salary for each?
There's already been talk of exactly that sort of thing due to the myth that men earn more than women for the same job.
Obama's New Equal-Pay Rules
They may not have a choice, is it still acceptable then?
Ever hear the saying, "beggars can't be choosers?"
That's what really bugs me about this situation, it's basically a million plus instances of wire fraud at a minimum. Wells Fargo's consumer bank should have been shut down. A two hundred million dollar fine will be considered just a cost of doing business to them.
I'm not sure where you live, but large cities do still have community banks.
A two second Google search found this article, The Best Small Business Banks in Chicago. I don't see any big banks on that list.
They could have reported the fraud.
I used to work for their investment bank and I share your feelings about the company.
This story should cheer you up a little.
Homeowner Forecloses on Bank of America.
Isn't $135,000 kind of low for a Director of Marketing position in the Bay area?
There's also a lot of print material that just doesn't work on an e-reader's screen. Books of photography for example.
Doesn't the backlight hurt your eyes in low-light situations?
Yes and your e-reader's display is crap compared to a printed page.
With every other product in the world you have a refund period. Why should this game be any different?
Back in the day (the 80's) you used to be able to return games, music and movies just like other products. Then stores starting instituting no-return polices for these items because people were returning them in large numbers.
Many kids of my generation got burned reading video game magazines and then buying a stinker of a game. Retailers are not willing to take on the risk of people wanting to return a perfectly functioning game that they just happened to dislike.
I don't know about people needing 30-40 hours to realize there's no depth. I watched two or three hours of various people playing and it was pretty obvious that the game is just one big grind. All people were doing was mining, walking/flying around, learning alien words and buying/selling things at space stations.
People have a legitimate complaint about the developers talking up features that weren't there, but that's why you wait for the reviews and watch other people playing before you spend money on a game.
No, it is saying socio-economic factors make it less likely for African Americans to succeed, and this will not be changed for hundreds of years if society does not lend a hand.
If that were true, then why are we doling out extra assistance based on "race" instead of basing it on socio-economic status? The checkbox on the form asks to which "race" you belong, not how well off you are.
How exactly would you implement a moderation system like Slashdot's given how Twitter works? I suppose you could continuously compute a moderation score for each tweet, but that would become unwieldy pretty fast.
Twitter encourages what is basically a reflection attack. A user sends out one tweet and sometimes receives an order or two in magnitude (or more) of replies. Users like it when the replies affirm their tweet and don't like it when the replies are abusive (whatever that means to the person in question). How do you allow one without also allowing the other?
I suppose you could allow people to block direct replies when the replying user is not followed by the person who sent the tweet. That would probably cut down on the amount of abuse making it back to the user's feed at the cost of hiding some content. Have a second feed for viewing unfiltered replies.
Just compare how Muhammed treated the woman who confessed to adultery to how Jesus treated the woman who confessed to him. It's pretty plain to see which one of them loves and which one of them hates.
At least you get ads that are somewhat relevant. I only see ads for things I've already purchased.