Trouble is, that would only protect against this particular exploit. All the while the:visited property can be probed by a site's CSS or javascript the possibility of new exploits remains. See my comment above for another solution.
is there really a good need or use for a hidden flag on iframes at all?? I honestly don't know, maybe its one of the more handy features in there, and I just don't see it from the user side of things, but 'hidden' is not an attribute I would ever imagine wanting on a frame or iframe...
With CSS you can hide anything you want to, in a number of different ways, and there are myriad reasons for wanting to do this. Most ajax sites would look a lot worse if the frames they use to silently load your data in the background were suddenly visible.
I for one would be quite happy if browsers disabled the ability to use the:visited pseudoclass in your own CSS, which would kill this one stone dead. It's hard enough getting designers to specify:hover states for links, and practically impossible to get:active states out of them - if they're even needed, which is debatable. Who bothers with:visited states? In anything other than body text, users are unlikely to understand why a certain link looks different anyway. It is occasionally useful to spot that a link embedded in text is one you've already followed, but invariably this is the browser's default styling showing through. Perhaps values of 'inherit' should be allowed, so you can turn off the browser default, but otherwise... pfff! get rid of it.
I don't mind paying a few quid extra month on my ISP bill if everyone ends up with better quality cable, but do we need it? The GGP seems to think we don't and that BT is just gouging. OTOH given that bandwidth demand is only going to go up in the coming years, we should probably just upgrade anyway. Don't really see what this has to do with the BBC, though.
Thirded. Be technical support is very good and, as you say, the broadband speeds are the fastest I have experienced with a domestic ISP. I would thoroughly recommend them.
Well the iPlayer doesn't appear to work over 3G (wifi only on my phone) but I can't find a reliable news source for this - are the BBC blocking mobile ISPs, or are those ISPs blocking iPlayer? There seems no good reason for the BBC to do it AFAICS.
Unmetered is not quite the same as unlimited. IIRC the terms of both phone contracts limit call durations to an hour, but (with BT's at least) you are allowed to call them back again immediately. It's designed for voice use - might even say this somewhere - not computer connections.
You're spot-on about the bandwidth stuff, but why do you still have a metered landline phone? Mine has been unmetered for about 5 years, first with Virgin, now BT.
Firefox users in Europe are in the majority now, and IE only has a minority of less than 36% market share.
That makes for a nice headline, but is quite misleading: according to your link, FF3 has overtaken IE7 only because IE users are in the middle of upgrading to IE8. Taken together IE users account for around 50% of the market. Which is already an impressive statstic - no need to over-egg it.
I don't have any experience of Bose speakers, but I have a pair of their noise cancelling headphones and used to own a pair of their earbuds - both of which were gifts, I hasten to add. Much as I love music, I am not a hi-fi buff and wouldn't spend £250 on headphones. Still, there have been innumerable occasions when I have heard details in familiar songs I had never noticed before in hundreds of plays. The headphones (QuietComfort 3s) are a little bass-heavy, if anything, but the buds sounded to me absolutely perfect (they were quite tough but eventually did the same thing as every pair of earbuds I've ever owned - bar the ones I shut in the car door - and perished at the point where the 3.5mm plug joined on to the wire).
I don't remember the ads for Wall.E too clearly, but I think we are meant to see that in his long isolation he has begun to exceed his programming, or perhaps twist it in unintended ways. Clearly he wasn't initially programmed to enjoy musicals.
Nice observations! The Incredibles is my favourite Pixar film, but I hope they don't do a sequel. The main problem with these sequels (Ice Age is another that should have been left well alone) is that the circumstances which bring the characters to where they are by the end is what makes them appealing, and what makes the story work. When the curtain rises on the sequel, they've already arrived, and - unless you get Joss Whedon to write your script* - no further character development seems possible or even wanted.
(*Actually, I've changed my mind - please let's have an Incredibles sequel scripted by Joss Whedon!)
Whether Wall.E worked as a film depends mostly on the central character himself. It seemed you didn't like him because you were preoccupied with the question of how he became sentient, a futile question as essentially Pixar just asked us to suspend our disbelief about that. *All* the robotic characters had sentience of some sort. Get over it.
The main disappointment about the film for me was that once we reached the humans, the graphics began to look like every other Hollywood animation.
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Not if you've disabled javascript.
Trouble is, that would only protect against this particular exploit. All the while the :visited property can be probed by a site's CSS or javascript the possibility of new exploits remains. See my comment above for another solution.
is there really a good need or use for a hidden flag on iframes at all??
I honestly don't know, maybe its one of the more handy features in there, and I just don't see it from the user side of things, but 'hidden' is not an attribute I would ever imagine wanting on a frame or iframe...
With CSS you can hide anything you want to, in a number of different ways, and there are myriad reasons for wanting to do this. Most ajax sites would look a lot worse if the frames they use to silently load your data in the background were suddenly visible.
I for one would be quite happy if browsers disabled the ability to use the :visited pseudoclass in your own CSS, which would kill this one stone dead. It's hard enough getting designers to specify :hover states for links, and practically impossible to get :active states out of them - if they're even needed, which is debatable. Who bothers with :visited states? In anything other than body text, users are unlikely to understand why a certain link looks different anyway. It is occasionally useful to spot that a link embedded in text is one you've already followed, but invariably this is the browser's default styling showing through. Perhaps values of 'inherit' should be allowed, so you can turn off the browser default, but otherwise... pfff! get rid of it.
I don't mind paying a few quid extra month on my ISP bill if everyone ends up with better quality cable, but do we need it? The GGP seems to think we don't and that BT is just gouging. OTOH given that bandwidth demand is only going to go up in the coming years, we should probably just upgrade anyway. Don't really see what this has to do with the BBC, though.
And I will take all the little bits and I will jump on them, until... until they've had enough.
You still have to pay line rental to BT.
Thirded. Be technical support is very good and, as you say, the broadband speeds are the fastest I have experienced with a domestic ISP. I would thoroughly recommend them.
So all the BBC has to do is call their troll and refuse to pay. Is BT really going to risk their customers jumping ship by blocking iPlayer?
Well the iPlayer doesn't appear to work over 3G (wifi only on my phone) but I can't find a reliable news source for this - are the BBC blocking mobile ISPs, or are those ISPs blocking iPlayer? There seems no good reason for the BBC to do it AFAICS.
Unmetered is not quite the same as unlimited. IIRC the terms of both phone contracts limit call durations to an hour, but (with BT's at least) you are allowed to call them back again immediately. It's designed for voice use - might even say this somewhere - not computer connections.
1. Sign up users who don't use their connection much
2. Price War
3 ???
4. Loss
Nice idea, but the BBC is a public service and would probably be violating parts of its charter by doing this.
You're spot-on about the bandwidth stuff, but why do you still have a metered landline phone? Mine has been unmetered for about 5 years, first with Virgin, now BT.
Firefox users in Europe are in the majority now, and IE only has a minority of less than 36% market share.
That makes for a nice headline, but is quite misleading: according to your link, FF3 has overtaken IE7 only because IE users are in the middle of upgrading to IE8. Taken together IE users account for around 50% of the market. Which is already an impressive statstic - no need to over-egg it.
Is that you, Ix?
Is that the sound it makes when a Hrung collapses?
.. how easy it is, with admin/root access to a PC OR physical access to put ANYTHING you want onto it.
Fixed!
Since he was installing video software he probably did a desktop search for video files.
Unlikely. He's handing out his stash-hiding advice to strangers on t' interwebs; I'm sure his kids will get an earful.
I don't have any experience of Bose speakers, but I have a pair of their noise cancelling headphones and used to own a pair of their earbuds - both of which were gifts, I hasten to add. Much as I love music, I am not a hi-fi buff and wouldn't spend £250 on headphones. Still, there have been innumerable occasions when I have heard details in familiar songs I had never noticed before in hundreds of plays. The headphones (QuietComfort 3s) are a little bass-heavy, if anything, but the buds sounded to me absolutely perfect (they were quite tough but eventually did the same thing as every pair of earbuds I've ever owned - bar the ones I shut in the car door - and perished at the point where the 3.5mm plug joined on to the wire).
Earmuffs made out of Bose Einstein Condensate? Fluffy ones, of course.
I don't remember the ads for Wall.E too clearly, but I think we are meant to see that in his long isolation he has begun to exceed his programming, or perhaps twist it in unintended ways. Clearly he wasn't initially programmed to enjoy musicals.
Nice observations! The Incredibles is my favourite Pixar film, but I hope they don't do a sequel. The main problem with these sequels (Ice Age is another that should have been left well alone) is that the circumstances which bring the characters to where they are by the end is what makes them appealing, and what makes the story work. When the curtain rises on the sequel, they've already arrived, and - unless you get Joss Whedon to write your script* - no further character development seems possible or even wanted.
(*Actually, I've changed my mind - please let's have an Incredibles sequel scripted by Joss Whedon!)
Whether Wall.E worked as a film depends mostly on the central character himself. It seemed you didn't like him because you were preoccupied with the question of how he became sentient, a futile question as essentially Pixar just asked us to suspend our disbelief about that. *All* the robotic characters had sentience of some sort. Get over it.
The main disappointment about the film for me was that once we reached the humans, the graphics began to look like every other Hollywood animation.