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Pale Moon is decent. Or would be, except for the frustrations with addon compatibility. (Suffice to say, the Australis update pushed breaking changes to add-ons, in such a way that you cannot easily support both pre-Australis and post-Australis)
> Even better example, "Heavy things fall faster". Or "The sun revolves around the earth".

Except that those two particular examples are very easy to explain to (nearly) everybody:
1- you think that heavy things fall faster because this is true when there is air resistance.

2-Q:if you have one 'fixed' object and one rotating object, what do you see from the rotating object?
A: the same thing as from the 'fixed' object.
So is it the Sun which is revolving or the Earth?
You don't feel like the Earth is moving but observation of remotes stars have shown us that this is the case.

Which is NOT the case for QM!
A good example: QM 'spooky action at distance', QM predicts that there are non-local instantaneous (FTL) effects, but they cannot be used to send data FTL and this has been measured to be true (mostly).
If their review are as thorough as Android app's one, they cost about nothing.
Experienced it too, I just realize how 'normal' it felt even though not long ago everything would have gone down. <notgratefulenoughme/>
I very much doubt Pale Moon will, based on their reaction to previous restrictions and removals of features. I know that it would be hypocritical if they did.

Waterfox... I don't know.
Of course this is true, but the OP's screenshot is a Fiddler screenshot. It's safe to say the calls in question do use the proxy configuration.

For completeness, I ran Wireshark and didn't see any outbound HTTP (or otherwise abnormal) traffic while searching from the Start menu.
Afternoon laughter, thanks :D
" We will also not provide credit in any advisories we might issue. You can’t really expect us to say “thank you for breaking the license agreement.”"

This is so pretentious I am completely baffled. Are people at Oracle so full of themselves?
Yes I have read the article.

The Swedish prosecutor has had at least 3 years to organize questioning in the embassy but has left it until the last moment. Now it appears there is not enough time to sort out the (obviously complex) details. Whose fault it that?

The obvious counter-argument to 'calling the bluff' is that the prosecutor has kept the case in limbo for 5 years and then left it too late to organise questioning at the embassy. This allows the prosecutor to save face, and maximises Swedish US relations.
A fun little trip on a related note is the Alaska Ferry (Alaska Marine Highway I think) which leaves Seattle (well, suburb) and spends about 4 days heading up to Alaska. You can sleep on the deck with a sleeping bag (or in a little heated patio) for real cheap and get great views with chances of whales. Cost is similar per day.

Cool little blog link:
http://jackandjilltravel.com/roughing-it-on-the-alaskan-stat...
Didn't Chrome take this same approach? I suspect that if multiple major browser vendors are pursuing it, it's probably to address some issue. It's not like Mozilla just thought, "let's limit people more, that will make them happy." This doesn't make it the right approach, but it does make it understandable.

So I suspect it's to the benefit of the "average user" if that's what you are asking.

I'm going to step outside of HN for a minute and say that in my work I work with people who rely on the Internet, but have no concept, and I mean none, how it works. They do not understand that when they create a Yahoo email account that no one can help them when they forget their password. They do not understand that if you type "yaho com" that you are not going to get anywhere (until auto search came along, that is). I've come to realize that Internet safety is not a simple set of rules, it's a complex understanding of the whole ecosystem that can't be readily taught in the time I have with these users (and never taught to some). I can't explain why I click on links in some emails and not others, so I just say "don't click on links". I can't explain why you shouldn't use the same password everywhere to someone who needs to reset their password literally every time they log on, so I just tell them to use the one their friend or child has written down for them. It's terrible, but I get it when vendors draw a line in the sand and say "this is to protect those users."

That said, as a user who does understand, there's an element of frustration. Hopefully they bury an override option somewhere, or maybe just add it to their ESR but I doubt I would ever use it.
There has got to be a middle ground where the backend of such application is build on something that is faster and safer while the front end adopts the web languages (HTML/CSS/JS). Specially for application that are not graphically intensive by default.
Worth reposting the link from the article which explains what Assange actually did (or was alleged to have done): http://jackofkent.com/2012/09/the-detail-of-the-accusations-...
Now to register all those names with the .xyz TLD...
"Fixability. Only Oracle can fix vulnerabilities: SASO cannot. We have the code: they don’t."

Just one of many nuggets in this other arrogant posting. If somebody needs input why FOSS is better than closed source have a look into this one also.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr. is the Manhattan district attorney.
François Molins is the Paris chief prosecutor. Adrian
Leppard is the commissioner of the City of London Police.
Javier Zaragoza is the chief prosecutor of the High Court
of Spain.

These are the criminals from whom we protect ourselves by encrypting our data. Mr. Vance, especially, should be cognizant of constitutional guarantees to be "secure in [our] persons, houses, papers, and effects", and that full disk encryption provides technology to that effect. It's awful that someone was murdered, and it's not right that the murderer is still at large, but trying to bypass individuals' Fourth Amendment rights via third parties such as Apple or Google is even more dangerous because it threatens our entire society's freedom---never mind the fact that it would put users of those devices at risk when they are stolen or lost.
> what does "slimmed down" Google mean?

Hopefully less likely to run afoul of antitrust regulation.
What are your best domain names?
Curious to see what domain names people are holding, and what the vision was behind registering or acquiring it.
Even if you find a place that's free of most foreseeable natural catastrophes (my own homeland, Uruguay, is such an example), you sometimes can't avoid political or human-caused ones (wars, dictatorships, the taxman :P etc.)

So the "be prepared" advice elsewhere in the thread sounds good. If I ever move to California I'll try to find an earthquake-safe place.
Until I clicked this link, it didn't occur to me that this blog post was only posted and then deleted in the last couple of hours.

My original thought was: "What an interesting artifact! So much has changed in recent years since open source databases have become a viable alternative to Oracle."
"If only people would let us put cameras in their homes, we could protect them from crime." - Fake Quote
I'm pretty surprised Oracle deleted the post, it feels like a great representation of the company and their values.
>customers Should Not and Must Not reverse engineer our code. However, if there is an actual security vulnerability, we will fix it. We may not like how it was found but we aren’t going to ignore a real problem...We will also not provide credit in any advisories we might issue. You can’t really expect us to say “thank you for breaking the license agreement.”

Until I read this, I didn't think it was possible for me to hate Oracle more, because I'm forced to work with their software and that makes me already hate them quite a bit.
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Yeah, you can probably say the exact same thing about internet article comments. It's pretty hard to put the breaks on the internet hate machine specifically because there's no real connection between semi-anonymous internet rage and loss of social status. Facebook is a different case.

Emotions tend to reinforce each other the more they're learned and practiced.
If you are expecting working code to be as elegant as a "Swiss clock," you might want to reconsider what the goal actually is.

Certainly there is something for coding in this way. Just as it can hold a certain delight to have an elegant looking watch. There is a good chance of overbuilding when I see this level of coding from colleagues. Myself included.
the level of constructive criticism here just blows me away. my god what an amazing community
It should be noted that both sides blame the other for the delay.

It is also self-evident that this process was (foreseeably) complex and the Swedish prosecutor left it until the last moment to sort out.
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Got to love a police where they assume not being able to access a device encourages crime. Parts of the article state that being able to access items used by criminals is important but the majority of phones are never used as such so by their own phrasing they should never have access to one.

I really will loathe the day where I am required by the cell phone company to take an update which negates the current encryption my phone has. People who think that day might not come are kidding themselves.
Hmmmm. That got me thinking about spam, and I went off on a tangent.

What if an email could be parsed in such a way as to generate seed data for an an NP problem which the sender must solve and supply the answer in the in the email header...

If the receiver can instantly dismiss any emails that provide an answer that can not be verified, then that could have a huge impact on the the spammers ability to send spam in the volumes they currently enjoy. A penalty of 5 seconds per email is unlikely to impact ordinary users, but would be a major pain for spammers.

Also, could this be used to throttle user input to mitigate brute force attacks?
City of London? That's rich.

The United Kingdom is ground zero for bulk data collection. They're been keyword-grabbing phone calls in real time, and had London under near total video surveillance since the 90s.
Sure, but what else could they say publicly? Of course the most reasonable thing would be not to say anything at all and work together with the credible sources and provide something better than a threatening legal letter.

Lets just hope the black hat hackers read this and comply so we can continue to have "safe" Oracle software.
I felt it was safe to assume, for the analogy, that we were talking mechanical watches.
I find it strange that, nobody has mentioned MQTT so far in this discussion. Isn't MQTT also a 'competitor' for XMPP, besides JSON-over-Websockets? especially on mobile devices ?
Foreign investors buying up real-estate don't do it for the love of it. They seek returns by renting out.

And even though real-estate value has increased a lot. Rental income from these properties didn't increase at the same rate. Tenants can't afford to pay rent landlords would like to charge so there is downwards pressure on returns these properties can generate.

Not to mention, interest rates are at record low. What's going to happen when they go up? Not only demand for real-estate will be lower, there are borrowers who have accumulated too much debt to buy real-estate. They might be simply forced to sell as they wouldn't be able to service their loans anymore.

Nobody can predict the future but I'm not going to be surprised if we witness another real-estate crash in 2-3 years.
@(%*@ I can afford an airprort. Crazy.

rnmps : I always loved airports.. but mostly to enjoy watching the operations and people about to leave or go back to their lives.
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Actually :s/promises/observables, given the state changes over time.
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Their IT probably have an automatic preemptive policy of 404'ing any pages that become "popular"--any such content is is pretty much guaranteed to reflect poorly on their organization. False positives can always be waved away by a euphemism for a transient technical error ex post facto.
You can explore that here: http://tinyurl.com/nksygxp (needs flash)
Or Bencode. Does anything use Bencode besides torrent files?
Yes, I meant other livery cars. They're cornering the market.
I love python community, but i always thought that it is built only on people's enthusiasm...
What's fucked up? Sweden's justice system seems to be far superior to the US's—both in taking very seriously charges of sexual assault that would probably be ignored in the US, and in taking very seriously the rights of the accused.

Assange has squandered his chance to clear his name, and sure seems to be at the least a creepy dude.
Since I am unskilled I wonder how I became so wealthy. Then I hire a team to build the things I want.

The things I want to build: Firefox with the 3.6 or older interface and uses libavcodec for video decoding; a clone of Windows Explorer for Linux; a perfect clone of Winamp; media library software that links together all the best features of existing programs.

ITT: things that will never happen.
Those 3 months can make a world of difference. I'd like to see it in action before I decide whether it is a good or a bad thing.

Also, I'd be very surprised if the numbers in this little test are more than anecdotal. Performance will depend heavily on the kind of content you're viewing and I'd wager that the IPC calls make up a very small minority of the runtime profile for a tab process. Also, not everything is so performance-critical. For instance, if response to a mouse click went from 1 to 7 milliseconds, would anybody notice it? If everything in the browser just slowed down by a factor of 2, would Mozilla really ship it?
Are we supposed to believe that an iPhone 6 would contain everything needed to solve the murder? Last time I checked my iPhone isn't recording everything 24/7 and it was likely in his pocket or something too since it wasn't stolen or taken.

Furthermore if someone died and used privacy tools then so be it. For all we know he likely wouldn't want his entire life (personal photos, videos and messages) to be seen by a bunch of random people.
With big enough amount of bad luck, anything can turns into a mess. OTOH sync (two-way sync) if done right can work pretty well and is quite useful in the real world. I am saying it as the developer of Autosync for Google Drive android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.dr...)
Was a reductio ad absurdum really necessary?

Yet there was none. Your very post, though, not only attempts to paint my comment as an "old person thing" (hilariously), it then attacks the speaker ("hostile dick"). Before you (incorrectly) start claiming fallacies, maybe commit to witholding them yourself.

My comment absolutely rises defensiveness among some people. But this is an endemic issue in this industry, and your personal feeling of diminished professionalism in the face of it needn't merit attack responses -- countless projects chose technologies not because they were efficient in any real world sense of that word (saving 15 minutes on the first day to pay thousands of hours later is hardly anyone's measure of "efficiency", and that you attempt to attack the very clear statement I made boggles the mind), but because they were the laziest, most accessible option available, saving a tiny amount of effort at the forefront.

Generating code is easy. Generating tonnes of code is easy. Generating good, well considered solutions, learning and adopting appropriate technologies and choices...well that's hard.
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This is why I sometimes wish HN had an ::irony:: tag. :)
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Well, in online conversations I don't really laugh as I don't find anything to be that funny. Actually judging by my online conversations on Facebook with those new emoticons, it seems to me that everybody online has lots of laughs, crawling over the floor, pissing themselves and I'm wondering what I'm missing, or what are those people smoking. But don't worry, as if I :-), that's not a pity laugh or sarcasm.
I use my mobile XMPP connections without a TCP keepalive but send a server ping if there has been stanzas received in the last 30 minutes and get a useful and reliable XMPP connection without a noticeable impact on battery. If you use Android's AlarmManager to trigger the check, then Android will even take care of scheduling the "alarm" with other alarms for efficiency.

> Multiply that by the number of connections your application will have and by the number of background application you run on your phone, and the radio will never truly sleep or enter the "low" mode.

Why would X x Y idle connections (X: TCP connections per app, Y: applictions) prevent your radio from sleeping?
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In what way is my post "ironic"? I would dearly love to know. Do you think my defense of XML is somehow that I am too lazy to know alternatives. You would be painfully wrong, dear friend, though such is a go to among the intellectually lazy (how many failed NoSQL projects were justified on notions of "people who criticize elements of it are just old and fear change". It's the laziest, most unprofessional retort possible, and fueled about a year of content on Hacker News, and was the meat of a million failed adventures)

My post will be pummeled by the defensive, and that's okay.
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Exactly! Most of the time they are 4 digits. Also what about finger prints on the phones?
Agreed, FUD post there. There is no mention of them trying to track down the phones to the original owners, etc.
That's what I thought when reading the article, there has been way too much abuse on the government part from various countries to make any kind of argument about this, actions have consequences unfortunately.
They certainly can charge in absentia and issue extradition warrants afterwards - read the UK high court judgment. The problem is that as soon as they charge they have to share evidence to get an extradition warrant, and Assange could have beat the request on substantive grounds by demonstrating that there was no crime under British law, something that would have been particularly easy since the Swedish prosecutor would be required to share evidence, including the exculpatory texts.

They did not charge because the requirements to extradite for "questioning" are much weaker and require no proof, just a statement from the Swedish prosecutor that cannot be challenged on any substantive grounds.
Did you not read the blog post? You can use the dev edition or the special release and beta version that don't have this limitation. Nobody is forcing you to live with this limitation. If this was done as an about:config flag it could easily be changed by an add-on too.
404 now... looks like somebody's gotten word of it...
Here is the claim they make:

> Proven to deliver consistent latencies in the 10s of microseconds

http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zing-performance-data

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For workloads where heap is at 100G they still claim latency under 20ms at the 99.999%.

http://www.azulsystems.com/sites/default/files//images/Azul_...

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Now, I would be interested in an independent benchmark.
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> the points were well made, at least from the perspective of a closed source, enterprise software vendor

I understand the sarcasm, on the other hand it really confuses me that those points are mostly what makes closed-source unattractive and exactly what a closed source, enterprise software vendor would not want to discuss openly. At least that's what I thought before reading the article. I find it more likely that the blog was (maybe still is) compromised.
Mozilla used to be the best place in the world for extension developers -- it was natural to have your best extension on Firefox because you could release early and often. Active developers made the platform.

When Chrome came along they decided to go in a different direction entirely slowly making it more and more painful to accomplish what used to be easy in the name of security. The review process went from automatic if you were trusted to weeks and then months and then more than a quarter year. They started demanding source code. It became scary to release to addons.mozilla.org because you never knew how long it would be before your next release would be approved.

Mozilla needs to realize they're hastening their own demise - Chrome now offers better features than when Mozilla was the leader including releasing to a percentage of users and faster nearly invisible to the user updates. They should go back to their roots and embrace developers again.
>NYT should be ashamed for publishing such claptrap.

Would you rather they only print things you agree with? Would rejecting op-eds by some general rule sufficient to exclude this one improve things?

I think I'd rather live in a world in which both sides of every issue get to have their say than in which the losing side is excluded if they're sufficiently "bad".

Edit: that last part isn't quite my position, poorly worded; I'm fine with excluding e.g. neo-nazis and the like, my problem is when "sufficiently bad" includes things like arguing for less encryption.
How'd you make such a compelling sales site for expeditedssl?
I did read the blog post. It says I have to use a less stable (beta) or less customizable (dev edition) version of Firefox to avoid this burden.
After a certain number of failed attempts, newer devices lock themselves.
> Oh, and we require customers/consultants to destroy the results of such reverse engineering and confirm they have done so.

Are they being serious? "Uhm, yeah, sure, Mr. CSO, I deleted the file. Here, I'll show you a screenshot of a terminal where I ran the 'rm' command to delete the results. As you can clearly see, the 'ls' command does not see the files anymore."
Reverse engineering software is completely different from penetration testing, and it is the reverse engineering bit that Oracle has an issue with. They mostly just don't want anyone/everyone trying to recreate their source code because of copyright/intellectual property concerns (note: I do not agree with those, but that is Oracle's stance).

It doesn't make sense for it to be illegal to forbid reverse engineering in a license agreement, where is that the case? If that is the legal environment anywhere, it would make more sense to just forbid closed source software. It would save a ton of time and effort and achieve the same goal.

And by the way, it has everything to do with open source. If the code was open, you wouldn't need to reverse engineer it. Every security analyst could just review the code directly and search for vulnerabilities. The whole disagreement stems from Oracle (and the author) deciding that they want protected, closed source because they view it as intellectual property, while some of their customers feel they can't depend on that software unless they verify it themselves. Well...you can't fully verify closed source software yourself.

It is really a very simple and fundamental disagreement on this one topic that creates the whole issue. It is completely valid to disagree with Oracle on this, and to tell Oracle you disagree with them. However, rather than violating their agreement, it would make more sense to decide to use an open source solution instead.
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Oracle vs Oregon. Go check it out to see levels of arrogance that you would assume must be chemically driven.
Can't say I've noticed any issues.

That said, I'm not using the Windows Store, Cortana, ModernUI apps, OneDrive or even a Microsoft Account at all so your mileage may vary.
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