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Does this person represent the average Californian? She seems so disconnected from everything, it's kind of sad. The fact she seriously considered a blowtorch is disturbing. I did enjoy that she recognizes that her political positions may have flaws, and worked through some cognitive dissonance about the utility of firearms, and she has a strong artistic voice, to her credit.

Is this what people in Oakland are like? There's something so sad about this story.
Thanks for all the info!
I'm excited! :)

PHP is IMHO the most productive and easiest platform for web development:

- a request

- a response

- templating

- no shared stated

And that's it! But the language syntax has so many quirks. So it's cool if Hack redesign the language and make it more beautiful and consistent. Many developers switch to Ruby or Python because these languages are better designed. I think Hack could attract a lot of these developers who want more beauty in the tools they use.
We don't mind per-minute billing on GCP, but would love to get the minimum down to 1 minute or even less. We have some tasks that finish under 4 minutes where scaling horizontally instead of vertically makes much more sense to us.
And which browsers are going on this fork?
Good point. I guess I'm not making myself clear. If I'm working with jQuery, for instance, do I need to do anything different than I do now in terms of invoking say, the simplest thing, $(function({_..code here.._}) (or for you old schoolers $document.ready({_..code here.._}). Thats what I guess I mean. Maybe I just need to toy with it. I suspect I might be overthinking this in my head.
No, the W3C is the web. You'd be forking to what?

This was basically wanted by Firefox, Apple, Microsoft and Google. They are the modern web. Trying to go against them is how we ended up with XHTML, a standard no-one really wanted, or implemented.
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I'm an admirer of well-done DRM technology but I think I agree with the subtext here, which is that DRM doesn't have much of a future. Ironically, the thing that is likely to end DRM is standardized DRM. By making it easier for technology/content companies to deal in premium content, content providers are making it easier to compete with them for their middleman role in funding content.
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Not by a long shot. Where would you put this solution once you found it? Github? Npm? Of course corporations will sue these organizations out of existence for hosting a DRM work around, so they won't be able to host it. So at the end unless you can find some cool Russian hosting (a la sci-hub) you are straight out of luck.

The real problem is not creating a solution, but finding somewhere to put it that people can actually get to.
The saddest part of this story is that Netflix/Amazon/younameit will continue to ignore and block Linux users as the niche market they are -- even if a future Firefox or Chrome version comes with the new standardized DRM everyone asked for. Lose/lose situation.
Where did that person insist that it was okay?
Matt Levine actually wrote about this already and suggested that it's not likely to be insider trading. Buried in the details (according to him) is that these guys moved like <5% of their stock.
If you live the United States, it is not a stupid metric. We should be focused on improving our system in ways that realistic and possible to achieve.

Discussion of great ideas that could never be implemented would be largely academic when considering how the American system can be improved.
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For me it's the other way around.

Netflix is on the other side? Cancel 'em.
They can advise all they like. When a law gets passed that says private companies cannot refuse or degrade service to any consumer that refuses to disclose certain categories of information that are not directly relevant to the operation of the business with respect to that specific consumer, then I will believe that the government is serious about this.

Right now, a baker can refuse to sell you a cupcake if you won't tell them your SSN. Your electric company can refuse to sell you power if you don't tell them your SSN. The phone company can refuse to give you dial tone. They can even refuse to serve you if your SSN has too many fives in it, or not enough. The character of the SSN currently assigned to you is simply not a protected class for anti-discrimination purposes, even though the difficulty in changing it is somewhere between one's race and one's religion.
How is it not in their interests?
Terrorism is violent crime intended to further an ideological goal by intimidating opponents. The amount of planning involved is irrelevant.
TreeStyleTabs and Vimperator are what keep me in Firefox. Any decent alternative would be amazing.
There's internet in the windows 2000 setup.

But remember that old IE versions doesn't support SNI !
For perspective here is W3C CEO's post about it https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/09/reflections-on-the-eme-debat...

And Tim Berners Lee's original decision
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2017J...
Those are known to be exploitable though...
Actually, no. The Web is more an API for browsers at this point than anything. The W3C is, well, secondary, if browser manufacturers get behind another body - it'll happen.
But GCE already has local SSD’s for preempt instances, and they even cost less.
That's a big shift from historical standards. Where has the pushback been for plugins that permitted DRM? Or from allowing them in, say Firefox?

I'm wondering why this proposal gets so much more attention than all the past DRM that's been on the web. Did people just not realize that it was there?
If Mozilla has any integrity, then I suspect Firefox might.
"fighting words" is a legal doctrine, not a personal one. It's not for you or I to define any more than you or I can define "murder".
>or even a framework for minting such schemes on demand

This is what video DRM will need. For games, where each game has a somewhat customized version of DRM, taking a few weeks to break is good enough. For video, this will give you a few episodes; but once it is broken it is broken for everything until you roll out a new scheme. Overtime, I would expect the breakers to get more efficient and automated at breaking schemes, while the DRM makers get increasingly lazy and complacent.
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14759219

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720591
> Most is not a number.

...You said "98%". It's right there.
To me the more interesting question is why this particular issue is so important that W3C felt compelled to break consensus. I think the answer to that question is a lot more revealing than another "DRM is evil vs you're an unrealistic hippie" fight. Even if we take it for granted that DRM is good... why?
There are additional concerns associated with DRM that aren't revealed in the Hickson post - he speaks solely to the point of intention behind DRM. That begs the question: are there unintended victims of DRM?

Yes, there are.

Copyright law in most countries is the result of a long history of back-and-forth fighting between content creators and content consumers. Copyright infringement has a number of carve-outs that allow people to access works in specific circumstances. Canada's copyright act, for instance, has a section which enumerates a number of these.

29 - Exceptions
29 - Fair Dealing
29.21 - Non-commercial User-generated Content
29.22 - Reproduction for Private Purposes
29.23 - Fixing Signals and Recording Programs for Later Listening or Viewing
29.24 - Backup Copies
29.3 - Acts Undertaken without Motive of Gain
29.4 - Educational Institutions
30.1 - Libraries, Archives and Museums
30.3 - Machines Installed in Educational Institutions, Libraries, Archives and Museums
30.4 - Libraries, Archives and Museums in Educational Institutions
30.5 - Library and Archives of Canada
30.6 - Computer Programs
30.62 - Encryption Research
30.63 - Security
30.7 - Incidental Inclusion
30.71 - Temporary Reproductions for Technological Processes
30.8 - Ephemeral Recordings
31 - Retransmission
31.1 - Network Services
32 - Persons with Perceptual Disabilities
32.1 - Statutory Obligations
32.2 - Miscellaneous

Before continuing with the discussion regarding how DRM is not an issue, take a look at the exceptions in your own country.

These are not small losses, but they are a negative space. You won't know what you're missing because now it just plain won't happen.
What benefit is there in the EFF resigning? I'm not educated on the issue as well as those on the committee, but it feels like not having the EFF on the committee at all is going to do more harm than good.
Why would they do that? Are you assuming these companies will want to block Linux users out of some random, malicious spite?
> My fear is that even if I develop a OSX version, it will become stale

Being open source and hosted on Github, I doubt that will be a problem. The Mac community is rather active.

By the way, here's my vote for VIM keybindings!

Do you have a Paypal address that we could donate to?
This is how Bluray's BD+ scheme work(ed).
To me, it is not so much the amount of effort that a recruiter requires of a candidate but the ratio of the amount of effort required by the candidate and the amount of effort put in by the recruiter. Poor recruiters put in little effort because the odds of successfully placing a candidate are low (that's what makes them poor recruiters). Good recruiters are working hard toward a high probability pay day.

Bad recruiters birdshot resumes and candidates and hope something hits the target. They may not even have negotiated a contract yet...and no matter how much a company likes a birdshot candidate, if the recruiter can't get paid what they want, the candidate won't get the job.

A good recruiter will often want a face to face meeting, but the difference will be that the arrangements consider the convenience of the candidate rather than taking advantage of their desperation.

Good luck.
The W3C is not the web. Look no further than the good work the WHATWG did to move the web forward while the W3C & Microsoft were holding the web back in the early 2000's.
It's not really a huge breakthrough. Lots of work has been done in this area for a long time now.

Look into synthetic biology and biological parts: http://parts.igem.org/Main_Page

This is just one way of getting to "programmable cells." Basically what they're doing is creating a database of DNA sequences that can be stringed together to create programs in cells. There's even GUI editors for this stuff, tons of standards around the syntax, etc.

But Biology is messy. This stuff isn't going to be running deterministically, it requires a deep understanding of the organism, it requires a deep understanding of the overall environment an organism operates in, etc.
In theory I don't have a problem with DRM if it was "perfect" (worked everywhere, didn't suffer all the problems with current systems) but I just don't see that happening since the incentive to stop at "well it's good enough and it works on 95% of our customers machines" is always there.

I also don't really like blackboxes I can't at least theoretically look at the code for if I want to, I don't like it with the Intel manaement engines (and AMD) etc either but that is a trade off I have to make if I want to run new hardware, compromising my security so I can watch a movie is a lot less enticing.

This is the kind of future I fear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir_(novel) (and if anyone is wondering my username isn't a co-incidence).
Not really. If it's available to view, it's available. Full stop.

There's no way around that. You can't magically change the universe so that content that's viewed can't be captured. It HAS to be converted to analog somewhere. That signal can always be captured and converted back to a digital form that's no longer embedded with DRM.

Best case: you make it marginally more difficult for a mom&pop computer user to copy your content. Anyone with a lick of understanding and 100 dollars to buy some hardware will be able to get it without any problem.

Worst case: you introduce all sorts of unnecessary security holes with poorly written software, that can't be audited (legally speaking), and does absolutely nothing to slow the availability of the content online and for free.
I appreciate that the author is calling this out and takes the time to understand what Apple is trying to accomplish. I wish there were more discussion of details as to what's going on in specific cases.

I hope that there's more to the story, that these government orgs are reaching out to Apple and that there's some dialog going on to try to remedy the situation. I understand that dealing with the App Store can be frustrating, but it's still a course of action. And it wouldn't be the first time that the App Store policies have changed. The author makes a similar call at the end of the piece. I find it a little surprising that someone who happens to know enough about the situation to write a post would also not know details of at least one case. It seems feasible that Apple could put in place a policy to, say, whitelist specific vetted accounts. I would be disappointed to find out that there isn't some ongoing dialog going on. However, neither this post nor the referenced June 22 Fortune article provide any additional information.

If anyone knows more about this, I'd appreciate it.
Arguing over whether black people should be enslaved or Jews should be gassed aren't political arguments with sound reasons on both sides.

In which case it's a good thing Larrikin has a well defined definition of "political arguments with sound reasons" we can use in legislation.

Snark aside, this post steps over and then directly back into the "who determines what's acceptable speech?" problem. Few will disagree with your extreme example, but your extreme example isn't what people are worried about.

To hell with the people who actually advocate nazi ideology - I'm a lot more worried about what the overreaction to their stupidity will bring, that overreaction being a much more clear and present danger.
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One other element: over the longer term, the scheme should be difficult enough to work around such that casual copying is discouraged.
It's nice to see a US newspaper acknowledging that other developed countries exist.
People who are not fooled by the ideology of DRM are fully aware that DRM is a legal strategy, not a technology.

That doesn't change the technological harm of DRM. Putting a DRM-shaped hole in web standards makes browsers less secure, less stable, and less maintainable.

iTunes copy protection used to be broken in a few hours, Blu Ray is long since cracked. DRM is neither secure nor cryptographically sound ( http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt ). The business models that work online keep on being built without DRM.

But DRM remains an irresistible fantasy for corporations who haven't worked out the economics of getting Apple, Amazon or Netflix to add locks to their content.
I'm sorry if you think I am blaming authors in this article, but I'm not. In fact I am not blaming anyone for the failure of OA, I blame the challenges around change. I then suggest a different approach that might reduce the amount of change needed, reckoning publishers might start the ball rolling by making content free to read.
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I understand them both to be based on Chromium at this point. Chrome already has support, so if the Brave/Opera browsers want it it's pretty much just a flip of the switch (Opera may already have it, I think).

Basically if your browser lists any kind of Content Decryption Module (usually something called Widevine) among its plugins, you have EME support.
Not everyone thinks in utilitarian terms. And, maybe the EFF thinks the W3C is now an organization focused on legitimizing whatever big tech companies say. If so, they'd probably not want to be considered a part of that process.
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> on Mac they leave your iCloud email in in plaintext on the UEFI after the computer is wiped.

You are probably referring to the "Find My Mac" token that's stored in the NVRAM. It's fairly easy to wipe it with one of these commands/procedures:

- sudo nvram -d fmm-mobileme-token-FMM
- sudo nvram -c # this one will wipe the entire NVRAM, use with care!
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

> For computers, expect 6 to 7 years of macOS updates at most

High Sierra can be installed on "Late 2009 iMacs", that right there is 8 years of security and feature updates. Those models will get security and point updates, at the very least, until the next version of macOS, for a total of 9 years (if not more, we'll see).
They would legitimately lose a lot of money if they did this now (and I would argue, wouldn't make up for it in market share). Most companies I work with who switch to AWS think it's a 1:1 conversion in terms of cost from a data center and pretty much just "leave AWS on" not realizing that they are not only paying for computing cost but the hidden cost of being able to scale up more instances quickly.
Umm that is what is happening WITH the standard

I still can not believe the number of people that do not understand what EME is

EME enabled Properiertary Plugins, it gives control over the web to MS, Google, and Adobe. Full Stop.

They will control everything.

Widevine, Adobe CDM, and MS PlayReady. Those are your proprietary EME plugins that everyone must use now

Welcome to the non-open Web

Thanks Tim berners-lee, good job
I totally agree. That's why those people should be given two choices: A) move into urban areas or B) die.
You would most certainly be working in one (or the equivalent) at least, I'm not so sure about sleeping or living in one after work. Which is why I said the hotel connection leads me to believe it was a surveillance op gone wrong.
> Chrome and friends will refuse to load unsigned content, and then the death of the free web will be complete.

I'm going to need some citations that this is even remotely in the plan (and requiring HTTPS isn't the same as refusing to load unsigned content, since that's on the transport level).
I enjoyed this +1 but sadly and inevitably there are replies saying essentially "no no, all man hours are not equal". Why doesn't the intertube get satire/sarcasm/irony ?
The link at the top tells you all about the EFF's comprimise proposal.
It’s actively against their interests.

Their interest is in letting people use their browsers to view content. The media companies have made it clear that’s not happening without DRM.

So the browser companies support it.

It’s not manditory, you can ship content without it. But if Chrome said ‘DRM free only’ all that would happen is people would abandon it to be able to watch video online.

If you don’t like DRM then get legislation made. But you’ll never do that because even without the giant lobbying budgets I don’t see why lawmakers would make it illegal.
> Where would you put this solution once you found it? Github? Npm?

BitTorrent?
Host it on the blockchain :)
They're likely to just lose users to people jumping ship to browsers that let them watch Netflix and they're all involved in distributing DRM-encumbered content themselves.
No. For simple economic reasons, such as too much testing effort vs. too little revenue.
I once considered writing an EC2 autoscaler that knew the exact timestamps of the instances so that it could avoid shutting down VMs that still had 59 minutes of "free" time left because they'd been up across another hour-long threshold. That sort of nonsense logic shouldn't be useful, but Amazon was giving a huge economic incentive for it.

This is certainly a long time coming.
Wasn't aware they added the support. Well, maybe they can figure out GPUs too.
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> ... (I suspect the latter)

I'm not an RNA guy, but as far as I can tell, the highlight from the paper is that they've shown that you can computationally design these networks in an RNA-based system.

This kind of thing has been done with genetic circuits (DNA): http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6281/aac7341

I guess the somewhat interesting question is, 20+ years from now, will biological computers be DNA or RNA based?

The entire press release is cringeworthy.
It won't be for the masses. For a physical-media model, look at SACD. You can't burn your own SACD recordings, even if you have a DSD-capable recorder; the players will only play signed discs, and the signing keys are only available to pressing plants.
Tim Berners-Lee isn't dead. And if you read the article, you'll see that he was actually the one who originally overrode the EFF's objections to publishing a DRM standard in the first place.
The W3C has pretty much zero power to prescribe what happens on the web.

Look at the history of their standards, and the direction that the web has actually gone.

The power for where the web goes is in the hands of web developers and browser developers. The W3C documents some things, but they are not a major player.
"Don't be evil"

Even if it is explicit the idea is to have it enabled by default so people accidentally install it and then hopefully start using it.

Which browser dominates should be based on its quality not how much money you spend on it :/
I know content creators. There is a large group that hate their content being copied. That's not going to change.
I work as the CTO for an ecommerce startup and I love handling support. I identify problems with our current business process and come up with ways to tune the tech to make them go away.

There's also the feeling I get when I calm an irate customer down only by showing them that I care.

Working support keeps me connected to the most important stakeholders in our business and I keep finding ways to improve their experience. I think everyone should work support.

If you're not good on the phone, answer tickets. Ultimately it helps build a company culture around customer satisfaction.

Then again, I could be wrong since it's only been about six months since we started operations. I guess I'll know for sure in a year.
Tim Berners-Lee, for one.
You are free to live where ever you want -- as long as you support yourself.

If you are receiving a disproportionate amount of tax dollars to roll our billion dollar road, telecommunication, etc infrastructure to you, well then fuck you. I hope the coyotes eat you alive.
Yeah my T41p had the same problem with the GPU (specifically ATI I seem to remember) popping out of its BGA socket slightly, sometimes (and in my case) caused by picking up the laptop by the corner of the palmrest (naughty but common habit that you usually get away with on Thinkpads)... was a common problem in those series with the oven reflow technique http://www.computerrepairtips.net/how-to-reflow-a-laptop-mot... working for lots of people. Didn't work for me but I think that was my failing. I fixed it with a folded up credit card inside under the trackpoint/palmrest, acted as a crude wide spring applying pressure over the heatsink/pipe of the gpu, horrific bodge lol but it worked and I carried on using the machine for years without problems after that.
Although many don't use it (yet, still, and maybe never will), the "place to put it" problem is already solved, isn't it? Worst case, put it in a "dark" corner of the web :)
Completely agree. I can't believe how much of a pass this person is getting on here. The only thing you need to know is that the author had known about the possum issue for some considerable amount of time but didn't prepare any means of dispatching the animal prior to capture.