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Right now there is no need to take the option away. You are certainly correct about that.

Microsoft is going to soon start pushing its users to buy from its app store. I can see a future in which only 'trusted' programs can be run on new computers. Trusted here means programs approved by Apple/Microsoft and the national government of the country in which your computer resides.

I don't know how likely this would be but China seems to like to have a lot of control over the computing its citizens do.
Just as long as they don't present it the way Windows does - pretty much the same dialog boxes but one has a blue banner (signed) and one has a yellow banner (unsigned).
Anyone having issues... Because I got that message too - that an error occurred, http://appldnld.apple.com/MessagesBeta/041-4274.20120216.z5k...

Direct link =)
Except in the UK where it's prescription-only, and marked with a little "harmful triangle" in the reference guide Doctors use :-/ I ended up getting some from a site called Doctor Fox which claims to be legit NHS.
There is a way. Allow at least one more certification authority. Let, say, Verisign sell code signing certificates for OS X. This will ensure that Apple is not the only party in control of which software runs on Macs.

I have the third option, but I will also have to explain this option to the users of my software. Plus, the option is not granular -- it seems like you cannot disallow all unsigned software, but make exceptions.
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Here you go... http://appldnld.apple.com/MessagesBeta/041-4274.20120216.z5k...
The Matrix for chickens
I thought it would be about poker.
Could you not just trigger quirks mode in IE6 and IE7 to get the old box model, or is border-box different to the old microsoft box model?
Sure is handy for China how easy it is to get a keylogger installed on someone's computer, isn't it?
Hold on, XCode is free (without a developer login) you could install that and write the app.

You can then publish it on websites exactly as you did and those who choose the appropriate security setting can run it. You have a smaller audience yes, but you can still do what you did.

And while this doesn't stop Malware, it does raise the bar a little higher.

Out of interest how would you feel about it if developer licenses were free for students?
Other people think I'm being evasive because I have a hard time giving answers in absolute terms. I know how it feels.
That would be a GREAT thing if Microsoft did. I think the yearly release is the most exciting thing, it is the software that matters when it comes down to it.
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This feature would not be better if the sewer vampires that run the SSL CAs got to control it.
I notice the linked guide mentions DirectNIC as the US registrar with the most extensive guarantees against unnecessary domain name suspensions. Consider this a +1 recommendation.

We've used DirectNIC for nearly a decade and never had a problem even when Echostar (improperly) tried to make them take us down because of one of our clients. We also recommend http://www.puregig.com/ as a web hosting colo for the same reasons along with their distance from natural disasters.
It's not just an issue with intuition it simply makes it far harder to do many types of layout.

One of the biggest failings of the W3C model was that you could not combine a percentage width with fixed margin. If you wanted a fluid layout but which still incorporated consistent margins it was impossible to achieve without an entirely unnecessary nesting of divs.

Border-box completely eliminated this and poor old Microsoft (in this one instance) were forced to fall in with the less helpful "standard".
Back then I had no permission to use a computer ("they make you stupid" was my parents argument) and certainly no credit card to pay anybody to do development - and even then, as a minor I would probably never have gotten that certificate.

The computer isn't free either. And you can always build and distribute without the ID or the certificate. This is just for distribution through the App Store or to users that have it set to only allow signed apps.

Does this stop malware? Does this stop fraudulent call centers? Does this stop malicious people from telling people to turn it off and then still installing the malware? No.

"No" to the last question, maybe. On the other hand, it stops tons of malware. Signed binaries is considered one of the most successful anti-malware strategies by security experts. Are you saying otherwise?

Does it stop people like me from ever getting to their career of their dreams? Likely.

Well, if you are that easily discouraged, then maybe that career wasn't really for you, anyway.

You present an edge case ("I need to build and distribute my software to OS X users AND I want those users to not only allow signed apps BECAUSE I can't fork $100 dollars for a developer certificate").

If that kind of thing discourages you from "getting to the career of your dreams" what to say about the hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of toil needed to become a doctor, a lawyer, not to mention the hard learning needed to become a professional programmer.
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"OS X Mountain Lion arrives this summer. With all-new features inspired by iPad, the Mac just keeps getting better and better."

Am I the only person that doesn't want an ipad on the desktop?
I've got a system where I download the videos, convert them to mp3, rename them and order them, then burn them to an audio CD and listen to them during my commute. It takes me about 1.5 hours to do this.
I wish there was a button: "CD image to burn mp3's to CD (for CD players that can play mp3)", and "download CD audio image to burn to 80 min CD".
Next stop: De-crufting iTunes.

Totally agreed. It's been pretty apparent for a while now that iTunes should be broken up into Music, Books, and Movies, each playing to its own strength and linking to a separate "iTunes store" app. And also that iPhoto should be renamed Photos, with full iCloud syncing.
Yeah, it was quirks mode.
Poor America: The Part We Keep Hidden
http://appldnld.apple.com/MessagesBeta/041-4274.20120216.z5k...

Direct link for those having issues downloading...
Factually wrong, effectively right.

Between 1998 and 2008 I always configured my networks by hand on Debian machines. Then I switched to Ubuntu for my desktop. After the first upgrade, X wouldn't start. As a result, I had no network connection, because that is set up by the NetworkManager applet (which is completely braindead: you don't need an applet to have a network connection start automatically).

Then I found there just wasn't any CLI interface to configure the network. Or at least: I didn't know which one it was. When I found out (it was network-manager-cli or something back then), it wasn't installed. Well gee, thanks, it's not like it doesn't happen regularly with Ubuntu upgrades that you get stuck on the cli...
Malware writers will just get free ids and sign their malware. Will all of these OSX devices be regularly polling Apple to get a list of revoked certs?

Yes, the first problem will be to create some malware from OS X first. You know, the biggest success so far had been that Mac Defender, that was:

a) a trojan (you had to install it yourself)

and

b) only affected like 10 users
does anyone know anything about their $ #s??
revenue model, revenue/profits/costs #s ??
The United States already handles this just fine. So easily that folks don't really even notice, in fact.

Ever notice how gas stations usually give prices out to 1/1000 of a dollar (e.g, $3.459/gal) even though our smallest currency denomination is for only 1/100 of a dollar?

It happens with sales tax, too. In Chicago, the tax on a $29.99 video game is $2.924025. We'd just round down to $2.92, and the government lets that odd 0.4025¢ slide. It doesn't really add up, because there's also cases where the tax owed is something like $2.925975 and gets rounded up to $2.93.
Why did tech sites get Mountain Lion before developers?
Remember that most Mac apps don't have an installer - they're self-contained, and installing consists of extracting the DMG and putting the app on your hard drive.

The notification will probably take the same form as the error message you get upon trying to launch a PowerPC app on 10.6 without Rosetta installed.
Even with a structural disadvantage it may make sense to fight back. Yes, it's risky. But whether it's worth it, is everyone's own (moral, not engineering) choice.

And I don't have any illusion that just geeks can "save the world", but they can at least provide support in some areas, such as allowing journalists to communicate with activists.

So you think the world would be a better place without any circumvention tools?
I've been working with Backbone exclusively for the last six months or so, so don't know what other frameworks are doing with nested views. The OP marks this as one of Backbone's shortcomings.

I've been writing my backbone app effectively with nested views, where parent views pass relevant information to child views either through initialization or functions on the child view, while the child view "communicates" with the parent view through events that the PV can bind to.

I kind of like the idea of child views not knowing or caring who created them or why. I do this e.g. with buttons, forms, panels and subpanels, etc.

Is there a good resource for best practices here?
Fine from Germany.
Android 5.0 'Jelly Bean' could push fragmentation to new heights
While I admit the form reset is annoying, I don't see where the author shows any evidence that this usage pattern happens enough to make a difference.

Sure, when N gets large, every little bit helps. But if that behavior pattern only happens rarely, then changing it is unlikely to make much impact.

For all we know, their testing might have shown that folks who are planning trips between 2 options (flight to Vegas, no hotel needed, vs. flight to LA, hotel needed) wanted the form to reset so they didn't have to keep swiping and typing over leftover text in the fields. The frequency of usage patterns, weighted by their value to the business, would be a useful guide.

I'm not saying that the recommended change is the right or wrong thing to do, but I am saying that some data would really help back up any claims over size of impact. Otherwise, it's a good finding ruined by a totally exaggerated headline.
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I mean why does `module` pull down resources? Shouldn't that be import's job?
Apple announces OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Yes, that blew me away. Almost too good to be true.
If Apple did that they'd kill the devotion from the development community.

Like with iOS? Hackers will be annoyed, but Apple doesn't care about them when there are more than enough developers who are either in it for the money or who agree with Apple's position.
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Native apps do have a persistence advantage over HTML. My apps for the WSJ, FT and Economist download entire issues for availability offline. I haven't seen that done in HTML.

In terms of web breakage, these all offer urls to the same article on the web page, so they don't break the web going into the sites. I haven't seen them use outbound links.
Right, exactly, and in a complex layout that adds a significant amount of extra markup. Not to mention trying to find which of the 4 or 5 columns is the one that's breaking the width of their container and causing the last column to break below the rest. It works, and has worked for me for a long time, but it's a hack.
Am I the only one afraid of upgrading my Mac in fear of breaking my Ruby gems, MySQL drivers, C libraries, ImageMagick, environment variables, iOS libraries, provisioning certificates, etc?
I saw a screenshot of the "About This Mac" screen that displayed 10.8 as the version number. I believe it was on the TechCrunch article.
SuperSizing the Data Center: Big Data and Jumbo Frames
They have had sponsored links for quite some time now, but I wonder how that pairs up with BOSS API not being free anymore.
I think you are militantly avoiding my point. Also, it's amusing that you think we're going to continue to discuss this after you called me "amoral".
In fact, I would hope that most people wouldn't just follow their gut on such an important decision - even if the answer seems obvious, something like fundraising is worth investigating closely and carefully.

False dichotomy. These things are not mutually exclusive. Absolutely, you should investigate closely and carefully; but the final decision will come from your gut. It has to, because it's ultimately a question of what kind of company you want to build.
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Do they use any sort of wrapper or architecture around it? Is it in Ruby, BTW?
The walls are slowly going up around the garden...
1. Will it prevent Apple from controlling which software runs on Macs? Yes.

2. Will the code signing scheme be more vulnerable to malware because of the third-party CA? _____ (fill in)
I also had to do that sometimes... but it make your code a lot more complex if you use it a lot.
C|Net reports you can override Gatekeeper on an app by app basis (even at the most restrictive setting), so as long as you trust yourself you're good:

"It's also been designed to let you manually override the protection measures and install something that hasn't been signed, even if your settings are turned all the way up to App Store only."
1 millimetre? Who measures Searches Per Day in millimetres?
Ok, thanks, I'm restored to cynical now... and the business advantage to be found here is that they can go even further than just optimizing length to match what people want, they can make them just a bit shorter than more people would like, so people will buy two instead of just one.
But will you be able to leave with your data? Or will it be locked in to iCloud?
http://www.google.com/flights

Select: departure airport, departure date, and return date (optionally price range). Do not choose a destination.

See: a map of destinations with price labels shown for major cities.

Set: the max price and see possible destinations fade away.

Click: on a destination dot on the map and instantly get details of available flights.

All without pressing a single "submit" button and without entering a single destination.
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OK, so now each time I click the box it says "invalid email address", and yet it has in fact delivered a few emails.
The computer isn't free either. And you can always build and distribute without the ID or the certificate. This is just for distribution through the App Store or to users that have it set to only allow signed apps.

The latter is the default. So for other people to use this application I wrote as a minor, my users would have to change the setting.

Well, if you are that easily discouraged, then maybe that career wasn't really for you, anyway.

This would not have stopped me, but imagine what kind of an ego-boost it is for a 15 years old sufferer of heavy bullying due to overall geekyness to see his home-grown application not just be used by other people but actually getting mentioned in paper publications.

Nowadays I couldn't even get /permission/ to try because these various developer programs require you to be an adult due to various organizational issues.

Honestly, without that ego boost when it happened, I don't know where I would stand today, if at all.

But this is my story. I have a feeling that I'm losing objectivity here due to heavy emotional involvement. I'll be quiet in this topic from now on and just turn that switch off for myself, hoping that there will be a switch to turn off in the future.
To get an .eu you need to be a company or a resident in the EU, they're not open to anyone.

The registry of .me, doMEn, is a joint venture between Godaddy and two other companies.
Microsoft's 2003 patent application for the "Is Not" operator
If malware on OSX is as small a problem as you're suggesting, why is Apple bothering with any of this? Is it to wrestle further control of the app eco-system on OSX? Or is it just security theatre? Or both? Something else?

The current app eco-system doesn't allow them to just switch off the ability for people to install arbitrary apps. They need to get themselves into a situation where the vast majority of apps are signed first. Then it will be a lot easier for them to require apps to be signed. For your own protection of course.

EDIT: After all, if developer IDs are so easy and free to get, and will make it easier for people to install your app. Why wouldn't you get it signed?
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Yes. Unfortunately control of citizens' computing is one area that China leads in. Other national government appear to be envious of this control seek to emulate it.
A scientific theory is a set of principles that explain and predict phenomena. All theories are only provisional, in that they are upholded every time an observation supports the predictions they make. In principle, a good observation that is inconsistent with a theory's prediction can falsify it.

In this case, Einstein's theory predicts the lunar orbit to be slightly different than Newton's gravitation model. If someone could find a discrepancy in new observation he would have found a flaw in Einstein's theory of general relativity.

As of this writing, no flaws have been found in the theory of general relativity. Though such claims pop up every now and then.
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2. ___ YES ___
I love that BB is such a small library. The concise docs at documentcloud plus the source code was all the reference as I needed, even for my first framework-oriented browser app.

I ought to connect with the community more, but so far getting up and running with it (and building a moderately complex app) has been a breeze, as far as Backbone is concerned.
I believe this would have performance implications (css selectors are read "backwards" by browsers, so this would mean every element on the page is examined to see if it's inside a .ingrid class). Not always, but definitely could for a large/complex page, and since this is a framework that will be used in all sorts of situations it's best that the author stays on the conservative side.
I've found border-box to be especially helpful with mobile layouts. I can set the width of my text inputs to 100% and not worry about weird side-scrolling breakage. And of course save time by not having to specify widths for the inputs. or max-widths or whatever.
Out of interest how would you feel about it if developer licenses were free for students?

I would be much happier (to the effect of actually seeing more good than bad in this restriction) if getting that ID was a matter of filling out a form an passing a turing test - so, for example, if any apple ID could be used to get a signing certificate, that would be much better.

(edit: this is not about the money. It's about they way of payment (minors don't have credit cards) and the required paperwork that, among other things, require you to be an adult)
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LTS releases are every 24 months.
benologist please stop trying to make it sound as if there is any dependency between your 1 and 2.

He didn't. In fact, his point was that there is not a dependency between the points - which is what it means that even if 1 is worse than 2, 2 is still a serious problem.
It might actually be a good thing commercially. It gives them something to upsell. If you have a paid account, you get instant access to your form data. Free accounts have to wait.
This is the article your talking about:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/os-x-mountain-lion/
Lion was 35 bucks I think? Maybe they will go the free update route, that would be awesome!
According to the screenshots, the spotlight icon is no longer on the top right, getting shuffled over to the left by presumably a new icon to invoke notification center.

That's a really bad choice. The corners are the click targets fastest to reach (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fittss_law ), and demoting searching in favor of 'reading messages that have popped up before' doesn't strike me as quite well-balanced.
They should have called this "the Dentata". You know, code signature verification with teeth.

Can I get an amen for free code signing certificates that derive from the Apple Root CA? Not $99, not $5, free.

Overall: more like this on more OS's.
You have to know what type of person you are. If you love solving problems and bringing something new to the market, then don't stick to any technology like a religion, they are just tools, and a means to an end.

If you like coding as a hobby, then feel free to fall in love with the technology, but realize you might not be taking the best path to creating something useful or solving problems.
M is the roman numeral for 1,000. So MM is meant as 1,000 x 1,000, which equals 1,000,000 (one million). OP should have used capital letters, as mm does indeed denote millimeters. Better yet, just use the more common M symbol to mean "million."
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I'm looking forward to the day when I don't have to worry about my file system and apps just know what files it needs or can view.

iCloud seems to be moving things in that direction.
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What moral argument are you using where Apple comes out on top and SSL CAs don't?
That's interesting. My feeling is that the problem her is with the Apple Developer network rather than the functionality - I think the functionality just highlights the problem.

Personally I'd like to see the price on Developer licenses dropped and made free for full time or part time students. I think it would make commercial and PR sense for Apple too - show that they are developer friendly and make the Mac attractive as the machine of choice for the next generation of programmers (who will then also be a shoe in on coding iOS apps).
I'm currently looking into redis for similar needs. I'd be using it from perl and wondered how will it would scale... (IIRC (from people I know who have worked there) youporn/pornhub runs on Catalyst, an MVC-based web framework written in perl.)
> Apple's pattern with iOS has actually been one of slowly opening up.

Tell that to Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Netflix or Hulu or anyone else burned by the In-App Purchase mess. I'd bet none of them would say Apple's pattern has been to open up iOS.
No, no one wants that (I hope). Read the Gruber preview and you'll feel more at ease. OS X and iOS are not merging. He describes Mountain Lion as "a series of steps toward defining a set of shared concepts, styles, and principles between two fundamentally distinct OSes."

http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion
"Inspired by" doesn't mean "equal to"... I don't see any evidence that those features turn your mac into an ipad.
Your question--and Teller's advice about the arts--dovetails with Bret Victor's excellent talk, Inventing on Principle, recently released from CUSEC [1]. He starts by blowing you away with demos of software he's built, but then he backs up and reviews how he got there and why. His self-discovery process involved trying, making, and experiencing lots of things over a difficult period of ten years. That process eventually gave him the perspective to find commonality in things that make him react strongly. From there he found a principle to live by. For Bret and other examples he cites, it's not about domains and returns. It's about having a distinctive principle or cause that guides your decisions and approach to domains.

See also: mbarnett's response. I can't say it better than that.

1 - http://vimeo.com/36579366
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The brick walls are there for a reason. Right? The brick
walls are not there to keep us out, the brick walls are
there to give us a chance to show how badly we want
something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the
people who don't want it badly enough.

-Randy Pausch