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The rules under which Mozilla would have to play to put Firefox on iOS would mean they are not putting Firefox on iOS. All Firefox would be, under Apples rules, would be a wrapper around Safaris WebKit. Firefox is not just a window, Firefox is its rendering and javascript engines.

I would say it is very easy to ignore iOS when you basically can not put your product on it.
whats the difference ?
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#labels-b...
Unlikely but not impossible.

I've seen forums get flooded for no other apparent rationale than some random skiddie had nothing better to do for an hour or two than irritate the admins. It being not worth anyone's time to break isn't actually a feature, but it being relatively easy for anyone with time to waste on it is a flaw.
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So add a short explanation at the end.

Starting with "Hey, let's solve a CAPTCHA because I'm not sure if you are a human" and burying information which side the user is supposed to play somewhere in the middle of the text would make it a major PITA.
Ed Lorenz didn't blow his own trumpet either. He used to give demonstrations on elementary chaos for kids in my town. Using an old fashioned pin ball machine. The man led a very solitary existence. We even ran into him on one of the mountains around our town shortly before he died. He stayed very active into his old age, but kept to himself. I remember wonder how he was seeing the world around him even though we were both on the same trail.
That's so cute. As if anyone at the C level believes in a company's mission statement and values. They're just there so the coffee cups aren't plain white.
CAPTCHA solve a specific design problem. They are not an IETF protocol or solution to be used everywhere. That's kind of the issue. Once a CAPTCHA is worth enough it will be overcome.

The problem is to design a CAPTCHA that implements just enough headache to make it worthwhile not to overcome and at the same time not frustrating users. I think this chess problem uniquely and elegantly solves the problem for the site in question by achieving both.

Then again, I am not familiar with the users, maybe the site is often trolled by chess mastah wanna-bes.
Samsung couldn't sue - they've already shipped hundreds of millions of WebM implementations that they lose their patent license for if they do. Depending on how much WebM-related code ended up in their graphics drivers and/or how widely distributed their Android reference platforms are, Qualcomm could easily face similar issues. And well, um, Google has also clearly taken care of a third major H.264 patent holder outside the MPEG-LA - Motorola. I'm sure there are others out there, but the pickings are getting thinner and thinner.
TL;DR Google gave MPEG-LA a bunch of money. Yep, Google sure showed them!
no, sorry a little too complexed
I'm weeping tears of "Mozilla Mobile Browser.. WHO?"
Mobile first? There are a ton of broken examples on my iPhone (grids, inline elements, etc.).
> I see it's in Google Play but wasn't for quite a while. I love these "open" platforms.

What are you getting at here? It was available on Google Play as soon as Mozilla had it ready.
The agreement covers VP9 too.
I don't know how to play chess. Guess I'm not human...
Thank you very much!! I stand corrected. And with this to search with, I found the complete original on Google Books (along with what seems to be a complete set of Journal de Paris from the 18th century; I'm going to waste the whole day reading bits of these.)

I'm not surprised at all that Jefferson and Franklin spoke French -- I always assumed they did -- what surprises me is that we (at least in the US) see so little evidence of it and that translations are presented as originals so often.

This letter is a good example. Is the English translation even Franklin's? And yet it's everywhere, while this French original doesn't even show up on the Library of Congress Franklin site. That's what I find bizarre.
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I like the original wording because it is exactly how chess problems are typically introduced. I'm not sure the usefulness of this anywhere beyond a chess - related site, but I agree - - it's absolutely brilliant! I wish I had thought of it.
A bar is not a public place when it comes to restricting video surveillance. As private property, the owners can ban video and prosecute you for trespassing if non-compliant.
>Like PDAs ten years ago? Except we all have those now, save for the name.

No, we really don't.

Smartphones are totally unlike PDAs. Except if you call any small device than has a CPU a "pda".

Smartphones didn't get popular for doing what a PDA did. They got popular for doing stuff that PDAs never did. From 3D games to Letterpress, and from checking twitter and facebook, to taking photographs and videos, none of these were available for PDAs. Including making phone calls, checking the web in full and listening to music.

>The problem that these solve is that most things you'd want to use your smartphone for aren't worth the time it takes to get it out, do the security numbers or pattern or facial recognition, bring up the app, etc. Reducing the overhead from 45 seconds to 5 seconds is an enormous win, it seems to me, quite apart from the head-mounted camera aspect that gets so much focus

Why get the phone out? You could have a watch with necessary information (iWatch), or a voice command and output in-ear headset (Siri mkII).
Not sure if I like this at all. I think they need to call it

Bootstrap 3: flat and fat!

It just seems like a huge step back to me. It's not even an elegant "flat" design; it's like they scrapped everything and decided to make all classes (even buttons for God's sake) DIVs of different colors. The new navbar, for example, is literally a gray DIV with rounded edges. I use Bootstrap on my web app because I care about design, but I don't care so much about learning fancy CSS; Bootstrap takes care of making things look subtly 3D, shaded, animated, etc., and that's what I'm looking for. I can make flat DIVs myself, thank you very much.
I am wondering why the debris was not from US Anti-Satellite test? After all, US has done much more such tests secretly.
A stark reminder that "Open Source" and "free as in freedom" do not necessarily go hand in hand.
He'll be one of the other 500+ who forked it.
Sure, but would you use breakable glasses for this? There are head/helmet mount cameras as you say, with far better hardness.

The Google Glasses are more about the "show information HUD" aspect.
This argument doesn't fly when you are only taught to write in cursive, as is the case everywhere here in Belgium (and surrounding countries?), as far as I am aware. It still got overused here as well. I remember one teacher in highschool claiming Comic Sans was better (more readable) for people with dyslexia. I never checked that out, but I don't attribute much truth to it.
Guess you aren't.

Guess it isn't hard to learn the rules before posting on a chess forum.
Once you have it in something like puppet or chef it really makes no difference in alot of cases.
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Super easy way to self-sign on OSX for XCode
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You just need to research, pick up the phone or email and negotiate. Even squatters know the relative value of domains fairly well and you'd be surprised how many names are held by someone who doesn't even remember he owns them.
"How sad it is that there is not a single startup like Google, Facebook or Twitter from India, even though they are being powered by Indians in the silicon valley"

I have a lot of respect for Indian IT workforce, having worked closely with Indian RnD at my previous company. I think nobody disputes Indian contribution to IT sector be it in US or anywhere else for that matter.

But coming across statements like above, I often shake my head amused. I've even had conversations with people who tried to convince me that it's the Indians behind all US's success in CS/IT and that it's the Indians that are powering Microsoft and NASA, and what not, you name it. Coming across statements like that I've wondered do they really believe that or is it just blowing smoke...
There are a few things required if you're going to do this in the USA:

* Ham radio Technician License, amateur radio

* Follow the federal regulations, particularly the strength section: http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=1b032e7...

* FAA guidance recommends to be below 400 feet when within 3 miles of an airport in addition to avoiding restricted airspaces.

* Certain restrictions may apply dependent on aircraft/balloon weight, see http://www.eoss.org/pubs/faqloon.htm

* It's always advisable to notify the FAA of your intentions in advance of your flight
I recommend Zope's Restricted Python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython for that sort of thing (this is not like Python's now-dead restricted mode).

Restricted Python will recompile your code from something like "x.y(42)" into your_getattr(x, "y")(42). It will disallow access of any names starting with _, a number of other unsafe constructs etc.

So you can set up your sandbox as restricted as you want. For example the objects I expose have each an ACL so I can give users access to some system object's specific properties while disallowing modifications of them.
The design itself could be improved though to make it stronger against scripting, though. For instance, there's no reason the values for the pieces and the boards necessarily need to be human-readable and to follow the notation of chess in the code itself, those variables could be randomly generated per load, perhaps with a salted hash. That could also serve as csrf protection maybe.
I'd say that the next step would be a CAPTCHA for Go -- creating an efficient Go player is still an open problem, and we could crowdsource the AI research to spammers!
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I'd imagine they'd rather cut off somebody than potential performance degradation for other paying customers.
The license agreement also applies to future codecs derived from VP8, most specifically VP9, so I doubt the MPEG-LA thought it was giving a license to a dead effort.
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A bit off topic, but I've always wondered why some refer to the language as 'assembler' whereas others call it 'assembly'. I always thought the assembler is the name of the thing that reads in your assembly code and turns it into a machine binary. Is there some historical significance to calling it 'assembler'?
Yes, of course. That is the only mechanism that can remove debris from orbit (apart from flying up there and shooting lasers at it and other untested fantastic ideas). And debris in higher orbits survives longer exactly because the earth's atmosphere gets thinner and thinner the further you are from the surface. The upper boundary of the atmosphere is somewhere above 100000km (62000 miles) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exosphere#Upper_boundary
So Bootstrap uses proprietary HTML elements, like Angular?

I like both frameworks but is this a trend we should worry about?
Ah. I thought it was just a forum/web-site. That would make sense, then.
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Microsoft got a fine for breaking its promise to offer consumers using its Windows system a choice of rival internet browsers (the browser choice screen). That offer was made by Microsoft to stave off an investigation by the EU in the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. That possible investigation was requested in light of earlier convictions of Microsoft for abusing its dominant position in the market (and earlier broken promises).

Apple has no such dominant position in the market, nor has it ever been fined for abusing it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/06/mirosoft-eu...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_compet...
The government of the United States is divided into three branches: executive, judicial, and legislative. Federal laws require either the agreement of the legislative and executive branches, or overwhelming support within the legislative branch alone. (A president can sign a bill passed by both houses of congress or he can veto it. A veto can be overridden by a two-thirds vote in each chamber of congress.)

Therefore, petitioning the White House for a law is ineffective and reflects a lack of understanding of constitutional government in the United States. Instead, try contacting your congressional representative or one of your senators.
"Paid for" is an assumption isn't it?
Sovereign nations do employ significant signal intelligence resources to defend their government. The Chinese are heavily invested and have been responsible for the majority of attacks on US IT infrastructure for years. It wasn't discussed openly before because the trade relations weren't degraded/ing like they are today.

In case you've missed the memo, they're threatening all of their neighbors outright with kinetic military force. Japan is no trivial country to threaten force against, so the diplomatic climate has changed and more information is being shared publicly in anticipation of an outright military conflict.

There are conflicting interests between individuals that lead to physical fights and the same applies to sovereign nations whose interests run contrary.
I still fail to understand this. What's its purpose? To make all web pages look the same?
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I don't see how Microsoft's fine was justified. Did Apple support it?
That is very cool. Real life KSP!
FPV = control the remote controlled airplane by seeing through its camera in a "first person view".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Person_View
Indeed. In fact, it was ready so long ago that Firefox was in the Android Market for almost a year.
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Meh,

License, buy, these are really hard terms to nail down in the physical space let alone the digital space. Does "Buy SimCity Today" mean they are selling the entire company, source code, single executable, dvd or a digital download?

I don't see that changing anytime soon, and requiring more legalspeek is going to just hurt all of us. What really is drm, can you say with confidence a particular bit of software is 20% DRM or DRM free like you could with sodium or dietary fiber?

Then there is the argument about whether or not the government should even be involved. SimCity isn't a necessary good, it isn't water/food/clothing/shelter, why are we forcing a business model that the consumers seem generally indifferent about (they still buy it, even though they complain about it). Shouldn't we be pushing individuals to 'speak with their wallets' and not purchase SimCity? Isn't that the solution to everything these days?

Here's what I think:

I hope these companies eat themselves to death. They'll keep pushing new and creative ways to use DRM and every time they do they'll alienate 1% of their consumer base. Their software isn't perfect, some innocent consumers will get locked out of the system and they'll become rabid-anti-consumers.

I also hope that the indie game movement grows like the micro-brew industry has over the last decade. I want to see more games, more companies and more ideas: Machinarium, Zeno Clash, Minecraft, Limbo, Super Meat Boy, World of Goo and the Kerbal Space Program. You may not like some of the creators of these games, you may not like the games themselves but the variety all but guarantees that you'll find something to like.

tl,td; Spend less time worry about wording, more time investing in indie game devs.
if the idea of the chess captcha is to be used once on a single site, (ignoring the fact that it's a chess captcha for a chess community) it's very over engineered. Jeff Atwood gets away with a captcha where all you have to do is type "orange" to post a comment[1] and even that manages to mitigate a lot of spam.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/captcha-is-dead-lon...
Perhaps a bug. Chrome on my Galaxy S3 showed the white's queen (and I believe bishop) as the color of the background. This was a problem because they were on a grey tile. When I first tried the captcha, the board arrangement looked like white had a king and a few pawns in the lower right and that black had two queens and a bishop in addition to their king at the top of the board. The white, according to my incorrect reading of the board, instantly looked like it was in check, but the captcha was saying that it was white's turn to put black into checkmate. I was completely confused and tried multiple times to move the "black" queen into a position that would checkmate white believing the captcha text to just be incorrect or misleading. After a couple failed attempts, I realized the queen I was trying to move was grey, not black, and then I solved the captcha.

In this case, the captcha took way too long because the pieces were hard to distinguish and the captcha text was unclear. I think that captchas should be something you can do near instantaneously. However, I really like the concept and the trying of a new approach.

I've had success implementing what I feel to be very simple captchas: solve simple arithmetic problems. I'm sure a parser could be created simply enough that would solve them, but I have had zero forum spam in a couple of small forums that use it.
I questioned this sentence too, but the meaning is explained in the article, if you read a bit further.
DDoS attempts are just as often business related as not. Maybe not in this case, but it's "surprising" how often these coincide with a business deal in the works. Also, potential partners (usually international) sometimes run DDoS tests against a network to see how resilient it is to attack.
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What you are saying is correct in some sense, yes there are a lot of hurdles and the going is not easy. But there are people who are doing things, there are people who are changing things.

Yes our system is not perfect, yes we are very corrupt, but one tends to forget that India is a very young society. We were liberated only 66 years ago from almost a century of foreign rule. But in just 6 decades we have made remarkable progress.

But having said that we can't just wait for things to become better. There needs to be someone who has to take the first step, who needs to be in the front of the formation, those people may not win the war but they lay the foundation for it. I believe just complaining about the system does not help.
Your argument doesn't hold water.

The classical pipe organ, often referred to as "the king of instruments", is a synthesiser. The organ console is an electrical or pneumatic controller, with no direct connection to the pipes. Most large organs have considerable "latency", due to the distance from the console to the pipe room. Some pipes may be as much as a hundred feet away from the player, so the sound will take over 90ms to reach them - several orders of magnitude more delay than a modern computer system.

The organ is still regarded as a highly expressive instrument, in spite of the relatively modest control a player has beyond simple pitch and duration. Although most organs have many stops which provide similar timbres to existing instruments, it is understood that the organ is an instrument in its own right and should be played as such, and is not merely a tool for emulating other instruments.

The idea that an electronic instrument should imitate acoustic instruments is simply a poverty of imagination. Electronic instruments, used in a manner that is sympathetic to their natural properties, can be absolutely as expressive as any acoustic instrument. The theremin has perhaps the worst user-interface of any musical instrument as the player has no physical contact with the instrument whatsoever, but is utterly beautiful when played by a master.

The challenge for electronic musicians is that they are often both performer and instrument-maker. A monosynth of any quality can be configured in a near-infinite variety of ways, many of which were completely unforeseen by the designer. Musicians working with modular systems or DSP programming environments have a blank canvas. We do not as yet have a good theoretical framework for this task, but electronic music is extremely young - no more than ninety years old at most. We are only just beginning to scratch the surface of what is possible.
Sure you can. You're just adding two (probably normal-ish) distibutions: the distribution of human response times for processing the chess move, and the distribution of human response times for parsing the instructions.
I've been on the buy-side for many years and the IPO market is a joke. Every time an IPO pops +20% it's irrefutable evidence that the banks are either incompetent and/or untruthful. I remain mystified that companies, particularly the hot issues like LinkedIn, ProtoLabs, et al, dont opt for auctions. It's the 8th wonder of the world.

The other solution would be to be to have an adjustable underwriting fee that declines depending on how much the stock is up using the ~5 day average closing price after the IPO. If the stock was up some percent over the IPO price, say 40%, the underwriting fee would drop from 7% to 1%. Over 50%? No fees. Something along those lines would keep the banks honest. You failed (purposefully or not) to price the offering correctly and needlessly transferred hundred of million in wealth from the company to trading clients? Fine, you dont get paid.

For the hot issues, trust me, there is still plenty of demand. Tons. You really think no one would buy Splunk at $35, that an IPO would fail? It happens millions of times per day already in the secondary market, so clearly there's more than enough demand. The difference would be that the hedge funds who generate utterly insane commission dollars wouldn't have an interest in the offering...it would be more buy-and-hold guys subscribing, and those folks just aren't that profitable for the bank trade desks. I used to work at one of these big funds and I've seen this all first hand and it's ridiculous.
Google and Opera requested it. Apple tends not to get involved much with these antitrust proceedings.

http://bgr.com/2013/03/07/microsoft-fine-google-tattled-3626...
Since computers are exceptionally good at chess, this might not be the best approach.

Nice idea though.
The FEN notation(1) state of the the board is in the HTML:

data-fen="7r/3k1ppp/3bpn2/1p3P2/1PbP4/2r2P2/P2K1Q1P/q5NR">

Any chess engine could load this and solve these problems in milliseconds. Which is far easier than most captchas that require moderately sophisticated image processing.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%E2%80%93Edwards_Notatio...
Correct me if I'm wrong: Microsoft was a monopoly and leveraged that to pursue the browser market. This was a big no-no. Apple is not a monopoly.
That's why it is in preview and not released?
I can assure you, this CAPTCHA will not become widespread, because most people don't know how to play chess. It's specifically on a forum about chess, so it's reasonable there, but anywhere else would be ridiculous.

I will agree that coding a brute force method would work well, though.
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Any stats done on these comments to figure out what people use?
Or how about:

A CAPTCHA appears before you,
in form of a chessboard to prove,
that you're a real user,
and not a computer,
by checkmating WHITE in one move.
The more people stop using Bootstrap as a complete design the happier I will be.
I didn't see any proprietary elements, which ones do you mean?