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by anon1385 11y ago
Well if you moderated comments/users that made threats of physical violence against me I wouldn't be tempted to make posts referencing them. You can't deny seeing the comment in question since you replied to it.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Opportunity cost doesn't make all decisions zero-sum. There is a quirk of human psychology that makes us believe that most things must be zero sum (i.e. that anything I do that improves something I care about must have a 'payback&
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Every engineering decision has costs as well as benefits. This is only true if you are superstitious or religious and believe that good things that happens to you (or humanity in general) must be balanced out by something bad happening.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Why would they do that? Google isn't a charity. Anything that makes it easier to develop native software (which 'won't-suddenly-disappear' software has to be) is in direct conflict with Google's strategic interests
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by anon1385 11y ago
What makes you say that? They've requested extradition in all the other similar cases I'm aware of. Most recently: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/07/17/lauri-love-rearr...
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by anon1385 11y ago
Xcode doesn't follow the rules that 3rd party apps must follow. It's not possible for a 3rd party to distribute an app like Xcode through the app store.
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by anon1385 11y ago
I'd be happy to write a final version of Chrome for those platforms that was just a "This platform is no longer supported" message. I'd even do it for free.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Morality has nothing to do with money changing hands or not. People would consider it immoral for Google to fail to patch serious vulnerabilities in Chrome on supported platforms, even though Chrome is free. Why? Because Google advertises C
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by anon1385 11y ago
I didn't ask them to maintain it forever. I said they should prevent the insecure versions from running, which is what their current policy is anyway.
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by anon1385 11y ago
ChromeOS isn't an open platform and Chromebooks are dangerously locked down. Microsoft could solve these issues on windows by forbidding software that they don't approve. It would undoubtedly improve the security of the platform.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Vista is getting Extended support until 11 April 2017. Lack of vendor support can't be the reason for dropping these platforms - Chrome has continued to support XP and OS X 10.6 despite those being unsupported for years, and it's
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by anon1385 11y ago
In exchange for taking control of Chrome updates out of the hands of users Google is accepting the moral responsibility for fixing security issues for those users. They are now abandoning those users. I would hope that as a minimum they wou
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by anon1385 11y ago
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. There are a lot of people still on Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7 and OS X 10.8. This is dropping support for about 14% of all desktops. That's a lot of people. It's
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by anon1385 11y ago
http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platf... OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 are all being dropped and won't get security updates. netmarketshare.com suggests that's about 13% of current OS X
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by anon1385 11y ago
If source distribution was the main way of getting software onto the computers of less technical users then it would be rife.
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by anon1385 11y ago
That just means malware sites like download.com will tell users to add the download.com repository. Without curation package managers/app stores don't offer any additional security, but curation inevitably involves trusting somebo
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by anon1385 11y ago
OP said "these apps" in reply to an article that mostly talks about apps that aren't possible (or would become extremely clumsy to use) through the MAS (VLC[0], uTorrent[1], Hopper, Sequel Pro, Sketch[1]) A lot of apps violat
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by anon1385 11y ago
VLC does all sorts of things that are prohibited by the MAS. For a start you wouldn't be able to open a video file and have VLC automatically pick up an adjacent subtitles file. A lead VLC dev listed a bunch of the issues here: https:
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by anon1385 11y ago
Sparkle dropped support for OS X 10.6 at some point, so that's probably a reason for some apps continuing to use older versions.
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by anon1385 11y ago
The MAS model means you are getting crippled applications with vastly reduced capability. The article talks about things like uTorrent and VLC. These kinds of apps are impossible in the MAS. MAS apps can also stop running at any time if the
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by anon1385 11y ago
Of course you think people who block ads are engaged in a "crusade": you work for an advertising company.
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by anon1385 11y ago
The badger cull is absolutely the only reason this article was written. Note that Ridley is a member of the UK government, so it's not a coincidence that he would be writing an article to defend the UK government's policies.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Personally I ignore any arguments I see from Matt Ridley because my own experience tells me that he's a serial liar and distorter of facts. I don't have the time in my life to sort though the bullshit in every Ridley article by re
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by anon1385 11y ago
Facebook has a list of all current and future job search sites that anybody in India might want to use? What about job adverts that are just posted on the employers own website? Unless you meant "Facebook wants to monopolise the entire
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by anon1385 11y ago
They also have another history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_Acts
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by anon1385 11y ago
Well, this is awkward… http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2zzikm
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OpenSSL advisory: hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime(seclists.org)
1 points by anon1385 11y ago|0 comments
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Sparklegate Not as Bad as It Could Be(taoeffect.com)
1 points by anon1385 11y ago|0 comments
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by anon1385 11y ago
The disappointing thing is that one of these issues was reported ~4 years ago: https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle/issues/169 I'm not sure why NSXMLNodeLoadExternalEntitiesSameOriginOnly was used
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How Thatcher killed the UK's superfast broadband before it even existed(techradar.com)
30 points by anon1385 11y ago|11 comments

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