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by bskap 13y ago
Blink was a non-standard tag added to Netscape. Presto supported it because Opera tried to support everything. Trident and KHTML/WebKit/Blink never supported it.
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by bskap 13y ago
From experience, it's not "the companies" that are saying there's no qualified people. It's the engineers on the teams trying to hire people that interview those "qualified" people that send in their resum
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by bskap 13y ago
Can you imagine if they decided HIPAA didn't consider "metadata" private? Sure, the doctor's notes are private, but the list of every procedure you've had and every drug you've taken doesn't count.
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by bskap 13y ago
"def" in Python is an executable statement, not a declaration- it creates a function object that gets bound to the specified name in the local namespace. The defaults are evaluated when the function is created.
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by bskap 13y ago
WinRT isn't a kernel, it's a shell. It's like saying that Android is going to replace Linux.
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by bskap 13y ago
The author originally noticed the snooping because he happened to be examining the phone's traffic when the ActiveSync credentials were sent. If you actually read the entire article, you'll notice that credentials were sent for Ex
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by bskap 13y ago
It's a first-party add-on. Support doesn't come in the box (as far as I know), but it is developed by Microsoft.
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by bskap 13y ago
And they supported those mostly working implementations for about 6 weeks. Microsoft supports their releases for years.
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by bskap 13y ago
IE 9 was released only 11 days after WebGL was standardized.
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by bskap 13y ago
Are you an expert in this domain or are you just parroting what the article said? I can think of at least one reason for a spam filter to contact the computer for an HTTPS request but not for an HTTP request- you want to find out what certi
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by bskap 13y ago
Microsoft has insanely long support cycles for their products. Windows 8 will be supported until January 10, 2023. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/lifecycl...
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by bskap 13y ago
Um yes, that's covered in the "malicious URL removal" part. Hard to do malicious URL removal without, you know, looking at the URLs to see if they need to be removed.
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by bskap 13y ago
There was no IP limitation, as I understand it. Everyone on your console could always play all of your games. And you could designate 10 people that had access to your library from anywhere.
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by bskap 13y ago
The only way to do that would be to limit used game sales to specific retailers that have the ability to check if a disc has been deactivated before accepting it. You know, that thing that people got really annoyed at because they want to j
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by bskap 13y ago
I believe they are planning to have day-1 digital downloads. This backtrack does mean that, at least for day 1, the family sharing and used-digital-game features won't be available but you can still get all the games without discs.
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by bskap 13y ago
If your friends can play your games at any time, it means that the game is not tied to a disc, it is tied to your account. That makes it more like Steam. How does one sell a used Steam game? The answer (for all current digital services) is
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by bskap 13y ago
The original plan let you designate 10 accounts that could play any of your games (although only one account plus the main could play a game at once- no buying one copy of Halo and then having all 11 of you get online at once). The check-in
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by bskap 13y ago
Windows 8 comes with Hyper-V.
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by bskap 13y ago
A DMCA takedown request requires "Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably su
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by bskap 13y ago
There's no formal procedure for this. Remember, the US Constitution is now the oldest constitution still in use. When it was created, the concept of judicial review wasn't really a thing. It wasn't until 15 years later, in th
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by bskap 13y ago
So then what could these companies do to convince you, short of giving you physical access to all of their datacenters and shell access to all of their servers?
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by bskap 13y ago
They're saying XMPP clients still works with the App Engine XMPP service (which is "An App Engine application can send and receive chat messages to and from any XMPP-compatible chat messaging service, such as Google Talk"). The email says t
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by bskap 13y ago
Because "rarely" means "they should just ignore them- no malware hoster would ever use HTTPS, especially not if they ever figured out that Microsoft was only checking HTTP URLs". Also, anyone sending log-in information in a GET request is d
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by bskap 13y ago
Because you aren't likely to lose money clicking on monsters. Also, by that logic, buying a pack of baseball cards is gambling.
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by bskap 13y ago
Since 2008, yeah. But the only way Apple got the license to sell the music online in the first place was if they DRM'd it, and you have to pay to unlock the songs purchased prior to the switch.
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by bskap 13y ago
"American Men Novelists" didn't exist until Thursday, after Amanda Filipacchi wrote the first op-ed. "American Women Novelists" has existed since October.
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by bskap 13y ago
Skype is switching to use Microsoft Accounts, which have security questions and 2-factor auth. This vulnerability is only for people who haven't switched yet.
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by bskap 13y ago
In other words, http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2253#c...
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by bskap 14y ago
But that would require them to read the user manual, or the box, or pretty much anything at all. Have you met an average user before?
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by bskap 14y ago
People would pick up their shiny new phone, not hear a dial tone, and return it because they think it's broken.

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