pyalot2

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by pyalot2 13y ago
The matter of the fact is that the W3C is the first organization to systematically cave in to content cartel demands. Do you honestly think that "the web" has fewer leverage than television networks? What the Web doesn't have
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by pyalot2 13y ago
It's not just that it prolongs that clinging to anti-feature systems by the content industry. EME kills the webs future by a simple insidious mechanism. the CDM (content decryption module) needs to provide the raw bytes to the browser
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> I think you are severely overblowing this issue. If the web can survive through Sony implementing Rootkits as a form of DRM, I think the web can survive this. Those are in no way comparable and that's a flawed analagoy. The future
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by pyalot2 13y ago
That is exactly the point of DRM. See for instance the difficulties that linux has supporting DVD playback (and now blu-ray playback). Open Source OSes will be excluded from EME.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> This seems a little overblown. Firefox is the only fully open source browser to gain any significant traction, so HTML-DRM as the final blow to the "guiding light that led the web out of darkness" seems a little far-fetchd. F
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Yes, but the CDM cannot composit a page. These are things that happen often: - Layering elements on top of other elements - Layering elements behind of other elements - Transforming elements by CSS transformations Usecases of these are: - P
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by pyalot2 13y ago
That doesn't work. You don't seem to understand how a webpage is composited. The browser aquires all the bytes it needs to composit the page, and then it layers/animates them by whatever is a suitable compositor (software, ha
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Tim is as wrong in every way as he can possibly be wrong. Open source browsers where what introduced heterogenity to an IE6 monopoly on the web and it made the modern web as we know it possible in the first place. A heterogenous browser lan
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by pyalot2 13y ago
There's no such thing. That's just W3C (MPAA shills) crazy talk. A heterogenous and open web is fundamentally incompatible with requiring that web to be run only by proprietary browsers using proprietary DRM plugins.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The DRM in HTML-DRM is called the CDM (content decryption module) and it would be supplied as a proprietary blob/OS API. In order for the browser to work (with images, audio, video, fonts and so forth) it needs access to the raw frames
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Open source browsers where the only guiding light that led the web out of the darkness of an IE6 monopoly. And the WhatWGs HTML5 standard and the willingness of Open source browsers was the only thing that saved the W3C of complete obsolese
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by pyalot2 13y ago
1) Always source revision your code, free private repos are available at bitbucket. 2) Never work without compensation 3) Preferably make a contract 4) Agree to incremental delivery or milestones 5) Prepare regular invoices 6) Follow up on
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Note that you should avoid using this (or anything else with JS) to emulate shortcuts. The reason is because what this usually looks like "oh nice I can define shortcuts people can press". What it actually means is: "Ohcrap,
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Ah but one can hope :) There's always those people who don't listen to their lawyers.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Hmyeah, so Josh Hannah @jdh (A series investor in JustFab) was defending JustFab in this other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455575 how it's totally not a scam, backed up with a screenshot, clearly show
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by pyalot2 13y ago
A prime example of a scam, that you can get away with in court because just like fine print in contracts, it was actually stated. See, there is the action (the orange checkout button) on the left box. Right below it are the shipping options
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The scene in the vid where the guy says "I don't care..." with the framed "Faith" sitting besides him, it really pulls that documentary together.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
I agree that the term NPE is a misnomer. I disagree that there's no difference between patent holders. No single behavior makes a patent holder a troll, but a combination of behaviors do. Good: A patent holder partners with licensees t
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by pyalot2 13y ago
It's not just 3D transforms, a simple scale down will exhibit aliasing as well. There's no flag to control aliasing migitating strategies for CSS in the spec, nor is there any discussion about it as far as I know.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Well in CSS you can't do anything about it, that's just how the browser works. If you'd be doing WebGL you can do some things like using square power of two textures and enabling mipmapping and if available anisotropic filter
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Ah my eyes, the aliasing. If anybody's interested why there's aliasing it's important to know how CSS transforms work. If you transform, the browser lifts the transformed rectangle into its own layer and renders its content t
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by pyalot2 13y ago
That's true. But if you've not got a player on the table you're obliged to listen to because their vote overrides everybody elses, they can't shoot down things they don't like as easily.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Want to know how to get a secure encryption standard? Do not develop it with the government involved, especially not the US government.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
If you really concur then you'll be comfortable to sit in a car or rocket that's produced by an army of zombies so dog-tired that if they where truck drivers they'd legally be considered a road hazard. Of course you wouldn&#x
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Not necessairly. I might think that the bulk of Musks activity is sitting in endless meetings and nodding his head, and that he might think that's work, the same kind of work that the actually working people do, and it might lead him t
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by pyalot2 13y ago
You're making some assumptions that are shown to be incorrect. 1) You're assuming that you can start every workday at maximum productivity regardless of your previous workload. This has been shown to be false. Previous overwork wi
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Working 14 hours a day, 7 days the week will not acomplish more than working 8 hours a day, 5 days the week. This is already true of factory production line workers. How much more true do you think this is for mentally exhausting activities
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Quite likely.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> 1.0/0.0 -> Infinity (at least in javascript) The IEEE floating point standard (for any precision) defines anything divided by zero to be the infinity value (all bits except the sign set to 1). You where saying?
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Bitcoin ftw. Sure, not everybody can contribute in bitcoin. But on balance, bitcoin beats paypal by a factor of infinity. Why infinity? Well, with bitcoin you could at least have some contributions, i.e. > 0. With paypal you get 0 contri

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