* Posts by bombastic bob

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Linux-using mates gone AWOL? Netflix just added Linux support

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Facepalm

Re: re: I have no interest in streaming or renting TV shows and movies

"they can come to terms with the fact that people like me will never stop pirating their content."

I was going to say something snarky, and then I decided it wouldn't make a difference...

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Pirate

Re: What hardware Intel and ARM?

" I would expect high quality ripping to be a problem for Netflix."

if it can be displayed on a TV screen, it can be ripped. You know, HDMI 'wye' adaptors, extra cables and a DVR. right? I could purchase the gear for under $200 on amazon.

but most people would just buy the DVD or Blu-ray when it comes out.

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Linux

Re: >Awesome. Netflix is about to get another 3 customers...

ack on platform independence. This is THE NEXT roadblock removed for widespread Linux takeover on the desktop, while Micro-shaft sleeps in the Win-10-nic wheelhouse and fails to see the iceberg in time...

It's all good!

NASA to fire 1Gbps laser 'Wi-Fi' ... into spaaaaace

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Devil

Re: Latency...

latency goes up when you use geosync satellites. best sync would be to multiple ground stations underneath the expected path of the ISS, almost like cell towers [with frickin' laser beams, OK couldn't resist either, heh]

really, though, a design of a laser with less than a 1 degree cone might do the trick, then have the response laser modulate the original "carrier" [i.e. reflect it back with interferometry involved, let's say]. targeting a laser within one degree shouldn't be too hard. existing weapons systems might already have similar capability...

whole point would be for the ground-based laser not only to send data, but to power up the received signal as well. A laser has a cone-shaped propagation pattern, more or less, and so disperses a little bit [especially from atmospheric interference]. Then it's just reflected back with modulation by the I.S.S..

yeah, it could work... (with frickin' laser beams)

If you were cuffed during Trump's inauguration, cops are trying to crack your smartphone

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Big Brother

where's the George Soros connection?

waiting for proof that George Soros paid them to riot...

(could it be on their phones?)

Carnegie-Mellon Uni emits 'don't be stupid' list for C++ developers

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Devil

Re: Good advice but

not using (...) and not allowing unsigned integers to 'wrap' is short-sighted...

the implications of 'printf'-like utilities, as well as gcc format checking pragma, were pointed out in the comments. But there are use cases for wrapping an unsigned integer, SUCH AS the calculation of a time interval on a 32-bit unsigned value that calculates milliseconds or microseconds, and wanting to schedule events based on elapsed time. When you EXPECT a wrap-around, you can code around it.

example:

uint32_t lTick = millis(); // # of milliseconds since start, using 32-bit unsigned value

...

if((int32_t)(millis() - lTick)) > my_interval) { do something; lTick += my_interval; }

this pretty much works universally, and is similar to what the Linux kernel does when scheduling things based on 'jiffies'.

(and in some cases I'll even truncate the math down to 16-bits to make code work faster, such as on a microcontroller like Arduino, where this example might be used a LOT)

so... maybe NO UNHANDLED unsigned integer wrapping?

(yeah a FEATURE, not a bug - I like to work WITH the system's limitations, not against them)

Good news, everyone! Two pints a day keep heart problems at bay

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Pint

Re: Careful wording in study

"Suggestive differences included that the lower risk of myocardial infarction in heavy drinkers was attenuated in current smokers"

so let's add some stats that include smoking as a factor, and see where THAT leads...

FYI niacin, vitamin B3, which is needed for proper nerve function and can help deplete excess cholesterol, is "nicotinic acid". However, nicotene from tobacco tends to plaque things out in your arteries (maybe because it's a similar yet distinct-enough chemical). So yeah, it's a factor that would very likely affect the benefits of alcohol for cardiovascular disease studies.

Now, I want a beer.

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Pint

Re: A question

"What is the cause/mechanism that gives 'never drinkers' a worse outcome than moderate drinkers?"

it has things to do with arteriol sclerosis last I checked. Apparently small amounts of alcohol have a cleaning effect, like occasionally pouring some drain cleaner down the sink.

(taking niacin, using aspirin, and things like that are probably similar)

So do the combo - take niacin and aspirin every day as vitamin supplements, and then have a couple of beers in the evening to wash away the daily stress.

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Pint

Re: Yeah, that's going to happen

"Wait till they realise how much tax there is on Alcohol ..."

too late.

(I prefer microbrew ales like the ones made by Carl Strauss)

As ad boycott picks up pace, Google knows it doesn't have to worry

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Pirate

"Surely most people have an adblock running for Youtube these days any way?"

no 'ad block' per se, but a possible alternative method:

a) special non-priv login for youtube browsing

b) minimal plugins to avoid security and content view problems [but include movie downloaders, etc.]

c) download before you view [so you can skip things and/or get non-stuttery content with limited bandwidth]

d) make sure the browser CLEARS EVERYTHING (i.e. history, cache, cookies) when you close it.

e) always view anonymously (no logins)

f) NEVER use a flash plugin

yeah, works ok for me.

It's happening! It's happening! W3C erects DRM as web standard

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Devil

Re: If you can see it or hear it

"I think it's primarily intended to annoy pirates!"

like 30 seconds of anti-piracy warnings with law enforcement symbols, filling my entire TV screen, at the begining of NEARLY! EVERY! DVD! I! OWN! (and I own quite a few)

Notable exception, Excel Saga, which actually lampoons it.

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Linux

Re: @ShelLuser - It's one thing to define a standard...

"I guess now Fedora and Debian must start working on another browser that excludes DRM"

resurrect 'iceweasel' - that's what it was, a few years ago, before debian merged it back with firefox (for 'pure open source' reasons). So we've been there before.

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Big Brother

Re: "improve online privacy"

"Thank God for Open Source, it's all we have left."

not entirely. there's still "creative commons" and "fair use". For now.

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FAIL

Re: Inclusion in free software

I think FLASH had/has DRM capability, right? obvious comparison obvious.

[look forward to MORE OF THE SAME with respect to vulnerabilities, incompatibilities, browser crashes, etc.]

Microsoft loves Linux so much, its OneDrive web app runs like a dog on Windows OS rivals

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"What kind of linux user would actually ever want to use onedrive?"

one that doesn't know how to configure apache...

(i.e. make your OWN P2P/cloudy web service, and just copy the files there, etc.)

using https and self-signed certs, naturally [and a free dynamic DNS service can help a lot]

Yeah, WHO NEEDS ONE DRIVE???

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Devil

Re: I wonder why so many commentards came to exactly the same instant conclusion

"Microsoft has a long history of playing dirty."

that, and rifling through our content stored in OneDrive.

(Micro-shaft - WORLD POLICE!)

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Re: We've been there before .. in 1991

thanks for the memories, and keep up the watchdogging

(from the "nothing out of Redmond surprises me" department)

Microsoft cloud TITSUP: Skype, Outlook, Xbox, OneDrive, Hotmail down

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Devil

Re: Steady as she goes MS

how long before the MS login for Win-10-nic stops working?

'Sorry, I've forgotten my decryption password' is contempt of court, pal – US appeal judges

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IT Angle

Re: Future Justice

"Claiming that downloaded files were actually child porn is also shaky without the files, download logs show only file size and name and those aren't by any means unique."

also, if they were "downloaded by accident" [and you could legitimately claim this], they wouldn't be proof of having "downloaded child porn" [or else people who occasionally see such content on image boards, before the moderators delete it, would be guilty as well].

as for the main topic...

This judgement basically upholds that the defendant can be held in contempt if an order from a judge compels him to decrypt his external hard drives, and he refuses to comply with the order. I guess it would be like giving up the key/combination to your safe.

Anyway, taking the hit for contempt is like taking a penalty in US'ian football, to avoid having your opponent score (like obvious 'pass interference' next to the goal line to stop a touchdown). It's really the strategy of someone who _IS_ guilty, and doesn't want a conviction on the greater charge.

Google's stock rating downgraded as YouTube ad boycott contagion goes global

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Unhappy

Re: Why should it be the advertiser's responsibility to fix this

" am quite certain Google has the means to identify the majority of viewed content that promotes hate speech, terrorism, misogyny etc."

using "political correctness" definitions? Or *REALISTIC* definitions?

Remember, "political correctness" definitions of RACISM include disagreeing with Obaka, and definitions of MISOGYNY included NOT voting for Mrs. Clinton.

Do you REALLY want P.C. to take over on internet sites that would NORMALLY just let you spew whatever vomitous speech you want to [and look like an idiot while doing it, so that it becomes obvious to everyone]?

We don't need POLITICAL CORRECTNESS in ANY form, and ad-boycott-driven CENSORSHIP won't stop with jihadists and racism...

Murder in space: NASA orders astronauts to KILL cripples – then fire bodies back to Earth

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Joke

Re: WHy????!!!!!!

they should've used lawyers instead of mice. there are just some things people have trouble doing to mice [but would have no ethical issues at all doing to a lawyer]

Fix crap Internet of Things security, booms Internet daddy Cerf

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Devil

"There has to be some kind of product validation or security certification (to start with)."

if it's inexpensive [such that it doesn't crowd independent engineers from selling their wares on the intarwebs] it _MIGHT_ work... but consider the cost of F.C.C. and CE marks, ALREADY a road block for startup businesses to get a product into the market. It's bad enough that Micro-shaft, Apple, and others are INSISTENT on some kind of "approval" or paid-for certification for software, which helps to *KILL* open source (and independent developers).

Do you REALLY want "these kinds of roadblocks" IN THE WAY of TECHNOLOGY? I don't.

If the liability laws are such that the manufacturer of a device can be held liable for flaws that RESULT in a DDoS, you can bet those flaws will be PROPERLY FIXED. If that means (for their insurance, for example) that they MUST have some kind of cert, they'll get it. At the same time, a PUBLIC project for an open source OS for IoT stuff (let's say) would NOT be hampered, but would need to "self certify" (through proper testing and documentation during development, let's say) in order to get people to use it.

So yeah, gummint would have to be involved a little bit, legislating the liability laws that would basically put some pressure on IoT makers to make sure their devices have some basic protection in place to prevent being "negligent" and therefore liable for damages.

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Devil

I hope "the answer" isn't EVEN MORE gummint...

"what moved the needle on seat belts (at least in the US) was a government mandate"

sadly this is true. It also brought the cost down when EVERY car maker had them.

If it takes a gummint mandate, I suppose that's what we'll end up with. Fortunately, however, we still have some time for a PRIVATE SECTOR solution.

My own belief is that SOME gummint (i.e. liability laws) coupled with MOSTLY private sector (software that limits risk) would be the best overall solution, and help to prevent "gummint oversight" from literally *KILLING* the technology while it's still an infant.

Beijing deploys facial scanners to counter public toilet abuse

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Facepalm

Re: Better than having none I guess

"the offender did look around more before returning to their BMW."

cheapskate. or 'third world mentality'. or the side-effect of being under communist rule...

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Facepalm

Re: six squares ?

just grab some paper towels. to hell with their plumbing. Wash your ass in the sink when you're done. More paper towels after.

and hope you don't have the runs from inadequate water supplies or tainted food...

US military's latest toy set: Record-breaking laser death star, er, truck

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Mushroom

Re: debris will still be a pretty effective kinetic weapon.

better to have debris than a nuclear yield. If you disrupt the electronics enough, it goes "puphhhh" instead of "BOOOM!"

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Pirate

Re: Just 2 mile range?

Range is ONE issue, but...

What's the firing rate? one burst per minute? one per second? 10 per second? Frickin' laser MACHINE GUN? Continuous blast in whatever direction it's pointing?

Anyway if it fits in a truck, it'd fit on a spacecraft. Just sayin'.

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"You think the yanks might want this back?"

make it out of CLEAR PLASTIC and, yeah!

60 slow-mo A-bomb test videos explode onto YouTube

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Mushroom

Re: kubrik would have loved these...

YEEEEEEHAAAAAAWWWWWW!!

/me waving my grey-hat-hacker-hat - ride 'em cowboy!!!

Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!!

Or, like that one Far Side comic: "Ooooh... Ahhhh!!!"

I *LOVE* the smell of NEUTRONS in the morning!

Git sprints carefully towards SHA-1 deprecation

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Devil

so basically to "prove" that a document is unique you'd at least need the file's size as well as the hash, and a 2nd hash using an independent algorithm [which could be as simple as a CRC]. And mathematically, even THAT has "fewer bits" than the original. So it's not really "proof".

In any case, there's STILL a use for SHA1: as a secondary 'check' in verifying a file's contents. A crack to make the file size, SHA-256, _AND_ SHA-1 all match (and still have the code compile and do whatever malicious thing you wanted it to do) would be one hell of an accomplishment! Or, you could use MD5 or another "known to be insecure" method as the secondary method. Whichever.

FreeBSD's ports system uses size, SHA256, _AND_ MD5 in this way, last I checked.

Linux, not Microsoft, the real winner of Windows Server on ARM

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Devil

"a newbie programmer bought into the cloudy, linuxy, ARMy hype"

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I'd agree, "the cloud" is overrated, but for widespread sharing and other web-related things it's convenient and (ok, somewhat) fault-tolerant (example, github, google docs). Linux _IS_ _THE_ _MOST_ _POPULAR_ _OS_ out there for sheer number of "things" using it, from servers to routers to phones (and Raspberry Pi). That can ONLY be ignored at your own career peril.

ARM is just another platform. There are tasks it's well suited to, and those that x86 or x64 are well suited for. It just depends on what you need and how well the system performs.

I'm glad it's standardizing and entering the server realm. Competition with x86/x64 and against Micro-shaft's dominance will ONLY help us end-users and customers, in the long run.

And as a software [and some hardware] developer, I'll keep a close watch on it and upgrade my skills when necessary.

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Devil

Re: Funniest Thing I've read today

"we're about 75% Windows."

one of the advantages of using Linux on ARM would be the reduction in wasted electricity on that 75% of your boxen running Windows. Just sayin'. Inefficiencies like ".Not" and Micro-shaft's operating system "overall" have hidden costs. And don't forget the constant UPDATES (and phone-home spyware) eating your bandwidth.

Last I checked, even a Windows 7 system wasn't immune to the CPU-intensive background re-indexing of ".Not" garbage, following even the most insignificant of windows updates.

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Facepalm

Should just kick out all legacy baggage and go into the brave New World.

like they did in 'Superiority' by Arthur C. Clarke. For the same reasons, most likely.

SVN commit this: Subversion to fix file renaming after 15 years

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Devil

Re: SVN will never beat GIT

"1. global revision versions instead of not sequential unwieldy guids or urls. revisions are easy to communicate with, and reach across branches."

yes, this makes it pretty easy to check out or do a special "new branch" based on a particular date/time/rev-# and so forth. I hadn't considered that for git, but it seems kinda cumbersome. My git experience is with github-hosted projects, and creating my OWN private 'github'-like host wasn't something I was planning on doing any time soon...

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Devil

Re: Is this still being used?

yeah FreeBSD uses subversion, and I set up a repository with it (for my own stuff) years ago. still seems to work just fine. cron job to do nightly backups, etc. and stored on ZFS with replication. works.

Fire brigade called to free man's bits from titanium ring's grip

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Trollface

Re: Please tell us

you're reminding me of a sequence from an Austin Powers movie...

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Trollface

A new compliment to the 'Darwin Award'

a new complimentary award needs to be established, to go along with the existing 'Darwin Award', when some dumbass offs himself in a way that demonstrates WHY it benefits society by removing him from the gene pool.

Well, THIS guy could've removed himself from the gene pool WITHOUT actually dying. By his own act of complete stupidity he nearly DID THE WORLD A FAVOR. Had his maleness been lopped off due to oxygen starvation induced gangrene or necrosis, the world's potential future average IQ would've gone UP a bit. *NOW* we have this guy BACK in the gene pool...

mentioning 'Idiocracy' again (particularly the intro, where skilled surgeons save the moron's male member after a bizarre jet ski accident that should've kept him from breeding any more)

Maybe we can call it the "Margaret Sanger" award (due to her belief in 'eugenics'). Extra points for those who get the snark/humor.

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Trollface

Re: Titanium?

Why the fec did he need titanium?

maybe he wanted a cameo (or at least a shoutout) in the intro for 'Idiocracy 2'

NASA swerves serious cash cuts – but Earth climate probes, asteroid snatcher face axe

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Devil

Re: NASA back to space

newer/better/cheaper - part of that is the shift to private industry for routine launch vehicles.

meanwhile, NASA did a lot of really cool stuff back in the nineties, and maybe noughties, with some radical engine designs and whatnot (NOT just the ion drives). As I recall, the project was shelved when their test vehicle crashed, and making a replacement was too expensive.

But yeah private industry is likely to be the best source for new ideas anyway. Pouring money into a black hole gets us a bunch of agenda-driven gummint bureaucrats and "scientists" wasting taxpayer money on their pet projects. If a private company must make a profit, on the other hand, they weed that out themselves.

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Boffin

Re: It's not a cut, its streamlining

"Trump has stated before that AGW is false."

that's because it _IS_ false. what part of "CO2 does not absorb infrared energy corresponding to normal earth temperatures" (and therefore can NOT be the 'greenhouse gas' everyone hopes it would be, so they can CONTROL PEOPLE'S BEHAVIOR in the name of reducing it) is NOT obvious here?

The entire mechanism for the CLAIMS of "man made global climate *whatever*" fall on its FACE if man-made CO2 cannot be the CAUSE of it all. And it can NOT be. It's just not SCIENCE to claim that it is!

Think about it: what makes a greenhouse gas a greenhouse gas? It is supposed to TRAP HEAT, i.e. keep infrared energy from going out into outer space! Well, WATER has MANY times the effect of CO2, and absorbs IR energies that correspond to normal Earth temperatures. Therefore a cloudy night is warmer, a clear night is colder. Similarly, it doesn't block incoming energy either, so a cloudy day is cooler, a clear day is warmer.

CO2 has NO such effects since it doesn't affect IR energies that correspond to temperatures over about -50C (or F, take your pick). Yes, I ran the numbers myself, and I'm pretty confident that my calculations were correct. Anyone else cn challenge me on this, the intarweb has the info if you look hard, but it _IS_ difficult to find [I wonder why?].

So in short, MAN MADE CO2 does NOT affect climate. Even if we pumped zillions of tons into the atmosphere, RAIN would deplete it very quickly. It would end up as carbonates in the ocean. And algea blooms would consume it. People use CO2 injectors for fish tanks and greenhouses because it makes plants grow more. The biological equilibrium would compensate for anything humans could POSSIBLY do to CO2, even if it DID cause climate change.

[this stuff should be obvious but I guess I have to point it out. again]

but yeah, getting rid of NASA budget items that focus on "climate change" is a good idea, because it is a WASTE of MONEY!

Microsoft kills Windows Vista on April 11: No security patches, no hot fixes, no support, nada

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Linux

Re: Options?

you should be able to download and install Mint Linux for free.

Oxford Uni boffins say internet filters probably won't protect teens

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Joke

Re: Anon for reasons - Basically to avoid the SJW'ers

"I was 13, and went on to chat rooms and started talking to this 16 year old girl."

as pointed out before, probably "a 45 year old unshaven fat guy in his underwear"

And I'd like to add a list of the best possible comebacks for teenagers (directed at clueless parents):

a) I'm doing my gynecology homework

b) I accidentally clicked on the wrong link

c) someone from Nigeria sent me this

d) I think I misspelled a word in my google search

e) it's just the way that web browsers work under Linux

f) I was told that Playboy doesn't do porn any more

g) I accidentally typed "4chan" and this is where I ended up

h) Facebook is a LOT worse

i) I was looking for information about [insert ethnic group] culture

j) someone said a word that sounded [insert foreign language here] and I wanted to know what it meant

k) I thought it was a web site about cartoons/Disney/Pokemon

US regulator looks at Internet of Things regulation, looks away

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please keep in mind that many of you are asking for POLITICIANS and BUREAUCRATS to make these *kinds* of regulations, and NOT sane people nor knowledgeable people.

Politicians are, by the very definition, on the edge of honesty if they're honest at all. They have to take contributions, and then do a "payback" of some sort later on, for those very contributions. And bureaucrats often have agendas, not necessarily agendas that you'd want implemented.

If you want to call down a napalm strike on top of your own head to deal with the perceived enemy all around you, have at it. Just don't involve *ME* in the results, ok? I want NOTHING to do with ANY of that.

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Re: @ Alister

"The problem with that approach is stopping good things from happening and regulating everything pointlessly. Solving a problem when there is a problem is better than stopping progress."

Yes. It takes a "gummint" to REALLY gum up the works, through pointless regulations, politically motivated laws, and panic-mode fear-mongering for the purpose of getting votes.

How about this: if FRAUD or NEGLIGENCE is involved, let's just assume that current law will still allow proper legal relief for those affected by it, until it's tested in court. THEN we address new legislation and/or regulations to deal with the problem. Otherwise, it's just more bloated "governmentium" (the element that simply grows in mass over time, and absorbs energy from everything around it).

Today's WWW is built on pillars of sand: Buggy, exploitable JavaScript libs are everywhere

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Devil

Re: Stop obsessing over JavaScript

"But I can't think of little else that would require something that time-sensitive."

and if they DID need it, how about a 'meta refresh' tag in the content of an IFRAME?

Been there. done that. worked really well. got 10fps refresh on a PNG image from a camera that way, for a prototype device control application that used a customized web server to control things _AND_ display on an android slab as HTML, ran as a 'web application'. very simple, very effective. the camera was a big part of it, and had to display LIVE images that were appropriately 'tweeked' and analyzed, frame by frame, and displayed within the 'control' page.

CAN be done!

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Re: choices

"You can't write modern responsive fancy-looking, slick websites without JavaScript."

WRONG. Just do this: create a PNG file that "looks that way" and use hotspots. So, it does NOT "require" JavaScript for that kind of thing after all, right? Besides, the term "modern" [often used as a pejorative, since it quietly implies everything NOT that is somehow 'ancient' or 'outdated'] is SO over-used, I don't think it carries any weight. Remember, Win-10-nic's look is often called "modern" by its fanbois. And so I rest my case on the use of the term 'modern' to describe "those things".

"In fact, a lot of websites are totally dropping support for browsers with JavaScript disabled."

This has more to do with CLICK-THROUGH AD REVENUE than anything else. They don't like non-script-running browsers because they don't get AD REVENUE from them. And ad blockers often behave the SAME way. So _THEIR_ solution, block anything NOT accepting their privacy-violating JavaScript, cookies, whatever.

/me mutters: there's NO school like the OLD school! standard HTML, no script!

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Trollface

Re: Backwards compatiblity

"Normally I'd agree but it's IE that was mentioned so both apply."

IE? then I'd have to add "defecate" to that list of words to look up

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Re: Yet another reason to use NoScript

also greatly shortens load times in many cases. if you're doing a 'duck duck go' search, and you end up on what LOOKS like something with the content you want, it takes less time to realize they're just click-baiting you.

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Megaphone

Re: Perhaps

"What do you propose as an alternative to interactive websites?"

a) you don't need JavaScript for an interactive web site

b) you don't need all of that "cruft" to serve up content

c) style sheets can give you almost as much control over the appearance as can scripting (and probably better, more efficient, less memory footprint on the client, MUCH lower bandwidth requirement, faster load times, yotta yotta)

d) if it requires scripting, maybe it should be done server-side instead

e) if a 'meta' tag can't control refresh rates, you're doing it wrong

This isn't about interactive web sites, anyway. It' about ABUSE of SCRIPT, and the sheer volume of crappy JavaScript code being used all over the intarwebs.

Ever since some "bright-bulb" decided that SCRIPTED LANGUAGES within HTML was a *GOOD* thing, it (the script-monster from HELL) has grown into the bakemono that it is today. It's infected everything like a PLAGUE, and it's *EVERYWHERE*.

It's amazing how good a web site can look with standard HTML, tables, hot links, forms, etc.. And they load a LOT faster. It's also amazing just how "dynamic" content can be if the server does a reasonable amount of the work. But yeah, it's easier for lazy developers to just CRAM IN a bunch of script from 3rd party libraries, glue it together, and call it "a web site", and THEN spare their OWN servers from the extra bandwidth by having those ginormous libraries load from CDNs.

/me runs NoScript and if I can't read your content, I typically go elsewhere. It's a big intarwebs.

Do you use .home and .mail on your network? ICANN mulls .corp, .mail, .home dot-word domains

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WTF?

Re: .local

"Well, at least they have not proposed a TLD of .local -- yet."

I use that one internally for network DNS (along with a zillion others, most likely). Isn't there an RFC for that?

RFC2965 mentions it (along with a caveat, somewhat), Other RFCs also mention '.localhost'. But then again you never know, do ya? I'd hate to have to purchase a domain just to have DNS running on a LAN [yet ANOTHER tollbooth on the intarwebs].

might have to CREATE an RFC to protect it, now...

subsequent edit - found THIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local