Even Microsoft is looking at SK and saying: "WTF? We don't even use ActiveX anymore."
More likely they are thrilled to still have a few locked-in customers. It must seem just like the old days.
On tablets and smartphones, South Koreans donâ(TM)t need any particular browser for purchases â" but they do need to download special security apps that meet government standards.
There's some kind of non-ActiveX solution for mobile devices. Who knows what the actual support list actually looks like, though...still, it means that some things without X86 and Windows will work.
Then perhaps all you need is an Android virtual machine and to install the app?
Now they use "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko". It seems they have become too embarrassed to include the name of their own browser.
It was never a good idea for website code to examine the User-Agent string, and this just further confirms it.
All the court is saying is that if you enable comments on your site you need to at least have some mechanism by which people can get them reviewed and if appropriate removed. As usual this being an EU story it gets blown out of all proportion.
According to the article, it's a bit more than that:
In addition, the website did not appear to take any proactive steps to remove the defamatory and offensive comments, relying instead on automated word-filtering of certain vulgar terms or notification by users.
So a "mechanism by which people can get them reviewed and if appropriate removed" isn't enough, they have to proactively read every comment and remove anything defamatory. However, they may have been able to pass the liability on to the people making the comments, if they hadn't allowed anonymous posting.
So a website in Estonia should either check every comment, I suppose ideally before publishing it, or ensure that they have the true name of every commenter. Perhaps the latter wouldn't be an issue in the US, since true names would be available from the NSA in most cases anway.
Futures and foreign exchange markets aren't closed for long each day. I'm not sure how much of a window there is between the outcome of the Fed meeting becoming obvious and the public release of the outcome, but it may still be long enough for somebody with inside information to take a position while the market was still open.
Closing the financial markets throughout the world every time a news release is expected isn't very realistic, since there are many such releases during a typical day. The could hold the Fed meeting on a weekend, perhaps, but this wouldn't necessarily be an option for every news event.
The other IT-wifekiller Hans Reiser at least accepted his fate.
As a last resort, once he had exhausted every other option.
The collander thing is clearly a faux religion, intended to make a mockery of human tendencies by ironically embracing the very thing it mocks. A religious parody based upon the mockery of other religions, imo, is small-minded, and does nothing. One does not make one's own beliefs more true by mocking or tearing down the beliefs of others. Even if you were to completely and utterly disprove a body of religious thought, it would do not prove your own.
But in the same sense, if they wish to embrace a fabricated tasty cthonic diety my personal response is, "Meh."
Still, it's amusing to image bureaucrats trying to come up with a way to distinguish a "mock" religion from any of the equally ridiculous "established" religious.
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.