It's feasible that the first time you log in since this was introduced that if the password validates then it gets truncated and the has based on the first 16 characters is stored.
Once that's done any future password could be truncated to 16 and compared with the new hash based on the first 16...
That way you can safely transition from one for to another without passwords stored in plain text.
FTA:
... Microsoft announced the successor to its popular Windows Phone 7 platform
... Windows Phone 8 is expected this Fall.
And FTS plus the other article there:
... Microsoft revealed that existing Windows Phone 7.5 users will receive an upgrade to Windows Phone 7.8, and not Windows Phone 8
...
So windows phone 7 is not selling... solution! Reveal windows phone 8 due in a few months which won't run on any phone bought now.... so better not buy now!
I'm sure this is *really* going to help them sell those phones and gain some marketshare to improve on the nonexistant one they have now... but good news though! The hundreds of thousands of excellent windows phone 7.5 apps will work on windows phone 8
Remember they've already spent around $300,000 of their own money so far and have been working on this in the background in their spare time as a 'skunkworks project' to this point over the past couple of years....
The funds from kickstarter is for providing full time devs now that they have got their engine in a decent state so they can give a big push to get it out by the end of this year all polished up and QA's etc as opposed to late next year dependent on how much time they could have spared....
PayPal is about to be activated for those that missed the kickstarter and later this summer Carmageddon 1 is being released on Android and iPhone/iPad in a shiney new edition... plus a funny 'pratcam' app which will all go into extra funds to make C:R
Well Stainless Games will be using Steam for Carmageddon: Reincarnation
Just hit $270k of the $400k goal.... so if you loved the old Carmageddon games (well 1 and 2 anyway) check out their kickstarter page.....
The reward tiers are pretty generous too
The code in question (TimSort) was donated to OpenJDK7 by the Google engineer....
Makes their focus on this even sillier.....
They have more income than just advertising.... admittedly it is a large amount of their revenue but there is more than just that.
For example here in the UK the ISP Sky Broadband uses Google Apps for its customer email. I think the last financial update was 11-12 million customers or so... Each of those has a Sky email account with Google.... and those dont' come that cheap at that bulk...
I'm sure other ISPs do the same - and that's before looking at businesses or educational institutions using it and the relevant income form there.
And then after that there's Google Search Appliances for customer networks, income from providing search services (search.sky.com for instance you can see uses Google and they have to pay per query or something like that) and so on....
Just saying they are an ad company does them a great injustice.
In addition if you read the release notes the RHEL6.1 security updates will be 'backported' to C6.0 until 6.1 is out in a few weeks... now they have the build environment sorted it will be much quicker to build stuff...
Indeed in the C6
So there isn't a security issue to using C6.0 right now really... and the 6.1 update will be more a feature event (like snapshotted lvm mirrors, the IPA tech preview etc).
Why would the browser need specific format support? Shouldn't it just query the OS for image decoders and automatically decode them using standard libraries? Seems like a far better solution than hard coding the image libraries in to the browser.
Specifically to standardise the browser platform - the same argument has been made for video (see the HTML5 video element wars).
Mozilla want to be able to say Firefox X.Y supports these formats to use: blah blah blah and not Firefox for on Win7 does X but on WinXP does Y whereas on Linux does Z if so and so library is installed and watch out for MacOSX since there it is Q....
At that point trying to work out the support matrix of what works where is a nightmare... plus they can know the level of expectation for performance, security etc this way as well rather than the chaos that would result.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
