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Comment Re:I'd second that. He's spot on with this. (Score 1) 290

Two words: section 508.
A lot of blind people are using iphones and ipads because apple has been pushing better support for people with diffrent needs.
If you run a flash website, you lose out on a large population of blind users. Facebook wants as many people as they can to use the site.
HTML5 as part of a good MVC setup lets access to more people with less wasted money on apps for every platform.
Apache

Submission + - Apache Patch to Override IE 10's Do Not Track Setting (paritynews.com) 1

hypnosec writes: A new patch for Apache by Roy Fielding, one of the authors of the Do Not Track (DNT) standard, is set to override the DNT option if the browser reaching the server is Internet Explorer 10. Microsoft has by default enabled DNT in Internet Explorer 10 stating that it is to "better protect user privacy." This hasn’t gone down well with Ad networks, users and other browser makers. According to Mozilla, the DNT feature shouldn’t be either in an active state or an inactive state until and unless a user specifically sets it. Along the same lines is the stance adopted by Digital Advertising Alliance. The alliance has revealed that it will only honor DNT if and only if it is not switched on by default. This means advertisers will be ignoring the DNT altogether no matter how a particular browser is set up. DNT project has another member – Apache. It turns out that Microsoft’s stance is like a thorn to Apache as well. Fielding has written a patch for the web server titled "Apache does not tolerate deliberate abuse of open standards." The patch immediately sparked a debate which instigated Fielding to elaborate on his work: “The only reason DNT exists is to express a non-default option. That's all it does. [...] It does not protect anyone's privacy unless the recipients believe it was set by a real human being, with a real preference for privacy over personalization.”

Comment Re:It doubles the speed at which the FBI notices y (Score 1) 96

To help Chrisq (894406) out, here is a cite:

Ryan Pries, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, and Wei Zhao, “A New Replay Attack against Tor Anonymous Communication Network", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Best Paper Award of Information and Network Security Symposium), May 2008.

Comment Good idea. (Score 1) 96

Right now most of the evil exit nodes would be people who have evil use for the data. They are willing to put out more money and have more money for making them faster (Evil governments, Org Crime, Ad companies). So right now, getting a faster connection could be a bad thing. This would help even the playing field a little.

Sill, they need to do a lot more. With the tor network you don't need to control any nodes if you have control of a few routers along the way (Governments). Look up: Wei Yu. Replay Attack still make it easy to know who sent information to who. If it is not End-to-End tor, they know what you send too.

Comment The world would be a better place with less XP (Score 1) 577

Microsoft would have stop selling and supporting XP after 5 years. Off the top of my head most Linux distros support for 2-3 years, some 5, and redhat has the new 10. For that reason I had to change what I tell people to use from Ubuntu 6.06 to Centos 5. I know this is apples to oranges, but I like apples and oranges.

How would the 5 years effect source code? Would this allow people to just use Linux 2.4 or what ever is 5+ years old and sell things without having to show their new source? I would foresee a forking of code coming if ip expired after 5 years.

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