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Comment Re:I hope for an agreement (Score 2) 1307

There might be a chance Greece will leave the Euro. But the chance they'll also leave the EU is a lot smaller. Don't confuse the two.

There are political reasons Greece is part of the EU, those will not change.

Also when Greece leaves the Euro Greece will default (the other EU members will not get their money) and the Greece economy collapses even further. After which the other EU members will burn up more money so they can help the sick and needy with aid like medicine, food and other supplies.

Yes, it's strange the Greece economy is part of the Euro-zone and has the same monetary system as the rest of the Euro countries. It should not have happened in the first place because only similar economies should be part of the same monetary system otherwise you can't use the currency to at least have some control of your monetary system.

But I'm not so sure GrExit really is a great solution. Because it won't give the creditors their money back. And the current austerities are already the cause of death of certain people in Greece right now, let's not make it a lot worse.

Comment Re:No way in hell (Score 5, Insightful) 140

How do you mean no extensions ?

Now I don't know what Edge will support or does support, but the first article I found looking on Google for Microsoft Edge extensions tells me they support:
http://imacros.net/microsoft-e...

"Edge will have extensions, “Javascript and HTML based” – essentially very much like Chrome. No C# support."

This means, similar model to Firefox and Chrome. Actually, many extensions work in both.

Maybe you are confusing plugins with extensions.

Plugins are like Flash, Java applets, Acrobat Reader all that stuff.

You know the stuff that is usually the least secure in most currently deployed browsers.

Comment Re:Hmm... (Score 2) 46

Homomorphic encryption isn't new at all.

It's just that we used to think it's uselessly slow. I believe it was in the millions times slower than a normal application without this kind of encryption.

But in more recent years people have been able to build practical systems with it by mixing different kinds and more specialized forms of encryption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There are companies that also build products: Cloud Encryption Gateways

But I doubt that really solves the problem, if the application gets an update the proxy will probably start to leak data.

Comment Re:Uh, boss . . . . (Score 1) 45

I wouldn't say they are failing in deploying robots, it's probably just not as easy as they thought but it is definitely having an impact. And you have to remember Chinese workers have been getting more expensive with 12% year over year for a number of years. So they aren't the cheapest workforce in the world any more. A lot of manufacturing of clothes moved to Bangladesh to name one country.

Here is an example of an article from 2007 which mentions the wage growth:

"Wages in China have nearly doubled over the past four years"
http://www.forbes.com/2007/07/...

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An article on where Foxconn is with building lights-off factories:

On Wednesday, the company’s CEO revealed Foxconn has a fully automated factory in operation in the Chinese city of Chengdu. “We haven’t talked much about the factory, but it’s manufacturing a product from a very famous company,” Gou said, without elaborating.

The factory can run for 24-hours with the lights off, he added. In addition, Foxconn has been adding 30,000 of its own industrial robots to its factories each year. “We don’t sell them, because we don’t have enough for our own use yet,” he added.

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

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And an article on the loss of jobs in factories in China:

Automation has already had a substantial impact on Chinese factory employment: Between 1995 and 2002 about 16 million factory jobs disappeared, roughly 15 percent of total Chinese manufacturing employment. This trend is poised to accelerate.

That might not be a problem if the Chinese economy were generating plenty of higher-skill jobs for more educated workers. The solution, then, would simply be to offer more training and education to displaced blue-collar workers.

The reality, however, is that China has struggled to create enough white-collar jobs for its soaring population of college graduates. In mid-2013, the Chinese government revealed that only about half of the country’s current crop of college graduates had been able to find jobs, while more than 20 percent of the previous year’s graduates remained unemployed.

According to one analysis, fully 43 percent of Chinese workers already consider themselves to be overeducated for their current positions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06...

Comment Re:I do want a HTTPS web (Score 1) 35

This only works if the website gives the ISP their private key. When the relationship between the website and the ISP is short, the website would probably be reluctant to do that.

So I'm not so sure they would do that.

But I agree if they have such a relationship an other way would be for the ISP to have a protocol where the website can get the information they currently put in a the header by requesting the information that goes with an IP/port combination. Just like haproxy/postfix does it:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gma...

But at least nobody else can get this information. For example when it's unencrypted any passive attacker could see the extra header that was added.

Comment I do want a HTTPS web (Score 5, Informative) 35

See, this is exactly why I want a HTTPS web.

I do think Let's Encrypt is on the right track. When they show their protocol and open source software works. I'm pretty sure other CA's will follow.

Automating HTTPS deployment is a good thing.

Yes, the CA-system isn't a perfect system at all, but at least we are seeing some improvements in use of HTTPS:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (better revocation of certificates and faster loading of sites and better privacy)
- https://blog.mozilla.org/secur... (better revocation of certificates)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (old browser finally dying)
- HTTP/2 is faster than HTTP and sort of depends on HTTPS for backward compatibility for old proxy servers and public websites
- finally we are getting rid of all the old protocols like SSLv3 and get our server configurations cleaned up

Especially for regular visitors of a site things are improving:
https://developer.mozilla.org/... (a CA can NOT issue a cert for a fake certificate - works in Firefox and Chrome)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (always HTTPS, no HTTP on the second visit)

Comment Re:Problems with Node (Score 1) 175

Notice how the writer of the article in the last comment says:

"Yeah, I actually have no problem with javascript on the client side. I think its really awesome for a beginner to be able to make static pages interactive relatively easily. However, javascript on the server is a totally different animal."

The solution is obvious, maybe it much more readable and predictable:

Promises, promises, promises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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