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Submission + - The Browser Cold War (extremetech.com)

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MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "Microsoft has just announced that, starting January, your copy of Internet Explorer will be automatically and silently updated to the latest version (unless you have explicitly opted out). This is just the latest sortie in the propaganda-oriented, FUD-fueled Browser Cold War. Google and Microsoft now spend millions on advertising their browsers — and if that wasn't bad enough, they leverage their huge web properties to drive more people to their browsers. It's hard to ignore Google's efforts to come across as the secure and fast alternative too, even if the actual differences are negligible — and likewise, Microsoft's Beauty of the Web movement sure is a rather dramatic about-face. Mozilla, with less resources, has to rely on social media, and cute tools like Firefox Live which uses red panda (firefox) cubs to push you towards its browser. Is there an end game, though? Does one of the Big Three have the equivalent of a nuke, or are the browsers now so commoditized — thanks to open web standards like HTML5 and JS — that this episode of the Browser Wars is inconsequential anyway? What if Mozilla is squeezed out by MS and Google — will HTML5 live on, or will we see the return of custom extensions like DHTML?"
Science

Submission + - Most Accurate Clock (wordpress.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: An optical clock that is twice as accurate as any other has been unveiled by physicists in the US. The clock, which is based on a singlealuminium ion, could remain accurate to within one second over 3.7 billion years. The previous record was held by a clock with onemercury ion, which was good to one second in 1.7 billion years.This clock usee a different principle quantum-interference protocol which makes it more accurate.
Government

Submission + - Net Pioneers Tell Congress SOPA Would Kill Innovat (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: A group of engineers, networking specialists, security experts and other specialists deeply involved with the Internet's development and growth have sent a letter to lawmakers criticizing the highly controversial SOPA and PIPA bills and imploring them not to pass the legislation, which they say would stifle innovation and "threaten engineers who build Internet systems or offer services that are not readily and automatically compliant with censorship actions by the U.S. government."

The letter is signed by a long list of Internet pioneers and other respected figures, including Steve Bellovin, Paul Vixie, Vint Cerf, Jon Callas, Tony Li, Robert W. Taylor, Esther Dyson and Fred Baker, among many others. Both SOPA and PIPA have been criticized heavily by technologists, privacy advocates and security experts who say that not only would the proposed bills make it difficult for companies to create innovative new technologies, but they also would likely not even accomplish the goals their authors' had in mind, namely preventing copyright infringement and content piracy.

Comment All done! (Score 1) 48

by mwfischer (#37431518) Attached to: Pledge Asks Chinese Hackers To Reject Cybertheft

I signed up and did all of that even though I'm not a Chinese hacker.

Someone sent me an official looking email and all I had to do was put my WoW user name and password in it. It didn't let me log in the first couple times so I entered it in a few more times for consistency.

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