My wife doesn't know any of my passwords, and I don't know any of hers. However, I do have an escrow file which she can open in the event of my death which contains them all.
She will need access to banking sites etc. when that happens, so privacy until then, and full disclosure after.
One small issue with moving everything to https is that you need one IP address per domain. That puts a pretty big wrinkle in the many, many servers out there that serve up multiple domains per IP. (Technically, you can do so if you utilize unique ports on the same IP for each served domain, but that breaks the "just works" aspect of port 443).
It's not insurmountable, but it does put more pressure on the already shrinking IPv4 pool. Another reason to hasten the adoption of IPv6, I suppose...
It's just an alternative suggestion. You're obviously free to approach the problem however you like, and as I indicated, I think Click2Flash is a great plugin.
I think you might be surprised, however, how many sites will provide working versions of their sites that don't have Flash elements. Looking at the browser share of all the iOS devices, it's not hard to see why.
Increasing the number of Flash-less browsers will only encourage more web developers to produce sites that don't require Flash, or at minimum, will gracefully degrade when it isn't present.
Yeah, I didn't see it until you linked it. =) But he, like me, missed that Adobe has an official uninstaller for Flash, linked by cerberusss here. That's a better way to go.
Also, if you were worried about things that use Air like Pandora One (I was), you needn't. They all work just fine in the absence of Flash.
Alternatively, just uninstall Flash. You really don't need it for most of the web these days. (On OSX, it lives in
Click2Flash is a great plugin, I used it for months. The problem with it is that it tells sites you have Flash installed; it just takes over for Flash and then releases content to the real plugin when you click on the box. The downside to that is that you prevent the site from sending alternate content which can be sent if your browser reports no Flash plugin.
For those sites that won't work any other way, load them in Chrome, which has an internal Flash renderer. When you're done you can quit Chrome and go back to your regular browser, with which you can write a note to the admin of the site you just visited asking them to get their head our of their ass and provide alternate content.
TFA strongly implies that the App Store was distributing VLC on its own initiative, not at the behest of the author.
Which is bullshit. VLC didn't show up on the App Store by magic, and it's not Apple that put it there. Someone got an iOS Developer License from Apple, agreed to its terms, and then compiled VLC for iOS, and submitted it for distribution in the App Store.
Now, somone–ostensibly a different someone–who has code in VLC has noticed that it's incompatible and is asking Apple to remove it. Apple has no choice, really, the license doesn't allow it to stay in the App Store, so poof. It's gone.
Now try to figure out how this helps anyone. It isn't good for the users, certainly, since an app they could otherwise get is now gone. I don't see how it helps the developers of VLC; an extremely popular distribution channel is now closed to them. And it doesn't help or harm Apple, really, unless someone is really broken up about not being able to get a frankly redundant video player on their device.
Who submitted the iOS VLC app to the App Store? Apple didn't go looking for VLC so they could have it, someone submitted the application without sufficient regard as to whether or not it could be legally distributed there.
Apple didn't catch it in the review process (we all know how well that works) and now they're being asked to remove it. You say "if Apple chooses to remove VLC from their App Store" as if Apple has a choice. They do not - they're in violation of the license.
This is not an App Store issue. It's an issue with the license of this application being in conflict with the conditions of the App Store. Apple can't fix it without the GPL allowing an exception, or the application authors allowing an exception.
How well did the iphone 4 sell? Genuinely asking: did the antenna issue make the iphone 4 a failure?
Apple sold 14.1 million iPhones in the latest-reported quarter, which is 91% growth over the previous years' quarter. So, it doesn't look like the antenna issue was an issue at all.
you don't have to buy a "coding" license to write hello world on a Mac box
...Unless it was for iPhone development.
Your alternative is having Apple develop a version of XCode for Windows. Given how iTunes and Safari are on Windows compared to their OS X versions, I'll just say "no thanks."
If you're serious about developing for the iOS platform, getting a Mac isn't that large an obstacle. Although, I do think it sucks for the "hobbyist" programmer who'd just like to mess around with writing their own apps.
You make a valid point concerning the troubling state of the court system and their position on the 5th, but you're misinterpreting US v. Boucher 2. I'm not sure where you got the statement you quoted, but it doesn't appear anywhere in the Sessions opinion. The government's appeal hinged on whether or not the government could compel Boucher to produce an unencrypted version of a drive he'd previously provided access to before the Grand Jury:
Boucher accessed the Z drive of his laptop at the ICE agent's request. The ICE agent viewed the contents of some of the Z drive's files, and ascertained that they may consist of images or videos of child pornography. The Government thus knows of the existence and location of the Z drive and its files. Again providing access to the unencrypted Z drive "adds little or nothing to the sum total of the Government's information" about the existence and location of files that may contain incriminating information. Fisher, 425 U.S. at 411.
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
