Comment Re:Then you can work, thief! (Score 1) 645
Our constitution guarantees us "life liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness".
That's in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
Comment Re:Anything beats Safari on iPhone (Score 1) 103
...and as I stated in reply to that post, you can in fact import a root CA. I don't know why people believe that you can't.
As far as ghetto image animations, I don't know about that specifically, but in general, Javascript works for me.
Comment Re:Anything beats Safari on iPhone (Score 1) 103
What about JS and SSL don't work on the iPhone? Flash doesn't work, of course, but JS and SSL work fine.
Comment Re:Anything beats Safari on iPhone (Score 2, Informative) 103
You can't even load a CA signing cert
Sure you can. I imported my employer's CA certificate, and I have no problems using Safari on the iPhone with websites using certificates from that CA.
I used the iPhone Configuration Utility to create a "profile" containing the certificate, which makes it easier to install, but it's just some XML wrapping around the certificate. There are examples around that show how to do it.
Comment Re:Really (Score 1) 551
Half the math guys needed hints to prove that if x-1 and x+1 are prime, x is divisible by 6.
That was the claim.
Perhaps "Half the math guys needed hints" because the statement cannot be proven. There is an obvious counter-example in X=4.
Gorobei was bemoaning the state of education in the math and sciences using hyperbole, and got caught up in it himself.
Comment Re:Really (Score 2, Informative) 551
X = 4. X-1 is prime (3). X+1 is prime (5).
X is not divisible by 6.
OP is wrong.
QED.
Comment Re:The problem... (Score 1) 328
Well, not in the consumer market at least. If you remember NeXTSTEP, IRIX, AIX, HP-UX, among others, that only ran on certain hardware. And Windows locks you into x86 based computers.
NeXTSTEP ran on quite a variety of hardware in the end. Initially, sure, it only ran on the NeXT brand "black" hardware, but as of 3.1, NeXTSTEP ran on hardware from HP, Sun, and generic Intel boxes (albeit with limited driver support, so you had to be very choosy if you were going to build an Intel machine to run it.)
Windows NT 3.1 ran on DEC Alpha and ARC MIPS hardware, and later PReP PowerPC hardware.
Comment Re:The Bush administration (Score 1) 630
This G20 summit is not being defended by the President, or by Congress, but by the city, and by the wealthy.
Actually, the G20 summit was designated a National Special Security Event by the DHS. The Secret Service was the lead agency in charge of security. Local and State officials were acting under the direction of the Feds.
Comment Re:One thing I hate (Score 1) 370
Yes, they are more significantly more expensive than 1920x1200 24" monitors. A 24" widescreen isn't that much bigger than a 20" 4x3 monitor, though. Same height, but about 4" wider, and if you really don't like having that much horizontal desktop, set your desktop to have black bars on the side.
Comment Re:Main blocker (Score 4, Informative) 427
It's a neat feature. But hardly novel or really that amazing. Other Unices offered this, and I'd be surprised if mainframe systems going back 30 years didn't. Heck, SunOS (the predecessor to Solaris) offered this, and it was end-of-life'd before Linux 0.1 was a gleam in any Finn's eye.
Linux 0.01 was released in September 1991. Linux 0.11 was released in December 1991.
The last release of SunOS (4.1.4) was in November 1994. It was supported by Sun until September 2003. Never underestimate the demand for long term commercial Unix support.
Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension 500
hemantm writes "A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser."
Embedding Video In a Site For iPhone/iPod? 68
Russ writes "Our corporate media delivery platform is in the process of being refactored (at long, long last), and one of the preferred requirements is the ability to serve streaming video to iPhone and iPod Touch devices, similar to the way YouTube does it — show a screen shot, and when the user taps it, the video should play full-screen and landscaped automatically. The problem comes from the severe lack of documentation Apple provides on how, precisely, this can be done. From what I can tell, YouTube still fires a Flash object to the iPhone despite its lack of Flash support. I have, to a certain extent, been able to review some of YouTube's Flash code and get a hack working on our platform (no screenshot, not landscape, but does play automatically), but I'm sure I'm missing a 'trick of the trade' somewhere that makes the process transparent to the user. Has anyone out there done this before, and if so, how? The standard (and non-standard) Quicktime object/embed codes seem to only provide partial functionality on the iPhone/iPod."
Comment Re:What ever happened to SSL and port 465? (Score 4, Informative) 195
Port 587 was allocated by IANA and is documented by the IETF in RFC 2476, and the STARTTLS capability is documented in RFC 2487. It is not clear from the article whether Verizon is going to require STARTTLS or not. They may require STARTTLS for all mail on port 587 if they so choose.
I assume that the "full-on SSL" that you would prefer refers to the non-standard port 465 ("SMTPs"). That port was chosen arbitrarily by Microsoft, has not been standardized by any common standards body, and was previously already allocated to "URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM".
Why perpetuate non-standards when there are established standards which have the same functionality?
