This doesn't seem like it could be the right explanation. Suppose you measure 2^10 of your electrons on the x-axis. Some time later, I come along and measure the equivalent electrons in two groups of 2^9 each, half on the x- and half on the y- axis. One of those two groups won't be correlated, and one will. (If the probability isn't high enough, use more electrons.) That gives me one bit of classical information with an arbitrary degree of confidence.
I can't resist: that's because reality has a well-known liberal bias.
This is why people suggest VM-based backwards compatibility is the direction for MS to go. It's not quite trivial to do (well, maybe it would be if they bought VMWare for "Fusion"), but it would at least give them a chance to get the rest of the system right.
So on a technical level, Microsoft could certainly use some TPC magic to allow the keyboard and mouse drivers to emit signed events, so that you could be certain that they came from a person. (Well, from the hardware, anyway.) Similar magic would allow trusted libraries to sign the conversion from mouse event to command. At that point, you could avoid prompting the user to confirm their action, because you know they did it. Now the question is: for things that don't have direct OS-level call mappings (e.g., aren't Explorer), what do you do?
I think the principle of least astonishment applies here; kind of a variant of what another poster suggests with SELinux-style capability-base computing. There are certain things you probably don't expect applications to do (very few should send e-mail, for example). Figuring that list out and reducing 'false positives' is an ugly, ugly task. MS might be able to do it because the control the whole application stack, but if they design it finely-grained enough to be really useful, all the other application developers will try to lazy out of it and give themselves too many privileges, and become exploitable.
Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough, but I'd like is a fast site that worked
Now, I was just thinking of using multiple columns and not having ads on the front page -- I mean, if I all want is headlines, I can get them a dozen other places and ways without going to your site -- but you could also do fun stuff like javascript articles in and out of the way. Now, I've never seen column-to-column wrapping done in a way that doesn't end up looking really silly. That being said, clicking on something [near what] I'm not going to read to pull the next article of that section into the same column is an interesting idea. I'll probably middle-click on an article I
At any rate, I feel like I spend more time navigating the site than reading at most news websites, specialized-interested ones excepted. (Ars Technica, for example, does a pretty good job of layout, although I'd like it to use more of the page horizontally and/to give a bit longer of a lead-in. But it can get away with a single chronologically-ordered column because of its narrow scope.) As I said earlier, I do
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