I admit to being curious to see how this one goes as a fork off the existing vim codebase, but I'm not sure I'd be putting any bets on its long term viability. I suspect an overdose of optimism and insufficient compelling reasons for users to shift from vim will starve this project out.
Good luck to the developer - it's going to be one hell of a learning experience.
Honestly anyone with half a clue has known the NSA has been doing this FOR YEARS.
In fact I saw a great documentary on the subject in 1998
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( I am actually serious... who in the western world did not already know the NSA had these capabilities? The surprising thing to me would have been if it came out that they DID NOT have them - at which point I would wonder what they were doing with their billions of dollars ).
Facebook Google Twitter Yahoo all provide them already. So does ident.ca and OpenID.ogr and DOZENS of others. And if you wear a tinfoil hat 24*7 then you can run your own trivially. And finally, your ISP should provide one with your account as well.
"Looks like shit" is subjective. Personally I feel like Chrome "looks like shit" on Linux compared to Windows and Mac OSX where it has a consistent look. I am looking very much forward to this move. Like many nowadays I live in the browser and spend 95% of my time there. The more it is consistent across platforms the better. It doesn't matter nearly as much that my browser on Linux looks like my Eclipse as it does that my browser on Linux looks and behaves like my browser on Android or Windows or Mac.
Repeat after me.
The problem IS NOT PASSWORDS. Fighting for "better passwords" is a never-ending, stupid, foolish waste of time.
What is the point of a password? It is to prove who you are. Nothing more, nothing less. A password is not used as a key to look up information for a retailer, or blog, or anything else - that is keyed off your user name. All a password is is an identifier showing WHO YOU ARE.
It is unrealistic to expect a human to remember dozens of complex passwords and change them monthly. It is also unrealistic to preach "password managers" as a solution because they don't work in all situations and on the go.
So then, why is it then that I need a username and password FOR EVERY OF Amazon, Tesco, Virgin, and every other company listed in the OP, and Facebook, and Yahoo, and Google, and Slashdot, and every other site? Why can't I just have ONE complex, known, secure identification mechanism?
And even more pointedly - WHY IS IT that the technology ALREADY EXISTS to answer every point I raised - namely, the combination OpenID and OAuth - to solve this problem?
If every webmaster would stop thinking they live in their own universe, and SIMPLY STOP storing their own passwords and instead REQUIRE AND ONLY SUPPORT OpenID and OAuth authentication, this whole problem would be nearly entirely eliminated from the internet. People would have ONLY ONE password to remember, for all sites. They could be FORCED to change it monthly, and it would not be a huge burden since it is their ONLY password.
But no, every site in existence thinks they are THE ONE and should be able to exist in their own walled garden independent of everyone else.
Fits law only makes sense when using a mouse on the desktop.
When using a laptop trackpad it makes no sense at all because of how the motion tracking works.
It makes even less sense when using a touch interface, where there is no "throw" action at all. With a touch interface, the controls should be as close to the object they are manipulating as possible so your eyes don't need to move.
With BitCoin, not only is there a log of every transaction, but everyone on earth has access to it. You can actually trace a coin from when it was created through every single wallet it touched! And all one needs to tie a wallet to a physical person is some IP logging data which is fairly easy to acquire.
I don't know how BitCoin and anonymity got tied together. It is pretty much the LEAST anonymous currency that exists on earth. At least with Amazon coins, one would need to get access to Amazon's servers to find out who bought what, or issue a court order of some kind - random joe down the street can't tell what I bought.
CEO pay in general is too high I agree.
But I find it easier to stomach Silicon Valley CEO pay for a reason - they are producing an actual product whereas investment banks do not - they actually harm the economy, they don't help it.
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Furthermore, most Silicon Valley CEOs are either founders of the companies or were involved from an early phase. They put a lot of blood and sweat into these companies over the years. They are not just MBAs flown in for a couple of years to later on bail with golden parachutes when things get rough.
If that is truely all one needs then this cutout would not be expensive would it? And it would be paid for from the increased revenues. This is the way all necessities should be costed. Equal opportunity over equal outcomes.
The problem is not a "market failure", it is that the market is distorted. If the true laws of supply and demand were allowed to work on the water market in California, then water would be a lot more expensive right now because of how rare it is due to drought.
If the people are using too much water then raise the price. Define what consitutes a "drought" in strict terms (average rainfall below some amount for X days in a row), and raise the price per gallon of water an extra 50% during these drought conditions. Add in a credit for people below the poverty line so that they don't have issues.
Usage problems will be solved overnight. Charge people more and they will use less. Wallet pressure works a lot better than "peer pressure".
They only have to follow the rules for ROMs they ship the Google apps in.
It is not hard to understand. It is not that China "wants to keep DPRK in power". Rather, it is China's view that it is no one's business outside the DPRK how the DPRK conducts it's affairs. This is not new or unique, it is how basically all of China's foreign-policy doctrine - keep your nose out of other countrie's business.
China never wants to be involved in other countries' problems nor do they seek to impose their will on other countries - you don't see China out trying to spread their own unique brand of communist/capitalism elsewhere do you? That's because they don't - China keeps to themselves, for good or bad.
It is hard for people in the West to believe this because in the West foreign policy is essentially *ALL ABOUT* spreading your influence and trying to spread democracy. China has no interest in any of this.
You're missing the point. It will change over time.
FTTH will not help anything because the provider is the same. You see, the problem with broadband competition in the US is almost everyone has only two wires into the home. The Telco and the Cable provider. The cost for anyone else to roll out the infrastructure is MASSIVE and this not realistic. The third option, that EVERYONE has, is wireless. There are many more than two wireless providers in any given area. As wireless speeds increase and latency decreases (due to more close nodes), they will become more and more competitive with the telco and cable companies.
All you say is true, but it will change rapidly over time as 5G rolls out and wireless carriers increase capacity.
I have a better question. Why does Kickstarter store IDs or passwords AT ALL. Why do they not mandate federation.
They have Facebook login, but no Google or OpenID login. Why? And if I am using Facebook login then why do I STILL need to create a stupid Kickstarter.com password, I should be able to ONLY use Facebook.
Why do so few websites do ID federation properly. It is simply one of the best security options we have today, it makes life SO MUCH EASIER for the user, yet no sites properly use it.
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
