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Comment Re:Misinterpretation (Score 0) 242

by Kroc on Sunday June 21, 2009 @02:53PM (#28412569) Attached to: Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video

A number of inaccuracies here. No, the OSNews article does not want people to download the video instead. It merely summaries my letter, which asks that Mozilla do not advocate JavaScript to do video fallbacks, but instead use my code (Video for Everybody) that does the same thing even better and without any JavaScript. I'm thinking of the user's experience first by creating a solution that doesn't require JavaScript.

Submission + - Open Letter to Mozilla Regarding Their Use of HTML (osnews.com)

Submitted by AberBeta on Friday June 19, 2009 @01:24PM

AberBeta writes: We're on the verge of a serious evolution on the web. Right now, the common way to include video on the web is by use of Flash, a closed-source technology. The answer to this is the HTML5 video tag, which allows you to embed video into HTML pages without the use of Flash or any other non-HTML technology; combined with open video codecs, this could provide the perfect opportunity to further open up and standardise the web. Sadly, not even Mozilla itself really seems to understand what it is supposed to do with the video tag, and actually advocates the use of JavaScript to implement it. Kroc Camen, OSNews editor, is very involved in making/keeping the web open, and has written an open letter to Mozilla in which he urges them to not use JavaScript for HTML video. Coincidentally, this comes on the first day of the Open Video Conference, an event meant to espouse the virtues of using the video tag, which is hypocritically using Flash to live stream the event on their homepage!

Comment RE (Score 5, Funny) 536

by Kroc on Friday June 13, 2008 @09:00AM (#23776823) Attached to: Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM

Asking Linux users to accept DRM is like asking them if it's alright to take a shit in their kitchen.

There is *no* cool way you can word it.

Submission + - Is code art? (deviantart.com)

Submitted by

Kroc

on Saturday August 04, 2007 @05:41PM

Kroc writes: "Code can be art, although doesn't have to be all the time, just as much as asking for a cup of sugar, isn't poetry. Discuss."

Diebold Voting Machines Vulnerable to Virus Attack 122

Posted by Zonk on Saturday August 04, 2007 @04:24PM from the maybe-they-should-install-macafee dept.

mcgrew writes "PC world is reporting that Diebold's super-popular voting machines are coming under even more scrutiny. A security review has revealed that they are simply 'not secure enough to guarantee a trustworthy election.' This is according to a report from the University of California Berkley, who did a two-month top-to-bottom review of all California e-voting systems. That's a subject we've discussed before, but Diebold's setup is truly unsettling. An attacker with access to a single machine could disrupt or change the outcome of an entire election using viruses. From the article: 'The report warned that a paper trail of votes cast is not sufficient to guarantee the integrity of an election using the machines. "Malicious code might be able to subtly influence close elections, and it could disrupt elections by causing widespread equipment failure on election day," it said. The source-code review went on to warn that commercial antivirus scanners do not offer adequate protection for the voting machines. "They are not designed to detect virally propagating malicious code that targets voting equipment and voting software," it said.' Oddly, my state of Illinois, long known for election fraud, has paper trails (at least in my county) and according to Black Box Voting doesn't use Diebold anywhere."

Submission + - Office 2008 for Mac delayed until January 2008

Submitted by

thefickler

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:06PM

thefickler writes: "Microsoft has announced that Office 2008 for Mac, originally slated for a 2007 release, will now be released in January 2008. No specific reasons were pinpointed in the announcement other than the software was not meeting its quality checkpoints in June and July of this year. Surprise, surprise."

Submission + - Hacker does a DIY Amiga in FPGA (hetnet.nl)

Submitted by on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: Developer Dennis van Weeren recently announced completion of his from-scratch completely re-engineered Amiga chipset. His PCB design is fully operational and compatible and his verilog code has been released under GPL. Will this finally give the Amiga community a new breath of life?

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