I said nothing about Google being "evil". Google is just providing more value to its customers. Google most definitely does not want ads to be able to access the rest of your browser information. That information should only come from Google, properly anonymized and billed. While this change would make it harder for malicious iframes to sniff data that doesn't belong to them, it would also give malicious iframes more opportunities to inject code. Currently, if such an iframe tried that and failed, it will kill the parent process, effectively ending the injection attempts. With the new system, multiple iframes could keep trying different tactics.

I think defeating ad-blocking and enhanced ad management are one of the primary reasons for the fork.

The first thing Google lists for architectural changes is support for out-of-process iframes

Ah, I see. "Out-of-Process frames" means better management of advertising.

The author of the original article was very careful with what he did and didn't say. He didn't say that Apple sent login information over plain http. And if you read the support document where Elie Bursztein gets his 15 seconds of Apple fame, you will see that Apple says the update now encrypts "active content". In short, login information was never sent over plain text.

I didn't see anything on the JSTOR Alumni program page that said alumni had the right to hide their faces from security cameras, break into networking cabinets, jack into the gigabit ethernet switch, spoof their MAC address via a randomizer script, and bring down JSTOR access for their entire institution.

is why the mysterious Pamela Jones and the rest of the open-source community has identified Apple as The Great Satan. What has Apple ever done to hurt them? Complied with the GPL? OK. Guilty as charged. People who love their Apple devices get derided as fanbois. People who hate, without ever being harmed, are the good guys?

I can't remotely log in to my Linux machines and do programming on my iPad. I can't create presentations on it. I can't do photo editing or drawing. I can write papers for grad school.

No. wait. I can do all of those thing on my 1st gen iPad.

Nevermind.

I say if Mathgen can get three such articles accepted this year, then it should get tenure.

I had a report of problems with a web sites from users who may or may not have been using IE9. So, I fired up my Windows 7 VM to check and it was still running IE8. What? No problem. That is why I installed it this VM. I just searched for "ie9" in my IE8 browser. Bing couldn't find a download link for IE9. It was Google's top hit.

The patent system is designed to facilitate copying. It gives the patent holder a temporary, legal monopoly to encourage innovation. After the patent expires, it's fair game. The idea of patents is great, but everyone acknowledges the system needs reform. Maybe this case will make that happen. Would that be so bad?

What we need is a company that stands up for small developers. Someone that frees them from credit card merchant companies. Someone that will go to court and defend small developers against patent trolls!

Oh wait. That's Apple.

Never mind.

Funny how people went ballistic when Apple wanted to charge either $1 or 25 cents for Firewire, but now 2.5 % is considered "reasonable".

I think one of the reasons for the re-wording was to remove the word "viruses" since it so obviously confuses people who don't know the difference between viruses and trojans and think the handful of Mac malware in 12 years is equivalent to over 17,000,000 for Windows. Sorry, but market-share doesn't account for that discrepancy.

It is precisely those unequivocal words like "nothing" that get people into trouble. Let's just say that there is only one thing more secure about MacOS X than Windows - the architecture.

This is just the typical "Apple effect". Apple uses industry standard marketing tactics and gets in trouble. Everyone conveniently fails to notice that that the "non-4G" iPad3 is 6 times faster than the old iPad. Any other company would have gotten away with marketing just that as 4G even without LTE.