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Comment Key continuity management: MITM'd from day one (Score 1) 104

What you describe is called "key continuity management".

First time you get a public key from an email that you trust

How should one decide to trust a particular e-mail? The sender can spoof the From address.

SSH currently will do a key exchange using the first-time approach without a certification authority

Your SSH connection could be MITM'd from day one and you might not notice it.

Comment Advantages of a barrier to entry (Score 1) 104

Some people, such as a PlayStation fan on Slashdot who will remain nameless, would argue that a barrier to entry is a good thing. It ensures that anybody who wants to distribute software to the public is serious about creating quality software. It's a fallacy, but like other fallacies, appeal to accomplishment springs from a heuristic: companies that have successfully published quality works in the past are more likely to publish quality works in the future. The example he likes to trot out is the North American video game recession of 1983, when there was so much shovelware crap on store shelves that neither players nor retailers could find which 2600 games were worthwhile. The North American market pretty much abandoned video games until the fourth quarter of 1985 when Nintendo added a lockout chip to its new Nintendo Entertainment System to assure retailers that only games that Nintendo had evaluated for a certain baseline quality level would be allowed to run.

Comment Android alt-tabs too (Score 1) 247

One of my most needed feature is quick multi-tasking ala alt-tab.

My Nexus 7 tablet running Android 4.2 has an on-screen button to the right of "Home" to bring up screenshots of the five most recently used applications, and the list scrolls. A similar menu shows if I pair a ZAGGkeys Flex keyboard, hold the Alt/Option key, and press the Tab key a few times.

Comment Android 4 != Android 1 (Score 1) 247

>Android, as is, has the reputation of being a resource hog

No it kind of doesn't it runs on on very basic hardware..the first phone it sold on was the HTC dream.

The HTC Dream ran Android 1. Is Android 4 as lean as Android 1?

Comment Re:Actual Window Manager (Score 1) 247

Why [Samsung] haven't added an option to try force [multi-window mode] on an app is another question.

Probably because Samsung doesn't want to lose the license to include Google Play Store and the rest of the Gapps. Please see the replies from Google engineers in a Google+ thread linked from Andy Dodd's comment.

Comment Re:It's a step in the right direction (Score 1) 247

The constant rhetoric from the "I'm the real geek" crowd on /. is that "most people" (grandma, sister, uncle Jim...) only care about looking at Facebook and YouTube and other than the occasional Word document, they can barely operate a computer. I think this meme is condescending and inaccurate.

I'd be willing to consider evidence otherwise. But the sale of PCs that include Intel integrated graphics and no discrete graphics card, combined with the success of video game consoles, shows that people are in fact satisfied with PCs that can't do much more than homework and Facebook. In fact, one householder in my survey sample told me that in a cash crunch, he would cut off Internet to his household before cutting off pay TV.

Comment Microsoft Office on Android? (Score 2) 247

With a docking station a Galaxy Note 2 is more than powerful enough for web browsing / MS Office / email type stuff.

Since when is Microsoft Office ported to Android? I thought mobile Microsoft Office was exclusive to Windows Phone and Windows RT, just as Halo 3 is exclusive to Xbox 360. Even the port of LibreOffice can't be released yet because it's too big for Google Play Store.

Comment "Nobody" is hyperbole for "too few people" (Score 1) 247

In a Slashdot comment, "nobody cares" is likely to mean "not enough people care to create economies of scale." Small budget laptops running GNU/Linux, for example, were a commercial failure because the supermajority of users turned out to expect Windows. (That and the fact that a lot of these netbooks shipped with launchers even more horrible than some people make Ubuntu Unity or GNOME Shell out to be.)

Comment What "Allow" allows (Score 1) 275

Then I guess the debate is about the scope of what each "Allow" action allows. Should "Allow" allow all documents on all hosts in this domain to transclude all resources on the Web until the user says otherwise in a well-hidden settings page? Should it allow only resources on one page to transclude resources from one hostname, with the permission forgotten as soon as the user navigates away from the page?

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