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Comment Browser preference? Browsers are the new OS. (Score 1) 84

Browsers manage page(tabs) memory and cpu use, they run scripts, they run apps, the do security (poorly), they have their own apps/plugins/extensions.

Browsers are the new Operating System done poorly - how can one browserOS/Firefox vendor complain another vendor defaults to their own browserOS/Microsoft*? That's just silly.

* I almost completely refrained from using the term Microslop.

Comment Re:Nobody mention TAI (Score 1) 91

I never said to adjust it only once. For scientific use time should be specified as TTTT:TT:TT:TTTTT - PPPPPPPPPP where PPPPPPPP is the periods of cesium per second used for that measurement. For everyday use no need to distinguish the varying time 'constant.'

Or we could just put big old rockets around the equator and use them to sync Earth with the scientific 'real time.'

I guess the current new solution is to just let the two time standards drift apart - the problem is that they are so close right now that there will be mistakes on the scientific side. At this point just go full separation and for science purposed define a metric time that is only ever measured in cesium periods since 1970?

Comment Re:Nobody mention TAI (Score 1) 91

Atomic time is based on 9,192,631,770 periods of cesium? why not adjust the period count to not require any leaping? Fix the damn problem at the source and be done with it. This new strategy is just in accordance with the lazy do-nothings.

Most networked time is synchronized for local clock drift constantly, most chips are simply not that accurate, so change the source clock and they won't even need to be fixed as the constant syncing corrects for such a small change automagically.

Comment Eventually browsers need to block all third party. (Score 3, Insightful) 58

The way this is going, browsers will need to only allow connections to a page's originating domain. Any third party content can no longer be trusted.

Zero-click you say? Is that via javascript or webapp?

And yes, I realize the originating domain also can't be trusted :/

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