Just recently it was reported that China will start censoring videos on certain video platforms, taking down content that criticizes the government or depicts LGBT people. http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

People were saying it wasn't a huge deal because citizens "mostly use VPNs anyway" to access foreign videos, but this kinda throws a wrench in that plan.

My biggest gripe with AMP is that it breaks same-page-searching. If you have a specific phrase you're searching for on a very long article, it just doesn't work well because all the search results still seem to be rendered underneath the article, and same-page searching seems to go through each of those first, and sometimes still can't find text after that on the AMP page. When I'm looking something up on mobile, I often just want to find a something quick, not read an entire article.

Someone should start a kickstarter to buy and release the browsing history of every US Senator who voted for this.

Insomniac is a privately owned company. I'm not sure about Polytron, but given Phil Fish's history, it's likely privately owned as well.

You can easily side load a lot of stuff yourself using the free personal developer accounts. The apps expire after 30 days though so you have to keep re-adding it every month. I've got a couple apps on my phone that apple would never approve on the store, no jailbreaking.

Yes, of course I would be sickened. The capability of mobs to destroy people's lives now, regardless of the person, is disturbing.

Thank you for being the one to say something; you're a good person. The other comments here are unbelievable. It's sickening that we live in an age where an entire country of people can quickly turn on a person for something they did in their private life and ridicule them until they feel that death is the only escape. And perhaps the worst part is that so many people don't seem to recognize the bigger picture of it happening.

Xbox One and even 360 are pretty great streaming devices too. Nice thing about consoles is that they have regular automatic updates and you know they're going to support the software for years to come (though they might start winding down 360 in a couple years). Downside is that it's much less hackable than the alternatives. Xbox One does has that developer mode that might let you side-load apps, but I haven't heard anyone really using that yet.

Anyone getting rid of 3.5mm jacks seems like a stupid idea, Apple or whoever. The mobile phone is my primary audio media device these days, and that means being able to plug in stereo speakers or headphones, not low quality bluetooth or some proprietary trash.

That's supposed to be an argument for this change? I don't care if it's a good move for Apple, it's a bad move for me. My iPhone spends ~10 hours every day with something plugged into the 3.5mm jack between my car's auxiliary cable and my nice headphones at work. A new iPhone is already over $600, now I'm expected to get bluetooth installed in my car and toss my $200 headphones, or constantly carry an adapter cable, or buy 3 adapter cables to keep at home, work, and in my car? That's insane.

I was able to try out the mentioned demo late last year, and it was cute, but it's note exactly something you would want to spend more than ~10 minutes messing around with. So to say new Portal "content" is coming might be a little misleading.

I have a feeling that people are going to be very disappointed with the software available at launch for the Vive. It's mostly short tech demos that are worth seeing once, but certainly not worth $800 + a high-end computer upgrade. Still looking forward to the future of this stuff though. It has the potential to be huge.

If you want to make software that uses cryptography available worldwide, you're already incentivized to develop it in a foreign country and import it to the US. There's no restriction on using foreign cryptography in the US, but there are legal hurdles you have to jump if you want to export cryptography from the US.

OpenSSL themselves mentions exporting as an alternative to costly legal counsel:
"The only other safe course of action would be to pay non-U.S. citizens to develop the cryptographic software overseas and import it into the U.S., as imports are not restricted. Foreigners who benefit financially from this situation refer to the U.S. “export jobs, not crypto” policy." https://www.openssl.org/docs/f... (page 145)

A step to making this secure is to generate private keys on the end-clients, verify the code to generate them does not also create an escrow key, and be vigilant from then on to only allow access to that private key with audited code.

But there's a usability problem with this: people suck at not losing things.

Lost your private key and need to check your email? You're out of luck. This is the sign of a good, secure system, but the average office person will at some point lose their key and be very pissed off that their account is impossibly unrecoverable.

So to appease the "careless," they backup/generate keys on a server. This has the unfortunate (or fortunate for them?) side effect of allowing undetectable key escrow. So they might be doing this to solve a legitimate usability problem, it just enables these other, probably bigger, problems.

See this table for support: http://caniuse.com/#feat=getra...

It's great that they're finally improving Math.random(), but node.js should've had crypto.getRandomValues() from the start.

Note that the chrome rich notification center is different from the standardized Web Notifications API https://developer.mozilla.org/...

This story kind of freaked me out at first because I thought it was referring to that Web Notifications API, which I rely on heavily for web based chat and email apps.