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when will you add instant search results in the browser's search box? For example, if i use Firefox and have Google ad the default, and i type "32 * (13 - 9)" it will instantly show a dropdown with the answer 128. I would really like DDG to do this too.

looks correct on latest firefox. what browser are you using?

The difference is the base of the Project Ara phone, the exoskeleton, is only $15 to replace. So if they change that, you're looking at paying $15. With PCs, the base still costs $150-200 in most cheap options and significantly more in others.

Second, some details about the store... "Windows Store apps" can use the IE rendering engine to browse the web, but can't use other existing libraries like Gecko or Blink. > Metro-enabled desktop browsers (like other desktop apps) can be listed in the Windows Store, but can't be installed there.

I don't understand why it is legal for Microsoft (AND Apple) to do this! How is this different from what Microsoft did with IE vs Netscape? Why doesn't this violate anti-trust or competition laws?

I used it and submitted bug reports to help the team find issues. I hate Windows but am forced to use it in certain cases. While Windows 8 touch is not huge, I would prefer to have options other than IE for myself and other users.

+1. Stay far away from 1and1.com! I had the worst experiences with them of any tech company. Customer service doesn't get worse than them.

It should have worked on Firefox too but there's a bug

This worked on Chrome on Android (KitKat 4.4) but not on Firefox Beta for Android. Both correctly showed the microphone sharing notification, but on Firefox, no sound ever registers.

I linked to an article that explains what it is and left it to you (the reader) to decide if it's good or bad. I believe it is a very bad thing.

Shadow DOM is a very, very bad idea.

http://glazkov.com/2011/01/14/what-the-heck-is-shadow-dom/

It kills cross-browser compatibility, kills standards (since they're unreachable, undocumented elements that can handle input, interaction and affect other elements.

They're working on it: https://github.com/mozilla/persona-yahoo-bridge/issues/178 You should post your findings there

If only every browser implemented it...but IE 7,8,9 are stuck on the old APIs. They're a large percentage of all users.

That's not how flat ui design works. You can make single-color boxes and it won't look modern. Flat UI is about beautiful color palettes that are well matched and which convey the proper information without over embellishing. A few good examples:

http://inspirationhut.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/23.png http://maxcdn.webappers.com/img/2013/03/flat-ui.png

I got the feeling this post was really an attempt to get google to buy them out.

php.net allows users to post answers and examples of code throughout the website. Likely, one of the submission forms has/had a hole that allowed someone to submit or alter actual JS code.

I'm surprised they weren't already using a threshold-scheme. (Similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_cryptosystem )

Assuming there's no known exploit. The NSA might know of an exploit for that algorithm.

It appears he didn't do that with a Samsung laptop but other machines in the past and someone replied saying it didn't fix it for them: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557/comme...

I don't understand why anyone's site is only in one datacenter. i thought the point of AWS was that it was distributed with fault tolerance? Why don't they distribute all the sites/apps across all their centers?

This is a great start!

He uses Windows so I assume he doesn't know much about Linux Distros. You're correct, Klipper was the first thing I thought of as well. I assume his OS experiences are: Mac, Windows, iOS, Android judging by his info posted.

Couldn't get it to work in Firefox 16.

But the assertion only gets sent if the user logs in to persona first (with their email and persona password)

Persona doesn't require any browser integration. It works in all browsers that implement local storage. So it works via modern Javascript.

Right, but the email providers are only authenticating you to Persona. As far as the websites using Persona are concerned, it's persona.org that authenticates you.

And the appeal that Mozilla is pushing is definitely better security (as well as a distributed security authentication versus one for-profit authority - I definitely trust Mozilla MUCH more than Facebook or twitter, but it's still a central authority). You can especially see this in the talk they gave introducing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZBTc7iEkQY

Can someone explain how this is distributed and not using a central "authority"? I know it caches things locally, but it still requires Mozilla's Persona.org servers, correct? And you need a password that Mozilla stores, so aren't their servers still vulnerable? And couldn't (dumb) people still choose "123456" as their persona password? I understand that this makes the sites with crappy security implementations better, but some of the weaknesses are still there, right?

Looks like it is due to the one-chip design: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/still-no-simultaneous-v...

No, it would allow them 131 hours of downtime in 15 years: ( 365 days * 24 hours/day * 15 yrs ) * .001 = 131.4

I've tried it numerous times, usually every time I read another report about it being as accurate as Google. I have never found that to be the case. I tried it again today and as usual, the results were much less than helpful (particularly when searching for computer problem solutions).

Anyone know if you can get transit directions with OpenStreetMaps?