Oktober 2013 Archiv

MicroERA.

You know you're old when the SIM cards appearing in movies are smaller than yours.

Fünfundzwanzig.

I am not to be trusted anymore.

DRM-HTML.

A Web where you cannot cut and paste text; where your browser can't "Save As..." an image; where the "allowed" uses of saved files are monitored beyond the browser; where JavaScript is sealed away in opaque tombs; and maybe even where we can no longer effectively "View Source" on some sites, is a very different Web from the one we have today. It's a Web where user agents—browsers—must navigate a nest of enforced duties every time they visit a page. It's a place where the next Tim Berners-Lee or Mozilla, if they were building a new browser from scratch, couldn't just look up the details of all the "Web" technologies. They'd have to negotiate and sign compliance agreements with a raft of DRM providers just to be fully standards-compliant and interoperable.

Danny O'Brien / E.F.F.

Das maximale Flächengewicht einer Postkarte hat die Stärke einer klassischen Pommesschale.

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Now guess why we have libgen and boox.

Imagine walking into a library or bookstore and needing three or four pairs of different glasses to read different books manufactured to specific viewing equipment. Or buying a book and then having to arbitrarily destroy it after say, two weeks. That’s just nuts. But it’s the current situation we’re in with ebooks.

Art Brodsky