From Firefox's faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out
[...] Collectively, the performance work being done to modernize Firefox is called Project Quantum. We took a closer look at Quantum back when Firefox 57 hit the developer channel in September, but the short version is, Mozilla is rebuilding core parts of the browser, such as how it handles CSS stylesheets, how it draws pages on-screen, and how it uses the GPU.
This work is being motivated by a few things. First, the Web has changed since many parts of Firefox were initially designed and developed; pages are more dynamic in structure and applications are richer and more graphically intensive. JavaScript is also more complex and difficult to debug. Second, computers now have many cores and simultaneous threads, giving them much greater scope to work in parallel. And security remains a pressing concern, prompting the use of new techniques to protect against exploitation. Some of the rebuilt portions are even using Mozilla's new Rust programming language, which is designed to offer improved security compared to C++.
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(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday November 17 2017, @01:41AM (2 children)
Proprietary meals: If your farm is next to a GMO farm, watch for lawyers. (Monsanto v. Schmeiser)
Proprietary TV shows: If you ever decide to make TV shows yourself, you are legally required to avoid making expression that is too similar to that of an existing TV show that you have seen. A successful claim of nonliteral copyright infringement requires that the alleged infringer have had access to the older work and that the works be substantially similar in expression. Even accidental similarity is actionable (Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music), and even access that occurred several years prior still taints the viewer (ibid). So as far as I'm aware, the only surefire way to avoid accidental infringement is to avoid having access even once.
This is easier said than done. When you shop in a grocery store, a fraction of what you pay for groceries goes toward a royalty for the proprietary background music played over the store's speaker system when it isn't being used to make an announcement. This again taints you with access to the songs played.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday November 17 2017, @05:44PM (1 child)
I said wearing clothes, not making them. Eating food, not producing it. Watching TV shows, not producing them.
How does it "taint" me?
The shop sells things at a profit. I don't expect to have a say in how that profit is spent.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday November 18 2017, @08:16PM
You may expose yourself to liability for infringement of exclusive rights in the following cases:
Or is your argument "I need not worry because I plan to never make clothes, food, or TV shows in my lifetime"?
If you listen to encumbered music in a shop, and years later write a similar song, your writing the song will infringe the copyright in the song that you listened to in the shop but didn't make.