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Legislation key to US President Barack Obama's trade agenda has passed a key hurdle in the Senate, just two weeks after it appeared to have failed.
The bill known as the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) or, more commonly, Fast Track, makes it easier for presidents to negotiate trade deals.
Supporters see it as critical to the success of a 12-nation trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The bill is expected to pass a final vote in the Senate on Wednesday.
Tuesday's 60-37 vote - just barely meeting the required 60 vote threshold - is the result of the combined efforts of the White House and many congressional Republicans to push the bill through Congress, despite the opposition of many Democrats.
This is primarily a tech news site, and it's generally good to avoid political news, but the TPP is a huge trade deal, negotiated in secret, that will have large ramifications for the world economy that affects us all, and that also has large implications for the accountability of major world governments to their citizens.
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(Score: 2) by TheLink on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:19AM
More than a decade ago I proposed an HTML tag that will disable active/fancy stuff (the opening and closing tags need a matching random string).
That way even if the browser makers or HTML bunch come up with new features, the new stuff would still be disabled.
It's ridiculous to have a car with only "GO" pedals and not a single "STOP" or brake pedal, and to stop the car you are required to make sure that all the "GO" pedals are not pressed.
Apparently in recent years Mozilla has come up with something called CSP ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/CSP [mozilla.org] ) which supposedly would help do this sort of thing and is better than my original suggestion.
FWIW if they had implemented my suggestion, many of those XSS worms wouldn't have worked.
And by now people could say "add another brake pedal option" to stop such stuff - since the concept of brake pedals would no longer be novel in the browser/HTML arena.