I'm not sure which come directly from the LHC, and which predate it (but probably still benefit from the research) but a lot of medical techniques rely on particle interactions and acceleration which benefit from the research such as PET-scans, and particle-therapy.
There is also research being performed at cern into new superconductors and new ways of coating various materials with thin layers.(as a direct resut of building the LHC).
I'm... not sure I want this. It sounds pretty useful/fun form a programmers perspective.
But from an end-user perspective I fear that it will lead too various "features" hogging resources. I would assume I could block them client-side, but I'm also the family-tech and quite frankly I don't expect my grandparents to do the same.
"User agents must not provide Push API access to webapps without the express permission of the use"
I share your concern. but I share a great fear that web apps will become increasingly irrelevant if they remain just documents that can't do anything when they're not explicitly in a running tab/window.
The permission requirement is the same one that allows for local storage, which could have caused great problems, but has so far held up well.
> The permission requirement is the same one that allows for local storage
Assuming this does not allow the push of UI interaction, then yes. If it would allow UI responses to be pushed then we would be one XSS vulnerability or "uneducated users" away from a new set of exploits for forcing pop-under advertising , and other potentially more insidious problems, through.
Local Storage and Index DB are storage only so the only attack routes are DoS-due-to-disk-full-errors which is generally less attractive (you can make more money pushing stuff to people than pushing people off the network).
I can't see that in the spec, so no. Like most things, if you don't like an app, you can revoke it's privileges and uninstall it.
The questions you keep asking are basic things solved by reading the article - you seem to have concerns, but you haven't done the minimum amount of work necessary to determine whether your concerns are valid.
Safari supports push notifications from websites for a while. I've found it convenient for the news websites I often visit just to check for new content. It's like RSS integrated into OS. One can misuse it, but generally it's useful.
I wonder, is it in the realms of possibility for big-budget organizations like the NSA to simply read the UID from the silicon by means of physical analysis (e.g. a scanning tunneling microscope)?
Go check out some conference presentations by Christopher Tarnovsky. He's made a career out of it, and acquired some very expensive toys (focused ion-beam equipment doesn't come cheap), but there are lectures of his explaining how he broke the (iirc) STMicro TPM chips for fun. These sorts of devices have all sorts of countermeasures against direct invasive attacks like these, but with enough cash and bricked test phones, I'd be greatly surprised if it wasn't entirely practical.
The only issue would be making the process so 100% reliable that you succeed first time, because a single mistake or misunderstanding could trash the single copy you have of the code.
I'm curious now if flylogic or chipworks have done any serious teardown of the 'secure enclave' stuff.
If the iPhone actually does become very popular, particularly with terrorists, it will be hard to imagine that the NSA doesn't just go develop this capability internally.
"enough cash and bricked test phones" - the great thing about this, is you can just buy the $650 phones - you can get a thousand of them for less than a million dollars, which probably is under your typical line managers budget in the NSA techOps group.
And, lets be realistic, Apple isn't trying to defend against the NSA or Nation States, just your average hacker without access to $100mm+ in hardware.
The way things work at my university, at least the science faculty, is that word of good or bad teachers just travels trough the grapevine. And it is usually quite accurate.
Then we have (a active, and paid) representation in the faculties decision making body, which leads to, in my experience, the faculty actually dealing with bad professors.
Not everything has to be boxed in by numerics, sometimes simply speaking up and listening is the easiest and best solution.
A streamer also mentioned that recently Twitch send out an enquiry to partners about what kind of affiliation programs they would be interested in. My bet would be that Amazons angle is going to be integration of their storefront and other services into Twitch in the form of affiliate programs ("Buy this game now"-buttons, adding Twitch Turbo to Amazon Prime and the likes).
I wouldn't even be surprised if down the road they'd announce a Steam-like digital distribution thingymagick. Steam and it's competitors are rolling in cash and have been getting quite some flack recently so now might be the best time.
Amazon already does digital distribution for video games and probably some other PC software, in addition to their significantly more high profile Android offering.
And while their storefront is adequate, their delivery and update systems are abysmal. Steam hasn't won mindshare because it JUST made it easy to buy games online, but it also made it easy to sign into an account, click a button and play them anywhere, and keeps your software up-to-date in the background.
EA has the only competitor that comes close, but their tarnished reputation in the gaming community has sullied the only worthwhile adversary Steam has.
It's not much different from from Apple having to abide by EU laws if it wants to sell its product in Europe. Or to invoke 'think of the children'[1], the prosecution of Child Pornography websites hosted/owned by foreign nationals.
[1] There really should be some form of Goodwin's Law for this by now.
If Europe overreached as much as this judge every single Apple device would be 220v 60Hz with a two round pin adapter.
The reason why this isn't is that Apple needs to comply with European laws and standards in Europe. Not in the US or whichever other hellhole uses 110V 50Hz mains.
Afaik Apple's switching power supplies support the specifications you described (for example, see Mac Mini's tech specs https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs.html -- 50-60Hz 100-240v AC).
Not to mention Apple sells region-specialized units just like every other major computer retailer.
There is also research being performed at cern into new superconductors and new ways of coating various materials with thin layers.(as a direct resut of building the LHC).