Firefox has had the whole container system built in for a long time: Firefox now runs sites such as Facebook in "containers", effectively hiving the social network off into its own little sandboxed world, where it can't see what's happening on other sites There are several popular extensions that use this facility to allow you to always assign particular sites to a particular container, such as to keep work related things that have a singe sign on together.

Especially if it's a major consultancy providing software services to public bodies for some reason...

I'm impressed at what a comprehensive and comprehensible summary was provided for this article.

To be fair Windows has rather regressed in this approach. A long time ago the vision was that embeddable COM objects would provide just that kind of editable content inside compound documents. WinFS https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWinFS was meant to be the next step as a relational filesystem that allowed documents to be formed from related data and any application understanding a particular schema to edit that part.

Goldeneye is two years older than Contact, the telescope makes up much less of the plot, and it's certainly much less related to "News for nerds".

And Slashdot is also that old...

Goldeneye, not Contact, as the example for the Slashdot audience? Really?

Yes! One of the many frustrating examples of the BBC not releasing their back catalogue of culturally and historically significant programmes like this.

I know. I really want to believe the comments to the effect that "she deserved it as she crossed in the wrong place" are made by astro turfing bots, but I suspect even the bots would display better aparent empathy and logic.

If only Asimov was still alive.

It's disturbing how many comments in the media have tried blaming the pedestrian for crossing at the wrong spot. There seems to a be a bit of an astroturfing campaign â" Reddit is full of such comments.

In much of the world (where auto makers have not managed to buy a change the law) this is not illegal and in fact standard practice, such as in the UK for example. Any self driving technology must clearly be able to deal with this, not least for handling unpredictable young children in residential areas.

Yep it's like someone is testing a bot designed to drown out reason, much like the comments on news sites seem to be these days. People are pushing BSD and no one has even mentioned netcraft. Not like the old days at all.

Actually the BBC failed miserably to debunk the lies. In its typically misplaced idea of "neutrality" it would typically avoid making a factual statement and instead have interviewees on to make opposing points. The effect of this was to dignify the lie and place it in the centre ground.

They've done this consistently for years, especially since coming under significant pressure from the Blair government around the Iraq war time (regarding the dodgy dossier, David Kelly etc). And now the threat of the Conservatives scrapping or reducing the licence fee appears to make them particularly timid about calling out political lies, for example never questioning the premise of austerity and the blame placed on the previous labour government.

With the advent of 24 hour news the factual content is even more diluted and it's 90% speculation and sensational interviews with nutters.

Channel 4 News in the UK does a much better job of fact checking and challenging, as does BBC Newsnight, but sadly they mostly only attract the educated and more liberal demographic that is less likely to be misled in the first place.

Especially FCP X

I thought that was meant to be making its way upstream ages ago?

Sadly still no stable support for 4.7 from the zfs on Linux packaging for Debian :(

I don't disagree that XFA would be useful, but why should it be the overriding goal of the poppler project? The XFA specification is over 1500 pages and thus would eat a huge amount of people's own spare time to implement.

It's obviously important to you, though, so what are you going to do about it? Maybe find a willing implementer and organize a bounty/crowd source funding for them to work on it if you can't code it yourself?

In the meantime use XPDF which does support XFA.