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Fortunately, there are quite a few workarounds and opportunities that minimize all the associated risks ...
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It is one of the rare organizations where the people responsible for the budget of the organization have long track records of trying to have them disrupted (or just eliminated). Congress has often tried to undermine the ability of the EPA, IRS, NIH, NOAA... to do their job which then makes it seem they are ripe for disruption.
The Republicans are essentially government saboteurs, which is fascinating if you can look at it from a distance. Most countries' major conservative party don't do this. Quite frankly, I'd say that having a relatively small government is what saves the US from disaster, as countries with that level of government dysfunction are usually pretty poor.
Are we talking about the same government??
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What's being described above isn't simply template-based rendering (which, yes, essentially everything does), but the practice of building web-software like desktop software and keeping the state of the UI server-side. It ignores that browsers are capable of effectively forking the UI through (today) tabs and (historically) "Open in New Window". Interacting with such software is a profoundly unpleasant experience; th…
> It is not Java-specific, but it is common to a few specific Java frameworks as well as at least one of Microsoft's older frameworks (I forget which one). ASP.NET WebForms has a feature where the Session ID, normally stored in a cookie, is stored in the request URL path instead. This was done back in 1999-2001 to support extremely rudimentary HTTP clients which did not support HTTP Cookies - imagine really prototypi…
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-e... Has this been superseded by a new policy?
An excellent question. I tried looking up the current policies, but the "IT Policy Library" [1] is provided in an iframe that doesn't load for me ("The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."). [1] https://cio.gov/resources/it-policy-library/
As far as I know, this is illegal because of this: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-e... Does anyone have any experience with their support system? On Monday I will be calling them in an attempt to understand why they are exempt from the HTTPS Everywhere federal directive.
But to answer your other question, as part of the Department of Commerce, a "CFO Act" agency, USPTO would not be exempt.
As far as I know, this is illegal because of this: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-e... Does anyone have any experience with their support system? On Monday I will be calling them in an attempt to understand why they are exempt from the HTTPS Everywhere federal directive.
I wouldn't use the word "illegal" - it's a directive of OMB (the White House's management and budget office), not a law or a regulation or an executive order. The only true enforcers are OMB themselves. But to answer your other question, as part of the Department of Commerce, a "CFO Act" agency, USPTO would not be exempt.
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You can't know that. It could have been redeveloped in anything, but kept the original url scheme for backwards compatibility.
Oh, come now. Whether he can or cannot know such a thing is however many angels, dancing on the head of a pin. Do you honestly believe anything this terrible went through a rewrite? I sure don't.