http://www.osnews.com/story/20378/Mozilla_Labs_Introduces_Geode_Geo-location_Software Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:16:15 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?333373 http://osnews.com/thread?333373 Given all the licensing and privacy issues this questionable improvement adds to Firefox I'm glad it is currently only available in extension form and only available for Windows and MacOS. I sincerely hope it stays that way, or I'll be forces to search for a new browser and I really am fond of the browser I have now...

--bornagainpenguin Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bornagainenguin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?333477 http://osnews.com/thread?333477 But the real question is: Do we need to automatically find a user's coordinates for these!? On Mozilla Labs they mention:

"...Or Web site authentication that only allows you to login from certain physical locations, like your house."

This would never be secure, as you can easily manipulate the coordinates sent to the login-service. An additional login would always be required. And heck, who needs the software to automatically specify your location if you only have 2? Home and work:

"For example, imagine an RSS reader that knows the difference between home and work and automatically changes its behavior appropriately."

There are many more settings that change based on your location -- other that just in your browser. So I really think this functionality should be present somewhere else. Also, your settings might not change exclusively due to geo position. I like Aaron Seigos notion of context much more, and I think people working with these kinds of thoughts should really allow themselves to think big.

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/09/plasma-context-and-nepomuk.html
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/10/introducing-geode/ Edited 2008-10-13 12:06 UTC Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ben Jao Ming) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?333480 http://osnews.com/thread?333480 Location means nothing. Few things piss me off more than when I type in www.foo.com and get automatically redirected to www.foo.se just because the web site managed to detect that I'm in Sweden. I don't know who came up with this idea but he or she deserves to be beaten. I typed www.foo.com because that was the web site I wanted to go, when I want to go to www.foo.se I'll type www.foo.se.

We need to see less of this sort of idiotic second guessing by developers, not more. I can see no good and useful purpose for this software. If I want to seperate work and home RSS feeds give me a menu and I'll tell the software where I am and what feeds I want. I mean what happens if I'm working from home one day and want to check my 'work' feeds or if I want to check my 'home' feeds while taking a break at work. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dagw) Comments