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IP address: 193.x.x.x
Time: 2018-03-06T18:x:xZ
URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+be+evil

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I kid you not! I wonder if this is self-demonstrating. You dare be anonymous and javascript-less? Have a seat over here please.
(the "why" link has dozens of E1bcRH5_uy3A... characters too, not a link to an faq)

Among the potential uses: developers can build mail apps for Office, which add content and functionality to Outlook items based on activation rules,

Translation: virus writers can now use the cloud to send multimedia spam?

I wonder if this is "open" enough that you could spam someone's calender thru it as an alternative distribution media. Imaging a MS calendar with thousands of entries every 5 minutes "wanna last longer than this spam? Shop at http://blah/ for your manliness needs"

Another weird question is using the cloud to facilitate leaking confidential info both intentionally and via the usual security vulnerabilities.

prior to them inserting login information safe? For instance, for the business application I develop, I check to see if the user accessed the login page via ssl, and if not, I user header('Location https://blah/ to get them to the ssl login page. To me that should be good, but the site above seems to indicate even that is not safe since a person could spoof the cert as soon as the site is accessed. Or perhaps I'm not quite understanding it clearly.

Because it's a common activity. Nearly 30% of all email has an attachment according the documentation I have. If you can attach a document to an email it's pretty safe to assume you can attach a picture, mp3, video clip, etc.

Most people do three things:

Send Email
Surf the Web
Use a word processor

Those are three activities to test. You write and attach the memo to kill two tests at the same time. You don't get all day for these kind of tests so you have to compact you test cases down to a slim as possible.

Ethel, install this operating system by following it's instructions.
When you are done open a word processor and write a letter to some one and save it.
Go into the email program and set it up using the following settings ....
Attach the document you made earlier to the email. Don't forget to use the help if you need to.
Once you are done take a picture using this camera.
Connect it to your computer and save the picture from the camera to your computer.
Print that picture you just took.
Go to http://blah/ blah blah/ and check and make sure the date displayed is today's date.

That's what I give them almost verbatim. They are actually printed on those notecard you used in high school and college. Then the observers measure how easy it is for the user, how many times they check the help, ask questions, etc. To pass the user has to do all tasks within 2 hours NOT counting the OS install time. The OS must be installed to the local system, no cheating with Live CDs.

Linux has always failed. First and worse stumbling block, to this day is the Time Zone selection. They get confused looking at a map of cities. Why not just show the F'ing time zones to start? Seriosuly they all know they are in Central Time, why the hell would people in Minnesota pick Chicago (their words not mine.)

Next, Windows XP provides actual tutorials and a decent help system. Telling a 75 year old women to read the MAN pages or she's a moron doesn't get you a passing grade either.

With all the Linux fanboys and MS haters, they need a reality check that not everyone can write BASH scripts, use VIM\EMACS, and program in PERL. Linux suffers from a bad case of denial in the INTUITIVE department. Until you start using reason rather then hate the Linux crowd isn't going to get far in an actual discussion about why it keeps stumbling in the user department. It's sad and telling on how humans now communicate. Obama Sucks. MCCain sucks. Linux Sucks. MS Sucks.

Welcome to Idiocracy apparently. No no, no reason needed, just leave that whole reason stuff outside with the smokers.

It's just sad..

I agree with you, I too object to being forced to choose software for my personal computer, not just by the government but by any third party.

This is why i support standard formats such as ODF, as a standard format provides the user the greatest freedom to choose their software.

While i strongly object to the government saying "Here is a binary file, we don't know the structure of the format but to read it you must buy a program for $400 (plus the os and hardware it requires if you dont have them already) to read it"... I object much less to "Here is a file, the format specifications are available from http://blah/ and you can choose from one of several applications at different price points (including free) and for different platforms. If your lazy, we can provide you with an app for free"

The push for ODF comes from individuals who value the freedom which you claim to.

As for "living with multiple formats", you mean living with interoperability problems due to multiple formats. When Commodore released the Amiga they realised what a hassle all the various formats were, and create a standard set that were documented and supported by libraries in the Amiga devkit. This format was called IFF, and stood for Interchangeable File Format, and supported sound, music, text, bitmap graphics etc. Because of this, people never had any issues opening files created by other amiga users, regardless of what applications they used. Some apps supported other formats as well, but virtually everything used the appropriate IFF format as it's default.

Make then entire system available as a pkg-get repository, not just the blastwave contributed programs. I don't want to download 4 cds of nonsense. Let me have one CD for a base install and ftp just the parts I want with pkg-get.

pkgadd, BTW, also supports quite a few URL constructs (e.g., pkgadd http://blah/blah). In this form, the other end of the pkgadd has to be a package stream, however, so that limits its usefulness with the DVD contents.

I haven't done any X-based installs, but my main bitch with the console install is that it is fairly inflexible. You get four options for package selection 1)really stripped down 2)stripped down 3)everything, 4)everthing plus OEM drivers. Finer grained control in package selection would be nice. Also nice would be a task-based pre-canned install set a la tasksel in debian or like what anaconda gives you in RH. Example: selecting a DNS task would install BIND but not X.

Please add some polish and make the default paths sane. Yes, I know this is a minor thing, but why do I have to spend several minutes adding /opt/sfw/bin:/usr/bin/:/usr/local/bin to my skel and .profile

Would somebody please statically compile bash already? I've scoured google and I can't find one. Yes, I know sh and ksh, but I prefer bash and think it to be more capable and easier to use. It would be nice to have it available in single user mode.

From memory, Google indexes the text of the linking page as well.. so if a page has a to be or not to be then a search for "to be or not to be" will show up the destination page, even though it doesn't contain those words.