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No it's Microsoft, not anyone else

A simple media campaign would be far more effective.

Remove It Permanently

Most IM clients require the user to manually accept an image or file embedded into the message, or enter a special mode that the other user has to confirm. Avatars are loaded automatically, though - but it might not be possible to set this image as an avatar (dimensions/length/format constraints, or something)

RSS and similar feeds do not use HTML by their very nature (they are a language of their own), though it is entirely possible to send HTML code as the content. It probably will not be parsed, though. Also, some feed formats support an avatar for users mentioned in the feed, so that could be another mode of transmission.

That's about as helpful as advising tsunami victims that they move.

I write long reports that need to be formatted.

Thunderbird can be configured to:

1) Not open external (not embedded) image files. This is the default.

2) Not run scripts. This is the default.

Thunderbird cannot run ActiveX. That gives me perfect safety. Enigmail should support what Thunderbird supports.

Many programmers have very limited in social abilities, so they don't like to or want to communicate. Also, many programmers are, maybe surprisingly, not big users of their computers. They program at work, using just a few applications. When they come home, maybe they play games, maybe not.

Programmers should not be allowed to dictate what features we need.

Enigmail project website features are:

• Encrypt/sign mail when sending, decrypt/authenticate received mail
• Support for inline-PGP (RFC 2440) and PGP/MIME (RFC 3156)
• Per-Account based encryption and signing defaults
• Per-Recipient rules for automated key selection, and enabling/disabling encryption and signing
• New: OpenPGP key management interface
• Automatically encrypt attachments for inline PGP messages
• Powerful GUI for easy configuration and management
• User Preferences for advanced configuration
• Integrated OpenPGP PhotoID Viewer
• Supports OpenPGP key retrieval via proxy servers
• Integrates with GnuPG
• Works with the Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite, and Netcape 7.x mail clients
• Supports Thunderbird's Multiple Identities feature
• Available for: Windows / Mac OSX / Linux (x86-32, x86-64, SuSe, Debian, Mandrake PPC & x86 ) / UNIX (Solaris 8.0, *BSD i386)
• Language Packs available for localisation

Works for me!

I know we need DNS today -- links, bookmarks, advertising, all that.

Bookmarks and links are a technology which actually eliminate the need for DNS[1]. If you could pass bookmarks and links around in a user-friendly manner, why would you need a global namespace like DNS? The links could simply be IP addresses, or preferably, a cryptographic identifier [2],[6]. Finding an entity with an introduction occurs via a e-mail, links on the web, etc. Search engines are used for finding an entity without an introduction (like the Yellow pages) [3],[4].

All the technologies to replace DNS exist today. They aren't quite as easy to use as DNS, given that software hasn't been designed to use them in this fashion, but the DNS is an unnecessary, vulnerable, centralized system, even today.

The technologies I've pointed out further solve the phishing problem, enable secure introduction, and decentralized secure computation.

[1] http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNa mes.html (Petnames are a sort-of local DNS directory)
[2] http://yurl.net/ (a YURL redirectory is pretty much like DNS, except that anyone can set one up)
[3] http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/cap-talk/2005-Feb ruary/002891.html
[4] http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/cap-talk/2005-Feb ruary/003079.html
[5] http://petname.mozdev.org/

For something that is already in development, check out http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/screenshots.html

Here are some end user solutions for these issues:
Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts File
A handy hack that works very well at blocking ads, so long as they aren't hosted on the site itself.
Flashblock
A Firefox extension for blocking the flash based ads. Easy to access the flash on a item by item basis for stuff you do want to get to.
Bug Me Not
For circumventing registration.

Still not ideal, but I find they help quite a bit. RSS may be the answer long term though because of the flexibility it gives you format-wise. Now if news sites would just implement RSS 2.0 or Atom...

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The question "why" is always satisfied by "Because it's [day of week]!"
So, in this case:
Because it's Wednesday! Duh!
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3. AJAX. It's worth a look if you want to stay within the browser's window. And that means you should get good Javascript/CSS/XML/HTML books.

4. Firefox-as-UI-platform. This is related to the above. I am just beginning to get into this and it looks very promising. Other people know far more than I do. The GreaseMonkey extension is great fun to play with.

Wikipedia's policy on autobiography

This page is considered a guideline on Wikipedia. It illustrates standards of conduct, which many editors agree with in principle. However, it is not policy.

"It is a social faux pas to write about yourself," according to Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder.

His website layout is nice, but he should write it in valid HTML before he considers himself a UI guru. http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3 A//www.billbuxton.com/
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You mean you haven't heard of Flashblock? (Install it from here.)

It does exactly what you want—blocks all Flash with a box with a Play button on it, which you can click if you want to allow that Flash object to play.

The Flash Block firefox plugin does exactly what you're describing. Any flash on a webpage is shown as a flash icon and only downloaded if you click it. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

BTW, get Adblock here: http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Thank you! For trying to help me with my problem. However this link:

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Returned an 'unable to install' error. Guess the site might be swamped?

flashblock needed to be uninstalled and reinstalled when you upgraded to 1.5 some time ago, now they claim that it should work automagically. i did uninstall/install and my flashblock works just fine. i wish they'd have this thing built in instead of a hack addon. it still flickers and does some weird tricks from time to time.

see the details on http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

about the bookmarks ... i guess i'm not that much a fan of bookmarking, i bookmark only rare stuff and use my memory and google for everything else.

the only bad thing from the "rise of the firefox" is that they lost the speed that phoenix had. i loved phoenix because of it's gui speed. firefox is just damn slow.

[ Amendment IV ]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Want to read my stuff? Go ahead and crack it - no warrant necessary.

Get the rabbit installed on a machine behind your firewall
==> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Faster than freenet
==> http://www.i2p.net/
Encrypt Jabber
==> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Jabber/jabberd.html
Onion Routing
==> http://tor.eff.org/
Emerging Network To Reduce Orwellian Potency Yield
==> http://entropy.stop1984.com/
Free Internet telephony
==> http://skype.com/
GNU-ified P2p
==> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/


DO NOT DENY yourself about 2 hours @ InfoAnarchy.org
OMG! ==> http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Pag e
LearnLearnLearnLearn ==> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

=================EMAIL ENCRYPTION===============
GPG (Free PGP)
==> http://gnupg.org/
Integrated with Thunderbird
==> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Mutt can't be beat as a mailreader and integrates GPG wonderfully.
==> http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/
==> http://www.mutt.org/links.html
==> http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?UserPages

!!! Please do not immediately send newly created keys to the keyservers (as many HOWTOs instruct new users to). They are already overflowing with "test keys" and other people's experiments from over the years THAT HAVE NO EXPIRATION and will never be deleted. These keys are "orphans" and most will never be used. As keyservers sync together, and most keys are never deleted once submitted - GET YOUR KEY SETUP CORRECTLY AND HAVE PRACTICE WITH IT BEFORE SENDING IT OFF TO THE KEYSERVERS!!! Otherwise storage requirements will continue to grow and using these in the future will become more difficult FOR ALL. Please, if you are just starting out with PGP or GPG or GnuPG or anything similar (the last two are in fact the same thing) use manual key distribution to begin (ascii armor your public key with


$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org

and copy and paste it into an email body or attach it to an email


$ gpg --export --armor my@email.address.org > myPubKey.txt

to gain practice with GPG before uploading your key. This way if you need to create another you won't have uploaded your mistakes. Many choices need to be made and it's worth getting things right before "going public" with your new digital ID. Experiment with yourself and a few different email accounts or with some friends first.)

SET AN EXPIRATION OF 2-5 YEARS OR SO AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR PREFERENCES THE WAY YOU LIKE THEM BEFORE SENDING TO A KEYSERVER! Better yet is to HOST YOUR

Whether "nothingness" is Void, Null, Cipher, Zero, Nothing, or Jersey is still under debate.

It annoyed me enough that I wrote a Greasemonkey script to fix it.

Once you install Greasemonkey and my script, Firefox will automatically click the "Stop" link for you. For good measure, it also hides the slideshow-related links (slower / stop / faster), and copies copy the "previous" and "next" links to below the text so you don't have to scroll back up to click them.

Now I need Adblock for my eyes. :(

I have yet to see a Google ad that is relevant to what I would like to see. And, I'm afraid that they already wasted their chance.

So... what ads
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
are
zone "googlesyndication.com" {type master;allow-query {any;};file "/etc/bind/db.blackhole";};
you
apt-get install adzapper
talking
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
about?

I don't ever pay for random software -- I buy only things I need to (because @#$%^& customers won't switch to usable systems), and I sometimes help with Free Software projects (donating code, not money). For non-software related things, the banking system in Poland is so abysmal that purchasing material things online is simply out of the question; also, I have a strong negative response to ads -- I make conscious decisions to boycott products that are advertised in an annoying way.

Losing the clicks from the rest of the company I happen to admin the servers for is just collateral damage.

IMO, this is indeed a Good Thing (TM).

Except for those of us using the FlashBlock Firefox Extension: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

I'd guess that 90% of Flash is used for advertising. Block Flash and you block mostly advertising. And typically very annoying advertising at that. (Whatever happened to the good old animated GIF?) Then you add exceptions for certain sites like, oh, Slashdot, Homestar Runner, JibJab, etc.

No, this is not a good thing. The fonts should be fixed thru a W3C standard. Not some proprietary hack to load on top of something else. (Not that anybody ever listens to the W3C, but I digress...)

1. Emacs is a command-line application, you normally don't use the mouse
2. Have you seen Emacs' feature list? Comparing Emacs to Windows98 is like comparing a Ferarri to a Go-Kart.

I forgot to mention there's a MyCroft plugin for using Clutsy from FireFox.

Strategy in Counter-Strike consists entirely of "rush left".

For real strategy, try something like Tribes 2, or even Red Orchestra. You actually have to work with your teammates, and there is a distinct difference between offense and defense instead of just "shoot the other guys".
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Listen, you clueless zealot: FF-extensions are in no way restricted

All I know is that FireFox 1.5 (DeerPark) broke GreaseMonkey and a lot of other extensions because of this XPC wrapper thingy, which as I understand it, securely wraps extensions to seperate them somewhat from each other and the browser preventing them from doing things they shouldn't. Greasemonkey specific information regarding this can be found here.

You can also check that old thread from back when GreaseMonkey had a horrible security flaw allowing access to local files from a malicious userscript and possibly even website. In there somewhere there's a comment that this wouldn't have been possible on FireFox 1.5.

Before 1.5 Firefox extensions were worse than ActiveX in that there were no restrictions at all other than that they couldn't AutoInstall as they often can in IE. However, now the situation is different, as I understand it.

I think most people who like to avoid using the mouse and stick to the keyboard will already have something set up. I use conkeror for example. If I was more extreme I'd be using something like ratpoison too. You don't need to provide this for people, they can arrange it themselves.

What about firefox plugin, ieview?

*panic* so my Firefox is vulnerable?

/sarcasm

I'm sure in reality it is, but IE Tab does add quite a bit of functionality for those sites that are not firefox-friendly.

*panic* so my Firefox is vulnerable?

/sarcasm

I'm sure in reality it is, but IE Tab does add quite a bit of functionality for those sites that are not firefox-friendly.

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ads are ten times worse than porn

then block those adverts, and surf like it was 1989 !

I haven't used Evolution so I don't have a basis for comparison of GPG integration but the EnigMail Extension for Thunderbird is quite good. I like it because it stays out of my way.

Ah, capitalism and Open Source software. What a great combination.

Nope. How about some ad blocking though? http://adblock.mozdev.org/. You'll never have to view such bunk again!

Thankfully, Adblock works rather well, filtering out visually disturbing ads from actually useful and/or entertaining information on the web.

The answer is yet to mini-T and an updated version of Adblock is available if you scroll to the bottom of http://adblock.mozdev.org/ and go to the forums. Looks like she works like a charm! Good little fox...

As a fellow tablet user I'm surprised that you've missed this bit of news:

http://geckotip.mozdev.org/

It's a new extention based on the (outdated) tpctip extension (that used to make the tpctip work in older versions of firefox). It works well for me.

Also, while we're on the subject of FF and tablets... I _highly_ suggest using pie menus with a tablet pc... it works _really_ well with a stylus:

http://optimoz.mozdev.org/piemenus/

Friedmud

As a fellow tablet user I'm surprised that you've missed this bit of news:

http://geckotip.mozdev.org/

It's a new extention based on the (outdated) tpctip extension (that used to make the tpctip work in older versions of firefox). It works well for me.

Also, while we're on the subject of FF and tablets... I _highly_ suggest using pie menus with a tablet pc... it works _really_ well with a stylus:

http://optimoz.mozdev.org/piemenus/

Friedmud

I'm a Windows user, so don't experience the URL bar bug, nor the keyboard shortcut bug, but your other concerns make a fair amount of sense. I do have a bit of advice though...

Add n Edit Cookies Extension rocks. It allows you to do anything you want with cookies. There are various others for blocking site-based, those sorts of things. I personally feel that integrating too many cookie features into the main build is not what's required, because it's not widely used.

As to plugin security: yes, an "allow once" is a great idea. Have you submitted something to bugzilla? I'd suggest you do - I'll vote for it. As to downloading... well, that's because it's being sent as application/octet-stream. Fx - correctly - doesn't judge by file extension, rather by content type. It - also correctly - won't let you automate the use of application/octet-stream. The solution? Fx should allow for automated use of application/octet-stream depending on extension (ONLY relying on extension for that content type) and that automation should be ONLY running it through another program, or saving it - we'd hate to automatically run things. Again, submit something to bugzilla.

These extensions also give the message: "Disabled, not compatible with Firefox 1.5"

• Add Bookmark Here 0.5.3
• AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox 6.5.2
• Bookmark All 1.1.1
• Cookie Toggle 0.8.1
• CookieCuller 1.2.0
• FLST 0.8.3
• Gcache 0.2.1
• Greasemonkey 0.5.3
• MiniT+ 20050216.6
• Objection 0.2
• Permit Cookies 0.6
• Print It! 0.3.6
• Scribe 0.21
• SecurePassword Generator 0.5.2
• StumbleUpon 2.02
• Super DragAndGo 0.2.4
• SwitchProxy Tool 1.3.2
• xMirror 0.2

Wish I would have waited a couple of weeks before I upgraded.

These extensions also give the message: "Disabled, not compatible with Firefox 1.5"

• Add Bookmark Here 0.5.3
• AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox 6.5.2
• Bookmark All 1.1.1
• Cookie Toggle 0.8.1
• CookieCuller 1.2.0
• FLST 0.8.3
• Gcache 0.2.1
• Greasemonkey 0.5.3
• MiniT+ 20050216.6
• Objection 0.2
• Permit Cookies 0.6
• Print It! 0.3.6
• Scribe 0.21
• SecurePassword Generator 0.5.2
• StumbleUpon 2.02
• Super DragAndGo 0.2.4
• SwitchProxy Tool 1.3.2
• xMirror 0.2

Wish I would have waited a couple of weeks before I upgraded.