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IE7 Separated from Windows Explorer
An anonymous reader writes "Security experts warned Microsoft 10 years ago that putting IE as a component of Windows Explorer was a bad idea, looks like Microsoft finally decided to listen to the advice. According to a short write up in Business Week, Microsoft has decided that when IE7 comes out with Vista it will no longer be a component of Windows Explorer and will be able to replace IE6 even on XP machines."
Isn't unity a security risk, since you'd have a single government? If evil or incompetent people took over, you'd be screwed.
E.g. compare China in the 19th Century and Europe. China was unified, and the government decided to cut off the outside world, lest it's people got subversive ideas. Europe was split into multiple states, and people were free to leave the ones that tried this sort of thing. So Europe surpassed China in terms of technology, science and military ability.
And the number of people killed in conflicts was probably a small price to pay for this, in the sense that more would have died of famine and so on under an autocratic but incompetent central government.
And you can't trust people in general, it would be almost suicidally risky to do so. You need to authenticate them with recommendations from other people that you've already authenticated.
Ok, I admit I'm just writing this to make you reconsider your prejudices.
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People more persuasive than I could try to argue that writing a check for money that you don't have (even if you will soon) could constitute fraud.
Check floating isn't the same thing as expecting delays in check cashing. Check floating is the period between when you cash the check with the teller (thus putting money in your account) and the bank of origin removes the money from the account the check is from. Granted, some people may have relied on the float period as opposed to the pre-cashing period, but it still wasn't illegal.
As for writing checks for money you don't have, that can be a little tricky. Some banks provide protection in your contract against overdrafts. If your account dips below zero for any reason, they'll extend you a temporary loan to cover the difference. Thus in these cases, there is still no criminal activity. This can be important because of the way that today's personal finances work. Thanks to practices such as automatic withdraws or payments sent in advance to account for the delay of postal mail, it can happen that transactions can occur in an odd order. In these cases an overdraft may be unintentional. Even your own balance sheet may say differently.
If your bank isn't nice enough to overlook the issue (which isn't really "overlooking" it if they charge you a fee for the privledge), many businesses will often overlook the inconvenience of one or maybe two bounces before black-listing your checks. Of course, they'll charge you a ~$25 fee for their troubles, so try not to step on their good graces.
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I dont trust Microsoft and I wont be using IE7. I've already removed any traces of IE6 from my XP pro system. Mozilla firefox is here for good =)