Last time I checked, buyers were not charged any fees to use PayPal. They begin to charge you when you "upgrade" your PayPal account to "premium" to be able to accept credit card payments. It's really convenient for buyers to use this service, which is why most sellers support PayPal to make shopping easier for their buyers.
Although you can do filtering at the proxy level, with this approach you can't reclaim valuable screen real estate. You will have large gaps and websites will generally look ugly. Been there, tried to block ads with squid - AdBlock is just much easier and more effective.
Not to mention setting my home page until I change it. Firefox can't guess your home page preferences. Some people prefer to set it to slashdot, some set it to their local news website, and some set it to their own blog. However, there is one thing that unites them all - everybody uses search engines. Comparing Google to other search engines, I can say that:
1) It searches better;
2) Their front page consumes less bandwidth;
3) Their front page consumes less CPU cycles than others.
Thus, I would say that there couldn't be a better home page option than google.com.
What I really discourage is using google's search in the address bar. Only URLs should go into the address bar, period. Unless you do it Opera-style, i.e. "g foobar" will search for "foobar" using google, or "y foobar" will use yahoo.
Would you like to have ad blocking on by default? As much as I loathe "first run wizards" such as Firefox's "Import settings from IE" wizard, I wouldn't mind if you ask user to enable ad blocking in that wizard. However, I still think that it shouldn't be on by default.
Anyway, if some Firefox user doesn't like ads or to be tracked, s/he can easily find AdBlock. For others - why should we think of those who are fine with advertisements? I met a couple of people who have senior positions in IT and they don't really care about ads too much.
Because Open Source is about choice, not about forcing others to follow your ideas, even if they seem perfectly reasonable to _you_. That's why we have Firefox that isn't bloated too much, and numerous extensions that you can install based on your preferences.
Also, blocking something by default is wrong - nobody can guarantee that Adblock won't block legitimate content (I remember how early versions of Filterset.G blocked images on Microsoft site because their web developers were "smart" enough to put images in directory/banners/). Moreover, I'm pretty sure that the way the Web works now would break if advertisements were not useful anymore.
Actually, I would rather have my searches logged on Google's servers rather than on the corporate proxy. Your company is much more likely to go after you if they don't like anything about sites you visit. That's why I VPN to my home and use my own proxy while surfing the web at work (*cough* during break time, of course *cough*).
It would have been a flame war if there were supporters of IE-only websites. I haven't seen any of them so far (well, this is slashdot, not very surprising).
I believe it would cost less to do it correctly, especially in terms of maintenance, over the long run. Well, you are absolutely right. However, it would cost more to do it correctly and develop hacks to make it work in IE. And obviously, the website has to display properly in IE.
It depends on what packages you selected during initial installation. If you chose to install X11, then default runlevel will be 5. If not - it will be 3. That simple.
Hasn't it already been solved by trusted CA-signed SSL certificates? If I go to https:///.com and warning message pops up, it would rise certain suspicions. Perhaps browsers (I mean IE) need to show more clearly than just a padlock icon that the current website is secure and has been authenticated by a trusted authority, and users need to be more aware that all financial operations must be done only on SSL-enabled websites.
I don't think that there really are too many people who change their User-Agent to significantly affect global statistics. I, too, tried to strip off my Referer to enhance privacy and masquerade my User-Agent as Googlebot/2.1, however, there are just too many poorly written sites that are broken by design and rely on those headers. Once my list of exceptions sites grew beyond 10, I thought, "heck with it, it's easier just to leave it as it is."
Don't know about retail users, but we, as a business, have successfully sent laptops without hard drives to HP without any explanation and received them repaired. Though, all issues were diagnosable without the hard drive (such as bad LCD displays).
I think it's because most likely they have a whole bunch of background services installed on their Windows systems, just like our college has. Currently, we have some heavy asset management and remote control clients, an antivirus, a couple of "load time optimizers"/"task managers"(qttask)/update schedulers(jusched) loaded during the startup, which definitely make the system start much slower.
I usually don't buy anything major for daily meals except milk, cereal, potatoes/spaghetti/rice(not instant) and hot-dog sausages ($0.79/8 pieces). And I don't eat out at all, as I consider it a waste of money. Also, I drink tea for $2.50/100 bags. If you choose right economical grocery stores, you can make it, too. Also, it helps if you consider food as means to supply yourself with necessary energy, nothing more, just like I do.
Back on topic: I also fail to see how Internet connection can be expensive. I subscribed for VTISP dial-up for my parents-in-law for $3.95/month for 150 hrs per month, and it works great for online banking, paying bills, and finding information on the Internet (it can even be as low as $3.33/mo if you sign up for a year). As for a computer, I bought my first little home server at a garage sale for $3. I'm sure you can buy a decent computer at garage sales or goodwill-like stores or from a local college/university for no more than $20.
I, too, think that the poverty problem in the USA is greatly exaggerated. I've lived enough in the USA and one of post-Soviet countries for a while and I can tell the difference.
you have to take the cost of groceries into account
I spend no more than $15/week on my groceries. Some people who think that groceries cost too much need to buy less food that is not necessary (soft drinks, cookies, pizzas, etc) and learn how to cook. Also, they should shop in economical food stores instead of the nearest ones. Damn, I spend much more money on gas for my car to go to work than on food.
A family of four making $18,850/year
Oh yeah? Maybe you shouldn't make a family of four in the first place if you can't get a decent job to afford kids?
I see "poor" beggars standing on the side of freeway exit ramps with signs asking for money every day I return from work. They are middle-aged men and women who don't have any visible physical disabilities. I have only one thought about them - "GO FIND A JOB AND WORK". Here are SO much more low-skilled job opportunities than in other countries. They can work in my father-in-law's local manufacturing plant and make nice $13/hr (he always works overtime because there are not enough people and they're always hiring). Oh, wait, they will need to actually work hard instead of sitting on their asses and begging for money? Really, I would understand it if there were no jobs in the area, but it is not the case.
Very true. I never understood why different parts of human body are considered taboo. What is the difference between tits, and, say, legs? In some countries they prohibit women to show they legs (i.e. to wear skirts) on public. Analogy is very relevant, but we consider they laws/morality wrong.
(Un)fortunately, Flash format is better than other popular video streaming formats like WMV or Real Video. At least it works with flash player 9 beta (however, it crashes firefox once in a while). So I guess it is better to choose the lesser of two evils here. And please don't say about OGG, I know that it's great, but I am talking about popular video formats.
The point is that it doesn't matter how insecure your software is, it's the legal system that is broken here. There will always be vulnerabilities in software. There will always be users who execute unknown binaries and click on unknown attachments. There will always be users who have their antivirus' license expired and don't receive latest definitions and feel falsely safe. Yes, you can install Linux or Firefox or whatever, and it would most likely reduce the possibility of your machine being compromised. But it is like trying to cure effects of the disease, not the source of the disease.
I use to think of myself as an experienced computer user, but I will never be able to guarantee that my machine cannot be compromised. Never say never, and the situation in TFA can happen to everybody. That's why laws need to be rethought of instead of blaming insecure software.
I'm pretty sure there will be *absolutely* no way to use WHS as a domain controller. Aren't you familiar with Microsoft policy yet? (WinXP connections limit, etc) Most likely it will lack all the functionality that Microsoft considers Joe Home-User doesn't need.
OK, everybody, let's switch to Windows. "Because sometimes it's easier to stick with a standard". But nevertheless the easy way should not be always chosen.
As far as I know, quite a lot of people have their sound muted or no speakers at all (especially at work). I turn on my speakers only when I need it (thanks to those lame websites with background music), so audio captchas would be more annoying for me. Also, think of all people whose native language is not English (it's *much* harder to understand audible information than readable).
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Last time I checked, buyers were not charged any fees to use PayPal. They begin to charge you when you "upgrade" your PayPal account to "premium" to be able to accept credit card payments. It's really convenient for buyers to use this service, which is why most sellers support PayPal to make shopping easier for their buyers.
Although you can do filtering at the proxy level, with this approach you can't reclaim valuable screen real estate. You will have large gaps and websites will generally look ugly. Been there, tried to block ads with squid - AdBlock is just much easier and more effective.
Sort of pkunzip.zip, I guess.
1) It searches better;
2) Their front page consumes less bandwidth;
3) Their front page consumes less CPU cycles than others.
Thus, I would say that there couldn't be a better home page option than google.com.
What I really discourage is using google's search in the address bar. Only URLs should go into the address bar, period. Unless you do it Opera-style, i.e. "g foobar" will search for "foobar" using google, or "y foobar" will use yahoo.
Would you like to have ad blocking on by default? As much as I loathe "first run wizards" such as Firefox's "Import settings from IE" wizard, I wouldn't mind if you ask user to enable ad blocking in that wizard. However, I still think that it shouldn't be on by default.
Anyway, if some Firefox user doesn't like ads or to be tracked, s/he can easily find AdBlock. For others - why should we think of those who are fine with advertisements? I met a couple of people who have senior positions in IT and they don't really care about ads too much.
Because Open Source is about choice, not about forcing others to follow your ideas, even if they seem perfectly reasonable to _you_. That's why we have Firefox that isn't bloated too much, and numerous extensions that you can install based on your preferences.
/banners/). Moreover, I'm pretty sure that the way the Web works now would break if advertisements were not useful anymore.
Also, blocking something by default is wrong - nobody can guarantee that Adblock won't block legitimate content (I remember how early versions of Filterset.G blocked images on Microsoft site because their web developers were "smart" enough to put images in directory
Actually, I would rather have my searches logged on Google's servers rather than on the corporate proxy. Your company is much more likely to go after you if they don't like anything about sites you visit. That's why I VPN to my home and use my own proxy while surfing the web at work (*cough* during break time, of course *cough*).
It would have been a flame war if there were supporters of IE-only websites. I haven't seen any of them so far (well, this is slashdot, not very surprising).
Try a very useful Link Alert Firefox extension. It changes the mouse cursor to indicate the target type (such as PDF) of a link.
It depends on what packages you selected during initial installation. If you chose to install X11, then default runlevel will be 5. If not - it will be 3. That simple.
Hasn't it already been solved by trusted CA-signed SSL certificates? If I go to https:///.com and warning message pops up, it would rise certain suspicions. Perhaps browsers (I mean IE) need to show more clearly than just a padlock icon that the current website is secure and has been authenticated by a trusted authority, and users need to be more aware that all financial operations must be done only on SSL-enabled websites.
I don't think that there really are too many people who change their User-Agent to significantly affect global statistics. I, too, tried to strip off my Referer to enhance privacy and masquerade my User-Agent as Googlebot/2.1, however, there are just too many poorly written sites that are broken by design and rely on those headers. Once my list of exceptions sites grew beyond 10, I thought, "heck with it, it's easier just to leave it as it is."
I try not to harm innocent people and use support@microsoft.com for such purposes.
Don't know about retail users, but we, as a business, have successfully sent laptops without hard drives to HP without any explanation and received them repaired. Though, all issues were diagnosable without the hard drive (such as bad LCD displays).
Yes, but they do not show up in "logged in users". You need to interactively login (via tty/ssh/xterm) to be counted.
I think it's because most likely they have a whole bunch of background services installed on their Windows systems, just like our college has. Currently, we have some heavy asset management and remote control clients, an antivirus, a couple of "load time optimizers"/"task managers"(qttask)/update schedulers(jusched) loaded during the startup, which definitely make the system start much slower.
I usually don't buy anything major for daily meals except milk, cereal, potatoes/spaghetti/rice(not instant) and hot-dog sausages ($0.79/8 pieces). And I don't eat out at all, as I consider it a waste of money. Also, I drink tea for $2.50/100 bags. If you choose right economical grocery stores, you can make it, too. Also, it helps if you consider food as means to supply yourself with necessary energy, nothing more, just like I do. Back on topic: I also fail to see how Internet connection can be expensive. I subscribed for VTISP dial-up for my parents-in-law for $3.95/month for 150 hrs per month, and it works great for online banking, paying bills, and finding information on the Internet (it can even be as low as $3.33/mo if you sign up for a year). As for a computer, I bought my first little home server at a garage sale for $3. I'm sure you can buy a decent computer at garage sales or goodwill-like stores or from a local college/university for no more than $20.
I, too, think that the poverty problem in the USA is greatly exaggerated. I've lived enough in the USA and one of post-Soviet countries for a while and I can tell the difference.
you have to take the cost of groceries into account
I spend no more than $15/week on my groceries. Some people who think that groceries cost too much need to buy less food that is not necessary (soft drinks, cookies, pizzas, etc) and learn how to cook. Also, they should shop in economical food stores instead of the nearest ones. Damn, I spend much more money on gas for my car to go to work than on food.
A family of four making $18,850/year
Oh yeah? Maybe you shouldn't make a family of four in the first place if you can't get a decent job to afford kids?
I see "poor" beggars standing on the side of freeway exit ramps with signs asking for money every day I return from work. They are middle-aged men and women who don't have any visible physical disabilities. I have only one thought about them - "GO FIND A JOB AND WORK". Here are SO much more low-skilled job opportunities than in other countries. They can work in my father-in-law's local manufacturing plant and make nice $13/hr (he always works overtime because there are not enough people and they're always hiring). Oh, wait, they will need to actually work hard instead of sitting on their asses and begging for money? Really, I would understand it if there were no jobs in the area, but it is not the case.
I would remove her website from archive.org. It's just now worth to pollute their servers.
Very true. I never understood why different parts of human body are considered taboo. What is the difference between tits, and, say, legs? In some countries they prohibit women to show they legs (i.e. to wear skirts) on public. Analogy is very relevant, but we consider they laws/morality wrong.
(Un)fortunately, Flash format is better than other popular video streaming formats like WMV or Real Video. At least it works with flash player 9 beta (however, it crashes firefox once in a while). So I guess it is better to choose the lesser of two evils here. And please don't say about OGG, I know that it's great, but I am talking about popular video formats.
The point is that it doesn't matter how insecure your software is, it's the legal system that is broken here. There will always be vulnerabilities in software. There will always be users who execute unknown binaries and click on unknown attachments. There will always be users who have their antivirus' license expired and don't receive latest definitions and feel falsely safe. Yes, you can install Linux or Firefox or whatever, and it would most likely reduce the possibility of your machine being compromised. But it is like trying to cure effects of the disease, not the source of the disease. I use to think of myself as an experienced computer user, but I will never be able to guarantee that my machine cannot be compromised. Never say never, and the situation in TFA can happen to everybody. That's why laws need to be rethought of instead of blaming insecure software.
I'm pretty sure there will be *absolutely* no way to use WHS as a domain controller. Aren't you familiar with Microsoft policy yet? (WinXP connections limit, etc) Most likely it will lack all the functionality that Microsoft considers Joe Home-User doesn't need.
OK, everybody, let's switch to Windows. "Because sometimes it's easier to stick with a standard". But nevertheless the easy way should not be always chosen.
As far as I know, quite a lot of people have their sound muted or no speakers at all (especially at work). I turn on my speakers only when I need it (thanks to those lame websites with background music), so audio captchas would be more annoying for me. Also, think of all people whose native language is not English (it's *much* harder to understand audible information than readable).