Opera actually has this nifty feature called "site preferences" which allow per-site customization of everything. I have flash (and java) turned off globally, and only turn it on on a case-by-case basis when a site (like youtube) really needs it.
Right-click into a page, Edit site perferences... turn on flash in "content".
Opera's "Block Content" feature does the converse - you click on stuff that you *don't* want to appear on certain sites.
Also, Camino (which is a Mac-conformant UI around Firefox's rendering engine) has a feature where flash plugins only play after you click on them.
I wonder how many of the people who make this OpenMoko thing speak Spanish, because a 'moco' is a 'bogey'. Who would want to buy that? Or are there no hispanic geeks in Gringolandia?
Opera has this nifty feature where you can turn plugins on and off both globally and on a per-site basis. So I've got flash turned off globally (flash ads most of the time are even more annoying than normal ones and slow down page loading), and then I turn it on only for sites where I really want to use flash.
On Macs, the Camino browser has a similar feature, where flash plugins only play after you click on them. This can be a bit annoying on youtube, but is much more straightforward and less effort on my behalf than hacking and running cleaning programs
This lawyer http://www.krages.com/bpkphoto.htm has some information on photographers' rights (including a nice summary pdf) and probably also info relevant to the case at hand.
Not sure if I agree or disagree with parent, but just last week I had a chat with an Iranian (now US citizen) who explained that Iran is actually the most progressive Muslim country in the world. The reason, as I understand it, is mostly that Iranians are not Arabs, but Persians, and only "adopted" Islam after they were invaded and conquered by Muslim Arabs.
So Iran, part of the Axis of Evil, actually has values that are most closely aligned with "western" values - women can get university degrees and occupy political offices.
Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia, given billions of $$$ by the Bush government and preceding presidents, women are second-class citizens. Wahabite Islam, the form prevalent in Saudia Arabia, is the spiritual home of Osama Bin Laden, while Iran is Shia, and supports the Shiites which were on the whole the greatest victimes of Saddam Hussein, along with the Kurds. Which country and society do you, the US, really want to support???
But on the point of the post: it doesn't matter whether or not Iranians can build their own UAV by themselves, what matters is whether US law allows US citizens to tell them about something that counts as weapons technology according to the three branches of US government. You can lobby to have the laws overturned, but until them, you are bound by them as US citizen and resident. That's just the principle of "rule of law".
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Opera actually has this nifty feature called "site preferences" which allow per-site customization of everything. I have flash (and java) turned off globally, and only turn it on on a case-by-case basis when a site (like youtube) really needs it.
Right-click into a page, Edit site perferences... turn on flash in "content".
Opera's "Block Content" feature does the converse - you click on stuff that you *don't* want to appear on certain sites.
Also, Camino (which is a Mac-conformant UI around Firefox's rendering engine) has a feature where flash plugins only play after you click on them.
Problem solved, pretty much!
I wonder how many of the people who make this OpenMoko thing speak Spanish, because a 'moco' is a 'bogey'. Who would want to buy that? Or are there no hispanic geeks in Gringolandia?
Opera has this nifty feature where you can turn plugins on and off both globally and on a per-site basis. So I've got flash turned off globally (flash ads most of the time are even more annoying than normal ones and slow down page loading), and then I turn it on only for sites where I really want to use flash.
On Macs, the Camino browser has a similar feature, where flash plugins only play after you click on them. This can be a bit annoying on youtube, but is much more straightforward and less effort on my behalf than hacking and running cleaning programs
This lawyer http://www.krages.com/bpkphoto.htm has some information on photographers' rights (including a nice summary pdf) and probably also info relevant to the case at hand.
Not sure if I agree or disagree with parent, but just last week I had a chat with an Iranian (now US citizen) who explained that Iran is actually the most progressive Muslim country in the world. The reason, as I understand it, is mostly that Iranians are not Arabs, but Persians, and only "adopted" Islam after they were invaded and conquered by Muslim Arabs. So Iran, part of the Axis of Evil, actually has values that are most closely aligned with "western" values - women can get university degrees and occupy political offices. Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia, given billions of $$$ by the Bush government and preceding presidents, women are second-class citizens. Wahabite Islam, the form prevalent in Saudia Arabia, is the spiritual home of Osama Bin Laden, while Iran is Shia, and supports the Shiites which were on the whole the greatest victimes of Saddam Hussein, along with the Kurds. Which country and society do you, the US, really want to support??? But on the point of the post: it doesn't matter whether or not Iranians can build their own UAV by themselves, what matters is whether US law allows US citizens to tell them about something that counts as weapons technology according to the three branches of US government. You can lobby to have the laws overturned, but until them, you are bound by them as US citizen and resident. That's just the principle of "rule of law".