but don't need this kind of guerrilla marketing that pretty much pisses people off.
Actually, I am not too sure if that is a bad thing. I have this warm fuzzy feeling in my belly that with each marketing campaign that pisses people off, MS are bringing themselves one step closer to the tipping point where people will start dropping anything with the MS logo on it as if it were a red hot fire-poker.
Even today German products (like Hidelberg) are hghly appreciated, but Germans are not.
True that German products are often highly appreciated, sadly the same do not apply to the people. The reason the same doesn't apply to the people have in large part to do with unfounded prejudice. Granted Germans in Groups on vacation can be very annoying, but so can British, Swedish, Dutch**, Americans etc.
I have learned to know a great deal of Germans through work and travel and I would not like to work in Germany as having to deal with their (to me) peculiar ways in the workplace would have me crying for heavy medication within a week. But, I do have a good amount of German friends and acquaintances most of which I have found to be very pleasant, honest and good hearted. The near global dislike towards Germans as people are in my belief nothing but largely unfounded prejudice.
Sorry for striding so much off topic but I am quite honestly sick and tired of reading comments where Germans are derided. Yes. I am aware that the comment above only made a statement and this is in no way meant as anything but a sidenote.
**Fitting in this context is to mention that in a recent survey (no I don't have the source, find it yourself) among Dutch ex-pats who were asked who they found being the most annoying tourists, the answer where overwhelmingly the *drum roll* Dutch!
If you don't trust it on a remote host, it probably shouldn't be web accessible.
With the the way many ToS's are worded I find it a rather sensible thing to not trust remote hosts. Remember this?" and there are plenty more examples like that around.
Now it seems that they are following MS lead by providing proprietary bloat instead cross platform functionality.
Huh? I run Opera on Windows, various Linux distros, Mac and Open Solaris, you can also find it in use on Wii, Symbian, FreeBSD, Windows Mobile, Nintendo DS. That's not enough platforms for you?
For 2. I should have mentioned that in Sweden you can request the birth certificate for any random person and it will be given to you in person. And there is no requirement to provide your identity when doing so.
Any system that can be abused so easily is broken and should be fixed
The Swedish system is very broken. Steps to steal someones identy and clean out their bank account and/or get loans in their name:
1. Find a good victim in the tax records which are publicly available.
2. Go to tax authority and ask for his birth certificate. in Sweden this is a A4 printout.
3. Find out when the victim will be away from home for 3-4 weeks, a bit tricky but far from impossible. Could for example be accomplished by pretending to do market research for a travel agency.
4. Have pictures taken
5. Convince someone to do you company to an authority that issues ID cards, Bank, Post Office, Police. This someone could be a wino bribed with a boottle of booze and tidied up, or just a random gullible person from the street. People are often very gullible/naive/overly helpful.
6. Apply for a new ID card and have the person accompanying you identify himself and sign the application verifying that you are who you claim.
7. Wait 3-4 weeks, scavage victims mailbox for letter saying that your new ID card is ready to pickup and bank statements.
8. Pick up your new shiny ID card at the issuer, once again with a wino or gullible person to verify that you are who you claim to be.
9. Go to victims bank.
10. Profit!
At least they didn't change his name to "Kinderfucker" or whatever the Swedish equivalent would be.
That would not have gone through as there are guidelines for what name you can have in Sweden and that would definitely not pass, I am actually quite doubtful this one normally would either, and am leaning towards the possibility that whoever that approved the change don't have much sympathy for Pirate Ponten and therefore could not resist approving the change.
Yes, because clearly if the police didn't train them for this, they'd be out training dogs for the handicapped.
The money spent on training the dog to sniff for pirated CD's could have been used for something more useful like, training a dog for a blind person. So yes.
Well, duh.. it's not like a bug preventing the Web interface on x brand of corporate firewall to display is going to get high priority. Besides if the web interface fails I rather blame the coding of the interface then the browser, to write html that works in all modern browsers is significantly easier than to write a rendering engine that interprets fugly IE6 hacks "correctly"
More specifically what it does is resizing images and disables a lot of plugin content that otherwise would slow the page loading to a crawl on a slow connections. This of course is done on a proxy server as you correctly assumed. Granted you end up with somewhat pixelated images and plugin content that you have to "activate" by clicking. While this is not of much interest to most of us here there is also a very big share of people that certainly can benefit from it.
If you use windows lock down Internet Explorer to unusual with an admin kit and force them to use Google Chrome
No need for an admin kit simply change the shortcut target so that it point to Chrome instead of IE, for additional fun make it point towards Lynx.
Alternatively you could let it point to a heavily crippled IE, when the "friend" wonder why youtube/facebook/my space..., whatever doesn't work say something along the lines "What!!, goddammit my machine is infected for the 3rd time, sorry but from now on you will have to ask someone else for their notebook I've had it dealing with problems caused by other people."
It would be interesting if Sweden's EU parliamentarians voted for or against the law in the first place
30% of the Swedish Parlamentarians voted for the directive, all of which were members of the then ruling Social Democrats. The strongest proponent were the Swedish Minister of Justice of the time, Thomas Bodstrom, who among other things said: "If the Parliament votes for it, that gives it a democratic surplus value - if they are against it I anticipate a ministerial decision"
..... and what their arguments were.
The argument pretty much went along these lines 'Sweden is a prime target for terrorists and without this they are going to bomb us into oblivion... and.. and eermm uh-yeah! Think Of The Children!'
Really, the media and everyone here is getting their panties all in a twist and coming up with fantastical hypothetical situation when the most likely scenario is nothing bad will come from this as it rarely does.
So, since something bad rarely happens from situations like these, lets skip encryption all together on sensitive data?
Or, maybe it would be a good idea to prepare for the worst, and then be able to say "Sure we fucked up and lost these hard drives but they are heavily encrypted thus minimizing the chance for the actual information ever ending up in the wrong hands .
I suppose the difference is that we expect bankers to be lieing, theiving cheats but our politicians are at least supposed to have some regard for decent behaviour.
Yes the politicians are supposed to have decent behaviour but, I for one have yet to meet a single person that expect them to.
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but don't need this kind of guerrilla marketing that pretty much pisses people off.
Actually, I am not too sure if that is a bad thing. I have this warm fuzzy feeling in my belly that with each marketing campaign that pisses people off, MS are bringing themselves one step closer to the tipping point where people will start dropping anything with the MS logo on it as if it were a red hot fire-poker.
Even today German products (like Hidelberg) are hghly appreciated, but Germans are not.
True that German products are often highly appreciated, sadly the same do not apply to the people. The reason the same doesn't apply to the people have in large part to do with unfounded prejudice. Granted Germans in Groups on vacation can be very annoying, but so can British, Swedish, Dutch**, Americans etc.
I have learned to know a great deal of Germans through work and travel and I would not like to work in Germany as having to deal with their (to me) peculiar ways in the workplace would have me crying for heavy medication within a week. But, I do have a good amount of German friends and acquaintances most of which I have found to be very pleasant, honest and good hearted. The near global dislike towards Germans as people are in my belief nothing but largely unfounded prejudice.
Sorry for striding so much off topic but I am quite honestly sick and tired of reading comments where Germans are derided. Yes. I am aware that the comment above only made a statement and this is in no way meant as anything but a sidenote.
**Fitting in this context is to mention that in a recent survey (no I don't have the source, find it yourself) among Dutch ex-pats who were asked who they found being the most annoying tourists, the answer where overwhelmingly the *drum roll* Dutch!
Right now, in the US, certain media are banned. Somehow we are able to stop the ban-wagon at some point.
Are you sure about that?"
If you don't trust it on a remote host, it probably shouldn't be web accessible.
With the the way many ToS's are worded I find it a rather sensible thing to not trust remote hosts. Remember this?" and there are plenty more examples like that around.
That's really not contradictory, though.
Which is the exact reason that I used the word amusing instead of ironic. ;-)
I can't fit these very fast 3.5" HDD in my Macbook Pro no matter hard I try.
Then you are not using the right tool for the job, try using a hammer.
Am I naive in now hoping that we won't see that Anonymous Coward fella posting links to goatse and random rantings 24/7 for a while?
It's just like if you mailed me a letter or sent me an email. In either case you're supplying a return address.
Huh? In the case of a letter I have to actively write the return address. In the case of email I can spoof the sender address.
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Blocky porn"
And if it is called '1984 The Game' your earn additional tax cuts.
Now it seems that they are following MS lead by providing proprietary bloat instead cross platform functionality.
Huh? I run Opera on Windows, various Linux distros, Mac and Open Solaris, you can also find it in use on Wii, Symbian, FreeBSD, Windows Mobile, Nintendo DS. That's not enough platforms for you?
Obviously you care enough to reply. AC retard.
For 2. I should have mentioned that in Sweden you can request the birth certificate for any random person and it will be given to you in person. And there is no requirement to provide your identity when doing so.
Any system that can be abused so easily is broken and should be fixed
The Swedish system is very broken. Steps to steal someones identy and clean out their bank account and/or get loans in their name:
1. Find a good victim in the tax records which are publicly available.
2. Go to tax authority and ask for his birth certificate. in Sweden this is a A4 printout.
3. Find out when the victim will be away from home for 3-4 weeks, a bit tricky but far from impossible. Could for example be accomplished by pretending to do market research for a travel agency.
4. Have pictures taken
5. Convince someone to do you company to an authority that issues ID cards, Bank, Post Office, Police. This someone could be a wino bribed with a boottle of booze and tidied up, or just a random gullible person from the street. People are often very gullible/naive/overly helpful.
6. Apply for a new ID card and have the person accompanying you identify himself and sign the application verifying that you are who you claim.
7. Wait 3-4 weeks, scavage victims mailbox for letter saying that your new ID card is ready to pickup and bank statements.
8. Pick up your new shiny ID card at the issuer, once again with a wino or gullible person to verify that you are who you claim to be.
9. Go to victims bank.
10. Profit!
At least they didn't change his name to "Kinderfucker" or whatever the Swedish equivalent would be.
That would not have gone through as there are guidelines for what name you can have in Sweden and that would definitely not pass, I am actually quite doubtful this one normally would either, and am leaning towards the possibility that whoever that approved the change don't have much sympathy for Pirate Ponten and therefore could not resist approving the change.
Yes, they are also famous for heavily discrediting open source and providing Steve Ballmer with free chairs.
Yes, because clearly if the police didn't train them for this, they'd be out training dogs for the handicapped.
The money spent on training the dog to sniff for pirated CD's could have been used for something more useful like, training a dog for a blind person. So yes.
Tried the 10 and it still does not.
Well, duh.. it's not like a bug preventing the Web interface on x brand of corporate firewall to display is going to get high priority. Besides if the web interface fails I rather blame the coding of the interface then the browser, to write html that works in all modern browsers is significantly easier than to write a rendering engine that interprets fugly IE6 hacks "correctly"
It don't, so https traffic will not be loaded through the proxy instead it will be loaded in the normal way. The same goes for intranet pages.
More specifically what it does is resizing images and disables a lot of plugin content that otherwise would slow the page loading to a crawl on a slow connections. This of course is done on a proxy server as you correctly assumed. Granted you end up with somewhat pixelated images and plugin content that you have to "activate" by clicking. While this is not of much interest to most of us here there is also a very big share of people that certainly can benefit from it.
If you use windows lock down Internet Explorer to unusual with an admin kit and force them to use Google Chrome
No need for an admin kit simply change the shortcut target so that it point to Chrome instead of IE, for additional fun make it point towards Lynx.
Alternatively you could let it point to a heavily crippled IE, when the "friend" wonder why youtube/facebook/my space..., whatever doesn't work say something along the lines "What!!, goddammit my machine is infected for the 3rd time, sorry but from now on you will have to ask someone else for their notebook I've had it dealing with problems caused by other people."
It would be interesting if Sweden's EU parliamentarians voted for or against the law in the first place
30% of the Swedish Parlamentarians voted for the directive, all of which were members of the then ruling Social Democrats. The strongest proponent were the Swedish Minister of Justice of the time, Thomas Bodstrom, who among other things said: "If the Parliament votes for it, that gives it a democratic surplus value - if they are against it I anticipate a ministerial decision"
..... and what their arguments were.
The argument pretty much went along these lines 'Sweden is a prime target for terrorists and without this they are going to bomb us into oblivion... and.. and eermm uh-yeah! Think Of The Children!'
Really, the media and everyone here is getting their panties all in a twist and coming up with fantastical hypothetical situation when the most likely scenario is nothing bad will come from this as it rarely does.
So, since something bad rarely happens from situations like these, lets skip encryption all together on sensitive data?
Or, maybe it would be a good idea to prepare for the worst, and then be able to say "Sure we fucked up and lost these hard drives but they are heavily encrypted thus minimizing the chance for the actual information ever ending up in the wrong hands .
I suppose the difference is that we expect bankers to be lieing, theiving cheats but our politicians are at least supposed to have some regard for decent behaviour.
Yes the politicians are supposed to have decent behaviour but, I for one have yet to meet a single person that expect them to.
The rest of world don't have May 25th in their calendars, right?