Microsoft Search 4 is available for XP and it works well.
As for Dell's business decision, people should look at it from their point of view. They have to keep deploying and supporting an older OS. I'm not advocating Vista, but it makes business sense.
Smith broke down the alleged patent violations during the Fortune interview, saying the Linux kernel violates 42 patents and the operating system's user interface violates a further 65. He went on to claim that the Open Office application suite violates 45 patents and open-source e-mail applications infringe on 15 more. Other open-source software applications infringe on 68 patents, Smith said.
So a company wants to be profitable and everyone gets mad. This isn't about them not serving those remote areas at all; they already do that. They just want to deploy fiber to the areas that are most likely to pay for it. Also, some municipalities take more than a year to decide whether the telcos can deploy fiber. That means that YOU are waiting for more competition for more than a year.
[sarcasm] Ok, so let me get this straight. I am stupid enough to allow something to be installed on my system like a trojan or malware, but I'm supposed to be smart enough to secure my system to prevent them from getting back out? [/sarcasm]
I have used firewalls that let me control my outbound. I've found them to be a pain in the ass because I have lots of things that need to get out. And of course every time I update one of them I have to update my list. Try using a Firefox nightly and changing it at least once a week and you'll soon be tired of that. I protect my system by scanning things I download, running A/V, and occasionally verifying my system with an automated spybot check.
I received at least 2 calls a day for 2 weeks straight from people running for office. Well, recordings from all of them. So it wasn't even a person, just a message from them for me to immediately erase.
Slashdot already had an article: Firefox Analyzed for Bugs by Software, where Coverity did automated scanning. That was welcomed by the OS community, as well as by Mozilla who partnered with Coverity to incorporate this.
Voice menus save companies enormous amounts of money. Its called self-service. The less the company has to spend on human beings, the lower their costs. They try to take care of the most common items via IVR. For example, if 45% of callers want to know their current balance, then having a menu item for that prevents 45% of people from having to sit on hold or talking to a rep.
Sure. Set the homepage to your site and then prevent users from changing that setting. As long as you don't have any external links and lock IE down with policies, you're ok. You'll also need to prevent users from accessing the command line and explorer. Everything would have to be driven by what icons you place on the desktop and start menu. You should google around for terms such as "kiosk mode".
Basically, this puts DSL under the same realm as cable internet. The FCC ruled that Cable did not have to be regulated in this arena and the Supreme Court upheld it. Of course I was severely dissappointed at that decision. For most of the country, there is only one cable provider per region. By not forcing it to be open, it put DSL at a disadvantage. Now the playing field has been leveled, but its not good for consumers. Sure, FTTP promises a lot, but what kind of competition will it have? Ok, so I can choose Satellite (2 companies), cable tv (1 company), or FTTP (1? company) for viewing tv. Long gone are the days of dial-up for most people.
From the business point of view, they're more willing to build the network if they don't have to share it. Perhaps the plan is to get the groundwork laid and then come back and regulate it?
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Walmart, BestBuy, Amazon carry this home Firewall.
Too bad their website has a bad SSL cert.
Just a week or two ago, that was the subject of the tv show House. Hooray for science following up on the media!
This advocates MS also using the Google list. How about Firefox, etc, also access the Microsoft API?
Microsoft Search 4 is available for XP and it works well.
As for Dell's business decision, people should look at it from their point of view. They have to keep deploying and supporting an older OS. I'm not advocating Vista, but it makes business sense.
MSI for Firefox is being tracked as bug 231062
Yes, this was discussed last April on Slashdot
Is this actually documented by the gmail team anywhere?
So a company wants to be profitable and everyone gets mad. This isn't about them not serving those remote areas at all; they already do that. They just want to deploy fiber to the areas that are most likely to pay for it. Also, some municipalities take more than a year to decide whether the telcos can deploy fiber. That means that YOU are waiting for more competition for more than a year.
So why should I, the consumer, suffer?
[sarcasm] Ok, so let me get this straight. I am stupid enough to allow something to be installed on my system like a trojan or malware, but I'm supposed to be smart enough to secure my system to prevent them from getting back out? [/sarcasm]
I have used firewalls that let me control my outbound. I've found them to be a pain in the ass because I have lots of things that need to get out. And of course every time I update one of them I have to update my list. Try using a Firefox nightly and changing it at least once a week and you'll soon be tired of that. I protect my system by scanning things I download, running A/V, and occasionally verifying my system with an automated spybot check.
It isn't that IE let him install toolbars. Of course it will if you click yes. The good news is that IE makes it more difficult.
The bad news is "once you accept ONE UAC prompt in IE7 it disables the protection for subsequent browsing until you completely restart IE7"
Downloading a huge update instead of a patch is not easier on their servers.
I was hoping that I could use Apple's Software Update to download something smaller. But it didn't find anything available.
But if they all use them, I can't just vote against them all.
I received at least 2 calls a day for 2 weeks straight from people running for office. Well, recordings from all of them. So it wasn't even a person, just a message from them for me to immediately erase.
Do those things really work?
Slashdot already had an article: Firefox Analyzed for Bugs by Software, where Coverity did automated scanning. That was welcomed by the OS community, as well as by Mozilla who partnered with Coverity to incorporate this.
Why would the hold need to be secret, then? Why not vote against it?
Voice menus save companies enormous amounts of money. Its called self-service. The less the company has to spend on human beings, the lower their costs. They try to take care of the most common items via IVR. For example, if 45% of callers want to know their current balance, then having a menu item for that prevents 45% of people from having to sit on hold or talking to a rep.
Sure. Set the homepage to your site and then prevent users from changing that setting. As long as you don't have any external links and lock IE down with policies, you're ok. You'll also need to prevent users from accessing the command line and explorer. Everything would have to be driven by what icons you place on the desktop and start menu. You should google around for terms such as "kiosk mode".
Why do you keep downloading them? Why not keep them in a central location? Put them on a server, or burn them to disc.
Why is it that there is no simple phishing filter for paypal that ensure that the domain of all the links in the email go to paypal.com?
Its a fee, not a tax. Only Congress can levy taxes.
Did you look at their comparisons? Symantec is the only one to get 100%. NOD32 only has 94.3%
It is an interesting notion, but I see problems with the methodology.
The biggest problem is that there is a big hit to user experience. Changing tabs and scrolling faster than your wheel will suck.
Basically, this puts DSL under the same realm as cable internet. The FCC ruled that Cable did not have to be regulated in this arena and the Supreme Court upheld it. Of course I was severely dissappointed at that decision. For most of the country, there is only one cable provider per region. By not forcing it to be open, it put DSL at a disadvantage. Now the playing field has been leveled, but its not good for consumers. Sure, FTTP promises a lot, but what kind of competition will it have? Ok, so I can choose Satellite (2 companies), cable tv (1 company), or FTTP (1? company) for viewing tv. Long gone are the days of dial-up for most people.
From the business point of view, they're more willing to build the network if they don't have to share it. Perhaps the plan is to get the groundwork laid and then come back and regulate it?