Same here, I've been running Opera for about 13 years, and I've never once had a vulnerability exploited through it. I can't tell you how many computers I've had to clean up that use FF exclusively. I've always been very pleased with the security and stability in Opera. On another note, according to the article, IE is the second best... in the latest version, anyway. This isn't the first article which has said that either; it's time for all the OS fanboys to admit that sometimes OS applications aren't the best, but that they need to learn from others instead of simply believing they're the best because they're OS.
Braking power assist is just that -- it's a powered assist to the brake. While the average soccer mom probably won't be able to make the wheels lock up without it, you can definitely slow the car down without it. And that's assuming you've used up the pent-up pressure. See, assisted braking is on a pressure basis. It maintains pressure in a reservoir for use the next time you press the brake, and replenishes it when you release the brakes. It will slowly deplete on its own, but it takes minutes, not moments. Try pressing the brakes after you have your car shut off next time you park it. The first time or two, the pedal will depress like always. The more times you press it, the harder it will be to depress; you still have to depress the pedal as far to incur the same amount of braking power, but notice it's still possible; just takes more force on the pedal. The steering wheel locking is a definite concern, though. However, you can typically turn the engine 'off' without turning the entire car off. The only issue is that when you're panicking, it's quite easy to turn the key one click too far.
My persuasion, however, is that the best vehicles are always the simplest. If it's from 1980 or newer, it needs to have some electrical systems bypassed. I don't like trusting my life to something i didn't built/rebuild/reverse engineer. My '73 Jeep Wagoneer & '89 Dodge pickup had to be entirely re-engineered, electronically. Heck, I even re-designed the headlight controls in my Jeep. My '71 VW Beetle is next. Sure, I drive a newer car ('05 Chrysler), but I'll never feel as safe in her as I do in my purely mechanical rides. And even so, I chose my Chrysler partially based on how non-electronics-dependent the core systems were, as compared to competing models.
They may as well have proposed we treat our cars as pets
What a horrifying thought! The relationship my car and I share is far beyond that of a pet. To suggest that I begin to treat my car as nothing more than a hamster that spends its time running in a wheel... *shakes head in disgust*
Seriously, didn't the ISRO just do this? And wasn't NASA was given free passage for any equipment they wanted to include? As I recall, the mission was a success.
Water = Hydrogen + Oxygen. Both make terrific fuels. While it's not necessarily the most expedient process on earth, Electrolysis is a simple and relatively fast method to separate the two using only solar power & a bit of salt (to boost conductivity).
Absolutely. I was homeschooled myself, and when growing up, had some friends who were unschooled. Their mom was a stay-at-home-er, and she still taught her kids -- she just didn't use conventional methods. Because of that, unlike myself, they didn't get a fully rounded education, and they could only learn what their mother knew. They were (and still are) both history buffs, and very talented at the arts and crafts, but lacking in other areas. The one I keep in contact with is presently in a managerial position at a museum, married, and lives a very well-rounded life. Does it matter that she doesn't know anything about the mechanics of a car, or a lot about chemistry?
I, on the other hand, learned far more than you'd ever learn in a public school. Being homeschooled via complete workbooks, I learned a lot that my parents never knew, or, in one case, ever understood. Public school never taught my mom how to correctly solve algebraic equations; my school books taught me, and I was able to show her. I'm now a self-taught computer programmer, and upon taking my last placement test at HS graduation (at age 16), I scored within the top 2% of the nation for first-year college students.
I believe wholeheartedly that homeschooling is awesome.... unschooling, however... lets just say it takes an awesome lot of luck & planning on the part of the parents. And a lot of devotion!
I wish I had something to add to this, but you just totally summed it up. There are only 4 real browsers (IE, Mozilla, WebKit, and Opera)... everything else is just a tweaked version of one of them.
And as for me, I gotta say, Opera has always worked the best for me. There are a couple of websites that don't like anything but IE (Mapquest and anything run by M$ft), but for all the rest, there's Opera. Even on my Ubuntu laptop, I use Opera exclusively. Crashes way less than FF.
Maybe I'm just remembering poorly, but modern 3D just doesn't seem to compare with the old red/blue 3D I grew up seeing in theme parks. The last 2 3D movies I went to were so disappointing that I swore off of them from here on out. Personally, I don't feel the whole 3D thing is worth spending money on. Now, if they were to improve it a bit, perhaps it would be more convincing... but when you have to focus hard to see the 3D, it's really not worth spending on.
Oh, I know it's an older technology, but am I the only one who was severely disappointed by last year's superbowl episode of Chuck in 3D? Why would you want to spend extra for that!?
I completely agree that there should be something better... but in the absense of that, the system I use is fairly secure.
I have a server-side database with the user's login credentials, ID number, IP address, confirmation code, and logged-in-state. When a user signs in, their IP address, the fact that they're logged in, and a unique confirmation code are saved to their entry. That code and their ID # are also saved to a cookie stored on their machine. Their password, username, etc are not. Every page they visit which requires proper credentials will check their ID #, IP, & confirmation code with those listed in the database. As long as those check out correctly, they are allowed to continue their current session. If any of these do not check out, the confirmation code is reset and the logged-in-state is set to "out", thus instantly keeping anyone from highjacking their session. When a user logs out, their logged in status is also reset, as is their confirmation, and the confirmation code in the cookie is overwritten with another. The confirmation code is randomly generated at each session opening, so even if someone were to get ahold of a cookie, they would not be able to gain access later.
While I have played around with other methods of authentication, I have yet to find anything which will match this security and functionality.
Cookies should be replaced by a standard for web page preferences, where the web page specifies which options there are and what the possible values are. Then the users can set the preferences they care about in their browser and leave others (like tracking IDs) unset. Logins should never be implemented with cookies.
Not to sound trollish, but seriously, are you a web coder? Strict online security in connection with login-protected content is simply not possible without a cookie*. Cookies are so standard that ASP even places cookies without telling the coder it's doing so (the 'application' variables).
Cookies are a necessary part of the Internet. The only problems with them is that they 1) aren't encoded by default, 2) can be set to expire whenever the coder wants, which can fill directories quickly if you do much browsing, and 3) can be made accessible to websites other than those who issued them.
If web browsers would just encode all cookies by default, then decode them whenever sending them back to a server, that would keep spyware from reading their contents from your computer. Then, if the browsers would store a 'touched date', and automatically delete all cookies over X age (configurable by the user?), many useless cookies would go away automatically. Finally, if cookies were only able to be read/written to by their issuing server, there would be no possibility for exploit (except to track your movements through pages which contain some content served by the issuing server, such as the much beloved doubleclick.net cookies -- which could easily be done-away-with by adding the rule that cookies cannot be accessed by any page displayed within an iframe/object/etc.)
Everyone always seems to believe that cookies are small programs or some such nonsense. Cookies are nothing but tiny databases stored on the user's computer. How much damage can that do?
* If you think you can have strict security by only tracking a user's IP address and/or passing a variable from one page to the next, you are sorely mistaken.
p.s. I know, I know.... ASP is m$ft. Get over it.:-P;-)
Hulu Desktop is nothing more than a dedicated browser for the Hulu website. It gives you a flashier interface, smoother video playback, and [in my experience] better buffering. It's entirely Flash-based.
That having been said, I've switched over to it exclusively for my Hulu viewing. One less program running (IE) is a huge benefit on my less-than-stellar Celeron when playing full-screen video.
It does not, however, display your media library, or in any other way act like a Media Center application.
Yeah, but 95% of McCain voters voted for John McCain due solely to the color of Barack Hussein Obama's skin.
If that were true, wouldn't european-americans have given more than a 55% vote for McCain?
Btw, creds to anon; I'm a blue-blooded European-American, and I'm proud of it. I want my race to have our own TV network, a few magazines, and dozens of non-profits that refuse to allow members of other races. Not because I'm racist, mind you. Just because I'm proud of my skin color.
</tounge-in-cheek>
I'm racist to none, but our nation's present situation of African-Americans being racist under the banner of 'pride' makes me sick. I don't have any right (nor desire) to be part of an exclusive group which disallows entry to any other race. Neither should anyone else. We are one race: Americans. If you find yourself in another country, well then, 'when in Rome, do as the Romans'.
~just my off-topic $.02
Hey, as much as I love David Tennant, I'm actually really looking forward to the 11th Doctor. I think he has a quirky enough personality to really pull it of.
Besides, historically The Doctor has always dressed/worn his hair lost somewhere between the genders. It's his wit and bravery that really define his masculinity.
I'm sure someone else has already said this, but as a former Office Depot Manager, I can tell you that this should not be a suprise at all. I was literally fired because I refused to push a particular add-on service to our customers (a $60 computer 'optimization' for people who just bought a brand new computer -- for $60, they'll uninstall all that bloatware HP installs, but they tell the associate to sell it as a "necessary service")
I had the best sales in my department of any store *in the region*, and ha for the past 2 years, making 20% increases over the previous year's sales, and 10% over/margin/ goals -- yet, because I wouldn't sell this service, I was fired. Now, I sold warrantees, but I spelled it just like it was; I wasn't going to lie to anyone. But if you sold less than 14/week, you got a warning. Second warning, you got a write up. Second write up, you got fired.
I should point out, however, that this was not Coporate's idea. This was on a store level. A neighboring store photoshopped all of their chair pricetags to include a chairmat & $10 warranty into the price -- they sold enough warrantees that way, and didn't have to push their employees. In a very big way, those employees had it MUCH better.
The problem is bad management, and money-driven sales, rather than customer service-driven sales. I had great sales for a reason: I was good to my customers.
Just my 2 cents.
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LOL someone mod this guy up, that is awesome.
Same here, I've been running Opera for about 13 years, and I've never once had a vulnerability exploited through it. I can't tell you how many computers I've had to clean up that use FF exclusively. I've always been very pleased with the security and stability in Opera.
On another note, according to the article, IE is the second best... in the latest version, anyway. This isn't the first article which has said that either; it's time for all the OS fanboys to admit that sometimes OS applications aren't the best, but that they need to learn from others instead of simply believing they're the best because they're OS.
~just my $.02
Braking power assist is just that -- it's a powered assist to the brake. While the average soccer mom probably won't be able to make the wheels lock up without it, you can definitely slow the car down without it. And that's assuming you've used up the pent-up pressure. See, assisted braking is on a pressure basis. It maintains pressure in a reservoir for use the next time you press the brake, and replenishes it when you release the brakes. It will slowly deplete on its own, but it takes minutes, not moments. Try pressing the brakes after you have your car shut off next time you park it. The first time or two, the pedal will depress like always. The more times you press it, the harder it will be to depress; you still have to depress the pedal as far to incur the same amount of braking power, but notice it's still possible; just takes more force on the pedal.
The steering wheel locking is a definite concern, though. However, you can typically turn the engine 'off' without turning the entire car off. The only issue is that when you're panicking, it's quite easy to turn the key one click too far.
My persuasion, however, is that the best vehicles are always the simplest. If it's from 1980 or newer, it needs to have some electrical systems bypassed. I don't like trusting my life to something i didn't built/rebuild/reverse engineer. My '73 Jeep Wagoneer & '89 Dodge pickup had to be entirely re-engineered, electronically. Heck, I even re-designed the headlight controls in my Jeep. My '71 VW Beetle is next. Sure, I drive a newer car ('05 Chrysler), but I'll never feel as safe in her as I do in my purely mechanical rides. And even so, I chose my Chrysler partially based on how non-electronics-dependent the core systems were, as compared to competing models.
They may as well have proposed we treat our cars as pets
What a horrifying thought! The relationship my car and I share is far beyond that of a pet. To suggest that I begin to treat my car as nothing more than a hamster that spends its time running in a wheel... *shakes head in disgust*
It could also be a banner that reads "One rule: OBEY." Or "Your Dentist is lying to you."
Either one, really.
Seriously, didn't the ISRO just do this? And wasn't NASA was given free passage for any equipment they wanted to include? As I recall, the mission was a success.
Water = Hydrogen + Oxygen. Both make terrific fuels. While it's not necessarily the most expedient process on earth, Electrolysis is a simple and relatively fast method to separate the two using only solar power & a bit of salt (to boost conductivity).
Absolutely. I was homeschooled myself, and when growing up, had some friends who were unschooled. Their mom was a stay-at-home-er, and she still taught her kids -- she just didn't use conventional methods. Because of that, unlike myself, they didn't get a fully rounded education, and they could only learn what their mother knew. They were (and still are) both history buffs, and very talented at the arts and crafts, but lacking in other areas. The one I keep in contact with is presently in a managerial position at a museum, married, and lives a very well-rounded life. Does it matter that she doesn't know anything about the mechanics of a car, or a lot about chemistry?
I, on the other hand, learned far more than you'd ever learn in a public school. Being homeschooled via complete workbooks, I learned a lot that my parents never knew, or, in one case, ever understood. Public school never taught my mom how to correctly solve algebraic equations; my school books taught me, and I was able to show her. I'm now a self-taught computer programmer, and upon taking my last placement test at HS graduation (at age 16), I scored within the top 2% of the nation for first-year college students.
I believe wholeheartedly that homeschooling is awesome.... unschooling, however... lets just say it takes an awesome lot of luck & planning on the part of the parents. And a lot of devotion!
I wish I had something to add to this, but you just totally summed it up. There are only 4 real browsers (IE, Mozilla, WebKit, and Opera)... everything else is just a tweaked version of one of them.
And as for me, I gotta say, Opera has always worked the best for me. There are a couple of websites that don't like anything but IE (Mapquest and anything run by M$ft), but for all the rest, there's Opera. Even on my Ubuntu laptop, I use Opera exclusively. Crashes way less than FF.
~just my $.02
Maybe I'm just remembering poorly, but modern 3D just doesn't seem to compare with the old red/blue 3D I grew up seeing in theme parks. The last 2 3D movies I went to were so disappointing that I swore off of them from here on out. Personally, I don't feel the whole 3D thing is worth spending money on. Now, if they were to improve it a bit, perhaps it would be more convincing... but when you have to focus hard to see the 3D, it's really not worth spending on.
Oh, I know it's an older technology, but am I the only one who was severely disappointed by last year's superbowl episode of Chuck in 3D? Why would you want to spend extra for that!?
~just my $.02
I completely agree that there should be something better... but in the absense of that, the system I use is fairly secure.
I have a server-side database with the user's login credentials, ID number, IP address, confirmation code, and logged-in-state. When a user signs in, their IP address, the fact that they're logged in, and a unique confirmation code are saved to their entry. That code and their ID # are also saved to a cookie stored on their machine. Their password, username, etc are not. Every page they visit which requires proper credentials will check their ID #, IP, & confirmation code with those listed in the database. As long as those check out correctly, they are allowed to continue their current session. If any of these do not check out, the confirmation code is reset and the logged-in-state is set to "out", thus instantly keeping anyone from highjacking their session. When a user logs out, their logged in status is also reset, as is their confirmation, and the confirmation code in the cookie is overwritten with another. The confirmation code is randomly generated at each session opening, so even if someone were to get ahold of a cookie, they would not be able to gain access later.
While I have played around with other methods of authentication, I have yet to find anything which will match this security and functionality.
Cookies should be replaced by a standard for web page preferences, where the web page specifies which options there are and what the possible values are. Then the users can set the preferences they care about in their browser and leave others (like tracking IDs) unset. Logins should never be implemented with cookies.
Not to sound trollish, but seriously, are you a web coder? Strict online security in connection with login-protected content is simply not possible without a cookie*. Cookies are so standard that ASP even places cookies without telling the coder it's doing so (the 'application' variables).
:-P ;-)
Cookies are a necessary part of the Internet. The only problems with them is that they 1) aren't encoded by default, 2) can be set to expire whenever the coder wants, which can fill directories quickly if you do much browsing, and 3) can be made accessible to websites other than those who issued them.
If web browsers would just encode all cookies by default, then decode them whenever sending them back to a server, that would keep spyware from reading their contents from your computer. Then, if the browsers would store a 'touched date', and automatically delete all cookies over X age (configurable by the user?), many useless cookies would go away automatically. Finally, if cookies were only able to be read/written to by their issuing server, there would be no possibility for exploit (except to track your movements through pages which contain some content served by the issuing server, such as the much beloved doubleclick.net cookies -- which could easily be done-away-with by adding the rule that cookies cannot be accessed by any page displayed within an iframe/object/etc.)
Everyone always seems to believe that cookies are small programs or some such nonsense. Cookies are nothing but tiny databases stored on the user's computer. How much damage can that do?
* If you think you can have strict security by only tracking a user's IP address and/or passing a variable from one page to the next, you are sorely mistaken.
p.s. I know, I know.... ASP is m$ft. Get over it.
Hulu Desktop is nothing more than a dedicated browser for the Hulu website. It gives you a flashier interface, smoother video playback, and [in my experience] better buffering. It's entirely Flash-based.
That having been said, I've switched over to it exclusively for my Hulu viewing. One less program running (IE) is a huge benefit on my less-than-stellar Celeron when playing full-screen video.
It does not, however, display your media library, or in any other way act like a Media Center application.
Cheers!
Yeah, but 95% of McCain voters voted for John McCain due solely to the color of Barack Hussein Obama's skin.
If that were true, wouldn't european-americans have given more than a 55% vote for McCain? Btw, creds to anon; I'm a blue-blooded European-American, and I'm proud of it. I want my race to have our own TV network, a few magazines, and dozens of non-profits that refuse to allow members of other races. Not because I'm racist, mind you. Just because I'm proud of my skin color.
</tounge-in-cheek>
I'm racist to none, but our nation's present situation of African-Americans being racist under the banner of 'pride' makes me sick. I don't have any right (nor desire) to be part of an exclusive group which disallows entry to any other race. Neither should anyone else. We are one race: Americans. If you find yourself in another country, well then, 'when in Rome, do as the Romans'.
~just my off-topic $.02
Hey, as much as I love David Tennant, I'm actually really looking forward to the 11th Doctor. I think he has a quirky enough personality to really pull it of.
Besides, historically The Doctor has always dressed/worn his hair lost somewhere between the genders. It's his wit and bravery that really define his masculinity.
Aww, shucks.... lol
Arthritis sucks, and as a dentist, it has a huge impact on your ability to do your job.
The thing I find most fascinating about your comment is that I'm not the only Dental /.er!
I'm sure someone else has already said this, but as a former Office Depot Manager, I can tell you that this should not be a suprise at all. I was literally fired because I refused to push a particular add-on service to our customers (a $60 computer 'optimization' for people who just bought a brand new computer -- for $60, they'll uninstall all that bloatware HP installs, but they tell the associate to sell it as a "necessary service") I had the best sales in my department of any store *in the region*, and ha for the past 2 years, making 20% increases over the previous year's sales, and 10% over /margin/ goals -- yet, because I wouldn't sell this service, I was fired. Now, I sold warrantees, but I spelled it just like it was; I wasn't going to lie to anyone. But if you sold less than 14/week, you got a warning. Second warning, you got a write up. Second write up, you got fired.
I should point out, however, that this was not Coporate's idea. This was on a store level. A neighboring store photoshopped all of their chair pricetags to include a chairmat & $10 warranty into the price -- they sold enough warrantees that way, and didn't have to push their employees. In a very big way, those employees had it MUCH better.
The problem is bad management, and money-driven sales, rather than customer service-driven sales. I had great sales for a reason: I was good to my customers.
Just my 2 cents.