You agreed to be spied on by microsoft. It's in the EULA, and is quite clear. That's why some of us only run MS products in a VM jail that has no network connectivity outside the local LAN. In a corp setting, all updates are done via a corp server and not directly via standard windows update.
Oh it's pretty clear. The partner / boyfriend should be faced with jail time if it is not his computer. If it is, then it's not so clear. If the keystroke logger (A) is installed automatically with no warning or the installer's knowledge as part of another application (B), then the publisher of B should be liable. If the BF/partner installs the logger with full knowledge of what it does, then the onus falls on the BF. Cookies are not applications and wouldn't fall under the category of "program" or "application."
Oh I agree that javascript has good uses. We use it for some VERY complicated web applications that wouldn't be possible without javascript. My beef is with web developers that use it in cases where it's not needed, or are doing nefarious things with it.
If the difference was no content or cheap content, the demand would be there, and it would be trivial with the Firefox MicroPayment plugin. You could even define thresholds - for example, autopay without asking unless it's over 3 cents.
If ad supported sites begin to die due to blocking technology, then we will finally get to the micropayment system. As long as the sheeple continue to use IE with little or no protection against annoying ads, ad networks will continue to blast out annoying flashing musical animated drivel.
Oh I understand completely. You are still confused. Thunderbird does compete with outlook even in an all Windows environment, or are you REALLY saying an all MICROSOFT environment? The two are quite different. You seem to think that Outlook and Exchange are separate products. In reality, they are not. They are very tightly integrated - you don't get the maximum benefit / functionality unless you use both together. Either one alone with any other client / server is truly horrible. Now replace the Exchange component with an alternative available for Windows (and there are many) and your options become wide open.
You want to use port 587, the MSA port. I have yet to see any ISP that blocks 587. Since the standard REQUIRES authentication on the MSA port, there is NEVER a valid reason to block it. If your ISP blocks 587, find a new one.
Um, seems to me that you are a little confused. You claim that you don't care about open standards, and then you whine that it doesn't work with Exchange. The "open standards" part is all about interoperability. If Exchange used open standards, then lightning could easily work with it. Why is it Lightning's fault that your company chose a non-standard proprietary mail / calender server? While Exchange is popular at some sites, it is hardly "business standard."
this is something you could see in this lifetime unless you get hit by a bus or something.
I don't know, I'm getting old... And we were supposed to have flying cars by now too. Somehow I don't see that happening either.
In order for us to get off foreign oil in 20 years, Congress would have to authorize and fund the building of 20 new nuke (breeder or traditional) reactors every year for the next 15 years. Frankly, that would make way too much sense. These things can't be built overnight - they take years, not to mention the site surveys, waste storage, etc., but it would work.
Worse, there are some sites that are just HORRIBLY designed, and use javascript for no real reason at all, and in many / most cases CSS would work BETTER.
Then there is all the statistics / tracking javascript which noscript does a wonderful job getting rid of.
What pushed me to adblock isn't ads, it's ANNOYING ads. It's ads that make noise, that flash, that move around the screen, that pop up, etc. Regular simple ads were not annoying to me. Now all content providers suffer because of the behavior of some advertisers.
That said, I do pay for some premium content, such as the Wall Street Journal, and a couple other work related (and work paid for) news sites. Unfortunately, we don't have a viable micro-payment system yet, so when you hit a site that you would pay 5 - 10 cents to read an article, you can't.
the more we replace oil, the less demand oil has meaning the cheaper it will get
If we start replacing oil, we can stem the increase in usage of oil, not necessarily reduce demand. Reducing oil usage to the point where we no longer need to import any oil would sure be nice - I just don't see it happening in my lifetime.
Yes, but the DRM is broken, and tools for removing it are readily and freely available. I for one did not invest in any kind of DVD media or devices until this happened. I'll say the same for the HD DVD formats. Once I can get my hands on easy to use cracking tools that work all the time, then I'll look into it... First I am waiting to see which format wins though. I expect it to be several years out yet.
Oh, exactly. Some people also make backups of DVD's for their kids and store the original in a safe place. The backups start the movie immediately and don't show the 15 minutes of ads a normal DVD has... At least that's what I used to do before my myth box was setup. I tried the Sony 400 disk DVD changer too, and found navigation and management HORRIBLE. Myth is WAY better.
I don't agree. I use two monitors AND virtual desktops. It's much more productive to be able to refer to things on one display while you are working on the other. While virtual desktops are handy for some things, such as working on separate projects, they are not a replacement for two monitors. When I'm on my laptop (single screen obviously) I find myself constantly flipping desktops, min/maxing windows, etc. which is annoying. A single monitor can be as productive as two if it's huge, like one of those 30" displays. Even then, my two 21" flat panels give me more physical display area for a fraction of the price of the 30" displays. My two LCDs also use less energy than one crt, and that minimal electricity usage is made up for in increased productivity.
True true, it did suck as a programming language... Perl and AREXX were first developed about the same time, python a little later, and neither perl nor python were available for the Amiga until much later. What set AREXX apart was the IPC mechanism - applications had hooks for it. It allowed separate applications to work together as one. That is something that is still missing for the most part on *nix and Windows (or is a HECK of a lot more complicated.) It made everything scriptable, and allowed everything to talk with each other.
The way it's done is to use the electricity to make hydrogen, and store it, and use a fuel cell later to make electricity again. Right now that technology is pretty expensive. Hydrogen is pretty corrosive, so your plumbing gets expensive. With mass production, it will get cheaper.
And the reason why is because REXX is a scripting language, like Python or Perl. Bill Hawes did a great version of REXX for the Amiga. I scripted a lot of things in it!
Yeah, but didn't ev1 buy a license from SCO, basically helping to fund SCO's assault against Linux? Then after the fact (due to customer / industry reaction) decided that they made a bad move? I'm still waiting for them to do the right thing and sue SCO for fraud (selling a license for IP they didn't own.)
Come on... Lets bring on the rights for chimps, but with right comes responsibilities. It's time that all chimps pay taxes like the rest of us. Enough of the free rides and taxpayer subsidies.
It is estimated that it cost US businesses about a Billion dollars to implement this DST change. If congress would have instead mandated a billion dollars worth of conservation efforts (such as more energy efficient lighting, better building insulation, etc.,) it would have saved 10 times the energy that the bill was supposed to save as conservation helps ALL the time, not just for an hour a day, 3 weeks of the year. It really doesn't take a whole lot of intelligence to figure this one out...
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You agreed to be spied on by microsoft. It's in the EULA, and is quite clear. That's why some of us only run MS products in a VM jail that has no network connectivity outside the local LAN. In a corp setting, all updates are done via a corp server and not directly via standard windows update.
Oh it's pretty clear. The partner / boyfriend should be faced with jail time if it is not his computer. If it is, then it's not so clear. If the keystroke logger (A) is installed automatically with no warning or the installer's knowledge as part of another application (B), then the publisher of B should be liable. If the BF/partner installs the logger with full knowledge of what it does, then the onus falls on the BF. Cookies are not applications and wouldn't fall under the category of "program" or "application."
Unfortunately, that statement isn't funny, it's true.
Oh I agree that javascript has good uses. We use it for some VERY complicated web applications that wouldn't be possible without javascript. My beef is with web developers that use it in cases where it's not needed, or are doing nefarious things with it.
If the difference was no content or cheap content, the demand would be there, and it would be trivial with the Firefox MicroPayment plugin. You could even define thresholds - for example, autopay without asking unless it's over 3 cents.
If ad supported sites begin to die due to blocking technology, then we will finally get to the micropayment system. As long as the sheeple continue to use IE with little or no protection against annoying ads, ad networks will continue to blast out annoying flashing musical animated drivel.
Oh I understand completely. You are still confused. Thunderbird does compete with outlook even in an all Windows environment, or are you REALLY saying an all MICROSOFT environment? The two are quite different. You seem to think that Outlook and Exchange are separate products. In reality, they are not. They are very tightly integrated - you don't get the maximum benefit / functionality unless you use both together. Either one alone with any other client / server is truly horrible. Now replace the Exchange component with an alternative available for Windows (and there are many) and your options become wide open.
You want to use port 587, the MSA port. I have yet to see any ISP that blocks 587. Since the standard REQUIRES authentication on the MSA port, there is NEVER a valid reason to block it. If your ISP blocks 587, find a new one.
Um, seems to me that you are a little confused. You claim that you don't care about open standards, and then you whine that it doesn't work with Exchange. The "open standards" part is all about interoperability. If Exchange used open standards, then lightning could easily work with it. Why is it Lightning's fault that your company chose a non-standard proprietary mail / calender server? While Exchange is popular at some sites, it is hardly "business standard."
Then we need to move to simple logic questions such as "what is the sum of 5 and 4?" or "how many inches in a foot", etc.
this is something you could see in this lifetime unless you get hit by a bus or something.
I don't know, I'm getting old... And we were supposed to have flying cars by now too. Somehow I don't see that happening either.
In order for us to get off foreign oil in 20 years, Congress would have to authorize and fund the building of 20 new nuke (breeder or traditional) reactors every year for the next 15 years. Frankly, that would make way too much sense. These things can't be built overnight - they take years, not to mention the site surveys, waste storage, etc., but it would work.
Because it allows for Novell / Microsoft type agreements???
Worse, there are some sites that are just HORRIBLY designed, and use javascript for no real reason at all, and in many / most cases CSS would work BETTER.
Then there is all the statistics / tracking javascript which noscript does a wonderful job getting rid of.
What pushed me to adblock isn't ads, it's ANNOYING ads. It's ads that make noise, that flash, that move around the screen, that pop up, etc. Regular simple ads were not annoying to me. Now all content providers suffer because of the behavior of some advertisers.
That said, I do pay for some premium content, such as the Wall Street Journal, and a couple other work related (and work paid for) news sites. Unfortunately, we don't have a viable micro-payment system yet, so when you hit a site that you would pay 5 - 10 cents to read an article, you can't.
the more we replace oil, the less demand oil has meaning the cheaper it will get
If we start replacing oil, we can stem the increase in usage of oil, not necessarily reduce demand. Reducing oil usage to the point where we no longer need to import any oil would sure be nice - I just don't see it happening in my lifetime.
Install snort. It's not that hard.
DVD is laden with DRM as well.
Yes, but the DRM is broken, and tools for removing it are readily and freely available. I for one did not invest in any kind of DVD media or devices until this happened. I'll say the same for the HD DVD formats. Once I can get my hands on easy to use cracking tools that work all the time, then I'll look into it... First I am waiting to see which format wins though. I expect it to be several years out yet.
Oh, exactly. Some people also make backups of DVD's for their kids and store the original in a safe place. The backups start the movie immediately and don't show the 15 minutes of ads a normal DVD has... At least that's what I used to do before my myth box was setup. I tried the Sony 400 disk DVD changer too, and found navigation and management HORRIBLE. Myth is WAY better.
I don't agree. I use two monitors AND virtual desktops. It's much more productive to be able to refer to things on one display while you are working on the other. While virtual desktops are handy for some things, such as working on separate projects, they are not a replacement for two monitors. When I'm on my laptop (single screen obviously) I find myself constantly flipping desktops, min/maxing windows, etc. which is annoying. A single monitor can be as productive as two if it's huge, like one of those 30" displays. Even then, my two 21" flat panels give me more physical display area for a fraction of the price of the 30" displays. My two LCDs also use less energy than one crt, and that minimal electricity usage is made up for in increased productivity.
True true, it did suck as a programming language... Perl and AREXX were first developed about the same time, python a little later, and neither perl nor python were available for the Amiga until much later. What set AREXX apart was the IPC mechanism - applications had hooks for it. It allowed separate applications to work together as one. That is something that is still missing for the most part on *nix and Windows (or is a HECK of a lot more complicated.) It made everything scriptable, and allowed everything to talk with each other.
The way it's done is to use the electricity to make hydrogen, and store it, and use a fuel cell later to make electricity again. Right now that technology is pretty expensive. Hydrogen is pretty corrosive, so your plumbing gets expensive. With mass production, it will get cheaper.
And the reason why is because REXX is a scripting language, like Python or Perl. Bill Hawes did a great version of REXX for the Amiga. I scripted a lot of things in it!
Yeah, but didn't ev1 buy a license from SCO, basically helping to fund SCO's assault against Linux? Then after the fact (due to customer / industry reaction) decided that they made a bad move? I'm still waiting for them to do the right thing and sue SCO for fraud (selling a license for IP they didn't own.)
Come on... Lets bring on the rights for chimps, but with right comes responsibilities. It's time that all chimps pay taxes like the rest of us. Enough of the free rides and taxpayer subsidies.
You would have to pay me more to admin windows systems. The interesting thing is that Windows admins make less. Make of that what you will.
It is estimated that it cost US businesses about a Billion dollars to implement this DST change. If congress would have instead mandated a billion dollars worth of conservation efforts (such as more energy efficient lighting, better building insulation, etc.,) it would have saved 10 times the energy that the bill was supposed to save as conservation helps ALL the time, not just for an hour a day, 3 weeks of the year. It really doesn't take a whole lot of intelligence to figure this one out...