That's not a loophole. Even if they're in other countries, if they do business in the US they still have to abide by the DNC list. They just hope people don't know that and won't report them.
I live in St. Louis and am on the MO list as well as the national one, even though my phone is a cellphone -- that way, I'm triply protected against harassment (I finally managed to politely tell the electronic piano salesguy, who even though he's incredibly nice and just doing his job, that no, I wasn't ready to buy - I need to finish my basement first but then would be back... shouldn't have given my number, grr).
Nixon managed to bust one of the Miss Cleo telemarketing outfits once. His comment?
Alas, your ISPs are only offering USB cable modems to people, at least in the Varna area. My boss is there on his summer vacation, signed up for DSL, and all he could get was a modem that used USB to connect. The problem? He's using OS X and the drivers he was given didn't work. So he can't get on. Why, I say, can't they just give out standard Ethernet modems and, if you want a USB connection, one of those Ethernet-to-USB converters?
I don't know the name of the ISP, but because of this, they automatically suck in my book. He has gotten online from a Varna coffeehouse and is using our crappy Exchange webmail service -- thank heavens they just updated to a new version that includes a spam filter. Before I reminded him I gave him instructions on how to turn it on before he left, he said he had 44 pages of e-mail (at 25 emails/page, which is the default, I assume). Most of it spam...
Who's the ISP there, so I can make a note to beat them senseless if I ever go there?
You can ask Apple to do it through their feedback pages, although you have to hope that they actually do it. A better way, I think, would be to have an automated system in which you have to input the machine's serial number and the name of the owner and the shipping Zip code used to order the system and then have it done automatically.
While I don't completely like the idea of DRM, Apple's implementation is better than any of the others out there, I'll give them that. (All of the music on my iPod, though, is in the MP3 format because I can use it in any application I want to far more easily than is the case for AAC or Protected AAC.)
I really don't like the new Golf 5. I have a Golf 4 and like the look quite a bit, but I think the new one looks too much like a Honda Civic, and even if it didn't, I don't like the new style.
I like the four-door and two-door 1 and 2s.
I don't like the four-door 3 a whole lot, though it is still nice (a friend of mine has one).
Don't like the two-door 4 a whole lot (the four-door just looks a lot better; as you can imagine, mine's a four-door; pics of it are on my website if you're curious.)
I still haven't seen the new Jetta Wagon yet but apparently they're planning to keep selling the wagon as a 4 even when the 5 becomes available in the US. Typical - shortchange those of us who want something with four doors but no trunk (none of the special-edition Golfs we got were sold with four-door bodies, dammit, despite my politely complaining about this every time VW asks for opinions through vwvortex.com -- apparently your opinions aren't worth crap if you just want a 4-door hatch or wagon. Don't know why as the Golf is their worldwide best-seller. I was hoping the Mk5 wagon would look decent.
Maybe they'll come out with a TDI-powered CR-V competitor with DSG. I'd think about getting one if they do.
It is in ~/Library/Firefox (or ~/Library/Phoenix or ~/Library/Firebird, depending on which version you used at first), in the Profiles folder, you still need to look for that.slt folder.
Try looking in your Documents and Settings folder -- I seem to remember that it puts some stuff in there (I do have a windows machine though I usually use my Mac.)
Search for *.slt and you should be able to find the profile folder -- it uses random gibberish in the file name to make it harder for worms etc. to make a mess.
I use xchataqua (an Aqua native port of xchat) and in OS X, setting the URL link click command to !open %s causes clicked links to open in the default browser. The pref may have moved on other platforms but there's a place to set the command in the root of the Interface prefs category. Perhaps you can come up with a custom command to fix that problem.
The profiles are stored in different folders this time. You can search for bookmarks.html and manually import the bookmarks using the UI once you know where the old bookmarks file is, or you can just drag and drop it into the new profile.
On OSX it was ~/Library/Firefox/Profiles/(random).slt and now it's ~/Library/Firefox/Profiles/default.(random) (from memory, may be incorrect) so it's just not looking in the right place anymore.
You can also copy over your prefs file, your history, cookies file, passwords, etc. You should, though, reinstall all the extensions manually if they've been updated for the new version.
I added "yiffy" to the prefix list. Added a bunch of raptors to the list of suffixes. Got "Yiffyfalcon" one day. Nearly choked on my cheap generic Dr. pepper clone.
The extension is called Firesomething, and yes, it's been updated to work with 0.9.:)
I don't know why these kinds of sites force you to use Zinio. PDF is a lot more cross-platform (Palms, Linux, Mac, Windows, the kitchen sink), is searchable, is printable (and the results look just like a printed article, which is the point) and is far more standardized and used by many more applications. And it's been around for longer so more people are used to working with them.
I'm a science type and I use PDFs practically every day and they're great. Why are these people trying to reinvent the wheel?
In the Betamax case, it was ruled that VCRs, which can be used to copy stuff, were not illegal because they could also be used for legit stuff. I would think the same would be true here.
I haven't (that's just me) ever heard of a game that was actually encrypted, though... just weird routines that look for certain deliberate flaws in the disk and such. That's not encryption -- you can read the data on the CDs if you have the right readers, not just play the game. If the data were encrypted, all you could do was play the game.
OK, clarification (sorry). DW requires activation. You have to let it connect for that. It does try to phone home during normal use but that can be blocked.
The only time I've run into an app that forces any kind of connection at all to use it is Dreamweaver MX 2004. That's only to register it. It did try to connect, but my outgoing monitor (Little Snitch; I use a Mac) allowed me to block it. It works just fine. I've heard of a few apps that require checking every time they load and I refuse to use those (Trillian 2 programmers, are you listening? A chat app needs to connect to the IRC/AIM/etc servers, sure, but not to yours.) There's alternatives (including older Trillians) to all of the apps I've seen that do that, and those are what I use. I suppose I may be a bit choosier than some people, but I still prefer to keep my usage habits to myself, and when there's competition, developers have got to be aware they're losing people with those kinds of practices.
I seem to recall someone suing the manufacturer of an FTP client because the FTP client could be used to download illegal files. Or was it a newsreader? I don't remember. In any case, they had literally years to sue -- FTP and NNTP are very old, both -- and never raised a fuss then. All of a sudden they started bitching.
Software that can make bit-for-bit copies has been around for a long time. The way I see it, these people need to be laughed at and told they should have complained a long time ago, and thus no longer have any justification. It's kind of like waiting ten years to whine someone stepped on your toes.
Why should I allow some company to know when I'm using their software and from where? No thanks. I'll keep running my outgoing-connection monitors, and if the software tries to connect to a server without notifying me and allowing cancellation, filing complaints with the developers.
It would actually make a lot more sense for Mac software to exist in places like this because Macs are a lot more common (there is more of a balance between the major platforms - Mac/Windows/Linux - in educational institutions). I'm a support type. I recommend Macs whenever possible -- a lab upstairs from us is about to order a boatload of G5s and I recommended what configuration to get.
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That's not a loophole. Even if they're in other countries, if they do business in the US they still have to abide by the DNC list. They just hope people don't know that and won't report them.
I live in St. Louis and am on the MO list as well as the national one, even though my phone is a cellphone -- that way, I'm triply protected against harassment (I finally managed to politely tell the electronic piano salesguy, who even though he's incredibly nice and just doing his job, that no, I wasn't ready to buy - I need to finish my basement first but then would be back ... shouldn't have given my number, grr).
Nixon managed to bust one of the Miss Cleo telemarketing outfits once. His comment?
"She should have seen it coming."
I hope you're not eating food that stains clothing easily!
Alas, your ISPs are only offering USB cable modems to people, at least in the Varna area. My boss is there on his summer vacation, signed up for DSL, and all he could get was a modem that used USB to connect. The problem? He's using OS X and the drivers he was given didn't work. So he can't get on. Why, I say, can't they just give out standard Ethernet modems and, if you want a USB connection, one of those Ethernet-to-USB converters?
I don't know the name of the ISP, but because of this, they automatically suck in my book. He has gotten online from a Varna coffeehouse and is using our crappy Exchange webmail service -- thank heavens they just updated to a new version that includes a spam filter. Before I reminded him I gave him instructions on how to turn it on before he left, he said he had 44 pages of e-mail (at 25 emails/page, which is the default, I assume). Most of it spam...
Who's the ISP there, so I can make a note to beat them senseless if I ever go there?
It redirected me to my non-secure inbox when I did that (using http, not https).
You can ask Apple to do it through their feedback pages, although you have to hope that they actually do it. A better way, I think, would be to have an automated system in which you have to input the machine's serial number and the name of the owner and the shipping Zip code used to order the system and then have it done automatically.
While I don't completely like the idea of DRM, Apple's implementation is better than any of the others out there, I'll give them that. (All of the music on my iPod, though, is in the MP3 format because I can use it in any application I want to far more easily than is the case for AAC or Protected AAC.)
I really don't like the new Golf 5. I have a Golf 4 and like the look quite a bit, but I think the new one looks too much like a Honda Civic, and even if it didn't, I don't like the new style.
I like the four-door and two-door 1 and 2s.
I don't like the four-door 3 a whole lot, though it is still nice (a friend of mine has one).
Don't like the two-door 4 a whole lot (the four-door just looks a lot better; as you can imagine, mine's a four-door; pics of it are on my website if you're curious.)
I still haven't seen the new Jetta Wagon yet but apparently they're planning to keep selling the wagon as a 4 even when the 5 becomes available in the US. Typical - shortchange those of us who want something with four doors but no trunk (none of the special-edition Golfs we got were sold with four-door bodies, dammit, despite my politely complaining about this every time VW asks for opinions through vwvortex.com -- apparently your opinions aren't worth crap if you just want a 4-door hatch or wagon. Don't know why as the Golf is their worldwide best-seller. I was hoping the Mk5 wagon would look decent.
Maybe they'll come out with a TDI-powered CR-V competitor with DSG. I'd think about getting one if they do.
Oh, wait, doh. You're on a Mac, too. Sorry!
.slt folder.
It is in ~/Library/Firefox (or ~/Library/Phoenix or ~/Library/Firebird, depending on which version you used at first), in the Profiles folder, you still need to look for that
Try looking in your Documents and Settings folder -- I seem to remember that it puts some stuff in there (I do have a windows machine though I usually use my Mac.)
Search for *.slt and you should be able to find the profile folder -- it uses random gibberish in the file name to make it harder for worms etc. to make a mess.
They aren't on the website, but they're still available.
Releases from 0.8 up
Releases from 0.6.1 on up
Enjoy!
Spiffy.
I use xchataqua (an Aqua native port of xchat) and in OS X, setting the URL link click command to !open %s causes clicked links to open in the default browser. The pref may have moved on other platforms but there's a place to set the command in the root of the Interface prefs category. Perhaps you can come up with a custom command to fix that problem.
The profiles are stored in different folders this time. You can search for bookmarks.html and manually import the bookmarks using the UI once you know where the old bookmarks file is, or you can just drag and drop it into the new profile.
On OSX it was ~/Library/Firefox/Profiles/(random).slt and now it's ~/Library/Firefox/Profiles/default.(random) (from memory, may be incorrect) so it's just not looking in the right place anymore.
You can also copy over your prefs file, your history, cookies file, passwords, etc. You should, though, reinstall all the extensions manually if they've been updated for the new version.
Not too surprising, since VW owns Skoda (and SEAT, and Audi, and Bentley, and, and, and ....)
*wanders off rambling names of car companies*
But hey, I like how they look!
I added "yiffy" to the prefix list. Added a bunch of raptors to the list of suffixes. Got "Yiffyfalcon" one day. Nearly choked on my cheap generic Dr. pepper clone.
:)
The extension is called Firesomething, and yes, it's been updated to work with 0.9.
PDF has security options. And it's still readable by all those different platforms and readers.
He definitely wasn't going to Taco Bell, then.
I don't know why these kinds of sites force you to use Zinio. PDF is a lot more cross-platform (Palms, Linux, Mac, Windows, the kitchen sink), is searchable, is printable (and the results look just like a printed article, which is the point) and is far more standardized and used by many more applications. And it's been around for longer so more people are used to working with them.
I'm a science type and I use PDFs practically every day and they're great. Why are these people trying to reinvent the wheel?
In the Betamax case, it was ruled that VCRs, which can be used to copy stuff, were not illegal because they could also be used for legit stuff. I would think the same would be true here.
I haven't (that's just me) ever heard of a game that was actually encrypted, though... just weird routines that look for certain deliberate flaws in the disk and such. That's not encryption -- you can read the data on the CDs if you have the right readers, not just play the game. If the data were encrypted, all you could do was play the game.
OK, clarification (sorry). DW requires activation. You have to let it connect for that. It does try to phone home during normal use but that can be blocked.
The only time I've run into an app that forces any kind of connection at all to use it is Dreamweaver MX 2004. That's only to register it. It did try to connect, but my outgoing monitor (Little Snitch; I use a Mac) allowed me to block it. It works just fine. I've heard of a few apps that require checking every time they load and I refuse to use those (Trillian 2 programmers, are you listening? A chat app needs to connect to the IRC/AIM/etc servers, sure, but not to yours.) There's alternatives (including older Trillians) to all of the apps I've seen that do that, and those are what I use. I suppose I may be a bit choosier than some people, but I still prefer to keep my usage habits to myself, and when there's competition, developers have got to be aware they're losing people with those kinds of practices.
I seem to recall someone suing the manufacturer of an FTP client because the FTP client could be used to download illegal files. Or was it a newsreader? I don't remember. In any case, they had literally years to sue -- FTP and NNTP are very old, both -- and never raised a fuss then. All of a sudden they started bitching.
Software that can make bit-for-bit copies has been around for a long time. The way I see it, these people need to be laughed at and told they should have complained a long time ago, and thus no longer have any justification. It's kind of like waiting ten years to whine someone stepped on your toes.
Now I'm curious; what did they sue for? I'd like to hear more about that.
Why should I allow some company to know when I'm using their software and from where? No thanks. I'll keep running my outgoing-connection monitors, and if the software tries to connect to a server without notifying me and allowing cancellation, filing complaints with the developers.
The what? (*confused*)
It would actually make a lot more sense for Mac software to exist in places like this because Macs are a lot more common (there is more of a balance between the major platforms - Mac/Windows/Linux - in educational institutions). I'm a support type. I recommend Macs whenever possible -- a lab upstairs from us is about to order a boatload of G5s and I recommended what configuration to get.