Interestingly enough, it was that experience which pushed me to using Adblock Plus.
Exactly. There wasn't a magical fairy that came from the sky and told me "you have too many ads here, try FireFox and Adblock". I simply got fed up with the constant crap and looked for a way to stop it.
I think people need to be more worried about ISP's handing over information about the sites you visit and the content/recipients of the e-mails you exchange, rather than what online books you look at.
THAT point kind of reminds me of the Who guitarist getting in trouble for visiting a child porn site, then getting off (no pun intended) because he said he was just doing "research".
Why is it such a stretch to think that someone is sending laptops to governors with only good intentions, when Ted Turner handed the U.N. a billion dollars and nobody questioned it? Maybe someone has the cash and is trying to do something good. If they are afraid of what's on them, simply wipe them, put a fresh OS install on them, and enjoy.
I'm running FF 3.5.2. I can go into the security settings, and set it so the location bar shows nothing as I type. It's not like you can't turn that setting off if you have something to hide.
FTFA: "interfering with the operation of a mass transportation vehicle, a felony under the USA PATRIOT Act."
Yelling at a bus driver? Felony
Leaning in front of an oncoming train? Felony
Talking on the transit radio band? Felony
Putting pennies on train tracks? Felony
Somehow, my youth was filled with felonious behavior. Perhaps the Homeland needs securing from scamps like me.
iTunes may be cheaper and more convenient, but how is buying a crippled (lossily compressed) file "better"?
The average music listener couldn't care less about the quality, as long as it's listenable. MP3's are all I listen to. I have an average sound system hooked to my computer, I have a decent sound system in my car, I have a decent mp3 player, and mp3's suit me fine. I think this reflects the situation with most music listeners today. That's very obvious, or iTunes would be a niche market instead of serving millions and millions of customers.
Besides that, though, I would much rather pay one dollar for a song I want than spend $20 on a cd that holds one song I want and 11 songs I don't. That alone is enough incentive.
You folks are wasting time backing up data. It's a well known fact that hard drive do NOT fail. Data showing otherwise has just been fabricated by manufacturers of data backup products and services.
That's the whole point, though: They want to get a high "I'm ok with it" percentage. If they had asked if they would be alright with their internet speeds dropping to almost zero depending on what they are using it for, nobody would agree with that. This way they can say the percentage who don't like it are just the "bad guys".
Meanwhile, as my 4 gig torrent download screeches to a halt, the neighbor to my left downloads a DVD from Netflix, and the neighbor to my right masturbates while streaming porn to his computer, both at 8 Mbs.
Marketing department tells lies about their product. News at 11.
Ha, yeah, no kidding... Clorox pays people to get on TV and tell the world how good their bleach is, whether or not they've ever used it. I don't see how this is any different.
Mutually assured destruction? Hardly. Chrome's guaranteed destruction? Almost guaranteed. Not saying that Microsoft deserves to stay on top, but that's what's going to happen. You would have to have balls made of plutonium to think you could take them down with anything less than endless litigation.
Shopping Miley's head on to a naked woman doesn't make her naked, just as shopping her head onto an old photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't suddenly make her a male bodybuilder.
Considering the fact that lawyers use MySpace and facebook to gather evidence, why should this be a surprise?
I think Wikipedia is generally a good source for facts. However, I think anyone who uses the internet AT ALL for important facts is very foolish. I could get a personalized URL, make up a page full of total nonsense, and there's going to be someone out there citing it as gospel, so to speak.
First step in getting facts you can depend on: Get off the internet and crack open a book. Stop being LAZY, because looking up stuff on the internet is EASY.
So worst case scenario is that your default search engine is changed, you notice it the first time you search for something, you take 30 seconds to change it back, and that's pretty much the end of it. No software has been installed, no software has been deleted, and the amount of work you have to do is less than if you had to blow your nose.
I think a lot of people are missing the point, here (not everyone, but many). This isn't about banning acetaminophen at all. NOBODY has even hinted that's it's being banned. What may be banned are drugs that include acetaminophen, usually without the consumer's knowledge. Take Vicoden for instance. I had no clue it has acetaminophen in it. There's the big problem. I take OTC acetaminophen just like it says on the bottle, I also take 4 Vicoden, and I've went over the acetaminophen limit for the day.
'The people that are stupid and dont read the bottle that says" DO NOT TAKE MORE THAN XXX in a 24 hour period." It's clear as day on the fricking bottle.'
That's not the problem they are talking about. The problem they are talking about is when you follow the directions on the "fricking bottle", but then you take 4 Vicoden throughout the day, NOT KNOWING that it contains Acetaminophen, too.
I don't see how Microsoft enforcing patents and having a proprietary file system is somehow being a monopoly.
If I'm driving a Ford, and I decide to put in another transmission, I'm not going to be able to go out and put a Chevy transmission in. Should I sue Ford because I have to use a Ford transmission in it instead of being able to just put anything in it? Of course not.
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We already pay out the ass when OIL is $10 a barrel. The cost of the source seems to have little to do with the cost of the end product anymore.
I think people need to be more worried about ISP's handing over information about the sites you visit and the content/recipients of the e-mails you exchange, rather than what online books you look at. THAT point kind of reminds me of the Who guitarist getting in trouble for visiting a child porn site, then getting off (no pun intended) because he said he was just doing "research".
Why is it such a stretch to think that someone is sending laptops to governors with only good intentions, when Ted Turner handed the U.N. a billion dollars and nobody questioned it? Maybe someone has the cash and is trying to do something good. If they are afraid of what's on them, simply wipe them, put a fresh OS install on them, and enjoy.
I'm running FF 3.5.2. I can go into the security settings, and set it so the location bar shows nothing as I type. It's not like you can't turn that setting off if you have something to hide.
Depending on who you believe, the Earth will be inhabitable for a billion more years or so, or a couple hundred years.
Actually, I haven't seen a single person bash Windows 7 in this thread.
OMG, that actually got me LOL!!!
FTFA: "interfering with the operation of a mass transportation vehicle, a felony under the USA PATRIOT Act."
Yelling at a bus driver? Felony Leaning in front of an oncoming train? Felony Talking on the transit radio band? Felony Putting pennies on train tracks? Felony
Somehow, my youth was filled with felonious behavior. Perhaps the Homeland needs securing from scamps like me.
Peeing on the "third rail"? Felony
I have just read a article, about a children getting a possible 10 years sentence to open a hardware to install software on it.
It would appear you didn't actually read said article.
iTunes may be cheaper and more convenient, but how is buying a crippled (lossily compressed) file "better"?
The average music listener couldn't care less about the quality, as long as it's listenable. MP3's are all I listen to. I have an average sound system hooked to my computer, I have a decent sound system in my car, I have a decent mp3 player, and mp3's suit me fine. I think this reflects the situation with most music listeners today. That's very obvious, or iTunes would be a niche market instead of serving millions and millions of customers. Besides that, though, I would much rather pay one dollar for a song I want than spend $20 on a cd that holds one song I want and 11 songs I don't. That alone is enough incentive.
You folks are wasting time backing up data. It's a well known fact that hard drive do NOT fail. Data showing otherwise has just been fabricated by manufacturers of data backup products and services.
That's the whole point, though: They want to get a high "I'm ok with it" percentage. If they had asked if they would be alright with their internet speeds dropping to almost zero depending on what they are using it for, nobody would agree with that. This way they can say the percentage who don't like it are just the "bad guys".
Meanwhile, as my 4 gig torrent download screeches to a halt, the neighbor to my left downloads a DVD from Netflix, and the neighbor to my right masturbates while streaming porn to his computer, both at 8 Mbs.
Marketing department tells lies about their product. News at 11.
Ha, yeah, no kidding... Clorox pays people to get on TV and tell the world how good their bleach is, whether or not they've ever used it. I don't see how this is any different.
Mutually assured destruction? Hardly. Chrome's guaranteed destruction? Almost guaranteed. Not saying that Microsoft deserves to stay on top, but that's what's going to happen. You would have to have balls made of plutonium to think you could take them down with anything less than endless litigation.
Microsoft is claiming that Windows 7 will work on such a machine, if you can wait a little while.
It might be illegal if it were to infer that she was taking steroids, lol.
Shopping Miley's head on to a naked woman doesn't make her naked, just as shopping her head onto an old photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't suddenly make her a male bodybuilder.
Considering the fact that lawyers use MySpace and facebook to gather evidence, why should this be a surprise? I think Wikipedia is generally a good source for facts. However, I think anyone who uses the internet AT ALL for important facts is very foolish. I could get a personalized URL, make up a page full of total nonsense, and there's going to be someone out there citing it as gospel, so to speak. First step in getting facts you can depend on: Get off the internet and crack open a book. Stop being LAZY, because looking up stuff on the internet is EASY.
So worst case scenario is that your default search engine is changed, you notice it the first time you search for something, you take 30 seconds to change it back, and that's pretty much the end of it. No software has been installed, no software has been deleted, and the amount of work you have to do is less than if you had to blow your nose.
I think a lot of people are missing the point, here (not everyone, but many). This isn't about banning acetaminophen at all. NOBODY has even hinted that's it's being banned. What may be banned are drugs that include acetaminophen, usually without the consumer's knowledge. Take Vicoden for instance. I had no clue it has acetaminophen in it. There's the big problem. I take OTC acetaminophen just like it says on the bottle, I also take 4 Vicoden, and I've went over the acetaminophen limit for the day.
'The people that are stupid and dont read the bottle that says" DO NOT TAKE MORE THAN XXX in a 24 hour period." It's clear as day on the fricking bottle.'
That's not the problem they are talking about. The problem they are talking about is when you follow the directions on the "fricking bottle", but then you take 4 Vicoden throughout the day, NOT KNOWING that it contains Acetaminophen, too.
I don't see how Microsoft enforcing patents and having a proprietary file system is somehow being a monopoly. If I'm driving a Ford, and I decide to put in another transmission, I'm not going to be able to go out and put a Chevy transmission in. Should I sue Ford because I have to use a Ford transmission in it instead of being able to just put anything in it? Of course not.
Disable UAC, problem solved.