Well, he spoke the truth. If you want to be the most safe and secure, use Firefox and upgrade when security fixes are released. Netscape will always being running behind.
Now, if I could only I could convince our IT managers that Netscape is a redistribution of Firefox, I'd be set. Getting yelled at for using Firefox and being told to use Netscape instead makes my head hurt.
I drive 405 miles a week (81 mile round trip commute), about 300 of that highway. I'm usually out on the highway during non-rush (flexible work schedule) so can use cruise control. I'm also a bored geek, so I've done my weekly tracking of my gas mileage versus speed.
My car (VW Jetta Wagon, 4 cyl; it's classed heavier than your standard Jetta Sedan) gets better gas mileage when I keep the cruise on the highway at about 78-80 miles per hour (28 MPG) according to the speedometer, compared to 70 (25 MPG) or 65 (25 MPG also). It may not seem like a lot, but it's an extra one-way trip (42 miles) for me on a 14 gallon tank.
The gas also makes a difference: I get better gas mileage with BP/Amoco gas than Speedway. But the gas difference was actually more apparent on my former car, a Saturn sedan (when I switched to BP/Amoco on that car, I started getting 40 miles more out of a tank with exactly the same driving patterns). Now that I live in an area where BP/Amoco and Speedway usually only differ by a penny anyhow, that makes that an easy choice.
I've never tested it higher than 80 because--even there's plenty of people out there with me doing 85+--all my highway driving has a speed limit of 55 and reckless at 25+.
Unfortunately, there's been an outcry about the speed on the roadway I travel, so I've only been traveling at 70 recently anyhow . . .
There's a service you can sign up for and AOL will forward you anything sent from your domain that a user marks as "spam."
I know several people that run private mailing list servers and have signed up for this service. The number of AOL users that simply start reporting list mail as spam when they want off the list is pretty incredible. These are mailing lists that they've signed up for and (in many cases) actively participated in. Some will go through their inbox and mark every message they've saved from that list as spam, to increase the odds that they'll never have to see list mail again without actively unsubbing. This is NOT a rare occurrence. It's a perfect example of positive reinforcement: it's easier to clicky the button and never see the list mail again than to figure out how to compose and send an unsub request.
The Alexa that's referred to there is the predecessor to the Internet Archive (the company that did the web-crawling and content collection from 1995-1999). I think it was also associated with one of the big portal companies that went belly-up around 2000-2001?
I thought that Alexa was defunct, although I could be wrong.
Their rules and policies aren't very clear. Much of the media being created for and posted to the web falls into the "gray" areas of copyright--media whose copyright status hasn't been tested in court because the RIAA/MPAA/big media companies are afraid to lose, although they might just win. I wonder if they want that media or not.
This is a funny comparison, given that the push is on in the United States for future interstate development to be completely toll-based. The gov't will do the land purchasing required for the roads to be built, but all future expenses will be covered by the pockets of those who drive them.
Of course, my family spends $80/month on tolls because there are few free alternatives in our area . . . (lag on building additional bridges over a major river, and the tollway has a lock).
It's not like many people have a choice. Around here, want to buy into a suburban subdivision? You've got a Homeowner's Association. And if that Association goes belly-up, you've got a special taxing district that'll come into effect and cost you more per year than the HOA dues would have.
What we're seeing is a market shift, and something like that is driven by a lot of different factors across each "market." So it progresses in jumps and spurts, rather than as a steady upward curve.
I help run a bunch of fannish websites. Fannish websites tend to attract females with at least a slight bit of geekiness (even if they're non-technical), so the members of fannish communities tend to end up on the "front end" of mass market shifts. Based on message board conversation (unfortunately, I don't run those message boards so don't have access to those stats), a major shift over to Mozilla/Firefox occurred about four months ago. They were geeky enough to recognize that the security holes in IE announced over the past few months COULD affect them (and did, in many cases) and driven by the fact that MS wasn't putting out the updates to keep them safe. There was real fear, and there where the technically geeky of the community offering a solution that they could understand. Although my sites aren't directly connected to these message boards (and we haven't run browser stats in years) I think that if I looked at the logs for the past couple of months, they would reflect that community shift to Mozilla products. (I'm going to ask the server admin to run some historical vs. current stats for me and I'll post them if I get them in a reasonable amount of time.)
At the same time, the "computer guy" (computer idiot) in my local paper started recommending Firefox. This is a guy whose columns usually make me want to slap him upside the head, because he spreads SO MUCH inaccurate information about computers and operating systems, and reinforces a lot of the misunderstandings that are in the non-technical population. He's gone the distance with Firefox love (too far, really), now recommending it as the solution for any IE-based problem. He's completely lost the MSIE love . ..
What I find interesting is that w3schools is one of the sites reflecting the trend. Who uses that site? Web designers and developers. It's a great quick-check resource (no, it doesn't go into depth on most topics, but when you've forgotten the syntax for something . ..). That means that there is a growing shift within the web design and development community. And while they are still probably designing cross-product, they're going to favor designs and standards that work with their favored browser. That, more than anything, could add momentum to Moz's growth. That's the community that has had and spread the IE love for years at this point. If they start to spread the Moz love, we will see further mass shifts to Mozilla products.
I should ask the server admin to run the browser stats on our sites for the past couple of months. We run websites which attract many non-technical users. I know that the community in general is tending toward Mozilla/Firefox (based on conversations on the message boards) so I wonder how our stats reflect that. At one point, our users were almost exclusively IE users.
At this point, Enterprise should die and the producers should take a look at how to make the next Star Trek "different."
Star Trek is about a universe and a history. Somehow, they've established this history without showing us much of what went into the history. Ent could have shown us the events leading up to the foundation of the Federation (and kept implying that those events were a foundation for the series) but it's four years in and it hasn't kept that promise.
The possible upcoming movie with a new crew that might show us the Earth-Rom war? Now that sounds interesting to me!
Linguistically, especially when you're considering the US government, I see a difference between what would be an insecure and non-secure computer. (What I'm talking about here how people with connections to the government currently talk about networks and computers.)
A computer with a connection to the public Internet is non-secure, no matter how "secured" it is. It may or may not be insecure . . . although, if someone is using it for government work, it's SUPPOSED to be secure in that fashion (running an approved, secure, fully-patched operating system). A computer on a closed, secure network is secure, as long as certain protocals are followed about cleansing data and the like. It should also be secure in the operating system sense.
So: non-secure: any computer with a connection to the public internet, no matter how secure the operating system. insecure: a computer running an operating system with known vulnerabilities secure: in the full government sense, a computer on a secure (closed) network running an operating system that is not insecure.
Non-secure seems to have a more precise meeting, especially when considered in governmental terms. Since I know little about how phone lines are handled (or made secure), I'm not really sure if that relates.
insecure: adj, 1. exposed to danger, unsafe. 2. not firm or safe: insecure foundations. 3. subject to fear, doubt, etc: an insecure person. --Syn: 1. unprotected, dangerous. 2. unsure, risky. See uncertain.
insecurity: n, 1. quality or state of being insecure; instability: the insecurity of his financial situation. 2. lack of assurance; self-doubt: He is plagued by insecurity. 3. something insecure: the many insecurities of life.
Hmmm . . . I pulled a 1988 Webster's New World (3rd College Edition) off the shelf, and here's what it has for insecure:
insecure: adj, not secure, specif. a) not safe from danger; b) not confident, filled with anxieties, apprehensive; c) not firm or dependable; unreliable.
You may "old" but things hadn't really improved at the grammar or high school level when I was there. (Graduated HS in 1995).
I was always interested in computers . . . only a truly geeky 4th grader would give up her summer to take computer classes. (My younger sister had flunked math the previous school year, and I demanded to take the summer computer classes--we programmed in BASIC--while she retook her 2nd grade math. I think that my mother was glad to have a reason to dump us both in the same place for hours at a time that summer.)
That summer class was really the only experience I had with computers, because there still wasn't the access. My grammar school had no computers, my parents refused to let me take further summer classes (money issues), my junior high refused to let females into the computer-based classes, and my all-female high school had no CS classes and unusable computers (1991-1995).
It wasn't until I made it to college that I had real access to computers again. But there a lot of problems associated with that--it was an environment where the self-educated geeks were more accepted/taught to than simply the interested geeks. Although I worked part-way through the CS program, I graduated as an English major. I spent some time self-educating (on top of my knowledge from the undergrad CS work I'd done), then was accepted to a CS masters program.
Yet, despite finishing my CS master's, I'm still in editorial. I now work as the interface between an editorial and technical department--translating what editorial needs into what technical understands. I started my masters in 2001, just as the market crashed, and was never able to find CS internships or entry-level positions. At this point, I'm starting to suspect that my masters will only aid my hobbies, because (despite intensive job-searching over the past two years) I've never been able to get an interview for a technical position.
Hmmm . . . but it has been reported that JMS is working on the treatment for the next Star Trek movie. Does this mean that JMS is working on the treatment for the Romulan War??
I think it's more about skewed statistics. There are companies that have taken on telecommunting in a major fashion, and probably 80-90 percent of their workforce are telecommuters. One of the software vendors I work with is like that--I still haven't met anyone that works or lives anywhere near the company's RL office. They probably have about 300 employees, 250 of whom are telecommuters.
With the cost of cable going up and up and up, what's the use?
We live in an area where we don't receive the networks over the air. (NBC comes in, kind of.) Cable prices have risen to the point where it doesn't give value for the cost.
We have cable for the Internet access. Of course, about six months back, when we were trying to figure out a way to replace our ISDN (and didn't want to deal with the whole cable thing), we called our local telecom and begged them to tell us when they thought DSL might be available in our area. They said that they didn't know.
That's why it become available about two months later, right? *headdesk*
The printer holds the print rights until the work is declared out of print, not the copyright.
There's a whole system of rights built on top of copyright in publishing and it can be fairly confusing. It's determined by the contract you signed. You've likely signed an exclusive agreement regarding your first north american serial rights.
You never want to sell all rights (which includes copyright) because you'll never get that copyright back.
They're used all over the place around where I live (midwest). I drive 60+ miles on local roads a day, and every intersection on my route has the vehicle warning light (when the sensor is first triggered, a bright white light comes on--it flashes for traffic on the same road as the ambulance/police car/fire truck and is solid for those going cross-directions) and the connected green light trigger.
(Update: 13:56 GMT by J: When I first posted this story it said the problems have been occurring "for several weeks at least" -- but it seems to be more like one week.)
Actually, I've been seeing this problem occasionally for over a year. It just seems that larger numbers of search terms trigger it now.
Of course, I can't remember any of the search terms that have triggered it in the past--I've just learned to change my terms slightly to get around the problem.
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Well, he spoke the truth. If you want to be the most safe and secure, use Firefox and upgrade when security fixes are released. Netscape will always being running behind.
Now, if I could only I could convince our IT managers that Netscape is a redistribution of Firefox, I'd be set. Getting yelled at for using Firefox and being told to use Netscape instead makes my head hurt.
Well, and that's all about learning your car.
I drive 405 miles a week (81 mile round trip commute), about 300 of that highway. I'm usually out on the highway during non-rush (flexible work schedule) so can use cruise control. I'm also a bored geek, so I've done my weekly tracking of my gas mileage versus speed.
My car (VW Jetta Wagon, 4 cyl; it's classed heavier than your standard Jetta Sedan) gets better gas mileage when I keep the cruise on the highway at about 78-80 miles per hour (28 MPG) according to the speedometer, compared to 70 (25 MPG) or 65 (25 MPG also). It may not seem like a lot, but it's an extra one-way trip (42 miles) for me on a 14 gallon tank.
The gas also makes a difference: I get better gas mileage with BP/Amoco gas than Speedway. But the gas difference was actually more apparent on my former car, a Saturn sedan (when I switched to BP/Amoco on that car, I started getting 40 miles more out of a tank with exactly the same driving patterns). Now that I live in an area where BP/Amoco and Speedway usually only differ by a penny anyhow, that makes that an easy choice.
I've never tested it higher than 80 because--even there's plenty of people out there with me doing 85+--all my highway driving has a speed limit of 55 and reckless at 25+.
Unfortunately, there's been an outcry about the speed on the roadway I travel, so I've only been traveling at 70 recently anyhow . . .
Don't underestimate the idiocy of AOL users.
There's a service you can sign up for and AOL will forward you anything sent from your domain that a user marks as "spam."
I know several people that run private mailing list servers and have signed up for this service. The number of AOL users that simply start reporting list mail as spam when they want off the list is pretty incredible. These are mailing lists that they've signed up for and (in many cases) actively participated in. Some will go through their inbox and mark every message they've saved from that list as spam, to increase the odds that they'll never have to see list mail again without actively unsubbing. This is NOT a rare occurrence. It's a perfect example of positive reinforcement: it's easier to clicky the button and never see the list mail again than to figure out how to compose and send an unsub request.
The Alexa that's referred to there is the predecessor to the Internet Archive (the company that did the web-crawling and content collection from 1995-1999). I think it was also associated with one of the big portal companies that went belly-up around 2000-2001?
I thought that Alexa was defunct, although I could be wrong.
Their rules and policies aren't very clear. Much of the media being created for and posted to the web falls into the "gray" areas of copyright--media whose copyright status hasn't been tested in court because the RIAA/MPAA/big media companies are afraid to lose, although they might just win. I wonder if they want that media or not.
This is a funny comparison, given that the push is on in the United States for future interstate development to be completely toll-based. The gov't will do the land purchasing required for the roads to be built, but all future expenses will be covered by the pockets of those who drive them.
Of course, my family spends $80/month on tolls because there are few free alternatives in our area . . . (lag on building additional bridges over a major river, and the tollway has a lock).
It's not like many people have a choice. Around here, want to buy into a suburban subdivision? You've got a Homeowner's Association. And if that Association goes belly-up, you've got a special taxing district that'll come into effect and cost you more per year than the HOA dues would have.
What we're seeing is a market shift, and something like that is driven by a lot of different factors across each "market." So it progresses in jumps and spurts, rather than as a steady upward curve.
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.). That means that there is a growing shift within the web design and development community. And while they are still probably designing cross-product, they're going to favor designs and standards that work with their favored browser. That, more than anything, could add momentum to Moz's growth. That's the community that has had and spread the IE love for years at this point. If they start to spread the Moz love, we will see further mass shifts to Mozilla products.
I help run a bunch of fannish websites. Fannish websites tend to attract females with at least a slight bit of geekiness (even if they're non-technical), so the members of fannish communities tend to end up on the "front end" of mass market shifts. Based on message board conversation (unfortunately, I don't run those message boards so don't have access to those stats), a major shift over to Mozilla/Firefox occurred about four months ago. They were geeky enough to recognize that the security holes in IE announced over the past few months COULD affect them (and did, in many cases) and driven by the fact that MS wasn't putting out the updates to keep them safe. There was real fear, and there where the technically geeky of the community offering a solution that they could understand. Although my sites aren't directly connected to these message boards (and we haven't run browser stats in years) I think that if I looked at the logs for the past couple of months, they would reflect that community shift to Mozilla products. (I'm going to ask the server admin to run some historical vs. current stats for me and I'll post them if I get them in a reasonable amount of time.)
At the same time, the "computer guy" (computer idiot) in my local paper started recommending Firefox. This is a guy whose columns usually make me want to slap him upside the head, because he spreads SO MUCH inaccurate information about computers and operating systems, and reinforces a lot of the misunderstandings that are in the non-technical population. He's gone the distance with Firefox love (too far, really), now recommending it as the solution for any IE-based problem. He's completely lost the MSIE love . .
What I find interesting is that w3schools is one of the sites reflecting the trend. Who uses that site? Web designers and developers. It's a great quick-check resource (no, it doesn't go into depth on most topics, but when you've forgotten the syntax for something . .
Hmmm . . .
I should ask the server admin to run the browser stats on our sites for the past couple of months. We run websites which attract many non-technical users. I know that the community in general is tending toward Mozilla/Firefox (based on conversations on the message boards) so I wonder how our stats reflect that. At one point, our users were almost exclusively IE users.
At this point, Enterprise should die and the producers should take a look at how to make the next Star Trek "different."
Star Trek is about a universe and a history. Somehow, they've established this history without showing us much of what went into the history. Ent could have shown us the events leading up to the foundation of the Federation (and kept implying that those events were a foundation for the series) but it's four years in and it hasn't kept that promise.
The possible upcoming movie with a new crew that might show us the Earth-Rom war? Now that sounds interesting to me!
Linguistically, especially when you're considering the US government, I see a difference between what would be an insecure and non-secure computer. (What I'm talking about here how people with connections to the government currently talk about networks and computers.)
A computer with a connection to the public Internet is non-secure, no matter how "secured" it is. It may or may not be insecure . . . although, if someone is using it for government work, it's SUPPOSED to be secure in that fashion (running an approved, secure, fully-patched operating system). A computer on a closed, secure network is secure, as long as certain protocals are followed about cleansing data and the like. It should also be secure in the operating system sense.
So:
non-secure: any computer with a connection to the public internet, no matter how secure the operating system.
insecure: a computer running an operating system with known vulnerabilities
secure: in the full government sense, a computer on a secure (closed) network running an operating system that is not insecure.
Non-secure seems to have a more precise meeting, especially when considered in governmental terms. Since I know little about how phone lines are handled (or made secure), I'm not really sure if that relates.
And just for shits and giggles . . . ;)
Random House Unabridged, 1966
insecure: adj, 1. exposed to danger, unsafe. 2. not firm or safe: insecure foundations. 3. subject to fear, doubt, etc: an insecure person.
--Syn: 1. unprotected, dangerous. 2. unsure, risky. See uncertain.
insecurity: n, 1. quality or state of being insecure; instability: the insecurity of his financial situation. 2. lack of assurance; self-doubt: He is plagued by insecurity. 3. something insecure: the many insecurities of life.
Hmmm . . . I pulled a 1988 Webster's New World (3rd College Edition) off the shelf, and here's what it has for insecure:
insecure: adj, not secure, specif. a) not safe from danger; b) not confident, filled with anxieties, apprehensive; c) not firm or dependable; unreliable.
You may "old" but things hadn't really improved at the grammar or high school level when I was there. (Graduated HS in 1995).
I was always interested in computers . . . only a truly geeky 4th grader would give up her summer to take computer classes. (My younger sister had flunked math the previous school year, and I demanded to take the summer computer classes--we programmed in BASIC--while she retook her 2nd grade math. I think that my mother was glad to have a reason to dump us both in the same place for hours at a time that summer.)
That summer class was really the only experience I had with computers, because there still wasn't the access. My grammar school had no computers, my parents refused to let me take further summer classes (money issues), my junior high refused to let females into the computer-based classes, and my all-female high school had no CS classes and unusable computers (1991-1995).
It wasn't until I made it to college that I had real access to computers again. But there a lot of problems associated with that--it was an environment where the self-educated geeks were more accepted/taught to than simply the interested geeks. Although I worked part-way through the CS program, I graduated as an English major. I spent some time self-educating (on top of my knowledge from the undergrad CS work I'd done), then was accepted to a CS masters program.
Yet, despite finishing my CS master's, I'm still in editorial. I now work as the interface between an editorial and technical department--translating what editorial needs into what technical understands. I started my masters in 2001, just as the market crashed, and was never able to find CS internships or entry-level positions. At this point, I'm starting to suspect that my masters will only aid my hobbies, because (despite intensive job-searching over the past two years) I've never been able to get an interview for a technical position.
*blinks*
Hmmm . . . but it has been reported that JMS is working on the treatment for the next Star Trek movie. Does this mean that JMS is working on the treatment for the Romulan War??
JMS is a canon whore in his own universes . . .
I'm in the US, and I've seen a SMART car darting its way around the town I work in.
.)
(Of course, my first thought was: I don't think those are street legal in the US . .
http://web.archive.org
Surf your way over to the Cook County Property Tax database. Photos of all properties are taken every three years--when the property is assessed.
But then, eventually think of poor Multivac, all alone to recreate the universe . . .
I think it's more about skewed statistics. There are companies that have taken on telecommunting in a major fashion, and probably 80-90 percent of their workforce are telecommuters. One of the software vendors I work with is like that--I still haven't met anyone that works or lives anywhere near the company's RL office. They probably have about 300 employees, 250 of whom are telecommuters.
With the cost of cable going up and up and up, what's the use?
We live in an area where we don't receive the networks over the air. (NBC comes in, kind of.) Cable prices have risen to the point where it doesn't give value for the cost.
We have cable for the Internet access. Of course, about six months back, when we were trying to figure out a way to replace our ISDN (and didn't want to deal with the whole cable thing), we called our local telecom and begged them to tell us when they thought DSL might be available in our area. They said that they didn't know.
That's why it become available about two months later, right? *headdesk*
The printer holds the print rights until the work is declared out of print, not the copyright.
There's a whole system of rights built on top of copyright in publishing and it can be fairly confusing. It's determined by the contract you signed. You've likely signed an exclusive agreement regarding your first north american serial rights.
You never want to sell all rights (which includes copyright) because you'll never get that copyright back.
It was a reverse split (so every four shares became one share.)
Your math works for a regular split, it's opposite for a reverse.
They're used all over the place around where I live (midwest). I drive 60+ miles on local roads a day, and every intersection on my route has the vehicle warning light (when the sensor is first triggered, a bright white light comes on--it flashes for traffic on the same road as the ambulance/police car/fire truck and is solid for those going cross-directions) and the connected green light trigger.
(Update: 13:56 GMT by J: When I first posted this story it said the problems have been occurring "for several weeks at least" -- but it seems to be more like one week.)
Actually, I've been seeing this problem occasionally for over a year. It just seems that larger numbers of search terms trigger it now.
Of course, I can't remember any of the search terms that have triggered it in the past--I've just learned to change my terms slightly to get around the problem.
Dee