American laws and interpretations are certainly made for naive followers...
If the region were a border, the Mexicans and Canadians or United Nations or whoever should be present to enforce your HUMAN rights that you had while you were "overseas" or in their more... hospitable countries, and help remove you from this "detention" that your AMERICAN rights seem to warrant you... But WHERE can we seek those opposition representatives for a helping hand at times like the man in the article?
That's right! The "border" is not a mixed multicountry environment since Holland already lost power over the man thousands of miles away as he got on the departing plain. This border is 100% American, which explains why the UN or Geneva convention people or whoever are nowhere. Americans are indoctrinated as having "inalienable" rights since before they even forged their independent states through war. They can't now say that the rights are invisible. By getting off that airplane he was already in American soil, and the forceful nature of the detention --if the guy indeed has no effective rights, then what prevents them from killing him at a whim? Oh, so there ARE some rights. Just the illusion that there aren't.
There are no apparent rendering problems with Facebook on home PC's under IE6, though have gotten an "operation aborted" OK dialog box when signing in, and nothing bad occurred after that. The world's other XP PC's have it by default, being the path of "least resistance" and maybe even running pirate versions with Automatic Updates turned off make up the majority of the IE6 internet.
If there's one thing any online publisher is, it will be "cautious." They test starting on IE6, and then IE7 and so forth. Alternative browsers go next. That's why even Youtube only suggests upgrading, but does not just refuse to work like certain smaller-scale and security-conscious banking sites.
If all 7 get assassinated and their smart cards hacked to bits with no backups, we can still revert to plain old DNS.
That makes sense. It is obvious that people would have problems with that, though. Some people prefer to fully "handle" a crisis even if there was none to begin with. Yet we tend to drown in a papercup instead of implement such solutions until a lasting one can be applied. For example: Y2K missile launches becoming imminent? turn back your clocks for a while; a bad clock can be fixed easier than you can give back lives lost.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/handcuff.asp Warning for non-NoScript users: site has many pop-ups, pop-unders, and various other unpleasant scripts....
Thanks for the link. I had no adverse effects even lacking noScript. FF 3.6.7/Win32 running Adblock plus.
Boycott? HA!, how many of us can afford to give up our cell phones, home phones and Internet connections in protest? AT&T knows they have most of us by the tender bits.
Maybe. But AT&T is NOT cable. Dialup and DSL usually have competitors that we can flee to in case of poor signal or service. It's not like it runs most of the world's internet... it's just an American company, and faces hard competition from Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and others. If underdeveloped places provide only AT&T service, then consider yourself weird --the VZ map is the most complete one when it comes to cell service, if their ads have taught us anything all these years.
Other than that, iPhones/iPads are the only remaining interweb machines completely tied up by AT&T (again, not beyond the United States.) In four(*) years, only true masochists will be left on Apple hardware at AT&T, unless Verizon and others really screw up their soon-to-be-opened iPad cell market.
(*) I hear the switch will happen in 2011 or 2012. Allow 2 years for current binding iPad internet contracts to expire, and another 2 for those signing up last minute right before those switches.
Logos suck: Logos, publicity URLs and copyright warnings don't appear to keep pr0n from being reposted all over the internet, though. If you put a single one of them on your commercial image, even amateurs in image boards like 4chan can crop them out in seconds. It's worse when you're posting without commercial interests or lawyer power, like the story submitter, and find that someone rudely took their work without attribution.
What you need are alpha-blend watermarks running diagonally over the image, preferably corner through corner, or in 2 or three three different diag lines. That certainly kills all attempts to copy them, but also remove people's interest in seeing / licensing and paying for the real one. Google's Streetview or Google Earth (or both) watermark their snapshots so that everyone knows where to get to the source. Watermarks are not being copied or used much.
Does anyone know of freely available batch-file watermarking software?
Yeah. Now, let's move all the joking aside for some insight...
MS loves changing naming trends and follows them closely. Remember that they were the people bringing you Windows 3.0 -> Windows 95 -> Windows 2000. Millenium Edition was another way to capitalize on Y2K, even if the OS failed. MS also realized "Windows 2001" would have been a bad name... they knew MacOS 10 was coming out, and Apple's use of an X in the name was promptly copied into Windows "XP."
Eventually the use of creative names like "Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard" gave MS the brilliant idea that they should drop long names like Millenium Edition, in favor of the two syllables heard in Vista. Coincidentally, since that last one flopped big time, they found that Windows 7 could be a temp return to numbers AND a two-syllable name.
What is annoying is that they could not name the phone "Microsoft Phone" to keep it short, and chose to just use Windows since it's their most recognizable product's name. Remember that others (Google [Earth|Mail|Chrome OS|Maps]) have done so with their trademarks. But adding the Seven also gives people the impression that MS has a successful product line of prior Windows Phones from 1.0 thru 6.0. Marketting is interesting, even if it's sometimes pointless when it comes to actual product usability and to the John Doe choices for nicknames. Look at "BB" for Blackberry
Until this data dump, the only people doing data mining were Facebook & their partners. Now anyone can. If you don't see the value in this aggregation of information, you're not looking very hard.
Do you seriously believe that no one has ever written such a script before?
The GP is correct. Nobody cares that out of 6 billion people a few might have written a script, like you expect. What we care is that out of those few, this ONE researcher is the first to make it easy to find so 6 billion others can further digest the information. This allows mere John Does the liberty of looking themselves up without waiting for scripts to crawl for days / risking their prescious FB account ban or paying someone else.
John Doe mostly waits till some other Prometheus steals the first "fire" from the Olympian gods, and only approach to enjoy it after the fire is available to all. Now your coworkers can post in their blogs and twitter accounts linking to this torrent... and your generationally disconnected family from another country can use data to track you down by last name and location.
We don't know what good can be done from this data yet --just like legitimate Facebook data miners^W^W "partners" have to look at the data first and then make use of it. The bad that will come of it is allowing dedicated scammers to easily gather enough information about your general last name and location that you might believe they are really a long-lost relative trying to reconnect... but "needing a money transfer so they can make that trip from across the ocean to meet you."
Crap. That's what I get for submitting to finish quickly when someone TALKATIVE is bothering me continously IRL and has no idea what they're makaing me mess up.
Yes, but if someone tags you, and you don't have an account, and the tag isn't linked to an account, then the tag isn't searchable... So is someone adding non searchable meta-data really that big a deal?
Agreed. However, having a page at all is a problem even if your friends don't talk / tag / rat you out.
The press got a "free pass" with New York's Times Square's [failed] car bomber recently, "borrowing" the guy's photo --news usually credited FB for it, and I'm sure nobody asked HIM for permission. Would we enjoy the same treatment if some unfounded charge (hopefully!) was blown out into the media? It's adding insult to injury
I'm sure this lady had lots of others at her e-mail ready company that gladly would have done it in Word.
A simple "NO" would have saved everyone a lot of grief, and time.
This lady's name and location are online now. Kudos! Now we know what designer not to contract work to. There is a high posibility of "David Thorne" losing job/project offers over employers learning how this designer wastes everyone's time and can be a cynic to people he works with given the chances.
Geiger Counter app... measures cumulative REM, reminds you to switch ears to minimize overexposure of one ear, etc... it can pay for itself with built-in advertisement for treatment clinics...
"Geiger Counter App: one day you'll finally be 'toast...' but thanks to us, your brains will NOT be unevenly cooked.":-)
It's effectively hiring 10 people to do a job and then only paying one of them (at most). It's basically using the fact that they're "Contests" to stiff 99% of the people in the business.
Perhaps we should blame large governments for trying this first, since lots of building/construction/weapon projects are bid for this way. Some results affect nobody's job: the US government recently posted iPhone and Android apps where crowdsourcees share accurate airport delay data that your relatives can capture without being at your airport. NASA recently did research on rockets ("something"ONE?) and oxygen (or was it water) production for the rocky environments of the moon.
Since the private world has realized that outsourcing causes headaches, they have copied the bidding factor, and we are basically all in trouble now. Let's ignore the fact that we all work in different fields and jobs to realize that there are always more people than there are jobs, even in low population areas. We used to have plenty of employers to work for *nearby* or used to earn enough to feed whole families. Now that outsourcing may turn to bidding for more and more things, the nails in the Too-big-to-fail coffins are falling in place. Either the local individuals fail, or the companies do... and I can see which of the two holds more organization/money/lawyers and perceived influence right now.
Who fills out all their personal information into OS X's address/contact listing? I certainly don't
The "computer literacy" which we have, and "cooperation with what the computer would like to have you do " sometimes go at odds with each other. Therefore, you probably can't fathom why I've seen plenty of managers and their staff in the financial sector, who want their data to be well known / available with little fuss for business' sake OR the higher education sector, where managers, faculty and staffers sit at their desks with lots of "free time" to gain arcane knowledge of address-book features without much practical security to keep them safe from data breaches. We think different, but they do not, and they do fill out this data or it is filled out in a centralized way for them.
Ironically, these businesses are largely big in nature, and hold much bigger stakes when the data is compromised than when it's nothing more than a breach due to Joe average's online naivete pushing "web 2.0 babbling" to his offline life and OS. We can blame our increasing pressure to "fill out every [pointless] textbox to collect a reward."
In my last couple jobs, Windows address books were filled out automatically, sometimes with very detailed information on locations, phones, titles, webpages and even detail boxes (sometimes including home #'s) I'm not sure if the MacOS Server version has this same kind of Windows Server integration, but it is reasonable to suspect that your internal information might have been stored there when you arrived at the company, and try to erase it locally if you find that to be "informally" OK.
C'mon, guys... Slashdot must top that with someone who'll actually do something useful. Let us nominate our highest-karma overlord: Anonymous Coward for President!
Per your comment, I researched the official Safari site and found they downplay the power of their Reader feature.
On the AdBlock dev announcement: WWDC was on June 7, which is very recent in terms of a software design/coding/test/release cycle. Till someone can point us an even earlier comment from WebKit devs, an indirect dev announcement followed by very modest official claims does support my theory that Apple does not want to directly associate itself with the potential groundbreaking that is built-in ad-blocking.
Apple was not bold enough to block by default without your clicking on the reader icon, and it sounds like that's a per-site feature, which will get annoying if they forgot to provide a whitelist or always-on switch. Someone particular with the Safari 5 can tell us whether the blocking is a one-time activation for all sites thing.
On the iPhone thing: They have an undiluted brand that benefits or suffers every time one of their product lines comes up on the news; their stock's healthy pricing is also constantly on the line when scrutiny is heavy. Apple created and actively supports WebKit. WebKit is the core of their Safari engine. Just like Apple actively benefits from publicity stunts like having a Windows version of Safari, iTunes and Quicktime, they benefit from having good news about other Apple products. [see how aggressive they are at bundling everything when first-time users are curious to try them]. Safari is at the core of the iPhone / AT&T network experience, so when they were being attacked for dropped calls, their relevant browser upgrade would have helped bring ease the media harassment.
A better effort on the publicity of the Safari 5 browser release would provide to users and investors a feeling of progress to the above iPhone experience (fewer ads mean less data and faster pageloads,) even if the antenna has continued to suck.
Apple is closely involved with Webkit (it's the backend Safari uses), and this feature that made better ad-blocking possible was contributed by Apple. So it's not entirely random.
Others have asked why google didn't "fix" apple's anti-advertising system by customizing webkit to meet their corporate advertisement-friendly goals. What I ask is why Apple hasn't appeared to capitalize on their adblocking engine (right, right! "not enabled without an extension, but neither is Chrome's yet")
I hear its resource-blocking isn't perfect, but being an Apple-run project, the devs and PR could have appeased the public a week ago for the new Safari 5 release. They remained hushed, and we know they much need good news in light of the iPhone antenna blemish. Something doesn't smell right, with either Apple or Google. I downloaded Chromium just a couple days ago. I still have got the old Safari 4 on this machine... don't feel like ever adopting FF 4.0 or completing my 3.7 beta testing. The next big move in the browser games will choose my winner for another couple years.
Bringing down flickr would have been easy for the government if he were otherwise hosting the blog beyond USA jurisdiction. Though the photos are more than a month old his personal blog AND flickr pages are still up. Don't worry.
With that long for an oil giant + the government to act, and the plugged state holding steady 48+ hours, this is a non-issue now. Booking all the flights means only that airspace travel wasn't *completely* banned: this site clarifies the 3000 feet high flight restrictions and doesn't pose other limitations besides the land-based 20-meter separation from workers, boats and impacted regions. The photographer got special flight permission that day as required by the FAA. They can't take it back just because he's been slashdotted:)
This is the workaround that I had heard about. Thanks for the official link. Disabling Aero permanently helps my business PCs where dos applications are common, but not my home experience (Aero's flip3d is useful at home)
Anyone expecting their 20-year-old legacy system to run on a modern OS is insane. It may be desirable, but you have to accept that if you cling to a legacy system you will have to deal with the increasing support costs for it.
Careful what you mention as "good practice." Computing is already halfway there and geek advice alone isn't fixing the de-facto world to upgrade from IE6 and Win XP en masse. By the time "we" succeed, big corporations will have a lot of 15 year old legacy systems running 20 year old software.
To reproduce in your dos window, just do ALT+ ENTER. "This system does not support fullscreen mode" craftily the fear and blame on the user. Research reveals that Microsoft's NTVM "system" is no longer fully backwards compatible with DOS code from Vista on. OUR hardware is fine on XP. While there are DLL workarounds, they rely on having certain video hardware and screwing with Aero.
Hardcore small businesses abound where they use 20-year-old legacy cash-register or front-desk DOS software meant for fullscreen kiosk setups. It just won't run fullscreen without window-view workarounds where you basically change the font size to really large to and try to keep your staff from clicking on other stuff.
Vista brings much grief when I attempt to fullscreen my shell sessions even without any games or graphics at all. It's MS's best-kept secret (on the topic of backwards compatibility failure, of course)
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American laws and interpretations are certainly made for naive followers...
If the region were a border, the Mexicans and Canadians or United Nations or whoever should be present to enforce your HUMAN rights that you had while you were "overseas" or in their more ... hospitable countries, and help remove you from this "detention" that your AMERICAN rights seem to warrant you... But WHERE can we seek those opposition representatives for a helping hand at times like the man in the article?
That's right! The "border" is not a mixed multicountry environment since Holland already lost power over the man thousands of miles away as he got on the departing plain. This border is 100% American, which explains why the UN or Geneva convention people or whoever are nowhere. Americans are indoctrinated as having "inalienable" rights since before they even forged their independent states through war. They can't now say that the rights are invisible. By getting off that airplane he was already in American soil, and the forceful nature of the detention --if the guy indeed has no effective rights, then what prevents them from killing him at a whim? Oh, so there ARE some rights. Just the illusion that there aren't.
There are no apparent rendering problems with Facebook on home PC's under IE6, though have gotten an "operation aborted" OK dialog box when signing in, and nothing bad occurred after that. The world's other XP PC's have it by default, being the path of "least resistance" and maybe even running pirate versions with Automatic Updates turned off make up the majority of the IE6 internet.
If there's one thing any online publisher is, it will be "cautious." They test starting on IE6, and then IE7 and so forth. Alternative browsers go next. That's why even Youtube only suggests upgrading, but does not just refuse to work like certain smaller-scale and security-conscious banking sites.
If all 7 get assassinated and their smart cards hacked to bits with no backups, we can still revert to plain old DNS.
That makes sense. It is obvious that people would have problems with that, though. Some people prefer to fully "handle" a crisis even if there was none to begin with. Yet we tend to drown in a papercup instead of implement such solutions until a lasting one can be applied. For example: Y2K missile launches becoming imminent? turn back your clocks for a while; a bad clock can be fixed easier than you can give back lives lost.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/handcuff.asp
Warning for non-NoScript users: site has many pop-ups, pop-unders, and various other unpleasant scripts....
Thanks for the link. I had no adverse effects even lacking noScript. FF 3.6.7/Win32 running Adblock plus.
Boycott? HA!, how many of us can afford to give up our cell phones, home phones and Internet connections in protest? AT&T knows they have most of us by the tender bits.
Maybe. But AT&T is NOT cable. Dialup and DSL usually have competitors that we can flee to in case of poor signal or service. It's not like it runs most of the world's internet... it's just an American company, and faces hard competition from Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and others. If underdeveloped places provide only AT&T service, then consider yourself weird --the VZ map is the most complete one when it comes to cell service, if their ads have taught us anything all these years.
Other than that, iPhones/iPads are the only remaining interweb machines completely tied up by AT&T (again, not beyond the United States.) In four(*) years, only true masochists will be left on Apple hardware at AT&T, unless Verizon and others really screw up their soon-to-be-opened iPad cell market.
(*) I hear the switch will happen in 2011 or 2012. Allow 2 years for current binding iPad internet contracts to expire, and another 2 for those signing up last minute right before those switches.
I love how the first result was a nice tutorial.
Thanks for the tip.
Logos suck: Logos, publicity URLs and copyright warnings don't appear to keep pr0n from being reposted all over the internet, though. If you put a single one of them on your commercial image, even amateurs in image boards like 4chan can crop them out in seconds. It's worse when you're posting without commercial interests or lawyer power, like the story submitter, and find that someone rudely took their work without attribution.
What you need are alpha-blend watermarks running diagonally over the image, preferably corner through corner, or in 2 or three three different diag lines. That certainly kills all attempts to copy them, but also remove people's interest in seeing / licensing and paying for the real one. Google's Streetview or Google Earth (or both) watermark their snapshots so that everyone knows where to get to the source. Watermarks are not being copied or used much.
Does anyone know of freely available batch-file watermarking software?
Yeah. Now, let's move all the joking aside for some insight...
MS loves changing naming trends and follows them closely. Remember that they were the people bringing you Windows 3.0 -> Windows 95 -> Windows 2000. Millenium Edition was another way to capitalize on Y2K, even if the OS failed. MS also realized "Windows 2001" would have been a bad name... they knew MacOS 10 was coming out, and Apple's use of an X in the name was promptly copied into Windows "XP."
Eventually the use of creative names like "Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard" gave MS the brilliant idea that they should drop long names like Millenium Edition, in favor of the two syllables heard in Vista. Coincidentally, since that last one flopped big time, they found that Windows 7 could be a temp return to numbers AND a two-syllable name.
What is annoying is that they could not name the phone "Microsoft Phone" to keep it short, and chose to just use Windows since it's their most recognizable product's name. Remember that others (Google [Earth|Mail|Chrome OS|Maps]) have done so with their trademarks. But adding the Seven also gives people the impression that MS has a successful product line of prior Windows Phones from 1.0 thru 6.0. Marketting is interesting, even if it's sometimes pointless when it comes to actual product usability and to the John Doe choices for nicknames. Look at "BB" for Blackberry
Until this data dump, the only people doing data mining were Facebook & their partners.
Now anyone can. If you don't see the value in this aggregation of information, you're not looking very hard.
Do you seriously believe that no one has ever written such a script before?
The GP is correct. Nobody cares that out of 6 billion people a few might have written a script, like you expect.
What we care is that out of those few, this ONE researcher is the first to make it easy to find so 6 billion others can further digest the information. This allows mere John Does the liberty of looking themselves up without waiting for scripts to crawl for days / risking their prescious FB account ban or paying someone else.
John Doe mostly waits till some other Prometheus steals the first "fire" from the Olympian gods, and only approach to enjoy it after the fire is available to all. Now your coworkers can post in their blogs and twitter accounts linking to this torrent... and your generationally disconnected family from another country can use data to track you down by last name and location.
We don't know what good can be done from this data yet --just like legitimate Facebook data miners^W^W "partners" have to look at the data first and then make use of it. The bad that will come of it is allowing dedicated scammers to easily gather enough information about your general last name and location that you might believe they are really a long-lost relative trying to reconnect... but "needing a money transfer so they can make that trip from across the ocean to meet you."
Even the largest hadrons can't stay active forever.
I was gonna Fix That For You ... but I'm now scared of the prospect of "large hardon colliders" and just ran away :(
Crap. That's what I get for submitting to finish quickly when someone TALKATIVE is bothering me continously IRL and has no idea what they're makaing me mess up.
The quoted part was quoted inversely.
Yes, but if someone tags you, and you don't have an account, and the tag isn't linked to an account, then the tag isn't searchable... So is someone adding non searchable meta-data really that big a deal?
Agreed. However, having a page at all is a problem even if your friends don't talk / tag / rat you out.
The press got a "free pass" with New York's Times Square's [failed] car bomber recently, "borrowing" the guy's photo --news usually credited FB for it, and I'm sure nobody asked HIM for permission. Would we enjoy the same treatment if some unfounded charge (hopefully!) was blown out into the media? It's adding insult to injury
I'm sure this lady had lots of others at her e-mail ready company that gladly would have done it in Word.
A simple "NO" would have saved everyone a lot of grief, and time.
This lady's name and location are online now. Kudos! Now we know what designer not to contract work to. There is a high posibility of "David Thorne" losing job/project offers over employers learning how this designer wastes everyone's time and can be a cynic to people he works with given the chances.
Geiger Counter app... measures cumulative REM, reminds you to switch ears to minimize overexposure of one ear, etc... it can pay for itself with built-in advertisement for treatment clinics...
"Geiger Counter App: one day you'll finally be 'toast...' but thanks to us, your brains will NOT be unevenly cooked." :-)
It's effectively hiring 10 people to do a job and then only paying one of them (at most). It's basically using the fact that they're "Contests" to stiff 99% of the people in the business.
Perhaps we should blame large governments for trying this first, since lots of building/construction/weapon projects are bid for this way. Some results affect nobody's job: the US government recently posted iPhone and Android apps where crowdsourcees share accurate airport delay data that your relatives can capture without being at your airport. NASA recently did research on rockets ("something"ONE?) and oxygen (or was it water) production for the rocky environments of the moon.
Since the private world has realized that outsourcing causes headaches, they have copied the bidding factor, and we are basically all in trouble now. Let's ignore the fact that we all work in different fields and jobs to realize that there are always more people than there are jobs, even in low population areas. We used to have plenty of employers to work for *nearby* or used to earn enough to feed whole families. Now that outsourcing may turn to bidding for more and more things, the nails in the Too-big-to-fail coffins are falling in place. Either the local individuals fail, or the companies do... and I can see which of the two holds more organization/money/lawyers and perceived influence right now.
Who fills out all their personal information into OS X's address/contact listing? I certainly don't
The "computer literacy" which we have, and "cooperation with what the computer would like to have you do " sometimes go at odds with each other. Therefore, you probably can't fathom why I've seen plenty of managers and their staff in the financial sector, who want their data to be well known / available with little fuss for business' sake OR the higher education sector, where managers, faculty and staffers sit at their desks with lots of "free time" to gain arcane knowledge of address-book features without much practical security to keep them safe from data breaches. We think different, but they do not, and they do fill out this data or it is filled out in a centralized way for them.
Ironically, these businesses are largely big in nature, and hold much bigger stakes when the data is compromised than when it's nothing more than a breach due to Joe average's online naivete pushing "web 2.0 babbling" to his offline life and OS. We can blame our increasing pressure to "fill out every [pointless] textbox to collect a reward."
In my last couple jobs, Windows address books were filled out automatically, sometimes with very detailed information on locations, phones, titles, webpages and even detail boxes (sometimes including home #'s) I'm not sure if the MacOS Server version has this same kind of Windows Server integration, but it is reasonable to suspect that your internal information might have been stored there when you arrived at the company, and try to erase it locally if you find that to be "informally" OK.
"64 out of 100"
Facebook for President!
C'mon, guys ... Slashdot must top that with someone who'll actually do something useful.
Let us nominate our highest-karma overlord: Anonymous Coward for President!
Per your comment, I researched the official Safari site and found they downplay the power of their Reader feature.
On the AdBlock dev announcement: WWDC was on June 7, which is very recent in terms of a software design/coding/test/release cycle. Till someone can point us an even earlier comment from WebKit devs, an indirect dev announcement followed by very modest official claims does support my theory that Apple does not want to directly associate itself with the potential groundbreaking that is built-in ad-blocking.
Apple was not bold enough to block by default without your clicking on the reader icon, and it sounds like that's a per-site feature, which will get annoying if they forgot to provide a whitelist or always-on switch. Someone particular with the Safari 5 can tell us whether the blocking is a one-time activation for all sites thing.
On the iPhone thing: They have an undiluted brand that benefits or suffers every time one of their product lines comes up on the news; their stock's healthy pricing is also constantly on the line when scrutiny is heavy. Apple created and actively supports WebKit. WebKit is the core of their Safari engine. Just like Apple actively benefits from publicity stunts like having a Windows version of Safari, iTunes and Quicktime, they benefit from having good news about other Apple products. [see how aggressive they are at bundling everything when first-time users are curious to try them]. Safari is at the core of the iPhone / AT&T network experience, so when they were being attacked for dropped calls, their relevant browser upgrade would have helped bring ease the media harassment.
A better effort on the publicity of the Safari 5 browser release would provide to users and investors a feeling of progress to the above iPhone experience (fewer ads mean less data and faster pageloads,) even if the antenna has continued to suck.
Apple is closely involved with Webkit (it's the backend Safari uses), and this feature that made better ad-blocking possible was contributed by Apple. So it's not entirely random.
Others have asked why google didn't "fix" apple's anti-advertising system by customizing webkit to meet their corporate advertisement-friendly goals. What I ask is why Apple hasn't appeared to capitalize on their adblocking engine (right, right! "not enabled without an extension, but neither is Chrome's yet")
I hear its resource-blocking isn't perfect, but being an Apple-run project, the devs and PR could have appeased the public a week ago for the new Safari 5 release. They remained hushed, and we know they much need good news in light of the iPhone antenna blemish. Something doesn't smell right, with either Apple or Google. I downloaded Chromium just a couple days ago. I still have got the old Safari 4 on this machine... don't feel like ever adopting FF 4.0 or completing my 3.7 beta testing. The next big move in the browser games will choose my winner for another couple years.
Bringing down flickr would have been easy for the government if he were otherwise hosting the blog beyond USA jurisdiction. Though the photos are more than a month old his personal blog AND flickr pages are still up. Don't worry.
With that long for an oil giant + the government to act, and the plugged state holding steady 48+ hours, this is a non-issue now. Booking all the flights means only that airspace travel wasn't *completely* banned: this site clarifies the 3000 feet high flight restrictions and doesn't pose other limitations besides the land-based 20-meter separation from workers, boats and impacted regions. The photographer got special flight permission that day as required by the FAA. They can't take it back just because he's been slashdotted :)
This is the workaround that I had heard about. Thanks for the official link. Disabling Aero permanently helps my business PCs where dos applications are common, but not my home experience (Aero's flip3d is useful at home)
Thanks.
Anyone expecting their 20-year-old legacy system to run on a modern OS is insane. It may be desirable, but you have to accept that if you cling to a legacy system you will have to deal with the increasing support costs for it.
Careful what you mention as "good practice." Computing is already halfway there and geek advice alone isn't fixing the de-facto world to upgrade from IE6 and Win XP en masse. By the time "we" succeed, big corporations will have a lot of 15 year old legacy systems running 20 year old software.
To reproduce in your dos window, just do ALT+ ENTER.
"This system does not support fullscreen mode" craftily the fear and blame on the user. Research reveals that Microsoft's NTVM "system" is no longer fully backwards compatible with DOS code from Vista on. OUR hardware is fine on XP. While there are DLL workarounds, they rely on having certain video hardware and screwing with Aero.
Hardcore small businesses abound where they use 20-year-old legacy cash-register or front-desk DOS software meant for fullscreen kiosk setups. It just won't run fullscreen without window-view workarounds where you basically change the font size to really large to and try to keep your staff from clicking on other stuff.
--vlueboy.
Vista brings much grief when I attempt to fullscreen my shell sessions even without any games or graphics at all. It's MS's best-kept secret (on the topic of backwards compatibility failure, of course)