I see nothing in there about "going to a website causes virus infection." Do you set your browser up to automatically download and execute.zip files? If so then I can see your problem, however I don't do that, so it's not really an issue. As for PDF vulnerabilities, the odds that I might execute a malicious PDF are far smaller than the odds that I'll be aggravated by Acrobat 7's spyware-laden bloat. There's just no reason to require a net connection and a 25 meg program to read a 1 meg PDF. I open maybe 10 PDFs a year, and most of them are from "reputable" sources. If I have to choose between choosing who to trust, and offloading that choice to Adobe, the choice is clear.
In short, as I said in my original post, the new "features" of the newer versions don't outweigh their annoyances. If they are more prone to exploits then I'll just be that much more careful.
Come on, the best way to ruin a joke completely is to say "HEY GUYS, THIS IS FUNNY! HAHAHA!" A tongue-in-cheek like this needs to be presented deadpan as Zonk did. The actual comic value of the joke itself is another matter, of course.
You missed my point completely. There are no new features in the newer versions of the applications I listed, they are just more bloated and have major annoyances, and in some cases spyware-y aspects, like Acrobat's constant "checking for new versions" stuff, and AIM 5+'s request for a ZIP code before it lets you run it, and Java/SWF ads in the buddy window. Word 2000 is an adequate word processor, Word 2003 or whatever the latest version is offers no improvements. I'm not running older versions of these programs out of some desire for old fashioned ways, I'm running them because I've tried the updated versions and saw that their new "features" actually detract from the overall quality of the product, rather than improving it.
Blah, hit "submit" too soon. I meant to ask, how can someone have "Slashdot editor" as a full-time job? It's just a matter of saying yes, no, yes, no, and there's apparently no dupe checking, and certainly no prerequisite that you actually read the site you're employed to edit. So how do they manage to employ 5-10 guys to do this "job"?
There will always be a place for a format like "ZIP" even if only for its concatenation ability. Downloading 1000 1k files ends up being more time consuming than downloading a single 1 MB file. As for WinZip itself, I don't think most businesses have migrated from Win 2000 yet, and many don't plan to, so there's probably some life left in it.
What is this now, Pressreleasedot? I'm running WinZip 8.0 and will never upgrade it for the same reason I'll never upgrade from AIM 4.3, Acrobat 5, and Office 2000: the problem is solved and the old version does everything it should without any new useless cruft (why is Acrobat 7 ~25 megs to read PDF files? And why does it access the Internet at all?).
Did all the "old school" Slashdot editors leave or something? These new guys they have are pretty lame.
When used in this context, "code sign" doesn't make sense... shouldn't it be "Do you sign your code?" Or if it's intended as a new phrase, maybe it should be "Do you code-sign?"
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Currency conversion with understands "convert 23 dollars to pounds"
When I setup a mail server for one of my previous employers I ended up blocking China, India, Israel and most of the rest of Asia/Middle East IP space. The company didn't ship internationally and the likelihood of receiving a legitimate email was so low that it wasn't worth the hundreds of spam messages we'd been receiving. By blocking Asia we eliminated 90% of incoming spam. Spam Assassin and a couple RBLs got rid of most of the rest.
The site is not responding right now, so maybe they clarify this point, but what's the purpose of putting a firewall, which traditionally does stuff like port filtering and rate limiting, at the browser level? Or are they just using the term "firewall" as a buzzword to indicate popup blocking, which really has nothing at all to do with a firewall?
Aren't all warez groups technically "organized crime" organizations? They're groups whose main objectives are illegal (copyright-infringing, whatever).
I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I personally am not interested in the voice chat aspect of Google's client, nor am I interested in building an IM "platform." When I use IM, I just want to send messages back and forth to someone, and as long as the service itself is adequate, as most are, for me it comes down to the client itself. With all that said, these days I am still running AIM 4.3 on my Windows machine because it's the least annoying (doesn't ask you to put in a zip code, has no "AIM Today" Window). I'd been using gaim on Windows for a while, but it seemed to add ~30 seconds to my system boot time (I think it installs gtk or something to run) which I found annoying, so after my last format I didn't bother with it. So far I've found Google's IM client (which, I realize, is still "Beta") pretty lackluster. While it's got a clean interface, I find even an aging version of AIM like 4.3 to be more friendly, and it has what I absolutely require: timestamps in the chat. I absolutely will not use an IM client that doesn't show timestamps for all events. This is a relatively simple thing to add, so I imagine it will be added as an option in a future version, but for now it's a showstopper for me. All in all, I don't see what the hype was about, it's Just Another Jabber Client. Voice chat? Whoopee...
In five years we'll be reading that "Evil Google causes firms to outsource" or some other such shit.
Bob Dickson, CEO of LaffTard.com, said, "I wanted to hire some guy right out of college for cheap, but Google offerred him so much more, and probably wouldn't fire him after 18 months, so I was forced, yes, FORCED, to use outsourced labor to develop my product. There's just no other way to keep paying my mortgage and the payments on my two Porsches.:-("
What's even weirder is that the headline in my RSS feed ends with "< ? >", and if you look at the source for the page, it's there.
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="RSS' Win, Signals Atom's Death Toll<?> -- article related to Developers and The Internet."><LINK REL="top" TITLE="News for nerds, stuff that matters" HREF="//slashdot.org/" >
You'd think the "editors" of this site would at least take the time to CAPITALIZE the acronym AJAX to distinguish it from Ajax, the Greek warrior, or Ajax, the household cleaner...
Slashdot Mirror
This reminds me of an old one-liner:
"Despite the high cost of living, it's still popular."
Do you just make up statements like that?
.zip files? If so then I can see your problem, however I don't do that, so it's not really an issue. As for PDF vulnerabilities, the odds that I might execute a malicious PDF are far smaller than the odds that I'll be aggravated by Acrobat 7's spyware-laden bloat. There's just no reason to require a net connection and a 25 meg program to read a 1 meg PDF. I open maybe 10 PDFs a year, and most of them are from "reputable" sources. If I have to choose between choosing who to trust, and offloading that choice to Adobe, the choice is clear.
http://secunia.com/product/566/
I see nothing in there about "going to a website causes virus infection." Do you set your browser up to automatically download and execute
In short, as I said in my original post, the new "features" of the newer versions don't outweigh their annoyances. If they are more prone to exploits then I'll just be that much more careful.
Slashdot sigs are retroactive. I changed it after I blocked him.
Man, I tried to sound all smart by using "heretofore" and then I used "previously" as well. :-(
This is an historic day in my Slashdot life. Zonk is now being added to the list that heretofore had previously contained only JonKatz.
Come on, the best way to ruin a joke completely is to say "HEY GUYS, THIS IS FUNNY! HAHAHA!" A tongue-in-cheek like this needs to be presented deadpan as Zonk did. The actual comic value of the joke itself is another matter, of course.
You missed my point completely. There are no new features in the newer versions of the applications I listed, they are just more bloated and have major annoyances, and in some cases spyware-y aspects, like Acrobat's constant "checking for new versions" stuff, and AIM 5+'s request for a ZIP code before it lets you run it, and Java/SWF ads in the buddy window. Word 2000 is an adequate word processor, Word 2003 or whatever the latest version is offers no improvements. I'm not running older versions of these programs out of some desire for old fashioned ways, I'm running them because I've tried the updated versions and saw that their new "features" actually detract from the overall quality of the product, rather than improving it.
Blah, hit "submit" too soon. I meant to ask, how can someone have "Slashdot editor" as a full-time job? It's just a matter of saying yes, no, yes, no, and there's apparently no dupe checking, and certainly no prerequisite that you actually read the site you're employed to edit. So how do they manage to employ 5-10 guys to do this "job"?
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http://www.google.com/search?hs=dbt&hl=en&lr=&saf
http://www.randomdialogue.net/aboutme/minibio.php
There will always be a place for a format like "ZIP" even if only for its concatenation ability. Downloading 1000 1k files ends up being more time consuming than downloading a single 1 MB file. As for WinZip itself, I don't think most businesses have migrated from Win 2000 yet, and many don't plan to, so there's probably some life left in it.
What is this now, Pressreleasedot? I'm running WinZip 8.0 and will never upgrade it for the same reason I'll never upgrade from AIM 4.3, Acrobat 5, and Office 2000: the problem is solved and the old version does everything it should without any new useless cruft (why is Acrobat 7 ~25 megs to read PDF files? And why does it access the Internet at all?).
Did all the "old school" Slashdot editors leave or something? These new guys they have are pretty lame.
Well then...
= 23+canadian+dollars+to+pounds
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#currency
When used in this context, "code sign" doesn't make sense... shouldn't it be "Do you sign your code?" Or if it's intended as a new phrase, maybe it should be "Do you code-sign?"
Currency conversion with understands "convert 23 dollars to pounds"
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Psst... http://www.google.com/search?q=23+dollars+to+poun
When I setup a mail server for one of my previous employers I ended up blocking China, India, Israel and most of the rest of Asia/Middle East IP space. The company didn't ship internationally and the likelihood of receiving a legitimate email was so low that it wasn't worth the hundreds of spam messages we'd been receiving. By blocking Asia we eliminated 90% of incoming spam. Spam Assassin and a couple RBLs got rid of most of the rest.
The site is not responding right now, so maybe they clarify this point, but what's the purpose of putting a firewall, which traditionally does stuff like port filtering and rate limiting, at the browser level? Or are they just using the term "firewall" as a buzzword to indicate popup blocking, which really has nothing at all to do with a firewall?
Aren't all warez groups technically "organized crime" organizations? They're groups whose main objectives are illegal (copyright-infringing, whatever).
I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I personally am not interested in the voice chat aspect of Google's client, nor am I interested in building an IM "platform." When I use IM, I just want to send messages back and forth to someone, and as long as the service itself is adequate, as most are, for me it comes down to the client itself. With all that said, these days I am still running AIM 4.3 on my Windows machine because it's the least annoying (doesn't ask you to put in a zip code, has no "AIM Today" Window). I'd been using gaim on Windows for a while, but it seemed to add ~30 seconds to my system boot time (I think it installs gtk or something to run) which I found annoying, so after my last format I didn't bother with it. So far I've found Google's IM client (which, I realize, is still "Beta") pretty lackluster. While it's got a clean interface, I find even an aging version of AIM like 4.3 to be more friendly, and it has what I absolutely require: timestamps in the chat. I absolutely will not use an IM client that doesn't show timestamps for all events. This is a relatively simple thing to add, so I imagine it will be added as an option in a future version, but for now it's a showstopper for me. All in all, I don't see what the hype was about, it's Just Another Jabber Client. Voice chat? Whoopee...
In five years we'll be reading that "Evil Google causes firms to outsource" or some other such shit.
:-("
Bob Dickson, CEO of LaffTard.com, said, "I wanted to hire some guy right out of college for cheap, but Google offerred him so much more, and probably wouldn't fire him after 18 months, so I was forced, yes, FORCED, to use outsourced labor to develop my product. There's just no other way to keep paying my mortgage and the payments on my two Porsches.
Windowsz 95 Turns 10
Hmm, is that the Polish spelling? Or is 10 the the reading level of the editors today?
Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?)
... or "Not?"
So, is it "Really Coming"
Tomorrow: Microsoft Linux Definitely Confirmed (Possibly?)
What's even weirder is that the headline in my RSS feed ends with "< ? >", and if you look at the source for the page, it's there.
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="RSS' Win, Signals Atom's Death Toll<?> -- article related to Developers and The Internet."><LINK REL="top" TITLE="News for nerds, stuff that matters" HREF="//slashdot.org/" >
You'd think the "editors" of this site would at least take the time to CAPITALIZE the acronym AJAX to distinguish it from Ajax, the Greek warrior, or Ajax, the household cleaner...
Meh, just use "his" and be done with the politically correct crap. "His/her" and "(s)he" need to go away.
It's a Zonk article, and it links to 1up.com, apparently some kind of kickback site judging by the rate with which Slashdot links to them.
From what I can tell in his bio, this is now Zonk's full time job... you'd think he'd put a modicum of research into the stories he posts.