Why read the reviews, just watch any of the videos on the website. Dummy content, unable to deal with album art or video previews, everything in the videos looks like a placeholder.
The hi-res screen is the only thing this tablet seems to have going for it, and to get the res, you have to deal with a 16:9 device which most people who've held one say is awkward. There's no other object we hold on a daily basis that is near the 16:9 aspect ratio.The closest is legal sized paper, and look at how popular that is compared to standard letter paper in the US. Books, newspaper, bills, magazines, all closer to 4:3 ratio of old TV and what the iPad uses.
So you're benchmarking GNU/Hurd against GNU/Linux. Isn't much to most of the performance going to come from the GNU part of either system? The compiler, the runtime libraries, etc?
Eliminate the junk mail discounts/subsidies, shrink the work force once the volume drops off. Train the remaining workforce to actually be highly productive and friendly.
39 missions. The design goal we were sold on was a lifespan of 100 missions and that should have taken just a few years to accomplish. And how many of the parts in the current parts on Discovery are still original? Reusable? I don't think these things fit that description.
Yes, many neat and interesting things have come of the space shuttle program, but it was a failure when measured against of the original design goals. It was more expensive, less reliable, less repairable, and flew fewer missions and less often than it was supposed to.
To put it in perspective, would you call your car re-usable if you could only drive it every third day instead of whenever you wanted? Would you consider it a good value if it came promised with a 100,000 mile useful life and you had to retire it after on 30,000 miles? Would you spend the money to have it completely overhauled every time you used it?
I'm for happy to see the shuttle program go, lets invest the money in a space vehicle program than can deliver what SST promised 30 years ago.
Not really, people are involved and it was poor decision making by people that was the root cause of the shuttle destructions. solving known issues does not eliminate the risk of unknown issues or even repeats of the previous issues.
I am not a republican either, but you most certainly do not hate republicans and all they stand for.
Republicans stand for a strong and independent US, a federal government that lives within its means, the ability to achieve the American dream, etc...
Democrats do as well. The "two parties" agree on most topics and have very similar goals, but instead of getting together and doing something good with all that energy, they waste it on seeking out and fighting ravenously over the select few "wedge" issues.
The problem is that the wedge issues are so big they frequently don't have a right or wrong answer and require experimentation to test.
The big problem most democrats have with republicans is that the republicans muster and get their agenda accomplished then crow loudly about it. The democrats want to rule by committee and take a long time to come to an internal consensus about what to do, then just as long about how to do it. When they do accomplish something they don't hold a parade.
I think Obama should stand on the steps of the NYSE with a banner behind him that states "Recession Solved" in patriotic graphics and tell us all unequivocally how everything is better. Doesn't matter if anything is better, just that he says it is. This worked for Bush for a while.
I love it when they say some other country doesn't "get" the terrorist threat. Israel's airport security is easier to get through than in the US. IS anyone going to tell me that Israel doesn't know what terrorism is all about?
Directly to the letter's point:
If we can't bring water or liquids on the planes because the x-ray scanners can't identify those items as malicious or not, then how does taking off our shoes to scan for those undetectable items make us any safer?
No joke. If you aren't afraid of your god or death in general, truly believe in an eternal afterlife of bliss or no afterlife at all then suicide in exchange for drastically improving the remainder of your family is not an objectionable thing and may be seen as honorable in some societies. Don't impose your western ideals and morals on situations where they don't apply.
And again, what violations? You were screaming about human rights violations. Are parades, swimming pools, warm beds, hot and safe food torture now? Is a wage well above the average for the area considered abuse? How is an employee deciding to kill themselves a human rights violation?
The workers at FoxConn make about 10x what the peasants make working in the fields. Young Chinese are lining up outside FoxConn to make the money and reap the fringe benefits that go along with the job ( a dry bed, clean water, reliable food, relative security, etc).
Sure the workers at FoxConn aren't making $6.00/hr like a US worker who mops the floors, but what they are paid is a very fair wage for the region where they live.
And the suicides: The families of the dead worker are paid a stipend that equates to over one year of salary of the suicide worker. Why work to support yourself and your family when you can off yourself and your family wins the lottery? It is a truly selfless act.
Actually red lights are a hard concept to grasp, and you haven't, really. In the jurisdiction I've read the law in the traffic light laws say nothing about stopping.
A red light means "do not enter the intersection, you do not have right of way". I do NOT need to stop at a red light unless I am in danger of entering the intersection, however "intersection" is defined in your locale.
So if I borrow your rolling pin from the kitchen then bludgeon you neighbor with it, you are the one that should be held responsible because its your rolling pin? Unless of course you report the rolling pin stolen.
The G5 towers have 600W power supplies, there's no way they could ever draw 700W. At idle (with energy saver setting at "Automatic" or "Reduced" my dual 2GHz draws about 40W. I max out current draw at about 200W under max load with two drives running.
The US Post Office is fundamentally ill functioning and needs to be torn down from the inside out.
The Post Office is not a corporation. It has no functional reason to "grow" each year like a for-profit corporation. Stagnation in the growth of revenue or business at the USPO has no negative effects on the organization, its customers or the government.
The USPO doesn't "get" that. They are continually seeking ways to grow revenue. They advertise their services just like a for-profit corporation. They act like they need to grow or die.
One major side effect of this mentality is that the Postal Service tries to show how necessary it is by increasing the number of mail pieces it handles. With the advent of the Internet the number of mail pieces started to drop as people elected to receive documents via email instead of as physical mail. The USPO saw their business decline. Instead of just working with that and scaling back operations, they decided to court more direct marketing mail. Of course to do this, they had to lower the price of the mailings to make it attractive to marketers, so the mass-mailers are subsidized by the users of first class and express mail services. Some argue the other way around, but they are wrong. If first class mail where to go away (due to customer's going elsewhere) the discounted direct-mail service could not survive on its own. One of the ways that the USPO gets mass marketers to use reduced rate bulk mail is by refusing to certify many new housing communities as urban delivery routes. See, if a community is on an urban route the sender must purchase, assemble and maintain a mailing list. Each address on an urban route must be unique on each mailing piece. By designating a community as a rural route the rules change and a simple address such as "ECR/RCW" is all the address you need as a mail marketer.
If the Postal Service were to get back to its roots, stop courting junk-mailers, and simply exist and the government agency for allowing citizens to communicate with each other, the size would be much smaller, the costs lower and all this non-sense about no Saturday delivery would end.
The initial exploration is interesting and challenging but the second time through it boring so why can't I just skip it and get to where I will inevitably be, instantly.
The corallary to that is:
The initial killing of a monster is interesting and challenging but the second time is boring, so why don't we just skip it and say I killed all the orcs.
Perhaps you should seek treatment for for ADD instead of trying to get game designs to completely alter the game play and balance of power in the game.
If we start taking huge amounts of energy out of the atmosphere in the form of wind turbines, what effect will this have on weather patterns? If you put up a wind farm in the midwest, does it alter the wind speeds enough to change the flow of the jet stream and ultimately change where rain falls, or average temperatures? The knee-jerk reaction of most people will be "it won't hurt anything". But we are talking about removing a huge amount of energy world-wide. Someone better study this before we start heading in that direction.
The have switched much of their bookcase/shelf lighting over to LED and I think they have some small table/floor/desk lamps that are starting to appear in the lineup. There are more 'traditional' fixtures with small reflector hoods meant to light a small case or cabinet as well as puck lights and strip lights. None of the Ikea lights flicker, and I'm very conscious of flicker in LED and CRT. The standard white fixtures are very well priced. The have some more expensive units that will change to any color (RGB LEDs) or cycle between preset colors automatically. The set that has four 12in variable color strips is $50.
Likewise the 'christmas' LEDs I bought have no flicker (I recall gruntal was the name).
Since there is no tax on the purchases now and this would require new legislation so the tax could be any amount. Your $.99 download could be taxed $.51 suddenly making your songs cost $1.50 each and erasing almost any hope you'll buy online.
The thing that bothers me most about the inflammatory language used by the politicians regarding the urgency of the issue and the hot-button programs they say they have to cut to make the budget balance. In my home town of Mesa, AZ the idiot mayor and most of council were saying the budget was a mess, all these bonds were coming due, roads needed fixing and we had to close the libraries and lay off lots of police and fire personnel to balance the budget. One council member was level headed and came up with a budget that balanced the budget (or nearly so) and only cut non-essential services such as after school art programs and the funny one... slicing the monthly cell phone stipend for the council members from $3,000 to $500, over $200K in savings for the year. The council voted strongly against the centrist, level headed plan and the alarmist budget went to a public vote. Since this was all televised as a "town meeting" and many people saw that there was no 'need' to cut police and library personnel the majority budget was soundly defeated. To this day I think the mayor and council sill get an obscene allowance for cell phone and car usage. The biggest idiocy was that most of the council claimed the city didn't know the bonds from 14 years ago were coming due. How stupid or willfully ignorant do you have to be to not know that your budget needs to account for several million dollars of debt service?
His argument will be that he was attempting to get at the records he was rightfully allowed access to but denied because of her illegal and deceptive practice of using a non-sanctioned account.
Yes, he will be charged and no she won't. That's the injustice of our society.
If he'd hacked YOUR account would he have been indicted or even investigated? You'd be lucky if Yahoo would even reset your password for you, never mind cooperate in an investigation.
Politicians and business leaders get the protection of the law, the rest of us get the wrath of the law.
Malls are private property in the sense that they are owned by an entity other than the government, ie: a person or corporation. Malls however are public spaces/areas. Anyone is welcome to enter the mall during operating hours without asking permission, paying an entry fee, or other inhibition save opening the door. Further, these places advertise themselves to the public as being open an welcoming to all. Several shopping areas are slightly different, such as the private members club. You must pay a fee and show your member card to enter, so the rules are different there.
The Mall operators have the right, since its their property, to set rules for conduct on their private property: no weapons, entry only from 6am to 10pm, no outside food, no photography, etc. BUT, you can not be arrested or charged for any such violation of those rules/policies by the "security guards" or anyone else during the posted opening hours. You can also be asked to leave the property for no reason whatsoever, and you can be arrested for simply entering the locked mall during non-business hours (breaking and entering, criminal trespass, destruction of property, etc)
If a security guard (or other agent of the property owner) makes known to you who they are and asks you to leave the property then they may call the police/sheriff/peace officer and ask that you be charged with trespassing. In some states if they have reasonable cause to think you have committed some sort of crime anyone might be able to detain you pending arrival of peace officers(in AZ if I've witnessed some misdemeanors or think you've committed a felony I can arrest and detain you even though I'm not a peace officer)
Generally what happens if you continue to ignore the security guard's request is the police eventually arrive and ask the guard to once again ask you to leave so there is now a witness to the event. If you refuse to leave the police officer will usually explain that you will be arrested if you do not leave the property and ask you to please comply with the security guard's request. The officer doesn't want to waste time on that much paperwork over something so trivial and will sometimes almost beg you to leave.
If you are stupid, or obstinate, and refuse to leave after the officer has explained things then you will be handcuffed and removed by whatever force the officer feels appropriate for your demeanor and reactions. Your charge will not be taking pictures or screaming or disobeying a security guard, it will be unlawful trespass. Whether it winds up a misdemeanor or felony charge depends on how you were behaving and how much you piss off the peace officer (which you took a big step in doing by forcing an arrest).
Up to the point you are placed in handcuffs you are free to continue taking pictures of whatever you like, including the peace officer. You can continue to take pictures the entire time you walk out of the mall.
What happens to the Earth's climate when we're taking all this solar energy that would normally warm the planet or feed the plants and instead route it to doing mechanical work or lighting our homes. We're talking about fundamentally altering the ecosystem by removing a good percentage of solar energy from it. Same for wind farms... has anyone studied how these farms affect down-wind weather patterns with the megawatts of energy we remove from the airs stream?
Current global warming stupidity aside, these "renewable energy" initiatives could have some scary repercussions for the environment.
During the installation program's operation and printer setup process, yes.
The process described is providing a raw DLL file that is being included from an insecure location without any verification, authorization or authentication.
This has been verified by another poster in another thread: download the file with IE and put it on the desktop and the next time you launch IE, the exploit it enabled.
Marking the file safe or unsafe will likely not fix the issue. You aren't launching the DLL and IE isn't "opening it" like it would a bookmark or web archive or.jpg. It's including the DLL's code in to the execution environment of the parent process (IE) and thus bypassing any unsafe filesystem flag.
Then again, maybe I'm wrong. If you download and install a printer driver, are you warned the driver is unsafe the first time your try to print?
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Why read the reviews, just watch any of the videos on the website. Dummy content, unable to deal with album art or video previews, everything in the videos looks like a placeholder.
The hi-res screen is the only thing this tablet seems to have going for it, and to get the res, you have to deal with a 16:9 device which most people who've held one say is awkward. There's no other object we hold on a daily basis that is near the 16:9 aspect ratio.The closest is legal sized paper, and look at how popular that is compared to standard letter paper in the US. Books, newspaper, bills, magazines, all closer to 4:3 ratio of old TV and what the iPad uses.
So you're benchmarking GNU/Hurd against GNU/Linux. Isn't much to most of the performance going to come from the GNU part of either system? The compiler, the runtime libraries, etc?
Eliminate the junk mail discounts/subsidies, shrink the work force once the volume drops off.
Train the remaining workforce to actually be highly productive and friendly.
Success.
39 missions. The design goal we were sold on was a lifespan of 100 missions and that should have taken just a few years to accomplish.
And how many of the parts in the current parts on Discovery are still original? Reusable? I don't think these things fit that description.
Yes, many neat and interesting things have come of the space shuttle program, but it was a failure when measured against of the original design goals. It was more expensive, less reliable, less repairable, and flew fewer missions and less often than it was supposed to.
To put it in perspective, would you call your car re-usable if you could only drive it every third day instead of whenever you wanted? Would you consider it a good value if it came promised with a 100,000 mile useful life and you had to retire it after on 30,000 miles? Would you spend the money to have it completely overhauled every time you used it?
I'm for happy to see the shuttle program go, lets invest the money in a space vehicle program than can deliver what SST promised 30 years ago.
Not really, people are involved and it was poor decision making by people that was the root cause of the shuttle destructions.
solving known issues does not eliminate the risk of unknown issues or even repeats of the previous issues.
WTF is a "northern muslim"?
Is that like a Western jew or a Southern Buddhist?
I am not a republican either, but you most certainly do not hate republicans and all they stand for.
Republicans stand for a strong and independent US, a federal government that lives within its means, the ability to achieve the American dream, etc...
Democrats do as well. The "two parties" agree on most topics and have very similar goals, but instead of getting together and doing something good with all that energy, they waste it on seeking out and fighting ravenously over the select few "wedge" issues.
The problem is that the wedge issues are so big they frequently don't have a right or wrong answer and require experimentation to test.
The big problem most democrats have with republicans is that the republicans muster and get their agenda accomplished then crow loudly about it.
The democrats want to rule by committee and take a long time to come to an internal consensus about what to do, then just as long about how to do it. When they do accomplish something they don't hold a parade.
I think Obama should stand on the steps of the NYSE with a banner behind him that states "Recession Solved" in patriotic graphics and tell us all unequivocally how everything is better. Doesn't matter if anything is better, just that he says it is. This worked for Bush for a while.
I love it when they say some other country doesn't "get" the terrorist threat. Israel's airport security is easier to get through than in the US. IS anyone going to tell me that Israel doesn't know what terrorism is all about?
Directly to the letter's point:
If we can't bring water or liquids on the planes because the x-ray scanners can't identify those items as malicious or not, then how does taking off our shoes to scan for those undetectable items make us any safer?
Isn't a popup the point of porn?
No joke.
If you aren't afraid of your god or death in general, truly believe in an eternal afterlife of bliss or no afterlife at all then suicide in exchange for drastically improving the remainder of your family is not an objectionable thing and may be seen as honorable in some societies.
Don't impose your western ideals and morals on situations where they don't apply.
And again, what violations? You were screaming about human rights violations. Are parades, swimming pools, warm beds, hot and safe food torture now? Is a wage well above the average for the area considered abuse?
How is an employee deciding to kill themselves a human rights violation?
What violations?
The workers at FoxConn make about 10x what the peasants make working in the fields. Young Chinese are lining up outside FoxConn to make the money and reap the fringe benefits that go along with the job ( a dry bed, clean water, reliable food, relative security, etc).
Sure the workers at FoxConn aren't making $6.00/hr like a US worker who mops the floors, but what they are paid is a very fair wage for the region where they live.
And the suicides: The families of the dead worker are paid a stipend that equates to over one year of salary of the suicide worker. Why work to support yourself and your family when you can off yourself and your family wins the lottery? It is a truly selfless act.
Actually red lights are a hard concept to grasp, and you haven't, really.
In the jurisdiction I've read the law in the traffic light laws say nothing about stopping.
A red light means "do not enter the intersection, you do not have right of way".
I do NOT need to stop at a red light unless I am in danger of entering the intersection, however "intersection" is defined in your locale.
So if I borrow your rolling pin from the kitchen then bludgeon you neighbor with it, you are the one that should be held responsible because its your rolling pin?
Unless of course you report the rolling pin stolen.
Your numbers are way off.
The G5 towers have 600W power supplies, there's no way they could ever draw 700W.
At idle (with energy saver setting at "Automatic" or "Reduced" my dual 2GHz draws about 40W. I max out current draw at about 200W under max load with two drives running.
The US Post Office is fundamentally ill functioning and needs to be torn down from the inside out.
The Post Office is not a corporation. It has no functional reason to "grow" each year like a for-profit corporation. Stagnation in the growth of revenue or business at the USPO has no negative effects on the organization, its customers or the government.
The USPO doesn't "get" that. They are continually seeking ways to grow revenue. They advertise their services just like a for-profit corporation. They act like they need to grow or die.
One major side effect of this mentality is that the Postal Service tries to show how necessary it is by increasing the number of mail pieces it handles. With the advent of the Internet the number of mail pieces started to drop as people elected to receive documents via email instead of as physical mail. The USPO saw their business decline. Instead of just working with that and scaling back operations, they decided to court more direct marketing mail. Of course to do this, they had to lower the price of the mailings to make it attractive to marketers, so the mass-mailers are subsidized by the users of first class and express mail services. Some argue the other way around, but they are wrong. If first class mail where to go away (due to customer's going elsewhere) the discounted direct-mail service could not survive on its own.
One of the ways that the USPO gets mass marketers to use reduced rate bulk mail is by refusing to certify many new housing communities as urban delivery routes. See, if a community is on an urban route the sender must purchase, assemble and maintain a mailing list. Each address on an urban route must be unique on each mailing piece. By designating a community as a rural route the rules change and a simple address such as "ECR/RCW" is all the address you need as a mail marketer.
If the Postal Service were to get back to its roots, stop courting junk-mailers, and simply exist and the government agency for allowing citizens to communicate with each other, the size would be much smaller, the costs lower and all this non-sense about no Saturday delivery would end.
If I understand your argument:
The initial exploration is interesting and challenging but the second time through it boring so why can't I just skip it and get to where I will inevitably be, instantly.
The corallary to that is:
The initial killing of a monster is interesting and challenging but the second time is boring, so why don't we just skip it and say I killed all the orcs.
Perhaps you should seek treatment for for ADD instead of trying to get game designs to completely alter the game play and balance of power in the game.
If we start taking huge amounts of energy out of the atmosphere in the form of wind turbines, what effect will this have on weather patterns?
If you put up a wind farm in the midwest, does it alter the wind speeds enough to change the flow of the jet stream and ultimately change where rain falls, or average temperatures?
The knee-jerk reaction of most people will be "it won't hurt anything". But we are talking about removing a huge amount of energy world-wide. Someone better study this before we start heading in that direction.
Ikea.
The have switched much of their bookcase/shelf lighting over to LED and I think they have some small table/floor/desk lamps that are starting to appear in the lineup.
There are more 'traditional' fixtures with small reflector hoods meant to light a small case or cabinet as well as puck lights and strip lights.
None of the Ikea lights flicker, and I'm very conscious of flicker in LED and CRT.
The standard white fixtures are very well priced. The have some more expensive units that will change to any color (RGB LEDs) or cycle between preset colors automatically.
The set that has four 12in variable color strips is $50.
Likewise the 'christmas' LEDs I bought have no flicker (I recall gruntal was the name).
Since there is no tax on the purchases now and this would require new legislation so the tax could be any amount. Your $.99 download could be taxed $.51 suddenly making your songs cost $1.50 each and erasing almost any hope you'll buy online.
The thing that bothers me most about the inflammatory language used by the politicians regarding the urgency of the issue and the hot-button programs they say they have to cut to make the budget balance. In my home town of Mesa, AZ the idiot mayor and most of council were saying the budget was a mess, all these bonds were coming due, roads needed fixing and we had to close the libraries and lay off lots of police and fire personnel to balance the budget. One council member was level headed and came up with a budget that balanced the budget (or nearly so) and only cut non-essential services such as after school art programs and the funny one... slicing the monthly cell phone stipend for the council members from $3,000 to $500, over $200K in savings for the year. The council voted strongly against the centrist, level headed plan and the alarmist budget went to a public vote. Since this was all televised as a "town meeting" and many people saw that there was no 'need' to cut police and library personnel the majority budget was soundly defeated.
To this day I think the mayor and council sill get an obscene allowance for cell phone and car usage.
The biggest idiocy was that most of the council claimed the city didn't know the bonds from 14 years ago were coming due. How stupid or willfully ignorant do you have to be to not know that your budget needs to account for several million dollars of debt service?
His argument will be that he was attempting to get at the records he was rightfully allowed access to but denied because of her illegal and deceptive practice of using a non-sanctioned account.
Yes, he will be charged and no she won't. That's the injustice of our society.
If he'd hacked YOUR account would he have been indicted or even investigated? You'd be lucky if Yahoo would even reset your password for you, never mind cooperate in an investigation.
Politicians and business leaders get the protection of the law, the rest of us get the wrath of the law.
Malls are private property in the sense that they are owned by an entity other than the government, ie: a person or corporation.
Malls however are public spaces/areas. Anyone is welcome to enter the mall during operating hours without asking permission, paying an entry fee, or other inhibition save opening the door. Further, these places advertise themselves to the public as being open an welcoming to all. Several shopping areas are slightly different, such as the private members club. You must pay a fee and show your member card to enter, so the rules are different there.
The Mall operators have the right, since its their property, to set rules for conduct on their private property: no weapons, entry only from 6am to 10pm, no outside food, no photography, etc. BUT, you can not be arrested or charged for any such violation of those rules/policies by the "security guards" or anyone else during the posted opening hours. You can also be asked to leave the property for no reason whatsoever, and you can be arrested for simply entering the locked mall during non-business hours (breaking and entering, criminal trespass, destruction of property, etc)
If a security guard (or other agent of the property owner) makes known to you who they are and asks you to leave the property then they may call the police/sheriff/peace officer and ask that you be charged with trespassing. In some states if they have reasonable cause to think you have committed some sort of crime anyone might be able to detain you pending arrival of peace officers(in AZ if I've witnessed some misdemeanors or think you've committed a felony I can arrest and detain you even though I'm not a peace officer)
Generally what happens if you continue to ignore the security guard's request is the police eventually arrive and ask the guard to once again ask you to leave so there is now a witness to the event. If you refuse to leave the police officer will usually explain that you will be arrested if you do not leave the property and ask you to please comply with the security guard's request. The officer doesn't want to waste time on that much paperwork over something so trivial and will sometimes almost beg you to leave.
If you are stupid, or obstinate, and refuse to leave after the officer has explained things then you will be handcuffed and removed by whatever force the officer feels appropriate for your demeanor and reactions. Your charge will not be taking pictures or screaming or disobeying a security guard, it will be unlawful trespass. Whether it winds up a misdemeanor or felony charge depends on how you were behaving and how much you piss off the peace officer (which you took a big step in doing by forcing an arrest).
Up to the point you are placed in handcuffs you are free to continue taking pictures of whatever you like, including the peace officer. You can continue to take pictures the entire time you walk out of the mall.
I'm curious...
What happens to the Earth's climate when we're taking all this solar energy that would normally warm the planet or feed the plants and instead route it to doing mechanical work or lighting our homes.
We're talking about fundamentally altering the ecosystem by removing a good percentage of solar energy from it.
Same for wind farms... has anyone studied how these farms affect down-wind weather patterns with the megawatts of energy we remove from the airs stream?
Current global warming stupidity aside, these "renewable energy" initiatives could have some scary repercussions for the environment.
ANY search I perform tells me that there are no results.
I tried searching for "smith"... Sorry, no results. I have to assume this is due to the overload?
During the installation program's operation and printer setup process, yes.
The process described is providing a raw DLL file that is being included from an insecure location without any verification, authorization or authentication.
This has been verified by another poster in another thread: download the file with IE and put it on the desktop and the next time you launch IE, the exploit it enabled.
Marking the file safe or unsafe will likely not fix the issue. You aren't launching the DLL and IE isn't "opening it" like it would a bookmark or web archive or .jpg. It's including the DLL's code in to the execution environment of the parent process (IE) and thus bypassing any unsafe filesystem flag.
Then again, maybe I'm wrong. If you download and install a printer driver, are you warned the driver is unsafe the first time your try to print?