Sounds like the perfect setup. Don't allow your tech support to mention spyware removal tools at all and give them the green-light to say "once you've used that program I can't support you" and now Dell's ready to ship spyware pre-installed to their customers. Or should I say victims.
Get ready for the next, most insidious round of spyware yet, kids. Your PC calling back to the mothership reporting to the manufacturer everything you're doing, giving them the ammunition to call you up and say "now you've done it your warrany is void." Then some pot-smoking, commercial-acting intern will crack into the master database and get all your favorite pr0n URLs.
Debian development is still rolling along. The compromise didn't stop the developers. You just won't see new versions posted & distributed until the compromised systems are checked and brought online, and the updated packages pushed out to them.
New York's registry requires that people using the search enter their own address. I think this might be a new feature, last time I saw the registry I don't remember having to give up my info.
In fact, in ASP.NET, MS has gone out of its way to make sure that all the controls they provide work in any modern browser. Even in the (rare) cases where IE-specific features are used, the code produced degrades gracefully and is usable in Mozilla.
And have you seen some of the code.NET produces in this case? I took a.NET class last spring and tried it out. IE gets nice CSS-positioned controls. Anything else (checked NN4, Moz and Opera) gets fugly nested tables. Does it work? Maybe. Is it a good way to do it? Hardly.
But, I guess it's like any other web environment these days. There's IE and then there's the second-class citizens who are actually more capable than IE, but ignored due to developer/designer ignorance & arrogance.
My sister's college network has port 25 outbound blocked, so she can't use our family's hosted email. She can receive just fine, but she can't send via the STMP server our host provides.
Tried sending through the school's SMTP host with From & Reply-To set to her "hosted" address. Refused to relay.
Our host set up an additional port, in the hopes that they just blocked the standard port. I can telnet from her machine to the host on that port, but MozMail can't make the connection.
Then my VNC connection got cut off, so I had to stop testing things. Seems like they blocked those ports too. She's down to only being able to use HTTP, FTP, and IM protocols as far as I can tell.
However, even at Dodger games there's nothing to stop you from bringing in your own food and drinks, (no alcohol 'though) and watching the game. I've brought whole buckets of chicken and half a dozen bottles of bottled water into the game, no problem
One sample does not mean a whole lot. I went to a Mets/Yankees game at Shea last summer. My father had enough trouble getting a small bag that he must carry with him all the time past the gate. Forget trying to bring food beyond candy bars in. So we're at the park 2 hours before the game (we were on a bus trip from upstate). It's 55 and raining. Need hot food to keep going. Not going to bring that in too easily. Then there's the pre-game rain delay. Another 45 minutes. Then a 90-minute delay in the 4th until they decide to call the game. All told, we spent a lot more than "three hours or less" in the park. And froze our asses off. In June.
If you can't manage to eat before or wait 'til after that's too bad.
Tell that to a diabetic who needs to keep their blood sugar up at a ballgame that started after lunch, then had a rain delay and/or went into extra innings (luckily a candy bar will suffice in a pinch). Or to someone who has medication they must take with food.
As I said before, the people that are willing to pay the higher price are the ones to blame. Bitching about it and paying the inflated prices only makes it worse.
Willing to pay? Well, I guess I was "willing" to make the choice between attempting to stave off hypothermia (yes, Virginia, you can go hypothermic in June, I'd done it once before) with no food in my stomach and paying $12 for a dog, pretzel and drink to give my body fuel to burn for heat. Some choice there.
Until you see ballparks actively advertising "yes, you can bring food in, please feel free to do so" and not making it a massive hassle to actually get the cooler/backpack/whatever in the door, I'll consider it a "your choices are pay up or starve" situation.
Prices for those things are driven my supply and demand. The reason a Coke costs $5 at a ball game is because people will pay that price. Tickets likewise are driven by what people are willing to pay.
Will pay that price? How about forced to pay that price. You're in a stadium for 4 hours. You need drink and likely food (especially in the "cold" events - early spring baseball, hockey seats close to the ice, most outdoor football games, etc.). You're not allowed to bring outside food & drink in. What options do you have?
Supply and demand my ass. They charge it because you ahve no alternative, so they can charge exorbitant amounts. Just like in Disney World.
And are not allowed in some neighborhoods, almost all apartment complexes, are expensive (a one-time cost, plus maintenance), noisy, have no pollution controls and will require some measure of power conditioning before putting the juice to your electronic devices if you want to be safe with them.
I don't think EULAs have been tested thoroughly in court. Under close scrutiny, part or all of the MS EULA they may be found unenforcable, null and void.
Really sucks when you follow the directions to the letter and end up going several miles in the wrong direction at 10:30 PM, ultimately missing a party you just drove 5 hours to get to.
I keep going back to figuring out my own route once I know where the destination is. I'll use Yahoo or MapQuest to give me an idea of roughly how to get there, but I always take an atlas or local roadmap and my GPS with me.
And that the competition has no marketing ability. Not to harsh on your mellow or anything, but do you really believe technical superiority is what wins over the masses?
No, what wins over "the masses" is being there, right on the desktop, upon installation of the OS, and being just good enough to not push the user to go download something else on their crappy-ass dialup connection. Marketing hasn't even had an opportunity to play in the game yet.
And that the competition has no marketing ability. Not to harsh on your mellow or anything, but do you really believe technical superiority is what wins over the masses?No, what wins over "the masses" is being there, right on the desktop, upon installation of the OS, and being just good enough to not push the user to go downlaod something else on their crappy-ass dialup connection.
"Free" TV shows? I'm paying close to $60/month to get those "free" TV shows. When every one of them goes on commercial at the same time for the same amount of time (many running similar commercials), how do I avoid them?
Nonetheless, most dealers have at least heard of it and will stop dead in their tracks when the car owner mentions it when the dealer tries to void a warranty claim.
I know people who've been faced with the situation. As soon as they mention the act, the dealer shuts up and fixes the problem under warranty.
It's called the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1974. Anyone who's into repairing or modifying their own car should be be aware of it. Also see SEMA's page on the issue.
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Exactly. Which puts Dell in a great position to put this crap on the systems "preloaded" and then when it's removed, say "we can't support you."
The system really blew it with that guy. How he was allowed to go 50 years before being imprisoned long-term for repeat offenses boggles the mind.
Get ready for the next, most insidious round of spyware yet, kids. Your PC calling back to the mothership reporting to the manufacturer everything you're doing, giving them the ammunition to call you up and say "now you've done it your warrany is void." Then some pot-smoking, commercial-acting intern will crack into the master database and get all your favorite pr0n URLs.
Debian development is still rolling along. The compromise didn't stop the developers. You just won't see new versions posted & distributed until the compromised systems are checked and brought online, and the updated packages pushed out to them.
New York's registry requires that people using the search enter their own address. I think this might be a new feature, last time I saw the registry I don't remember having to give up my info.
But, I guess it's like any other web environment these days. There's IE and then there's the second-class citizens who are actually more capable than IE, but ignored due to developer/designer ignorance & arrogance.
the torrent!
Because it mans you're no longer an "entry-level" person, you now have some clout.
Tried sending through the school's SMTP host with From & Reply-To set to her "hosted" address. Refused to relay.
Our host set up an additional port, in the hopes that they just blocked the standard port. I can telnet from her machine to the host on that port, but MozMail can't make the connection.
Then my VNC connection got cut off, so I had to stop testing things. Seems like they blocked those ports too. She's down to only being able to use HTTP, FTP, and IM protocols as far as I can tell.
Until you see ballparks actively advertising "yes, you can bring food in, please feel free to do so" and not making it a massive hassle to actually get the cooler/backpack/whatever in the door, I'll consider it a "your choices are pay up or starve" situation.
Supply and demand my ass. They charge it because you ahve no alternative, so they can charge exorbitant amounts. Just like in Disney World.
And are not allowed in some neighborhoods, almost all apartment complexes, are expensive (a one-time cost, plus maintenance), noisy, have no pollution controls and will require some measure of power conditioning before putting the juice to your electronic devices if you want to be safe with them.
I don't think EULAs have been tested thoroughly in court. Under close scrutiny, part or all of the MS EULA they may be found unenforcable, null and void.
It helps if there are no clouds. I've missed out on the show because it's been raining for about a week.
Both the print and online editions of Newsweek have an article about the systems as well.
Luckily our terrestrial weather forcasting (which has a far greater impact on our lives) is a little better. I've had more warning before tornados!
I keep going back to figuring out my own route once I know where the destination is. I'll use Yahoo or MapQuest to give me an idea of roughly how to get there, but I always take an atlas or local roadmap and my GPS with me.
It's a backwards Smart Bomb!
In Soviet Russia, ground smart-bombs plane!
"Free" TV shows? I'm paying close to $60/month to get those "free" TV shows. When every one of them goes on commercial at the same time for the same amount of time (many running similar commercials), how do I avoid them?
I know people who've been faced with the situation. As soon as they mention the act, the dealer shuts up and fixes the problem under warranty.
Corection. that was 1975, not 1974.
It's called the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1974. Anyone who's into repairing or modifying their own car should be be aware of it. Also see SEMA's page on the issue.