And then when your loyal customers enter a wrong key by mistake and suffer your wrath for a ligitimate mistake, what do you say to them? Oooh sorry, I thought you were a thief? Good bye customers and goodbye good will.
It is time the witch hunt stopped. Most good customers do not install or use dodgy software. If you upset the good customers in order to hurt those that would not buy anything anyway, then you will be the only loser.
No one is ignoring the problem. The issue here is the method used rather than the objective. If the method had stopped child porn there would not be a problem and the method would continue but the method did not do what it was meant to do. It block hundreds more sites than those it could legitemately target and therefore was blatently not working.
If it had effectively blocked just the child porn I would be screaming how wrong this was, if it had only affected a couple of other sites I would still support it but it took down hundreds (probably thousands) of legitimate sites and was therefore not legitimate.
IE is a browser that knows what you want and dictates to you that you will have it. A bit like a Saddam Hussein of the browser world. Whereas Firefox lets you turn it into what you want it to be and does not assume that it knows what you want. More like a Democracy:) Lets send in the troops and invade Redmond...
Another good reason for being insecure is the assesment of risk... I set up my brother's wi-fi and left it with fairly low security. He lives in a fairly remote area and has no sensitive data on the network, it is just 3 (his and one of each of his 2 children's rooms) computers connecting to the internet. If someone wants to go that far out of their way to get a free ride then so be it. To make it 99% (I do not believe in 100%) secure would invole more work than is realistically required.
The setup page on the network displays the mac addresses of the computers accessing the network and provides for a simple click to allow or disallow. I am sure this could be circumvented but I cannot see anyone going to that much trouble just for a free ride onto something that you can get for pennies.
With the current setting, if he has a friend stay (or a brother) with a laptop, they can easily be added to the network. If I had made the network safe, changes become to difficult for my brother to make and I have to get involved each time he has a visitor which makes the network too much of a headache to have.
This is a very good point. It is also worth adding that if you are on a motorway and are involved in an accident with other cars the risk of death is very low because all the energy is travelling in the same direction regardless of speed. On the other hand, if a lorry is involved the risk of death goes through the roof. That freight should be on the rails... We need to shift back to rail rather than abandon it.
I have to stop before I get into a political rant about fuel tax etc. and lack of investment on rail...
Do you happen to know which stretches of GNER route run next to the motorway? It is one thing to do 125mph (with a radar detector, of course) but I would like to be on a straight road:) All this to save 1p in online costs:)
You still cannot grasp the original point. That is why I simply discount you as a redneck. I could have made a reasonable response to your comment but as it did not address mine and only seemed to spout the sort of rhetoric I would expect from someone with a pillow case on their head, I could not see the point.
The friend that I came across the border with was born and bred in the USA from American parents. There is no more 'legal' than that. He was badly treated because of the colour of his skin. If the person on the garage floor or digging the garden is illegal then that is for the police to deal with, not some fool to abuse. To say 'I'm sure they could leave whenever they wanted' is just what the guys with pillow cases said. These are human beings and deserve to be treated fairly. Arrogant fools like you that think that non-Americans are there to be abused are the ones that give America such a bad name abroad. Keeping the slave mentality alive without the shackles is not any different from making the blacks use a different side of the road and saying 'we have given them their freedom'. It is a lie. The blacks were not free until they had an equal right to live a free and equal life. Why did those rights bypass the Latinos?
I have a better grasp of reality than some fool that cannot even read what is written. And as for the abuse that you include in your post, you seem to really like the redneck look.
When I was in the US (CA in fact) I was surprised at what I found. The racism and what I saw as slavery was all over. A black man can get away with killing his wife but it is fine to have a Mexican working as a labourer and sleeping on your garage floor. I know the background but I saw many Mexicans treated exactly like slaves. The fact that there would be a public outcry if you treated a black person this way is in itself racist. I came back from Mexico with an American friend and although I was the foreigner it was him that was badly treated because he is of Mexican descent. Whenever I saw anyone doing manual work in CA it was always a Mexican.
But we must change the words that we use ??? Why not stop the racism and slavery first!!!
30 to 60 Million Russians died at the hands of Stalin.
Read the book 'Operation Splinter Factor'... The British were getting those people killed. OK the Russians pulled the trigger but the British would send a postcard to someone they did not like saying 'The weather in Brighton is cold for the time of year' or some such nonsense and if the receipient could not explain it he was assumed to be a spy and shot.
Generally I agree with you. Wars are about power and elections. I think that such a weapon would have been used without hessitation in Iraq or Afghanistan. The media will tell us how great it is that our guys out their are not killing civilians (no matter how many are killed) and they can base their lies on a grain of truth.
We are currently given the impression that we use smart bombs that find their target and do not hurt anyone else. If you look more closely you will find out that in GWI it took 750 bombing runs to take out 35 bridges in Iraq. This is not as smart as we are led to believe. A lot of the smart bombs went into markets etc. and a lot ended up in fields. That did not matter because there was a grain of truth to base the lies on. It is also fair to say that this is better than carpet bombing.
This would be the same. You say about the loss of internet etc. but look at the power situation in Iraq. We are told that the power supply was really bad in Baghdad and that it was not us that destroyed it. If you look at all the film of the raids you will notice that all the lights were on. They had good power, if they did not have good power why did we target the power stations? Their supply is not as good as we are used to at home so there is the grain of truth and the lie still has become believed.
It is not loss of internet or electricity that loses the support of the locals. It is being invaded. If we do not give the people their country back they will hate us regardless. Give them the freedom they want and they will thank us. To do that we must leave their country and let them decide their future. If we decide who they can vote for then we are the new dictator and they will hate a foreign dictator more than the local one they had before. They must decide how to rebuild as it is wrong for us to benefit from the destruction we caused. If we leave we will be remembered as liberators but if we are still trying to control who they can vote for and who can have reconstruction contracts, then we can expect worse terror than we have seen so far. What would you do if your country was invaded ?
but technically it's only legal if the licence agreement allows for it.
Software licenses have not been applicable in the UK in the past. It would be theoretically possible to make one that was but I have not seen one so far. Shrink wrap or click through licenses are not legal in the UK because you do not know what you are agreeing to until you have installed and ran the application. There is precident to say that you are not bound by any such license because you cannot have known how good/bad the thing is until you have it running.
The British Prime Minister is so far up Bush's arse that it should be no surprise that he wants to copy US legislation. It will not be long before the UK becomes the 51st state.
This would be a good thing if the US was setting a good example but at present I would think that there could not be a worse time to follow the US lead.
I have an 2.4Ghz eCube with a couple of 250Gb drives. One in the drive bay and one in the foppy bay. It has a DVD/CD RW so I do not need a floppy. It has a Gb of RAM and the thing is running 24/7 quite happily. It has SuSE 9 on it now but that is obviously new:) It has been sitting there for about 6 months without a hiccup.
Just because the US government will bend over for anyone with a few dollars does not mean that all governments will. Outside of the US there is a growing tide of opinion against Microsoft. Although I have doubts about the current will of the EU to take tell Microsoft to stop I think the next case will see a shock result...
How can I tell people how wonderful I am if I do not have a personal web site? I think it is wrong to call them 'vanity sites' when I am simply relaying important information about how brilliant I am.
I am happy with my DVDs, CDs and MP3s on the same size disk and working in the same player. I do not see the point in getting yet another silver box in my sitting room. I am happy to have lost the turntable and now I do not even have a cassette deck as I can use CDR. I used to use CDRW but I can get CDRs so cheap now that I tend to burn anything.
They will have to go some to convince me that this is not just another useless bit of hype that I do not need. The Sony mini disks were a great idea but why would I *NEED* one? I have everything I need. I can store and play music or video of a better quality than my ears and eyes can appreciate.
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And then when your loyal customers enter a wrong key by mistake and suffer your wrath for a ligitimate mistake, what do you say to them? Oooh sorry, I thought you were a thief? Good bye customers and goodbye good will.
It is time the witch hunt stopped. Most good customers do not install or use dodgy software. If you upset the good customers in order to hurt those that would not buy anything anyway, then you will be the only loser.
No one is ignoring the problem. The issue here is the method used rather than the objective. If the method had stopped child porn there would not be a problem and the method would continue but the method did not do what it was meant to do. It block hundreds more sites than those it could legitemately target and therefore was blatently not working.
If it had effectively blocked just the child porn I would be screaming how wrong this was, if it had only affected a couple of other sites I would still support it but it took down hundreds (probably thousands) of legitimate sites and was therefore not legitimate.
IE is a browser that knows what you want and dictates to you that you will have it. A bit like a Saddam Hussein of the browser world. Whereas Firefox lets you turn it into what you want it to be and does not assume that it knows what you want. More like a Democracy :) Lets send in the troops and invade Redmond...
Another good reason for being insecure is the assesment of risk... I set up my brother's wi-fi and left it with fairly low security. He lives in a fairly remote area and has no sensitive data on the network, it is just 3 (his and one of each of his 2 children's rooms) computers connecting to the internet. If someone wants to go that far out of their way to get a free ride then so be it. To make it 99% (I do not believe in 100%) secure would invole more work than is realistically required.
The setup page on the network displays the mac addresses of the computers accessing the network and provides for a simple click to allow or disallow. I am sure this could be circumvented but I cannot see anyone going to that much trouble just for a free ride onto something that you can get for pennies.
With the current setting, if he has a friend stay (or a brother) with a laptop, they can easily be added to the network. If I had made the network safe, changes become to difficult for my brother to make and I have to get involved each time he has a visitor which makes the network too much of a headache to have.
This is a very good point. It is also worth adding that if you are on a motorway and are involved in an accident with other cars the risk of death is very low because all the energy is travelling in the same direction regardless of speed. On the other hand, if a lorry is involved the risk of death goes through the roof. That freight should be on the rails... We need to shift back to rail rather than abandon it.
I have to stop before I get into a political rant about fuel tax etc. and lack of investment on rail...
Do you happen to know which stretches of GNER route run next to the motorway? It is one thing to do 125mph (with a radar detector, of course) but I would like to be on a straight road :) All this to save 1p in online costs :)
You still cannot grasp the original point. That is why I simply discount you as a redneck. I could have made a reasonable response to your comment but as it did not address mine and only seemed to spout the sort of rhetoric I would expect from someone with a pillow case on their head, I could not see the point.
The friend that I came across the border with was born and bred in the USA from American parents. There is no more 'legal' than that. He was badly treated because of the colour of his skin. If the person on the garage floor or digging the garden is illegal then that is for the police to deal with, not some fool to abuse. To say 'I'm sure they could leave whenever they wanted' is just what the guys with pillow cases said. These are human beings and deserve to be treated fairly. Arrogant fools like you that think that non-Americans are there to be abused are the ones that give America such a bad name abroad. Keeping the slave mentality alive without the shackles is not any different from making the blacks use a different side of the road and saying 'we have given them their freedom'. It is a lie. The blacks were not free until they had an equal right to live a free and equal life. Why did those rights bypass the Latinos?
I have a better grasp of reality than some fool that cannot even read what is written. And as for the abuse that you include in your post, you seem to really like the redneck look.
Just as a matter of interest...
How many cars do you have out front?
How many have wheels?
How many have sunk up to their axles?
I mean... duh.
but I think you are assuming that human slaver
When I was in the US (CA in fact) I was surprised at what I found. The racism and what I saw as slavery was all over. A black man can get away with killing his wife but it is fine to have a Mexican working as a labourer and sleeping on your garage floor. I know the background but I saw many Mexicans treated exactly like slaves. The fact that there would be a public outcry if you treated a black person this way is in itself racist. I came back from Mexico with an American friend and although I was the foreigner it was him that was badly treated because he is of Mexican descent. Whenever I saw anyone doing manual work in CA it was always a Mexican.
But we must change the words that we use ??? Why not stop the racism and slavery first!!!
that we should have a vote on it ...
He critised the good old U. S. of A.
He must be either a marxist communist or a terrorist
30 to 60 Million Russians died at the hands of Stalin.
Read the book 'Operation Splinter Factor'... The British were getting those people killed. OK the Russians pulled the trigger but the British would send a postcard to someone they did not like saying 'The weather in Brighton is cold for the time of year' or some such nonsense and if the receipient could not explain it he was assumed to be a spy and shot.
Generally I agree with you. Wars are about power and elections. I think that such a weapon would have been used without hessitation in Iraq or Afghanistan. The media will tell us how great it is that our guys out their are not killing civilians (no matter how many are killed) and they can base their lies on a grain of truth.
We are currently given the impression that we use smart bombs that find their target and do not hurt anyone else. If you look more closely you will find out that in GWI it took 750 bombing runs to take out 35 bridges in Iraq. This is not as smart as we are led to believe. A lot of the smart bombs went into markets etc. and a lot ended up in fields. That did not matter because there was a grain of truth to base the lies on. It is also fair to say that this is better than carpet bombing.
This would be the same. You say about the loss of internet etc. but look at the power situation in Iraq. We are told that the power supply was really bad in Baghdad and that it was not us that destroyed it. If you look at all the film of the raids you will notice that all the lights were on. They had good power, if they did not have good power why did we target the power stations? Their supply is not as good as we are used to at home so there is the grain of truth and the lie still has become believed.
It is not loss of internet or electricity that loses the support of the locals. It is being invaded. If we do not give the people their country back they will hate us regardless. Give them the freedom they want and they will thank us. To do that we must leave their country and let them decide their future. If we decide who they can vote for then we are the new dictator and they will hate a foreign dictator more than the local one they had before. They must decide how to rebuild as it is wrong for us to benefit from the destruction we caused. If we leave we will be remembered as liberators but if we are still trying to control who they can vote for and who can have reconstruction contracts, then we can expect worse terror than we have seen so far. What would you do if your country was invaded ?
Bush is in excellent health
You missed out the word 'physical'
It is a synthetic vaccine so it is even further from his implication...
Maybe he is really a dealer and this is all the best advertising campain ever ...
You know his dope is the best... look at the way he runs a business...
That is so well put that I have decided that I want to have your babies. It is nice to see an objective view here :)
but technically it's only legal if the licence agreement allows for it.
Software licenses have not been applicable in the UK in the past. It would be theoretically possible to make one that was but I have not seen one so far. Shrink wrap or click through licenses are not legal in the UK because you do not know what you are agreeing to until you have installed and ran the application. There is precident to say that you are not bound by any such license because you cannot have known how good/bad the thing is until you have it running.
I wish that Bush agreed with you but at present he seems to be trying to take over the world...
The British Prime Minister is so far up Bush's arse that it should be no surprise that he wants to copy US legislation. It will not be long before the UK becomes the 51st state.
This would be a good thing if the US was setting a good example but at present I would think that there could not be a worse time to follow the US lead.
I have an 2.4Ghz eCube with a couple of 250Gb drives. One in the drive bay and one in the foppy bay. It has a DVD/CD RW so I do not need a floppy. It has a Gb of RAM and the thing is running 24/7 quite happily. It has SuSE 9 on it now but that is obviously new :) It has been sitting there for about 6 months without a hiccup.
I remember evaluating one at my old ISP job in 1998 (THAT takes me back).
Aaaah, nostalgia's not what it used to be.
Just because the US government will bend over for anyone with a few dollars does not mean that all governments will. Outside of the US there is a growing tide of opinion against Microsoft. Although I have doubts about the current will of the EU to take tell Microsoft to stop I think the next case will see a shock result...
How can I tell people how wonderful I am if I do not have a personal web site? I think it is wrong to call them 'vanity sites' when I am simply relaying important information about how brilliant I am.
I am happy with my DVDs, CDs and MP3s on the same size disk and working in the same player. I do not see the point in getting yet another silver box in my sitting room. I am happy to have lost the turntable and now I do not even have a cassette deck as I can use CDR. I used to use CDRW but I can get CDRs so cheap now that I tend to burn anything.
They will have to go some to convince me that this is not just another useless bit of hype that I do not need. The Sony mini disks were a great idea but why would I *NEED* one? I have everything I need. I can store and play music or video of a better quality than my ears and eyes can appreciate.