Any truly important, official communication from a government agency, or from any company demaning payment of any sort, is going to send it in a printed letter, not an email.
The average user does not know that. Perhaps they just don't care, or they're too ignorant to know better. Unfortunately, that "fact of life" is exactly why phishing emails work.
My wife is a perfect example. She is intelligent, but not technically savvy. She once asked me if she should click/touch something on her Android phone. It was an advertisement, disguised to look like a "you've got mail" alert. I told her to ignore it, since it's just an ad. "But it says I have mail, shouldn't I click on it?" No, honey, anything that appears in that area of the screen (in that particular app) is just an advertisement. Ignore it. "But it looks so real!"
We even had a successful phishing attack at work recently. The email said it came from the IT department, and that you needed to click on the link to validate your domain credentials. It didn't look like any of our official communications, and the "click here" link was a shortened URL. It was pretty obvious to me that it was a phishing attempt, but several users clicked on the link anyway, and keyed in their domain credentials into the web form. Thankfully, it didn't install a cryptovirus, or spread to the network.
What's really bothersome is not that they were collecting the data but that he had to prove his innocence instead of the State having to prove his guilt. It's a disturbing trend where we're proving innocence as opposed to relying on the State to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
By a jury of your peers. Most of your peers are gullible and hate baby killers.
A jury of your peers is meaningless when the lawyers get to hand-pick those peers.
Microsoft: Windows 10 is running on 270 million devices. Come join the crowd, your gonna love it!
Reality:.01% of those installations were chosen by the users. The rest were forced onto users with legitimate Win7 or Win8 licenses by the Windows Update process.
Most Americans don't interfere in the business of any country.
I've been a U.S. citizen for my entire life of almost 50 years, and no President has ever asked my opinion before he acted like the world's biggest bully.
He asks for your opinion every 4 years...
Really? Even if I didn't vote for him?
I have never voted for an incumbent in any election, and I ALWAYS vote. I want to get rid of the a**holes, not bring them back so they can continue screwing up.
Most Americans don't interfere in the business of any country.
I've been a U.S. citizen for my entire life of almost 50 years, and no President has ever asked my opinion before he acted like the world's biggest bully.
Big Government doesn't care. They have their jobs, and their pockets get lined by Big Business. That's all they care about.
The only way crap like this will be stopped is if we replace our entire government. A revolt of the masses is unlikely, so send a message to the bureaucrats by NOT voting for ANY incumbent of ANY party. Once we get rid of enough "professional politicians" things should start to change.
uBlock Origin is still working just fine. I suggest you move away from ABP immediately and shift over to something which hasn't, yet, been corrupted by the industry.
More than that, uBlock bases itself around higher performance than ABP. That was the reason I switched.
I tried uBlock last year because of the performance claims, but I didn't like the UI for several reasons:
1) I don't see a white list
2) I can't see a list of what is being blocked
3) It doesn't block Facebook and Google+ buttons/tracking
4) I don't care how much blocking it does "behind the scenes." If it doesn't show me what it's blocking, then I assume that it's not doing enough. Merely displaying a "blocked" number in the icon is not enough.
The problem with script alternatives is that they do so many things that any one script can often replace any other script, depending on the context. I doubt if a "cross-reference list" would have much value.
Of course, all this depends on Firefox having as many users as possible: the more users they have, the more eyeballs, and the more money they can get from these other parties. So if they push a bunch of crap on users (and ignore desired features and performance and reliability) and piss them off so they switch to other browsers, that's going to result in less money for them.
That's what I meant by "diminishing market share".
Greedy/incompetent/careless corporations?
Greedy lawyers?
Greedy executives, who still get their golden parachute even after f***ing up a company?
Greedy/moronic politicians?
Notice any similarity in those choices? Greed, the root of all evil.
You sound like one of those people who believe anything they read on the Internet.
My background in education instilled a mistrust in wikis. Since they can be edited by anyone, they cannot be used as references in collegiate papers. I would much rather use a reliable source than one where anybody can just make up shit.
Is that some dictionary that anybody can edit? Who would use a "dictionary" that any uneducated schmuck could edit? Perhaps the same people who think "10 times less" is grammatically correct.
Dictionary.com (I mean dictionary.reference.com) does not list "impulsed" because it is not a word. It just asks "Did you mean impulse?"
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Any truly important, official communication from a government agency, or from any company demaning payment of any sort, is going to send it in a printed letter, not an email.
The average user does not know that. Perhaps they just don't care, or they're too ignorant to know better. Unfortunately, that "fact of life" is exactly why phishing emails work.
My wife is a perfect example. She is intelligent, but not technically savvy. She once asked me if she should click/touch something on her Android phone. It was an advertisement, disguised to look like a "you've got mail" alert. I told her to ignore it, since it's just an ad. "But it says I have mail, shouldn't I click on it?" No, honey, anything that appears in that area of the screen (in that particular app) is just an advertisement. Ignore it. "But it looks so real!"
We even had a successful phishing attack at work recently. The email said it came from the IT department, and that you needed to click on the link to validate your domain credentials. It didn't look like any of our official communications, and the "click here" link was a shortened URL. It was pretty obvious to me that it was a phishing attempt, but several users clicked on the link anyway, and keyed in their domain credentials into the web form. Thankfully, it didn't install a cryptovirus, or spread to the network.
You're violently agreeing with me btw. ;)
Then you're an idiot who does not know how to use words to express his own thoughts.
Now I see why you posted as AC.
What's really bothersome is not that they were collecting the data but that he had to prove his innocence instead of the State having to prove his guilt. It's a disturbing trend where we're proving innocence as opposed to relying on the State to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
By a jury of your peers. Most of your peers are gullible and hate baby killers.
A jury of your peers is meaningless when the lawyers get to hand-pick those peers.
I disagree: ***selling price*** of PV panels is coming down. However, the energy cost of creating solar panels isn't.
That makes no sense. The energy cost of the solar panels is part of the selling cost.
They lose money on every sale, but make up for it in volume.
So if they lose $1 on every sale, then selling 1 million of them is a million dollar loss.
How does that "make up for it in volume"?
Microsoft: Windows 10 is running on 270 million devices. Come join the crowd, your gonna love it!
.01% of those installations were chosen by the users. The rest were forced onto users with legitimate Win7 or Win8 licenses by the Windows Update process.
Reality:
I hope the "scratch" version will support all of the add-ons that the current version supports.
But most American's aren't going to vote for a non-interventionist, so in a sense there opinion was already asked.
By that "logic," everyone who voted for Obama has given their permission for everything he has ever done as a President.
That's not how the real world works.
Most Americans don't interfere in the business of any country. I've been a U.S. citizen for my entire life of almost 50 years, and no President has ever asked my opinion before he acted like the world's biggest bully.
He asks for your opinion every 4 years...
Really? Even if I didn't vote for him?
I have never voted for an incumbent in any election, and I ALWAYS vote. I want to get rid of the a**holes, not bring them back so they can continue screwing up.
Most Americans don't interfere in the business of any country.
I've been a U.S. citizen for my entire life of almost 50 years, and no President has ever asked my opinion before he acted like the world's biggest bully.
Big Government doesn't care. They have their jobs, and their pockets get lined by Big Business. That's all they care about.
The only way crap like this will be stopped is if we replace our entire government. A revolt of the masses is unlikely, so send a message to the bureaucrats by NOT voting for ANY incumbent of ANY party. Once we get rid of enough "professional politicians" things should start to change.
uBlock Origin is still working just fine. I suggest you move away from ABP immediately and shift over to something which hasn't, yet, been corrupted by the industry.
More than that, uBlock bases itself around higher performance than ABP. That was the reason I switched.
I tried uBlock last year because of the performance claims, but I didn't like the UI for several reasons:
1) I don't see a white list
2) I can't see a list of what is being blocked
3) It doesn't block Facebook and Google+ buttons/tracking
4) I don't care how much blocking it does "behind the scenes." If it doesn't show me what it's blocking, then I assume that it's not doing enough. Merely displaying a "blocked" number in the icon is not enough.
Was I missing something in the settings?
No errors for me, but I'm blocking based on DNS info using the list maintained at http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/
Same here. I have a shell script that updates my hosts file daily.
It's in the EULA
Citation needed.
Please show us the EULA from Win7 that gives M$ permission to shove Win10 down our throats.
After all, we did pay for Win7, so we have the right to use it as long as we want to.
The problem with script alternatives is that they do so many things that any one script can often replace any other script, depending on the context. I doubt if a "cross-reference list" would have much value.
Here are some more options:
Here's a site for open source alternatives: http://www.osalt.com/
This is for Linux alternatives: http://linuxappfinder.com/alte...
http://alternativeto.net/softw...
My hosts file has over 2,400 entries that point to 0.0.0.0.
My http server has 0 entries in the log that complain about 0.0.0.0.
I also don't get 404 errors from my server, nor do I notice any performance issues.
Based on the above info, it sounds like you're doing it wrong. Perhaps that's why you posted as AC.
Linux was never meant for gaming.
And neither was Windows.
There's an interesting concept called "progress" that you might want to learn about.
If AAA games ever do run on Linux, and run just as well as they do on Windows,then that will be the beginning of the end for Windows.
...just like most surveys.
Of course, all this depends on Firefox having as many users as possible: the more users they have, the more eyeballs, and the more money they can get from these other parties. So if they push a bunch of crap on users (and ignore desired features and performance and reliability) and piss them off so they switch to other browsers, that's going to result in less money for them.
That's what I meant by "diminishing market share".
So who is screwing up America faster?
Greedy/incompetent/careless corporations?
Greedy lawyers?
Greedy executives, who still get their golden parachute even after f***ing up a company?
Greedy/moronic politicians?
Notice any similarity in those choices? Greed, the root of all evil.
Kudos to your management for having the gumption to switch to Linux.
Here's to hoping that we see more of the same.
10 years? 18 months?
Makes the entire article sound like B.S.
Revenue from who? Their diminishing market share? How much does $1.98 buy nowadays?
You sound like one of those people who believe anything they read on the Internet.
My background in education instilled a mistrust in wikis. Since they can be edited by anyone, they cannot be used as references in collegiate papers. I would much rather use a reliable source than one where anybody can just make up shit.
What's "wiktionary"?
Is that some dictionary that anybody can edit? Who would use a "dictionary" that any uneducated schmuck could edit? Perhaps the same people who think "10 times less" is grammatically correct.
Dictionary.com (I mean dictionary.reference.com) does not list "impulsed" because it is not a word. It just asks "Did you mean impulse?"