Could it possibly be that FOX does want to kill the shows?
I cite StarTrek Enterprise as my example. I was a loyal follower while the show was on in the middle of the week, but when it went to Friday I had to resort to the old VCR trick to watch, and it was only shortly after moving it to the Friday nights that OMG they terminated the show.
Now did they take into consideration the save the show efforts of the StarTrek fans? Maybe, but ultimately the studio did not want the show on the air any longer regardless of what the fans thought.
Ah yes the 80's to early/mid 90's for me. The local computer monthly papers would have a BBS list that listed all the local dial BBSes.
I used to dial around and enjoy all the good freeware, shareware, live chats, message boards and door games.
I was a Sysop for about 7 years running my own 'Local BBS'. But it never occurred to me to not allow long distance callers to access my BBS. Heck that is what made running a BBS so much fun, was when people would actually call from GOD knows where and actually be active on your 'Local BBS'. Why would I want to discourage someone from using my BBS? Why would I punish him or her for spending their own money to call my BBS on their dime?
Now the real point. What if the person is an ex-patriot? Also known as someone who had lived locally for most of their life, but circumstances have had them move away. What about the people in your country's military who are using your site from abroad, are you going to block them because their IP is 'out of scope'?
Blocking by any method other than actually having to register and get approved for an account, is just plain crazy. Your potential users should be given a chance to explain the need to access your service. What if the so called non-local visitor is going to be exactly that? Visiting your town, city, state/provence? They may need to know about these locally relevant services. Maybe they are thinking about moving to your 'locale' and your site is what seals the deal for them!
My parting thoughts: 1) As an avid BBS user, I loved looking up so called 'Local BBS' numbers in other cities. This broadened the access I had to new sources of freeware and shareware. It even often gave access to BBS door games that no one in town had yet. Also it allowed me to communicate with friends who had moved away, prior to both of us getting on the internet.
2) You failed to explain the nature of your 'locals only please' service.
It's not just the poor Windows users that should be infected with viruses. Viruses should infect Mac OS and Linux and other operating systems so that their users get to have infected operating systems too.
One caveat though, is that any of the Encyclopedia Britannica links you click on cause the pop-up to occur on the next page loaded. So repeating the 'Save Page As' process is necessary. Inconvenient but workable.
So I don't think until this day I actually used any Encyclopedia Britannica content from the Google search results. Any website that requires a subscription for content should not complain that Google doesn't link to their site enough.
Interesting thing though, while I looked up a couple of terms of interest on Encyclopedia Britannica (specifically 'astronaut' and 'space shuttle'), there was a pop-up every so often telling me I was viewing premium content and to get full access (no annoying pop-up) I should try their free trial of the premium service. I could just click the x and close that pop-up for another 20-30 seconds. What I liked most was when I told Firefox to 'Save Page As' and saved the page then opened it from the downloads window, that annoying pop-up no longer plagued me while I continued to read the full article.
So is it just me or does this seem to be the equivalent of smoking on the battle field? You know like from in the movies, a soldier lights up a cigarette giving away their position and likely getting shot in the process. Now instead you get your rifle mounted iPod to shine it's back lighting on your face / body to do the same. Seems this wasn't quite thought through.
In my place of work we have some labor board variances that allowed me to work flexible hours. A couple of years back I was working 4 days per week at 10hours per day excluding lunch break. This allowed me to have every Friday off. During the summer months, I was able to head out to go camping a full day earlier than most and get prime camping spots.
I would rather go back to the 4 day week even now. So given an option to cram 80 work hours into less days in a two week period, I would jump at the idea given 10 hour days, if the solution was more than 10 hours per day I would still entertain the idea because of the extra full days off that would occur.
Someone once said there would never be a need for more than 640K in a personal computer. I wouldn't be so bold as to say 256 processor cores would be enough in a personal computer.
Sorry to say this but I don't think Lotus Notes should be considered a viable e-mail client.
I know this sounds like a troll, but I have to use it every day, and honestly trying to get raw e-mail source is a chore that no one should have to ever do.
This decision for Apple however does contradict the position for the so called small developer that had their app banned for competing.
So I reviewed the articles in the links. I looked at the messages displayed, and personally I think they are great messages. I think it is wise to make the links less pronounced on how to accept self-signed or expired certificates.
End Users today have been made insensitive to EULAs and other pop-ups and just look for Accept or OK buttons to push to get where they want.
Mozilla is right in making the messages as scary as possible, and the ways to approve the potentially bad certificates more cumbersome. End Users really should be required to take classes that teach them about security and how it is there to help them. Web security and safety is not something you should expect everyone and their dog to just know, without having been taught be someone who has at least a bit of a clue. In the end if people were not allowed to use the Internet until they were best safety / security practices trained, there would be a whole lot less of the news stories out there about people who got scammed or had information of theirs compromised because they didn't know better. It seems the world assumes everyone should know better about potential security threats, this of course includes Firefox 3's handling of self-signed certificates.
Just because a website I use is trusted by one of the so called recognized certificate authorities does not guarantee that the secured site is safe to use. So the fact that a tool used to browse websites pops up a scary message whether in a pop-up window or in the actual browser space window is a good thing, it makes me have to take a moment to review the reason it gives me and decide how I will proceed.
If I want to permanently accept the so called bad and scary certificate I can, or I can realize I made a mistake and really didn't want to go the the site.
Education is the key. Mozilla did nothing wrong in my opinion with regards to displaying the messages they display.
PS: I did see the "Legitimate banks, stores, and other public sites would not ask you to do this.". My comments on that are, in a perfect world I would have to go to a bank branch and receive a USB key that gives me a copy of the banks certificate authority certificate, and instructions on how to load that certificate into at least the most current browsers at the time the certificate was issued. It would be my responsibility to add the CA into any browser that there were not specific instructions for.
Something like 12-15 years ago someone I was familiar with had a DirecPC Satellite down link and a meager 14.4 / 28.8 dial-up connection for up link. He was a WAREZ op of sorts, and lets just say you didn't push out validated clean WAREZ with a dial-up connection. He had mentioned to me that he used FTP clients that could establish remote FTP sessions from one FTP server to another FTP server. These GUI clients allowed him to do the simple, select and drag copying we all appreciate, but the data never hit his network link or computer. This was all done in the internet cloud so to speak.
It stands to reason that this same FTP client package should still be available today, and that you would be able to backup your data by having multiple hosting providers, and just have a folder on each provider with the other sites backups.
Sorry I don't know the FTP clients that supported this, but I did witness the process once or twice.
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My thoughts exactly.
Right, sure, uh huh.
My thoughts exactly too bad this story is more unbelievable than others.
banking?
Too bad this is unlikely.
With the influx of web cams it does seem reasonable to have the ability to control my web browsing with facial expressions.
LOL
Could it possibly be that FOX does want to kill the shows?
I cite StarTrek Enterprise as my example. I was a loyal follower while the show was on in the middle of the week, but when it went to Friday I had to resort to the old VCR trick to watch, and it was only shortly after moving it to the Friday nights that OMG they terminated the show.
Now did they take into consideration the save the show efforts of the StarTrek fans? Maybe, but ultimately the studio did not want the show on the air any longer regardless of what the fans thought.
Ah yes the 80's to early/mid 90's for me. The local computer monthly papers would have a BBS list that listed all the local dial BBSes.
I used to dial around and enjoy all the good freeware, shareware, live chats, message boards and door games.
I was a Sysop for about 7 years running my own 'Local BBS'. But it never occurred to me to not allow long distance callers to access my BBS. Heck that is what made running a BBS so much fun, was when people would actually call from GOD knows where and actually be active on your 'Local BBS'. Why would I want to discourage someone from using my BBS? Why would I punish him or her for spending their own money to call my BBS on their dime?
Now the real point. What if the person is an ex-patriot? Also known as someone who had lived locally for most of their life, but circumstances have had them move away. What about the people in your country's military who are using your site from abroad, are you going to block them because their IP is 'out of scope'?
Blocking by any method other than actually having to register and get approved for an account, is just plain crazy. Your potential users should be given a chance to explain the need to access your service. What if the so called non-local visitor is going to be exactly that? Visiting your town, city, state/provence? They may need to know about these locally relevant services. Maybe they are thinking about moving to your 'locale' and your site is what seals the deal for them!
My parting thoughts:
1) As an avid BBS user, I loved looking up so called 'Local BBS' numbers in other cities. This broadened the access I had to new sources of freeware and shareware. It even often gave access to BBS door games that no one in town had yet. Also it allowed me to communicate with friends who had moved away, prior to both of us getting on the internet.
2) You failed to explain the nature of your 'locals only please' service.
It's not just the poor Windows users that should be infected with viruses. Viruses should infect Mac OS and Linux and other operating systems so that their users get to have infected operating systems too.
One caveat though, is that any of the Encyclopedia Britannica links you click on cause the pop-up to occur on the next page loaded. So repeating the 'Save Page As' process is necessary. Inconvenient but workable.
So I don't think until this day I actually used any Encyclopedia Britannica content from the Google search results. Any website that requires a subscription for content should not complain that Google doesn't link to their site enough.
Interesting thing though, while I looked up a couple of terms of interest on Encyclopedia Britannica (specifically 'astronaut' and 'space shuttle'), there was a pop-up every so often telling me I was viewing premium content and to get full access (no annoying pop-up) I should try their free trial of the premium service. I could just click the x and close that pop-up for another 20-30 seconds. What I liked most was when I told Firefox to 'Save Page As' and saved the page then opened it from the downloads window, that annoying pop-up no longer plagued me while I continued to read the full article.
So is it just me or does this seem to be the equivalent of smoking on the battle field? You know like from in the movies, a soldier lights up a cigarette giving away their position and likely getting shot in the process. Now instead you get your rifle mounted iPod to shine it's back lighting on your face / body to do the same. Seems this wasn't quite thought through.
Cool rifle accessory though.
In my place of work we have some labor board variances that allowed me to work flexible hours. A couple of years back I was working 4 days per week at 10hours per day excluding lunch break. This allowed me to have every Friday off. During the summer months, I was able to head out to go camping a full day earlier than most and get prime camping spots.
I would rather go back to the 4 day week even now. So given an option to cram 80 work hours into less days in a two week period, I would jump at the idea given 10 hour days, if the solution was more than 10 hours per day I would still entertain the idea because of the extra full days off that would occur.
Someone once said there would never be a need for more than 640K in a personal computer. I wouldn't be so bold as to say 256 processor cores would be enough in a personal computer.
I find the internet archive useful, and yet there is only one site offering that service that I know of. Google cached versions don't really count.
Obviously anonymous coward has not used Lotus Notes, if only it was that easy.
Sorry to say this but I don't think Lotus Notes should be considered a viable e-mail client.
I know this sounds like a troll, but I have to use it every day, and honestly trying to get raw e-mail source is a chore that no one should have to ever do.
This decision for Apple however does contradict the position for the so called small developer that had their app banned for competing.
I wonder how far away from the Mississippi river, these data centers are in Iowa. I would hate to see all these data centers flooded some day.
So I reviewed the articles in the links. I looked at the messages displayed, and personally I think they are great messages. I think it is wise to make the links less pronounced on how to accept self-signed or expired certificates.
End Users today have been made insensitive to EULAs and other pop-ups and just look for Accept or OK buttons to push to get where they want.
Mozilla is right in making the messages as scary as possible, and the ways to approve the potentially bad certificates more cumbersome. End Users really should be required to take classes that teach them about security and how it is there to help them. Web security and safety is not something you should expect everyone and their dog to just know, without having been taught be someone who has at least a bit of a clue. In the end if people were not allowed to use the Internet until they were best safety / security practices trained, there would be a whole lot less of the news stories out there about people who got scammed or had information of theirs compromised because they didn't know better. It seems the world assumes everyone should know better about potential security threats, this of course includes Firefox 3's handling of self-signed certificates.
Just because a website I use is trusted by one of the so called recognized certificate authorities does not guarantee that the secured site is safe to use. So the fact that a tool used to browse websites pops up a scary message whether in a pop-up window or in the actual browser space window is a good thing, it makes me have to take a moment to review the reason it gives me and decide how I will proceed.
If I want to permanently accept the so called bad and scary certificate I can, or I can realize I made a mistake and really didn't want to go the the site.
Education is the key. Mozilla did nothing wrong in my opinion with regards to displaying the messages they display.
PS: I did see the "Legitimate banks, stores, and other public sites would not ask you to do this.". My comments on that are, in a perfect world I would have to go to a bank branch and receive a USB key that gives me a copy of the banks certificate authority certificate, and instructions on how to load that certificate into at least the most current browsers at the time the certificate was issued. It would be my responsibility to add the CA into any browser that there were not specific instructions for.
Something like 12-15 years ago someone I was familiar with had a DirecPC Satellite down link and a meager 14.4 / 28.8 dial-up connection for up link. He was a WAREZ op of sorts, and lets just say you didn't push out validated clean WAREZ with a dial-up connection. He had mentioned to me that he used FTP clients that could establish remote FTP sessions from one FTP server to another FTP server. These GUI clients allowed him to do the simple, select and drag copying we all appreciate, but the data never hit his network link or computer. This was all done in the internet cloud so to speak.
It stands to reason that this same FTP client package should still be available today, and that you would be able to backup your data by having multiple hosting providers, and just have a folder on each provider with the other sites backups.
Sorry I don't know the FTP clients that supported this, but I did witness the process once or twice.
caused by 'beta amyloid' (a peptide found in Alzheimer brains) or by 'tau protein' (normally used for cellular scaffolding,
I never knew that protein was used to make cellular phone tower scaffolding.
ROFL
That is why the words legal and sell were in quotes the first time.
I don't get it, it is 'legal' for Politicians to 'sell' their vote to lobbyists, but a citizen can't do the same.
Yes get that Neurotoxicity checked out.
Apple was kind enough to build this functionality into Mac OS X in the form of Preview and Automator (or Apple Script).