I've done testing with my own emails with a link to my own server. The image is still only downloaded once you view the email. The only thing that is any different is that the request comes from google instead of the user's IP address. This prevents getting or reading cookie data during the image request, but does nothing to prevent image-based tracking of email opens. For image content on non-unique URLs this could mean better loading speeds, but won't do anything to make email load faster for unique images.
Nothing stops them from pre-caching these images in the future, but for now it isn't quite as catastrophic for the email marketers are some article suggest.
Tried Epic out for myself. Looks nifty, but clearly not polished yet. Biggest issue is that it still leaks all the data from the user-agent and plugins. Disabling the plugins helped, but I had an even more unique user-agent string than normal. Seems like this should be near the top of the list for a privacy browser, but they don't even mention it on their site, at least from a cursory browse. Tested at https://panopticlick.eff.org
Re:The beauty of AppleScript.
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AppleScript really isn't a particularly great language. My understanding is that any OSA language can use AppleEvents, so all you need is something like this to talk to applications in something you are more used to:
If a user can be taught the difference between data files and executables and where they reside in memory at any given time, they are well on their way to understanding how the computer works. This is the foundation by which they can understand how everything else works.
Web based email is probably the best example. There is some serious confusion for a lot of users about what exactly they are looking at. They can't tell the difference between a browser and a website because they don't understand the file/program concept. To them, the browser is "the internet". With fundamental computer skills, they can easily be taught that the browser is a program, which communicates with other programs over the internet to ask for a file, which is then sent back over, and shown on the screen.
Your grandparents don't need to know programming, the tcp/ip header structure, how a hard disk is actually storing data, or anything else like this. They need to understand the parts they work with, which is files and programs.
Did you just suggest they bring police to help them break through the line? I'm not entirely sure, as your grammar and spelling makes it a hard read, but what good do you think would come of bringing the police? Do you even think it would be possible given the status of the third parties?
If they can't afford a hardware upgrade to stick W2k on there, they probably only have a couple MB left on their disk anyhow, and would have trouble using any music players on their computers.
I tried to view their demonstration. Not only did it not load, but it complained about my browser not accepting cookies. Safari doesn't accept cookies from sites I don't navigate to by default, but I changed that just in case. Unfortunately, I can't get the ad to load no matter how hard I try.
This is a great step towards keeping websites free for those of us using non-MS operating systems. The windows users can view the ads for us, and we can just get to the content. Similar to copy protection on CDs not working on non-MS computers.
Apple is quick to tell us that all the great scaling is done through quartz. Apple has put a lot of work into making it fast, apparently, and it may even use hardware acceleration. The reason they look good at "any" size is that you have probably never tricked (or wanted) the computer into going larger than the maximum, which is 128x128, which is 4 (?) times what most people are used to.
If the lists are freely available, what would prevent someone exempt from those laws (out of state?) from using it as a database?
Although, I think the spammers might be smart enough to realize that sending spam to someone so wholly opposed to it would probably just delete the message before its even read.
Re:Not to be a troll here but...
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Superbowl XXXVII
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Perhaps it's not, but I don't think any of the things listed in your reply are required for something to be patriotic, and I especially don't see how the UN stuff could possibly make something patriotic... Except maybe under a world government, which wasn't implied anyhow.
From what I read on the linked sites, the company selling the hardware will replace anything sold now that doesnt meet the 802.11g standards when they are made (mid 2003?), with something that does.
This is done so the people who need the bleeding edge of wireless networking don't have to wait, and their investment doesn't go down the drain when an official standard is made.
Loads of sensationalist crap is what I come here for.
Seriously though, while news is nice and everything, it's the sensationalist crap that brings people back to slashdot. I like to have a good centralized place that gives me the news I want, but this is what slashdot has become, and if you don't like it then... I dunno, make a sensationalist crap blocker or something. If it works, who knows, somebody might buy it:-P
One reason this site appeals to so many of us is that not only does it link to articles of interest for the nerd/geek crowd, but it also links to things that gives them a sense of community. Its a place where one can sit down for a few minutes and express ones feelings on a subject that we are all bound to make fun of (both the subject, and the expressed feelings, of course).
Well, I guess that IF you can make more than one, then it proves against the teleportation idea, as you can't be in (or moved to) two places at once, not to mention that it would prove that the "old you" got fried, and aint around no more. I don't know about what everyone else thinks, but regardless of those for or against the idea of a soul, I think that a person is defined by not only their exact physical structure, but also their location and what they are doing (not what atoms, but what those atoms are doing, would be destroyed, therefore destroying and "killing" the original)
If we were to get around to AI, would they be too happy when we tell them something like "Don't worry, we are just going to archive your memory, kill your process, and reload you from the binary executable in a minute."? Maybe if we program them to...
Well, I am personally against gun control. Although thats how the chart is looked at, I think that the chart would need to be on a per-city basis.
Next, people avoid doing physical crimes (stealing, shooting, tresspassing etc) if they knew that the person affected has a good chance of being armed. They just move to a place with more gun control, thereby merely displacing crime, not preventing it.
Some people look at "if guns are outlawed, then only criminals will have guns" as a method of finding criminals, and a reason FOR gun control. When in reality, you have the following problem: If none of the law abiding "good" people have weapons, that leaves 2 people with weapons: the cops, and the criminals. Unfortunatly, the criminals vastly outnumber the cops, and they (for reasons unknown to all) seem to be at the crime scene first. Also, since their victims arent armed, they cant defend themselves.
Uhh, people can go for quite large number of seconds without oxygen, while a fire cannot. This would be able to put the fire out, and keep a victim safe. Its not like there is an unfillabe void that people get trapped in.
It was to my understanding that NeXTSTEP was supposed to be based on BSD. But of course, I can't tell you where I heard that, so if you feel otherwise, go ahead and tell me.
My sister hasn't had any of these problems, and she treats her TiBook like crap. The one thing that bugs me is that the rubber thingies on the bottom can come off, so it will scratch the surface of whatever you put it on. It also bends a little too much, but that was an early model, and I hear that problem was fixed.
Now, maybe it was just me, but did that article imply that MS pioneered drag and drop?
I also noticed this at my local user group a few years back. Microsoft came to demo and hand out copies of IE. When it came to the installation, the guy said something like
"Now, Microsoft's new drag and drop technology makes it very easy to install IE"
Maybe my definition of pioneer is wrong, but does microsoft qualify for it? I myself have been making "drag and drop" installable applications since the days of Supercard:)
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I've done testing with my own emails with a link to my own server. The image is still only downloaded once you view the email. The only thing that is any different is that the request comes from google instead of the user's IP address. This prevents getting or reading cookie data during the image request, but does nothing to prevent image-based tracking of email opens. For image content on non-unique URLs this could mean better loading speeds, but won't do anything to make email load faster for unique images.
Nothing stops them from pre-caching these images in the future, but for now it isn't quite as catastrophic for the email marketers are some article suggest.
Tried Epic out for myself. Looks nifty, but clearly not polished yet. Biggest issue is that it still leaks all the data from the user-agent and plugins. Disabling the plugins helped, but I had an even more unique user-agent string than normal. Seems like this should be near the top of the list for a privacy browser, but they don't even mention it on their site, at least from a cursory browse. Tested at https://panopticlick.eff.org
AppleScript really isn't a particularly great language. My understanding is that any OSA language can use AppleEvents, so all you need is something like this to talk to applications in something you are more used to:
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If a user can be taught the difference between data files and executables and where they reside in memory at any given time, they are well on their way to understanding how the computer works. This is the foundation by which they can understand how everything else works.
Web based email is probably the best example. There is some serious confusion for a lot of users about what exactly they are looking at. They can't tell the difference between a browser and a website because they don't understand the file/program concept. To them, the browser is "the internet". With fundamental computer skills, they can easily be taught that the browser is a program, which communicates with other programs over the internet to ask for a file, which is then sent back over, and shown on the screen.
Your grandparents don't need to know programming, the tcp/ip header structure, how a hard disk is actually storing data, or anything else like this. They need to understand the parts they work with, which is files and programs.
My little brother repeatedly jumped on my NES, and it still works better and has fewer issues than than the SNES, n64, and gamecube.
In other news, 3D Realms considers an early release of Duke Nukem Forever.
land of the free, home of the brave
Did you just suggest they bring police to help them break through the line? I'm not entirely sure, as your grammar and spelling makes it a hard read, but what good do you think would come of bringing the police? Do you even think it would be possible given the status of the third parties?
Would you really want to be the guy using it the 25th time?
If they can't afford a hardware upgrade to stick W2k on there, they probably only have a couple MB left on their disk anyhow, and would have trouble using any music players on their computers.
I tried to view their demonstration. Not only did it not load, but it complained about my browser not accepting cookies. Safari doesn't accept cookies from sites I don't navigate to by default, but I changed that just in case. Unfortunately, I can't get the ad to load no matter how hard I try.
This is a great step towards keeping websites free for those of us using non-MS operating systems. The windows users can view the ads for us, and we can just get to the content. Similar to copy protection on CDs not working on non-MS computers.
Apple is quick to tell us that all the great scaling is done through quartz. Apple has put a lot of work into making it fast, apparently, and it may even use hardware acceleration. The reason they look good at "any" size is that you have probably never tricked (or wanted) the computer into going larger than the maximum, which is 128x128, which is 4 (?) times what most people are used to.
If the lists are freely available, what would prevent someone exempt from those laws (out of state?) from using it as a database?
Although, I think the spammers might be smart enough to realize that sending spam to someone so wholly opposed to it would probably just delete the message before its even read.
Perhaps it's not, but I don't think any of the things listed in your reply are required for something to be patriotic, and I especially don't see how the UN stuff could possibly make something patriotic... Except maybe under a world government, which wasn't implied anyhow.
From what I read on the linked sites, the company selling the hardware will replace anything sold now that doesnt meet the 802.11g standards when they are made (mid 2003?), with something that does.
This is done so the people who need the bleeding edge of wireless networking don't have to wait, and their investment doesn't go down the drain when an official standard is made.
Loads of sensationalist crap is what I come here for.
:-P
Seriously though, while news is nice and everything, it's the sensationalist crap that brings people back to slashdot. I like to have a good centralized place that gives me the news I want, but this is what slashdot has become, and if you don't like it then... I dunno, make a sensationalist crap blocker or something. If it works, who knows, somebody might buy it
One reason this site appeals to so many of us is that not only does it link to articles of interest for the nerd/geek crowd, but it also links to things that gives them a sense of community. Its a place where one can sit down for a few minutes and express ones feelings on a subject that we are all bound to make fun of (both the subject, and the expressed feelings, of course).
Well, I guess that IF you can make more than one, then it proves against the teleportation idea, as you can't be in (or moved to) two places at once, not to mention that it would prove that the "old you" got fried, and aint around no more. I don't know about what everyone else thinks, but regardless of those for or against the idea of a soul, I think that a person is defined by not only their exact physical structure, but also their location and what they are doing (not what atoms, but what those atoms are doing, would be destroyed, therefore destroying and "killing" the original)
If we were to get around to AI, would they be too happy when we tell them something like "Don't worry, we are just going to archive your memory, kill your process, and reload you from the binary executable in a minute."? Maybe if we program them to...
Well, I am personally against gun control. Although thats how the chart is looked at, I think that the chart would need to be on a per-city basis.
:)
Next, people avoid doing physical crimes (stealing, shooting, tresspassing etc) if they knew that the person affected has a good chance of being armed. They just move to a place with more gun control, thereby merely displacing crime, not preventing it.
Some people look at "if guns are outlawed, then only criminals will have guns" as a method of finding criminals, and a reason FOR gun control. When in reality, you have the following problem: If none of the law abiding "good" people have weapons, that leaves 2 people with weapons: the cops, and the criminals. Unfortunatly, the criminals vastly outnumber the cops, and they (for reasons unknown to all) seem to be at the crime scene first. Also, since their victims arent armed, they cant defend themselves.
Anywho, sorry for the mess above
Uhh, people can go for quite large number of seconds without oxygen, while a fire cannot. This would be able to put the fire out, and keep a victim safe. Its not like there is an unfillabe void that people get trapped in.
It was to my understanding that NeXTSTEP was supposed to be based on BSD. But of course, I can't tell you where I heard that, so if you feel otherwise, go ahead and tell me.
My sister hasn't had any of these problems, and she treats her TiBook like crap. The one thing that bugs me is that the rubber thingies on the bottom can come off, so it will scratch the surface of whatever you put it on. It also bends a little too much, but that was an early model, and I hear that problem was fixed.
Main thing about YDL is the ability to run on pre G3 systems, whereas Mac OS X needs a hack to do so.
Yeah, but its (largely) their fault we are stuck in a file extension based world.
Yeah, but because of the low incline of the learning curve on Macs, the average "evangelist" is younger :)
Now, maybe it was just me, but did that article imply that MS pioneered drag and drop?
:)
I also noticed this at my local user group a few years back. Microsoft came to demo and hand out copies of IE. When it came to the installation, the guy said something like
"Now, Microsoft's new drag and drop technology makes it very easy to install IE"
Maybe my definition of pioneer is wrong, but does microsoft qualify for it? I myself have been making "drag and drop" installable applications since the days of Supercard