I know; that's the assumption here, too. It's a stupid, self-feeding cycle.
I haven't seen any useful features in the latest version of Word or Excel that weren't in Office 97. As-you-type spell-check and grammar check were the last useful things added. Acsess, at least, has seen useful improvements.
As an employer, you'll want to upgrade because that's what all the college students will be trained in.
I'm still irritated that the college I work at jumps on every little thing from Microsoft, but still doesn't cover anything recent from the UNIX or Mac worlds.
But that majority of non-spam emails (ie, those you actually want to keep) aren't gonna have all these graphics are they? That was the complaint of this Slashdot article, actually. Many non-spam commercial mass-emails actually use HTML and graphics to make the email look nice, rather than baudy. Changing the target rendering platform could make that difficult.
Also, this problems so easy to mitigate. I'm writing an email system that stores attachments indexed by their checksum. If there are 10,000 emails (in one box, multiple boxes, it makes no difference with this system) all different, but contain a common graphic for example, a company logo or whatever, that graphic is only stored once (compressed where it's useful to be). Emails are reconstructed if collected by POP3 for backward compatibility. I came up with that, just while writing the system as it seemed like the only sensible way to do it, and I'm not exactly anything special. If your system doesn't do something like this, suggest it to its creators, or implement it yourself, and share the patch. There's plenty of free/open mime parsing libraries out there, the rest is simple (I store larger files on the FS named by its checksum code, split into multiple directories based on the first characters of the code, for quicker lookup than a single dir with thousands of files in, and small files in a database)
There's a world of difference between your neighbor filming you doing something that they don't like, and the government recording your every public act.
First off, if your neighbor is willing to go to that much effort, you specifically are probably doing something to cause that reaction (regardless of whether you're within your rights to do so).
Government recording is more likely to be broad-brushed - i.e. patrol and thus record a whole neighborhood because it has a few troublemakers. I don't want to live in a place where the government is recording my every move. You miss something inherent in publishing data on the Internet. It's public not only to citizens, but to government. One only has to read Fark headlines for a day or two to see people get nailed for posting their own misdeeds on Myspace and Youtube.
It may require an individual effort for one or two videos, but one only needs to combine an X10 video camera with a small computer to upload motion-sensing video to Youtube regularly. Some people are paranoid enough to roll their own right now. Someone will build a pre-made unit, and more people purchase it. (Expect to see that sort of thing get rolled into home and business security systems.)
Second, with the neighbor, at the least now you know you're aggravating this person mightily. That knowledge can be a catalyst for a discussion with (perhaps apology to) your neighbor, such that you can come to a resolution. If harmony is restored, chances are that video comes down off the web.
Good luck trying to get that same result out of a government bureaucracy - chances are that video's been sucked into the bowels of some database, to be archived indefinitely and used in some completely non-transparent manner. Heck, good luck even discovering who you should contact in said bureaucracy to attempt to remove it, assuming you are allowed such a right. If the neighbor bothered to talk with you about it, sure. As for removing the video, my point still applies. The video can still be downloaded and saved, regardless of who stores it initially.
Third, the most power the neighbor has over you is to probably shame. Maybe they can try to be annoying back at you. Whoopee - that's nothing compared to the power of the state. Thus government surveillance should be treated with much greater caution.
It's true that the government can still mine citizens' postings online. But that's both more transparent and more limited - your neighbor is probably only posting a clip of you doing something aggravating, not a continuous surveillance operation. If the video describes an illegal act, law enforcement can use it for prosecution. That was my point.
As the other guy said, don't forget to count the number of users. A business network might have anywhere from 100 to 10,000 email users. An ISP with a webmail interface could have millions.
And, yes, some of us still use dial-up. Not everyone lives in a densly-populated area, even in the Western world.
When I service my clients, I always tell them they need at least FOUR pieces of antispyware software on their machines. I install SpyBot, SpywareBlaster, Windows Defender, and Ad-Aware at least. All are free for home users. In the past, we installed both Spybot and Ad-Aware. I'm somewhat paranoid about software licensing, so we dropped Ad-Aware and went with Spybot.
Lately, since the trojan problem has surged, I also install either A-Squared Free or AVG Antispyware (which used to be Ewido now owned by Grisoft, the makers of AVG AV.) We install AVG Free. However, we've had a couple customers come back after a year complaining about purchase reminders. Turns out AVG's free edition expires after a year. We just reinstalled with a newer version, and they were good to go. I'm pleased to say that their computers were still (mostly) clean.
I also tell them, if they're home users using Norton AV, to dump Norton and replace it with Avast, which is free for home users and does a good job without randomly conflicting with every other piece of software in the universe. Avast does on access scanning and email scanning like every other AV, but it also scans IM, P2P and Internet downloaded files. This isn't that much of an improvement over on-access, but every little bit helps. The folks who come to our clinic don't usually have much money to spare. If they've got a pay-for antivirus that hasn't expired, we leave it there. I don't like Norton, but most of our customers don't use much beyond email and web browsing. A couple also use MS Office.
The clearance rate of any of these tools is less than 60 percent (in some cases as low as 30 percent), so you definitely need more than one to do the job.
And the number one way to protect clients from spyware: tell them to stop using IE and install Firefox. People aren't receptive to new ideas, so I've been hesitant to get preachy. However, I'll add an option for updating the customer's browser to our intake form.
Yes. We ask them before we install antispyware and antivirus utilities, through our intake process.
As for undesired behavior...I run a free PC Clinic. People bring in their desktops and laptops for cleanup and repair, and we send them back the same day. With a good number of volunteers, we've fixed as many as 35 computers in a six-hour period.
Since they're peoples' personal machines, there's not a great deal of risk of adverse behavior from the tools we use.
It's not the punishment that's cruel or unusual, it's the charge. "Risk of injury to a minor" can stem from accidental viewing of a porno ad?
Injury? It's not a financial loss. The kids weren't physically harmed. The only potential injury is to the parents plans for educating their children. The children themselves certainly weren't scarred for having seen it. If they're scarred at all, it's because they were raised to take offense to the material.
The other sad thing (That is, other than a jacked up jury, and the defendant not having a tech-savvy lawyer...) is that this could probably have been easily prevented.
When I service customers' computers, I like to install Spybot, configure it to auto-update, auto-scan, and set its scan priority to "Idle", so it doesn't interfere with the user's activities.
The eugenics wars took place in the 1990s, years before the Vulcans encountered humans, and around 100 years before the founding of the Federation.
Unless you were thinking of a 24-style series in reverse, where each episode represents a year instead of an hour, it would be hard to cover the whole span.
I loved watching Trek for the same reasons you did. I took pleasure from Enterprise in seeing pieces of technology we later become intimately familiar with, as it's being theorized and invented. Force fields, tractor beams, the transporter; All of these technologies are fleshed out by the time TNG takes place (Force fields never really showed up in TOS.), but are bleeding edge in Enterprise.
Trip invents the "particle field" as a barrier against an invading alien. The Vulcans have tractor beams, but Enterprise has a magnetic grappler. The transporter is new, and rarely used; Shuttlepods are the main form of transportation, and are generally considered safer.
Seing how people interact with technology is often at least as interesting in the technology itself. We take for granted force fields and transporters in later series, but the crew of the Enterprise is just coming to grips with its possible uses.
Now, if this is from police cameras that are perusing neighborhoods on a regular basis, I'm going to shout out against that. But if your neighbor catches you doing something bad, sorry, you shouldn't have been doing that... 'you plays, you pays' as the saying goes.
But the system being described is ripe for mining by law enforcement. You're merely moving the cost and effort of recording and storing the data from the government to the private sector.
I don't see how you can be in favor of individuals posting a video of a man spitting his gum on the sidewalk, but opposed to a government camera recording the data and archiving it in private.
Personally, either one sounds like a bad idea to me.
How do you keep up with all the waste? The apartment I'm staying at has nine cats. The automatic litter box was able to keep up fine when there were only five, but someone dropped a pregnant mother cat on our doorstep, and we wound up with four more...
A couple years ago, a coworker of mine who was skilled with Illustrator made an SVG version of Tux, at my request. She emailed it to me at my GMail, I passed it around, and all was good.
I went back to that email a couple months ago to grab the SVG file again, only to discover that the file now consisted of random binary garbage.
Now, I have Evolution periodically grab my GMail mail, to archive it on my computer in case something like that happens again. (GMail is really nice in that you can set up the POP3 to start from the absolute beginning of when you began receiving mail at your GMail account; I have a complete backup of everything I received, sans spam.)
I hate to say it, but Microsoft Access fits your needs almost perfectly, in this case. It can import the data from your spreadsheets, if they're properly formatted. (And they'd have to be, if you wanted to have software make your schedule for you.)
Once your data is in place, you write a query that includes a calculated field for the heuristics you're looking for. Run a query against that that checks against a table containing your available time slots, and you'll have the data you're looking for. (Or, at least, something that will do most of the work for you.)
You've got to patch 7000 servers in four weeks. Do you really want to spend a few days learning a a new software package that will do everything when you could take a piece of software you probably already know and simplify the problem in only a day?
So far Google has been known to PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS - they are very much interested in supporting standards and the like. They have been supporting Linux even for apps like google earth and the like. This is the primary difference between Google and Microsoft to my mind. May it last forever. I'd like to point out that Google doesn't compete with Linux, or even Windows, for that matter. They compete with search engines and office software developers.
Burying waste at sea is a violation of international law.
My own idea was to bury the waste in a subduction zone, so that the waste would be drawn back into the Earth's mantle. Turns out, however, that that's also considered burial at sea.
No, I don't remember where I read the above info. Some site dedicated to discussion of the disposal of nuclear waste, IIRC.
What were once single-purpose devices such as cell phones, PDAs and console systems have expanded to accommodate more applications. My point was that development for these platforms isn't driven by ease of use of software tools, but by consumer demand for more functions.
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I know; that's the assumption here, too. It's a stupid, self-feeding cycle.
I haven't seen any useful features in the latest version of Word or Excel that weren't in Office 97. As-you-type spell-check and grammar check were the last useful things added. Acsess, at least, has seen useful improvements.
As an employer, you'll want to upgrade because that's what all the college students will be trained in.
I'm still irritated that the college I work at jumps on every little thing from Microsoft, but still doesn't cover anything recent from the UNIX or Mac worlds.
Cool.
First off, if your neighbor is willing to go to that much effort, you specifically are probably doing something to cause that reaction (regardless of whether you're within your rights to do so).
Government recording is more likely to be broad-brushed - i.e. patrol and thus record a whole neighborhood because it has a few troublemakers. I don't want to live in a place where the government is recording my every move. You miss something inherent in publishing data on the Internet. It's public not only to citizens, but to government. One only has to read Fark headlines for a day or two to see people get nailed for posting their own misdeeds on Myspace and Youtube.
It may require an individual effort for one or two videos, but one only needs to combine an X10 video camera with a small computer to upload motion-sensing video to Youtube regularly. Some people are paranoid enough to roll their own right now. Someone will build a pre-made unit, and more people purchase it. (Expect to see that sort of thing get rolled into home and business security systems.) Second, with the neighbor, at the least now you know you're aggravating this person mightily. That knowledge can be a catalyst for a discussion with (perhaps apology to) your neighbor, such that you can come to a resolution. If harmony is restored, chances are that video comes down off the web.
Good luck trying to get that same result out of a government bureaucracy - chances are that video's been sucked into the bowels of some database, to be archived indefinitely and used in some completely non-transparent manner. Heck, good luck even discovering who you should contact in said bureaucracy to attempt to remove it, assuming you are allowed such a right. If the neighbor bothered to talk with you about it, sure. As for removing the video, my point still applies. The video can still be downloaded and saved, regardless of who stores it initially. Third, the most power the neighbor has over you is to probably shame. Maybe they can try to be annoying back at you. Whoopee - that's nothing compared to the power of the state. Thus government surveillance should be treated with much greater caution.
It's true that the government can still mine citizens' postings online. But that's both more transparent and more limited - your neighbor is probably only posting a clip of you doing something aggravating, not a continuous surveillance operation. If the video describes an illegal act, law enforcement can use it for prosecution. That was my point.
As the other guy said, don't forget to count the number of users. A business network might have anywhere from 100 to 10,000 email users. An ISP with a webmail interface could have millions.
And, yes, some of us still use dial-up. Not everyone lives in a densly-populated area, even in the Western world.
Lately, since the trojan problem has surged, I also install either A-Squared Free or AVG Antispyware (which used to be Ewido now owned by Grisoft, the makers of AVG AV.) We install AVG Free. However, we've had a couple customers come back after a year complaining about purchase reminders. Turns out AVG's free edition expires after a year. We just reinstalled with a newer version, and they were good to go. I'm pleased to say that their computers were still (mostly) clean. I also tell them, if they're home users using Norton AV, to dump Norton and replace it with Avast, which is free for home users and does a good job without randomly conflicting with every other piece of software in the universe. Avast does on access scanning and email scanning like every other AV, but it also scans IM, P2P and Internet downloaded files. This isn't that much of an improvement over on-access, but every little bit helps. The folks who come to our clinic don't usually have much money to spare. If they've got a pay-for antivirus that hasn't expired, we leave it there. I don't like Norton, but most of our customers don't use much beyond email and web browsing. A couple also use MS Office. The clearance rate of any of these tools is less than 60 percent (in some cases as low as 30 percent), so you definitely need more than one to do the job.
And the number one way to protect clients from spyware: tell them to stop using IE and install Firefox. People aren't receptive to new ideas, so I've been hesitant to get preachy. However, I'll add an option for updating the customer's browser to our intake form.
Yes. We ask them before we install antispyware and antivirus utilities, through our intake process.
As for undesired behavior...I run a free PC Clinic. People bring in their desktops and laptops for cleanup and repair, and we send them back the same day. With a good number of volunteers, we've fixed as many as 35 computers in a six-hour period.
Since they're peoples' personal machines, there's not a great deal of risk of adverse behavior from the tools we use.
It's not the punishment that's cruel or unusual, it's the charge. "Risk of injury to a minor" can stem from accidental viewing of a porno ad?
Injury? It's not a financial loss. The kids weren't physically harmed. The only potential injury is to the parents plans for educating their children. The children themselves certainly weren't scarred for having seen it. If they're scarred at all, it's because they were raised to take offense to the material.
The other sad thing (That is, other than a jacked up jury, and the defendant not having a tech-savvy lawyer...) is that this could probably have been easily prevented.
When I service customers' computers, I like to install Spybot, configure it to auto-update, auto-scan, and set its scan priority to "Idle", so it doesn't interfere with the user's activities.
The eugenics wars took place in the 1990s, years before the Vulcans encountered humans, and around 100 years before the founding of the Federation.
Unless you were thinking of a 24-style series in reverse, where each episode represents a year instead of an hour, it would be hard to cover the whole span.
I loved watching Trek for the same reasons you did. I took pleasure from Enterprise in seeing pieces of technology we later become intimately familiar with, as it's being theorized and invented. Force fields, tractor beams, the transporter; All of these technologies are fleshed out by the time TNG takes place (Force fields never really showed up in TOS.), but are bleeding edge in Enterprise.
Trip invents the "particle field" as a barrier against an invading alien. The Vulcans have tractor beams, but Enterprise has a magnetic grappler. The transporter is new, and rarely used; Shuttlepods are the main form of transportation, and are generally considered safer.
Seing how people interact with technology is often at least as interesting in the technology itself. We take for granted force fields and transporters in later series, but the crew of the Enterprise is just coming to grips with its possible uses.
In TNG, he shows up in the episode The First Duty. In Voyager, he showed up in the episodes In the Flesh and The Fight.
The First Duty and In the Flesh were both very good episodes.
Oh, and here's a pic of him.
Now, if this is from police cameras that are perusing neighborhoods on a regular basis, I'm going to shout out against that. But if your neighbor catches you doing something bad, sorry, you shouldn't have been doing that... 'you plays, you pays' as the saying goes.
But the system being described is ripe for mining by law enforcement. You're merely moving the cost and effort of recording and storing the data from the government to the private sector.
I don't see how you can be in favor of individuals posting a video of a man spitting his gum on the sidewalk, but opposed to a government camera recording the data and archiving it in private.
Personally, either one sounds like a bad idea to me.
Of course someone will disagree with you; you got first post.
I have 9 Cats.
How do you keep up with all the waste? The apartment I'm staying at has nine cats. The automatic litter box was able to keep up fine when there were only five, but someone dropped a pregnant mother cat on our doorstep, and we wound up with four more...
A couple years ago, a coworker of mine who was skilled with Illustrator made an SVG version of Tux, at my request. She emailed it to me at my GMail, I passed it around, and all was good.
I went back to that email a couple months ago to grab the SVG file again, only to discover that the file now consisted of random binary garbage.
Now, I have Evolution periodically grab my GMail mail, to archive it on my computer in case something like that happens again. (GMail is really nice in that you can set up the POP3 to start from the absolute beginning of when you began receiving mail at your GMail account; I have a complete backup of everything I received, sans spam.)
I wonder if they do the same thing for spam. If I mark a message as spam, then delete it, does it still get saved?
I doubt Google sees archival of massive volumes of spam as economical.
Is there a third-party webmail system that implements GMail's system of thread sorting?
Now that I've grown used to that, I hate even thinking about switching to something else.
I hate to say it, but Microsoft Access fits your needs almost perfectly, in this case. It can import the data from your spreadsheets, if they're properly formatted. (And they'd have to be, if you wanted to have software make your schedule for you.)
Once your data is in place, you write a query that includes a calculated field for the heuristics you're looking for. Run a query against that that checks against a table containing your available time slots, and you'll have the data you're looking for. (Or, at least, something that will do most of the work for you.)
You've got to patch 7000 servers in four weeks. Do you really want to spend a few days learning a a new software package that will do everything when you could take a piece of software you probably already know and simplify the problem in only a day?
Burying waste at sea is a violation of international law.
My own idea was to bury the waste in a subduction zone, so that the waste would be drawn back into the Earth's mantle. Turns out, however, that that's also considered burial at sea.
No, I don't remember where I read the above info. Some site dedicated to discussion of the disposal of nuclear waste, IIRC.
Windows or Linux will also run...
There's one in the grocery store in Coopersville, MI.
What were once single-purpose devices such as cell phones, PDAs and console systems have expanded to accommodate more applications. My point was that development for these platforms isn't driven by ease of use of software tools, but by consumer demand for more functions.