The biggest difference from Firefox, however, is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within the browser using an IE ActiveX control.
That is without exception, the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
Let's take Firefox - known for it's security - and have you enable ActiveX, the mack-daddy of all virus vectors. And then for an encore, have it run the mother-of-all virus vectors, IE - inside it!
What do you do for an encore? Take a shower with your toaster???
First off, I have a friend who makes chainmail. If you make it as armour, you can sell it for X amount of dollars. If you sell it as BDSM gear, it's about X*1.5. He started off selling at renfairs, and now sells at BDSM gatherings. So you might find it funny, but that's just how the business goes. For whatever reason, BDSM people seem have a lot of cash.
Another point - I'm a BSEE and write Linux drivers and software for my employer. And the first thing I do when I get home to unwind is make armour. I'm in the SCA, and there is something absolutely theraputic about smith work.
In some ways it's the exact opposite of IT work. In other ways, identical. It always leaves you wishing you could just simply use a raising hammer and beat a misbehaving computer into shape.
It's a serious question. What keeps the roof over your head?
A lot of my favorite actors (you're included in there) will work for a little bit and then disappear for a great length of time.
A good example is Bruce Campbell. You see him in a small film like Bubba Ho-Tep or a quickie walk-on like in Spider Man, and then he disappears from the face of the earth. And I always wonder, what pays the grocery bill meanwhile?
How do you manage it? And please feel free to ignore this if it's too personal.
"This means you won't be able to steal music" - you cannot "steal" music. You can only commit copyright violations. Stealing music is impossible, unless you shoplift CDs. And even then, you're stealing the CDs, not the music. The music still exists.
"that artists worked so hard to produce" - you know, I actually know people who play music because they just like to. Odd, no?
"and music companies worked so hard to distribute." - Cost of a music CD, about 10 bucks. Cost of a Hollywood movie on DVD, about 15. But making a movie is orders of magnitude more expensive to make and market. Wanna know why? Here's why. The music industry is uniquely corrupt. And also incompetent. Are you sure you want these goons scanning your hard drive, even if you haven't done anything wrong? What if your name happens to be Usher, too?
"Woe is you!" - and woe is anyone who allows this band of barely legalized criminals into their affairs. Even with something as simple as a click through EULA.
People are discovering that when you buy any product that is subject to "activation", you haven't really bought anything.
Aren't we talking about people who haven't bought the game, and are using an unlicensed copy and a cd-key generator? If so, they haven't really bought anything because they haven't paid for anything period. Or am I missing something?
But you don't have to surf pr0n or respond to spam to get nailed. Only time I was ever bitten on a windows box was through a song lyrics site. Avoid those!
I propose the following experiment. Yes, yes I know there are service packs and patches available, that's why I'm calling this an experiment.
Take a Windows XP CD and load it onto a system you're not using for anything important at the moment. Do not connect it to a network in any way, shape, or form. Load the PC up with applications. Roughly judge load times, mouse and keyboard times...mess around with it a while and see how responsive it is. Not too bad, right? Fairly useable.
Now, plug your netcard directly into your net. No firewall. I suggest plugging the box directly into a cablemodem. Wait 24 hours.
Notice any difference? This is exactly why Usability and Security are NOT opposites. Any box that's running 99% cpu with malware and viruses is damn near unusable.
...is that SCO, using MS money under-the-table to start this mess is about to be pounded by Novell, who is now also using MS money, acquired through a legal action.
There really *is* balance in nature...
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Patent fishing never works if you are too ambitious and go after the big bucks right out of the gate. How many examples of this have we seen here on/.?
Sue a couple of small fish. Get favorable court time first. Then go for the gold.
It's like the Vikings have said for ages - pillage first, then burn!
I agree completely - these guys are experts at spin. They make the current US election look like a tea party.
"More has been invested in making IE secure than any browser on the planet by a long shot."
Y'know, another way to read this statement is "IE has more bugs and holes that need fixing than any other browser on the planet by a long shot, which explains the larger investment." =)
Yeah, that takes the cake. But it's worded pretty cleverly, dontcha agree? "About three years ago, we made software security a top priority." Notice they don't say they've actually done anything about it, they just say they've made it "a priority". Hell, anyone can do that.
I'm posting this from a 2.4Ghz machine myself, and it doesn't compile kernel 2.6 in 15 seconds, let alone boot in that short of a time. It takes at least a couple of minutes.
It's not clear, though, how serious Kerry truly is
That's his whole problem, IMHO.
Not meant as a flame or anything, I'm voting for him and all...but in his quest to not offend a single voter, he's not really been firm on a lot of things. The DCMA being relatively minor on that list.
As much as I dislike starting an argument with a logical fallacy, you should really look at the article a bit before making any claims as to the death of MP3.
First of all the article page loads with the title "MSN Tech & Gadgets". This is noteworthy, especially seeing as how MS is trying to break into this market. Of course they'd say MP3 is dead, especially when they're touting a DRM enabled propriatary format.
Also, we have this gem from the article:
According to researchers at The NPD Group's MusicWatch Digital who track the contents of people's hard drives, the percentage of MP3-formatted songs in digital-music collections has slid steadily in recent months, down to about 72 percent of people's collections from about 82 percent a year ago.
Aside from this being really creepy, it's a biased sample. Anyone who would let someone put monitoring software on their PC (assuming it's not spyware) would probably not have a lot of MP3 files on their machine, if you know what I mean *nudge nudge*.
To sum up: Article is bogus advertising spin. Nothing to see here, move along.
"The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope."
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The biggest difference from Firefox, however, is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within the browser using an IE ActiveX control.
That is without exception, the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
Let's take Firefox - known for it's security - and have you enable ActiveX, the mack-daddy of all virus vectors. And then for an encore, have it run the mother-of-all virus vectors, IE - inside it!
What do you do for an encore? Take a shower with your toaster???
He's being serious.
First off, I have a friend who makes chainmail. If you make it as armour, you can sell it for X amount of dollars. If you sell it as BDSM gear, it's about X*1.5. He started off selling at renfairs, and now sells at BDSM gatherings. So you might find it funny, but that's just how the business goes. For whatever reason, BDSM people seem have a lot of cash.
Another point - I'm a BSEE and write Linux drivers and software for my employer. And the first thing I do when I get home to unwind is make armour. I'm in the SCA, and there is something absolutely theraputic about smith work.
In some ways it's the exact opposite of IT work. In other ways, identical. It always leaves you wishing you could just simply use a raising hammer and beat a misbehaving computer into shape.
It's a serious question. What keeps the roof over your head?
A lot of my favorite actors (you're included in there) will work for a little bit and then disappear for a great length of time.
A good example is Bruce Campbell. You see him in a small film like Bubba Ho-Tep or a quickie walk-on like in Spider Man, and then he disappears from the face of the earth. And I always wonder, what pays the grocery bill meanwhile?
How do you manage it? And please feel free to ignore this if it's too personal.
That's DVD Jon's hi-definition brother.
Microsoft Visual Studio is neither visual, nor is it a studio.
Discuss.
Ok Chuck, I'll walk you through it step by step.
"This means you won't be able to steal music" - you cannot "steal" music. You can only commit copyright violations. Stealing music is impossible, unless you shoplift CDs. And even then, you're stealing the CDs, not the music. The music still exists.
"that artists worked so hard to produce" - you know, I actually know people who play music because they just like to. Odd, no?
"and music companies worked so hard to distribute." - Cost of a music CD, about 10 bucks. Cost of a Hollywood movie on DVD, about 15. But making a movie is orders of magnitude more expensive to make and market. Wanna know why? Here's why. The music industry is uniquely corrupt. And also incompetent. Are you sure you want these goons scanning your hard drive, even if you haven't done anything wrong? What if your name happens to be Usher, too?
"Woe is you!" - and woe is anyone who allows this band of barely legalized criminals into their affairs. Even with something as simple as a click through EULA.
...to allow a piece of software created by 3 of the "big 4" to run on their system?
You don't even need to be a tinfoil hat type to see that this is an extremely bad idea. I have no wish to be Pwn3d by the RIAA.
Can't wait to see what kinda packets people find this thing sending back to its masters.
Ah, I got it. Their ban system is buggy. Thanks.
People are discovering that when you buy any product that is subject to "activation", you haven't really bought anything.
Aren't we talking about people who haven't bought the game, and are using an unlicensed copy and a cd-key generator? If so, they haven't really bought anything because they haven't paid for anything period. Or am I missing something?
Tape would neutralize both "fixes" pretty easily.
Easy problem to solve there, friend. All you need to do next is make a law banning tape as a circumvention device.
After all - look at what banning felt pens did for the music industry!
True enough, AC. NAT will offer some protection.
But you don't have to surf pr0n or respond to spam to get nailed. Only time I was ever bitten on a windows box was through a song lyrics site. Avoid those!
Also, that was the day I moved to FireFox. =)
Are Usability & Security Opposites in Computing?
I propose the following experiment. Yes, yes I know there are service packs and patches available, that's why I'm calling this an experiment.
Take a Windows XP CD and load it onto a system you're not using for anything important at the moment. Do not connect it to a network in any way, shape, or form. Load the PC up with applications. Roughly judge load times, mouse and keyboard times...mess around with it a while and see how responsive it is. Not too bad, right? Fairly useable.
Now, plug your netcard directly into your net. No firewall. I suggest plugging the box directly into a cablemodem. Wait 24 hours.
Notice any difference? This is exactly why Usability and Security are NOT opposites. Any box that's running 99% cpu with malware and viruses is damn near unusable.
Worst. Lost. Civilization. Evar.
...is that SCO, using MS money under-the-table to start this mess is about to be pounded by Novell, who is now also using MS money, acquired through a legal action.
There really *is* balance in nature...
...and rent Office Space.
...whoever has the gold, makes the rules.
Patent fishing never works if you are too ambitious and go after the big bucks right out of the gate. How many examples of this have we seen here on /.?
Sue a couple of small fish. Get favorable court time first. Then go for the gold.
It's like the Vikings have said for ages - pillage first, then burn!
I agree completely - these guys are experts at spin. They make the current US election look like a tea party.
"More has been invested in making IE secure than any browser on the planet by a long shot."
Y'know, another way to read this statement is "IE has more bugs and holes that need fixing than any other browser on the planet by a long shot, which explains the larger investment." =)
Yeah, that takes the cake. But it's worded pretty cleverly, dontcha agree? "About three years ago, we made software security a top priority." Notice they don't say they've actually done anything about it, they just say they've made it "a priority". Hell, anyone can do that.
Beautiful piece of marketing doublespeak.
I'm posting this from a 2.4Ghz machine myself, and it doesn't compile kernel 2.6 in 15 seconds, let alone boot in that short of a time. It takes at least a couple of minutes.
Hell, "make clean" takes longer than that.
It's not clear, though, how serious Kerry truly is
That's his whole problem, IMHO.
Not meant as a flame or anything, I'm voting for him and all...but in his quest to not offend a single voter, he's not really been firm on a lot of things. The DCMA being relatively minor on that list.
Dude, it's called humor. Check into it. Nobody modded me Informative.
If you've seen the movie, then you know this is a bad idea.
As much as I dislike starting an argument with a logical fallacy, you should really look at the article a bit before making any claims as to the death of MP3.
First of all the article page loads with the title "MSN Tech & Gadgets". This is noteworthy, especially seeing as how MS is trying to break into this market. Of course they'd say MP3 is dead, especially when they're touting a DRM enabled propriatary format.
Also, we have this gem from the article:
According to researchers at The NPD Group's MusicWatch Digital who track the contents of people's hard drives, the percentage of MP3-formatted songs in digital-music collections has slid steadily in recent months, down to about 72 percent of people's collections from about 82 percent a year ago.
Aside from this being really creepy, it's a biased sample. Anyone who would let someone put monitoring software on their PC (assuming it's not spyware) would probably not have a lot of MP3 files on their machine, if you know what I mean *nudge nudge*.
To sum up: Article is bogus advertising spin. Nothing to see here, move along.
I agree completely.
Ban Google, today!
"The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope."
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