One reason for updating a Latin textbook is to include more "politically correct" examples and to expunge the philosophies of our forebears which seem so repugnant today. That, and to water down the grammar for college students who don't graduate from high school having learned English grammar.
Yes, and then we should organize and condemn any
Western efforts to help the Chinese build their
internet infrastructure.
False dichotomy. The Chinese could have been helped "to build their Internet infrastructure" without having been sold custom-designed censorship technology.
Actually, it's not that far off-topic. Having a unique name is a handicap to one's privacy. Consider the difference in results for googling "John Smith" vs. "DeLeroy Deville."
Forcing who to jump through hoops? The people who would like access to AOL's millions of subscribers? I'm not talking about asking the subscribers to change one iota--just those entities that would like to be able to get email into aol.com.
If anyone could force a change to the current email system (unfortunately), it's AOL. If AOL said that beginning 00:00 next Sunday, mail from hosts without valid SPF records would be rejected, major ISPs and corporations would fall immediately into line. Those running their own SMTP servers would either make SPF records or be forced to use their ISP's smarthost.
When they block something you get a window handle back that looks very legit. It has all the field filled in (width, height, content, screen, etc) but the window just doesn't show up to the user.
You can thank the webmasters that won't serve pages unless the server thinks the user has accepted the pop-ups. Expect more of the same. If you have a real need to use popups, add a note to your content saying so. I myself would try to find a way to do what needs to be done without them, as this practice will only become more prevalent.
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If that person would have had to pay a professional $100 or $200 to clean up the machine, and it was an older machine, replacing it may have been the most cost-effective option for her. Now if they have friends or relatives willing to do it for free, on the other hand:) . . .
I'm sure knowing that will make the civil liberties advocate feel much better when he's being held incommunicado or being made to disappear after having made the discovery.
I wonder how many offices would buy a subscription and then proxy the queries through the machine with the subscription cookie. An all-you-can-eat subscription scheme would thus be DOA.
Another horrific possibility is a loose-knit farm of meta-Googles caching frequent searches (e.g. "Britney naked").
The current ads, as you've noted, are text-based and unobtrusive. Under pressure to make the next quarter's earnings numbers, I doubt they'll stay that way. As I said to the other gentleman, I hope you're right.
Hope you're right. But I don't have much faith in the vagaries of publically traded companies. And even if 2/3 of the stock is held by insiders, they aren't immune to shareholder lawsuits and the like from people who don't understand that charging a subscription fee would be like killing the golden goose.
Now they'll have to "monetize" the search service. Then the pay for ranking results move up and webmasters start blocking the crawler because they charge. And it goes to shit.
Ah, the OSI Challenger. D/C/W/M. You know the Superboard II/C1P's emulated in MESS now, thanks to the efforts of a gentleman in Switzerland named Claudio. He even has a few of his old basic programs there.</offtopic>
I've had pretty good luck booting installs of Windows 98 from one machine to another, oddly enough. Granted, it twitches some when you first boot it, but generally comes out OK. There's a registry key to clear (which I don't recall offhand) to force hardware redetection, so even if things don't go well, you can fire up the machine in safe mode and force redetection, then reboot.
Thanks--sounds like it's probably over my head. I'll admit that reading about TRIZ gave me that cold, clammy feeling I get when reading management fad stuff written for MBA's.
Fire up VMWare or Bochs, install Windows 98 with everything on it. Download and install all the patches. Copy that VM--you now have a fully (to date) patched master copy. If you're feeling really ambitious, grab all the updates from the Corporate Windows Update site (which naturally requires IE) and burn a CD or two of them.
I guess the car analogy doesn't really work in this instance... I'd hate to picture a few/. geeks in 2024 sitting around a garage, looking at an ancient Dell saying "Dude... That's an `02 model, with CD-RW. 512MB on the motherboard. SCSI. Pretty sweet."
It won't happen, because when Palladium/TCPA/Trusted Computing is the law of the land, it will have been turned in for mandatory "recycling." Those that survive will be in the hands of people who have risked a felony conviction and civil forfeiture of their homes to possess them, so a group of guys saying ". . . sweet" is a pretty unlikely scenario.
So in other words, the state licenses professions, but by proxy. Makes no difference, really. You think the IEEE, ACM, or similar (along with the states) wouldn't love to get its hands on the revenue generated by millions of programmer license application fees?
Who's accountable if a mail server is found to be sending spam? What stops the person who previously ran tainted mail server X from starting up mail server Y somewhere else?
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One reason for updating a Latin textbook is to include more "politically correct" examples and to expunge the philosophies of our forebears which seem so repugnant today. That, and to water down the grammar for college students who don't graduate from high school having learned English grammar.
False dichotomy. The Chinese could have been helped "to build their Internet infrastructure" without having been sold custom-designed censorship technology.
Actually, it's not that far off-topic. Having a unique name is a handicap to one's privacy. Consider the difference in results for googling "John Smith" vs. "DeLeroy Deville."
Next - no one sends email unless they or their ISP have paid a tithe to Verisign. No thanks.
Forcing who to jump through hoops? The people who would like access to AOL's millions of subscribers? I'm not talking about asking the subscribers to change one iota--just those entities that would like to be able to get email into aol.com.
If anyone could force a change to the current email system (unfortunately), it's AOL. If AOL said that beginning 00:00 next Sunday, mail from hosts without valid SPF records would be rejected, major ISPs and corporations would fall immediately into line. Those running their own SMTP servers would either make SPF records or be forced to use their ISP's smarthost.
You can thank the webmasters that won't serve pages unless the server thinks the user has accepted the pop-ups. Expect more of the same. If you have a real need to use popups, add a note to your content saying so. I myself would try to find a way to do what needs to be done without them, as this practice will only become more prevalent.
If that person would have had to pay a professional $100 or $200 to clean up the machine, and it was an older machine, replacing it may have been the most cost-effective option for her. Now if they have friends or relatives willing to do it for free, on the other hand :) . . .
I'm not baiting you at all--you're the one who brought up your employer. But I'll consider your ending this thread a concession.
Microsoft paid for a "license," so they're covered.
I'm sure knowing that will make the civil liberties advocate feel much better when he's being held incommunicado or being made to disappear after having made the discovery.
That's because any DRM scheme, no matter how permissive, is the camel's nose under the tent for much more intrusive schemes. Love the username, BTW.
Another horrific possibility is a loose-knit farm of meta-Googles caching frequent searches (e.g. "Britney naked").
The current ads, as you've noted, are text-based and unobtrusive. Under pressure to make the next quarter's earnings numbers, I doubt they'll stay that way. As I said to the other gentleman, I hope you're right.
Hope you're right. But I don't have much faith in the vagaries of publically traded companies. And even if 2/3 of the stock is held by insiders, they aren't immune to shareholder lawsuits and the like from people who don't understand that charging a subscription fee would be like killing the golden goose.
Now they'll have to "monetize" the search service. Then the pay for ranking results move up and webmasters start blocking the crawler because they charge. And it goes to shit.
Ah, the OSI Challenger. D/C/W/M. You know the Superboard II/C1P's emulated in MESS now, thanks to the efforts of a gentleman in Switzerland named Claudio. He even has a few of his old basic programs there.</offtopic>
That's a good point.
I've had pretty good luck booting installs of Windows 98 from one machine to another, oddly enough. Granted, it twitches some when you first boot it, but generally comes out OK. There's a registry key to clear (which I don't recall offhand) to force hardware redetection, so even if things don't go well, you can fire up the machine in safe mode and force redetection, then reboot.
Thanks--sounds like it's probably over my head. I'll admit that reading about TRIZ gave me that cold, clammy feeling I get when reading management fad stuff written for MBA's.
Fire up VMWare or Bochs, install Windows 98 with everything on it. Download and install all the patches. Copy that VM--you now have a fully (to date) patched master copy. If you're feeling really ambitious, grab all the updates from the Corporate Windows Update site (which naturally requires IE) and burn a CD or two of them.
It won't happen, because when Palladium/TCPA/Trusted Computing is the law of the land, it will have been turned in for mandatory "recycling." Those that survive will be in the hands of people who have risked a felony conviction and civil forfeiture of their homes to possess them, so a group of guys saying ". . . sweet" is a pretty unlikely scenario.
Actually, I'm enjoying some Freedom onion dip right now :).
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So in other words, the state licenses professions, but by proxy. Makes no difference, really. You think the IEEE, ACM, or similar (along with the states) wouldn't love to get its hands on the revenue generated by millions of programmer license application fees?
BTW, Happy New Year!