I remember a time when I actually believed we lived in an enlightened time, a time where tolerance and liberal ideals were being enacted - equality for women and people of different ethnicities and gay people.
And I look around now and I see growing intolerace, authoritarianism.
Where once I saw a news report about North Korea where it seemed shocking that they couldn't use a public phone box without fear of being listened in on by their government, I see that now I live in a country that spies on my email contacts and who I'm in touch with over the phone and what websites I visit (and so technically what newspapers I may read and where my political sympathies may lie).
I wonder how long it'll be before we get the formation of the first Anti-Sex League?
What I don't understand is the notion that Java is somehow an essential part of the internet? I can't remember the last time I browsed a website and had to use Java in order to get what i needed from it.
besides, all apple has to do is follow the ISP 'unlimited' advertising model, which is apparently A-OK with the ASA:
Thanks, I'll look into the prospect of using a new profile. It's still extra effort compared to what FF2 does for me now - delete everything, history, cache, non-protected cookies, etc, as a matter of course, but if (when) FF2 stops being supported it might be the only option.
A shame, because it certainly feels like a step backward in flexibility and user freedom.
>To quote the fourth circuit court: The border search doctrine is justified by the longstanding right of the sovereign to protect itself.
In other words: we have to wipe our arses on the constitution to fight [terror|paedophilia|copyright infringement|threats to state sovereignty] (please select blanket justification of personal choice).
>>although it has a painfully stupid name that makes me want to hate it already
>That's really the -biggest- strike against it.
Biggest? Not for me. That it reveals what porn sites I've visited to all and sundry, when I type in an address that begins with the same few letters, to show someone, and there's no function in the privacy options to clear those sites from coming up like that. Clear History won't get rid of them. That's the biggest strike against it.
FF3 is not so much a fox as a rat!
That's why I uninstalled it and went back to FF2. (since switching the smart location bar off in config, didn't actually clear the list of sites... which were all still there when I turned it back on again to check).
IMO, FF3 unlike FF2 is not a privacy-friendly browser.
I just turned off automatic updates for Firefox. It popped up a message announcing the availability of a patch right in the middle of some video I was watching, obscuring the video I was engrossed in, completely. Twice.
And so it got turned off, and updates will be performed when I remember to do them.
Automatic update installs without my input are not something I'd consider, so not an option.
The fact that an OEM XP CD is marked 'not for resale' doesn't mean anything - as should have been proved by a recent court decision regarding music promo CDs, where the judge ruled that they were a gift and no longer the property of the record companies - who consequently had NO SAY over what was done with them (short of copyright laws and duplication).
If that's the case for gifts, where you've paid money for something, the case for right of resale would be even stronger.
Like how to not get constantly shoved into the Google Page of Death (the one with no captcha exit) despite having no viruses and using Firefox:
We're sorry...... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
A good point and one I'm sympathetic with, but it would seem that religion and a belief in something greater than oneself, whether God or Gods, a Great Spirit or Father or something else entirely - but a source of everything - seems to spontaneously arise in humanity all over the planet and is widespread in acceptance.
So maybe people only need to be told the specifics.
Agreed. UAC is fine in regular use (I run 2 PCs with Vista with UAC turned on) but a poor implementation has resulted in unfavourable initial responses, souring many people's view of it (and not without good reasons, I may add).
It is poorly implemented in that it doesn't have a grace period. As such every instance of requested elevation will hit a user instead of once in a reasonably short time window.
This is a real problem when people are initially bumping up against the new Windows 'feature'. When they buy a new machine and are installing countless pieces of software, it's like being hammered over the head with near constant 'cancel/allow' requests.
Once (if) the typical user gets past this initial Trial By UAC and aren't installing programs one after another, UAC is barely noticeable and is handy for the security it provides, but a user's introduction to the process is *extremely* negative and likely to sour them to the control mechanism, IMO.
> Indy needs to fight the Nazis. That's the point. The Nazis make the movies good because they're his enemy.
Spielberg had some religious experience and declared that Nazis would nolonger appear in any of his movies as baddies (probably not as goodies, either... just a guess). So the Ruskies became the bad guys... and a really bad artistic decision was made for non-artistic reasons.
I guess if we're especially unlucky, we can expect the original movies to be 'reworked' ala ET (and the guns/walkie talkies) or Lucas's Greedo shoots first fiasco (Greedo Fiasco is a good name for a band): Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Director's Cut - where Indy tries to prevent the Ark of the Covenant getting into the hands of the Taliban.
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>addiction is an over used term these days
Especially when there's a perfectly valid non-medicalised word for it: obsession.
I remember a time when I actually believed we lived in an enlightened time, a time where tolerance and liberal ideals were being enacted - equality for women and people of different ethnicities and gay people.
And I look around now and I see growing intolerace, authoritarianism.
Where once I saw a news report about North Korea where it seemed shocking that they couldn't use a public phone box without fear of being listened in on by their government, I see that now I live in a country that spies on my email contacts and who I'm in touch with over the phone and what websites I visit (and so technically what newspapers I may read and where my political sympathies may lie).
I wonder how long it'll be before we get the formation of the first Anti-Sex League?
My lawn isn't unkempt, it's a meadow and natural wildlife haven, you insensitive clod!
That's why you get programmes like Top Gear from the BBC. No commercial channel would dare upset the card manufacturers like it does.
What I don't understand is the notion that Java is somehow an essential part of the internet? I can't remember the last time I browsed a website and had to use Java in order to get what i needed from it.
besides, all apple has to do is follow the ISP 'unlimited' advertising model, which is apparently A-OK with the ASA:
Browse the entire* internet with your iPOD!
*usage limitations apply
>Let us completely block certain domains from our personal search results. ExpertSexchange would be first to go.
How about Firefox + CustomiseGoogle add-on? Works for me.
Thanks, Barnoid!
I run noscript. And I don't want to visit their website after every update. I have no need to. It just pisses me off.
>>this is the AP....you expect them to get that right?
>No, but I do expect Slashdot to get it right.
OMG. For real?
Thanks, I'll look into the prospect of using a new profile. It's still extra effort compared to what FF2 does for me now - delete everything, history, cache, non-protected cookies, etc, as a matter of course, but if (when) FF2 stops being supported it might be the only option.
A shame, because it certainly feels like a step backward in flexibility and user freedom.
>To quote the fourth circuit court: The border search doctrine is justified by the longstanding right of the sovereign to protect itself.
In other words: we have to wipe our arses on the constitution to fight [terror|paedophilia|copyright infringement|threats to state sovereignty] (please select blanket justification of personal choice).
They (big media corps & their state accomplices) want to replace the internet with cable TV.
Cable TV to which we will be allowed to contribute by supplying 'user content' for them to exploit (subject to the content being approved).
They want to replace the internet with something where they have control and the only control we have is the remote.
>>although it has a painfully stupid name that makes me want to hate it already
... which were all still there when I turned it back on again to check).
>That's really the -biggest- strike against it.
Biggest? Not for me. That it reveals what porn sites I've visited to all and sundry, when I type in an address that begins with the same few letters, to show someone, and there's no function in the privacy options to clear those sites from coming up like that. Clear History won't get rid of them. That's the biggest strike against it.
FF3 is not so much a fox as a rat!
That's why I uninstalled it and went back to FF2. (since switching the smart location bar off in config, didn't actually clear the list of sites
IMO, FF3 unlike FF2 is not a privacy-friendly browser.
> The sidewalks are great for walking on. At no cost!
Until the ID card surveillance system comes in. Then we pay to walk. To breathe. To exist.
Doesn't sound promising, does it?
And so it got turned off, and updates will be performed when I remember to do them.
Automatic update installs without my input are not something I'd consider, so not an option.
If that's the case for gifts, where you've paid money for something, the case for right of resale would be even stronger.
Like how to not get constantly shoved into the Google Page of Death (the one with no captcha exit) despite having no viruses and using Firefox :
Sigh.
So maybe people only need to be told the specifics.
Parents are being ASKED to relinquish/put away their PDAs etc, in order to spend 'quality' time with their children.
The article says 'no word on what will happen if they refuse' because nothing will happen. There's no story here, no news, just an advertisement...
...and no need for any nerd to get their knickers in a knot. ;)
It is poorly implemented in that it doesn't have a grace period. As such every instance of requested elevation will hit a user instead of once in a reasonably short time window.
This is a real problem when people are initially bumping up against the new Windows 'feature'. When they buy a new machine and are installing countless pieces of software, it's like being hammered over the head with near constant 'cancel/allow' requests.
Once (if) the typical user gets past this initial Trial By UAC and aren't installing programs one after another, UAC is barely noticeable and is handy for the security it provides, but a user's introduction to the process is *extremely* negative and likely to sour them to the control mechanism, IMO.
Spielberg had some religious experience and declared that Nazis would nolonger appear in any of his movies as baddies (probably not as goodies, either ... just a guess). So the Ruskies became the bad guys ... and a really bad artistic decision was made for non-artistic reasons.
I guess if we're especially unlucky, we can expect the original movies to be 'reworked' ala ET (and the guns/walkie talkies) or Lucas's Greedo shoots first fiasco (Greedo Fiasco is a good name for a band): Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Director's Cut - where Indy tries to prevent the Ark of the Covenant getting into the hands of the Taliban.
Back then, only landed white men got the vote for a government that served the interests of those landed white men.
Then it all changed: women and minorities also got to vote for a government that served the interests of the landed white men.
Viva la Revolucion!
There, fixed that for you. :)
Hey, c'mon - it works for the no fly list.