The reason they suggest these things is in large part due to their blocking of these possible exploits. No longer can ActiveX run in a pop-up or dialog window, and from what I can gather from the third item, when the dialog box comes up confirming the installation of an ActiveX control, the user will be able to see exactly what the program does. Granted, it'll be easy for a spyware developer to insert falsehoods in that description, but if the program does not perform as advertised, then it creates some leverage for lawsuits against the spyware developer.
They do offer a "if this file does not automatically download" link, so they'll simply have to change the text to "Please click here to download" after they've chosen a server, or simply include the link to the file right when you choose the server. Actually, it'll take a bit of load time out of the equation.
But I would like to point out that this is vastly superior not blocking automatic downloads. As of now, the user is bombarded with spyware downloads that the typical user does not recognize as spyware.
In this case, I think it best to leave some inconvenience for the geeks that can stand the inconvenience as opposed to leaving the door wide open for spammers and malware creators.
Quickly looking at that MSDN article, I must say that they are taking some extremely important steps:
Does your Web site launch automatic download prompts? Microsoft will now suppress downloads not initiated by the user directly.
Does your site launch a pop-up from a pop-up? Along with other things like this one, Microsoft is effectively blocking pop-up ads this time around. It's should at least rival the offerings from Mozilla, OmniWeb, etc.
Do you launch the setHomePage() dialog automatically? This is finally gone! No more shithole websites set as the default
And then you have to love these suggestions
Do not install ActiveX controls using a pop-up window or HTML dialog.
Do not suggest to users they should lower their security settings to install an ActiveX control.
Do create an instance of the ActiveX control on a standalone page describing the purpose and end-user impact of the control.
But it'd probably get old, just like the Spice Girls. It seems like great fun at first, but you later realize that they really didn't deserve a movie, nor a nation-wide release. But hey, get back to me with the next big thing, like Furby 2.0 and maybe I'll be interested.
It's like America was a co-dependent nation, always trying to improve the lives of others. With the Soviet Union there, we "knew" what we had to do to be morally "better" than them, but without that pressure, the United States is simply going to correct the lives of others, when indeed their may be no fault.
Principally, I think the United States is a very conflicted nation that is on the way downward as its debt spirals out of control. The exuberance of the American consumer and the plentiful service employment speak badly for a nation that will be taken over educationally. Simply enough, the United States is falling back, but still extending itself like it did during younger days like the fifties. Whereas the United States once could meddle in the affairs of other nations, I simply believe that today it can not. Just like the co-dependent, the United States is trying to fix the lives of others, but is also so strangled by its co-dependency that it acts haphazardly and without direction.
"Path to making a high-quality licensed videogame in Xbox FPS Chronicles Of Riddick"
You see, that's where they've gone wrong: they should totatally target a Linux-only release. I know, for one, that I'd buy it right away, just as soon as I finish that Mandrake 10 install (which crashes on loading my USB devices, but who needs those for an FPS game, anyway?)
I seem to remember a few antitrust lawsuits a few years ago, which never went very well for Microsoft. If Microsoft overextends itself again, I believe that judges around the nation will be more inclined to levy the same charges. Further, judges are growing, if slowly, more computer literate, and they therefore have a greater understanding of technologies and the implications of monopolies in the marketplace (or so we should hope, after years in the courtroom).
if Microsoft's legal machine is able to fend off liberal judges, then we have a real problem. However, Microsoft is being torn to pieces by the courts, picked off bit by bit. Like a hydra, it just won't die unless it loses all its heads, but I believe it's injured to a degree that it can't venture into new technologies, dominate them, and evade the law.
Hopefully you understand that not many programs are optimized, as of yet, for 64-bit processors. When the more software makes the transition, you can bet that AMD will inch further ahead of Intel in the CPU-speed game (barring an Intel processor with 64-bit extensions anytime soon).
Microsoft isn't the worst thing that's ever happened. In fact, simply creating a new web form system should be evidence that Microsoft is progressing, albeit slowly. Yes, developers should do all that is possible to prevent yet another Microsoft-dominated technology, but if Microsoft can put together a better product sooner, then take it and embrace it until a new technology comes along.
I've written inventory software, but there is no chance that it'll ever be free. The reason for that is simply that inventory systems are typically enterprise applications and target LARGE COMPANIES.
Maybe what you need is Microsoft Access, or perhaps even MySQL and simply manage the data with one of the many front-end GUIs.
I can assure you that there are presently no spare cycles..... of the people that even know that these projects exist. Okay, fine, I myself could run Folding @ Home on another two machines, and I'm sure the case is true in even many geeks homes. However, geeks represent a small number of people, and many that I've talked to have no idea that this is even possible.
The mass grid computing market just got saturated.
Myth Busters really debunked a lot of the theories behind gas station explosions when they tried to light a guy sitting on a toilet on fire.
Long story short: only when they combined extremely flammable substances would the cigarette (yes, the cigarette, a flaming, toasting, more-active-than-a-cell-phone cigarette) engulf the toilet in flames.
The coordination that existed all under the nose of the target is amazing. They had three operatives just waiting there, and dozens of others investigating the crime and tracing every possible connection.
If just some guys on a message board can do this, what does this say about organized crime? About the police? I can't even imagine the possibilities for the group that stays connected like this.
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The reason they suggest these things is in large part due to their blocking of these possible exploits. No longer can ActiveX run in a pop-up or dialog window, and from what I can gather from the third item, when the dialog box comes up confirming the installation of an ActiveX control, the user will be able to see exactly what the program does. Granted, it'll be easy for a spyware developer to insert falsehoods in that description, but if the program does not perform as advertised, then it creates some leverage for lawsuits against the spyware developer.
They do offer a "if this file does not automatically download" link, so they'll simply have to change the text to "Please click here to download" after they've chosen a server, or simply include the link to the file right when you choose the server. Actually, it'll take a bit of load time out of the equation.
But I would like to point out that this is vastly superior not blocking automatic downloads. As of now, the user is bombarded with spyware downloads that the typical user does not recognize as spyware.
In this case, I think it best to leave some inconvenience for the geeks that can stand the inconvenience as opposed to leaving the door wide open for spammers and malware creators.
Microsoft will now suppress downloads not initiated by the user directly.
Along with other things like this one, Microsoft is effectively blocking pop-up ads this time around. It's should at least rival the offerings from Mozilla, OmniWeb, etc.
This is finally gone! No more shithole websites set as the default
Oh, and don't forget about Mac OS X.
It's not, this could have occurred at any time.
Why even relate this to the game?
Ahem:
Inflation.
But it'd probably get old, just like the Spice Girls. It seems like great fun at first, but you later realize that they really didn't deserve a movie, nor a nation-wide release. But hey, get back to me with the next big thing, like Furby 2.0 and maybe I'll be interested.
I realize it's a joke, but if you want to talk about excess, please read something about the 80s.
I did that once. Man, high school rocked. And I did become a legend, too, but only for about a week.
It's like America was a co-dependent nation, always trying to improve the lives of others. With the Soviet Union there, we "knew" what we had to do to be morally "better" than them, but without that pressure, the United States is simply going to correct the lives of others, when indeed their may be no fault.
Principally, I think the United States is a very conflicted nation that is on the way downward as its debt spirals out of control. The exuberance of the American consumer and the plentiful service employment speak badly for a nation that will be taken over educationally. Simply enough, the United States is falling back, but still extending itself like it did during younger days like the fifties. Whereas the United States once could meddle in the affairs of other nations, I simply believe that today it can not. Just like the co-dependent, the United States is trying to fix the lives of others, but is also so strangled by its co-dependency that it acts haphazardly and without direction.
The Muslim population across the globe has long been oppressed. Of course most of them see nothing wrong.
"Path to making a high-quality licensed videogame in Xbox FPS Chronicles Of Riddick"
You see, that's where they've gone wrong: they should totatally target a Linux-only release. I know, for one, that I'd buy it right away, just as soon as I finish that Mandrake 10 install (which crashes on loading my USB devices, but who needs those for an FPS game, anyway?)
$500 million of the remaining billion was a user trying to get a free iPod by shooting the terrorist.
Fiber != Static IP in each room
I seem to remember a few antitrust lawsuits a few years ago, which never went very well for Microsoft. If Microsoft overextends itself again, I believe that judges around the nation will be more inclined to levy the same charges. Further, judges are growing, if slowly, more computer literate, and they therefore have a greater understanding of technologies and the implications of monopolies in the marketplace (or so we should hope, after years in the courtroom).
if Microsoft's legal machine is able to fend off liberal judges, then we have a real problem. However, Microsoft is being torn to pieces by the courts, picked off bit by bit. Like a hydra, it just won't die unless it loses all its heads, but I believe it's injured to a degree that it can't venture into new technologies, dominate them, and evade the law.
Hopefully you understand that not many programs are optimized, as of yet, for 64-bit processors. When the more software makes the transition, you can bet that AMD will inch further ahead of Intel in the CPU-speed game (barring an Intel processor with 64-bit extensions anytime soon).
Microsoft isn't the worst thing that's ever happened. In fact, simply creating a new web form system should be evidence that Microsoft is progressing, albeit slowly. Yes, developers should do all that is possible to prevent yet another Microsoft-dominated technology, but if Microsoft can put together a better product sooner, then take it and embrace it until a new technology comes along.
I've written inventory software, but there is no chance that it'll ever be free. The reason for that is simply that inventory systems are typically enterprise applications and target LARGE COMPANIES.
Maybe what you need is Microsoft Access, or perhaps even MySQL and simply manage the data with one of the many front-end GUIs.
I can assure you that there are presently no spare cycles..... of the people that even know that these projects exist. Okay, fine, I myself could run Folding @ Home on another two machines, and I'm sure the case is true in even many geeks homes. However, geeks represent a small number of people, and many that I've talked to have no idea that this is even possible.
The mass grid computing market just got saturated.
Myth Busters really debunked a lot of the theories behind gas station explosions when they tried to light a guy sitting on a toilet on fire.
Long story short: only when they combined extremely flammable substances would the cigarette (yes, the cigarette, a flaming, toasting, more-active-than-a-cell-phone cigarette) engulf the toilet in flames.
The coordination that existed all under the nose of the target is amazing. They had three operatives just waiting there, and dozens of others investigating the crime and tracing every possible connection.
If just some guys on a message board can do this, what does this say about organized crime? About the police? I can't even imagine the possibilities for the group that stays connected like this.
Yeah, right, uh-uh.
That's English for you. Remember the English is one of the most awkward languages ever devised, with its plethora of German-rooted irregularities.
So in the United States is the exploited that gets the worm? God that sounds horrible.
Bark translator? Don't you mean dog translator?