Some of it is UCE, partially due to a couple dingbats with similar names who apparently think my gmail account belongs to them.
This isn't spam; at worst, it's bacn with a case of mistaken identity.
As someone whose full-time job is preventing spam (I work on Akismet, which checks about 380MM Web comments per day for spam), my general response to these kinds of questions is this: Fighting spam is hard because what's spam for you is not always spam for someone else, and spammers are continually changing tactics -- what worked to prevent spam yesterday may not work as well tomorrow, so it's a constantly moving target.
In my experience, GMail's filter is just ok. I see about 50 spam per day end up in my spam folder, 3 or 4 that make it to my inbox, and maybe one false positive per month (when I bother checking). That's a 94% success rate with a 0.3% FP rate (based on my ham email activity), assuming that they're not instantly discarding blatant spam that wouldn't even merit ending up in the spam folder (which they very well might be doing). If Akismet had this same success rate filtering comments on my blog, I'd have to manually mark 230 comments as spam each day instead of Akismet's missed spam average of about one per day. I don't complain about it though, since fighting spam is hard (see above).
If the mobile version supports plugins, and those plugins are in the same format as the desktop ones. There's no guarantee of either, though.
It does, and they are. There are a few tweaks that add-on authors should make to their add-ons to support the mobile versions (mainly UI-related), but those are trivial for most cases. I say this as someone who has ported more add-ons to Firefox for Mobile than anyone else (as far as I know).
Firefox already has location awareness, the next version of Fennec is expected to have a camera API, and I believe the phone that Mobile Firefox is debuting on provides an API for the microphone that Firefox can use.
I wouldn't be surprised if other carriers do that too.
I am on T-Mobile, and there is no way to opt out of receiving text messages. Each one I get costs me $0.15, whether it's from someone I know, a text sent to the wrong number, or simply just a spam text, which I get fairly frequently.
Maybe he had shown the cops a ticket he already received that day for the infraction and explained to them that his car was dead and he was waiting for a tow truck to come pick it up...
It learns as you use it. Type 'slas' and choose Slashdot from the list. After doing that once or twice, Slashdot should automatically float to the top each time after that.
After the whole Robert Scoble fiasco, I wrote a Firefox extension that saves the data from your Facebook friends' profiles (including their e-mail addresses) in CSV format as you view them so that you can import that data into other mail clients or social networks.
This release did not address a "compatibility issue;" it was released solely to fix a bug in canvas.drawImage that was introduced in 2.0.0.10, the bug being that it no longer worked.
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This isn't spam; at worst, it's bacn with a case of mistaken identity.
As someone whose full-time job is preventing spam (I work on Akismet, which checks about 380MM Web comments per day for spam), my general response to these kinds of questions is this: Fighting spam is hard because what's spam for you is not always spam for someone else, and spammers are continually changing tactics -- what worked to prevent spam yesterday may not work as well tomorrow, so it's a constantly moving target.
In my experience, GMail's filter is just ok. I see about 50 spam per day end up in my spam folder, 3 or 4 that make it to my inbox, and maybe one false positive per month (when I bother checking). That's a 94% success rate with a 0.3% FP rate (based on my ham email activity), assuming that they're not instantly discarding blatant spam that wouldn't even merit ending up in the spam folder (which they very well might be doing). If Akismet had this same success rate filtering comments on my blog, I'd have to manually mark 230 comments as spam each day instead of Akismet's missed spam average of about one per day. I don't complain about it though, since fighting spam is hard (see above).
No one is going to call it Nintendo Stream, they'll call it Wii 2 or Wii Stream.
Just like everyone called the Wii the Gamecube 2, right?
I've got over 800 CDs - some as old as 35 years and still they work just fine.
Wasn't the CD only introduced in 1982 (29 years ago)?
What if you want to comment about AT&T or write a mathematical equation stating that x < y.
Users should be able to enter anything they want; htmlspecialchars() and nl2br() ensure that it will be displayed exactly as they entered it.
You can turn this option off, or you can specify the language of the dictionary you want to use for spell-checking.
I'm the author, and I uploaded a new version that works with the latest YouTube design a few days ago. It's just pending approval by Mozilla.
It does, and they are. There are a few tweaks that add-on authors should make to their add-ons to support the mobile versions (mainly UI-related), but those are trivial for most cases. I say this as someone who has ported more add-ons to Firefox for Mobile than anyone else (as far as I know).
Or "going bubble" when someone cannot pass certain section.
I think you mean "bubbling up." (At least that's the term we somehow latched onto.)
...or anyone that does data entry for a living, where all-caps is the standard.
I have some of this (or an identical competitor), and it works just fine.
I clicked the "get add-ons" on the welcome screen and it only gave two options (URL fixer and some location add-on).
Those are add-ons recommended by Mozilla. This page implies that there are 726 total add-ons for Mobile, with AdBlock Plus here.
Yeah, because it's not like Android has an enormous company like Google betting on its success oh wait it does.
No inertial scrolling.
The nightly I'm using has it.
One window per instance, no tabs.
The betas have had tabs for a long time. They're in the left toolbar.
Package is not "optified" - it installs to the device root instead of /opt
Fixed 3 weeks ago
Currently there are only three add-ons not marked "experimental"
I myself have written five add-ons for Mobile that are out of the sandbox, so I don't know where you're getting your numbers.
even in experimental there's no AdBlock Plus
Support added 2 weeks ago
It sounds like you haven't tried Fennec since the early betas. Might be time to give it another shot.
Firefox already has location awareness, the next version of Fennec is expected to have a camera API, and I believe the phone that Mobile Firefox is debuting on provides an API for the microphone that Firefox can use.
"Nonprofit" doesn't imply a lack of revenue.
Just like consumers have figured out that it doesn't really cost the carriers $0.25 to send and receive each text message?
And Sallie Mae.
I am on T-Mobile, and there is no way to opt out of receiving text messages. Each one I get costs me $0.15, whether it's from someone I know, a text sent to the wrong number, or simply just a spam text, which I get fairly frequently.
Yeah, because Amazon *never* goes down.
Maybe he had shown the cops a ticket he already received that day for the infraction and explained to them that his car was dead and he was waiting for a tow truck to come pick it up...
It learns as you use it. Type 'slas' and choose Slashdot from the list. After doing that once or twice, Slashdot should automatically float to the top each time after that.
Not only are the reviews bad, but using it could get you banned from Facebook.
After the whole Robert Scoble fiasco, I wrote a Firefox extension that saves the data from your Facebook friends' profiles (including their e-mail addresses) in CSV format as you view them so that you can import that data into other mail clients or social networks.
This release did not address a "compatibility issue;" it was released solely to fix a bug in canvas.drawImage that was introduced in 2.0.0.10, the bug being that it no longer worked.
See more details at John Resig's blog.
This story should be renamed "Asa Dotzler Responds." (And I, for one, appreciate it.)