Steven Milloy is hardly one who should be taken seriously on environmental / health issues. Read more about the offer of the article by visiting wikipedia:
Energystar.gov has a PDF file up about CFLs and describes that the broken glass is more dangerous to you than the mercury and provides the following disposal advice:
Like paint, batteries, thermostats, and other hazardous household items, CFLs should be disposed of properly. Do not throw CFLs away in your household garbage if better disposal options exist. To find out what to do first check the following website: www.earth911.org where you can find disposal options by using your zip code (*see detailed instructions at the end of this document) or by calling 1-877-
EARTH911 for local disposal options. Another option is to check directly with your local waste management agency for recycling options and disposal guidelines in your community. Additional information is available at www.lamprecycle.org. Finally, IKEA stores take
As a recent "switcher" I've enjoyed OSX and this update improves on pretty much all the items I use day to day. I'll be purchasing it as soon as it arrives.
I work for a hosting company and we basically do the exact same thing. Afer 30-60 seconds of being on the site people get a request to chat with us. Generally we get a very good responce to it, most non-geek customers don't know what they are looking at when the read the specs on the hosting plans. I'd say that it's a good solution, I personally use Mozilla and don't worry about these popups:)
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right the update as he states is for contrast and hue not for voice sync or anything major.
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you sure you don't work for SCO cause you managed to twist his article around really well. Sage works fine for him and the video and audio has no problems - the wife grumbling was due to MYTH screwing up his video and audio sync.
Outlook has the virtual folder idea where it will look and find emails defined by criteria (new messages, flagged for followup etc) and while this is great I still have several real folders that I sort my mail into. The reason? Well if I ever decide to change email software, I can almost be 100% sure these virtual folders won't translate to the new software and I'd have to set up everything again... and When you recieve large ammounts of email thats not an easy thing to do.
I think a combined system works best, archive your email in real folders, look at it day to day in virtual folders...
" Great. So my choice is to remain vulnerable to a hole in Windows, or install a patch that brings a draconian EULA that allows MS to do whatever it wants with my machine. Remind me again why Windows is a good choice..."
In your case if you feel you don't agree with the EULA you have the CHOICE of going linux. That's what I don't get, the linux zealots out here are so pro-choice, pro-open... yet they can't see the forest for the tree's.
Yes you have the choice to install the patches or not. Yes you have a choice to install windows or not. I never once mentioned you didn't have this choice, what I said is that if you are using windows... and you choose not to do the patches for whatever stupid reason... you deserve to get nailed from the worm.
It would be like refusing to update a linux software package because the licence changed from BSD to GPL... and then turning around and complaining that its buggy.
You get the option of reading what the fix does, checking in the MSKB and finding out why it was released. If you choose not to install it then you should not be complaining about a hole.
In this case if you were a user smart enough to make heads or tails of the code had it been provided to you, you would have been smart enough to have a firewall blocking those ports.
If you buy a closed source product (windows) expect the patches to be closed source as well. If you didn't see it coming then your blind. Now crawl back under the bridge troll.
I'm a big fan of linux, but I work in an eviroment where windows is locked in. Yea MS has some problems but so does everyone, what everyone needs to remember is that MICROSOFT RELEASED A FIX FOR BLASTER BEFORE THE BIG HIT CAME. The fact is the people who got hit by blaster didn't maintain thier system, or weren't running firewalls. You wouldn't be on here growling about how debian sucked if a bunch of users didn't do apt-get update / upgrade would you?
These guys have a huge market share, have a reasonably good product that most of the population is happy enough using. Many of (myself included) like linux. Both have bugs, both get fixes... but the weakest link is if the admins / system owners update... in this case many didn't and it made MS look bad/
I just finished my review, its from the perspective of someone switching from Windows XP... I've still got some things left to do but for the most part the switch was sucessfull
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Just finished reading this - and confirms my fears that we are stepping closer and closer to it being fact not fiction.
Steven Milloy is hardly one who should be taken seriously on environmental / health issues. Read more about the offer of the article by visiting wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_MilloyEnergystar.gov has a PDF file up about CFLs and describes that the broken glass is more dangerous to you than the mercury and provides the following disposal advice:
http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/As a recent "switcher" I've enjoyed OSX and this update improves on pretty much all the items I use day to day. I'll be purchasing it as soon as it arrives.
Steve Wozniak
CEO Wheels of Zeus
Howard Dean & John Kerry
$2,000 each
William H. Gates
CEO Microsoft Corp.
George W. Bush
$2,000
SAMUEL J. PALMISANO
CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT & C.E.O. I.B.M. CORPORATION
George W. Bush
$2,000
Carleton S. Fiorina
Chairman & C.E.O. Hewlett-Packard
George W. Bush
$2,000
Brian L. Roberts
President Comcast
George W. Bush
$2,000
Craig R. Barrett
C.E.O. Intel Corporation
George W. Bush & Joe Lieberman
$2,000 Each
Meg Whitman
President/C.E.O. E. Bay Inc.
George W. Bush
$2,000
Seems to be alot of support towards Bush.
I work for a hosting company and we basically do the exact same thing. Afer 30-60 seconds of being on the site people get a request to chat with us. Generally we get a very good responce to it, most non-geek customers don't know what they are looking at when the read the specs on the hosting plans. I'd say that it's a good solution, I personally use Mozilla and don't worry about these popups :)
right the update as he states is for contrast and hue not for voice sync or anything major.
you sure you don't work for SCO cause you managed to twist his article around really well. Sage works fine for him and the video and audio has no problems - the wife grumbling was due to MYTH screwing up his video and audio sync.
www.maporama.com I've found to be pretty decent, Mapquest used to be my first point to check but lately I've been using O'rama and its great.
Outlook has the virtual folder idea where it will look and find emails defined by criteria (new messages, flagged for followup etc) and while this is great I still have several real folders that I sort my mail into. The reason? Well if I ever decide to change email software, I can almost be 100% sure these virtual folders won't translate to the new software and I'd have to set up everything again... and When you recieve large ammounts of email thats not an easy thing to do.
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I think a combined system works best, archive your email in real folders, look at it day to day in virtual folders.
" Great. So my choice is to remain vulnerable to a hole in Windows, or install a patch that brings a draconian EULA that allows MS to do whatever it wants with my machine. Remind me again why Windows is a good choice..."
... and you choose not to do the patches for whatever stupid reason ... you deserve to get nailed from the worm.
In your case if you feel you don't agree with the EULA you have the CHOICE of going linux. That's what I don't get, the linux zealots out here are so pro-choice, pro-open... yet they can't see the forest for the tree's.
Yes you have the choice to install the patches or not. Yes you have a choice to install windows or not. I never once mentioned you didn't have this choice, what I said is that if you are using windows
It would be like refusing to update a linux software package because the licence changed from BSD to GPL... and then turning around and complaining that its buggy.
You get the option of reading what the fix does, checking in the MSKB and finding out why it was released. If you choose not to install it then you should not be complaining about a hole.
In this case if you were a user smart enough to make heads or tails of the code had it been provided to you, you would have been smart enough to have a firewall blocking those ports.
If you buy a closed source product (windows) expect the patches to be closed source as well. If you didn't see it coming then your blind. Now crawl back under the bridge troll.
I'm a big fan of linux, but I work in an eviroment where windows is locked in. Yea MS has some problems but so does everyone, what everyone needs to remember is that MICROSOFT RELEASED A FIX FOR BLASTER BEFORE THE BIG HIT CAME. The fact is the people who got hit by blaster didn't maintain thier system, or weren't running firewalls. You wouldn't be on here growling about how debian sucked if a bunch of users didn't do apt-get update / upgrade would you? These guys have a huge market share, have a reasonably good product that most of the population is happy enough using. Many of (myself included) like linux. Both have bugs, both get fixes... but the weakest link is if the admins / system owners update... in this case many didn't and it made MS look bad/
I just finished my review, its from the perspective of someone switching from Windows XP... I've still got some things left to do but for the most part the switch was sucessfull
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Redhat 8.0 is great.
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