The Internet, E-Mail, FTP, and such are all vital components of the World Wide Web...
Uh, last time I looked, E-Mail, FTP and World Wide Web were components of the Internet. Internet is not a WWW protocol.
Bzzzzzzt! Oh well! But hey, we have some wonderful consolation prizes for you, and thanks for appearing on "Morons Who Explain Internet Security"! Lets bring out our next contestant Mary! [as we fade, we hear the voice of Don Pardo] Mary is a full time community service worker from the Porkwood Estates Mobile Home Park...
Also oddly enough, I discovered after reading other posts and deciding it was a seperate issue, that the "Userdata Persistence" option is also in 5.1. It is found on the security tab instead of the advanced tab.
So, in 5.1, they have "Enable Page Hit Counting" and "Userdata Persistence", and in 5.5 they have "Userdata Persistence", and the page hit counting thing is unlabelled but still present. Damn, I'd like to hear what Microsleaze has to say about this crap. And I wonder, does this all have anything to do with Passport, about which Woody wrote some nasty shit in his latest newsletter. It would seem that Passport is little more than a cookie circumvention process which provides site owners with way more data than cookies can. As if M$ intends to trumpet the unwashed masses with the news that they are now safe from the evil cookie, leaving unsaid of course that the "solution" is much worse.
I use IE 5.1 and there is an option in the advanced tab called "Enable Page Hit Counting". Here is what the Help says about it (emphasis is mine):
Specifies whether you want Internet Explorer to allow Web sites to track your Web page usage. Selecting this check box allows sites to create a log on your computer of which pages you view, even when you are viewing Web pages offline. That log is sent to the site the next time you go to it. By tracking the usage and popularity of specific Web pages, content providers can tailor future content to match your interests.
Looks like this has been around a while as M$ fishes for the most innocuous name possible.
...have you even been paying attention to what's been going on in society? Each day we lose more and more true information due to incorrect or purposefully distorted reporting from the media. Just look around you. Anyone who does not take the time to "dig" for the truth ends up believing everything the media says. The media is DESIGNED that way. It may not have been at first but it is now.
Are these the same people who respect and admire Tommy Hilfiger, McDonalds, Survivor, and Britney Spears?
The very same people who judge the value of a thing by how many suckers have bought it. People who assess the soundness of a company's technology by refering to its stock price. Those people!
Joe User cares when his identity is stolen and his bank account is wiped
yes, but he won't blame the technology. he'll know from the media that evil hax0r5 are to blame. and legislation to require licensing of all internet access tools and regulations to control internet content will have won a new lifelong supporter.
Dentist: "We'll have that root canal wrapped up in another minute. [turns to computer, sounds of keys tapping] "Hmmm. Say, you don't happen to know what a General Protection Fault is, do you?"
Am I the only one utterly fed up with pompous assholes who think disagreeing with somebody gives them the right to tell moderators how to think and how to act?
Religeon has, in most cases, started far more wars than fixed screwed countries. Want an example? Look at ireland.
Ireland hasn't been fucked up by religion - thats just the establishment line. Note well: the beef in Ireland is British occupation. Colonialism.
The Brits have been squatting on Northern Ireland for centuries. The facts are that Brits largely practice Protestantism and the Irish largely practice Catholicism, thus allowing for the totally erroneous portrayal of this situation as a "religious war" by the late 20th century media. This has got to qualify as one of the most successful disinformation campaigns ever seen. Ask almost anybody in the USA what the problem is in Ireland, and they'll say its the Protestants and Catholics pitching bombs at each other.
The real deal is that the occupied Irish are still pitching bombs at the imperialist British invaders centuries after the fact. It's an ages-old, familiar situation around the world, and it has squat to do with religion.
Assuming that this isn't just smokescreen to conceal the hoax, it seems to be pretty good, if brief, background on how Forum2000 works.
If you bought into that load of obfuscated technomumble, you must feel right at home on AOL.:-)
And if you had actually read Andrej's page instead of the how it works page, you'd have noted that Forum2000 is listed in the 'entertainment' category (as opposed to his 'work' links...)
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The Internet, E-Mail, FTP, and such are all vital components of the World Wide Web...
Uh, last time I looked, E-Mail, FTP and World Wide Web were components of the Internet. Internet is not a WWW protocol.
Bzzzzzzt! Oh well! But hey, we have some wonderful consolation prizes for you, and thanks for appearing on "Morons Who Explain Internet Security"! Lets bring out our next contestant Mary! [as we fade, we hear the voice of Don Pardo] Mary is a full time community service worker from the Porkwood Estates Mobile Home Park...
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
So, in 5.1, they have "Enable Page Hit Counting" and "Userdata Persistence", and in 5.5 they have "Userdata Persistence", and the page hit counting thing is unlabelled but still present. Damn, I'd like to hear what Microsleaze has to say about this crap. And I wonder, does this all have anything to do with Passport, about which Woody wrote some nasty shit in his latest newsletter. It would seem that Passport is little more than a cookie circumvention process which provides site owners with way more data than cookies can. As if M$ intends to trumpet the unwashed masses with the news that they are now safe from the evil cookie, leaving unsaid of course that the "solution" is much worse.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
BZZZZZZZT! Browser cache????
URL ??? "www.somedumbasses.com/callMe/Leeet.js"
[slapping forehead] DOH!!!!!
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the only good thing about jscript is that you can always view source
Bzzzzzt. Do not pass go:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="fux0red.js"></script>
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
I use IE 5.1 and there is an option in the advanced tab called "Enable Page Hit Counting". Here is what the Help says about it (emphasis is mine):
Specifies whether you want Internet Explorer to allow Web sites to track your Web page usage. Selecting this check box allows sites to create a log on your computer of which pages you view, even when you are viewing Web pages offline. That log is sent to the site the next time you go to it. By tracking the usage and popularity of specific Web pages, content providers can tailor future content to match your interests.
Looks like this has been around a while as M$ fishes for the most innocuous name possible.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
And as for the online teens who hadn't used the web or email... just what the hell were they doing online exactly?
Napster!
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A-fucking-men!
Score: +5 (Insightful)
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Are these the same people who respect and admire Tommy Hilfiger, McDonalds, Survivor, and Britney Spears?
The very same people who judge the value of a thing by how many suckers have bought it. People who assess the soundness of a company's technology by refering to its stock price. Those people!
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
at a price that is easily underestimated: converting students from thinkers into advanced consumers.
Price? And here I thought all along that was the goal of American education!
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Joe User cares when his identity is stolen and his bank account is wiped
yes, but he won't blame the technology. he'll know from the media that evil hax0r5 are to blame. and legislation to require licensing of all internet access tools and regulations to control internet content will have won a new lifelong supporter.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Who are the geniuses that think these things up?
My guess would be Hanna-Barbara. We're all just bit players in a big Jetsons episode.
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It would seem he has dealt with it:
Unable to locate the server named "hobbes.resnet.tamu.edu" --- the server does not have a DNS entry.
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FilterProxy can successfully remove web bugs.
So? She was wanting to know how to make apache stop writing logs. FilterProxy can't do that.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
General to Captain: "Implement Security Through Obscurity!"
Captain to Lieutenant: "You heard the man, kill them all."
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
I don't think this is quite what the founding fathers had in mind when they came up with the copyright stuff...
They did that?!?! Probably that sleazebag Jefferson, huh?
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
"The CMOS clock on your machine is wrong, how do we know that you aren't trying to circumvent digital protection means on your computer?"
Well, shit, I'm a goner. Piece of shit CMOS clock in this $300 PC hasn't ever been right!
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Dentist: "There, that isn't so bad, is it?"
Patient: "ih uuuuuurts u astard!!!!!!!!"
Dentist: "We'll have that root canal wrapped up in another minute.
[turns to computer, sounds of keys tapping]
"Hmmm. Say, you don't happen to know what a General Protection Fault is, do you?"
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
just look at the wonderful film "The Net" and you'll see that they obviously have done their homework.
SPOOOOOOOOOON???
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Or at the very least, an after school movie of the week...
...starring Britney Spears, featuring N'Sync...
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
I saw some links to this waaaaay back on Ars Technica last year...
Pssh! I saw this in a May 1960 Mechanics Illustrated. (MIMI wore a two-piece swim suit.) Old stuff! Beware the codgers in your midst!
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Am I the only one utterly fed up with pompous assholes who think disagreeing with somebody gives them the right to tell moderators how to think and how to act?
Actually, no, you're not.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
And who should enforce these penalties?
Erm, Linus?
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Religeon has, in most cases, started far more wars than fixed screwed countries. Want an example? Look at ireland.
Ireland hasn't been fucked up by religion - thats just the establishment line. Note well: the beef in Ireland is British occupation. Colonialism.
The Brits have been squatting on Northern Ireland for centuries. The facts are that Brits largely practice Protestantism and the Irish largely practice Catholicism, thus allowing for the totally erroneous portrayal of this situation as a "religious war" by the late 20th century media. This has got to qualify as one of the most successful disinformation campaigns ever seen. Ask almost anybody in the USA what the problem is in Ireland, and they'll say its the Protestants and Catholics pitching bombs at each other.
The real deal is that the occupied Irish are still pitching bombs at the imperialist British invaders centuries after the fact. It's an ages-old, familiar situation around the world, and it has squat to do with religion.
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up
Assuming that this isn't just smokescreen to conceal the hoax, it seems to be pretty good, if brief, background on how Forum2000 works.
If you bought into that load of obfuscated technomumble, you must feel right at home on AOL. :-)
And if you had actually read Andrej's page instead of the how it works page, you'd have noted that Forum2000 is listed in the 'entertainment' category (as opposed to his 'work' links...)
"I will gladly pay you today, sir, and eat up