Awesome. I thought I recalled being able to do the same in Ubuntu or Suse Linux a few years ago, so it was worth mentioning even though I described it as though only for Windows.
Drag and drop from the browser's address bar, specifically the "identity information" icon that precedes the URL. That saves the URL itself in a.URL shortcut file, not an attempted copy of the Web page as HTML/MHTML.
If you use Windows.URL files, you gain several critical abilities: browser-independent storage, cross-browser utility, and searching and filtering driectly from Windows Explorer. The browsers I have used all support the ability to drag URLs directly from the browser address bar into Explorer or the Desktop to create these shortcuts. Not sure if you could then create methods and tools to support your other desired features like browser-exclusive shortcuts, but completely detaching URLs from any application-specific database is a good place to start.
I wish I could, but too many details have fled since I researched it for my own encounter with such abuse. I had an awesome Nokia monitor - back when Nokia still made such awesome things - but the time came when it failed. In trying to get it repaired, I discovered that Nokia had sold off that business to Viewsonic, which had promptly cancelled the manufacture of spare parts for that model. I learned of the Lemon Law and how it requires manufacturers to keep repairable all products sold for more than $100, for no less than 7 years. My monitor had failed in much less than 7 years. Viewsonic told me to fuck off and refused to cooperate in any fashion. Neither would it assist in its repair or even offer me a comparable refurbed Viewsonic model as a replacement. I eventually contacted a law firm specializing in class action suits, but they didn't see big enough dollars signs in it. I gave up and moved on, which is exactly what Viewsonic wanted. Apple and all these other manufacturers try to thwart the right to repair because it's also exactly what they want: for us all to give up and buy more.
Sounds like Apple and other arrogant manufacturers are playing the odds of running afoul of California's so-called Lemon Law. It's about much more than just automobiles. It's very much about "right to repair".
... thereby increasing the competition and innovation in the field.
Forgive my bad French, but that's the sort of ideologic bullshit you can't prove. NASA saves money from an embarrassingly tiny budget; that is the only benefit this type of arrangement provides. It does the precise opposite of increasing competition, since one company will have a government-sanctioned monopoly; if it didn't and NASA placed the designs into the public domain, then ANY company could make the engines and sell them to NASA, improving NASA's supply chain. Have you forgotten why our computers are dominated by Intel processors? IBM made the decision to use an Intel processor because Intel had co-fab agreements with other companies, meaning that IBM wasn't solely dependent upon Intel alone for supply, while Motorola was the sole supplier for 68000 processors.
Would it be too much to ask that retailers, those lovable middlemen, help solve this problem? Compared to individual consumers, retailers have vast analytical resources at their disposal. They are in a much better position than consumers to discriminate the good and best from the absolute worst and simply refuse to sell the latter to consumers at all, thus reducing the collective analytical headache. They don't do this. Instead they often consider only their potential profit margin and sell what nets them the greatest margin, regardless of the relative quality of the product. That also produces headaches for consumers as we try to divine the best values for our dollars and avoid the usurious markups. The blame can't all be laid at the feet of manufacturers.
So the big dominant e-mail providers are abusing their dominance to shut out independent competition, eh? Sounds like we should all set up private e-mail servers and then sue.
Nope, they haven't "lost" anything. This is just like the bullshit "loss" numbers claimed due to so-called digital piracy. It wasn't guaranteed revenue even without the existence of ad-blocking software. Our brains are perfectly capable of "blocking" ads without software augmentation. Ad-blocking software is just a convenience for what our brains were already doing with a bit more effort. Like math.
I wasn't talking about the rules of behavior for His Children; that's secondary. I was referring to the Author. I was referring to the tyrannical behavior of God himself as *ahem* "documented" in some detail in the Old Testament in particular. He Himself doesn't operate by the Ten Commandments; His behavior is worse than what is mandated by those. Dude is a full-on psycho tyrant.
Google is not a person, unless you buy into a sick legal fiction perpetrated for the benefit of such. And "without cause"? What cave have you been living in for the last five years of news about Google wrongdoing?
I know of the quote, but isn't it ironic coming from a monotheistic Believer that penned the Chronicles? The Christian God is the ultimate tyrant. Was this quote a momentary bursting of his bubble?
... has swapped out their famous motto "Don't be evil" for one with a slightly different ring: "Do the right thing."
So now, in true Machiavellian true-believer fashion, they can comfortably be evil as long as they're being evil to do the Right(eous) Thing... whatever that is.
"Tech companies" are no saviors of anyone but their executive staff and their shareholders. It has been well established that, as a general rule, sociopaths are in executive control of virtually every human hierarchy, be it a corporation or gang or government or military. The Peter Principle is a myth, a misdirection; the real principle at work is that sociopaths willing to make the "hard" unethical decisions that disproportionately benefit each organizational tribe are the ones who consistently get elected, appointed, promoted. Tribalism is very alive and well, and it's sociopaths who benefit the most from exploiting it.
In the case of tech companies, at the same time they appear to be resisting government oppression they are also supplying government (and anyone else with cash in hand) with the tools it needs to oppress. That doesn't sound messianic to me at all.
So who is this Ryan Calo that he is motivated to publish such misdirecting tripe?
I was already trying, but their stupid form is heavily scripted in a moronic way and won't allow pasting anything into the fields: if you paste anything - and I have a browser extension that lets me paste frequently used text - then it erroneously claims that the field is empty and won't allow you to proceed. Some Web coders need to be taken out back and shot in the head.
Isn't this delicious irony? The FCC's own "SamKnows" broadband survey project uses Netgear routers with modified firmware so that they can "phone home" the benchmark data collected. This rule would invalidate their own survey project unless they hypocritically exclude it from the rule! "YOU can't modify the firmware of routers you own, but it's okay if WE do it."
(I know about this hacked firmware because I'm a project participant and have one of the hacked routers.)
You forgot to mention the case that he might have an axe to grind against an organization and satiates his desire for revenge by filing fake spam complaints against them. I know, I know, that never actually happens, and the spam blacklists never got populated with poisonous lint from people doing that....
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Awesome. I thought I recalled being able to do the same in Ubuntu or Suse Linux a few years ago, so it was worth mentioning even though I described it as though only for Windows.
Drag and drop from the browser's address bar, specifically the "identity information" icon that precedes the URL. That saves the URL itself in a .URL shortcut file, not an attempted copy of the Web page as HTML/MHTML.
If you use Windows .URL files, you gain several critical abilities: browser-independent storage, cross-browser utility, and searching and filtering driectly from Windows Explorer. The browsers I have used all support the ability to drag URLs directly from the browser address bar into Explorer or the Desktop to create these shortcuts. Not sure if you could then create methods and tools to support your other desired features like browser-exclusive shortcuts, but completely detaching URLs from any application-specific database is a good place to start.
No, I didn't....
I wish I could, but too many details have fled since I researched it for my own encounter with such abuse. I had an awesome Nokia monitor - back when Nokia still made such awesome things - but the time came when it failed. In trying to get it repaired, I discovered that Nokia had sold off that business to Viewsonic, which had promptly cancelled the manufacture of spare parts for that model. I learned of the Lemon Law and how it requires manufacturers to keep repairable all products sold for more than $100, for no less than 7 years. My monitor had failed in much less than 7 years. Viewsonic told me to fuck off and refused to cooperate in any fashion. Neither would it assist in its repair or even offer me a comparable refurbed Viewsonic model as a replacement. I eventually contacted a law firm specializing in class action suits, but they didn't see big enough dollars signs in it. I gave up and moved on, which is exactly what Viewsonic wanted. Apple and all these other manufacturers try to thwart the right to repair because it's also exactly what they want: for us all to give up and buy more.
Sounds like Apple and other arrogant manufacturers are playing the odds of running afoul of California's so-called Lemon Law. It's about much more than just automobiles. It's very much about "right to repair".
... thereby increasing the competition and innovation in the field.
Forgive my bad French, but that's the sort of ideologic bullshit you can't prove. NASA saves money from an embarrassingly tiny budget; that is the only benefit this type of arrangement provides. It does the precise opposite of increasing competition, since one company will have a government-sanctioned monopoly; if it didn't and NASA placed the designs into the public domain, then ANY company could make the engines and sell them to NASA, improving NASA's supply chain. Have you forgotten why our computers are dominated by Intel processors? IBM made the decision to use an Intel processor because Intel had co-fab agreements with other companies, meaning that IBM wasn't solely dependent upon Intel alone for supply, while Motorola was the sole supplier for 68000 processors.
This RoboBrain may not be evil or bent on extermination of humans, but it will nevertheless be in control. Luddites arise!
Would it be too much to ask that retailers, those lovable middlemen, help solve this problem? Compared to individual consumers, retailers have vast analytical resources at their disposal. They are in a much better position than consumers to discriminate the good and best from the absolute worst and simply refuse to sell the latter to consumers at all, thus reducing the collective analytical headache. They don't do this. Instead they often consider only their potential profit margin and sell what nets them the greatest margin, regardless of the relative quality of the product. That also produces headaches for consumers as we try to divine the best values for our dollars and avoid the usurious markups. The blame can't all be laid at the feet of manufacturers.
... if there aren't many planets (let alone with an appropriate size, temperature, and atmosphere), it makes life kinda hard.
You should read Larry Niven's Smoke Ring books some time.
So the big dominant e-mail providers are abusing their dominance to shut out independent competition, eh? Sounds like we should all set up private e-mail servers and then sue.
Nope, they haven't "lost" anything. This is just like the bullshit "loss" numbers claimed due to so-called digital piracy. It wasn't guaranteed revenue even without the existence of ad-blocking software. Our brains are perfectly capable of "blocking" ads without software augmentation. Ad-blocking software is just a convenience for what our brains were already doing with a bit more effort. Like math.
You haven't been paying attention. God - or at least his minions - gets his pound of flesh.
I wasn't talking about the rules of behavior for His Children; that's secondary. I was referring to the Author. I was referring to the tyrannical behavior of God himself as *ahem* "documented" in some detail in the Old Testament in particular. He Himself doesn't operate by the Ten Commandments; His behavior is worse than what is mandated by those. Dude is a full-on psycho tyrant.
Google is not a person, unless you buy into a sick legal fiction perpetrated for the benefit of such. And "without cause"? What cave have you been living in for the last five years of news about Google wrongdoing?
I know of the quote, but isn't it ironic coming from a monotheistic Believer that penned the Chronicles? The Christian God is the ultimate tyrant. Was this quote a momentary bursting of his bubble?
... has swapped out their famous motto "Don't be evil" for one with a slightly different ring: "Do the right thing."
So now, in true Machiavellian true-believer fashion, they can comfortably be evil as long as they're being evil to do the Right(eous) Thing... whatever that is.
Histrionic hyperbole much?
... of disappearing night vision goggles and some very happy teenage boys.
"Tech companies" are no saviors of anyone but their executive staff and their shareholders. It has been well established that, as a general rule, sociopaths are in executive control of virtually every human hierarchy, be it a corporation or gang or government or military. The Peter Principle is a myth, a misdirection; the real principle at work is that sociopaths willing to make the "hard" unethical decisions that disproportionately benefit each organizational tribe are the ones who consistently get elected, appointed, promoted. Tribalism is very alive and well, and it's sociopaths who benefit the most from exploiting it.
In the case of tech companies, at the same time they appear to be resisting government oppression they are also supplying government (and anyone else with cash in hand) with the tools it needs to oppress. That doesn't sound messianic to me at all.
So who is this Ryan Calo that he is motivated to publish such misdirecting tripe?
First thing I tried. Didn't work as expected.
I was already trying, but their stupid form is heavily scripted in a moronic way and won't allow pasting anything into the fields: if you paste anything - and I have a browser extension that lets me paste frequently used text - then it erroneously claims that the field is empty and won't allow you to proceed. Some Web coders need to be taken out back and shot in the head.
Isn't this delicious irony? The FCC's own "SamKnows" broadband survey project uses Netgear routers with modified firmware so that they can "phone home" the benchmark data collected. This rule would invalidate their own survey project unless they hypocritically exclude it from the rule! "YOU can't modify the firmware of routers you own, but it's okay if WE do it."
(I know about this hacked firmware because I'm a project participant and have one of the hacked routers.)
What the Anonymous Coward said at 9:40am.
You forgot to mention the case that he might have an axe to grind against an organization and satiates his desire for revenge by filing fake spam complaints against them. I know, I know, that never actually happens, and the spam blacklists never got populated with poisonous lint from people doing that....