I have specific experience with an HP computer that I worked on once. The owner only had a Recovery CD (and he had to order that from HP, wasn't included with his purchase), so after I loaded it, I installed AdAware and SpyBot and ran them. Both programs went apeshit.
I should have saved a screenshot then, but didn't.
And recently, a friend of mine bought an HP from Wal-Mart (he wouldn't listen to me, too good of a "deal"), and right out of the box mysterious windows were popping up wanting to connect to here and there. As for Dell, another guy I know bought a laptop from them, but he didn't get a Windows CD at all, just a recovery cd.
At the time, I was actually in the process of ordering a laptop from Dell, and I made it a condition of sale that they include a copy of Windows, not some crappy recovery cd. The sales guy agreed to this condition, but I cancelled the order when I never got an email from him confirming this. I didn't want to get stuck with a laptop in hand, and no Windows CD, and a sales guy claiming ignorance.
I could create a website with all of the documentation.
On a related thought, I was considering buying some $400 HP or Dell piece-of-shit, loading AdAware and SpyBot on it, then taking screen captures of all the crap these programs find on these boxes before they're even hooked to the Net. Then post these results to a web page for my customers to see. Unfortunately, if I mentioned that I got these results on an HP or Dell, or whatever, I'd be litigated into the dirt. My pockets are nowhere near as deep as theirs.
My gripe is that these companies pre-load stuff like Wild Tangent and other gems, give you a Recovery CD (and only if you are thoughtful enough to ask for it, most are not), and do NOT give you a real copy of Windows so you can take it down to bare metal (format c:, reinstall) the second you get it. (And yes, I use Linux, but some people still won't go near it, justified or not.)
I'm still going to do this, unless somebody else out there already has (?), but say something like: "Screenshot of AdAware on a virgin (rhymes with Hell) computer." Or something similar for HP or other mass-market computer company.
Reminds me of the comedian who, in his act, was saying something nasty about an insurance company, and he wouldn't use their name explicity, but he said instead, holding his hands cupped together palms up: "...but I thought I was in good hands."
doesn't mean that your words won't have consequences
You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't pee into the wind, you don't pull the mask on that old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Jim. (Wish I could remember who did that song...)
and they haven't started any of that CENSORED filtering. If they ever did start any of that CENSORED filtering, I'd just CENSORED move to another CENSORED state. CENSORED CENSORED puritanical CENSOREDs.
Here are people enforcing laws against others with neither party aware of the full wording of the law.
This is alarming. This is the kind of stuff batshit fringe groups horde guns and ammo over, waiting for the Feds and the UN to sweep in and declare martial law.
And if I feel like this, imagine how the Waco-wannabees must feel.
Not to nitpick, but I've heard of a half byte referred to as a nibble. But you're right, there's no smaller division (excepting the bit, of course) there. Just wouldn't make sense.
a "kibi"byte would be 1024.
Kibbles and bits, kibbles and bits, I'm going to get me more kibbles and bits.;)
That would just cause more confusion. If you're reading something about kilobytes, you won't be sure if they're talking about the new version or the old version. Better to just call 1000 bytes a kibibyte. Nobody'll use it anyway, any more than kilometers are used in the US.
...are probably users who are suffering both from the new popups and from incompatibilities caused by the use of popup blockers.
I use Mozilla and ZoneAlarm Pro, and filter many ad sites (like adserver.com) at my router. And with ZoneAlarm, I have the privacy setting set to disallow javascript (or any other scripting) from everywhere, and then whitelist in sites as needed.
It's a pain in the ass when I go to a new place, then have to monkey with ZoneAlarm a bit to get the site to work. And sometimes the site will only work with ZoneAlarm off.
By not allowing people to post in their blogs or their site or even e-mail
And I doubt they'd ever get up from their comfy couch to actually enforce that. What they want is the pretext to come down on those few competitors who they see as abusing their website's content.
Unlike the RIAA, I'm sure they realize the bad publicity move it would be to sue the 67 yo grandmother from East Buttcrack, over a hyperlink in her blog.
And except that the Internet doesn't work this way, Orbitz should have their Internet access privileges revoked for mucking (il)legally with one of the basic technologies of the Web. They're as bad as the yuppy who moves to the country, then tries to get the pig farm next door to shut down because he can't stand the smell.
to take a picture of the Statue of Liberty. That was a gift, though I suppose any copyright would have expired by now.
I'm surprised there isn't some law stating explicitly that any landmark in a public place, or abundantly visible from a public place, cannot be restricted in this way. If not, we need one, because these folks (SBC, others) need a complete bitch slapping.
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
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I thought it was about Star Trek Enterprise, again.
First reaction: we know, we know. Second: aw, just let the thing die already... give them another look in 20 years.
I should have saved a screenshot then, but didn't.
And recently, a friend of mine bought an HP from Wal-Mart (he wouldn't listen to me, too good of a "deal"), and right out of the box mysterious windows were popping up wanting to connect to here and there. As for Dell, another guy I know bought a laptop from them, but he didn't get a Windows CD at all, just a recovery cd.
At the time, I was actually in the process of ordering a laptop from Dell, and I made it a condition of sale that they include a copy of Windows, not some crappy recovery cd. The sales guy agreed to this condition, but I cancelled the order when I never got an email from him confirming this. I didn't want to get stuck with a laptop in hand, and no Windows CD, and a sales guy claiming ignorance.
On a related thought, I was considering buying some $400 HP or Dell piece-of-shit, loading AdAware and SpyBot on it, then taking screen captures of all the crap these programs find on these boxes before they're even hooked to the Net. Then post these results to a web page for my customers to see. Unfortunately, if I mentioned that I got these results on an HP or Dell, or whatever, I'd be litigated into the dirt. My pockets are nowhere near as deep as theirs.
My gripe is that these companies pre-load stuff like Wild Tangent and other gems, give you a Recovery CD (and only if you are thoughtful enough to ask for it, most are not), and do NOT give you a real copy of Windows so you can take it down to bare metal (format c:, reinstall) the second you get it. (And yes, I use Linux, but some people still won't go near it, justified or not.)
I'm still going to do this, unless somebody else out there already has (?), but say something like: "Screenshot of AdAware on a virgin (rhymes with Hell) computer." Or something similar for HP or other mass-market computer company.
Reminds me of the comedian who, in his act, was saying something nasty about an insurance company, and he wouldn't use their name explicity, but he said instead, holding his hands cupped together palms up: "...but I thought I was in good hands."
Volume.
I'm just here to play the Apple iPod Shuffle.
As a manager once said to me, those who know how, will always have a job working for those who know why.
Well, maybe not always. I suppose those who work always are those who know who.
Yeah. Weird, man. You working at a nuclear reactor? ;)
You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't pee into the wind, you don't pull the mask on that old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Jim. (Wish I could remember who did that song...)
There's stupid, and then there's stoopid.
and they haven't started any of that CENSORED filtering. If they ever did start any of that CENSORED filtering, I'd just CENSORED move to another CENSORED state. CENSORED CENSORED puritanical CENSOREDs.
I checked the domain registration of ws-confirm.info, said that the registrant was one Lenka Mackova, in Tucker, GA.
Phonebook search turned up a Lenka Mackova in SC. And the IP addresses for ws-confirm.info appeared to belong to yahoo.com.
Probably no connection... you can't trust whois info anyway. But ws-confirm.info still tries to redirect me to signin.ebay.com.
down there.
me too.
Maybe he meant to say that it would be like beating a dead gift horse... after, of course, shooting it... in the mouth.
This is alarming. This is the kind of stuff batshit fringe groups horde guns and ammo over, waiting for the Feds and the UN to sweep in and declare martial law.
And if I feel like this, imagine how the Waco-wannabees must feel.
Not to nitpick, but I've heard of a half byte referred to as a nibble. But you're right, there's no smaller division (excepting the bit, of course) there. Just wouldn't make sense.
a "kibi"byte would be 1024.
Kibbles and bits, kibbles and bits, I'm going to get me more kibbles and bits. ;)
That would just cause more confusion. If you're reading something about kilobytes, you won't be sure if they're talking about the new version or the old version. Better to just call 1000 bytes a kibibyte. Nobody'll use it anyway, any more than kilometers are used in the US.
Better yet, make it 1024 grams. Make it consistent with the kilobyte.
of the existence of black cats in coal cellars at midnight.
I use Mozilla and ZoneAlarm Pro, and filter many ad sites (like adserver.com) at my router. And with ZoneAlarm, I have the privacy setting set to disallow javascript (or any other scripting) from everywhere, and then whitelist in sites as needed.
It's a pain in the ass when I go to a new place, then have to monkey with ZoneAlarm a bit to get the site to work. And sometimes the site will only work with ZoneAlarm off.
There's gotta be a better way...
Put another way, it would be like worrying about being deafened by the shock wave of a nuclear bomb going off a mile away.
I almost didn't read any further.
Doh!
Asimov died 13 years ago. Kinda hard for him to dab on anything, egg or otherwise.
And are you confusing the Terminator movies with the 3 Laws of Robotics? Not related, except that they both have something to do with robots.
And I doubt they'd ever get up from their comfy couch to actually enforce that. What they want is the pretext to come down on those few competitors who they see as abusing their website's content.
Unlike the RIAA, I'm sure they realize the bad publicity move it would be to sue the 67 yo grandmother from East Buttcrack, over a hyperlink in her blog.
And except that the Internet doesn't work this way, Orbitz should have their Internet access privileges revoked for mucking (il)legally with one of the basic technologies of the Web. They're as bad as the yuppy who moves to the country, then tries to get the pig farm next door to shut down because he can't stand the smell.
I'm surprised there isn't some law stating explicitly that any landmark in a public place, or abundantly visible from a public place, cannot be restricted in this way. If not, we need one, because these folks (SBC, others) need a complete bitch slapping.
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know The Wicked Witch is dead!
-- The Wizard of Oz