Re:Session Saver
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Can you not bypass Session Saver by starting in safe mode?
Re:What it really does.
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Are you sure that works on Firefox? I guess I'd need to use my own web server to check, but: There was this moron webmaster on the MozillaZine forums the other day complaining that he couldn't clear his visitors' clipboards like he wanted to (a "protection" measure). Among the somewhat confused responses, one person claimed that FF didn't allow this, by default, because it would be a security violation (but FF could be set to allow it). And I'm thinking that if clearing the clipboard is barred, then copying it probably is too. No? Or was that poster wrong?
Re:Hack to fix email search result sort-by-date?
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Firefox is not an email client. Perhaps you're thinking of Thunderbird?
Re:without reading the article/review...
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Yes, there are new pop-up techniques, but they can be dealt with (particularly via Adblock). To say, because of this, that Firefox has "popup issues" seems very misleading to me, especially if the implication is somehow meant to be that IE has fewer such issues. On all the pop-up tests I've seen, IE still lets more of them through.
Re:how do you hack Firefox to give your sweety a k
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My first thought was "Ew", but my second thought was "You know, there's probably an extension for that". And here's what I found with a cursory search:
Feed Me Links Toolbar - The Feed Me Links extension for Firefox/Mozilla shares and manages your links via any computer or browser. Tag links to classify them, share tags and links via email or comment discussions, browser your friends' links, etc.
Firefox Bookmark Share - Firefox Bookmark Share allows you to store your Firefox bookmarks, upload and download from your browser and share them with your friends and much more. All you need to do is sign up for an account, download the plugin and you're all set. The extension will create a folder in your bookmarks named "Firefox BM Share for [username]". This folder will be uploaded and downloaded.
If these aren't precisely what you wanted, check again tomorrow.
Re:What it really does.
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It doesn't do shit here, because I use the FlashBlock extension. Highly recommended. It replaces each Flash object on a page with a logo, which you can then click to play it (or not). And you can whitelist certain sites (e.g., homestarrunner.com) so you don't have to click there.
In this case I saw the GNAA logo, so I knew not to click.:)
There's also an option in Firefox that's supposed to prevent pop-ups from plugins (like this), but I don't have that handy. You can search for it on the MozillaZine forums.
Re:extension link
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More seriously, I've changed my extensions link to point to http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/ . (You can change it via extensions.getMoreExtensionsURL in about:config.) It's far more complete and up-to-date than the official site.
My first impulse on reading it was to rewrite it thus: "There's no application I run more often than my Web browser, particularly since I also use it as my email client." Simple, direct. The original is not wrong, but it's bad.
Leaving aside the false conflation of GPL and P2P advocates... This is only "situational ethics" if you deliberately misunderstand and mischaracterize the issue. The issue is not respect for the law or for copyright. No one cares about that. The issue is freedom of information. On one front, that might be achieved by flouting copyright; on another, by using it as a tool against those who flout it. There's no inconsistency there, because it was never about the law; it's about freedom, as an absolute value.
The GPL was designed to subvert copyright from within. It is not hypocritical for GPL advocates to hold proprietarians to the same standards as they seek to hold others to. The proprietarians must stand consistently for law, or their system falls apart. But GPL advocates stand consistently for freedom, with or without the law. In other words, closed software depends on the law to keep it closed; but free software does not depend solely on the law to keep it free -- because, in the absence of copyright law, the only thing that could restrict freedom of information would be secrecy, which is largely incompatible with publishing.
(Note: I am aware that some people support the GPL for more pragmatic than ideological reasons, but it was constructed for ideological ones.)
I agree with your characterization (that this really has nothing to do with the GPL), but I'll go further: SAE was attempting to apply patent standards to material on which it could, at most, only claim copyright. So we don't even have to get to the issue of ownership of public law.
And so it still applies, since we're talking about a "form" of government. (The ": a fascist regime" part of the definition is offered by the dictionary as an example of the use of the word. It does not imply that "regime" equates to "fascist".)
OK, maybe I'm being totally naive here, but... The probes are launched, they've long since finished their grand tours, and they're heading out to deep space. There's not a lot of operating to do. AFAIK, at this point, it's just listening, and the aforementioned analysis. So, could these roles perhaps be filled by amateurs? I know there'd be no shortage of volunteers. Distributed computing is the easiest part. Human analysis could be done by a mix of amateur and pro astronomers. Listening is probably the hardest (expensive radio telescope time), but perhaps even that could be handled via a distributed array system?
True. However, the floaters are (so far) not implemented via inline JavaScript, and in fact, can be eliminated just by AdBlocking a handful of sites: paypopup.com, fastclick.net, and maybe a few others like tribalfusion.com. The first two will cover the vast majority I've seen.
Absolutely. I probably wouldn't have watched it myself, but for that. Contrast this with their own marketing efforts, which had actually turned me away from wanting to see the show. (I mean, there was Olmos himself, saying that fans of original shouldn't watch it! He was wrong, BTW.) It was only the fans who brought me around.
There doesn't seem to be a huge television market, at least as perceived by the suits, no. And certainly, there's some distortion of perspective among fans. Enterprise is a good example of both -- everyone I know online watches it, yet apparently its overall ratings are poor. (It's not even the top show on UPN, despite the fact that everything else they run is crap.)
But how would you explain the "summer blockbuster" phenomenon? Almost every one of those huge-budget, huge-revenue pictures is science fiction.
No, that stuff's still in as well. "By your command" was spoken at the end of the miniseries. The back-and-forth horizontal red light in place of eyes still appears on the new model centurions, as well as on the Cylon fighters, which are now "living" ships. The humanoid Cylons are only one type. (Incidentally, humanoid Cylons first appeared in "Galactica 1980", though that has basically nothing to do with the new show.)
And as for "playlists" (video on demand), I'd say that wasting that kind of bandwidth is insane and unnecessary. And I really don't want to pay per view.
No, at least in this case, it's not the device manufacturers' fault. They have no legal choice but to comply with this FCC regulation. If you want to boycott the responsible parties, then boycott Hollywood film studios.
This is actually off-topic... the article is about x86-on-x86, only. QEMU works on other architectures, yes, but not with "near-native" performance, and not with the closed-source module.
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Can you not bypass Session Saver by starting in safe mode?
Are you sure that works on Firefox? I guess I'd need to use my own web server to check, but: There was this moron webmaster on the MozillaZine forums the other day complaining that he couldn't clear his visitors' clipboards like he wanted to (a "protection" measure). Among the somewhat confused responses, one person claimed that FF didn't allow this, by default, because it would be a security violation (but FF could be set to allow it). And I'm thinking that if clearing the clipboard is barred, then copying it probably is too. No? Or was that poster wrong?
Firefox is not an email client. Perhaps you're thinking of Thunderbird?
Yes, there are new pop-up techniques, but they can be dealt with (particularly via Adblock). To say, because of this, that Firefox has "popup issues" seems very misleading to me, especially if the implication is somehow meant to be that IE has fewer such issues. On all the pop-up tests I've seen, IE still lets more of them through.
It doesn't do shit here, because I use the FlashBlock extension. Highly recommended. It replaces each Flash object on a page with a logo, which you can then click to play it (or not). And you can whitelist certain sites (e.g., homestarrunner.com) so you don't have to click there.
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In this case I saw the GNAA logo, so I knew not to click.
There's also an option in Firefox that's supposed to prevent pop-ups from plugins (like this), but I don't have that handy. You can search for it on the MozillaZine forums.
More seriously, I've changed my extensions link to point to http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/ . (You can change it via extensions.getMoreExtensionsURL in about:config.) It's far more complete and up-to-date than the official site.
Then what is the point? Surely you don't expect to drum up business among webmasters perusing their logs.
My first impulse on reading it was to rewrite it thus: "There's no application I run more often than my Web browser, particularly since I also use it as my email client." Simple, direct. The original is not wrong, but it's bad.
Leaving aside the false conflation of GPL and P2P advocates... This is only "situational ethics" if you deliberately misunderstand and mischaracterize the issue. The issue is not respect for the law or for copyright. No one cares about that. The issue is freedom of information. On one front, that might be achieved by flouting copyright; on another, by using it as a tool against those who flout it. There's no inconsistency there, because it was never about the law; it's about freedom, as an absolute value.
The GPL was designed to subvert copyright from within. It is not hypocritical for GPL advocates to hold proprietarians to the same standards as they seek to hold others to. The proprietarians must stand consistently for law, or their system falls apart. But GPL advocates stand consistently for freedom, with or without the law. In other words, closed software depends on the law to keep it closed; but free software does not depend solely on the law to keep it free -- because, in the absence of copyright law, the only thing that could restrict freedom of information would be secrecy, which is largely incompatible with publishing.
(Note: I am aware that some people support the GPL for more pragmatic than ideological reasons, but it was constructed for ideological ones.)
I agree with your characterization (that this really has nothing to do with the GPL), but I'll go further: SAE was attempting to apply patent standards to material on which it could, at most, only claim copyright. So we don't even have to get to the issue of ownership of public law.
And so it still applies, since we're talking about a "form" of government. (The ": a fascist regime" part of the definition is offered by the dictionary as an example of the use of the word. It does not imply that "regime" equates to "fascist".)
OK, maybe I'm being totally naive here, but... The probes are launched, they've long since finished their grand tours, and they're heading out to deep space. There's not a lot of operating to do. AFAIK, at this point, it's just listening, and the aforementioned analysis. So, could these roles perhaps be filled by amateurs? I know there'd be no shortage of volunteers. Distributed computing is the easiest part. Human analysis could be done by a mix of amateur and pro astronomers. Listening is probably the hardest (expensive radio telescope time), but perhaps even that could be handled via a distributed array system?
Scratch that -- the AP reporter.
No, no, it's not going to be integrated into the story. The bit about how Seth Cohen would enjoy it was just a fatuous comment by the CNN reporter.
True. However, the floaters are (so far) not implemented via inline JavaScript, and in fact, can be eliminated just by AdBlocking a handful of sites: paypopup.com, fastclick.net, and maybe a few others like tribalfusion.com. The first two will cover the vast majority I've seen.
No, they never get rid of the shaky cam. Can't say it bothers me though.
I had no trouble opening it under Linux just now in my old Mozilla 1.0 / RealPlayer 8.0 setup. But I agree, streaming sucks.
As far as the asterisk in the URL, just put quotes around the URL if you're typing it on a command line.
Absolutely. I probably wouldn't have watched it myself, but for that. Contrast this with their own marketing efforts, which had actually turned me away from wanting to see the show. (I mean, there was Olmos himself, saying that fans of original shouldn't watch it! He was wrong, BTW.) It was only the fans who brought me around.
There doesn't seem to be a huge television market, at least as perceived by the suits, no. And certainly, there's some distortion of perspective among fans. Enterprise is a good example of both -- everyone I know online watches it, yet apparently its overall ratings are poor. (It's not even the top show on UPN, despite the fact that everything else they run is crap.)
But how would you explain the "summer blockbuster" phenomenon? Almost every one of those huge-budget, huge-revenue pictures is science fiction.
No, that stuff's still in as well. "By your command" was spoken at the end of the miniseries. The back-and-forth horizontal red light in place of eyes still appears on the new model centurions, as well as on the Cylon fighters, which are now "living" ships. The humanoid Cylons are only one type. (Incidentally, humanoid Cylons first appeared in "Galactica 1980", though that has basically nothing to do with the new show.)
Yes. Yes, it is.
And as for "playlists" (video on demand), I'd say that wasting that kind of bandwidth is insane and unnecessary. And I really don't want to pay per view.
Of course, the entire goal of the regulation is to eliminate the possibility of step 4.
Well, maybe not the entire goal. They'd also like to boost sales of DVD sets by eliminating casual archiving.
No, at least in this case, it's not the device manufacturers' fault. They have no legal choice but to comply with this FCC regulation. If you want to boycott the responsible parties, then boycott Hollywood film studios.
This is actually off-topic... the article is about x86-on-x86, only. QEMU works on other architectures, yes, but not with "near-native" performance, and not with the closed-source module.