Unfortunatly you've got a point, which is sad, we have all these technologies and a lot of the time they are used for advertising and spamming us with junk we don't want to see or detracts from the main content. I guess the solution that works quite well is the "Click to View" option, where all flash and other things are hidden behind a button until you click it. I think you can do this in Mozilla.
Well if people want to live back in 1995 with Mosaic be my guest, but we are trying to make progress here, and flash and javascript were meant to be enabling technologies, disabling because of a single exploit or "potential" future exploits is kinda just spoiling the web for yourself and honestly being over paranoid. Just disable Flash and/or anything else that is scary for sites that you don't trust. Do you really think that www.bbc.co.uk will have the latest IE exploit on the homepage?
If you are browsing sites that are dodgy and you know exactly what I'm talking about, then you have a reason to disable this stuff. If all you do is surf a few regular sites for news and updates then you don't need to worry. Disabling everything just limits your enjoyment, you might as well switch to using Lynx and be done with it. After all, who wants a rich multimedia experience?
Kinda puts things in perspective huh. I don't know about Opera, but I use that and I haven't seen any exploits for it yet.. not that I've been looking. Anyone else seen any in Opera before?
They say that because viewing a photon causes its properties to change you can tell if a message has been evesdropped, which is nice, but what good is that if you just sent the launch codes for a nuclear warhead? Hmmm... well George the codes were intercepted and the missles launched, but erm... we KNEW that it had happened!!
No, just kidding, can someone explain why this is such a good thing, does it render that data unreadable or something, how does it work, the article is pretty bare, thanks in advance.
Yeah, great, so people can't make their own minds up?!? If you want to have your e-mails scanned, use it, if you don't, then don't use it! Do they really think people are so stupid that they can't make up their minds for themselves!?!
Give me a break, this is just taking it too far, what next, making it illegal to eat McDonalds because it's bad for you?
Me and a lot of people I know have been having issues with apple.com specifically the quick time trailers section. Download speeds hit rock bottom, at about 200bytes/second on a 3MB cable connection. As I said, this was a number of people experiencing the same speeds.
but you gotta face the facts here, what % of people are going to be installing Linux.. then XP. The majority of people will be doing it the other way round.
It is possible to add linux to the XP boot.ini, but the point is that XP doesn't delete your linux partition, even if it does hide it.
So much for fast turn around on bug fixes for linux suddenly Windows doesn't seem so slow, I'd consider this a serious bug, one that could lead to the loss of a lot of important data and should have been addressed by now. The fact that they don't know what causes it is just plain worrying.
Although I have to admit you've gotta be pretty brave to install linux on the same disk as Windows, most distros make it all too easy to format the disk and re-create the partition tables.
So i take it you've never developed in.NET then, in any of the 20+ avaliable languages?! Because if you had you wouldn't make such a rediculus comment about the libraries. The.NET libraries contain virtually everything that the windows APIs do, plus an unbelievable amount on top of that! If you need to do something, chances are that it's in a.NET library.
If a business has Windows XP/2000 for their desktops it's going to take a hell of a lot to make them change to Linux, the switch over is a big step to take, in terms of the companies software, training etc. All the issues associated with upgrading of any kind, no just XP->Longhorn. Business may welcome the long gap to Longhorn, since it will allow them to stick with 2000/XP for longer and save them $$$. Unless linux offers something 2000/XP doesn't they won't want to upgrade, and honestly, all most companies need is Word & E-mail.
Admitedly, it may encourge new business to take up Linux as a first choice, but upgrading... not so sure.
this is a great idea, but I could see it being a fad, turn it on for a week then get pissed off with the performance/lack of links on the same page, I find my history works great in Opera, and with the speed of the internet now its just as easy to click a link in ur side bar and have it load up in the browser window, think, thats not it, and try another. Honestly, I never really spend much time sifting through my history, If you know what you're looking for, you don't need thumbnails. But I could see where it'd be useful (just not very often). This seems like it could be an AOL thing, less experience computer users would Love this.
I tried firefox and was no way near as impressed with the latest Opera Preview/me searches for the edit button:(
I mean: I tried firefox and was no way near as impressed with it as with the latest Opera Preview.
I tried firefox and was no way near as impressed with the latest Opera Preview, its still under development but its very stable (crashed less than firefox anyway) and does just what you want without all the crap you dont. Check out the mouse gestures, they are beautiful (i know firefox has them). I don't know an Opera user that has gone back to any other browser after trying it (honestly)
And nope, your 16-bit Windows apps will likely break in Windows XP
Oh crap, why didn't anyone tell me, screw I'm re-installing windows 95 so I can run all my favorite win 3.1 apps again!! Ahhh, 16-bit sol.exe here i come!!
OF course because its running a version of "Windows" its insecure!?!
Thats just not true, the Windows 2000/XP kernel is secure, just because other programs that run in kernel mode or have rights to the system aren't doesnt't mean that Windows is insecure as a cut down OS. How complicated can a cash dispensing program be?? You can bet your ass that they've tested this stuff to death. Its going to be secure, its not going to be running Outlook or other Windows hacking prone applications.
Please Please Please people don't just state that if something has M$ stamped on it that it'll be hacked or buffer overflowed to oblivion. Microsoft is a HUGE company with many resources, if they invested enough time and money into one program they would iron out all the issues. And since an ATM is so cut down it cannot possibly be that hard to secure it (come on admit it). As for additional stuff like checking lottery numbers etc, that sort of thing would run in a restricted user mode, therefore not allowing it access to the cash dispensing, most likely if they had any sense in a sand box like java or.net.
M$ is inherintley evil, but not as bad as you may think.
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Unfortunatly you've got a point, which is sad, we have all these technologies and a lot of the time they are used for advertising and spamming us with junk we don't want to see or detracts from the main content. I guess the solution that works quite well is the "Click to View" option, where all flash and other things are hidden behind a button until you click it. I think you can do this in Mozilla.
Well if people want to live back in 1995 with Mosaic be my guest, but we are trying to make progress here, and flash and javascript were meant to be enabling technologies, disabling because of a single exploit or "potential" future exploits is kinda just spoiling the web for yourself and honestly being over paranoid. Just disable Flash and/or anything else that is scary for sites that you don't trust. Do you really think that www.bbc.co.uk will have the latest IE exploit on the homepage? If you are browsing sites that are dodgy and you know exactly what I'm talking about, then you have a reason to disable this stuff. If all you do is surf a few regular sites for news and updates then you don't need to worry. Disabling everything just limits your enjoyment, you might as well switch to using Lynx and be done with it. After all, who wants a rich multimedia experience?
Kinda puts things in perspective huh. I don't know about Opera, but I use that and I haven't seen any exploits for it yet.. not that I've been looking. Anyone else seen any in Opera before?
So its half the resolution of a Japanese Television ;)
oh I see, but didn't private & puplic key exchange sort that problem out anyway?
when has cryptography ever stopped someone reading a message? Do you meant that it is unbreakable?
or Harvard and Faculty if you want to get picky :P
They say that because viewing a photon causes its properties to change you can tell if a message has been evesdropped, which is nice, but what good is that if you just sent the launch codes for a nuclear warhead? Hmmm... well George the codes were intercepted and the missles launched, but erm... we KNEW that it had happened!! No, just kidding, can someone explain why this is such a good thing, does it render that data unreadable or something, how does it work, the article is pretty bare, thanks in advance.
OMG! some1 send these guys on a 3DS Max course, this is some seriously bad 3D work, reminds me of VRML.
Yeah, great, so people can't make their own minds up?!? If you want to have your e-mails scanned, use it, if you don't, then don't use it! Do they really think people are so stupid that they can't make up their minds for themselves!?!
Give me a break, this is just taking it too far, what next, making it illegal to eat McDonalds because it's bad for you?
And guess what, turns out Apple.com uses Akami as its mirror! Guess that all makes sense then. Phew, I was starting to think it was my connection :)
hmmm, that is pretty cheeky actually
Me and a lot of people I know have been having issues with apple.com specifically the quick time trailers section. Download speeds hit rock bottom, at about 200bytes/second on a 3MB cable connection. As I said, this was a number of people experiencing the same speeds.
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but you gotta face the facts here, what % of people are going to be installing Linux.. then XP. The majority of people will be doing it the other way round. It is possible to add linux to the XP boot.ini, but the point is that XP doesn't delete your linux partition, even if it does hide it.
So much for fast turn around on bug fixes for linux suddenly Windows doesn't seem so slow, I'd consider this a serious bug, one that could lead to the loss of a lot of important data and should have been addressed by now. The fact that they don't know what causes it is just plain worrying. Although I have to admit you've gotta be pretty brave to install linux on the same disk as Windows, most distros make it all too easy to format the disk and re-create the partition tables.
My bad, didn't mean to moderate this offtopic, was meant to be interesting! Soz, good story! Hence this post to remove the moderation.
So i take it you've never developed in .NET then, in any of the 20+ avaliable languages?! Because if you had you wouldn't make such a rediculus comment about the libraries. The .NET libraries contain virtually everything that the windows APIs do, plus an unbelievable amount on top of that! If you need to do something, chances are that it's in a .NET library.
Hopefully the BBC will use this instead of RAM, silly real player!
If a business has Windows XP/2000 for their desktops it's going to take a hell of a lot to make them change to Linux, the switch over is a big step to take, in terms of the companies software, training etc. All the issues associated with upgrading of any kind, no just XP->Longhorn. Business may welcome the long gap to Longhorn, since it will allow them to stick with 2000/XP for longer and save them $$$. Unless linux offers something 2000/XP doesn't they won't want to upgrade, and honestly, all most companies need is Word & E-mail.
Admitedly, it may encourge new business to take up Linux as a first choice, but upgrading... not so sure.
this is a great idea, but I could see it being a fad, turn it on for a week then get pissed off with the performance/lack of links on the same page, I find my history works great in Opera, and with the speed of the internet now its just as easy to click a link in ur side bar and have it load up in the browser window, think, thats not it, and try another. Honestly, I never really spend much time sifting through my history, If you know what you're looking for, you don't need thumbnails. But I could see where it'd be useful (just not very often). This seems like it could be an AOL thing, less experience computer users would Love this.
yeah opera did used to kinda suck, i strongly suggest you try the latest beta, its come on so far in such a small amount of time.
I tried firefox and was no way near as impressed with the latest Opera Preview /me searches for the edit button :(
I mean: I tried firefox and was no way near as impressed with it as with the latest Opera Preview.
I tried firefox and was no way near as impressed with the latest Opera Preview, its still under development but its very stable (crashed less than firefox anyway) and does just what you want without all the crap you dont. Check out the mouse gestures, they are beautiful (i know firefox has them). I don't know an Opera user that has gone back to any other browser after trying it (honestly)
OF course because its running a version of "Windows" its insecure!?!
.net.
Thats just not true, the Windows 2000/XP kernel is secure, just because other programs that run in kernel mode or have rights to the system aren't doesnt't mean that Windows is insecure as a cut down OS. How complicated can a cash dispensing program be?? You can bet your ass that they've tested this stuff to death. Its going to be secure, its not going to be running Outlook or other Windows hacking prone applications.
Please Please Please people don't just state that if something has M$ stamped on it that it'll be hacked or buffer overflowed to oblivion. Microsoft is a HUGE company with many resources, if they invested enough time and money into one program they would iron out all the issues. And since an ATM is so cut down it cannot possibly be that hard to secure it (come on admit it). As for additional stuff like checking lottery numbers etc, that sort of thing would run in a restricted user mode, therefore not allowing it access to the cash dispensing, most likely if they had any sense in a sand box like java or
M$ is inherintley evil, but not as bad as you may think.