I was running with noscript, flashblock and adblock... mind you, I think I had noscript set not quite so strictly... and clicked on the flash blocked box thinking it needed clicking on for the site to work...
Having gone on that panopticlick site and discovered that my browser was unique amongst some half million visitors... I was shocked that my browser was blabbing about what fonts were on my system... Why on earth would a browser transmit the list of installed fonts at all? All it needs locally are a set of alternatives, ie. if page says this font, then use this local font... wasn't that the entire point of the webfonts package?
similarly, the plugins list... another thing that doesn't need to be sent out by the browser...
Firefox devs, you listening here? these do not need to be transmitted so block them...
anyone know of a plugin that blocks them?
and why on earth is it possible to sniff the history list???
shouldn't have done the hacks, should have just put up a browser incompatibility page... you know, like ie only sites do for firefox users telling us to upgrade to Netscape 4...
hmmm ISTR Wordperfect, Harvard Graphics, DBase III and Lotus 123 being the dominant items once... I even have certificates for them.
Microsoft may currently be the top dog, but they can fall... very easily...
Don't forget, Microsoft cheated to get where they are... and they've been consistently abusing their monopoly position ever since. There's an awful lot of dirt buried in settlement agreements where Microsoft have bought off competition they've illegally killed.
This class distinction remains in education today. Look at a top tier "prep" school that cater to the economic elite of this country, and you'll see a model which (unlike the standard classroom) would have made sense to the Greeks: a small number of students, maybe half a dozen, sitting around a table and having a discussion with a professor. That's because the results really matter; the aim is to produce an elite class. The method used to train our elite could be done walking around, or hanging around the marketplace, although lurking under bridges. They're supposed to be able think for themselves, but only within certain confines (i.e. not questioning the existence of an elite).
don't forget that the original universities were gatherings of students who employed the best professors they could find and afford... completely unlike the "modern" universities these days, where the staff have managed to reverse roles and set themselves up as "establishments" of "learning" that confer the award of degrees on those students who survive the hurdles set in place...
The contract stipulates that Microsoft gets paid regardless of whether schools actually use their software. So while the schools may not be forced through contract to use MS software, it doesn't matter to Microsoft as they still get paid for non-existent software.
which leaves those administrators who decided to use open source software vulnerable to claims of wasting valuable resources implementing other solutions when "Industry Standard" microsoft software has already been paid for
Sorry, but I don't see the benefit of floating the cannon in the ocean. [...]
It would make a lot more sense to build a fixed structure on an appropriate, high mountain near the equator. Places like Peru or Ecuador come to mind as well as Mauna Kea on Hawaii. I'm sure there are more places that would be "developable" and logistically acceptable.
this one can be aimed... reduce the charge and you can lob shells at any point on Earth...
if you're clueless enough to have adverts on your house then that will happen, but if you read the summary, then you would know that it only applies to adverts found in the image, not ordinary buildings.
what ads that popup before the video plays? all I get are transparent overlay windows that come up at the bottom while the video is playing. I do not have to wait for an ad to finish first.
I would've liked you to have been deep frozen too And waiting still as fresh in your flesh for my return to earth But your father refused to sign the forms to freeze you Let's see you'd be about 60 now, and long dead by the time I return to earth My time held dreams were full of you as you were when I left, still underage Your android replica is playing up again it's no joke When she comes she moans another's name But that's the spirit of the age, that's the spirit of the age
IronKey was among a number of companies to issue statements reassuring customers that their devices were safe from the same attacks. Jevans said that's because the password and authentication process is contained on the USB drive itself and has nothing to do with the host system.
"We don't trust the computer at all," he said. "The computer could have malware on it or have hackers accessing it. In our security design, we said we have to assume the computer is completely untrustworthy. That's where we started our threat modeling."
hey, at least you get a silent screen presented... we get that infuriating "you wouldn't steal a car" "commercial"... strangely enough, if Australia is present in the list of countries given on opening, selecting that skips ALL the crap...
the evidence is right there in the emails and the code that they frigged the figures to attempt to show warming happening when cooling is actually occurring and the idiots in here are still drinking the AGW Koolaid... AGW does NOT exist...
if the managers had listened to the engineers and not had an attack of press-on-itis... in fact, if I'm not mistaken the other disaster was avoidable as well... they had evidence of serious tile damage on previous flights and should have re-engineered the critical areas so that hot gas ingress could not do so much damage.
No mention of the bugs: a game might be full to the brim with bugs on release day and yet there is no mention of it or a passing reference to "the version we tested had some problems but this is a pre-release version and they should be solved before release" (not!)
that's assuming they even reviewed the game and aren't just regurgitating the press release and images from the press pack
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it never made it out of staging into mainline... it wouldn't build as there were items Google never released that it was dependent upon.
to put it politely, bollocks...
you forgot to factor in lost sales from bad press
I was running with noscript, flashblock and adblock... mind you, I think I had noscript set not quite so strictly... and clicked on the flash blocked box thinking it needed clicking on for the site to work...
similarly, the plugins list... another thing that doesn't need to be sent out by the browser...
Firefox devs, you listening here? these do not need to be transmitted so block them...
anyone know of a plugin that blocks them?
and why on earth is it possible to sniff the history list???
warning, the text of the patent is also in the link... don't read it if you are working on similar things...
shouldn't have done the hacks, should have just put up a browser incompatibility page... you know, like ie only sites do for firefox users telling us to upgrade to Netscape 4...
google IBM and the Nazis...
hmmm ISTR Wordperfect, Harvard Graphics, DBase III and Lotus 123 being the dominant items once... I even have certificates for them.
Microsoft may currently be the top dog, but they can fall... very easily...
Don't forget, Microsoft cheated to get where they are... and they've been consistently abusing their monopoly position ever since. There's an awful lot of dirt buried in settlement agreements where Microsoft have bought off competition they've illegally killed.
folders? pah!... I seem to recall having the luxury of folders and files when running GEM 2 on my old Amstrad PC1512 with just 512 Kbytes of RAM...
I blame Microsoft... they've set computing back at least a decade...
don't forget that the original universities were gatherings of students who employed the best professors they could find and afford... completely unlike the "modern" universities these days, where the staff have managed to reverse roles and set themselves up as "establishments" of "learning" that confer the award of degrees on those students who survive the hurdles set in place...
which leaves those administrators who decided to use open source software vulnerable to claims of wasting valuable resources implementing other solutions when "Industry Standard" microsoft software has already been paid for
anything's gotta be cooler than a fscking keytar...
this one can be aimed... reduce the charge and you can lob shells at any point on Earth...
if you're clueless enough to have adverts on your house then that will happen, but if you read the summary, then you would know that it only applies to adverts found in the image, not ordinary buildings.
what ads that popup before the video plays? all I get are transparent overlay windows that come up at the bottom while the video is playing. I do not have to wait for an ad to finish first.
Hawkwind... Spirit of the Age...
I'm waiting for SP2 before I convert...
this needs a parody advert just to show how stupid things are...
hey, at least you get a silent screen presented... we get that infuriating "you wouldn't steal a car" "commercial"... strangely enough, if Australia is present in the list of countries given on opening, selecting that skips ALL the crap...
we need a disruptive technology right now... such as mesh networking or white space
the evidence is right there in the emails and the code that they frigged the figures to attempt to show warming happening when cooling is actually occurring and the idiots in here are still drinking the AGW Koolaid... AGW does NOT exist...
if the managers had listened to the engineers and not had an attack of press-on-itis... in fact, if I'm not mistaken the other disaster was avoidable as well... they had evidence of serious tile damage on previous flights and should have re-engineered the critical areas so that hot gas ingress could not do so much damage.
that's assuming they even reviewed the game and aren't just regurgitating the press release and images from the press pack