I guess I work at a company in some sort of pocket universe. Before any software is approved for purchase it passes by a board that the head of IT sits on.
Generally said software is evaluated before purchase by the IT Staff (for this very reason), and there is no way around this (really, who wants to purchase software incompatible with your system). Those that choose to ignore this process (read higher ups) also choose to pay for (out of their own private pockets) and support their software themselves (We will happily re-image said computer back to the company standard, loss of non-work related stuff is their problem).
What you describe to me is exactly why we stopped supporting/using WordPerfect near the end. They were too lazy to update their code and it threw a fit with the proper way of running in an Enterprise Environment. It would run, but required a hell of a lot of registry permission changes and security permissions to work, it is wasn't worth it when it's competitor worked properly from the start.
I would likewise guess that all the software described above would likewise work with proper registry changes to correct the laziness of the programmers.
So in the end whose fault is it... The programmer for writing insecure software, the suit that purchased it without having IT evaluate it, or the IT department not doing it's job to secure the system (despite what is required to run on it)?
A recent study showed that 92% of critical exploits and 62% of security issues overall in Windows goes away when you remove admin rights. (Reducing the Threat From Microsoft Vulnerabilities)
Since Windows XP SP2, I have not run as admin and I have rarely come across something requiring admin rights. Those few apps that do (HP Print Drivers, Adobe Flash, and Palm Software being at the top of my list), I log into the account just to do those tasks (and nothing requiring the internet). Pretty much everything legitimate I run these days works with "Run As..."
That excuse was valid in Win 2000 and the early days of XP, but it has long since become lame.
Well this particular piece of work not only tells them that, but proceeds to hose their computer at random intervals to make it look like there is a problem that only they can solve.
They operate off of FUD to get people to pay for an ineffective solution.
I hate when people compare High School to College, they are different situations for people hopefully of different maturity levels. College is not mandatory and the people that go there choose to do so, pay for the privilege, and if they want to piss away their money by not taking advantage of the situation they mostly only hurt themselves. . High School is supposed to required schooling ensure everyone has a basic skill set (literacy, common language, basic knowledge of civics and sciences, and basic math skills). A child is sent there to learn those things, not to socialize. . The problem I see with this episode is why the hell does a high school allow a cell phones (or most other electronics like them) on the campus in the first place? Hell, I would be willing to pay a one time tax fee just to have cell phone signal jammers installed in the schools.
That's odd because I could see a huge difference between CBS Sports in HDTV over the air and CBS Sports HD on cable. The over the air experience was in much, much better quality. Cable was compressing (downgrading) the original signal, so while it was HD, it was HD of a crappy picture.
I will take the better quality for fewer channels. I don't need 20 ESPN's, and 100 other channels I don't care about just to get the 2 or 3 I would watch.
Once the 10 mb fiber is installed, I might invest in the Netflix box so I can more or less do video on demand.
Sorry forgot to add. Remember originally there were no terms limits so the fear of a popular president being elected again and again (and in essence becoming a monarch) was real then.
Perhaps you should read your history. That is the exact reason the electoral college was created. Originally (at least according to the current book I am reading (Union 1812), the electors were random citizens of the state in good standing and were not selected by the voters. The state vote was just an expression of the people's will.
You are correct when you stated it was a control on Large states over small, but it was also because the some of the founding fathers feared that someone would get elected just because he was popular instead of being properly qualified for the job.
The fact that electors are required to follow the state vote completely negates the safeguard against a populist president.
So the simple solution would be that the electors be divided up as they are in the congress. Each elector representing a house seat is given to the winner of the election in that district. The winner overall in the state gets the two senator votes.
That way the overall winner gets a bonus and the small population areas still get a voice.
My point is there is plenty of things that need fixed with the current version before you start tacking on features that are not exactly necessary.
The fact that the Linux version of Mozilla has some pretty major bugs (like right click menu issues) still (since 2006 when I switched to Linux) shows that fixing bugs is taking a back seat to adding unneeded bloat.
And there's still the bug where right-clicking a link in Linux randomly performs one of the context menu actions without even bringing up the menu. Too lazy to look up the bug entry, but it's been there quite a while. Installing the mouse gestures extension fixes it (even when the extension is disabled) so I'd think they could track it down from that. SO annoying.
Thank you for pointing me to a work around this issue. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to throw my laptop because of this.
The city of Clarksville, TN managed it. We have fiber ran to every house in the city and both cable and internet is provided by the Clarksville Department of Electricity. 10 mb/10 mb connection.
It isn't that it cannot be done, it is just that too many local governments have elected officials that either don't get it or are paid not to care.
TV is a dead business model, and they need to get on the bandwagon. Ever since I got Hulu on my Xbox, I've discovered how much I just don't care, and don't need, cable/satelite tv.
Yeah, ever since I started watching region-restricted, DRMd, non-downloadable content with mandatory ads I also realized how much I just don't care, and don't need that other region-restricted, DRMd, non-downloadable content with mandatory advertisements.
No, ever since I started watching region-restricted, DRMd, non-downloadable content with mandatory ads THAT I CAN START AND STOP AT WHIM, I also realized how much I just don't care about the old region-restricted, DRMd, non-downloadable, TIME-RESTRICTED, EXPENSIVE content with mandatory advertisements.
I only need to watch most television shows once, and then I move no with my live. I don't see why I need to waste GBs of space holding on to something I will never care about again.
And I the user call bullshit. If you are going to attempt to lock me into a package management system, then you better be responsible to keep it up to date and maintained. Otherwise, make it so I can install and uninstall programs easily without you.
It is retarded that I get locked into OpenOffice 2.X when 3.0 is out, just because it was released after an arbitrary deadline. (And yes I know I can manually install it, but it is a pain in the backside that most people will not deal with).
The worse example of this that I personally have come across was when Ubuntu shipped with Nexius having a show stopping bug in the single player and couldn't be bothered to update the package until the next distro release.
Well, there is still newspaper subscription, internet, cell phone texts, email, asking your neighbor, and I believe most areas the Department of Transportation has a hot-line for road conditions.
Not to mention, if you need to know the road conditions you, you probably have a car. And unless you have a classic, it probably at least came with a FM radio standard.
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Wait, you RTFA?!?
Take off you "tinfoil hat" and step out of the basement once and awhile. The man isn't out to get you.
sorry, Sprint Card wasn't working until I proved the computer was logging the connection.
I guess I work at a company in some sort of pocket universe. Before any software is approved for purchase it passes by a board that the head of IT sits on.
Generally said software is evaluated before purchase by the IT Staff (for this very reason), and there is no way around this (really, who wants to purchase software incompatible with your system). Those that choose to ignore this process (read higher ups) also choose to pay for (out of their own private pockets) and support their software themselves (We will happily re-image said computer back to the company standard, loss of non-work related stuff is their problem).
What you describe to me is exactly why we stopped supporting/using WordPerfect near the end. They were too lazy to update their code and it threw a fit with the proper way of running in an Enterprise Environment. It would run, but required a hell of a lot of registry permission changes and security permissions to work, it is wasn't worth it when it's competitor worked properly from the start.
I would likewise guess that all the software described above would likewise work with proper registry changes to correct the laziness of the programmers.
So in the end whose fault is it... The programmer for writing insecure software, the suit that purchased it without having IT evaluate it, or the IT department not doing it's job to secure the system (despite what is required to run on it)?
A recent study showed that 92% of critical exploits and 62% of security issues overall in Windows goes away when you remove admin rights. (Reducing the Threat From Microsoft Vulnerabilities)
Since Windows XP SP2, I have not run as admin and I have rarely come across something requiring admin rights. Those few apps that do (HP Print Drivers, Adobe Flash, and Palm Software being at the top of my list), I log into the account just to do those tasks (and nothing requiring the internet). Pretty much everything legitimate I run these days works with "Run As..."
That excuse was valid in Win 2000 and the early days of XP, but it has long since become lame.
I prefer the title of Scamware.
Well this particular piece of work not only tells them that, but proceeds to hose their computer at random intervals to make it look like there is a problem that only they can solve.
They operate off of FUD to get people to pay for an ineffective solution.
I hate when people compare High School to College, they are different situations for people hopefully of different maturity levels. College is not mandatory and the people that go there choose to do so, pay for the privilege, and if they want to piss away their money by not taking advantage of the situation they mostly only hurt themselves.
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High School is supposed to required schooling ensure everyone has a basic skill set (literacy, common language, basic knowledge of civics and sciences, and basic math skills). A child is sent there to learn those things, not to socialize.
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The problem I see with this episode is why the hell does a high school allow a cell phones (or most other electronics like them) on the campus in the first place? Hell, I would be willing to pay a one time tax fee just to have cell phone signal jammers installed in the schools.
That's odd because I could see a huge difference between CBS Sports in HDTV over the air and CBS Sports HD on cable. The over the air experience was in much, much better quality. Cable was compressing (downgrading) the original signal, so while it was HD, it was HD of a crappy picture.
I will take the better quality for fewer channels. I don't need 20 ESPN's, and 100 other channels I don't care about just to get the 2 or 3 I would watch.
Once the 10 mb fiber is installed, I might invest in the Netflix box so I can more or less do video on demand.
We could build a bridge out of her...
Sorry forgot to add. Remember originally there were no terms limits so the fear of a popular president being elected again and again (and in essence becoming a monarch) was real then.
Perhaps you should read your history. That is the exact reason the electoral college was created. Originally (at least according to the current book I am reading (Union 1812), the electors were random citizens of the state in good standing and were not selected by the voters. The state vote was just an expression of the people's will.
You are correct when you stated it was a control on Large states over small, but it was also because the some of the founding fathers feared that someone would get elected just because he was popular instead of being properly qualified for the job.
The fact that electors are required to follow the state vote completely negates the safeguard against a populist president.
So the simple solution would be that the electors be divided up as they are in the congress. Each elector representing a house seat is given to the winner of the election in that district. The winner overall in the state gets the two senator votes.
That way the overall winner gets a bonus and the small population areas still get a voice.
My point is there is plenty of things that need fixed with the current version before you start tacking on features that are not exactly necessary.
The fact that the Linux version of Mozilla has some pretty major bugs (like right click menu issues) still (since 2006 when I switched to Linux) shows that fixing bugs is taking a back seat to adding unneeded bloat.
For the same price I pay for 1.5 on DSL, I will be getting the above rate. As for the cable it seems to be roughly the same.
www.clarksvillede.com has the pricing.
Well, since you missed the other times it was posted I will do Futurepower(R) a favor
It's also worth mentioning the 357 CPU-hogging bugs [mozilla.org] as an example of working on things that don't matter.
If you can't visit Bugzilla from Slashdot, put this URL into another tab: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CPU [mozilla.org]
How 'bout you get right on that one.
And there's still the bug where right-clicking a link in Linux randomly performs one of the context menu actions without even bringing up the menu. Too lazy to look up the bug entry, but it's been there quite a while. Installing the mouse gestures extension fixes it (even when the extension is disabled) so I'd think they could track it down from that. SO annoying.
Thank you for pointing me to a work around this issue. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to throw my laptop because of this.
The city of Clarksville, TN managed it. We have fiber ran to every house in the city and both cable and internet is provided by the Clarksville Department of Electricity. 10 mb/10 mb connection.
It isn't that it cannot be done, it is just that too many local governments have elected officials that either don't get it or are paid not to care.
So I guess "8. ???" includes how to explain the above in plain English to most of the computing world then...
TV is a dead business model, and they need to get on the bandwagon. Ever since I got Hulu on my Xbox, I've discovered how much I just don't care, and don't need, cable/satelite tv.
Yeah, ever since I started watching region-restricted, DRMd, non-downloadable content with mandatory ads I also realized how much I just don't care, and don't need that other region-restricted, DRMd, non-downloadable content with mandatory advertisements.
No, ever since I started watching region-restricted, DRMd, non-downloadable content with mandatory ads THAT I CAN START AND STOP AT WHIM, I also realized how much I just don't care about the old region-restricted, DRMd, non-downloadable, TIME-RESTRICTED, EXPENSIVE content with mandatory advertisements.
I only need to watch most television shows once, and then I move no with my live. I don't see why I need to waste GBs of space holding on to something I will never care about again.
Yeah, and I bet if your team won you wouldn't have a problem.
Just remember television doesn't show everything, and refs do not have a bird's eye view.
And I the user call bullshit. If you are going to attempt to lock me into a package management system, then you better be responsible to keep it up to date and maintained. Otherwise, make it so I can install and uninstall programs easily without you.
It is retarded that I get locked into OpenOffice 2.X when 3.0 is out, just because it was released after an arbitrary deadline. (And yes I know I can manually install it, but it is a pain in the backside that most people will not deal with).
The worse example of this that I personally have come across was when Ubuntu shipped with Nexius having a show stopping bug in the single player and couldn't be bothered to update the package until the next distro release.
hulu.com is currently hosting them all.
Well, there is still newspaper subscription, internet, cell phone texts, email, asking your neighbor, and I believe most areas the Department of Transportation has a hot-line for road conditions.
Not to mention, if you need to know the road conditions you, you probably have a car. And unless you have a classic, it probably at least came with a FM radio standard.
And... Pay them same tax unless you want to drive across the state line to go to Walmart.
But who am I to complain, we have no Income Tax.
Yes, but with Windows and an internet connection he could find help in getting his tree to stand erect.