Re:print or save your confirmation pages
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Save the HTML of the confirmation page, if the site allows it (some scripted pages won't fucking save!)
If the page has been rendered in your browser, then you've already got the HTML of the confirmation page on your computer. The trick is getting around the (pretty useless) scripts people use to prevent you 'viewing source', and none of them are hard to defeat.
Yeah, me too. I got a 15" PB about two months ago when my Dell died, and everyone said "aren't you going to wait for the new one?", and I didn't.
I love the TiBook, and it's marvellous, but it would have been nice to get the extra goodies. Still, now I can wait for the G5...
"Microsoft have a lot more control... over the security:... they can do patching in a slightly different way."
This misses the fundamental point! The fact that Microsoft needs to do patching, whether or not in a slightly different way, should be enough of an indication that there are good reasons not to give Microsoft a "lot more control" over security.
Although it would be easy for this to degenerate into even more/. Microsoft-bashing, this is not an unreasonable question: as Microsoft gains more control over more of the things its users interact with (especially web-based services), will they really feel any extra pressure to make more secure systems than they have in the past?
Previously (and even now) their systems have a dominant market share, but have to interact with a whole host of other systems. They have built buggy and insecure platforms for this task: when all they're (mainly) interacting with is each other, they'll have even less reason to worry about security, won't they?
It's a good point. There are sufficient users of Windows who don't seem to make the connection between Windows vulnerabilities and Microsoft: that is, they feel threatened/upset/whatever by the virus, but then the next computer they buy is still running Windows!
This is why Microsoft's trusted computing has the potential to do exactly what you suggest. If a no-brainer user reads Microsoft PR nonsense about how safe their computer will be with Palladium, they'll buy it, without considering the fact that Microsoft are also the people who've been leaving holes in their systems for years.
I think there's a very simple distinction that can be made between spam and television advertising, and it has to do with the amount of control that your service provider exercises over the advertising content.
When you watch cable TV, you know that for an hour of content, you are going to see up to 12 minutes of advertising. The advertising is controlled by the cable company, and no-one can advertise on the channel without going through that 'filter'.
Spam, on the other hand, is not restricted. If I receive 100 e-mails a day, anywhere from 0 to 100 of them could be spam. None of those spams are sanctioned (or controlled) by my service-provider, and they were not part of the package I signed up for.
I bought a new 15" Powerbook about a month ago. Straight out of the box, the optical drive wouldn't burn discs - audio or data - and the error message I got was one the support people said they couldn't trace. Because the machine was less than a fortnight old, Apple declared it 'dead on arrival', immediately shipped me another machine, and sent a courier to pick up the old one.
The new machine is running like a dream, and I'm tempted to wait until the end of the first year to buy AppleCare. On the other hand, there's nothing like being able to pick up the phone as soon as there's a problem and get an answer straight away. Certainly my experience with the standard warranty has been nothing but good.
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Save the HTML of the confirmation page, if the site allows it (some scripted pages won't fucking save!)
If the page has been rendered in your browser, then you've already got the HTML of the confirmation page on your computer. The trick is getting around the (pretty useless) scripts people use to prevent you 'viewing source', and none of them are hard to defeat.
Pity it wasn't a Fuertwaengler recording, otherwise we'd have some serious storage capacity already!
Yeah, me too. I got a 15" PB about two months ago when my Dell died, and everyone said "aren't you going to wait for the new one?", and I didn't. I love the TiBook, and it's marvellous, but it would have been nice to get the extra goodies. Still, now I can wait for the G5...
"Microsoft have a lot more control ... over the security: ... they can do patching in a slightly different way."
/. Microsoft-bashing, this is not an unreasonable question: as Microsoft gains more control over more of the things its users interact with (especially web-based services), will they really feel any extra pressure to make more secure systems than they have in the past?
This misses the fundamental point! The fact that Microsoft needs to do patching, whether or not in a slightly different way, should be enough of an indication that there are good reasons not to give Microsoft a "lot more control" over security.
Although it would be easy for this to degenerate into even more
Previously (and even now) their systems have a dominant market share, but have to interact with a whole host of other systems. They have built buggy and insecure platforms for this task: when all they're (mainly) interacting with is each other, they'll have even less reason to worry about security, won't they?
It's a good point. There are sufficient users of Windows who don't seem to make the connection between Windows vulnerabilities and Microsoft: that is, they feel threatened/upset/whatever by the virus, but then the next computer they buy is still running Windows!
This is why Microsoft's trusted computing has the potential to do exactly what you suggest. If a no-brainer user reads Microsoft PR nonsense about how safe their computer will be with Palladium, they'll buy it, without considering the fact that Microsoft are also the people who've been leaving holes in their systems for years.
I think there's a very simple distinction that can be made between spam and television advertising, and it has to do with the amount of control that your service provider exercises over the advertising content.
When you watch cable TV, you know that for an hour of content, you are going to see up to 12 minutes of advertising. The advertising is controlled by the cable company, and no-one can advertise on the channel without going through that 'filter'.
Spam, on the other hand, is not restricted. If I receive 100 e-mails a day, anywhere from 0 to 100 of them could be spam. None of those spams are sanctioned (or controlled) by my service-provider, and they were not part of the package I signed up for.
I bought a new 15" Powerbook about a month ago. Straight out of the box, the optical drive wouldn't burn discs - audio or data - and the error message I got was one the support people said they couldn't trace. Because the machine was less than a fortnight old, Apple declared it 'dead on arrival', immediately shipped me another machine, and sent a courier to pick up the old one. The new machine is running like a dream, and I'm tempted to wait until the end of the first year to buy AppleCare. On the other hand, there's nothing like being able to pick up the phone as soon as there's a problem and get an answer straight away. Certainly my experience with the standard warranty has been nothing but good.