Well, a solution would allow people to tell the difference between what was subvertedly installed, and intended to be kept that way, and what was installed without the standard process, but wasn't intended to be hidden.
Well, I think that way, it seems you think that way, but it seems Microsoft doesn't think that way.
People who run updates for the.Net Framework are doing so because they want the.Net Framework's functionality on their machine.
Rather, Microsoft wants.Net Framework functionality on everybody's machine. It's part of the way Microsoft interfaces the internet with the operating system. Remember, it's supposed to be Oh So Much Better than Java because it's a Microsoft product not a Sun product.
If FireFox wants to break support for ClickOnce in their browser, I'm sure they could. But then you are back to the days of IE6. 'Okay Users, we need to run this app on our local intranet. It uses ClickOnce - so you need to run IE and go to \\xyz\ourapp to run it. Don't use anything but IE though, because this only works with IE'.
Why would Firefox want to support ClickOnce? It's a Microsoft product after all, most likely patented or patent pending, and more hassle to deal with than it's worth. The Mozilla Foundation has a set method of submitting Firefox addons for a reason. Microsoft bypassing the process and willy-nilly installing something in Firefox as a 'favor' does not make friends in the Mozilla camp, especially when the app installed makes things more insecure for Firefox in the process. Firefox and Mozilla Foundation are all about choice. Where's the choice here?
Removing it is a trivial task for anyone who knows enough to care.
First you need to know it's there. Next, you need to know how to deal with the Registry. Per TFA:
Big deal, you say? I can just uninstall the add-on via Firefox's handy Add-ons interface, right? Not so fast. The trouble is, Microsoft has disabled the "uninstall" button on the extension. What's more, Microsoft tells us that the only way to get rid of this thing is to modify the Windows registry, an exercise that -- if done imprecisely -- can cause Windows systems to fail to boot up.
Terrorism is totally relative, but it does scare me that someone else can now make the things that has won wars for us in the past, especially with things being at a less than peaceful state worldwide. (N Korea, Iran, etc)
Word is, half of North Korea is starving so that the government could develop a Hiroshima-class nuke that didn't work alongside a delivery system that also failed. Considering the tech they're trying to develop (and failing miserably at) is 65 years old, I'm really not too worried about the North Koreans. It's almost as if somebody's feeding them info that looks good, but is total fail at the implementation, designed to make them spend shitpiles of money on fail products. And isn't getting stuck in a serious buying cycle a good part of what caused the Soviet Union to come undone at the seams?
No, the guys I'm more worried about are the Chinese and the Israelis. Both are smart as hell, have plenty of access to American nuclear technology, and the industrial base to build the shit. The Chinese are already 'out' in the nuclear club and building a ballistic missile delivery system cunningly designed as a space program (or is it the other way around?), but the Israelis keep claiming they don't have any. If I was outnumbered 100 to 1 in an area of the world where everybody hated me and I had zero intention on moving out, I'd sure as hell get the best weapons I could find. That would include nukes and CBMs, treaties be damned.
Many states have a requirement to call a locater service X days before you dig. You call one number and all the utilities come out and mark their stuff. Then, when you dig if you cut something that wasn't marked, it isn't your problem. Cut something marked and you pay.
But who's gonna mark it, what's it gonna get marked as, and who you gonna call? It's a secret, remember?
So who you supposed to notify when you dig? If the fiber is secret, nobody's going to tell you where it's at, and nobody's going to 'fess up about the ownership of said fiber.
And who do you make the check out to when you do cut it? Or would a 'Hey, how the hell can we know when we cut a top secret fiber? How we supposed to know it's there if it's top secret and we don't have clearance???' defense work in court when the other guy's lawyers come at you for damages?
If they want a V1, why not just buy one ready made from N.Korea, Egypt, Syria, etc.?
SCUDs are upscaled & reworked V2s, not V1s. The V1 was the 'buzz bomb', using a pulse jet, basically a flying stovepipe. It used regular kerosene and atmospheric oxygen. The V2 was a true rocket design, the first deployed ballistic missile.
I do find it interesting however that the US attacked Iraq the moment it became clear that the aluminum tubes reputedly ordered for use as a gaseous seperator for uranium refining turned out to be perfect for the fuselage of an upgraded SCUD with enough range that, in a high west-blowing wind, could possibly land inside Israel. Almost enough to make you think of upgrading your tinfoil hat, eh?
Ah, but that would seriously fuck up their ability to sieze property and later auction it off as proceeds of crime. The county I live in relies heavily on the proceeds of police auctions to fund the sheriff's department. They haven't quite gotten to the point of zero tolerance siezures, but they're getting there.
Hell, there are examples of prior art all over the place. Plenty of old shareware, for example. Pay $x to have levels or features unlocked.
Applications aren't the same as operating systems, though back in the day, a bunch of my customers answered 'Lotus' when I asked them what they were running. It was actually MSDOS on a clone...
must hurry to the patent office! I have devised a way to get my ass sparkling clean after taking a dump using only items commonly found in the home...without using toilet paper!
I could be mistaken, but I think the whole earth-saving thing is something they want to encourage in Star Fleet. That, you know, if you SAVE THE EARTH, the normal rules of promotion might become slightly more flexible.
Even then, that should only have been enough to cancel out his three different court-martials (cheating, stowing away on the ship, and insubordination)! If he had to be promoted, it should have been to ensign or lieutenant at most. If nothing else, he sure as Hell needs the time at lower rank to learn to quit being such a reckless idiot -- and even saving the Earth doesn't make up for that!
Lieutenant Commander at most, you mean. He's proven he can handle the Command path, lt commander would allow him to 'grow' into the responsibilities. Acting Captain, even if he does save the Earth, can be seen as a lucky incident not worthy of full captaincy.
And it was great to see Christopher Pike in the Big Chair, but where the hell was Robert April?????
Why oh why is all the bad stuff (corporate related) happening in the USA first?
Because here in the Land of the Fee, corporate 'citizens' are more highly regarded for their campaign contributions to politicians than the 'meat' citizens the politicians reputedly represent. We did a paradigm shift that turned said meat citizens into 'consumers' and thus, products, for the corporate 'citizens'. Then that paradigm shift got codified into law, modified as needed to protect the interest of the corporate citizens.
OK, this idea's been around for awhile. Its major useage in Hollywood was in the movie 2010 when the Russian spacecraft used one for aerobraking in Jupiter's atmosphere. Cute effect, but like Dr Floyd said, "Nice in theory, but the guys who did the numbers aren't here."
Drop a couple nukes into the midst of a carrier group, carrier group is GONE. Same with a battleship group. Remember, at the time, nobody outside of the scientists working on them knew what nukes could (possibly) do. If they could clear the Pacific of the US fleet, they'd own the Pacific. Why do you think they attacked Pearl Harbor? And once they had naval superiority over the Pacific, yes, they could hit the West Coast by plane, carried on a carrier to within striking range, just like at Pearl.
Hmmmmmmmm. They had a helluva time enforcing Prohibition. We ended up with an organized crime problem that still echoes and reverberates, 80 years later, as well as problems with the current version of Prohibition. And we didn't learn the lession, "Legislating 'morality' doesn't work."
OK, hypothetically, let's amend the Constitution to confer citizenship and voting rights ONLY to white male Protestant land owners aged 65 or greater who have a 4 year or more military history and at least 10 million in liquid assets. Is this a 'good law'? I don't think so. Is it 'enforceable'? Maybe...
Yes, I do understand the difference between laws and amendments. And amendments should be harder to ratify, it keeps the legislature from voting themselves bread and circuses.
And I never said they weren't valid, just some are unconstitutional. For instance, (yes, again) the 16th legislating a direct income tax to be an indirect tax so it can be collected without having to consult the states. There was a reason it was written the way it was written. The Founders didn't trust Congress a bit.
I also have problems with the 17th, fwiw.
Sorry to hear that, but I'm not sure how it's relevant. My copy of Article 5 seems to be missing the clause that says "Unless jamstar7 has a problem with it." I don't recall seeing that on the original last time I visited the Smithsonian either.
The intention of Congress was, 1 house of Representatives directly elected by the people, 1 house of Senators appointed by their States in whatever manner that State felt was good and proper. It was not intended as a total democracy, it's supposed to be a republic. Considerable difference. It was set up that way for checks and balances. By getting rid of the 'popularity contest' aspect of the Senate, they were hoping to find some statesmen for a change. The 17th knocked the props out of one of the checks and turned both houses into a popularity contest. The Founders talked a good bit about the 'tyranny of the majority' in The Federalist Papers, btw. The intent was to protect the nation from Congress, with the President & SCOTUS as checks on it. Well, it worked for a while...
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Well, I think that way, it seems you think that way, but it seems Microsoft doesn't think that way.
Rather, Microsoft wants .Net Framework functionality on everybody's machine. It's part of the way Microsoft interfaces the internet with the operating system. Remember, it's supposed to be Oh So Much Better than Java because it's a Microsoft product not a Sun product.
Why would Firefox want to support ClickOnce? It's a Microsoft product after all, most likely patented or patent pending, and more hassle to deal with than it's worth. The Mozilla Foundation has a set method of submitting Firefox addons for a reason. Microsoft bypassing the process and willy-nilly installing something in Firefox as a 'favor' does not make friends in the Mozilla camp, especially when the app installed makes things more insecure for Firefox in the process. Firefox and Mozilla Foundation are all about choice. Where's the choice here?
First you need to know it's there. Next, you need to know how to deal with the Registry. Per TFA:
Easy for you, maybe. Not so much for Joe Sixpack.
Word is, half of North Korea is starving so that the government could develop a Hiroshima-class nuke that didn't work alongside a delivery system that also failed. Considering the tech they're trying to develop (and failing miserably at) is 65 years old, I'm really not too worried about the North Koreans. It's almost as if somebody's feeding them info that looks good, but is total fail at the implementation, designed to make them spend shitpiles of money on fail products. And isn't getting stuck in a serious buying cycle a good part of what caused the Soviet Union to come undone at the seams?
No, the guys I'm more worried about are the Chinese and the Israelis. Both are smart as hell, have plenty of access to American nuclear technology, and the industrial base to build the shit. The Chinese are already 'out' in the nuclear club and building a ballistic missile delivery system cunningly designed as a space program (or is it the other way around?), but the Israelis keep claiming they don't have any. If I was outnumbered 100 to 1 in an area of the world where everybody hated me and I had zero intention on moving out, I'd sure as hell get the best weapons I could find. That would include nukes and CBMs, treaties be damned.
But who's gonna mark it, what's it gonna get marked as, and who you gonna call? It's a secret, remember?
And who do you make the check out to when you do cut it? Or would a 'Hey, how the hell can we know when we cut a top secret fiber? How we supposed to know it's there if it's top secret and we don't have clearance???' defense work in court when the other guy's lawyers come at you for damages?
All I can say is, the future ain't what it used to be...
SCUDs are upscaled & reworked V2s, not V1s. The V1 was the 'buzz bomb', using a pulse jet, basically a flying stovepipe. It used regular kerosene and atmospheric oxygen. The V2 was a true rocket design, the first deployed ballistic missile.
I do find it interesting however that the US attacked Iraq the moment it became clear that the aluminum tubes reputedly ordered for use as a gaseous seperator for uranium refining turned out to be perfect for the fuselage of an upgraded SCUD with enough range that, in a high west-blowing wind, could possibly land inside Israel. Almost enough to make you think of upgrading your tinfoil hat, eh?
Or a kilo or 3 of heroin...
I know you can't sue the Feds unless you first sue them to get permission to sue them. Not sure about local government, though.
Ah, but that would seriously fuck up their ability to sieze property and later auction it off as proceeds of crime. The county I live in relies heavily on the proceeds of police auctions to fund the sheriff's department. They haven't quite gotten to the point of zero tolerance siezures, but they're getting there.
Applications aren't the same as operating systems, though back in the day, a bunch of my customers answered 'Lotus' when I asked them what they were running. It was actually MSDOS on a clone...
Hampsters and wire brushes don't count.
Lieutenant Commander at most, you mean. He's proven he can handle the Command path, lt commander would allow him to 'grow' into the responsibilities. Acting Captain, even if he does save the Earth, can be seen as a lucky incident not worthy of full captaincy.
And it was great to see Christopher Pike in the Big Chair, but where the hell was Robert April?????
Because here in the Land of the Fee, corporate 'citizens' are more highly regarded for their campaign contributions to politicians than the 'meat' citizens the politicians reputedly represent. We did a paradigm shift that turned said meat citizens into 'consumers' and thus, products, for the corporate 'citizens'. Then that paradigm shift got codified into law, modified as needed to protect the interest of the corporate citizens.
Unless you're the government, then it's just another day at work for the No Such Agency.
Hang on, somebody's knocking at my do
This might be a stupid question, but, where the hell did you find living boxes????
I was under the impression it was filled with ablative foam that kept it from collapsing.
OK, this idea's been around for awhile. Its major useage in Hollywood was in the movie 2010 when the Russian spacecraft used one for aerobraking in Jupiter's atmosphere. Cute effect, but like Dr Floyd said, "Nice in theory, but the guys who did the numbers aren't here."
Naval action.
Drop a couple nukes into the midst of a carrier group, carrier group is GONE. Same with a battleship group. Remember, at the time, nobody outside of the scientists working on them knew what nukes could (possibly) do. If they could clear the Pacific of the US fleet, they'd own the Pacific. Why do you think they attacked Pearl Harbor? And once they had naval superiority over the Pacific, yes, they could hit the West Coast by plane, carried on a carrier to within striking range, just like at Pearl.
That depends on the chemical changes it goes through as it rises to the surface. AFAICT, nobody's done anything like a study on this.
Really? The truth of the matter is, the US winning the 'atom bomb race' was a near thing.
The C.L.I.T is not real.
OK, hypothetically, let's amend the Constitution to confer citizenship and voting rights ONLY to white male Protestant land owners aged 65 or greater who have a 4 year or more military history and at least 10 million in liquid assets. Is this a 'good law'? I don't think so. Is it 'enforceable'? Maybe...
Manually partiton your disk. You can then specify which partitions are attached to which mountpoints.
And I never said they weren't valid, just some are unconstitutional. For instance, (yes, again) the 16th legislating a direct income tax to be an indirect tax so it can be collected without having to consult the states. There was a reason it was written the way it was written. The Founders didn't trust Congress a bit.
The intention of Congress was, 1 house of Representatives directly elected by the people, 1 house of Senators appointed by their States in whatever manner that State felt was good and proper. It was not intended as a total democracy, it's supposed to be a republic. Considerable difference. It was set up that way for checks and balances. By getting rid of the 'popularity contest' aspect of the Senate, they were hoping to find some statesmen for a change. The 17th knocked the props out of one of the checks and turned both houses into a popularity contest. The Founders talked a good bit about the 'tyranny of the majority' in The Federalist Papers, btw. The intent was to protect the nation from Congress, with the President & SCOTUS as checks on it. Well, it worked for a while...