It does happen, but people are struck and killed by lightning as well. Bottom line is the probability or either happening is very low. And - IF power and an internet connection (that's the only thing I use cable for) ARE that important to you (they are to me because I make my living on the internet), get a 17K backup generator, have every computing device on a UPS (it takes my generator ~10 seconds to start and fully kick in so I need to cover that time and have a line filter for each device), and have a satellite internet connection backup. It's a bit expensive, but if its important to you, you can protect yourself.
I have been pretty lucky. I've lost power a couple of times, and now and again my cable internet connection drops out, but each time my back solutions have worked well.
I didn't mean it as a negative. I should have put a trailing;) in my post. I'm 60 years old. I went through the communal living gig years ago. It was a lot of fun at that time in my life. These days I cherish my privacy. Even the kid is grown and on her own (glad we only had 1). Nice and peaceful!
Then they should have someone knowledgeable manage it for them.
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My apologies, but you must be new at this if you are just now recognizing the insecurities in ftp. I've did what Sinegubko did on a VM and watched. All I had to do was visit an infected page with IE and the machine was infected. It then 'stole' the bogus ftp passwords I put in a Dreamweaver install and away things went.
Sorry to hear you had a problem, but you really should have known better.
It's getting to the point where law enforcement really needs to handle PC security. We have strict laws on what a car needs to go on the road, we really need equivalent rules about what a PC needs to connect to the Internet.
The difference, of course, is that an unsafe car can cause an accident in which people could die, whereas an 'unsafe' computer isn't going to kill anyone. We will no doubt see laws that address computers and the internet, but they'll be related to porn, spam or some such aspect, not requiring anti-virus software.
PC Pitstop included a clause in one of its EULAs that promised anyone who read it, a "consideration" including money if they sent a note to an email address listed in the EULA. After four months and more than 3,000 downloads, one person finally wrote in. That person, by the way, got a check for $1,000 proving, at least for one person, that it really does pay to read EULAs.
How are people who show up to use a free service "customers?" Google's customers, for example, are their advertisers, not the people who use the free stuff.
People use Google search as a free service. As such, they are Customers. Google has many types of customers for its different services. Search is only one of many 'products' Google offers. If Google's search product was not 'good', it would have few or no customers.
Well, the Amiga wasn't a very popular machine as far as the masses go in the US. Heck, few people would know what one was talking about if someone cited an Amiga these days (save some of us old farts). I do know that in parts of Europe and the UK the Amiga was somewhat big. In the US it was big in scientific communities. I loved my Amiga. I even drove from Cincinnati to Toronto to buy a 'sidecar' for my Amiga years ago. I even soldered in RAM (I ended up with a whopping 1 megabyte!) I even had a dual Iomega Bernoulli 20MB 5" floppy (courtesy of Jerome Johnson of Iomega who was a member of the old Homebrew Computer Club {I was a consultant to Iomega years ago}) drive attached and ran a BBS (BBS-PC) on a modem/phone line for 4 years on my old Amiga (1986 - 1990). I was also a FIDONET node for several years. But the Amiga CDTV was never a big seller, and it was a specialized system. The average consumer didn't buy Amiga CDTV's or the Amiga CD32. You are correct in that there was a lot of specialized computer equipment that had no floppy drive before Apple dropped the floppy from its line of computers.
The world of specialized computers isn't representative of what every day consumers buy. My original comment was not meant to say Apple is always a great innovator and 'superior'. Like the mouse, and the GUI, Apple has borrowed heavily over the years, so I'm not even saying Apple is particularly innovative. But there's not a computer designer out there that doesn't borrow from past machines, including specialty machines. Heck, we can say the same about OSes.
I stick with the essence of my original comment - Apple recognized the obsolescence of floppies to 'everyman' early in the game.
I do have a USB floppy drive that works on my Macs and my PCs. I haven't used it in a year or so, but I still have floppies from the mid to late 1980's and into the 1990's. And so far, the ones I have trotted out for some arcane information I stored years ago, none has failed to read. I do keep my old floppies and my backup CDs in a dark, humidity and temperature controlled storage 'closet'.
I pretty much migrated to external hard drives for backups from CDs so I don't have many DVDs. In fact, about a month ago I found a deal on some 2TB drives so I bought 6 and transferred all my data from the external hard drives (I had just bought bare drives, not ones in cases, and a couple of them are over 8 years old) and connected them to my Mac via an ATA/IDE USB adapter to them one at a time. Now I have about 20 old hard drives stored in my 'closet' along with the 6 2TB drives. As you can probably tell, I'm a backup freak. I'm almost 60 years old and went through data loss scenarios years ago. Always keep a backup!
My only point is Apple saw the demise of the significance of, and need for, floppy drives early and was the first major computer company to stop putting them in their Macs as a standard device. While it took a while, PC makers followed, some sooner than others. I'm sure there are some out there somewhere that to this day have a floppy drive as standard.
Nor am I saying Apple was telling anyone, except Apple Mac customers, that floppy drives were no longer of much value.
As to the Amiga CDTV, having been an early Amiga 1000 owner, the Amiga was a great computer. It contained a lot of innovations. I wish the Amiga had become main stream. I liked it and was happy when Apple finally switched systems to 'nix after OS 9 because I like access to a command line. And I prefer 'nix systems. None the less, with all the innovation in the Amiga it was not a trend setter.
Alas, as when Apple stopped putting floppy drives in Macs, others followed. Those who wish to stay with old technology have that choice. I think I have a buggy whip here if you need one...;)
I'm not predicting any such thing. I am saying that there would be very few places to go on the internet if all advertising were to 'go away'. Like I said, even/. depends upon advertising to pay expenses. One fellow said he contributes by posting. I agree that content is necessary, but then again content creates traffic. Content doesn't pay the bills.
From 1996 to 2003 I didn't have any advertising on my sites. I decided to shutter them in 2003 because they were a hobby which had become too time consuming and expensive. I was persuaded that if I would allow advertising I could make money on them (i.e.: pay server expenses and for my time keeping servers online and such). If advertising does go away, I'll shutter the sites. Too much of my time and money goes into the sites to pay for it out of my pocket. I'm retired so I'd have a lot more time to do other things.
Adblock Plus asks me if I want it to display ads? Well... no. No I don't. That's why I installed Adblock Plus in the first place.
Too bad you don't get a response back which says something like "We understand you don't like ads, so this web site is totally blocked to you. You wouldn't like the content here anyway."
You would end up with an internet and no place to go on it.
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I put my first web site online in January in 1996 so I've been at it for a while now as well. I agree 100%.
It does happen, but people are struck and killed by lightning as well. Bottom line is the probability or either happening is very low. And - IF power and an internet connection (that's the only thing I use cable for) ARE that important to you (they are to me because I make my living on the internet), get a 17K backup generator, have every computing device on a UPS (it takes my generator ~10 seconds to start and fully kick in so I need to cover that time and have a line filter for each device), and have a satellite internet connection backup. It's a bit expensive, but if its important to you, you can protect yourself. I have been pretty lucky. I've lost power a couple of times, and now and again my cable internet connection drops out, but each time my back solutions have worked well.
I typically keep 30-50 tabs open in FF
I can't keep track of 10 to 15 tabs. I can not imagine why one would want 50 tabs open at a time. You must be quite special.
Not to mention people who set their password to be the same as their user name.
I didn't mean it as a negative. I should have put a trailing ;) in my post. I'm 60 years old. I went through the communal living gig years ago. It was a lot of fun at that time in my life. These days I cherish my privacy. Even the kid is grown and on her own (glad we only had 1). Nice and peaceful!
The conclusion I draw is that you live in an apartment with a bunch of room mates. Sounds too crowded for my liking.
Because Democrats refuse to listen to the people's voices that are crying out to stop.
In short, the democrats are listening to the majority rather than a small group of loud mouthed babies (republicans).
But they are ALL biased, mostly in favor of the party the reporters are registered with (D).
Right. All the Faux News people are "D's".... ;)
Touche' and correct. I don't have any mod points right now or I'd mod you up on this.
"You're full of shit up to your eyeballs. Explain the frequent rolling blackouts in California a few years back."
ENRON.... http://elsmar.com/pdf_files/Enron_California_Fraud_Audios/
Then they should have someone knowledgeable manage it for them.
My apologies, but you must be new at this if you are just now recognizing the insecurities in ftp. I've did what Sinegubko did on a VM and watched. All I had to do was visit an infected page with IE and the machine was infected. It then 'stole' the bogus ftp passwords I put in a Dreamweaver install and away things went.
Sorry to hear you had a problem, but you really should have known better.
It's getting to the point where law enforcement really needs to handle PC security. We have strict laws on what a car needs to go on the road, we really need equivalent rules about what a PC needs to connect to the Internet.
The difference, of course, is that an unsafe car can cause an accident in which people could die, whereas an 'unsafe' computer isn't going to kill anyone.
We will no doubt see laws that address computers and the internet, but they'll be related to porn, spam or some such aspect, not requiring anti-virus software.
PC Pitstop included a clause in one of its EULAs that promised anyone who read it, a "consideration" including money if they sent a note to an email address listed in the EULA. After four months and more than 3,000 downloads, one person finally wrote in. That person, by the way, got a check for $1,000 proving, at least for one person, that it really does pay to read EULAs.
http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/eula.asp
I agree 100%.
How are people who show up to use a free service "customers?" Google's customers, for example, are their advertisers, not the people who use the free stuff.
People use Google search as a free service. As such, they are Customers. Google has many types of customers for its different services. Search is only one of many 'products' Google offers. If Google's search product was not 'good', it would have few or no customers.
Well, the Amiga wasn't a very popular machine as far as the masses go in the US. Heck, few people would know what one was talking about if someone cited an Amiga these days (save some of us old farts). I do know that in parts of Europe and the UK the Amiga was somewhat big. In the US it was big in scientific communities. I loved my Amiga. I even drove from Cincinnati to Toronto to buy a 'sidecar' for my Amiga years ago. I even soldered in RAM (I ended up with a whopping 1 megabyte!) I even had a dual Iomega Bernoulli 20MB 5" floppy (courtesy of Jerome Johnson of Iomega who was a member of the old Homebrew Computer Club {I was a consultant to Iomega years ago}) drive attached and ran a BBS (BBS-PC) on a modem/phone line for 4 years on my old Amiga (1986 - 1990). I was also a FIDONET node for several years. But the Amiga CDTV was never a big seller, and it was a specialized system. The average consumer didn't buy Amiga CDTV's or the Amiga CD32. You are correct in that there was a lot of specialized computer equipment that had no floppy drive before Apple dropped the floppy from its line of computers.
The world of specialized computers isn't representative of what every day consumers buy. My original comment was not meant to say Apple is always a great innovator and 'superior'. Like the mouse, and the GUI, Apple has borrowed heavily over the years, so I'm not even saying Apple is particularly innovative. But there's not a computer designer out there that doesn't borrow from past machines, including specialty machines. Heck, we can say the same about OSes.
I stick with the essence of my original comment - Apple recognized the obsolescence of floppies to 'everyman' early in the game.
I do have a USB floppy drive that works on my Macs and my PCs. I haven't used it in a year or so, but I still have floppies from the mid to late 1980's and into the 1990's. And so far, the ones I have trotted out for some arcane information I stored years ago, none has failed to read. I do keep my old floppies and my backup CDs in a dark, humidity and temperature controlled storage 'closet'.
I pretty much migrated to external hard drives for backups from CDs so I don't have many DVDs. In fact, about a month ago I found a deal on some 2TB drives so I bought 6 and transferred all my data from the external hard drives (I had just bought bare drives, not ones in cases, and a couple of them are over 8 years old) and connected them to my Mac via an ATA/IDE USB adapter to them one at a time. Now I have about 20 old hard drives stored in my 'closet' along with the 6 2TB drives. As you can probably tell, I'm a backup freak. I'm almost 60 years old and went through data loss scenarios years ago. Always keep a backup!
My only point is Apple saw the demise of the significance of, and need for, floppy drives early and was the first major computer company to stop putting them in their Macs as a standard device. While it took a while, PC makers followed, some sooner than others. I'm sure there are some out there somewhere that to this day have a floppy drive as standard. Nor am I saying Apple was telling anyone, except Apple Mac customers, that floppy drives were no longer of much value. As to the Amiga CDTV, having been an early Amiga 1000 owner, the Amiga was a great computer. It contained a lot of innovations. I wish the Amiga had become main stream. I liked it and was happy when Apple finally switched systems to 'nix after OS 9 because I like access to a command line. And I prefer 'nix systems. None the less, with all the innovation in the Amiga it was not a trend setter.
Yup - I have a notebook with an Optical Drive that I've had for about 2 years. I bet I haven't used that drive more than a couple of times.
Alas, as when Apple stopped putting floppy drives in Macs, others followed. Those who wish to stay with old technology have that choice. I think I have a buggy whip here if you need one... ;)
I'm not predicting any such thing. I am saying that there would be very few places to go on the internet if all advertising were to 'go away'. Like I said, even /. depends upon advertising to pay expenses. One fellow said he contributes by posting. I agree that content is necessary, but then again content creates traffic. Content doesn't pay the bills.
From 1996 to 2003 I didn't have any advertising on my sites. I decided to shutter them in 2003 because they were a hobby which had become too time consuming and expensive. I was persuaded that if I would allow advertising I could make money on them (i.e.: pay server expenses and for my time keeping servers online and such). If advertising does go away, I'll shutter the sites. Too much of my time and money goes into the sites to pay for it out of my pocket. I'm retired so I'd have a lot more time to do other things.
Posting to /. is supporting it.
Content is important, but posts do not pay the bills. /. would not be here for you to post on if it were not for advertising paying the bills.
Great, but I define "excessively annoying ads" such that all ads, to me, are excessively annoying! And if not "all" at least most.
If you don't want to see ads, don't visit the site. Why are you here leaching /. content if you're not willing to support /. ???
Adblock Plus asks me if I want it to display ads? Well... no. No I don't. That's why I installed Adblock Plus in the first place.
Too bad you don't get a response back which says something like "We understand you don't like ads, so this web site is totally blocked to you. You wouldn't like the content here anyway." You would end up with an internet and no place to go on it.