Seriously, when are the old farts going to make some laws to put some teeth into these scum?
For starters, they can concentrate on any program or procedure that does not allow itself to be removed completely from a system, period. There should be multi million dollar minimum penalties for this. (yes, this would include IE) Every single process on the computer should be able to be uninstalled at the whim of the user - unstability notwithstanding. You'll only need to enforce a small percentage if the penalty is high enough.
Then, they can crack down on programs designed to specifically defeat user preferences such as pop-up blockers. Again, multi-million dollar penalties here... Although this may be a little difficult to enforce.
Finally, unsolicited email needs to be dealt with. There should be a complaint threshold - say if 50 out of 200 persons (25%) report a certain corporation's product as being delivered by spam, they investigation starts. They would be subject to, you guessed it, multi-million dollar penalties if found guilty, and on top of that, receive lifetime bans from doing such things as registring domain names, buying hosting services, certain categories of ISP services, etc.
You could take a different tack and perhaps saw that in order to send the same email to more than 100 people you need a "bulk advertisers" license.
Sure it'll force the rest of us to go through some hoops, but it'll make life on "the internets" a lot more livable.
Considering that most Islamic terrorists have tried entering visa vie Canada
I simply pointed out that in the most recent terrorist attack on American soil, not a single terrorist entered the states through Canada.
So tell me, which terrorists are you refering too, exactly?
Putting a 2/3 rule into effect (to constitute "most") and considering that I just provided 19 names that would work against your theory, feel free to provide the names of 38 terrorists that have entered the US through Canada.
Otherwise, go watch some more Ann Coulter and leave factual discussions to more rational individuals.
Their may come the day when Canada is very happy that the people of the U.S. have unregistered firearms.
Somehow, I highly doubt that. Even so, it's a chance I'm willing to take, considering that is that the only people we've ever been invaded by are americans with their (unregistered) guns.
Get with the program... you goal would be better served with standing behind standards based development and yet you preach embedding presentation with content.
" I've lowered my tollerance for bad HTML and shoehorning designs into CSS."
This comment alone shows how out of touch you are with modern CSS based development...
Check out the zengarden, the CSS vault and CSS beauty for a lesson.
1. I answered this in the corresponding thread. 2. Well, it is a little off... If it's a formal email you should write it as such. Don't use things like M$ and BTW. 3. Active-X has little if anything to do with ASP. I use ASP all of the time in a standards compliant web authoring environment, simply as a sub for PHP when the server is IIS based. (yes I know I can run PHP on windows)
I never use Active-X. The two are completely independent of each other, although they can be used together. Active-X, Active Server Pages
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I don't see anything but a big beige square.
Seriously, when are the old farts going to make some laws to put some teeth into these scum?
For starters, they can concentrate on any program or procedure that does not allow itself to be removed completely from a system, period. There should be multi million dollar minimum penalties for this. (yes, this would include IE) Every single process on the computer should be able to be uninstalled at the whim of the user - unstability notwithstanding. You'll only need to enforce a small percentage if the penalty is high enough.
Then, they can crack down on programs designed to specifically defeat user preferences such as pop-up blockers. Again, multi-million dollar penalties here... Although this may be a little difficult to enforce.
Finally, unsolicited email needs to be dealt with. There should be a complaint threshold - say if 50 out of 200 persons (25%) report a certain corporation's product as being delivered by spam, they investigation starts. They would be subject to, you guessed it, multi-million dollar penalties if found guilty, and on top of that, receive lifetime bans from doing such things as registring domain names, buying hosting services, certain categories of ISP services, etc.
You could take a different tack and perhaps saw that in order to send the same email to more than 100 people you need a "bulk advertisers" license.
Sure it'll force the rest of us to go through some hoops, but it'll make life on "the internets" a lot more livable.
Considering that most Islamic terrorists have tried entering visa vie Canada
I simply pointed out that in the most recent terrorist attack on American soil, not a single terrorist entered the states through Canada.
So tell me, which terrorists are you refering too, exactly?
Putting a 2/3 rule into effect (to constitute "most") and considering that I just provided 19 names that would work against your theory, feel free to provide the names of 38 terrorists that have entered the US through Canada.
Otherwise, go watch some more Ann Coulter and leave factual discussions to more rational individuals.
Their may come the day when Canada is very happy that the people of the U.S. have unregistered firearms.
Somehow, I highly doubt that. Even so, it's a chance I'm willing to take, considering that is that the only people we've ever been invaded by are americans with their (unregistered) guns.
Christanity is not being outlawed because you happen to disagree that gays should get married.
Grow the fuck up.
In case you haven't noticed, you do the same thing with your car.
Actually, not a single 9/11 terrorist entered the US through Canada.
And none were Iraqi either...
Well,Basic and VB are mentioned a lot, but VB script (or ASP if that's your boat) is nowhere to be found...
I assumed he left off the scripting languages until I noticed both Javascript and Jscript floating around.
Pretty major oversite IMO.
you try that, and open a real excel spreadsheet... with graphs, formulas etc.
See how far you get... sure you can fix it, mom and pop cannot.
It explains exactly what you want to know...
It even gives you some nice little pictures...
it's called tacking
but doesn't that fact make your constitution about as hypocritical as is humanly possible?
I thought rights were "inaliable" and "granted by God".
Napster died a long time ago... right before I stopped buying close to two CD's a week...
Dressing up a monkey in a dress doesn't turn the monkey into Charliese Theron...
Um, what's the point of having a laptop that stays at work?
Why aren't those fools told to take their laptop with them when they go home, lest they lose it to sombody who actually needs it.
I thought that as well... I beleive you're correct...but airspeed needs to be factored in there as well, if you're considering his example.
I notice Ruby's spitting out a lot of html (full forms etc.)
Does it validate as standards compliant?
has nothing to do with a country, or its borders.
The term you're looking for is offshoring.
Get with the program... you goal would be better served with standing behind standards based development and yet you preach embedding presentation with content.
" I've lowered my tollerance for bad HTML and shoehorning designs into CSS."
This comment alone shows how out of touch you are with modern CSS based development...
Check out the zengarden, the CSS vault and CSS beauty for a lesson.
...had this as the first result.
web accessibility lawsuits would be the search string.
is your friend
+ la wsuits
http://www.google.ca/search?q=web+accessibility
CSS is displayed quite well on firefox. Often, most sites that are "changing layout" everytime you view then are not valid markup. (That includes /.)
Your mailto link would also fail for anyone with JS turned off... including IE users. You can't blame firefox for that.
If you want to hide you emails, convert the letters to their numerical equivs manually, the post.
see here: http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html
I'm not sure what you're talking about... all versions of XP have Automatic Updates installed.
As for 2000, the only ones that won't have it installed are clean CD installs or uppatched systems.
Considering that you should patch your system before you install anything (including firefox) I'm not seeing what the issue is here.
1. I answered this in the corresponding thread.
2. Well, it is a little off... If it's a formal email you should write it as such. Don't use things like M$ and BTW.
3. Active-X has little if anything to do with ASP. I use ASP all of the time in a standards compliant web authoring environment, simply as a sub for PHP when the server is IIS based. (yes I know I can run PHP on windows)
I never use Active-X. The two are completely independent of each other, although they can be used together. Active-X,
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