I've read some suggestions to run both Adaware and Spybot - I've found either to be more than capable on their own, but then I tend to practice "safe-browsing": use Firefox, use Linux where possible, etc.
In a defensive move I am thinking about redirecting the EI short-cut Icon to Mozilla, but I'm not sure if this is even possible.
Change Moz to your default browser - there's an option to do it in Firefox, I presume there is in the suite too. Your IE icon will now magically point to Moz. I seem to recall something wierd happening with the IE icon - either it stays the same, but points to Moz, or any existing Moz icon will become the "default browser" icon.
The UK has just started issuing (and advertising) "chip & pin" debit and credit-cards. AFAIK, you just have to enter the PIN to validate the card at point-of-sale. If that's true, it means all a mugger needs from me is my PIN - no longer do they need to march me a knife-point to the nearest ATM. Hooray for Britain: where knee-jerk reactions govern tech adoption.
(Incidentally, while I've had my chip & pin card for a while, no store's actually made me use the PIN. I figure they're waiting until I've forgotten it, as a sort-of uber-security mechanism).
Just out of curiousity, in what way? (I presume you mean.NET without vs.net)
I've only ever used.net with with Visual Studio, and that was pretty easy, but without the IDE I'm curious as to how it is easier than Java (disclaimer: lots more experience with Java than.net)
One improvement I (totally subjective) noticed with.net was speed - ASP.net apps seemed a lot "snappier" than JSP/servlet apps.
Well, there was Tolkein's history of NZ, recently made into a trilogy of films...
Seriously, however, yes, NZ has heritage of its own: there are Pas (Maori forts), early colonial Pakeha buildings, etc. And given the historic links between Pakeha (European) New Zealand and Britain, I'm surprised you'd feel that NZ was disrespecting Britain.
...Until they leave Walmart with an RFID-tagged item. We need safeguards to ensure that RFID-tags are only enabled within the retail environment, and are "switched off" once the consimer has made their purchase.
The funny thing is all these people talk about privacy and stuff and I bet they wouldn't even encrypt their email.
<sarcasm>Love the generalisation. "These people". Very open-minded.</sarcasm>
Even without an electoral college system it's possible: in Britain during the 1979-1997 Conservative administration there was at least one election (1992?) in which the Conservatives won with a minority of the votes, but a majority of constituencies.
I'm in favour of some (don't know which) form of proportional representation for this very reason.
Free doesn't necessarily equate to better, but I'd challenge you to swap Apache for a proprietary web-server. In certain cases, free (beer, speech) leads to a better product - that's why we're here, right?
Aye, having just (last month or so) started using Control Centre I can vouch for it. Free, excellent tool, intuitive, etc. Webmin's not bad either: in fact I prefer using it on low-spec workstations - let the server do the grunt-work.
This varies on where you are in the UK. Cities clearly have the best deal, for example London and Manchester's huge libraries are great.
I'm basing my experience on Glasgow (urban, for non-UK peeps), where the libraries are fairly dire. When I lived in relatively rural Wiltshire (going back well over a decade) the rural libraries, even the mobile library, were all quite good. To be honest, though, I suspect a large part of that due to me making allowances for the small libraries...! I take your point about location, however - it seems it's not just health-care that's subject to the postcode lottery...:(
According to the BBC, Britain's public librarires will be out of use by 2020. My local library does have a computer (one!) but the collections (books, CDs, etc) are shocking. Ordering from other libraries takes too long, etc.
I use Chillisoft's ASP on Apache with MySQL, and it works quite well: it seems more stable than IIS. It's not object-oriented, though it can use Java "chillibeans". It's a reasonable platform for small- to medium-sized projects.
I've got to admit I still can't see any advantage.net has over Java, but I try and stay current in both.
No. Apologies for the confusion. The AC recommended apache-asp, a PerlScript implementation of ASP. I use <whispers> VB Script </whispers> on Chilisoft. I agree that mod_perl seems a far saner way to run Perl on Apache.
ASP's not a scripting language, it's a technology. The language in this implementation is PerlScript, which is pretty much - wait for it - Perl. You don't specify how this implementation of ASP makes PHP "look like a kids' [sic] toy" but I've used two implementations of ASP - ChiliSoft (now SunONE) and Microsoft's - and PHP compares very favourably to both. I'd be surprised if apache-asp differed significantly.
I'm reading: which could have impact on desktop Linux and struggling to see how you transmogrified that into: this will probably maybe most definately finally be the tipping point for desktop linux?
Given past generosity/support from Mr Lindows, presumably more $$$$ for Lin---s will result in more projects like Nvu: I don't think we can really expect - or claim we were promised - more than that.
It's not necessarily easy for a country to have more than one culture, but it is most certainly affordable: lil' ol' New Zealand seems to manage, lil' ol' Wales seems to manage, I discovered recently that Finland has a significant Swedish culture (there's this guy, Linus Torvalds, you may have heard of...)
Fair point, and I broadly agree with most of what you say. However, I have to respond to this:
Certainly, it's fascist to go after all Muslim people. But if a Muslim cell is plotting terror, is it fascist to go after them because they are Muslims?
No. Absolutely not. It is, of course, acceptable to go after them because there is reasonable cause to believe they are terrorists (ie. are plotting to carry out, or have carried out, terrorist acts). It is not acceptable to go after them because they are Muslims.
I suspect that that wasn't what you meant, but I feel it's worth clarifying.
There were Communists plotting in Weimar Germany, there were Trade Unionists who brought instability, and there were Jews who accumlated great wealth at the expense of other Germans. But the actions of a limited minority were used to justify terrible crimes against wider groups. My concern is that a terrible injustice is being committed against Muslims today - Muslims who are in no way connected with, or support, Al Qaeda. Likewise, many, many children were traumatised today, many of whom may well never have shared a file in their lives. When law enforcement officers, armed or otherwise, raid schools due to civil infractions I believe that's cause for concern. (Whether I would have made a comparison with a group that butchered 6 million fellow humans remains debateable)
To be fair to the original poster (and I do think he/she is over-egging it slightly), Pastor Niemoeller's quote did not begin with "they" coming for "the Jews". The point of the quote was to demonstrate that Fascism begins in a subtle fashion - "First they came for the Communists "... (everyone hates commies, right?)... "then they came for the Trade Unionists"... (organised labour equals communism, right?)
When armed agents of the state kick down school doors, if they're not looking for real threats to national security they had better expect comparisons with previous examples of state terror.
My ignorance of legal jargon notwithstanding, MS didn't exactly "win" the case, though. My point stands: people are complaining that the settlement was unduly lenient, and that even that settlement is being effectively side-stepped by rebates and vouchers.
No, it's a corporation that was found guilty in court. This isn't tinfoil-hatters whinging about ev1l M$ - it's slashdotter's complaining that a court settlement has been side-stepped.
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(and learn to spell, retard)
Indeed, sir, "yuo are teh funneee". I congratulate you on your "funneee".
Is there anything better than ad-aware for solving this problem?
Why, yes, as it happens! ;)
I've read some suggestions to run both Adaware and Spybot - I've found either to be more than capable on their own, but then I tend to practice "safe-browsing": use Firefox, use Linux where possible, etc.
In a defensive move I am thinking about redirecting the EI short-cut Icon to Mozilla, but I'm not sure if this is even possible.
Change Moz to your default browser - there's an option to do it in Firefox, I presume there is in the suite too. Your IE icon will now magically point to Moz. I seem to recall something wierd happening with the IE icon - either it stays the same, but points to Moz, or any existing Moz icon will become the "default browser" icon.
The UK has just started issuing (and advertising) "chip & pin" debit and credit-cards. AFAIK, you just have to enter the PIN to validate the card at point-of-sale. If that's true, it means all a mugger needs from me is my PIN - no longer do they need to march me a knife-point to the nearest ATM. Hooray for Britain: where knee-jerk reactions govern tech adoption.
(Incidentally, while I've had my chip & pin card for a while, no store's actually made me use the PIN. I figure they're waiting until I've forgotten it, as a sort-of uber-security mechanism).
but [.net] is also way easier to use
Just out of curiousity, in what way? (I presume you mean .NET without vs.net)
I've only ever used .net with with Visual Studio, and that was pretty easy, but without the IDE I'm curious as to how it is easier than Java (disclaimer: lots more experience with Java than .net)
One improvement I (totally subjective) noticed with .net was speed - ASP.net apps seemed a lot "snappier" than JSP/servlet apps.
Well, there was Tolkein's history of NZ, recently made into a trilogy of films...
Seriously, however, yes, NZ has heritage of its own: there are Pas (Maori forts), early colonial Pakeha buildings, etc. And given the historic links between Pakeha (European) New Zealand and Britain, I'm surprised you'd feel that NZ was disrespecting Britain.
The customers are not tagged with it.
...Until they leave Walmart with an RFID-tagged item. We need safeguards to ensure that RFID-tags are only enabled within the retail environment, and are "switched off" once the consimer has made their purchase.
The funny thing is all these people talk about privacy and stuff and I bet they wouldn't even encrypt their email.
<sarcasm>Love the generalisation. "These people". Very open-minded.</sarcasm>
Even without an electoral college system it's possible: in Britain during the 1979-1997 Conservative administration there was at least one election (1992?) in which the Conservatives won with a minority of the votes, but a majority of constituencies.
I'm in favour of some (don't know which) form of proportional representation for this very reason.
Free != Better
Free doesn't necessarily equate to better, but I'd challenge you to swap Apache for a proprietary web-server. In certain cases, free (beer, speech) leads to a better product - that's why we're here, right?
Wow. I had an idea that there might have been an attack against the continental US, but thought it sounded too far-fetched. Thanks for the info.
I didn't realise until recently that the first "air force" consisted of hot-air balloons used during the US Civil War.
Balloons were still being used, by the way, during WW-II - at least over British cities. And IIRC Japan used fire-balloons against Hawaii?
Aye, having just (last month or so) started using Control Centre I can vouch for it. Free, excellent tool, intuitive, etc. Webmin's not bad either: in fact I prefer using it on low-spec workstations - let the server do the grunt-work.
This varies on where you are in the UK. Cities clearly have the best deal, for example London and Manchester's huge libraries are great.
I'm basing my experience on Glasgow (urban, for non-UK peeps), where the libraries are fairly dire. When I lived in relatively rural Wiltshire (going back well over a decade) the rural libraries, even the mobile library, were all quite good. To be honest, though, I suspect a large part of that due to me making allowances for the small libraries...! I take your point about location, however - it seems it's not just health-care that's subject to the postcode lottery... :(
According to the BBC, Britain's public librarires will be out of use by 2020. My local library does have a computer (one!) but the collections (books, CDs, etc) are shocking. Ordering from other libraries takes too long, etc.
I use Chillisoft's ASP on Apache with MySQL, and it works quite well: it seems more stable than IIS. It's not object-oriented, though it can use Java "chillibeans". It's a reasonable platform for small- to medium-sized projects.
I've got to admit I still can't see any advantage .net has over Java, but I try and stay current in both.
No. Apologies for the confusion. The AC recommended apache-asp, a PerlScript implementation of ASP. I use <whispers> VB Script </whispers> on Chilisoft. I agree that mod_perl seems a far saner way to run Perl on Apache.
ASP's not a scripting language, it's a technology. The language in this implementation is PerlScript, which is pretty much - wait for it - Perl. You don't specify how this implementation of ASP makes PHP "look like a kids' [sic] toy" but I've used two implementations of ASP - ChiliSoft (now SunONE) and Microsoft's - and PHP compares very favourably to both. I'd be surprised if apache-asp differed significantly.
I'm reading: which could have impact on desktop Linux and struggling to see how you transmogrified that into: this will probably maybe most definately finally be the tipping point for desktop linux?
Given past generosity/support from Mr Lindows, presumably more $$$$ for Lin---s will result in more projects like Nvu: I don't think we can really expect - or claim we were promised - more than that.
A country can only afford to have ONE culture...
It's not necessarily easy for a country to have more than one culture, but it is most certainly affordable: lil' ol' New Zealand seems to manage, lil' ol' Wales seems to manage, I discovered recently that Finland has a significant Swedish culture (there's this guy, Linus Torvalds, you may have heard of...)
Given current shenanigans, I'd suggest one slight change to your post:
they don't yet use patents in a particularly aggresive way.
Fair point, and I broadly agree with most of what you say. However, I have to respond to this:
Certainly, it's fascist to go after all Muslim people. But if a Muslim cell is plotting terror, is it fascist to go after them because they are Muslims?
No. Absolutely not. It is, of course, acceptable to go after them because there is reasonable cause to believe they are terrorists (ie. are plotting to carry out, or have carried out, terrorist acts). It is not acceptable to go after them because they are Muslims.
I suspect that that wasn't what you meant, but I feel it's worth clarifying.
There were Communists plotting in Weimar Germany, there were Trade Unionists who brought instability, and there were Jews who accumlated great wealth at the expense of other Germans. But the actions of a limited minority were used to justify terrible crimes against wider groups. My concern is that a terrible injustice is being committed against Muslims today - Muslims who are in no way connected with, or support, Al Qaeda. Likewise, many, many children were traumatised today, many of whom may well never have shared a file in their lives. When law enforcement officers, armed or otherwise, raid schools due to civil infractions I believe that's cause for concern. (Whether I would have made a comparison with a group that butchered 6 million fellow humans remains debateable)
To be fair to the original poster (and I do think he/she is over-egging it slightly), Pastor Niemoeller's quote did not begin with "they" coming for "the Jews". The point of the quote was to demonstrate that Fascism begins in a subtle fashion - "First they came for the Communists " ... (everyone hates commies, right?) ... "then they came for the Trade Unionists" ... (organised labour equals communism, right?)
When armed agents of the state kick down school doors, if they're not looking for real threats to national security they had better expect comparisons with previous examples of state terror.
If it's plutonium then it has too be overpriced, really difficult to get at your local gas station.
You could try asking any local Libyans - but don't rip them off. I knew this Professor that tried that...
My ignorance of legal jargon notwithstanding, MS didn't exactly "win" the case, though. My point stands: people are complaining that the settlement was unduly lenient, and that even that settlement is being effectively side-stepped by rebates and vouchers.
Microsoft is not just Gates and Balmer
No, it's a corporation that was found guilty in court. This isn't tinfoil-hatters whinging about ev1l M$ - it's slashdotter's complaining that a court settlement has been side-stepped.