Psst: that's not actually true... It's not well implemented, but you *can* reply to an individual in a thread. Have you never gotten a message that said it had "branched off" of a separate thread?
When Ars Technica posted this news several days ago, the comments were mostly along the same lines as this one. The thread then became an "XP vs Vista/7" pissing match.
I think everyone is missing the issue. It's not about XP, it's about Internet Explorer.
The ~170,000 visitors a month web site that I work for has an XP userbase of 53%. I doubt that number will dip below 50% by the time IE 9 is coming out. Another commenter on the Ars thread found numbers for XP that were around 65%.
So for me, the real question is: in the midst of intense competition from Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera, why would the IE team choose to create a browser that no more than 50% of users can install?
Actually, it should still be possible to hide your friend list from your other friends. I was just looking at a couple of my friends' profiles, and I couldn't see their friend lists. I'm not sure how they did it though.
I was just doing a privacy experiment with a co-worker who wasn't on my list, and whatever it is that Facebook has changed, she was still completely invisible to me, and we even had three mutual friends. So that's a good thing.
On the other hand, they've apparently removed the option to hide the 'Add as a friend' link on your profile. For the past year, since I found that setting, I'd been happily avoiding getting unwanted friend requests. Now I can only limit it to 'Friends of friends' at best.
Thank you! Every time I read one of these goddamn RIAA threads, I think to myself "Thank god for Matador" and then consider posting something about them.
Get an overly broad patent for DRM and other anti-piracy measures, refuse to license the "intellectual property", then sue anyone who tries to restrict their software/music/movies in any way!
"I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of"
It doesn't sound like your city/town is very Christian, being full of pirates.
"It was one of those boutique record stores that sell obscure, independent releases"
You should have left it that way. Independant record buyers, like myself and most of my friends, are vey loyal, and continue to buy cds when we can, while at the same time downloading music. I live in a big city, and the several indie cd stores are still thriving.
Records stores can still survive in this day and age. Maybe you're not an incompetent businessman. Maybe no one in your city/town does purchase records. But what does that say about your community?
...is likely Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's chief quality control and testing guy.
Congrats to Asa, and the rest of the team. I can't imagine browsing the internet without Mozilla, and especially Firefox.
Since you've brought up JavaScript, there's something I'd like to note:
When IE encounters an infinite loop, it starts devouring the CPU and can only be shut down through the Task Manager. On the other hand, Mozilla (and Opera, if I recall correctly) will, after a few seconds, detect that it's an infinite loop and bring up an alert box giving you the option of shutting the script off without shutting down the browser.
What I've never understood is why Microsoft has been so determined to have a finger in every major computer software genre--except anti-virus software.
Internet apps, productivity apps, operating systems, servers, video, music, games... they've been determined to "be a leader" (control) all of these things.
Why not name the files "[moviename]_MPAA-Bait_FakeFile_DoNotDownload.txt" ? *Then* we'd find out if it's humans or computers (or monkeys) doing these searches. Make it less than 1K, so it would be easy for a human to confirm that it's not an infringing copy.
For Hallowe'en last year (2003), I decided to dress up as a sort of 'Corporate Shill'. I put a suit on, and stuck a straightened coat hanger down my back. The idea was that i was going to hang a $20 from the end of the coat hanger, so it would dangle in front of my face.
I scanned a Canadian $20 bill at 300 dpi in Photoshop 7. It opened fine. So I hit 'Print'.
Halfway through printing, it stopped, and spit out the paper. I picked it up, and where the image stopped there was a URL. I can't remember exactly what the URL was, but when I typed it in, it took me to a website that listed international currency-copying laws.
I tried printing the back, the front, forwards, backwards, yet everytime there was a recognition that it was money. Finally, i reduced the dpi to 72 and it printed completely.
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Psst: that's not actually true... It's not well implemented, but you *can* reply to an individual in a thread. Have you never gotten a message that said it had "branched off" of a separate thread?
When Ars Technica posted this news several days ago, the comments were mostly along the same lines as this one. The thread then became an "XP vs Vista/7" pissing match.
I think everyone is missing the issue. It's not about XP, it's about Internet Explorer.
The ~170,000 visitors a month web site that I work for has an XP userbase of 53%. I doubt that number will dip below 50% by the time IE 9 is coming out. Another commenter on the Ars thread found numbers for XP that were around 65%.
So for me, the real question is: in the midst of intense competition from Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera, why would the IE team choose to create a browser that no more than 50% of users can install?
Actually, it should still be possible to hide your friend list from your other friends. I was just looking at a couple of my friends' profiles, and I couldn't see their friend lists. I'm not sure how they did it though.
I was just doing a privacy experiment with a co-worker who wasn't on my list, and whatever it is that Facebook has changed, she was still completely invisible to me, and we even had three mutual friends. So that's a good thing.
On the other hand, they've apparently removed the option to hide the 'Add as a friend' link on your profile. For the past year, since I found that setting, I'd been happily avoiding getting unwanted friend requests. Now I can only limit it to 'Friends of friends' at best.
I hope this means good things for my Sheinhardt Wig Company shares!
Thank you! Every time I read one of these goddamn RIAA threads, I think to myself "Thank god for Matador" and then consider posting something about them.
Get an overly broad patent for DRM and other anti-piracy measures, refuse to license the "intellectual property", then sue anyone who tries to restrict their software/music/movies in any way!
"I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of"
It doesn't sound like your city/town is very Christian, being full of pirates.
"It was one of those boutique record stores that sell obscure, independent releases"
You should have left it that way. Independant record buyers, like myself and most of my friends, are vey loyal, and continue to buy cds when we can, while at the same time downloading music. I live in a big city, and the several indie cd stores are still thriving.
Records stores can still survive in this day and age. Maybe you're not an incompetent businessman. Maybe no one in your city/town does purchase records. But what does that say about your community?
...is likely Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's chief quality control and testing guy. Congrats to Asa, and the rest of the team. I can't imagine browsing the internet without Mozilla, and especially Firefox.
It caught BitSpirit and Soulseek, but appears to have completely missed Shareaza and KaZaA Lite.
Since you've brought up JavaScript, there's something I'd like to note:
When IE encounters an infinite loop, it starts devouring the CPU and can only be shut down through the Task Manager. On the other hand, Mozilla (and Opera, if I recall correctly) will, after a few seconds, detect that it's an infinite loop and bring up an alert box giving you the option of shutting the script off without shutting down the browser.
Can't resist... spoiler... video--
I managed to tear myself away half way through.
What I've never understood is why Microsoft has been so determined to have a finger in every major computer software genre--except anti-virus software.
Internet apps, productivity apps, operating systems, servers, video, music, games... they've been determined to "be a leader" (control) all of these things.
But never anti-virus software.
if those are the figures for mozilla.org then I'd say IE is doing very well
I'd say that *any* IE users visiting mozilla.org is bad news for Microsoft.
Why not name the files "[moviename]_MPAA-Bait_FakeFile_DoNotDownload.txt" ? *Then* we'd find out if it's humans or computers (or monkeys) doing these searches. Make it less than 1K, so it would be easy for a human to confirm that it's not an infringing copy.
Perhaps they are referring to video files in general.
Hmmm... What kinds of video files could 1 in 4 internet users possibly be downloading?
"Googling For Prospective Date Unmasks Fugitive"
For Hallowe'en last year (2003), I decided to dress up as a sort of 'Corporate Shill'. I put a suit on, and stuck a straightened coat hanger down my back. The idea was that i was going to hang a $20 from the end of the coat hanger, so it would dangle in front of my face.
I scanned a Canadian $20 bill at 300 dpi in Photoshop 7. It opened fine. So I hit 'Print'.
Halfway through printing, it stopped, and spit out the paper. I picked it up, and where the image stopped there was a URL. I can't remember exactly what the URL was, but when I typed it in, it took me to a website that listed international currency-copying laws.
I tried printing the back, the front, forwards, backwards, yet everytime there was a recognition that it was money. Finally, i reduced the dpi to 72 and it printed completely.