However, I remain convinced that one or two unpatched holes in FF is still safer than surfing in IE.
Fortunately the responsibility for a patch rests with Sun Microsystems as much as Mozilla Foundation so there'll be one pretty soon.
A firewall ought to give additional protection in the meantime - normally I add a rule to my PCs to prevent IE from accessing the web under any circumstances and would encourage others to do likewise from now on, I guess.
The obvious extension of this is to run software which can identify objects in film and track their motion. Then you apply colour to the 3D digital copy of the item, implant it back into the film and have the original shading information from the B&W film cast on top of the coloured, reimplanted, object.
It's odd - Yahoo had email long before Google Gmail, but never really made an impact. Google still doesn't have a messaging app in their offerings, but it doesn't seem to do them any harm.....
not only have I seen one, I've placed one next to the 12" iBook. Every single dimension is the same - actually, compare for yourself rather than just troll-modding me:
Pay especial note to the arrangement of ports on the side of the PB12" - identical to the iBook, completely different to the other Powerbooks. Or the identical sizes, screen specs, weights. Or the fact that the skin of the 12-incher is a metal skin on top of an iBook frame (yes I did get that bit wrong due to a mental aberration) instead of being the construction of the PB 15/17
The 12-inch powerbook isn't actually a powerbook,its an iBook with a faster processor. Hence the lack of PCMCIA, the inferior screen, and the fact it hasn't got a real metal case
Those issues referred to above are restricted to the 15 and 17-inch powerbooks.
I find it a little disquieting that the USAF's primary systems may be running Windows. Windows is good for a lot of jobs, but the frontline defence of the world's most - well - controversial nation possibly ought to be on something a bit more resilient.
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While the market for them is so depressed, it'd be far more practical to ask people to contribute coding time rather than their souls, you'll just end up accumulating incorporeal entities if you don't..
There's been an informal campaign for mozilla suite support in GDS ever since it was launched
Last week Copernic 1.5b was released with full support, now Google are producing the same feature. Coincidence? If so tough luck, I already switched from GDS!
It's important to Microsoft as a way of preventing Google Desktop Search and Copernic from gaining mindshare and installed base before they introduce their final version in Longhorn
Incidentally, Copernic 1.5 beta now supports Mozilla Thunderbirds email and contacts and Firefox history and bookmarks - and does it well. This is a double threat to Microsoft, as their vision sees WinFS as a factor which ties people to Outlook and IE6/7
It would be useful if Google had an option to log into gmail with a non-encrypted connection - a lot of email devices are left out in the cold by gmail including most POP3-capable mobile phones.
That said,I can see why their present system is advantageous in terms of security. If they did it it would have to be an option "allow insecure POP3 on this account" rather than default behaviour.
Some ISPs have a captive audience - NTL in the UK for example, as it is the only broadband provider its subscribers can get unless they switch phone lines as well ( NTL is a Cable company that also distributes TV and telephone services over its network)
Sory, I've been spending too much time on eBay. Anyway, my own opinion is that it's grounded in fear: Present-day "traditionalists" don't understand new concepts like open expressions of sexuality, quality of alternative religions, freedom not to marry in order to have kids, people who don't go to church.
Their "big picture" of the world doesn't have room for people who don't fit their preconceived notion of decency. The BBCs determination to provide programming for and coverage of these "threatening" non-traditional lifestyles is to be opposed as it makes that which was once extraordinary, ordinary.
The right can't bring around a new age where their own morals hold sway if people accept the new ways as normal due to unbiased media coverage.
So, it's dangerous to have a media organisation that isn't in the skew of a paymaster? Your quoted site is just another news source funded by a political movement, exactly the sort of thing the BBC's present situation prevents
You call it bias, but in fact the BBC's viewpoint is one of anti-bias. Anti your sort of bias, anyway.
The BBC as a public institution is bound by law and common custom to be representative of the people and to support/represent equality of religion/race/lifestyle/sexuality.
The British Tory or Conservative party is roughly analogous to Republicans in the US in that it holds "traditional values", many of which conflict with the modern egalitarian ethic of the BBC.
The British Right-wing, led primarily by tabloid newspapers such as the Daily Mail (politically somewhere to the right of Genghis Kahn..), has been leading an anti-BBC campaign for some time now as they don't want to see a state-run broadcaster "supporting" rights that they wish to abolish or diminish, such as equality of gay and straight relationships before the law, or equal attention in schools for minority faiths.
because websites are designed by professionals while emails are written by anyone!!! Seriously - emails reflect human speech in all its diversity. viagra might be legitimately mentioned in an email but what web designer would include crucial parts of his site in a folder called/adverts/ ?
REGEXP is better suited to adblocking than spamblocking
Fortunately, AdBlock and Proxomitron (sorry - can't always spell that word) support filters based on REGEXP (Regular Expression)
For instance, a filter in AdBlock which is simply/banner/ ,/includes/ ,/adverts/ will kill locally-hosted third-party content fairly easily. Once you have a good lexicon of terms used by ad-servers you'll kill nearly all ads automatically, then you can just add any others manually.
Whats also great is that REGEXP can't be circumvented by the advertiser moving to a new domain unless thay also change the entire structure of their system.
As a system builder I support Firefox as it keeps my customers PCs secure. AdBlock's ability to remove annoying content encourages them to use Firefox over IE and consequently helps me out a great deal.
A simple adblock rule like those in My Filter List can block the domain they laod from very easily. I never see floaters any more since I installed it (Norton Internet Security failed to block them and has been uninstalled as a result)
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However, I remain convinced that one or two unpatched holes in FF is still safer than surfing in IE.
Fortunately the responsibility for a patch rests with Sun Microsystems as much as Mozilla Foundation so there'll be one pretty soon.
A firewall ought to give additional protection in the meantime - normally I add a rule to my PCs to prevent IE from accessing the web under any circumstances and would encourage others to do likewise from now on, I guess.
The obvious extension of this is to run software which can identify objects in film and track their motion. Then you apply colour to the 3D digital copy of the item, implant it back into the film and have the original shading information from the B&W film cast on top of the coloured, reimplanted, object.
It's odd - Yahoo had email long before Google Gmail, but never really made an impact. Google still doesn't have a messaging app in their offerings, but it doesn't seem to do them any harm.....
Why on earth would they support collecting/importing contacts from Opera but not Mozilla/Thunderbird?
not only have I seen one, I've placed one next to the 12" iBook. Every single dimension is the same - actually, compare for yourself rather than just troll-modding me:
iBook 12-inch
Powerbook 12-inch
Pay especial note to the arrangement of ports on the side of the PB12" - identical to the iBook, completely different to the other Powerbooks. Or the identical sizes, screen specs, weights. Or the fact that the skin of the 12-incher is a metal skin on top of an iBook frame (yes I did get that bit wrong due to a mental aberration) instead of being the construction of the PB 15/17
The 12-inch powerbook isn't actually a powerbook,its an iBook with a faster processor. Hence the lack of PCMCIA, the inferior screen, and the fact it hasn't got a real metal case
Those issues referred to above are restricted to the 15 and 17-inch powerbooks.
I find it a little disquieting that the USAF's primary systems may be running Windows. Windows is good for a lot of jobs, but the frontline defence of the world's most - well - controversial nation possibly ought to be on something a bit more resilient.
While the market for them is so depressed, it'd be far more practical to ask people to contribute coding time rather than their souls, you'll just end up accumulating incorporeal entities if you don't..
There's been an informal campaign for mozilla suite support in GDS ever since it was launched
Last week Copernic 1.5b was released with full support, now Google are producing the same feature. Coincidence? If so tough luck, I already switched from GDS!
It's important to Microsoft as a way of preventing Google Desktop Search and Copernic from gaining mindshare and installed base before they introduce their final version in Longhorn
Incidentally, Copernic 1.5 beta now supports Mozilla Thunderbirds email and contacts and Firefox history and bookmarks - and does it well. This is a double threat to Microsoft, as their vision sees WinFS as a factor which ties people to Outlook and IE6/7
pop-up ads?
Good grief, they still do those?
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It would be useful if Google had an option to log into gmail with a non-encrypted connection - a lot of email devices are left out in the cold by gmail including most POP3-capable mobile phones.
That said,I can see why their present system is advantageous in terms of security. If they did it it would have to be an option "allow insecure POP3 on this account" rather than default behaviour.
unless they'll levy the tax on components as well they can hardly prevent me from building my own, it'd be difficult to implement on eBay as well.
And if you can't?
Some ISPs have a captive audience - NTL in the UK for example, as it is the only broadband provider its subscribers can get unless they switch phone lines as well ( NTL is a Cable company that also distributes TV and telephone services over its network)
I bet you'll find someones linked to you and put the phrase AvP in the link. Google references that as well...
Great post, would read again.
Sory, I've been spending too much time on eBay. Anyway, my own opinion is that it's grounded in fear: Present-day "traditionalists" don't understand new concepts like open expressions of sexuality, quality of alternative religions, freedom not to marry in order to have kids, people who don't go to church.
Their "big picture" of the world doesn't have room for people who don't fit their preconceived notion of decency. The BBCs determination to provide programming for and coverage of these "threatening" non-traditional lifestyles is to be opposed as it makes that which was once extraordinary, ordinary.
The right can't bring around a new age where their own morals hold sway if people accept the new ways as normal due to unbiased media coverage.
So, it's dangerous to have a media organisation that isn't in the skew of a paymaster? Your quoted site is just another news source funded by a political movement, exactly the sort of thing the BBC's present situation prevents
You call it bias, but in fact the BBC's viewpoint is one of anti-bias. Anti your sort of bias, anyway.
The BBC as a public institution is bound by law and common custom to be representative of the people and to support/represent equality of religion/race/lifestyle/sexuality.
The British Tory or Conservative party is roughly analogous to Republicans in the US in that it holds "traditional values", many of which conflict with the modern egalitarian ethic of the BBC.
The British Right-wing, led primarily by tabloid newspapers such as the Daily Mail (politically somewhere to the right of Genghis Kahn..), has been leading an anti-BBC campaign for some time now as they don't want to see a state-run broadcaster "supporting" rights that they wish to abolish or diminish, such as equality of gay and straight relationships before the law, or equal attention in schools for minority faiths.
You might want to make a CORAL link to that site in case the mass of people clicking it slashdots their server.
Or there's the Mork and Mindy version.. Nanookingdom
I guess they'd keep the more innovative sections of the tech world using their products as a dev platform,rather than AMD/nVidia's....
For most people, geeks are an occasional annoyance but for intel, they're the lifeblood of the firm
Anyone else notice that while praising OSS dev, his problem started when he was looking for a calendar sync app to work with Microsoft Outlook?
because websites are designed by professionals while emails are written by anyone!!! Seriously - emails reflect human speech in all its diversity. viagra might be legitimately mentioned in an email but what web designer would include crucial parts of his site in a folder called /adverts/ ?
REGEXP is better suited to adblocking than spamblocking
Fortunately, AdBlock and Proxomitron (sorry - can't always spell that word) support filters based on REGEXP (Regular Expression)
/banner/ , /includes/ , /adverts/ will kill locally-hosted third-party content fairly easily. Once you have a good lexicon of terms used by ad-servers you'll kill nearly all ads automatically, then you can just add any others manually.
For instance, a filter in AdBlock which is simply
Whats also great is that REGEXP can't be circumvented by the advertiser moving to a new domain unless thay also change the entire structure of their system.
As a system builder I support Firefox as it keeps my customers PCs secure. AdBlock's ability to remove annoying content encourages them to use Firefox over IE and consequently helps me out a great deal.
A simple adblock rule like those in My Filter List can block the domain they laod from very easily. I never see floaters any more since I installed it (Norton Internet Security failed to block them and has been uninstalled as a result)