I think that's the point of the article. It's not "educate your users" or "make their life hell through passwords", but "prevent them from doing anything not pre-evaulated to be good".
Yeah, I had considered that, especially after trying to watch the original Transformers again.
Then I started watching DuckTales again, and guess what? Still as interesting and absorbing today as back then. Either the show was actually good, or I haven't matured much... hmmm, posting about cartoons on/....:(
The problem is Opera isn't immune from this arrogance IMHO. I'm an Opera user, and I've used it for about 4 years now. During that time, there have been some seemingly simple requests that have been contiunously asked for and ignored.
This is going to be redundant, but the issue is this: People have lost their possessions. So likely don't have computers.
The phone service will only mail you forms to your home address, either being useless as they don't have mail service or an address to deliver to, or delaying their movement through the system for no reason.
The alternative is the web based form, however, in the shelters the only computers available are donated ones. Many of these do not have WindowsXP installed, and even if they did, the disaster workers are using putting in a standard Knoppix boot to greatly simplify administration and such. Not to mention avoid license issues.
So they cannot access the forms this way either, again needlessly delaying their progress. This is forcing many people to wait until the disaster is over, and FEMA gets around to placing kiosks where people can go to sign up.
Not only is this inefficient for FEMA, but it's stupid to make people in a shelter with a computer and internet access unable to fill out the forms NOW.
By requireing IE6 - FEMA is saying that people need to donate new computers or ones with paid up licenses (and how does one do that anyway? Lots of red tape) vs giving any functional hardware from the last 12 years or so and a non legally encumbered CD the aid workers can pop-in.
Well: 1) I think I'd be making it as clear as any of the check in the mail - cash it and you signed up for some monthly fee thingy. Or as clear as some small text on the box of a product, like say, an ink cartridge.
2) Well, again, how commesserate are the checks that sign you up for stuff? How commesurate are the clickwrap licences?
Yeah, but if contracts printed inside a box or whatever are held to be binding (as I guess they are) can't you just screw over most companies by paying them say $1, and putting a contract in the envelope that says they agree that's payment in full for whatever, and that cashing the check constitutes agreement with the contract?
How is that materially different? I'll bet it could start biting everyone in the ass - assuming someone with the money takes one or more of these to court...
Wait.. How is this a patent issue though? I mean, it sounds like breach of contract to me... I'm assuming if it's a program, you'd sign a contract to participate..
Right?
I'm still waiting to see if someone with too much time can turn these sort of "shrinkwrap contracts" to their advantage.
Say the old owe someone $100 and send in a $0.50 check with a contract wrapped around it saying that by cashing the check you agree to this payment being payment in full, and you agree to no longer persue this debt, and you give up all rights to sue etc...
If you disagree, please return the check to sender...
At this point in crazy case law, would that hold (assuming you had lots of money to use to make a point)? Vs before when it obviously would not.
Well, couldn't some company sell "multi-use" cartridges that are compatible with whatever printers (as wasn't that shown to be legal last year...??) and then, there would be a clear - non infringing use, just not with the stock parts?
Personally, aren't we getting rather close to various car related precedents where it was held that the companies could not prevent you from modifying your car with 3rd party ad-ons, and also couldn't void the warrenty just for using 3rd party parts?
That's not what I meant. I meant that it requires a car to get to work in this area.
And many people who initially moved here and now are settled here because of housing costs being lower, do not have the money to move to a city where housing costs are often equal or higher than where they currently live.
If they didn't have the money before, why would you expect them to have it now? And it's more difficult to save up, because of increased costs due to rising gas prices.
Maybe I'm nuts, but wouldn't it be significantly easier to take whatever the file format of your recorder is (probably mp3) and just e-mail that as an attachment to whoever you want to do whatever you want with it as opposed to taking it, pasting it into a Word Document (WTF? Why would I want to even do this?) then saving that document (and does it convert the audio into some other format now) so I can then after 2 extra steps attach *that* file to an e-mail to send?
And that person now needs Word to open a (presumably blank or basic textual) document with an audio file embedded so he can then (extract somehow?) play the audio.
Seriously, this makes no sense unless you're Microsoft because then they can sell more copies of Word. But for transferring audio, why would you use a document format basically designed for storing *text*?
The problem for the US (and Canada I would think) is we are much more spread out - Upstate NY, where I live, the closest work is often 25-40 miles away from where we live.
This is why telecommuting is so attractive. But it may also rejuvinate the mom and pop (or at least small) stores in the towns that are closer.
Gas prices like this will have a change on our society. Businesses that plan on having a store in a city to serve the surrounding community may see declining revenues as less and less people from the outlying communities (that can make up 40% or more of the potential customers) will drive in to shop or whatever.
I'm not sure what will happen, as gas prices continue to rise, but it's not really possible to move into cities either - lack of available housing, the crazy bubble etc, which makes it finanicially untenable.
Well, you could buy the better product. Or get it free from any of a number of promotions. They may still be giving out free reg codes, you should look.
I know. I, and others, complained to my school (A state school no less) and the next year there was a whole new web site design that worked in all browsers.
Remember you are paying them - feel free to complain.
That said, be thankful your school isn't dictating what AV and firewall you use like LaSalle does.
Actually the end user is, but most are scared about the ways to fix websites.
I have seen 3 methods of varying effectiveness to fix broken websites.
1) Complain to the webmaster. Believe it or not, more and more companies are fixing their sites to work right in other browsers. This is the best, because you are not locked into any browser this way, nor any OS.
2) Use the power of your browser. Try changing your UID - Opera has F12 + UA.ini and FireFox has User Agent Switcher. Opera and FireFox both support (more or less) User CSS and User Javascript, which can fix a lot of sites. There are pages devoted to this. With Opera, broken sites reported via Help -> Report a site problem have fixes pushed to the browser once a week - no need for action. However, if that takes too long, Userjs.org has fixes as do the forums.
3) On windows, use the most powerful web your way tool in existance, The Proxomitron. Grab a set if lazy, or customize yourself. Many sets include numerous automatic site fixes - once installed you don't even notice them. You can also get specific fixes written on request at various prox forums - the best being the Yahoo groups prox-list.
4) Finally, look for a competitiors site! Let your wallet do the talking, believe me, companies will notice! Be sure to mail the company and tell them why you were unable to purchase their product or service.
Now, none of the above are 100% guaranteed to fix all sites, but the vast majority can be fixed that way. Of course, if you don't mind being locked into Windows + IE forever, then your solution works as well. I just dislike being locked into one companies products, and try and find ways to be mobile if something gets unusable from them.
This already exists in some situations. My cousin, who goes to LaSalle, was forced to uninstall NOD32 and Outpost firewall to access the net, because they were too "insecure" according to some cisco clean access program.
What did they require as a replacement? McAffee's security suite.
I am really glad I'm done with college networks. I think they need to let me decide what software I want to run (or not run) for security of my machine. Turn off the net if I'm spamming or broadcasting viruses, but not because I think NOD32 is a better AV solution than McAffee.
My 2 custom buttons carried over exactly the same. Backup your profile dir just in case, and give it a shot. I've managed to keep Opera looking the same since v5, so not impossible. Or even difficult moving to 8. I recall 2 changes that were necessary for me:
1) In preferences, general tab - uncheck show close button on each tab
2) (Optional, depends on skin) Edit skin.ini to have no minimum tab width so tabs are dynamic still/again.
#2 is a PITA, but all maintained skins already had that done by the maintainers. I'm unlucky enough to use the Opera 6 classic (otherwise known as Opera 5 default) skin, which the maintainer dropped around 7.11:(
So I have to maintain it myself by begging help in the customize Opera forum.
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I think that's the point of the article. It's not "educate your users" or "make their life hell through passwords", but "prevent them from doing anything not pre-evaulated to be good".
Yeah, I had considered that, especially after trying to watch the original Transformers again.
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Then I started watching DuckTales again, and guess what? Still as interesting and absorbing today as back then. Either the show was actually good, or I haven't matured much... hmmm, posting about cartoons on
I thought that Bebop's dub (at least on the DVDs) was a very good one. I got about the same experiance Dubbed as Subbed.
The problem is Opera isn't immune from this arrogance IMHO. I'm an Opera user, and I've used it for about 4 years now. During that time, there have been some seemingly simple requests that have been contiunously asked for and ignored.
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is where I am right now. Although, I'm figuring that no matter what browser you use, there will be some really annoying things about it.
Which, if you read the Ars Technica article DO NOT RUN WINDOWS!
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This is going to be redundant, but the issue is this: People have lost their possessions. So likely don't have computers.
The phone service will only mail you forms to your home address, either being useless as they don't have mail service or an address to deliver to, or delaying their movement through the system for no reason.
The alternative is the web based form, however, in the shelters the only computers available are donated ones. Many of these do not have WindowsXP installed, and even if they did, the disaster workers are using putting in a standard Knoppix boot to greatly simplify administration and such. Not to mention avoid license issues.
So they cannot access the forms this way either, again needlessly delaying their progress. This is forcing many people to wait until the disaster is over, and FEMA gets around to placing kiosks where people can go to sign up.
Not only is this inefficient for FEMA, but it's stupid to make people in a shelter with a computer and internet access unable to fill out the forms NOW.
By requireing IE6 - FEMA is saying that people need to donate new computers or ones with paid up licenses (and how does one do that anyway? Lots of red tape) vs giving any functional hardware from the last 12 years or so and a non legally encumbered CD the aid workers can pop-in.
Hell, there are web based checks that will check against Opera, FireFox, IE of various flavors, Safari, Konqorer and more...
You don't even have to install software!
http://www.browsercam.com/ for a commercial service.
Why oh Why is TweakUI not fricken PART of windows under some advanced settings thing in Control Panel?
Well:
1) I think I'd be making it as clear as any of the check in the mail - cash it and you signed up for some monthly fee thingy. Or as clear as some small text on the box of a product, like say, an ink cartridge.
2) Well, again, how commesserate are the checks that sign you up for stuff? How commesurate are the clickwrap licences?
Yeah, but if contracts printed inside a box or whatever are held to be binding (as I guess they are) can't you just screw over most companies by paying them say $1, and putting a contract in the envelope that says they agree that's payment in full for whatever, and that cashing the check constitutes agreement with the contract?
How is that materially different? I'll bet it could start biting everyone in the ass - assuming someone with the money takes one or more of these to court...
Wait.. How is this a patent issue though? I mean, it sounds like breach of contract to me... I'm assuming if it's a program, you'd sign a contract to participate..
Right?
I'm still waiting to see if someone with too much time can turn these sort of "shrinkwrap contracts" to their advantage.
Say the old owe someone $100 and send in a $0.50 check with a contract wrapped around it saying that by cashing the check you agree to this payment being payment in full, and you agree to no longer persue this debt, and you give up all rights to sue etc...
If you disagree, please return the check to sender...
At this point in crazy case law, would that hold (assuming you had lots of money to use to make a point)? Vs before when it obviously would not.
Well, couldn't some company sell "multi-use" cartridges that are compatible with whatever printers (as wasn't that shown to be legal last year...??) and then, there would be a clear - non infringing use, just not with the stock parts?
Personally, aren't we getting rather close to various car related precedents where it was held that the companies could not prevent you from modifying your car with 3rd party ad-ons, and also couldn't void the warrenty just for using 3rd party parts?
That's not what I meant. I meant that it requires a car to get to work in this area.
And many people who initially moved here and now are settled here because of housing costs being lower, do not have the money to move to a city where housing costs are often equal or higher than where they currently live.
If they didn't have the money before, why would you expect them to have it now? And it's more difficult to save up, because of increased costs due to rising gas prices.
Maybe I'm nuts, but wouldn't it be significantly easier to take whatever the file format of your recorder is (probably mp3) and just e-mail that as an attachment to whoever you want to do whatever you want with it as opposed to taking it, pasting it into a Word Document (WTF? Why would I want to even do this?) then saving that document (and does it convert the audio into some other format now) so I can then after 2 extra steps attach *that* file to an e-mail to send?
And that person now needs Word to open a (presumably blank or basic textual) document with an audio file embedded so he can then (extract somehow?) play the audio.
Seriously, this makes no sense unless you're Microsoft because then they can sell more copies of Word. But for transferring audio, why would you use a document format basically designed for storing *text*?
The problem for the US (and Canada I would think) is we are much more spread out - Upstate NY, where I live, the closest work is often 25-40 miles away from where we live.
This is why telecommuting is so attractive. But it may also rejuvinate the mom and pop (or at least small) stores in the towns that are closer.
Gas prices like this will have a change on our society. Businesses that plan on having a store in a city to serve the surrounding community may see declining revenues as less and less people from the outlying communities (that can make up 40% or more of the potential customers) will drive in to shop or whatever.
I'm not sure what will happen, as gas prices continue to rise, but it's not really possible to move into cities either - lack of available housing, the crazy bubble etc, which makes it finanicially untenable.
And Opera 8.x has tools -> Delete private data, which cleans everything out. Of course, you could get it back with undelete tools.
Encrypted, hidden OSs all the way - use DCPP or similar, and have 2 OSs, one for the cops to see, and one where you get your work done lol.
Well, you could buy the better product. Or get it free from any of a number of promotions. They may still be giving out free reg codes, you should look.
I know. I, and others, complained to my school (A state school no less) and the next year there was a whole new web site design that worked in all browsers.
Remember you are paying them - feel free to complain.
That said, be thankful your school isn't dictating what AV and firewall you use like LaSalle does.
Actually the end user is, but most are scared about the ways to fix websites.
I have seen 3 methods of varying effectiveness to fix broken websites.
1) Complain to the webmaster. Believe it or not, more and more companies are fixing their sites to work right in other browsers. This is the best, because you are not locked into any browser this way, nor any OS.
2) Use the power of your browser. Try changing your UID - Opera has F12 + UA.ini and FireFox has User Agent Switcher. Opera and FireFox both support (more or less) User CSS and User Javascript, which can fix a lot of sites. There are pages devoted to this. With Opera, broken sites reported via Help -> Report a site problem have fixes pushed to the browser once a week - no need for action. However, if that takes too long, Userjs.org has fixes as do the forums.
3) On windows, use the most powerful web your way tool in existance, The Proxomitron. Grab a set if lazy, or customize yourself. Many sets include numerous automatic site fixes - once installed you don't even notice them. You can also get specific fixes written on request at various prox forums - the best being the Yahoo groups prox-list.
4) Finally, look for a competitiors site! Let your wallet do the talking, believe me, companies will notice! Be sure to mail the company and tell them why you were unable to purchase their product or service.
Now, none of the above are 100% guaranteed to fix all sites, but the vast majority can be fixed that way. Of course, if you don't mind being locked into Windows + IE forever, then your solution works as well. I just dislike being locked into one companies products, and try and find ways to be mobile if something gets unusable from them.
Why not just use something like VNC??
Extensions? Free software? Same browser interface on your PC and your powerbook?
Of course I don't use either, but I can see why people do. IE7 might finally be somewhat usable, but I can't really live without tabs or nicknames.
Yeah we do.
This already exists in some situations. My cousin, who goes to LaSalle, was forced to uninstall NOD32 and Outpost firewall to access the net, because they were too "insecure" according to some cisco clean access program.
What did they require as a replacement? McAffee's security suite.
I am really glad I'm done with college networks. I think they need to let me decide what software I want to run (or not run) for security of my machine. Turn off the net if I'm spamming or broadcasting viruses, but not because I think NOD32 is a better AV solution than McAffee.
Well, you could just middle click. Or, there is the rightclick + drag up then down. That can of course be edited in the mouse guestures preferences.
My 2 custom buttons carried over exactly the same. Backup your profile dir just in case, and give it a shot. I've managed to keep Opera looking the same since v5, so not impossible. Or even difficult moving to 8. I recall 2 changes that were necessary for me:
:(
1) In preferences, general tab - uncheck show close button on each tab
2) (Optional, depends on skin) Edit skin.ini to have no minimum tab width so tabs are dynamic still/again.
#2 is a PITA, but all maintained skins already had that done by the maintainers. I'm unlucky enough to use the Opera 6 classic (otherwise known as Opera 5 default) skin, which the maintainer dropped around 7.11
So I have to maintain it myself by begging help in the customize Opera forum.