One software product that might allow you to prevent spyware installs would be DiamondCS's processguard. However, it's not a pancea, it just puts the decisions on what should run(with what priviledges) onto the user.
I'm not sure any automated tool can make these decisions reliabily until we develop strong AI.
I trialed process guard for a while, but I ended up ditching it because it managed to screw up Sygate, which I think is more important to my overall security.
Well, I think there are a number of people who like All In One solutions, otherwise - why did MS Office take off, or IDE's or heck, Outlook having e-mail merged with calandering. It depends on the person.
I don't like integrated programs much, but I still like Opera better than FF.
I'd rather pay opera for a browser that works out of the box like I pay Aquifina for water that tastes good out of the bottle, as opposed to FF which eats my time and overall feels shoddy in comparison, just like I dislike having to mess around with filtering water out of the tap.
Well, one thing to consider is there is more than FireFox in the alternative browser scene. If you find it slow, you might try Opera or K-Melon(I think the KHTML engine on windows). They might be faster, while equally secure.
But lately Assumption is considered good enough it many cases, i.e. the earlier slashdot story about EULAs - that we ought to know what is in a EULA, and that there will be one included with boxed software, so that EULA can be binding, etc...
Buy 3rd party ink. Seriously that is the solution. You can get the entire C84 set for $30USD from www.tekwrks.com. You also can get ink cheaper from www.monsterinkjets.com, I believe the entire set for $20 or so. I have a C82, and always use ink from monsterinkjets.com.
1. Skins are a good selling point. I also think the ability to make your workstation look, and work the way you want is a boon to efficiency.
However, having said that - it is important to both understand the standards, and have public computers stick to the standards.
I think for any home use computer system, there needs to be a balance reached between the equivalent of having your home decorated like the local school, and having things randomly thrown about.
People want to have some control over their environment, and having the option to make the computer look and work the way you do is very important IMO. Otherwise it's like a car where you cannot adjust the seat or mirrors.
2. I actually like that feature. If I go to the start menu 1000 times, and half of the time I click on notepad, but only ever click on paint once... well if paint is hidden I have less to mouse through most of the time. Windows seems to fubar this up though and always hide the programs I use MOST rather than the ones I use least.
I chalk that up to the cliche MS having a good idea and an unuseable implementation. OTOH, KILL the search dog, and give an option to get rid of the wizards. Wizards usually suck for getting anything done, unless you are totally clueless about what you are trying to accomplish, in which case they help.
3. I'm of two minds about this... I absolutely hate to see functionality taken away. It feels like a step backward. However, it gets progressively harder to make a multi purpose program do each new function well, in a good UI and in an integrated manner. I personally think Opera does a good job here, especially with making it easy to enable only what you want to use.
I still want to know why the Pro-Copyright people feel that an author's work is worth many times as much as, say, a doctors work?
The doctor works for a year, and expects to get paid for that year at his salary or from his practice.
The author is the same, works for a year, and expects to get paid for the year from his publisher or whatever.
What I don't get is what happens the second year.
The doctor expects to see new patients, or have return visits from the same patients, and get paid for his work that year.
The author expects to do nothing new, and get paid AGAIN for the work he already did last year.
To that I say WTF??? Why does society feel this is right and good? Why doesn't the doctor get to rebill his patients in perpetuity for the work he did that one year?
Sorry, but under that logic, lets get on listing Outlook, IE, AIM, Keyboard Drivers, Webcam software and sound recorder as fricken "possible spyware".
OF course, beyond the braindead detection issues, I don't want to reward MS for coming up with a spyware program (assuming they make it subscription based after beta, which seems likely). I want to reward MS for FIXING WINDOWS!
I'm not even going to get into the trust issue of MS not including some spyware in their scans because they were paid off. I mean, XP COMES WITH ALEXA spyware. In the DEFAULT INSTALL.
What you are missing is my point that emergency room visits are made more common by not getting checked out (for whatever reason, I know for me it's been money related) on a regular basis and only going when you're flopping around dying.
There are hundreds of medical issues from the flu to cancer that can be very cheap to treat if cought early (the kind of stuff that is found in doctors visits, not at the emergency room after a collapse) but incredibly expensive if impossible to treat once you're in the emergencey room having reached a critical point.
Then you're missing the point again with your comment of " go live on the street until you make your mind up to put in the effort to keep a roof over your head."
Now, that is just creating emergency room visits. Because they can't afford a home, they're out exposed to the elements. You know what that causes? Sickness. So some cop finds them dying on the street. Most will call an ambulance - and back to square one there.
Moreso, now you also are putting mobile sickness breeding grounds wandering around outside. All sorts of sicknesses spread in that manner, through sick people outside...
I also like the way you ignored my other statements, say the crime, violence, and increased police cost. Someone will have to deal with the people so poor they cannot pay for housing or feed themselves - it can be Social services, or it can be Police. Guess what though, Social Services sometimes turns these people into contributing workers in our society, all the Police can do is put them in Jail.
Now you're supporting them more than ever, at greater cost.
The last point I want to address in your post is the idea that Social Services will make all your cares go away. I have no idea where this concept comes from, but people on welfare or government assistance aren't living like Bill Gates!
There are stringent requirements to get government assistance. First you have to show you need it. Then you have to attend various programs to help you gain some employable skills - these vary by what is available, and what you want to do. Then you actually have to try and get gainful employment. If you don't, the money is cut off.
Sure, some people game the system, it's called fraud. Some people game the employment system, like Enron! Doesn't mean we should throw it away.
It seems to me like the base difference of opinion here is that conservatives believe that each person can be an island onto themselves, not directly affecting anyone else unless both agree to it.
I believe that we all are part of the same community, and in one way or another, what happens to anyone else will affect me sooner or later in some manner.
Interestingly enough, the K8N ASUS board comes with a hardware solution for it's built in Ethernet Interface. I like my old 3COM card and Sygate, but it's supposedly a hardware solution.
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What I want to understand is why it seems consertives (republicans) hate their fellow citizens so much. Why are you against social programs? Why are you against helping your fellow citizen when they are down? Why are you against maintaining a minimum standard of living in our society?
Do you like seeing slums? Driving through them? Dodging gang wars?
A surplus is a good thing when the government has a debt. If there is no debt then the above applies, however - guess what, you have to pay back the money sometime. And it's more than you borrowed.
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I agree that many people don't get economics. I probably don't myself. However, as the big picture goes, why do so many conservitaves miss the big picture in a different way?
In your above senario, let's say there is no Social Services and welfare (to work in many places). So that person has -$$ because of bad life judgements.
As a liberal, I don't care about that person. I'm looking at a big picture - those childern and that woman having no money will still cost me, even if I don't pay into social programs.
Why? Here:
Instead of preventative health care, they end up in the emergency room. But can't pay that much larger bill. Guess what - that gets passed on to people who can pay the bill - you and I.
Even if we don't treat people at the emergency room regardless of proof of insurance it costs us.
How? Here:
Now, when you are having a heart attack (or whatever) and the paramedics show up, someone has to find your proof of insurance or give them a large wad of cash so they know you can pay for treatment. Guess what, while they were running the forms, you died! Doesn't that suck? But at least you didn't have to pay towards the people you listed above.
Lets get away from medicine. Those people who get no help from anyone now are trying to feed themselves. Look at the innercity, what do they do to get money? They have no skills to get a job with, so they either start dealing drugs, or start stealing things.
Either way, now you pay - more - in both losing areas of the city you feel safe in, and in a larger police force to try and stop such crime, and possibly in the additional hassle of dealing with police more often.
So, I don't think the above sees the big picture any better than your opponents. Often, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Well, I'll be honest, I've only ever used FF for about 5 minutes, so I don't know if this is typical for the program.
IE for me tends to pause before displaying the page. On broadband, it's an annoying splitsecond wait for no good reason. On dial up, it's an average of 30 seconds staring at a blank screen.
IE also seems to ALWAYS reload a page when you go back to it, or forward to it.
Now, comparing to Opera (which I use far more), I have no white screen display with Opera. SOMETHING is displayed immediately, on either connection speed. And Opera will show most or all of the text of a page, even if the images are still downloading.
Back and forward are instant. I was just there, why would Opera reload the page? It even keeps the dialogue box entries that I've filled in, so if I accidentally click off of the page, I don't lose everything.
Now, with FF I can only comment on the page loading... It seemed similar to Opera. The rest IDK as I'm happy with Opera.
You know, I'd say that's an ofoto problem, not FF.
I use a service called streamload to store files, but like to use Opera with it.
I still have full menus, full functionality, full batch uploads via drag to the window (granted they always had more than one upload styles, so batch was a different page than one up).
How does it work? It's a Java app. That is one of the things Java is good for IMO - the whole thing is even more professional looking IMO than IE's because you have a java box that pops up with a nice clean gradually moving bar (upload status) vs a pop-up window that is periodically reloading and has one of those bunches of boxes bars that jerkily moves up.
Well, I keep seeing people claim Opera is bloated, but how are you measuring bloat?
I generally think of bloated applications based on a few criteria:
1) Big download/space takes up: Is Opera a big download?
No, it's 3.5MB, including a flash plugin. FF is 4.7MB at my last check.
2) Slow to use: Is Opera slow?
No, it's far faster than IE, and at worst the same speed as FireFox on my machine.
3) Memory use: Does Opera use a lot of memory?
Not in the release versions on my machine...
Opera uses on average 22MB of RAM - not much on modern desktop machines, and I can of course turn off the "Use all available RAM" setting.
4) Has so many features they get in the way: Does Opera have so many features they get in the way?
Maybe. The level of customization lets me pare Opera 7.54 down to the way 5.12 looked, just a browser.
For others however, they might use some of the features I don't, or all.
The issue here is that the features don't get in the way - you can quickly turn them off, or move them around.
Frankly, #4 is all I can figure people mean when they refer to Opera as bloated, and it's really a misleading statement. It's at least as easy to remove things from Opera's interface as it is to find, download and install extensions to FireFox.
The problem for Disney is that they have no imagination left to come up with anything new.
But Disney never came up with anything new. They got started blatently stealing a current blockbuster plot for steamboat willie, and then started making all the old grimms fairytales (and other old stories) into their movies, granted they did make them much happier stories.
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One software product that might allow you to prevent spyware installs would be DiamondCS's processguard. However, it's not a pancea, it just puts the decisions on what should run(with what priviledges) onto the user.
I'm not sure any automated tool can make these decisions reliabily until we develop strong AI.
I trialed process guard for a while, but I ended up ditching it because it managed to screw up Sygate, which I think is more important to my overall security.
Any reason you are discounting the A64 chips?
I have an A64 3400+ which is much cooler running and uses less power than my old 2800+.
Well, I think there are a number of people who like All In One solutions, otherwise - why did MS Office take off, or IDE's or heck, Outlook having e-mail merged with calandering. It depends on the person.
I don't like integrated programs much, but I still like Opera better than FF.
YMMV.
I'd rather pay opera for a browser that works out of the box like I pay Aquifina for water that tastes good out of the bottle, as opposed to FF which eats my time and overall feels shoddy in comparison, just like I dislike having to mess around with filtering water out of the tap.
YMMV.
Speed. Polished GUI. Features out of the box. Tech Support. Smaller download.
YMMV.
Well, one thing to consider is there is more than FireFox in the alternative browser scene. If you find it slow, you might try Opera or K-Melon(I think the KHTML engine on windows). They might be faster, while equally secure.
But lately Assumption is considered good enough it many cases, i.e. the earlier slashdot story about EULAs - that we ought to know what is in a EULA, and that there will be one included with boxed software, so that EULA can be binding, etc...
My bad. I did once have an issue with monsterinkjets but got it sorted out.
As to teckworks, I always screw up their URI, here's the correct one:
http://www.tecwrks.com/
Buy 3rd party ink. Seriously that is the solution. You can get the entire C84 set for $30USD from www.tekwrks.com. You also can get ink cheaper from www.monsterinkjets.com, I believe the entire set for $20 or so. I have a C82, and always use ink from monsterinkjets.com.
You forget the severibility part of most contracts -- where you can drop a clause if found unenforceable, but the rest is still binding.
Like freenet ... lol. People would just share the "key" around.
It wouldn't be if slashdot didn't put all those random spaces in most URLs posted here.
1. Skins are a good selling point. I also think the ability to make your workstation look, and work the way you want is a boon to efficiency.
However, having said that - it is important to both understand the standards, and have public computers stick to the standards.
I think for any home use computer system, there needs to be a balance reached between the equivalent of having your home decorated like the local school, and having things randomly thrown about.
People want to have some control over their environment, and having the option to make the computer look and work the way you do is very important IMO. Otherwise it's like a car where you cannot adjust the seat or mirrors.
2. I actually like that feature. If I go to the start menu 1000 times, and half of the time I click on notepad, but only ever click on paint once... well if paint is hidden I have less to mouse through most of the time. Windows seems to fubar this up though and always hide the programs I use MOST rather than the ones I use least.
I chalk that up to the cliche MS having a good idea and an unuseable implementation. OTOH, KILL the search dog, and give an option to get rid of the wizards. Wizards usually suck for getting anything done, unless you are totally clueless about what you are trying to accomplish, in which case they help.
3. I'm of two minds about this... I absolutely hate to see functionality taken away. It feels like a step backward. However, it gets progressively harder to make a multi purpose program do each new function well, in a good UI and in an integrated manner. I personally think Opera does a good job here, especially with making it easy to enable only what you want to use.
I still want to know why the Pro-Copyright people feel that an author's work is worth many times as much as, say, a doctors work?
The doctor works for a year, and expects to get paid for that year at his salary or from his practice.
The author is the same, works for a year, and expects to get paid for the year from his publisher or whatever.
What I don't get is what happens the second year.
The doctor expects to see new patients, or have return visits from the same patients, and get paid for his work that year.
The author expects to do nothing new, and get paid AGAIN for the work he already did last year.
To that I say WTF??? Why does society feel this is right and good? Why doesn't the doctor get to rebill his patients in perpetuity for the work he did that one year?
Why the double standard?
See, this is why I won't use it. False positives.
VNC ISNT SPYWARE!
It also lists FTP software as spyware.
WTF???
Sorry, but under that logic, lets get on listing Outlook, IE, AIM, Keyboard Drivers, Webcam software and sound recorder as fricken "possible spyware".
OF course, beyond the braindead detection issues, I don't want to reward MS for coming up with a spyware program (assuming they make it subscription based after beta, which seems likely). I want to reward MS for FIXING WINDOWS!
I'm not even going to get into the trust issue of MS not including some spyware in their scans because they were paid off. I mean, XP COMES WITH ALEXA spyware. In the DEFAULT INSTALL.
What you are missing is my point that emergency room visits are made more common by not getting checked out (for whatever reason, I know for me it's been money related) on a regular basis and only going when you're flopping around dying.
There are hundreds of medical issues from the flu to cancer that can be very cheap to treat if cought early (the kind of stuff that is found in doctors visits, not at the emergency room after a collapse) but incredibly expensive if impossible to treat once you're in the emergencey room having reached a critical point.
Then you're missing the point again with your comment of " go live on the street until you make your mind up to put in the effort to keep a roof over your head."
Now, that is just creating emergency room visits. Because they can't afford a home, they're out exposed to the elements. You know what that causes? Sickness. So some cop finds them dying on the street. Most will call an ambulance - and back to square one there.
Moreso, now you also are putting mobile sickness breeding grounds wandering around outside. All sorts of sicknesses spread in that manner, through sick people outside...
I also like the way you ignored my other statements, say the crime, violence, and increased police cost. Someone will have to deal with the people so poor they cannot pay for housing or feed themselves - it can be Social services, or it can be Police. Guess what though, Social Services sometimes turns these people into contributing workers in our society, all the Police can do is put them in Jail.
Now you're supporting them more than ever, at greater cost.
The last point I want to address in your post is the idea that Social Services will make all your cares go away. I have no idea where this concept comes from, but people on welfare or government assistance aren't living like Bill Gates!
There are stringent requirements to get government assistance. First you have to show you need it. Then you have to attend various programs to help you gain some employable skills - these vary by what is available, and what you want to do. Then you actually have to try and get gainful employment. If you don't, the money is cut off.
Sure, some people game the system, it's called fraud. Some people game the employment system, like Enron! Doesn't mean we should throw it away.
It seems to me like the base difference of opinion here is that conservatives believe that each person can be an island onto themselves, not directly affecting anyone else unless both agree to it.
I believe that we all are part of the same community, and in one way or another, what happens to anyone else will affect me sooner or later in some manner.
Interestingly enough, the K8N ASUS board comes with a hardware solution for it's built in Ethernet Interface. I like my old 3COM card and Sygate, but it's supposedly a hardware solution.
What I want to understand is why it seems consertives (republicans) hate their fellow citizens so much. Why are you against social programs? Why are you against helping your fellow citizen when they are down? Why are you against maintaining a minimum standard of living in our society?
Do you like seeing slums? Driving through them? Dodging gang wars?
See my previous post about how I think you are missing the big picture.
A surplus is a good thing when the government has a debt. If there is no debt then the above applies, however - guess what, you have to pay back the money sometime. And it's more than you borrowed.
I agree that many people don't get economics. I probably don't myself. However, as the big picture goes, why do so many conservitaves miss the big picture in a different way?
In your above senario, let's say there is no Social Services and welfare (to work in many places). So that person has -$$ because of bad life judgements.
As a liberal, I don't care about that person. I'm looking at a big picture - those childern and that woman having no money will still cost me, even if I don't pay into social programs.
Why? Here:
Instead of preventative health care, they end up in the emergency room. But can't pay that much larger bill. Guess what - that gets passed on to people who can pay the bill - you and I.
Even if we don't treat people at the emergency room regardless of proof of insurance it costs us.
How? Here:
Now, when you are having a heart attack (or whatever) and the paramedics show up, someone has to find your proof of insurance or give them a large wad of cash so they know you can pay for treatment. Guess what, while they were running the forms, you died! Doesn't that suck? But at least you didn't have to pay towards the people you listed above.
Lets get away from medicine. Those people who get no help from anyone now are trying to feed themselves. Look at the innercity, what do they do to get money? They have no skills to get a job with, so they either start dealing drugs, or start stealing things.
Either way, now you pay - more - in both losing areas of the city you feel safe in, and in a larger police force to try and stop such crime, and possibly in the additional hassle of dealing with police more often.
So, I don't think the above sees the big picture any better than your opponents. Often, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
See, this is served in Opera by the pagebar tab displaying the full favicon, and the text turning blue when it has finished loading in the background.
Also, in Opera, while a page is loading, a progress bar pops up, but goes away when the page is loaded. So once the bar is gone, the page is loaded.
Well, I'll be honest, I've only ever used FF for about 5 minutes, so I don't know if this is typical for the program.
IE for me tends to pause before displaying the page. On broadband, it's an annoying splitsecond wait for no good reason. On dial up, it's an average of 30 seconds staring at a blank screen.
IE also seems to ALWAYS reload a page when you go back to it, or forward to it.
Now, comparing to Opera (which I use far more), I have no white screen display with Opera. SOMETHING is displayed immediately, on either connection speed. And Opera will show most or all of the text of a page, even if the images are still downloading.
Back and forward are instant. I was just there, why would Opera reload the page? It even keeps the dialogue box entries that I've filled in, so if I accidentally click off of the page, I don't lose everything.
Now, with FF I can only comment on the page loading... It seemed similar to Opera. The rest IDK as I'm happy with Opera.
You know, I'd say that's an ofoto problem, not FF.
I use a service called streamload to store files, but like to use Opera with it.
I still have full menus, full functionality, full batch uploads via drag to the window (granted they always had more than one upload styles, so batch was a different page than one up).
How does it work? It's a Java app. That is one of the things Java is good for IMO - the whole thing is even more professional looking IMO than IE's because you have a java box that pops up with a nice clean gradually moving bar (upload status) vs a pop-up window that is periodically reloading and has one of those bunches of boxes bars that jerkily moves up.
Well, I keep seeing people claim Opera is bloated, but how are you measuring bloat?
I generally think of bloated applications based on a few criteria:
1) Big download/space takes up: Is Opera a big download?
No, it's 3.5MB, including a flash plugin. FF is 4.7MB at my last check.
2) Slow to use: Is Opera slow?
No, it's far faster than IE, and at worst the same speed as FireFox on my machine.
3) Memory use: Does Opera use a lot of memory?
Not in the release versions on my machine...
Opera uses on average 22MB of RAM - not much on modern desktop machines, and I can of course turn off the "Use all available RAM" setting.
4) Has so many features they get in the way: Does Opera have so many features they get in the way?
Maybe. The level of customization lets me pare Opera 7.54 down to the way 5.12 looked, just a browser.
For others however, they might use some of the features I don't, or all.
The issue here is that the features don't get in the way - you can quickly turn them off, or move them around.
Frankly, #4 is all I can figure people mean when they refer to Opera as bloated, and it's really a misleading statement. It's at least as easy to remove things from Opera's interface as it is to find, download and install extensions to FireFox.
The problem for Disney is that they have no imagination left to come up with anything new.
But Disney never came up with anything new. They got started blatently stealing a current blockbuster plot for steamboat willie, and then started making all the old grimms fairytales (and other old stories) into their movies, granted they did make them much happier stories.