You can disable the safe search plug in pretty easily in IE. Just go to Tools, Internet Options. Take the Program tab, and push the Manage Add-Ons button. Find AVG Safe Search in the list and click it, then select disable. Hit OK, then OK again. Done.
On the surface this sounds similar to Creation Science (both say God did it), but ID doesn't bring anything falsifiable to the table.
I think this is the key here. In your own words, ID doesn't bring anything falsifiable. That is what defines science. You have a hypothesis or theory and try to find things that may be wrong with it. If there is nothing falsifiable, then there is no hypothesis... no theory... just a statement unsupported by science. To then go on and call it science is disingenuous at best and a straight lie at worst.
Oh, I would love it if they made a TV miniseries out of Wellworld. There is too much for a single movie or even a series of movies, but if spread out over a season or 3, that would be seriously great.
Of course the more sci-fi Wonderland Gambit series would make a great set of movies as well.
Sorry, but it is absolutely nothing like waiting for someone else to pay for a newspaper then taking the whole stack of them. There are 2 reasons that it is different:
1) The newspaper is a physical item. If you remove it without paying, then no one else can purchase that item. That is theft. It is the not-so-subtle difference that the MPAA/RIAA/etc do not understand. You have actually stolen a physical good. Bandwidth is not a finite commodity. The webmaster may need to pay more for their bandwidth, but your use of that bandwidth does not remove anything that someone else, in turn, is now unable to purchase.
2) There is a posted notice that in order to purchase the newspaper, you must pay $x. You know, in advance, exactly what you are getting (1 newspaper) and you know what you are paying ($x). While it may not be a legally binding contract, all parties involved know what they are getting into. With a website's advertisements, that is not the case. There is no entry page saying "There will be ads on this site. You must click on at least 1 of them to proceed". There is not even a posted note saying "There are ads on this site. Please look at them in order to help fund the site and help pay for the bandwidth". If there was such a sign, then the non-ad-watching crowd could opt-out. Much like the non-newspaper-buying crowd can opt-out of purchasing a paper from that machine.
and not fulfilling your half of the bargain in letting them deliver the ads to you.
You had me up until this bit. When I go to a website, I am not engaging in any sort of bargain with the webmaster. I never negotiate what I will do or demand what I will get from them. There is no agreement that I explicitly agree to saying I will look at their ads. If there was such a EULA on a website, I would quickly opt out and not go to their site.
Some of the youngsters on/. may not remember this, but there was a time when there were no advertisements on the web. Somehow, people still found a way to afford to publish their sites. In the unlikely case that all advertisements on the web were to suddenly stop paying off, the web would still exist. The advertisers, and even the publishers of web content do not have some sort or god-given right to make a profit. And we, the web users, do not have any requirement to provide these people with profits.
As to your stealing soliloquy, come on. What has been stolen? Did I break into someone's house and remove the ad profit from them? No. There is no physical thing that they have lost. They lost a potential profit. A profit that they are not entitled to. They can not demand that that I look at an ad, or download one. If they want to force people to pay for their web page, then they need to ask them for money. The subscription model has worked for a long time.
It's like saying that you are stealing from Walmart if you walk into their store and you don't buy anything. In this scenario, they may want you to buy their crap. Their whole business model is predicated upon people buying their crap. And you are using their employees' time, taking up valuable parking real estate, and a whole host of other expenses. Their costs are the same regardless of how many people come into the store. But since you did not buy anything, you have stolen from them more egregiously than any mp3 copying, EULA violating, device unlocking pirates. Right?
No, they could arrange for the majority of their own user-targetted apps (e.g. Office) to refuse to run in read-write mode when run from an account with Admin privileges.
I'm sorry, but are you advocating that an ADMIN account should not be granted read/write access to things? Isn't that sort of the point of an admin account. Further destabalizing the OS is not a good solution to an unstable OS. I'm all for making things work better for the non-admin accounts, in order to allow more people to use them, but I don't think that crippling the admin accounts is a good solution.
Unless you want to spend a lot of money putting together a professional and engaging presentation, don't bother with that route. I am not a manager, but I have been to enough new employee orientations that I feel I have a good understanding of what works (at least for me). Sitting a new employee down in a room and making them watch some presentation, be it on DVD or online is pretty much a waste of time. The thing that a new employee needs is face time. Sit with them and show them what they will be doing. Sit them with their co-workers and let them show him what, exactly, the job entails. Orientation is about gettin gto know your peers, learning about the company you will be working for, and finding out what the job is that you have been hired for. There is always the obligatory legal issues (dress code, no bad language in the workplace, no molestation of the opposite sex, and whatnot). But the important thing is to get a feel for the new environment and find out what you are being hired to do in a more specific way than the interview process would have lead you to believe.
Since he said he is using Windows XP, I would just recommend using the free MS PowerToy called SyncToy. It can do incremental or complete backups, with quite a few very easy to use options, to a local hard drive or a network drive, and can be scheduled to work automatically using the built into Windows Task Scheduler. It is all free (with the exception of a possible hard drive to store the backup data).
I would not recommend the article writers idea of using a series of DVDs, since it is more time consuming, requires manual changing of DVDs, and the DVDs have a far shorter shelf life than hard drives. Hard drives are pretty cheap these days and it will quickly become cheaper than buying loads of DVD-Rs anyway.
While it is certainly wrong to e-fire someone, a company I once worked for did one worse. The company got bought out and the new owners started downsizing. I worked in IT, specifically, I was in charge of the user accounts for the network, email, etc. I would get a list of accounts to disable every so often, sometimes with a note saying it was urgent and they needed to be deleted NOW. So I deleted them. Within 10 minutes, my phone was ringing off the hook with people complaining that they couldn't get to their email. They had not been told that they were fired, and I had to let them in on the secret.
When I then started complaining to the asshats in management about that, they informed me that they had sent the people emails about their impending loss of a job. I later found out that this email was sent about 5 minutes before they told me to delete it, thus none of them had actually received the email.
I was later fired as well, though I was pretty happy about the situation since I got a sweet severence.
Actually, you can get Quicktime without iTunes. There is a standalone installer (linked on the normal download page) that, once downloaded, does not require internet access to complete the installation and does not include anything but the Quicktime player. It is here:
I think that, in order for that to happen, MS would need to release the full source code for Vista under a BSD license, and they would need to make donations the size of what Bill Gates gives to malaria and whatnot to the Mozilla Foundation. And if they sued SCO for some reason, that would help.
The gosub command is a wonderful thing that more BASIC programmers should have used. It allows one to develop a subroutine that any other part of the program can access. It was the foundation for how I learned OOP. Goto statements were seen as hackish attempts at redirection, too often resulting in Spaghetti Code that is all but meaningless to anyone else who ever had to look at the code.
While there are uses for goto satements (I made a choose your own adventure-like story using only goto), gosub is a far more elegant solution to most of your redirection needs.
why do they always leave their wireless access points WIDE OPEN for the world to take?
They leave their APs wide open because they feel the same way you do about networking...
Why can't I just buy a router, plug it in and have it autosetup everything I need?
When they expect everything to be plug and play, and then they plug things in and they work, well... they stop. If the people out there could just realize that it isn't plug and play, then they would read the next chapter of the instructions where it tells you how to enable WEP or WPA
As opposed to what? Apache? At least IIS has the word Internet in it, so you aren't tempted into thinking that there is an war-painted Native American running your webserver!
Godwin's law does have a corrolary (Quirk's exception) that states that while a comment about nazis ends a discussion, if someone follows it up with a comment about how that post ends the discussion, they lose. So, you just let him win!
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Weird. That's the passcode to my briefcase.
How many of these people fell asleep because they were drunk?
Surely the truth is that gravity is just a theory, but the Law of Intelligent Falling is absolute...
You can disable the safe search plug in pretty easily in IE. Just go to Tools, Internet Options. Take the Program tab, and push the Manage Add-Ons button. Find AVG Safe Search in the list and click it, then select disable. Hit OK, then OK again. Done.
On the surface this sounds similar to Creation Science (both say God did it), but ID doesn't bring anything falsifiable to the table.
I think this is the key here. In your own words, ID doesn't bring anything falsifiable. That is what defines science. You have a hypothesis or theory and try to find things that may be wrong with it. If there is nothing falsifiable, then there is no hypothesis... no theory... just a statement unsupported by science. To then go on and call it science is disingenuous at best and a straight lie at worst.
Oh, I would love it if they made a TV miniseries out of Wellworld. There is too much for a single movie or even a series of movies, but if spread out over a season or 3, that would be seriously great. Of course the more sci-fi Wonderland Gambit series would make a great set of movies as well.
Ironically enough, there is an infinite amount of stupidity.
Sorry, but it is absolutely nothing like waiting for someone else to pay for a newspaper then taking the whole stack of them. There are 2 reasons that it is different:
1) The newspaper is a physical item. If you remove it without paying, then no one else can purchase that item. That is theft. It is the not-so-subtle difference that the MPAA/RIAA/etc do not understand. You have actually stolen a physical good. Bandwidth is not a finite commodity. The webmaster may need to pay more for their bandwidth, but your use of that bandwidth does not remove anything that someone else, in turn, is now unable to purchase.
2) There is a posted notice that in order to purchase the newspaper, you must pay $x. You know, in advance, exactly what you are getting (1 newspaper) and you know what you are paying ($x). While it may not be a legally binding contract, all parties involved know what they are getting into. With a website's advertisements, that is not the case. There is no entry page saying "There will be ads on this site. You must click on at least 1 of them to proceed". There is not even a posted note saying "There are ads on this site. Please look at them in order to help fund the site and help pay for the bandwidth". If there was such a sign, then the non-ad-watching crowd could opt-out. Much like the non-newspaper-buying crowd can opt-out of purchasing a paper from that machine.
You had me up until this bit. When I go to a website, I am not engaging in any sort of bargain with the webmaster. I never negotiate what I will do or demand what I will get from them. There is no agreement that I explicitly agree to saying I will look at their ads. If there was such a EULA on a website, I would quickly opt out and not go to their site.
Some of the youngsters on
As to your stealing soliloquy, come on. What has been stolen? Did I break into someone's house and remove the ad profit from them? No. There is no physical thing that they have lost. They lost a potential profit. A profit that they are not entitled to. They can not demand that that I look at an ad, or download one. If they want to force people to pay for their web page, then they need to ask them for money. The subscription model has worked for a long time.
It's like saying that you are stealing from Walmart if you walk into their store and you don't buy anything. In this scenario, they may want you to buy their crap. Their whole business model is predicated upon people buying their crap. And you are using their employees' time, taking up valuable parking real estate, and a whole host of other expenses. Their costs are the same regardless of how many people come into the store. But since you did not buy anything, you have stolen from them more egregiously than any mp3 copying, EULA violating, device unlocking pirates. Right?
I'm sorry, but are you advocating that an ADMIN account should not be granted read/write access to things? Isn't that sort of the point of an admin account. Further destabalizing the OS is not a good solution to an unstable OS. I'm all for making things work better for the non-admin accounts, in order to allow more people to use them, but I don't think that crippling the admin accounts is a good solution.
By almost any definition, 98% of all PC users are idiots.
Unless you want to spend a lot of money putting together a professional and engaging presentation, don't bother with that route. I am not a manager, but I have been to enough new employee orientations that I feel I have a good understanding of what works (at least for me). Sitting a new employee down in a room and making them watch some presentation, be it on DVD or online is pretty much a waste of time. The thing that a new employee needs is face time. Sit with them and show them what they will be doing. Sit them with their co-workers and let them show him what, exactly, the job entails. Orientation is about gettin gto know your peers, learning about the company you will be working for, and finding out what the job is that you have been hired for. There is always the obligatory legal issues (dress code, no bad language in the workplace, no molestation of the opposite sex, and whatnot). But the important thing is to get a feel for the new environment and find out what you are being hired to do in a more specific way than the interview process would have lead you to believe.
Since he said he is using Windows XP, I would just recommend using the free MS PowerToy called SyncToy. It can do incremental or complete backups, with quite a few very easy to use options, to a local hard drive or a network drive, and can be scheduled to work automatically using the built into Windows Task Scheduler. It is all free (with the exception of a possible hard drive to store the backup data).
I would not recommend the article writers idea of using a series of DVDs, since it is more time consuming, requires manual changing of DVDs, and the DVDs have a far shorter shelf life than hard drives. Hard drives are pretty cheap these days and it will quickly become cheaper than buying loads of DVD-Rs anyway.
While it is certainly wrong to e-fire someone, a company I once worked for did one worse. The company got bought out and the new owners started downsizing. I worked in IT, specifically, I was in charge of the user accounts for the network, email, etc. I would get a list of accounts to disable every so often, sometimes with a note saying it was urgent and they needed to be deleted NOW. So I deleted them. Within 10 minutes, my phone was ringing off the hook with people complaining that they couldn't get to their email. They had not been told that they were fired, and I had to let them in on the secret.
When I then started complaining to the asshats in management about that, they informed me that they had sent the people emails about their impending loss of a job. I later found out that this email was sent about 5 minutes before they told me to delete it, thus none of them had actually received the email.
I was later fired as well, though I was pretty happy about the situation since I got a sweet severence.
Actually, you can get Quicktime without iTunes. There is a standalone installer (linked on the normal download page) that, once downloaded, does not require internet access to complete the installation and does not include anything but the Quicktime player. It is here:
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I think that, in order for that to happen, MS would need to release the full source code for Vista under a BSD license, and they would need to make donations the size of what Bill Gates gives to malaria and whatnot to the Mozilla Foundation. And if they sued SCO for some reason, that would help.
While there are uses for goto satements (I made a choose your own adventure-like story using only goto), gosub is a far more elegant solution to most of your redirection needs.
They leave their APs wide open because they feel the same way you do about networking...
When they expect everything to be plug and play, and then they plug things in and they work, well... they stop. If the people out there could just realize that it isn't plug and play, then they would read the next chapter of the instructions where it tells you how to enable WEP or WPA
No, that's Debian's job. Microsoft's job is to give IT workers a job fixing all the problems.
As opposed to what? Apache? At least IIS has the word Internet in it, so you aren't tempted into thinking that there is an war-painted Native American running your webserver!
Yeah.. well... he was HOT...
Actually, 42 is not the meaning of life. 42 is the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything and google knows it...
see: wikipedia