Because, while being much superior to its previous versions, is still many miles away behind the other browsers.
The difference might not be apparent to normal users, but the people working with it see that. It's slow, and it's coverage of current standards is horrible. IE is holding the web back for 10 years now, with great success, and IE8 walks the same path.
As someone more eloquent put it: trust the geeks. And the web geeks have been chanting for 8 years now: IE is BAD, use something else, cause their monopoly is keeping the web from going further.
Sadly, this used to be the case for many years. But nowadays (helped - as you mention - by joining the EU) it's much better. I can easily shop online with various credit cards, use PayPal etc. Shipping fees to the country have dropped and outside perception (EU at least) seems to be growing. Not thanks to articles like the one we are discussing here, that paints a quite innacurate image, generalizing contextual information, very much in a tabloid fashion.
Fraud still exists of course, as it does in many developing nations, trying to adapt their police and control agencies to the digital era. But contrary to many opinions i've seen ventured here it's *much* better than some years ago. And as a person working in IT, I can assure you I have never seen/heard of the public "online fraud companies" that one user describes in an above post. (a +4 informative one at that).
There's a built-in derogatory slant to your question. I believe that IE supports more than 50% of CSS standards, which would mean they went further than half-way. Your choice of words is subtly antagonistic.
Actually, he is pretty accurate. Take a peek at the css2.1 support summary row.
Not necesarrily. As an eastern-european I find it quite difficult to buy english hardcover books (or any original foreign works for that matter). Shipping costs and distribution are a big bottleneck. Reading at the computer can be tiresome, so this is actually a very nice thing to have.
Or run a tor node yourself. It's no hassle and you would be of great help.
As other posters already said, some sites ban tor exit node ips. You can just run your server as a middle-node or restrict acces to those certain sites (slashdot, gsmarena amongst others).
If I were the cops and there were any useful way to get data out of a TOR router, I would set up several honey-pots.
It's onion routing - it has layers. Your 'honeypot' will only give away the previous layer. Considering there are 800 nodes now, you have... ermm... very very small odds of catching someone.
No, the article is not about a police state. The article is about (and for that matter, you live in) one of the most powerful democracies of the world.
If something bad happens (like this incident) you can shout, wave banners, talk with your friends or climb the stage in Hyde Park and convince others that things are moving in the wrong direction. But you deffinately don't start hiding when reading books.
Moreover, why can't I display my shock with a (cliched) comment? [...] browsing with funny -6 will save you [...]
Because every time this subject is discussed (pretty often), a lot of people make the exact same "cliche comments". It might be funny when you see it first, but after a while it's just redundant and annoying.
I like funny comments, so I don't want to browse at -6. But these are just not funny anymore. (I'm sticking to this opinion in spite of you comment's moderation).
I run debian for some time now and I love it. Because of this I got to the point where I *do not* want to see debian stories posted on slashdot anymore. I got tired of sifting through millions of lame-ass jokes and posts and re-posts with explanations of the release cycle and philosophy, just to find one or two insightful or interesting comments.
From the hundreds of countries in this world, you (americans) and many other people saw just one in the last few years. Atrocities, castrations, beheadings. Bullshit man. These things happen in many places. In Africa someone's constantly fighting in the last 50 years. You just see what you government wants you to see. They feed the bloody news to the hungry media, which in turn feed it to naive people like you.
It seems a bit unfair that Debian and Gentoo are constantly bashed.
It's true that they're the only 2 distros that I've tested thoroughly but from what I've seen/heard/read, they have the best package management utilities. And if you want control, that's most important. (Don't start tutoring me on yast and yum and don't get me started on slack's tools). All other criteria has been discussed above. I haven't seen anybody having a good case against debian or gentoo (leaving the fact that it's source based aside) yet.
I raise my glass to both.
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Because, while being much superior to its previous versions, is still many miles away behind the other browsers.
The difference might not be apparent to normal users, but the people working with it see that. It's slow, and it's coverage of current standards is horrible. IE is holding the web back for 10 years now, with great success, and IE8 walks the same path.
As someone more eloquent put it: trust the geeks. And the web geeks have been chanting for 8 years now: IE is BAD, use something else, cause their monopoly is keeping the web from going further.
Last I checked, the "default installation" of Debian didn't even include X.
When did you last check? 1995?
Sadly, this used to be the case for many years. But nowadays (helped - as you mention - by joining the EU) it's much better. I can easily shop online with various credit cards, use PayPal etc. Shipping fees to the country have dropped and outside perception (EU at least) seems to be growing. Not thanks to articles like the one we are discussing here, that paints a quite innacurate image, generalizing contextual information, very much in a tabloid fashion.
Fraud still exists of course, as it does in many developing nations, trying to adapt their police and control agencies to the digital era. But contrary to many opinions i've seen ventured here it's *much* better than some years ago. And as a person working in IT, I can assure you I have never seen/heard of the public "online fraud companies" that one user describes in an above post. (a +4 informative one at that).
They only support it for naturally inline elements. Which kind of makes the whole point of using it... unnatural.
Not necesarrily. As an eastern-european I find it quite difficult to buy english hardcover books (or any original foreign works for that matter). Shipping costs and distribution are a big bottleneck. Reading at the computer can be tiresome, so this is actually a very nice thing to have.
Or run a tor node yourself. It's no hassle and you would be of great help.
As other posters already said, some sites ban tor exit node ips. You can just run your server as a middle-node or restrict acces to those certain sites (slashdot, gsmarena amongst others).
I might have been misleading. I did not mean you are routed through all the nodes.
It's onion routing - it has layers. Your 'honeypot' will only give away the previous layer. Considering there are 800 nodes now, you have... ermm... very very small odds of catching someone.
You were redirected.
No, the article is not about a police state. The article is about (and for that matter, you live in) one of the most powerful democracies of the world.
If something bad happens (like this incident) you can shout, wave banners, talk with your friends or climb the stage in Hyde Park and convince others that things are moving in the wrong direction. But you deffinately don't start hiding when reading books.
The article is about a kid wanting to read a book. Why the hell are you talking about guerilla warfare?
With a post like that, I'm quite sure you are not developing any kind of module.
Chill out man. It's not about Paolo Coelho , it's about this other thing.
Because every time this subject is discussed (pretty often), a lot of people make the exact same "cliche comments". It might be funny when you see it first, but after a while it's just redundant and annoying.
I like funny comments, so I don't want to browse at -6. But these are just not funny anymore. (I'm sticking to this opinion in spite of you comment's moderation).
I run debian for some time now and I love it. Because of this I got to the point where I *do not* want to see debian stories posted on slashdot anymore. I got tired of sifting through millions of lame-ass jokes and posts and re-posts with explanations of the release cycle and philosophy, just to find one or two insightful or interesting comments.
Not quite true. You may want to check out this island which contains exactly 2 countries.
Why the hell would anyone want to run mIRC under WINE?
Panel, taskbar, system tray,... RTFA
Maan, wake up and smell the burning flesh.
From the hundreds of countries in this world, you (americans) and many other people saw just one in the last few years. Atrocities, castrations, beheadings. Bullshit man. These things happen in many places. In Africa someone's constantly fighting in the last 50 years. You just see what you government wants you to see. They feed the bloody news to the hungry media, which in turn feed it to naive people like you.
For the untrained eye, tech people must look like the worst, most boring joke-telling persons in the world.
Or maybe not only for the untrained eye...
Yeah, I was one of those people too. Till I switched to Debian.
You can check out this too
It seems a bit unfair that Debian and Gentoo are constantly bashed. It's true that they're the only 2 distros that I've tested thoroughly but from what I've seen/heard/read, they have the best package management utilities. And if you want control, that's most important. (Don't start tutoring me on yast and yum and don't get me started on slack's tools). All other criteria has been discussed above. I haven't seen anybody having a good case against debian or gentoo (leaving the fact that it's source based aside) yet. I raise my glass to both.