Actually that's a fine reason... but only when session tracking is actually neccessary, and I don't consider those as bad as persistent cookies.
I don't mind the use of cookies in shopping sites, or anything that needs to keep track of something for you. But tracking my behavior on a site when it's being done simply to determine my behavior, especially when 99% of the time I'm hitting one page that I've been referred to is annoying.
Would want a site to leave something identifying me on my hard drive if it isn't a site like slashdot or Geocaching.com where I simply just want to be logged into my customized site. Statistics? No! I don't want you tracking *my* behavior that way - use the log file like everyone else.
There are sites out there requiring a cookie to get past ads - you know I always give up at that point. I have never needed to see something under those cases.
So honestly - one of you cookie advocates give me a good reason to accept your cookie just because I want to visit a page on your site.
Is he making an accusation that Spamhaus isn't taking the IP off of the SBL? If so, maybe it's because they won't accept his word in the matter, only the word of the people who actually admin the box. Too bad - *I* wouldn't accept the word of a hosted person that the spammer is gone, only the word of the *hoster*, who, if he ends up lying, should rightfully end up with a more permanent ban. Yeah, this sucks for the hosted people, but hey - move your site. Your hoster sucks and doesn't deserve your business.
Or maybe he needs to realize that it can take some time for stuff to happen. I know so many folks who have become accustomed to immediate feedback.
Anyone know anybody who has something to do with Spamhaus? From what I understood, they were anti-spam pitbulls (this is not always a bad thing) but were also rather good at avoiding false blocks...
Your reliance on the datestamp of the directory for Firefox 1.0.4 is unwise.
The "Modified" stamp on my Windows Install of Firefox 1.0.4 is May 11. Which is, from what I personally recall, when the update was released, and is actually 8 days before the posting about Netscape 8 on the 19th.
Sorry my brain was stuck in Finder when I was trying this. And it was more of an exercise in curiosity at the time than anything else, so it wasn't important enough to put much thought into.
Not sure how to address your message.. there are so many ways...
As per my previous post (in combination with several other folks' posts), tool is not needed to get the music off of an iPod. Tell Windows to show you all of the stuff it normally hides, or use a Mac OS X command line tool, and you can get to these files easily. So I guess, using your logic, that it would make the operating systems just as much of a blatant piracy tool. iTunes too, since it can be used to take the copied stuff and sort it into a nice directory structure for you.
Second, it would be really nice to treat my iPod as a mobile hard drive. I rip music at home, but I'd like to have a copy of the mp3's at work so I can listen to them. It would be so nice if iTunes just let me copy off the files from the iPod onto another computer... but thus far I haven't found an easy way to do this (inside of iTunes anyway). And when we start talking about large amounts of data (4 Gig for my iPod mini), it can be quite a bit to ask even a cable modem to transfer in a timely manner. It'd just be easier to bring the iPod into work and copy the music off via Firewire or USB - which is what I do.;)
Ah! As per my (what will probably be marked as redundant) post below (since you posted seconds before I did) I had trouble with OS X - but I didn't try the command line, only Finder, which hid the files from me. Don't really have a reason to try it now but thanks for the pointer.
Now, do you think you and I should get lawyers? Because as much as I like Macs and the iPod I'm using, Apple might just find a reason to sue us...
I've already been able to do this. Now, I don't get the files in the nifty directory structure of Artist/Album/track# songtitle.mp3, but hey, all I need after copying the files off of the iPod (using standard windows copying), I can just add the copied directory into *any* iTunes Library and iTunes will be nice enough to sort things however I told iTunes to do so.
Of course I didn't read the article, so there might be something to it... but I suspect it's not that hard to get the files via a Linux installation. The only platform I have that I have had trouble pulling the files off of the iPod on is Mac.
Never found that I needed it on Panther, and haven't used it since I upgraded.
That being said, I'm not saying *someone* will find it useful, but really, it just looks like an attempt to move Firefox's "Find in page" functionality to the OS level.
I haven't noted any major performance hits either, and my current use of Tiger has been limited to a 1GHz Powerbooks, which usually gets a LaCie FireWire drive hooked up to it.
In fact, the only problem I've had with Tiger is that the UT2004 demo doesn't run under it (it's a work machine and I don't have an Apple at home, so I can't justify running out and buying the actual game, which has an update out that supposedly resolves the issue).
Considering the number of folks that don't even bother to click on the hyperlinks provided by the Slashdot listing itself (IOW RTFA), the number of folks that will follow yours will be considerably diminished.
Honestly, thanks though - I followed a link to the DOJ site but it went to a front page, and not the specific article of interest.
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I think I can agree with that.
I don't mind the use of cookies in shopping sites, or anything that needs to keep track of something for you. But tracking my behavior on a site when it's being done simply to determine my behavior, especially when 99% of the time I'm hitting one page that I've been referred to is annoying.
There are sites out there requiring a cookie to get past ads - you know I always give up at that point. I have never needed to see something under those cases.
So honestly - one of you cookie advocates give me a good reason to accept your cookie just because I want to visit a page on your site.
Or maybe he needs to realize that it can take some time for stuff to happen. I know so many folks who have become accustomed to immediate feedback.
Anyone know anybody who has something to do with Spamhaus? From what I understood, they were anti-spam pitbulls (this is not always a bad thing) but were also rather good at avoiding false blocks
Thing is ... the ST universe doesn't have a solid set of rules. They may have at one time, but they like to throw them out the window at every turn ...
As if further evidence of your error is required (I'm not trying to flame you, just proving my point), you need to look at this Slashdot article about Firefox 1.0.4 from the 12th.
The "Modified" stamp on my Windows Install of Firefox 1.0.4 is May 11. Which is, from what I personally recall, when the update was released, and is actually 8 days before the posting about Netscape 8 on the 19th.
And yet you get modded informative.
Sorry my brain was stuck in Finder when I was trying this. And it was more of an exercise in curiosity at the time than anything else, so it wasn't important enough to put much thought into.
As per my previous post (in combination with several other folks' posts), tool is not needed to get the music off of an iPod. Tell Windows to show you all of the stuff it normally hides, or use a Mac OS X command line tool, and you can get to these files easily. So I guess, using your logic, that it would make the operating systems just as much of a blatant piracy tool. iTunes too, since it can be used to take the copied stuff and sort it into a nice directory structure for you.
Second, it would be really nice to treat my iPod as a mobile hard drive. I rip music at home, but I'd like to have a copy of the mp3's at work so I can listen to them. It would be so nice if iTunes just let me copy off the files from the iPod onto another computer ... but thus far I haven't found an easy way to do this (inside of iTunes anyway). And when we start talking about large amounts of data (4 Gig for my iPod mini), it can be quite a bit to ask even a cable modem to transfer in a timely manner. It'd just be easier to bring the iPod into work and copy the music off via Firewire or USB - which is what I do. ;)
Now, do you think you and I should get lawyers? Because as much as I like Macs and the iPod I'm using, Apple might just find a reason to sue us ...
Of course I didn't read the article, so there might be something to it ... but I suspect it's not that hard to get the files via a Linux installation. The only platform I have that I have had trouble pulling the files off of the iPod on is Mac.
I dunno ... this service is getting damn close ... ;)
That being said, I'm not saying *someone* will find it useful, but really, it just looks like an attempt to move Firefox's "Find in page" functionality to the OS level.
I haven't noted any major performance hits either, and my current use of Tiger has been limited to a 1GHz Powerbooks, which usually gets a LaCie FireWire drive hooked up to it.
In fact, the only problem I've had with Tiger is that the UT2004 demo doesn't run under it (it's a work machine and I don't have an Apple at home, so I can't justify running out and buying the actual game, which has an update out that supposedly resolves the issue).
If a guy can answer that, he's at the very least a transvestite (at least one time in his life).
You must be new here.
Considering the number of folks that don't even bother to click on the hyperlinks provided by the Slashdot listing itself (IOW RTFA), the number of folks that will follow yours will be considerably diminished.
Honestly, thanks though - I followed a link to the DOJ site but it went to a front page, and not the specific article of interest.
And in "Technicolor."
Andromeda? Never heard of that ...
Oh you mean Hercules in space. Sorry ...
I read "Wesley" as "Weasley" - and it took a few moments for me to figure out why that was so wrong.
A few moments after I realized why it was so wrong, I realized it wasn't *that* wrong.
Do your test machines that you have running these more recent OS's have AntiVirus protection on them?
Course, I shouldn't really knock it - I'm not a programmer (I just make things go).
As an IT professional, it puts me in a constant state of amazement when I hear about yet another buffer overrun.