Ok, you don't have my signature on that license, so you can force me to do\not do anything.
EULA? I didn't click I Agree, I left the window open and someone else clicked it for me. Prove it? Well, I believe the burden of proof is on you to prove that I did accept it.
Oh, you have proof it was me, eh? Well, I clicked on the "I Disagree" button. It wont let me install without clicking "I Agree", you say? There must be some mistake, I'm sure I clicked on "I Disagree".
Yeah, Steam is great unless you forgot your password, and no longer have control of the e-mail address which you registered with.
After repeated e-mails to valve asking for help (reset my password, unlink my cd key from that account...) have gone unanswered, I have simply stopped playing half-life, even though I really love the game.
"If you are using a common distro, XP, Redhat, Suse, of course an outdated version will leave you open. If you want to prove your security take a leap in relative obscurity of a less than common distro. There are plenty out there.":)
"You live and learn, especially with computers, which is one of the reasons that the calls for 'courses' in computers before you own them is so funny."
I believe the point of the 'courses', is allow these people to learn from others mistakes without having to make them themselves.
My user agent string: "All your base are belong to us."
ND
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This is off-topic, and clearly marked as such. So, Mods, you really don't have to mod me as such and hurt my already horrible karma more. Anyways, on with my post:
The other day my friend asked if I believed in the bible, here is the response I gave: When I think of the bible, I think of a bunch of guys sitting around drunk, well, being guys. "Dude, we could like write this book about this son of god dude." "Yeah man, we could call him 'Jesus'." "What a dorky name!" So they write it and wake up the next morning with a horrible hangover. They find the shit they wrote and figuring that the church might kill 'em for it or something, they bury it. Some idiot a few hundred years later find them buried, and since they are a few hundred years old, they must be true!
ND
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"Taxation might be in the form of CPU cycles & bandwidth used by policing actions to DDoS convicted spammers/phishers/spyware providers."
"Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do."
I believe not serving the user would be an exception, rather than a rule.
Sure, they might not prefetch pages, but if they did don't you think a lot of websites might start to simply block Mozilla, because it sucks up all their bandwidth?
What are you talking about it will not display the alt attribute without a title attribute? I assume that would be part of the rendering engine and this bug would be shared with Firefox? This doesn't occur in Firefox.
Also, I don't know where you got your browser, but my copy of Firefox's help menu has "Release Notes" and "About Mozilla Firefox".
I'm pretty sure that he\she wasn't saying everyone needed to install *nix right now to solve the problem, he was suggesting that people should adopt the *nix mindset of only using root when required, and using a normal user account for daily tasks.
Meaning don't browse the internet as an administrator, use a limited user account.
They might have simply asked Apple, Amiga, Redhat, Netscape & IBM. I'm sure a lot of companies would have no problem letting Slashdot use their logo like that, but I'm willing to bet money that Microsoft would just tell them to go to hell.
Seriously now, you want MS Windows to disable the activity light on your cable modem?
AFAIK it's pretty damn hard to download a file without causing any activity.
Also, perhaps you should have just explained to this grandmother than you were enabling automatic updates and just explained in laymen's terms what it does, then maybe she wouldn't have been so worried? Usually when I set someones computer up, I will explain to them anything they might notice different from before, including automatic updates.
Who the hell is Joe Sixpack?!? One of these days I'd just like to pull out a 12 gauge and shoot this idiot so we can all start writing half-sane programs!
ND (Yes, I know what is meant by Joe Sixpack, that was an incredibly lame attempt at being funny.)
Works good for me. I have a standard QWERTY keyboard, but it's on my laptop so it's small enough that I can type fairly quickly with one hand (not proper typing technique, but I don't use proper technique when using both hands anyway. Also, my mouse is a trackpoint, so it's quite easy to use it equally well with either hand, plus it's right in the middle of the keyboard so I don't even have to take my hand off the keyboard.
I believe it's quite obvious how I found all this out...
I don't have to support it, but if I fire up Netscape Navigator 2.01, and surf to most sites I have designed, it all works fine. The colours are off usually because it (NN2.01) doesn't support CSS, but other than that it works perfectly. I didn't spend any time at all ensuring anything worked in older browsers, I just made sure it was all valid HTML, and it displays fine. I don't use any fancy features or anything (simple HTML & forms, that's it) and I have no problems.
Why do people find it so hard to support older browsers?
Yeah, people are generally in a diffirent mindset in these situations.
Most people on a computer just think "It's a computer. I shouldn't have to know anything about it at all to use it. It should read my mind and automagically do everything for me." People getting free stuff from that 'nice gentleman on the corner' are generally going to be more suspicious, wether you put a notice up saying it contained ecstacy or not.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm, anyone know where I get can a tiff image viewer plugin for firefox?
ND
More like 'msfu-up-the-ass'.
More like: /dev/uspto
st | fu >
Ok, you don't have my signature on that license, so you can force me to do\not do anything.
EULA? I didn't click I Agree, I left the window open and someone else clicked it for me. Prove it? Well, I believe the burden of proof is on you to prove that I did accept it.
Oh, you have proof it was me, eh? Well, I clicked on the "I Disagree" button. It wont let me install without clicking "I Agree", you say? There must be some mistake, I'm sure I clicked on "I Disagree".
ND
Yeah, Steam is great unless you forgot your password, and no longer have control of the e-mail address which you registered with.
After repeated e-mails to valve asking for help (reset my password, unlink my cd key from that account...) have gone unanswered, I have simply stopped playing half-life, even though I really love the game.
ND
"Geek! :P"
:P
You suck
Now where did I put my clue-by-four...
"If you are using a common distro, XP, Redhat, Suse, of course an outdated version will leave you open. If you want to prove your security take a leap in relative obscurity of a less than common distro. There are plenty out there." :)
I run FreeBSD.
(Mods: I really run FreeBSD, this isn't a troll.)
ND
"You live and learn, especially with computers, which is one of the reasons that the calls for 'courses' in computers before you own them is so funny."
I believe the point of the 'courses', is allow these people to learn from others mistakes without having to make them themselves.
Finally, a thread where this will be on-topic!
My user agent string: "All your base are belong to us."
ND
This is off-topic, and clearly marked as such. So, Mods, you really don't have to mod me as such and hurt my already horrible karma more. Anyways, on with my post:
The other day my friend asked if I believed in the bible, here is the response I gave: When I think of the bible, I think of a bunch of guys sitting around drunk, well, being guys. "Dude, we could like write this book about this son of god dude." "Yeah man, we could call him 'Jesus'." "What a dorky name!" So they write it and wake up the next morning with a horrible hangover. They find the shit they wrote and figuring that the church might kill 'em for it or something, they bury it. Some idiot a few hundred years later find them buried, and since they are a few hundred years old, they must be true!
ND
"Taxation might be in the form of CPU cycles & bandwidth used by policing actions to DDoS convicted spammers/phishers/spyware providers."
"Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do."
Never could a sig fit a message better =)
ND
I believe not serving the user would be an exception, rather than a rule.
Sure, they might not prefetch pages, but if they did don't you think a lot of websites might start to simply block Mozilla, because it sucks up all their bandwidth?
What are you talking about it will not display the alt attribute without a title attribute? I assume that would be part of the rendering engine and this bug would be shared with Firefox? This doesn't occur in Firefox.
Also, I don't know where you got your browser, but my copy of Firefox's help menu has "Release Notes" and "About Mozilla Firefox".
ND
Is it so hard to use the A tag, or the Slashdot-specific URL tag, even?
http://www.mediasoft.it/dante/
AFAIK, if you un-install kazaa, all that adware\spyware shit will still be installed.
ND
I'm pretty sure that he\she wasn't saying everyone needed to install *nix right now to solve the problem, he was suggesting that people should adopt the *nix mindset of only using root when required, and using a normal user account for daily tasks.
Meaning don't browse the internet as an administrator, use a limited user account.
ND
They might have simply asked Apple, Amiga, Redhat, Netscape & IBM. I'm sure a lot of companies would have no problem letting Slashdot use their logo like that, but I'm willing to bet money that Microsoft would just tell them to go to hell.
ND
Seriously now, you want MS Windows to disable the activity light on your cable modem?
AFAIK it's pretty damn hard to download a file without causing any activity.
Also, perhaps you should have just explained to this grandmother than you were enabling automatic updates and just explained in laymen's terms what it does, then maybe she wouldn't have been so worried? Usually when I set someones computer up, I will explain to them anything they might notice different from before, including automatic updates.
ND
Who the hell is Joe Sixpack?!? One of these days I'd just like to pull out a 12 gauge and shoot this idiot so we can all start writing half-sane programs!
ND
(Yes, I know what is meant by Joe Sixpack, that was an incredibly lame attempt at being funny.)
Ack. Of course you are correct.
Like many people I tend to confuse coprights\patents\trade marks, etc.
ND
"or just the right patent, and they can count their revenue for the next ten years."
Didn't they pass a law making it 100 years?
Wondering how hard it would be to map your num pad to act like that (like a phone)?
Someone with some experience care to comment?
ND
Works good for me. I have a standard QWERTY keyboard, but it's on my laptop so it's small enough that I can type fairly quickly with one hand (not proper typing technique, but I don't use proper technique when using both hands anyway. Also, my mouse is a trackpoint, so it's quite easy to use it equally well with either hand, plus it's right in the middle of the keyboard so I don't even have to take my hand off the keyboard.
I believe it's quite obvious how I found all this out...
ND
I don't have to support it, but if I fire up Netscape Navigator 2.01, and surf to most sites I have designed, it all works fine. The colours are off usually because it (NN2.01) doesn't support CSS, but other than that it works perfectly. I didn't spend any time at all ensuring anything worked in older browsers, I just made sure it was all valid HTML, and it displays fine. I don't use any fancy features or anything (simple HTML & forms, that's it) and I have no problems.
Why do people find it so hard to support older browsers?
ND
Yeah, people are generally in a diffirent mindset in these situations.
Most people on a computer just think "It's a computer. I shouldn't have to know anything about it at all to use it. It should read my mind and automagically do everything for me." People getting free stuff from that 'nice gentleman on the corner' are generally going to be more suspicious, wether you put a notice up saying it contained ecstacy or not.
ND