I've also come across a number of sites which are aggressively IE sites. they do both a user agent check and then they also ask the number of plugins, which catches the user agent switcher plugin.
it's severely annoying, though, fortunecity, IE tab waltzes through it.
That's why we have laws and penalties. What we need is stiffer penalties for privacy violations by companies. And, unlike child pornographers and murderers, who tend to be insensitive to the potential penalties, companies really do respond to penalties that hurt the bottom line.
and why exactly whould the government (willingly) create laws against that when they can make such handy use of the corperate data collection?
and since the vast majority of the people simply don't seem to care, the government won't be force to create/enforce such laws.
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Do You own a GMail account?
yes, but it has barely any real personal info. the extent of the real stuff is the province i live in. they try looking up any of the other stuff, and they'll be chasing a spectre.
commercial software =/= bug-free. maybe you've got a memory leak in something. they're still not unheard of even now.
I've only experienced odd problems if i don't do a "real" reboot (i use the hibernation function) in over 40 days, at which point things seem to randomly not work properly, such as programs not opening when i click them, though these go away after a reboot.
now that i had the presence of mind to look it up, the Dilbert principle is that incompetent individuals will be placed where they can do the least damage, in management.
You do realize that that assertion has never been demonstrated. A boogeyman as it were.
that would be because that nothing with DRM on it has been around for a century or so it can fall into public domain, due to the excessively long term of copyright.
i was largely referring to errors by the people counting them (which as the other replier mentioned, is pretty much a non-issue due to the procedure for counting them). and i was referring to Canadian ballots, rather than the US ones. completely different systems.
our Canadian voting ballots are rather simple things http://www.elections.ca/yth/images/rft_image042.jp g. rather than needing a big honking machine, or electronic terminal, or whatever, you just use a pen and write an X in the circle to vote. then just tear off the part with the names (it's perforated, which isn't shown in the picture) and fold the section with the circles and put it into the ballot box.
old fashioned, yes, but simple, efficient, and near-impossible to screw up. new technolagy isn't always the answer.
well, for the point, you're likely gonna be moving the signal over a much shorter range than you would with a wireless network. all your gear is likely to be in the same piece of furniture, so it's traveling a couple of feel at the most, and the stuff that is in the way (shelves, other components, etc.) is pretty much fixed (not to mention that UWB uses much higher frequencies (~3.1-10.6Ghz vs. ~2.4Ghz for 802.11b/g) than a wireless network would use, and would generally have better signal penetration), as opposed to with a wireless network where people and other things might wander into the path of your signal, so I would suspect that it would be significantly more reliable.
also, in response to some others saying that the picture will be degraded, JPEG2000 =/= JPEG. JPEG2000 has a lossless mode, so no loss of quality.
though personally, i don't particularly like HDMI, as they had to go and pack it full of ill-conceived DRM that is gonna make it a PITFA to use for the ordinary guy who just wants to watch a movie, but anyone who seriously wants to copy it will do so with little to no trouble.
i would be completely unsurprised if both high def DVD formats fail in the market merely due to the DRM on them.
Yes, but if that schmuck had a BSEE he/she wouldn't, except in the rarest of circumstances, be a cop. The investigators would have to use their brains and find someone who can do the work.
you'd be amazed how many Electronics and Computer technicians the RCMP up here is collecting. they've taken practically the entire graduating class of each (usually 20-30 people per course) for 2 years running at the school I'm at (SIAST).
but i don't have much idea what they're doing at the other 3 campuses, but I'd imagine similar things are happening, so that would be at least 150 techs they've snatched up, if not more.
i may be a technophile, but i still prefer our old fashioned secret paper ballot that we still use up here in Canada, which goes into a cardboard box, which is then counted by human eyes. sure, it is a bit more error prone, but it is significantly more difficult to rig, as you'd have to bribe quite a number of people counting the votes.
i would still prefer to keep my vote secret to the majority of the population. if you ask me, i'll likely tell you, but the thing would be that I choose who i want to tell.
i would bet that speakers are more common than microphones, and any speaker (conventional cone speakers, anyway, i dunno about flat-panel ones, but i would think the same idea applies, though the sensitivity to the right sound frequencies might be an issue) can also work as a microphone if you use it right.
it creates a rather interesting effect if you forget to reconfigure your sound to use the 3 ports for front, rear, and centre/sub, rather than front, rear, mic. the centre speaker (which sits right in front of my monitor) acted as a rather effective microphone.
you could just hit "open in new window" rather than "open in new tab" and set it (the option is right in the "tabs" section of the options) to open links from other application in a new window rather than a new tab. also you can have it hide the tab bar (though i think it is hidden by default).
though i personanlly like tabs, as i multitask a lot, and even with a 3x size taskbar, the icons start to get really small and lack useful titles, so without tabs, all i see if a bunch of firefox logos and no way to tell which is the one i want at the moment.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe that "being on the offencive" is (partially) what got you guys into this mess in the first place, as the whole osama bin laden thing started back in the cold war when the USSR was occuping afganistan, and the US, along with osama's little group, wanted them out, so a deal was reached.
then when the USSR was crumbling, they pulled out of afganistan and basically trashed everything on their way out, at which point the US just packed up and left with basicly a "thanks for killing the reds. bye.", so it is semi-reasonable that he would be rather pissed at the US.
IMO, the whole muslim terrorist thing is just that the regligon is a recruiting tool as well as a means of securing the follower's loyalty, as it would be like "if you disobey me, you disobey the word of GOD!", ans since the form of islam that is common to those part is rather all-encompasing and rather strictly followed, so by taking control of the regligion, you can control practically everything they do through that.
also there has been the whole issue of israel since it was created. i'll agree that it was a good idea, but rather stupid implimentation. by international vote, they basically took a large chunk of (moderately valuable) land from the arabs, who never really did anything to deserve it. realisticly, israel would have been better placed somewhere in Germany, as germany (or the government anyway) was the one who went after the jewish people.
i seem to see both "trolling" and "trawling" in common use in my area (south-centeral saskatchewan), often by the same person in the space of a single conversation, both being used for the same meaning (usually in regards to fishing as there are a couple lakes in reasonable visinity, but also in the "patroling" manner of it.). it seems to be more of a pronouncitation thing.
but the thing would be that steganography wouldn't be obvious. an encrypted hard drive partition is obvious (provided it isn't hidden in some manner), but they would have no way of knowing whether that was a normal image (or any kind of file, really. you could hide quite a lot of stuff in a simple home video.) or whether it has something hidden in it.
There's a solution to this. Get your machine set up the way you like it, then take a Ghost image. Then, provided you keep all your documents in clearly defined locations, restoring is a matter of "Ghost, then copy". I do this, reinstalling Windows takes about an hour, 90% of which I spend watching TV while the hard disk churns.
that's exactly as is done at the board IT dept here. they have ghost images on a special network share (accessable only to them) for every make and model of computer in the board. nothing is stored on the computers themselves (everything is stored on the network), so just run ghost and bam! problem fixed.
it would also work quite handily for a home user if they keep regular backups.
And for the record a lot of people voted for Harper because the Liberals were a horrible choice and God forbid they vote for a third party. After all, they have no chance of winning!
well, the NDP (certainly a 3rd party) did gain quite a number of seats (11 more, 29 total, IIRC) in the last election. their chance of forming the government is somewhere between slim and nil, but in a close minority, they can be a force in the government.
though oddly, none were elected in my provice, which has an NDP provincial government.
I keep going back to IE. I try Firefox, but get frustrated because the programmers can't bother to get it to display pages correctly. Then I go back to MSIE, which is a lot better at page display...and noticably faster, too.
i would say the problem is more likely the site than the browser.
and faster? just what exactly are you on? unless you're running a very old system, i have never seen IE outspeed firefox at anything except sites that blatantly ignore standards and make their sites practically IE-only.
the policy on M-rated games is identical up here in canada, at least where i live. you've gotta show photo ID to buy an M-Rated game. its been policy of pretty much all stores (EB, radio shack, zellers, the independants, everyone) in town for about 2 or 3 years now.
It does not speak well of the state of our education system that you (probably rightly) felt the need to provide a wiki for the word "gerrymandering" in a discussion about politics.
he likely put it here to allow us non-us people to understand what he meant. i certainly didn't get it without the article.
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I've also come across a number of sites which are aggressively IE sites. they do both a user agent check and then they also ask the number of plugins, which catches the user agent switcher plugin.
it's severely annoying, though, fortunecity, IE tab waltzes through it.
That's why we have laws and penalties. What we need is stiffer penalties for privacy violations by companies. And, unlike child pornographers and murderers, who tend to be insensitive to the potential penalties, companies really do respond to penalties that hurt the bottom line.
and why exactly whould the government (willingly) create laws against that when they can make such handy use of the corperate data collection?
and since the vast majority of the people simply don't seem to care, the government won't be force to create/enforce such laws.
Do You own a GMail account?
yes, but it has barely any real personal info. the extent of the real stuff is the province i live in. they try looking up any of the other stuff, and they'll be chasing a spectre.
commercial software =/= bug-free. maybe you've got a memory leak in something. they're still not unheard of even now.
I've only experienced odd problems if i don't do a "real" reboot (i use the hibernation function) in over 40 days, at which point things seem to randomly not work properly, such as programs not opening when i click them, though these go away after a reboot.
now that i had the presence of mind to look it up, the Dilbert principle is that incompetent individuals will be placed where they can do the least damage, in management.
i was pretty sure that it was "in any organization, each employee rises to their level of incompetence".
or is that the Dilbert principle?
You do realize that that assertion has never been demonstrated. A boogeyman as it were.
that would be because that nothing with DRM on it has been around for a century or so it can fall into public domain, due to the excessively long term of copyright.
thank you. i evidently missed seeing that.
If anything, the laws regarding corporate governance have gotten more strict during the current administration.
care to cite some examples? i must've missed some of those laws being made while i was on vacation.
i was largely referring to errors by the people counting them (which as the other replier mentioned, is pretty much a non-issue due to the procedure for counting them). and i was referring to Canadian ballots, rather than the US ones. completely different systems.
p g. rather than needing a big honking machine, or electronic terminal, or whatever, you just use a pen and write an X in the circle to vote. then just tear off the part with the names (it's perforated, which isn't shown in the picture) and fold the section with the circles and put it into the ballot box.
our Canadian voting ballots are rather simple things http://www.elections.ca/yth/images/rft_image042.j
old fashioned, yes, but simple, efficient, and near-impossible to screw up. new technolagy isn't always the answer.
well, for the point, you're likely gonna be moving the signal over a much shorter range than you would with a wireless network. all your gear is likely to be in the same piece of furniture, so it's traveling a couple of feel at the most, and the stuff that is in the way (shelves, other components, etc.) is pretty much fixed (not to mention that UWB uses much higher frequencies (~3.1-10.6Ghz vs. ~2.4Ghz for 802.11b/g) than a wireless network would use, and would generally have better signal penetration), as opposed to with a wireless network where people and other things might wander into the path of your signal, so I would suspect that it would be significantly more reliable.
also, in response to some others saying that the picture will be degraded, JPEG2000 =/= JPEG. JPEG2000 has a lossless mode, so no loss of quality.
though personally, i don't particularly like HDMI, as they had to go and pack it full of ill-conceived DRM that is gonna make it a PITFA to use for the ordinary guy who just wants to watch a movie, but anyone who seriously wants to copy it will do so with little to no trouble.
i would be completely unsurprised if both high def DVD formats fail in the market merely due to the DRM on them.
Yes, but if that schmuck had a BSEE he/she wouldn't, except in the rarest of circumstances, be a cop. The investigators would have to use their brains and find someone who can do the work.
you'd be amazed how many Electronics and Computer technicians the RCMP up here is collecting. they've taken practically the entire graduating class of each (usually 20-30 people per course) for 2 years running at the school I'm at (SIAST).
but i don't have much idea what they're doing at the other 3 campuses, but I'd imagine similar things are happening, so that would be at least 150 techs they've snatched up, if not more.
i may be a technophile, but i still prefer our old fashioned secret paper ballot that we still use up here in Canada, which goes into a cardboard box, which is then counted by human eyes. sure, it is a bit more error prone, but it is significantly more difficult to rig, as you'd have to bribe quite a number of people counting the votes.
i would still prefer to keep my vote secret to the majority of the population. if you ask me, i'll likely tell you, but the thing would be that I choose who i want to tell.
i would bet that speakers are more common than microphones, and any speaker (conventional cone speakers, anyway, i dunno about flat-panel ones, but i would think the same idea applies, though the sensitivity to the right sound frequencies might be an issue) can also work as a microphone if you use it right.
it creates a rather interesting effect if you forget to reconfigure your sound to use the 3 ports for front, rear, and centre/sub, rather than front, rear, mic. the centre speaker (which sits right in front of my monitor) acted as a rather effective microphone.
you could just hit "open in new window" rather than "open in new tab" and set it (the option is right in the "tabs" section of the options) to open links from other application in a new window rather than a new tab. also you can have it hide the tab bar (though i think it is hidden by default).
though i personanlly like tabs, as i multitask a lot, and even with a 3x size taskbar, the icons start to get really small and lack useful titles, so without tabs, all i see if a bunch of firefox logos and no way to tell which is the one i want at the moment.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe that "being on the offencive" is (partially) what got you guys into this mess in the first place, as the whole osama bin laden thing started back in the cold war when the USSR was occuping afganistan, and the US, along with osama's little group, wanted them out, so a deal was reached.
then when the USSR was crumbling, they pulled out of afganistan and basically trashed everything on their way out, at which point the US just packed up and left with basicly a "thanks for killing the reds. bye.", so it is semi-reasonable that he would be rather pissed at the US.
IMO, the whole muslim terrorist thing is just that the regligon is a recruiting tool as well as a means of securing the follower's loyalty, as it would be like "if you disobey me, you disobey the word of GOD!", ans since the form of islam that is common to those part is rather all-encompasing and rather strictly followed, so by taking control of the regligion, you can control practically everything they do through that.
also there has been the whole issue of israel since it was created. i'll agree that it was a good idea, but rather stupid implimentation. by international vote, they basically took a large chunk of (moderately valuable) land from the arabs, who never really did anything to deserve it. realisticly, israel would have been better placed somewhere in Germany, as germany (or the government anyway) was the one who went after the jewish people.
i seem to see both "trolling" and "trawling" in common use in my area (south-centeral saskatchewan), often by the same person in the space of a single conversation, both being used for the same meaning (usually in regards to fishing as there are a couple lakes in reasonable visinity, but also in the "patroling" manner of it.). it seems to be more of a pronouncitation thing.
but the thing would be that steganography wouldn't be obvious. an encrypted hard drive partition is obvious (provided it isn't hidden in some manner), but they would have no way of knowing whether that was a normal image (or any kind of file, really. you could hide quite a lot of stuff in a simple home video.) or whether it has something hidden in it.
There's a solution to this. Get your machine set up the way you like it, then take a Ghost image. Then, provided you keep all your documents in clearly defined locations, restoring is a matter of "Ghost, then copy". I do this, reinstalling Windows takes about an hour, 90% of which I spend watching TV while the hard disk churns.
that's exactly as is done at the board IT dept here. they have ghost images on a special network share (accessable only to them) for every make and model of computer in the board. nothing is stored on the computers themselves (everything is stored on the network), so just run ghost and bam! problem fixed.
it would also work quite handily for a home user if they keep regular backups.
And for the record a lot of people voted for Harper because the Liberals were a horrible choice and God forbid they vote for a third party. After all, they have no chance of winning!
well, the NDP (certainly a 3rd party) did gain quite a number of seats (11 more, 29 total, IIRC) in the last election. their chance of forming the government is somewhere between slim and nil, but in a close minority, they can be a force in the government.
though oddly, none were elected in my provice, which has an NDP provincial government.
I keep going back to IE. I try Firefox, but get frustrated because the programmers can't bother to get it to display pages correctly. Then I go back to MSIE, which is a lot better at page display...and noticably faster, too.
i would say the problem is more likely the site than the browser.
and faster? just what exactly are you on? unless you're running a very old system, i have never seen IE outspeed firefox at anything except sites that blatantly ignore standards and make their sites practically IE-only.
i belive that the "1 million articles" stat doesn't count stubs, though i'm not completely certain.
the policy on M-rated games is identical up here in canada, at least where i live. you've gotta show photo ID to buy an M-Rated game. its been policy of pretty much all stores (EB, radio shack, zellers, the independants, everyone) in town for about 2 or 3 years now.
It does not speak well of the state of our education system that you (probably rightly) felt the need to provide a wiki for the word "gerrymandering" in a discussion about politics.
he likely put it here to allow us non-us people to understand what he meant. i certainly didn't get it without the article.
By all accounts, it exists to promote internet gambling. As such, it is completely different from Google.
well, what about google ads regarding gambling? if one was so inclined, you could put those under the same qualification.