As other have noted, disabling JavaScript results in an annoying popup for every document. The popup also appears when exiting acroread with no documents open.
If EcmaScript (a.k.a. JavaScript) bothers you in acroread v7.0, choose edit->preferences->JavaScript and uncheck "Enable Acrobat JavaScript". (NB, this is for the Linux version, I don't know about the others).
In corporate form of poetic justice, the Korean electronics companies are poised to start picking away at Sony in the next decade unless something seriously changes at the big guy.
Until last year, I avoided Korean goods because previous experiences (10+ years ago) were marginal. Then my wife got a new Samsung cell phone, and it is a nice piece of gear. Since then, I've purchase one each Samsung DVD player, TV and hard disk. I've got my eyes on their big LCD monitor, too.
LG isn't quite up to Samsung's level, yet. I remain underwhelmed by Hyundai and Kia vehicles. I think in the next 10 years, "Made in Korea" will equal "Quality at a good price", just as "Made in Japan" has until recently.
I my lifetime, I watched as "Made in Japan" evolved from meaning "cheap junk" to meaning "the best", while "Made in USA" slipped from "the best" to "overpriced mediocrity". Now we are seeing "the best" shift away from Japan to Korea. Eventually, it will move from Korea to somewhere else, probably China and/or India.
Except on most Linux dists: 1). the default user is not an administrator
Wait until Linux goes mainstream. Most people will just log in as root for normal activities to avoid the hassle of "su". After all, they don't have to bother with such annoyances under Windows. If they don't log in as root, they will happily supply the root password and/or click "OK" for any popup - just like on Windows.
The problem is that the average Joe has no idea how computers work, and they don't want to think about it. They will follow the path of least resistance to pr0n or pirated music without thinking about the consequences.
I think that would solve this, but how do you enforce it? Do you charge people a royalty for buying a hard drive, because they might store MP3s on it? That's ridiculous.
But that's exactly what they do with blank cassette tapes and Music CD-Rs. The RIAA gets a cut because they MIGHT be used to record music for which they own the copyright. I don't like it, but that's the way it is.
Now, you could hit "record" on your boom box and make a copy onto your cassette tape, but you also paid a royalty when you bought that tape that accounted for that kind of use of it.
If I understand correctly, there are similar royalties on blank VHS tapes, Music CD-Rs, and probably others.
So why not add a royalty to internet service? Would that make the RIAA/MPAA happy? What would be a fair amount? $1/month from every internet user would be a LOT of money, and should be enough to make even the greediest studio exec happy.
That can't be right. What you're saying is that I can sign a recording contract for my minor child, essentially binding them to a record company for life, and they can never get out of it!. That would be indentured servitude, which is clearly illegal. I really hope that "they" can't do that!
Every contract I've entered on behalf of my children reverts to them at age 18. That includes trust funds, education plans, health care, etc. Once they turn 18, I have no more say in any of those matters (though I hope they ask my advice).
The latter is just a display trait, and other than the interesting matter of being tied to human females being effectively in a permanent state of heat (not sure if this is unique among mammals, but I know it's at least quite rare), it's fairly uninteresting.
I respectfully disagree with your premise. Human female breasts are NEVER uninteresting!
"Jehova" which is a pseudo-phonetic translation of the Hebrew present-infinitive of the verb "to be".
"Yahweh" is actually closer to the way it's pronounced, as far as I understand. In English transalations of the Bible, it is usually written as LORD (just like that, all caps) to avoid saying/writing God's true name. Not really sure why that's done.
Literally translated to English, God's name is "I am". See Exodus 3, where (paraphrasing) Moses ask the burning bush, "What's your name?" and God replies "I AM WHO I AM" (cue Popeye jokes). If you don't want to read the Bible, watch The Prince of Egypt, it's a good movie regardless of your beliefs.
No, you lazy IT folk will not be able to stop your users from downloading and installing it.....because IT is still checking out a bunch of apps they wrote that I never use.
To be fair, I wouldn't blame the regular IT folks - the blame rests with the clueless managers.
That mirrors my experience at my job. The PHBs in charge keep saying it's "too risky" to load the patches and SPs, because it "might break something". Meanwhile, in the 2.5 years I've worked here, we have been completely shut down by viruses/worms on three occasions.
Yeahbut...according to TFA, the FBI used freely available tools, the same ones your local script kiddies use. Anyone can duplicate the FBI's demonstration.
People just need to realize that nothing is infalliable, maybe when this is mentioned on Fox News or CNN the general public will learn that they shouldn't trust their network for sensitive data. I know I don't.
The general public will do nothing of the sort, because:
1. They are stupid.
2. They assume the Feds are the only ones with uber-1337 hacking tools required for this "difficult" task.
3. Network vendors will threaten to pull advertising money if the media runs the story.
So...if I get a ham 2 meter license..I can use this phone all I want in the USA?/i?
Not the device in the article. It operates on non-ham frequencies.
With an amateur radio license, you could buy or build something similar that operates on ham frequencies. However, you could only use it for NON-COMMERCIAL puposes. No business is allowed on the ham bands.
On my Win2k box, running ":(){:|:& };:" at a Cygwin bash prompt DOES kill the system. I don't know enough about Windows admin (and I don't care enough to learn) what would prevent a forkbomb.
Sun rises in east for 1,324,408,203rd consecutive day
So what happened 1,324,408,204 days ago?
That was the third day, the day God created dry land and plants. The sun didn't exist until the fourth day. It rose too early that day, and every day since;-p
The brightness in some LED assemblies is controlled by pulsing the current at a varying rates. Changing the ratio of on/off time changes the percieved brightness. They really do flicker on the dim settings.
You mean that most other people can't hear that noise? I thought that most everyone could, and I was the only one who was really annoyed by it.
Most people can't hear it. It used to drive me crazy, I could hear CRTs, ultrasonic motion detectors, and other things that most people can't. As with many things, this is an individual variation. My son inherited this ability, but my daughter did not.
Now that I'm 0x29 years old, I can't hear a CRT unless my left ear is within 6 inches of it (my right ear can't hear it at all). High frequency hearing loss is common as age increases. In my case, loud music and pyrotechnics accelerated the process.
Most of the time, I don't notice my monitor flickering. However, if I have sinus pressure (cold, allergy, whatever), it drives me nuts even at 75 Hz, and even fluorescent lights have a noticable flicker.
I've noticed the problem with taillights on some cars, but not all. There is some LED lighting in the intrument panel of my wife's minivan, I do notice that in my peripheral vision.
In the early '90s, I worked on a project where we had over 300 servers at several sites in the USA. Pushing out updates to all of them was a major hassle. Updates were done weekly. BitTorrent would have been a far more elegant solution to our problem than what we ended up using.
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As other have noted, disabling JavaScript results in an annoying popup for every document. The popup also appears when exiting acroread with no documents open.
Very annoying.
Maybe the tinfoil hat crowd is right this time.
If EcmaScript (a.k.a. JavaScript) bothers you in acroread v7.0, choose edit->preferences->JavaScript and uncheck "Enable Acrobat JavaScript". (NB, this is for the Linux version, I don't know about the others).
Last Adobe reader was version 5.0. I've needed an update for a while now.
I honestly don't care if it's open source or not. The reader is free, and that's good enough.
OT - I clicked "download" on Adobe's site, and RealPlayer tried to play the RPM! Strange....(Fedora Core 3, Firefox 1.02, RealPlayer 10.02.608)
More OT - FP?
In corporate form of poetic justice, the Korean electronics companies are poised to start picking away at Sony in the next decade unless something seriously changes at the big guy.
Until last year, I avoided Korean goods because previous experiences (10+ years ago) were marginal. Then my wife got a new Samsung cell phone, and it is a nice piece of gear. Since then, I've purchase one each Samsung DVD player, TV and hard disk. I've got my eyes on their big LCD monitor, too.
LG isn't quite up to Samsung's level, yet. I remain underwhelmed by Hyundai and Kia vehicles. I think in the next 10 years, "Made in Korea" will equal "Quality at a good price", just as "Made in Japan" has until recently.
I my lifetime, I watched as "Made in Japan" evolved from meaning "cheap junk" to meaning "the best", while "Made in USA" slipped from "the best" to "overpriced mediocrity". Now we are seeing "the best" shift away from Japan to Korea. Eventually, it will move from Korea to somewhere else, probably China and/or India.
It's not dead, it's resting.
Except on most Linux dists:
1). the default user is not an administrator
Wait until Linux goes mainstream. Most people will just log in as root for normal activities to avoid the hassle of "su". After all, they don't have to bother with such annoyances under Windows. If they don't log in as root, they will happily supply the root password and/or click "OK" for any popup - just like on Windows.
The problem is that the average Joe has no idea how computers work, and they don't want to think about it. They will follow the path of least resistance to pr0n or pirated music without thinking about the consequences.
I think that would solve this, but how do you enforce it? Do you charge people a royalty for buying a hard drive, because they might store MP3s on it? That's ridiculous.
But that's exactly what they do with blank cassette tapes and Music CD-Rs. The RIAA gets a cut because they MIGHT be used to record music for which they own the copyright. I don't like it, but that's the way it is.
Now, you could hit "record" on your boom box and make a copy onto your cassette tape, but you also paid a royalty when you bought that tape that accounted for that kind of use of it.
If I understand correctly, there are similar royalties on blank VHS tapes, Music CD-Rs, and probably others.
So why not add a royalty to internet service? Would that make the RIAA/MPAA happy? What would be a fair amount? $1/month from every internet user would be a LOT of money, and should be enough to make even the greediest studio exec happy.
That can't be right. What you're saying is that I can sign a recording contract for my minor child, essentially binding them to a record company for life, and they can never get out of it!. That would be indentured servitude, which is clearly illegal. I really hope that "they" can't do that!
Every contract I've entered on behalf of my children reverts to them at age 18. That includes trust funds, education plans, health care, etc. Once they turn 18, I have no more say in any of those matters (though I hope they ask my advice).
The latter is just a display trait, and other than the interesting matter of being tied to human females being effectively in a permanent state of heat (not sure if this is unique among mammals, but I know it's at least quite rare), it's fairly uninteresting.
I respectfully disagree with your premise. Human female breasts are NEVER uninteresting!
"Jehova" which is a pseudo-phonetic translation of the Hebrew present-infinitive of the verb "to be".
"Yahweh" is actually closer to the way it's pronounced, as far as I understand. In English transalations of the Bible, it is usually written as LORD (just like that, all caps) to avoid saying/writing God's true name. Not really sure why that's done.
Literally translated to English, God's name is "I am". See Exodus 3, where (paraphrasing) Moses ask the burning bush, "What's your name?" and God replies "I AM WHO I AM" (cue Popeye jokes). If you don't want to read the Bible, watch The Prince of Egypt, it's a good movie regardless of your beliefs.
That is probably closer to the real truth than anything else.
No, you lazy IT folk will not be able to stop your users from downloading and installing it.....because IT is still checking out a bunch of apps they wrote that I never use.
To be fair, I wouldn't blame the regular IT folks - the blame rests with the clueless managers.
That mirrors my experience at my job. The PHBs in charge keep saying it's "too risky" to load the patches and SPs, because it "might break something". Meanwhile, in the 2.5 years I've worked here, we have been completely shut down by viruses/worms on three occasions.
Yeah, that was a good risk avoidance plan.
Yeahbut...according to TFA, the FBI used freely available tools, the same ones your local script kiddies use. Anyone can duplicate the FBI's demonstration.
People just need to realize that nothing is infalliable, maybe when this is mentioned on Fox News or CNN the general public will learn that they shouldn't trust their network for sensitive data. I know I don't.
The general public will do nothing of the sort, because:
1. They are stupid.
2. They assume the Feds are the only ones with uber-1337 hacking tools required for this "difficult" task.
3. Network vendors will threaten to pull advertising money if the media runs the story.
Interesting post, too bad I used up my mod points earlier today.
Question: what is a suitable length for a random passkey? I always use random strings for stuff like this, but wonder how long they should be.
So...if I get a ham 2 meter license..I can use this phone all I want in the USA?/i?
Not the device in the article. It operates on non-ham frequencies.
With an amateur radio license, you could buy or build something similar that operates on ham frequencies. However, you could only use it for NON-COMMERCIAL puposes. No business is allowed on the ham bands.
Most of these things are illegal in the US. They use frequecies assigned to other services, and power that far exceeds limits in FCC part 15.
I don't know about other places, but using that in the US risks huge fines ($10,000).
On my Win2k box, running ":(){ :|:& };:" at a Cygwin bash prompt DOES kill the system. I don't know enough about Windows admin (and I don't care enough to learn) what would prevent a forkbomb.
Sun rises in east for 1,324,408,203rd consecutive day
;-p
So what happened 1,324,408,204 days ago?
That was the third day, the day God created dry land and plants. The sun didn't exist until the fourth day. It rose too early that day, and every day since
The brightness in some LED assemblies is controlled by pulsing the current at a varying rates. Changing the ratio of on/off time changes the percieved brightness. They really do flicker on the dim settings.
You mean that most other people can't hear that noise? I thought that most everyone could, and I was the only one who was really annoyed by it.
Most people can't hear it. It used to drive me crazy, I could hear CRTs, ultrasonic motion detectors, and other things that most people can't. As with many things, this is an individual variation. My son inherited this ability, but my daughter did not.
Now that I'm 0x29 years old, I can't hear a CRT unless my left ear is within 6 inches of it (my right ear can't hear it at all). High frequency hearing loss is common as age increases. In my case, loud music and pyrotechnics accelerated the process.
Most of the time, I don't notice my monitor flickering. However, if I have sinus pressure (cold, allergy, whatever), it drives me nuts even at 75 Hz, and even fluorescent lights have a noticable flicker.
I've noticed the problem with taillights on some cars, but not all. There is some LED lighting in the intrument panel of my wife's minivan, I do notice that in my peripheral vision.
In the early '90s, I worked on a project where we had over 300 servers at several sites in the USA. Pushing out updates to all of them was a major hassle. Updates were done weekly. BitTorrent would have been a far more elegant solution to our problem than what we ended up using.