It's really easy for a person to ride a bike 20 miles...
I beg to differ. I'm pretty beat after just 5 miles, and quite frankly the argument is entirely subjective. It's a guy on a novelty bike. Let him have his 15 minutes. The cost and inconvenience is less than that created by a political martyr.
Later, when all the copycat knockoff chalkwriters run amuck, then place an ordinance into effect that bans the use of chalk on public property. The kiddies can still play hop-scotch in their daddy's driveway, and we've all learned a valuable lesson.
In the meantime, making pre-emptive strikes for fear that the idea could catch-on and result in 'everyone' doing it... well again, you might as well start arresting people at random, because everyone does something that is annoying to other people.
Can't you see that if everyone were allowed to do it qualifty of life would suffer?
What an awful sentiment! If you apply that philosophy universally, there are many things that would be outlawed! Not everyone is doing it, it's only one person, and if it persists beyond his initial objective, then worry about it.
You know, if everyone flushed their toilets at noon, it would cause problems in the stability of the water pressure. Therefore, we should outlaw people from flushing their toilets.
And exactly how is a text to speech program supposed to pronounce words like "V!4GR4", "X4|\|!X", etcetera? That seems like it would be an annoying sound.
I used to use Windows ME before I switched to Linux (don't ask) and I was quite comfortable with ZoneAlarm 2.1 during that time. (I {Yes, I've switched to a new account} wrote about why WinME was a bane for some people a while back so I won't go into it here.)
Point being, I've always had a sneaking suspicion about ZA "post 911" that I haven't been able to shake. Other than their newly added features, can anyone cite any actual security holes (read: non-socially-engineered exploits) in the older ZA software?
Originally, it seemed like pretty good stuff, and gave me a nice log of a lot of intrusion attempts. I don't really trust the latest versions, but the older stuff (that doesn't work beyond WinME) in my archives seems pretty solid.
I'll be out for a while, but feel free to enlighten me.
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I beg to differ. I'm pretty beat after just 5 miles, and quite frankly the argument is entirely subjective. It's a guy on a novelty bike. Let him have his 15 minutes. The cost and inconvenience is less than that created by a political martyr.
Later, when all the copycat knockoff chalkwriters run amuck, then place an ordinance into effect that bans the use of chalk on public property. The kiddies can still play hop-scotch in their daddy's driveway, and we've all learned a valuable lesson.
In the meantime, making pre-emptive strikes for fear that the idea could catch-on and result in 'everyone' doing it... well again, you might as well start arresting people at random, because everyone does something that is annoying to other people.
What an awful sentiment! If you apply that philosophy universally, there are many things that would be outlawed! Not everyone is doing it, it's only one person, and if it persists beyond his initial objective, then worry about it.
You know, if everyone flushed their toilets at noon, it would cause problems in the stability of the water pressure. Therefore, we should outlaw people from flushing their toilets.
And exactly how is a text to speech program supposed to pronounce words like "V!4GR4", "X4|\|!X", etcetera? That seems like it would be an annoying sound.
Point being, I've always had a sneaking suspicion about ZA "post 911" that I haven't been able to shake. Other than their newly added features, can anyone cite any actual security holes (read: non-socially-engineered exploits) in the older ZA software?
Originally, it seemed like pretty good stuff, and gave me a nice log of a lot of intrusion attempts. I don't really trust the latest versions, but the older stuff (that doesn't work beyond WinME) in my archives seems pretty solid.
I'll be out for a while, but feel free to enlighten me.