So basically, it's like the Netherlands' drug laws then. It's legal to buy and sell, but still illegal to grow and supply (or so I've heard). Confuuuuuuuusing.
Our country tends to ban those because stupid people pointed them at cops because they thought it was funny and got killed. Yours probably did it for the same reason.
You know, the only thing worse than egotistical americans whining about "jerb stealers" is racist jerk indians whining about egotistical americans whining about "jerb stealers"
Shut the fuck up already, or contribute something useful.
When that Antitrust suit was started, you *could not* buy an assembled machine from a vendor without Windows or DOS of some form installed. If you did find a vendor that was willing, the price was in most cases higher.
And that's still the case now. The reason it costs more is that the OEM can't subsidise the cost of the PC with crapware which they get paid to install (30 second trial of Norton, anyone?)
The proxy settings are actually WinINET settings, not IE settings. Yes, there are a ton of IE settings in what really should be WinINET's control panel, but we can't win 'em all.
Of course, bear in mind that many of those settings are for Trident, not Internet Explorer.
Oooooorrr, they're referring to the connection. I think it's perfectly appropriate to say "my internet's out" when the connection fails - it's close enough to the truth.
They're quite correct that it can do all that though - it's not designed to be used by ISPs, but by SMEs and large enterprises. Detecting things like phishing and so forth is easy. And for malware, etc, well - most malware isn't going to be making proxied HTTP connections is it? If your organisation even allows ONE PC that isn't the edge mail server or proxy to directly access the internet, you're doing it wrong.
You're not stealing, no. But libraries have the convenience tradeoff - you can't re-read the book over and over again without going to the library and getting it out again. If you really intend to re-read the book (and don't get me wrong, I realise quite often people don't) then there's good odds you'll still buy it.
Or, it could be that I use profanity in my speech. What's your point? Your whole essay boils down to "I enjoy pissing other people off". It takes a very small man to go out of his way just to troll other people like you do APK. Seek psychiatric help, seriously.
And I haven't seen that movie actually, is it any good?
As long as you don't mind slowing down all your regular web browsing because Akamai and Limelight believe you're in California and always serve up the Los Angeles CDN node in response to DNS queries.
The world where you have to deal with RTL languages like Arabic and Hebrew where no matter how simple the patch is, something is bound to get broken.
That's not even considering that the bug was in the hcp:// protocol that's directly related to help/remote assistance and the control panel.
Not control panel, but if you disable hcp:// URLs, you're bound to infuriate corporate IT helpdesks the world over as that's the way you access Unsolicited Remote Assistance (and the only way to do so).
Out of sheer boredom, I decided to reply to your points, since they're all very easy to do so. Fucked if I know where though, I'm sure it's around somewhere.
Oh shit, you're pretending not to be APK. Sorry about that... you didn't need that cover did you?
A lot of points in your linked post are completely irrelevant. "A large file reads slower than a smaller one". Holy crap, REALLY?!? I also note that your testimonial is from a user who says they "no longer get 100-200 viruses a month, now lucky to get 1-2 viruses". Seriously, if you even get 1 virus a month, you're an idiot that shouldn't even own a computer. I see you also claim a hosts file consumes no CPU. This is simply not true. Parsing the damn thing on every DNS resolution does indeed consume CPU resources (amazingly enough!) And I see that every time he brought up the fact that using "0" as an IP address is a violation of the IPv4 standard, all you can say is essentially "but", and then accuse him of being a malware writer, because he advocates following standards - which any developer should be advocating. Personally, I feel standards should always be followed as well. Look at the last time someone ignored them - it got us 10 years of Internet Explorer 6.
Just so that you have nothing to fuel your ad hominem attacks, I've deliberately avoided insulting you in this post. I've even reduced the profanities to make it more difficult for you. Woohoo! Go hard!
APK, fuck off. You're a pathetic trolling wanker. I'm happy to admit when I'm incorrect (which in this instance is due to me not checking historical information), whereas you simply insist that the opponent is an idiot, since you can't possibly be wrong. You're the sort of immature piece of shit that makes trolls look bad. I'm not replying to this thread again, because you aren't worth the fucking thirty seconds to compose an appropriate repertoire of insults.
This isn't a "law" this is an agreement, meaning it basically passes without the consent of the people. Essentially the US is letting other countries write the laws for us. This is exactly what the founding fathers warned us about with "Free Trade With All, Entangling Alliances With None".
That's not actually true. The US is the one writing and pushing ACTA, and is having it written as a treaty so that it can do an end run around it's own laws that would prevent something like it passing. It's ingenious really. Can't pass a law? Get it written as a treaty and have someone else pass it for you!
You know what? Screw it. You'll just sit there insulting anyone who disagrees with you because clearly if someone doesn't agree with your bullshit, they're evil.
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No, the Pirate Party's goal is not free speech. It's unbridled copyright infringement. Free speech is what groups like EFF promote.
So basically, it's like the Netherlands' drug laws then. It's legal to buy and sell, but still illegal to grow and supply (or so I've heard). Confuuuuuuuusing.
Our country tends to ban those because stupid people pointed them at cops because they thought it was funny and got killed. Yours probably did it for the same reason.
The MacBook doesn't. The MacBook Pro does.
You know, the only thing worse than egotistical americans whining about "jerb stealers" is racist jerk indians whining about egotistical americans whining about "jerb stealers"
Shut the fuck up already, or contribute something useful.
When that Antitrust suit was started, you *could not* buy an assembled machine from a vendor without Windows or DOS of some form installed. If you did find a vendor that was willing, the price was in most cases higher.
And that's still the case now. The reason it costs more is that the OEM can't subsidise the cost of the PC with crapware which they get paid to install (30 second trial of Norton, anyone?)
The proxy settings are actually WinINET settings, not IE settings. Yes, there are a ton of IE settings in what really should be WinINET's control panel, but we can't win 'em all.
Of course, bear in mind that many of those settings are for Trident, not Internet Explorer.
Oooooorrr, they're referring to the connection. I think it's perfectly appropriate to say "my internet's out" when the connection fails - it's close enough to the truth.
And that, unfortunately, is why your idea wont work.
They're quite correct that it can do all that though - it's not designed to be used by ISPs, but by SMEs and large enterprises. Detecting things like phishing and so forth is easy. And for malware, etc, well - most malware isn't going to be making proxied HTTP connections is it? If your organisation even allows ONE PC that isn't the edge mail server or proxy to directly access the internet, you're doing it wrong.
You're not stealing, no. But libraries have the convenience tradeoff - you can't re-read the book over and over again without going to the library and getting it out again. If you really intend to re-read the book (and don't get me wrong, I realise quite often people don't) then there's good odds you'll still buy it.
Or, it could be that I use profanity in my speech. What's your point? Your whole essay boils down to "I enjoy pissing other people off". It takes a very small man to go out of his way just to troll other people like you do APK. Seek psychiatric help, seriously.
And I haven't seen that movie actually, is it any good?
And this is relevant, how, fuckwad?
And the PS3 can still play PSX games through software emulation.
Are you absolutely certain of that? Also, can you speak for Mac OS X Server?
As long as you don't mind slowing down all your regular web browsing because Akamai and Limelight believe you're in California and always serve up the Los Angeles CDN node in response to DNS queries.
The world where you have to deal with RTL languages like Arabic and Hebrew where no matter how simple the patch is, something is bound to get broken.
That's not even considering that the bug was in the hcp:// protocol that's directly related to help/remote assistance and the control panel.
Not control panel, but if you disable hcp:// URLs, you're bound to infuriate corporate IT helpdesks the world over as that's the way you access Unsolicited Remote Assistance (and the only way to do so).
They're replacing it with a ribbon. Firefox developers are mad.
Out of sheer boredom, I decided to reply to your points, since they're all very easy to do so. Fucked if I know where though, I'm sure it's around somewhere.
Oh shit, you're pretending not to be APK. Sorry about that... you didn't need that cover did you?
A lot of points in your linked post are completely irrelevant. "A large file reads slower than a smaller one". Holy crap, REALLY?!? I also note that your testimonial is from a user who says they "no longer get 100-200 viruses a month, now lucky to get 1-2 viruses". Seriously, if you even get 1 virus a month, you're an idiot that shouldn't even own a computer. I see you also claim a hosts file consumes no CPU. This is simply not true. Parsing the damn thing on every DNS resolution does indeed consume CPU resources (amazingly enough!) And I see that every time he brought up the fact that using "0" as an IP address is a violation of the IPv4 standard, all you can say is essentially "but", and then accuse him of being a malware writer, because he advocates following standards - which any developer should be advocating. Personally, I feel standards should always be followed as well. Look at the last time someone ignored them - it got us 10 years of Internet Explorer 6.
Just so that you have nothing to fuel your ad hominem attacks, I've deliberately avoided insulting you in this post. I've even reduced the profanities to make it more difficult for you. Woohoo! Go hard!
APK, fuck off. You're a pathetic trolling wanker. I'm happy to admit when I'm incorrect (which in this instance is due to me not checking historical information), whereas you simply insist that the opponent is an idiot, since you can't possibly be wrong. You're the sort of immature piece of shit that makes trolls look bad. I'm not replying to this thread again, because you aren't worth the fucking thirty seconds to compose an appropriate repertoire of insults.
TL;DR: go fuck yourself.
This isn't a "law" this is an agreement, meaning it basically passes without the consent of the people. Essentially the US is letting other countries write the laws for us. This is exactly what the founding fathers warned us about with "Free Trade With All, Entangling Alliances With None".
That's not actually true. The US is the one writing and pushing ACTA, and is having it written as a treaty so that it can do an end run around it's own laws that would prevent something like it passing. It's ingenious really. Can't pass a law? Get it written as a treaty and have someone else pass it for you!
Well, fair enough then. Point conceded.
You know what? Screw it. You'll just sit there insulting anyone who disagrees with you because clearly if someone doesn't agree with your bullshit, they're evil.
Go fuck yourself, APK.
Dude, Finger is in Windows XP.