Emphasis mine. There seems to be a bit of a contradiction there. IE6 can't provide a port of entry on this Macbook Pro or the two linux boxes on the shelves next to my desk, because I don't run any version of IE on any of these machines. It only provides a point of entry if you're running MS Windows and some version of IE. (Too bad/. won't let you go back and edit your text slightly so that readers don't get distracted by this error.;-)
I had hoped any reader would have read the previous sentence: IE runs exclusively on M$ Windoz.all.flavors operating systems
You're close, this is exactly how the movie Armageddon starts A comet roaring through the asteroid belt knocks loose a chunk the size of texas and sends it hurdling towards earth
analyzing furtive glances to detect, according to the title of the patent application, 'Behavioral Deviations by Measuring Eye Movements,' as well as measuring respiratory patterns
Just great! Now they can profile people that are deathly afraid of flying (like my brother) and further traumatize them, profiling them as terrorists and treating them as such.
Why don't they just stick to the old reliable method of profiling: Young male non US citizen, buying ticket with cash, one way to America, NO LUGGAGE, originating in a terrorist hot-bed country.
This method is clearly a no-brainer and doesn't require any expensive security theater Of course, even that method didn't work last time, what sane person would think this new method will
If we really had out shit together, we would vote all these assholes out Unfortunately they, the whole of DC politicals, control the media that decides what propaganda to spread and how to manipulate it for maximum control of the imbeciles of America
Being realistic, I've given up all hope and realized we're all fucked and going down the crapper at light speed
Our only hope is that maybe someone out there can log in to Joshua and start a game of Global Thermonuclear War. After that we can start over from scratch and do it all differently next time..
Yep More to the point, IE doesn't run on MacOSX; BSD.any.flavor; *nix.any.flavor IE runs exclusively on M$ Windoz.all.flavors operating systems
IE6 just provides the easiest port of entry for bad guys into anyone's box, than any other version of IE.
For M$ to claim that IE8 is the most secure browser out there is like saying cigarettes cure lung cancer.
Simply put, M$ produces the most insecure products for any box that ventures out from your home and into the tubes of cyberspace. I'm not knocking their products, they are great for computer gaming and locked down isolated corporate networks. But for safe & secure internet banking and general internet exposure, M$ just plain sucks!
M$ has mastered the OS that any bonehead can use. It's the trade off here, simplicity for security.
Another example of the problem is my college student daughter has her notebook badly infected with trojans & malware. I tried to convince her to let me set her system up to dual boot Ubuntu & XP. The XP for her college work & Ubuntu for internet use. Unfortunately her boyfriend is a devoted M$ fanboi and promotes the M$ FUD that you have to compile all your drivers for Linux and it's not worth the time. I couldn't even get them to run a live CD to check it out for themselves.
Interesting post.. I run FF in Linux and can't recall the last time I've seen FF crash
As you state FF crashes in XP constantly, the problem may be partly with XP As from my experience as a windoz user, everything crashes daily, from the main OS to the applications, although XP is much improved over past windoz versions. It still melts down from time to time
The FF delayed mouse event problem, I have seen though. I was wondering what was causing that.. now I know
NoScript users are going to be a minority of internet users
I don't see how Firefox users implementing NoScript can be considered a minority FF users with any brains have NoScript & AB installed Additionally, FF is a very popular browser and gaining market share daily
Yep, I'm with you on the "This is creepy" line of thought
Pretty much the same as "Lets video tape a corpse decomposing in a grave" Nothing but a sick, twisted idea here...
If a 3D movie or program can be projected on a 2D theater screen and viewed using simple 3D glasses Why can't this same format be put onto a DVD disk and displayed on my flat screen, to be viewed using the same cheap 3D glasses?
Seems to me the industry is making big hype to produce a new market that is unecessary What am I missing here?
People with severe allergies usually carry Benadryl, or some other allergy medication, for occasions such as this Should all other passengers really be inconvenienced because one person has an allergy to something?
Should there also be a shrimp free zone for those who are allergic to shrimps, and a strawberry free zone for those who are alergic to strawberries, and maybe a sweater free zone for those who are allergic to sweaters?
Now you might be on to something here Perhaps the airlines should just provide free plastic bags to those with food allergies.. they can wear them over their heads during periods when food is being served to other passengers
I saw it for a second time this last weekend Theater is sold out every showing on the 3D screen I caught more details the second time that I missed @ first It still is a great movie. I noted the gasps from other viewers over the visual details during the first jungle scenes
This is very ground breaking technology to film.. rendering digital animation that looks realistic I still found myself wanting to swat the bugs from around my head, there in the alien jungle
There will be some that will be put off by the underlying message regarding the western industrialized corporate mentality of dealing death and destruction to other cultures for profit. But, hey, the shoe fits... we really DO suck in real life..
I don't understand the desire of many slashdotters to see For Profit software companies fail.
No offense, but your view is very naive
FOSS slashdotters DON'T wish to see "For Profit" companies fail. Most of us make our living in the "For Profit" software industry. Man's gotta eat..
That said, M$ should not be considered as just another "For Profit" software company. Micro$haft is a marketing company first and foremost. Profit margins are priority #1 regardless of how inferior, buggy, and insecure their products may be. Micro$haft is run by devious minded and morally bankrupt individuals. Their existence and what they represent is despised by many in the computing world, much like a black plague or a cancer to the entire software industry.
FOSS users want freedom to have their computing experience their way. Microsoft represents a restrictive and locked-in, gotcha-by-the-balls experience. An operating system that is reliable, safe and secure is not a difficult concept. OpenBSD is one that come to mind. I prefer Linux as it has the reliability, security, stability, and all the software I desire. M$ SHOULD be scared by the advancements in Linux technology of today. As a windoz user, you should be pleased as well, as Linux gives M$ REAL competition and forces them to actually produce a quality product. Lest they lose their market edge completely.
For me, I was tainted with Win95. I found it to be the most unstable abortion of programming code of all time. I have disdained their entire product line/label ever since '95, and will never again be a fan.
Agreed that this test is seriously flawed although I can't say how. Perhaps being based on studying elderly, one foot in the grave men, whose brains are most likely toasted after years of... wait for it... alcohol consumption? Another flaw may be in that all ginkgo supplement brands are not equal. Some better formulated than others Another possibility they don't list is that maybe the men were stupid to begin with and that nothing would help them in the first place, not even Rx amphetamines?
I know from personal experience that ginkgo definitely does work as a mental function stimulant. I began using it when I was in my 30s and taking college night classes after a full day's work.. day job. Long story short, It made maintaining a 4.0 gpa through Algebra, Trig & Calculus possible for me.
Today, I'm in my early 50s and still take it daily. I certainly can tell the difference than days I don't. Actually it takes about a week without it for the fog to set in.
The only documented bad side-effect being reduced hemostasis. However I find some of the many documented and proven benefits of taking ginkgo daily: 1. My tinnitus is greatly reduced 2. And most importantly for me, I have a genetic anomaly with my heart. Ginkgo's PAF & vasodilation properties are attributable to why I am still healthy and physically active, contrary to the opinions of some quack doctors that recently told me that I am a walking dead man and need to be on proprietary, and very expensive, beta blockers to treat what they diagnosed me as having cardio myopia.
I see this study as just another attack on an effective and useful supplement by the pharmaceutical industry that is trying to make patients out of healthy people and addicting healthy people on toxic excrement.
Ginkgo is a potent inhibitor of PAF function, same thing as the proprietary pharmaceutical Plavix. Who needs Plavix when you can get Ginkgo for a fraction of the cost? Along with the numerous other benefits Ginkgo provides.
They most certainly screwed up here He was indeed on a watch list He was not on a no fly list He had a one way ticket to the US He is not a US citizen
The one way ticket should have sent up red flags all across the board
Fortunately, the device malfunctioned. So the terrorist assholes have not gotten it quite right yet Eventually they will get it figured out and we all know they have plenty of weak minded fools to do their dirty work
Yes, another paint chip eater joins the debate Where have you been the past 12 years dipshit?
Dems are really nothing but neutered republicans. Even a republican congressional strength of 50% in addition to a retarded righty puppet commander retains full power to fuck the nation for the benefit of their corporate benefactors.
Please pull your head from your ass before joining a debate you know nothing of. Fuck you very much
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head To try to have a file system to work across all platforms universally when nothing is completely compatible across all platforms is ludicrous and will drive you to suicide.
I've had a similar dilemma in what to format a thumb drive to work between windoz & *nix systems. Fat32 sucks big time, comes standard on the thumbdrive, is slow as hell, trying to delete a small file takes too long (Great interval to enjoy a cup of coffee while you wait and then tap fingers for another 1/2 hour), at the end of the day, Fat32 just plain sucks!
I finally decided to scrap my intention to keep things in sync between the two, windoz & *nix. I use *nix every day and rely on it much more. Windoz is more a novelty system for me, only used to view streaming TV over internet, when some weird proprietary codec won't work on *nix.
The final solution was to format the drive to jfs. Works great on *nix, pretty simple to format, is blisteringly fast compared to fat32, and so far relatively painless. Viewed today as the best move for my needs. Others mileage may vary...
Most of us are not too concerned with powering our clothes We consumers are more interested in when we can have this technology to power our homesteads
Sure, this new tech sounds great, when can I buy one?
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It's not Obama, shit-for-brains It's GM
Set down your cereal bowl of paint chips and think way back to last year and two of the big 3 automakers on the brink of bankruptcy and crying out for bailout money. Bush was in control, and it was his idea to give away billions of public $$$ to bail them out as well as his banker buddies
Obama inherited an economy on the brink of total collapse. Were not much better off today, but at least we're not all forced to living in caves yet. Even the bankers that crashed the economy still live in comfort in their fancy beach houses thanks to all you that donated your homes and pensions to them.
If you want to thank someone for the loss of Saab, thank Bush. He was in charge when this shit hit the fan. This was entirely the result of republican economics that made this mess
Here is a fun fact for you: Before Bush, in 2000, the national debt was 18 Billion (the lowest it has been in TWENTY years). After 8 years of Bush and a republican controlled congress, and before the bailout, the national debt soared to over 1 trillion $$. THE HIGHEST IT HAS BEEN SINCE EVER !!!.
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I had hoped any reader would have read the previous sentence: IE runs exclusively on M$ Windoz.all.flavors operating systems
You're close, this is exactly how the movie Armageddon starts
A comet roaring through the asteroid belt knocks loose a chunk the size of texas and sends it hurdling towards earth
Anybody got the phone number of Bruce Willis?
Just great!
Now they can profile people that are deathly afraid of flying (like my brother) and further traumatize them, profiling them as terrorists and treating them as such.
Why don't they just stick to the old reliable method of profiling: Young male non US citizen, buying ticket with cash, one way to America, NO LUGGAGE, originating in a terrorist hot-bed country.
This method is clearly a no-brainer and doesn't require any expensive security theater
Of course, even that method didn't work last time, what sane person would think this new method will
If we really had out shit together, we would vote all these assholes out
Unfortunately they, the whole of DC politicals, control the media that decides what propaganda to spread and how to manipulate it for maximum control of the imbeciles of America
Being realistic, I've given up all hope and realized we're all fucked and going down the crapper at light speed
Our only hope is that maybe someone out there can log in to Joshua and start a game of Global Thermonuclear War. After that we can start over from scratch and do it all differently next time ..
Yep
More to the point, IE doesn't run on MacOSX; BSD.any.flavor; *nix.any.flavor
IE runs exclusively on M$ Windoz.all.flavors operating systems
IE6 just provides the easiest port of entry for bad guys into anyone's box, than any other version of IE.
For M$ to claim that IE8 is the most secure browser out there is like saying cigarettes cure lung cancer.
Simply put, M$ produces the most insecure products for any box that ventures out from your home and into the tubes of cyberspace. I'm not knocking their products, they are great for computer gaming and locked down isolated corporate networks. But for safe & secure internet banking and general internet exposure, M$ just plain sucks!
M$ has mastered the OS that any bonehead can use. It's the trade off here, simplicity for security.
Another example of the problem is my college student daughter has her notebook badly infected with trojans & malware. I tried to convince her to let me set her system up to dual boot Ubuntu & XP. The XP for her college work & Ubuntu for internet use. Unfortunately her boyfriend is a devoted M$ fanboi and promotes the M$ FUD that you have to compile all your drivers for Linux and it's not worth the time. I couldn't even get them to run a live CD to check it out for themselves.
Interesting post ..
I run FF in Linux and can't recall the last time I've seen FF crash
As you state FF crashes in XP constantly, the problem may be partly with XP
As from my experience as a windoz user, everything crashes daily, from the main OS to the applications, although XP is much improved over past windoz versions. It still melts down from time to time
The FF delayed mouse event problem, I have seen though. I was wondering what was causing that .. now I know
I don't see how Firefox users implementing NoScript can be considered a minority
FF users with any brains have NoScript & AB installed
Additionally, FF is a very popular browser and gaining market share daily
Yep, I'm with you on the "This is creepy" line of thought ...
Pretty much the same as "Lets video tape a corpse decomposing in a grave"
Nothing but a sick, twisted idea here
This is something I don't get
If a 3D movie or program can be projected on a 2D theater screen and viewed using simple 3D glasses
Why can't this same format be put onto a DVD disk and displayed on my flat screen, to be viewed using the same cheap 3D glasses?
Seems to me the industry is making big hype to produce a new market that is unecessary
What am I missing here?
People with severe allergies usually carry Benadryl, or some other allergy medication, for occasions such as this
Should all other passengers really be inconvenienced because one person has an allergy to something?
Now you might be on to something here ..
Perhaps the airlines should just provide free plastic bags to those with food allergies
they can wear them over their heads during periods when food is being served to other passengers
I saw it for a second time this last weekend .. rendering digital animation that looks realistic
Theater is sold out every showing on the 3D screen
I caught more details the second time that I missed @ first
It still is a great movie. I noted the gasps from other viewers over the visual details during the first jungle scenes
This is very ground breaking technology to film
I still found myself wanting to swat the bugs from around my head, there in the alien jungle
There will be some that will be put off by the underlying message regarding the western industrialized corporate mentality of dealing death and destruction to other cultures for profit. But, hey, the shoe fits ... we really DO suck in real life ..
Choice is always good
It's just the right time to fork mysql to keep it free and going
Terraforming
It worked perfectly in the simulation known as Total Recall
All we need to do now is send in the Governator to activate the reactor and the Spirit will live again
Your post shouldn't have been modded troll
You've made a valid comparison regarding common morality vs. Microsoft policy
M$ trolls w/ mod points is the prob here .. d:-/
Oh great! now I'll get the troll mod too
No offense, but your view is very naive ..
FOSS slashdotters DON'T wish to see "For Profit" companies fail. Most of us make our living in the "For Profit" software industry. Man's gotta eat
That said, M$ should not be considered as just another "For Profit" software company. Micro$haft is a marketing company first and foremost. Profit margins are priority #1 regardless of how inferior, buggy, and insecure their products may be. Micro$haft is run by devious minded and morally bankrupt individuals. Their existence and what they represent is despised by many in the computing world, much like a black plague or a cancer to the entire software industry.
FOSS users want freedom to have their computing experience their way. Microsoft represents a restrictive and locked-in, gotcha-by-the-balls experience. An operating system that is reliable, safe and secure is not a difficult concept. OpenBSD is one that come to mind. I prefer Linux as it has the reliability, security, stability, and all the software I desire. M$ SHOULD be scared by the advancements in Linux technology of today. As a windoz user, you should be pleased as well, as Linux gives M$ REAL competition and forces them to actually produce a quality product. Lest they lose their market edge completely.
For me, I was tainted with Win95. I found it to be the most unstable abortion of programming code of all time. I have disdained their entire product line/label ever since '95, and will never again be a fan.
Agreed that this test is seriously flawed although I can't say how. Perhaps being based on studying elderly, one foot in the grave men, whose brains are most likely toasted after years of ... wait for it ... alcohol consumption?
Another flaw may be in that all ginkgo supplement brands are not equal. Some better formulated than others
Another possibility they don't list is that maybe the men were stupid to begin with and that nothing would help them in the first place, not even Rx amphetamines?
I know from personal experience that ginkgo definitely does work as a mental function stimulant. .. day job. Long story short, It made maintaining a 4.0 gpa through Algebra, Trig & Calculus possible for me.
I began using it when I was in my 30s and taking college night classes after a full day's work
Today, I'm in my early 50s and still take it daily. I certainly can tell the difference than days I don't. Actually it takes about a week without it for the fog to set in.
The only documented bad side-effect being reduced hemostasis.
However I find some of the many documented and proven benefits of taking ginkgo daily:
1. My tinnitus is greatly reduced
2. And most importantly for me, I have a genetic anomaly with my heart. Ginkgo's PAF & vasodilation properties are attributable to why I am still healthy and physically active, contrary to the opinions of some quack doctors that recently told me that I am a walking dead man and need to be on proprietary, and very expensive, beta blockers to treat what they diagnosed me as having cardio myopia.
I see this study as just another attack on an effective and useful supplement by the pharmaceutical industry that is trying to make patients out of healthy people and addicting healthy people on toxic excrement.
Ginkgo is a potent inhibitor of PAF function, same thing as the proprietary pharmaceutical Plavix. Who needs Plavix when you can get Ginkgo for a fraction of the cost? Along with the numerous other benefits Ginkgo provides.
Perhaps some of us may see you as a dirty neanderthal
It's a two way street my friend
So, just how many bodily orifices do you have to choose from?
They most certainly screwed up here
He was indeed on a watch list
He was not on a no fly list
He had a one way ticket to the US
He is not a US citizen
The one way ticket should have sent up red flags all across the board
Fortunately, the device malfunctioned. So the terrorist assholes have not gotten it quite right yet
Eventually they will get it figured out and we all know they have plenty of weak minded fools to do their dirty work
Can't we all just get along?
Yes, another paint chip eater joins the debate
Where have you been the past 12 years dipshit?
Dems are really nothing but neutered republicans. Even a republican congressional strength of 50% in addition to a retarded righty puppet commander retains full power to fuck the nation for the benefit of their corporate benefactors.
Please pull your head from your ass before joining a debate you know nothing of. Fuck you very much
No need to track Santa
I just saw him walking down the street, he was drunk off his ass and hitting on all the women
Do we really need a Linux app for that?
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head
To try to have a file system to work across all platforms universally when nothing is completely compatible across all platforms is ludicrous and will drive you to suicide.
I've had a similar dilemma in what to format a thumb drive to work between windoz & *nix systems. Fat32 sucks big time, comes standard on the thumbdrive, is slow as hell, trying to delete a small file takes too long (Great interval to enjoy a cup of coffee while you wait and then tap fingers for another 1/2 hour), at the end of the day, Fat32 just plain sucks!
I finally decided to scrap my intention to keep things in sync between the two, windoz & *nix. I use *nix every day and rely on it much more. Windoz is more a novelty system for me, only used to view streaming TV over internet, when some weird proprietary codec won't work on *nix.
The final solution was to format the drive to jfs. Works great on *nix, pretty simple to format, is blisteringly fast compared to fat32, and so far relatively painless. Viewed today as the best move for my needs. Others mileage may vary ...
Most of us are not too concerned with powering our clothes
We consumers are more interested in when we can have this technology to power our homesteads
Sure, this new tech sounds great, when can I buy one?
It's not Obama, shit-for-brains
It's GM
Set down your cereal bowl of paint chips and think way back to last year and two of the big 3 automakers on the brink of bankruptcy and crying out for bailout money. Bush was in control, and it was his idea to give away billions of public $$$ to bail them out as well as his banker buddies
Obama inherited an economy on the brink of total collapse. Were not much better off today, but at least we're not all forced to living in caves yet. Even the bankers that crashed the economy still live in comfort in their fancy beach houses thanks to all you that donated your homes and pensions to them.
If you want to thank someone for the loss of Saab, thank Bush. He was in charge when this shit hit the fan.
This was entirely the result of republican economics that made this mess
Here is a fun fact for you:
Before Bush, in 2000, the national debt was 18 Billion (the lowest it has been in TWENTY years). After 8 years of Bush and a republican controlled congress, and before the bailout, the national debt soared to over 1 trillion $$. THE HIGHEST IT HAS BEEN SINCE EVER !!!.