Yeah, I know, I have a Dell box with XP and have done that. However, after all the painful family and friend's calls with problems from that damn firewall, I have a particular hatred of it. But it's only one of the many reasons I hate XP, and the only reason the Dell box didn't get downgraded to W2K was that I couldn't get all the drivers.
True, but I still think it's atrocious that an ActiveX control can be silently autoinstalled even when running with admin rights.
It's a simple fact of life that most users do not want to deal with the drudgery of secure network administration, and don't want to have to understand why they have remember a password every time they want to install something. Microsoft is popular in large part because they cater to that desire, and do what they can to shield the novice user from any understanding of user based security. And also remember, there are still a large percentage of Windows boxes running 95/98/ME that don't even have proper NT security.
Considering that Microsoft knew all this, I think ActiveX installation from the browser was a terrible idea. It's shifting the blame a bit to say that lazy users don't lock down their machines when Microsoft has essentially encouraged them not to.
A remote code execution flaw in IE executes code with the users rights, and therefore gets access to what the user has access too.
A remote code execution flaw in Firefox executes code with the users rights, and therefore gets access to what the user has access too
The difference being, however, that Firefox (unlike IE) can not execute ActiveX objects, making it far less likely for a remote execution flaw to occur in Firefox than in IE. An important point to leave out.
I have also read on various audio sites (I believe there's a long thread on hydrogenaudio on this) that CD audio sounds better when burned at slower speeds. I can't say I've ever truly been able to note the difference, but many audiophiles will swear by this, even if they can't completely explain it. This has always defied logic in my mind, but the more I'm reading here, the more plausible it seems.
Oil is just a nasty commodity. It has become so entrenched in our economy that we wage wars over it to protect our economy from inflation.
Well, as I see it, aren't the costs of those wars effectively subsidies on petrofuels? Shouldn't we consider that just as much as the subsidies on biofuels when comparing the economics of both?
How much of the cost of the US military over the last 50-75 years would have not been necessary if not for the need to secure cheap oil, and how much would it have increased the price of petrofuel if that cost had (rightly, IMHO) shown up as a tax at the pump? I suspect such a tax would be substantial.
While I didn't find a single thing in your reply particularly convincing, I did take the time to check out wikipedia, and the consensus would be that you're right, the Counterpunch article is bullshit, plutonium is not as toxic as they are claiming.
Sorry, just passing on a article I had just read. There's a lot of misinformation in the world.
As I just happened to read today...
http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman12132005.html...an in-flight explosion could be quite serious if that shuttle happens to be carrying large quantities of plutonium.
Was easytree.org the same sort of thing, or did they not keep it to trade friendly artists?
The difference between easytree.org and etree.org was that easytree was "opt-out" where "etree" is "opt-in". Easytree barred any offically available material, and from artists who specifically asked that their material not be allowed, where Etree only allows music from those artists who have those specific "taper friendly" policies. By virtue of that fact, easytree had a much wider range of material available, but alas, now it's gone.
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torrents on EasyTree were usually unreleased live musical performancesThe key word in that sentence is USUALLY.
As a (now former) EZT user, that "key word" is, in fact, wrong.
The EZT moderators were quite meticulous in their identification and banning of any material that was officially released. Ditto for any material from artists who objected to their shows being posted there, such as The Allman Brothers Band. Offending torrents were, as far I could ever tell, banned before anyone ever got a chance to snatch them.
Lots of those live performances ARE commercial stuff too. Go look at the CD aisle at Best Buy, and imagine that, there are plenty of professionally produced live concerts.
Nope, wrong again, not on EZT...any such recording would have been banned in short order.
They took great pains to comply with the law, and still they were shut down.
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FIrefox extensions can autoinstall? I'd like to see some evidence of that.
Yeah, I know, I have a Dell box with XP and have done that. However, after all the painful family and friend's calls with problems from that damn firewall, I have a particular hatred of it. But it's only one of the many reasons I hate XP, and the only reason the Dell box didn't get downgraded to W2K was that I couldn't get all the drivers.
True, but I still think it's atrocious that an ActiveX control can be silently autoinstalled even when running with admin rights.
It's a simple fact of life that most users do not want to deal with the drudgery of secure network administration, and don't want to have to understand why they have remember a password every time they want to install something. Microsoft is popular in large part because they cater to that desire, and do what they can to shield the novice user from any understanding of user based security. And also remember, there are still a large percentage of Windows boxes running 95/98/ME that don't even have proper NT security.
Considering that Microsoft knew all this, I think ActiveX installation from the browser was a terrible idea. It's shifting the blame a bit to say that lazy users don't lock down their machines when Microsoft has essentially encouraged them not to.
The difference being, however, that Firefox (unlike IE) can not execute ActiveX objects, making it far less likely for a remote execution flaw to occur in Firefox than in IE. An important point to leave out.
No, Win2K has no MS-supplied firewall. AFAIK, you can't even install the MS (XP) firewall on W2K.
Of course, this is one of the reasons I still stick with W2K, as I find that XP firewall to be a big fat piece of crap.
I have also read on various audio sites (I believe there's a long thread on hydrogenaudio on this) that CD audio sounds better when burned at slower speeds. I can't say I've ever truly been able to note the difference, but many audiophiles will swear by this, even if they can't completely explain it. This has always defied logic in my mind, but the more I'm reading here, the more plausible it seems.
Sure would make it a bitch to replace a card or memory stick, though, no?
While I didn't find a single thing in your reply particularly convincing, I did take the time to check out wikipedia, and the consensus would be that you're right, the Counterpunch article is bullshit, plutonium is not as toxic as they are claiming. Sorry, just passing on a article I had just read. There's a lot of misinformation in the world.
As I just happened to read today... http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman12132005.html ...an in-flight explosion could be quite serious if that shuttle happens to be carrying large quantities of plutonium.
Was easytree.org the same sort of thing, or did they not keep it to trade friendly artists?
The difference between easytree.org and etree.org was that easytree was "opt-out" where "etree" is "opt-in". Easytree barred any offically available material, and from artists who specifically asked that their material not be allowed, where Etree only allows music from those artists who have those specific "taper friendly" policies. By virtue of that fact, easytree had a much wider range of material available, but alas, now it's gone.
torrents on EasyTree were usually unreleased live musical performances The key word in that sentence is USUALLY. As a (now former) EZT user, that "key word" is, in fact, wrong. The EZT moderators were quite meticulous in their identification and banning of any material that was officially released. Ditto for any material from artists who objected to their shows being posted there, such as The Allman Brothers Band. Offending torrents were, as far I could ever tell, banned before anyone ever got a chance to snatch them. Lots of those live performances ARE commercial stuff too. Go look at the CD aisle at Best Buy, and imagine that, there are plenty of professionally produced live concerts. Nope, wrong again, not on EZT...any such recording would have been banned in short order. They took great pains to comply with the law, and still they were shut down.