This is already a pain in the ass for me. I use a local proxy/filter (Proxomitron) to allow me to filter my HTTP streams for any application w/o having to configure them individually - or in cases where something like AdBlock would be browser specific. This doesn't work for HTTPS.
For example, Google's switch to HTTPS-only annoys me to no end as I use Proxomitron to clean up and/or disable their various shenanigans - like the damn sidebar, URL redirects, suggestions, etc... At this time using "nosslsearch.google.com" with CNAME of "www.google.com" works to get a non-encrypted page (in Proxomitron, I simply edit the "Host:" header for nosslsearch.google.com hits to be www.google.com) but who know how much longer that will last.
Thankfully, DuckDuckGo and StartPage allow me to customize their display to my liking w/o having to edit it on the fly. If only Google would get their head out of the ass and support the same, rather than only allowing their definition of "enhanced user experience".
Seriously, do we really *need* HTTPS for everything - like *most* web searches, browsing Wikipedia or News? I think not.
Additionally, any violations of these laws will result in life imprisonment for the board of directors and all executives.
Not harsh enough. They should be forced to get root canals from dentistry students getting their instructions live via videos streamed over that company's network. [ Any other ideas? ]
Thank you Lauren (?). Sue will be a tough act to follow, whenever I start dating again. Perhaps someday I'll meet someone and, if for no other reason than to piss off users turp182 and schneidafunk, it will be Sandra Bullock:-)
Sandra Bullock was in "The Net" and "Speed". "The Net" is my personal "Manos: Hands of Fate" (not the MST3K version). And in "Gravity" she is a medical officer who also seems to be an engineer.... I can't stand her.
Granted, The Net was techno-crap - the "whois" command doesn't resolve to a photo of someone's driver's license (sigh) - but you do know that she isn't the characters she plays - right? Then there's suspension of disbelief and all that - for example, Hubble and the ISS are in two completely different orbits that not even the Shuttle can transit.
Want some quality recent sci-fi, check out Europa Report...
You're right, "Europa Report" was excellent. The film Upside Down wasn't too bad either, especially from a visuals standpoint.
I've posted about this before, so don't want to bore anyone, but I kind of connected with her character's personal loss and willingness to simply give up, especially in the isolation of the situation. I think Sandra Bullock played that pretty well. (enough that I got a little choked up during the movie)
My wife of 20 years died of a brain tumor almost 8 years ago, seven weeks from diagnosis to death, and there are still times I want to curl up in bed, wishing all the air would get sucked out of the room, so I could wake up with her somewhere else... The reasons I don't simply give up is because (a) if there's something after this life, I'll see her again then; (b) if there is *not* anything after this life, then checking out early would be a waste; and (3) I know she would be disappointed in me if I quit.
I heard Gravity was a special effects masterpiece. However, I can't stand Sandra Bullock so I'll probably wait for the DVD.
I don't share your dislike of Sandra Bullock, and I'd be curious as to what that dislike is, but she does a pretty good job in this role portraying a strong, smart, yet vulnerable character in an impossible situation -- and I agree with fellow poster SteveFoerster about the experience of the movie:
Seeing it on DVD won't make you like Sandra Bullock better but it will greatly diminish the amazing immerse experience of this particular movie. Seriously, see it on the largest screen you can find and see it in 3-D (and I'm usually a 3-D hater). You won't be sorry.
I generally don't see things in 3-D, but didn't mind for this. In any case, the 3-D is less important than IMAX (though they're usually combined for this movie), and the visual clarity and sound quality of an IMAX theater really shine here.
Thanks for explaining the behavior. Doesn't actually make it any better that is installs something unwanted, but thanks anyway. The manual uninstall steps listed on the technet post worked and I prefer *not* having an unwanted network service running, especially for a feature I will *never* use, regardless of how much MS would like me to.
It boggles my mind why you would want to continue doing business with a company that treats you this way. You must be a glutton for punishment.
Want and need are (often) two different things. My company uses Office 2010; I sometimes work from home... yada, yada, yada.
Just to clarify things, the troublesome Office 2010 sub-component I'm talking about is the Upload Center (MSOSYNC) used by Sharepoint (previously Groove) and auto started just about all the time. Here's a link listing many other people annoyed that they cannot easily disable and remove this component / service - along the instructions from someone in the World with the manual steps to actually do so via msiexec.
The Sharepoint IE plugins must still be disabled manually in IE and/or removed via editing the registry.
I've been a Unix(ish) SA and system programmer, on just about every platform known from PC to Cray-2, for ~30 years, as well as a Windows SA / programmer. So while not a glutton for punishment, I certainly have taken some. Computers piss me off.
To make a car analogy, it's like buying a Ford Pinto, and complaining about how it catches on fire, but then refusing to buy a different car, and continuing to buy more Pintos while whining about the gas tank problem.
Apparently, failing to think things though is your primary intelligence flaw. Correcting your analogy: It's like buying a Ford Pinto, explicitly declining the "burst into flames upon rear impact" option, finding that Ford had included it anyway - even though it could have easily been removed (fixed) by Ford, and whining about it when you wake up in the burn ward after your car unexpected exploded.
You see Grasshopper. The Office 2010 install program *allows* the use to deselect Sharepoint, except that it installs it anyway. Re-running it and selecting Modify, allows you to (again) deselect it, but it doesn't get removed. However, explicitly uninstalling the component from the command line, using the component's ID (after digging around on the Internet to find said ID) *does* remove the Sharepoint component - and (wonders of wonders) Office continues to function correctly. So. The component is entirely, functionally, optional yet MS *wants* it installed regardless. In addition, the IE Sharepoint plugins Office 2010 added must be disabled and removed manually.
If you don't like MS's products, you're free to not buy them, and to use something different.
Typical non-thoughtful, unhelpful sheep/fan-boy reply. So, I'm not allowed to complain when a package installed a component that I explicitly deselected? I'm not allowed to complain when a product force installs something unnecessary - something with network/tracking capability to boot - and/or automatically adds other things, like IE plugins (like the Office Sharepoint component does)?
I'm not a huge fan of MS, but their products have their uses (and I have to use it for Work) and I understand that even sipping the Kool-Aid has some consequences, but it doesn't mean I have to go quietly into that goodnight - neither should you dumb-ass.
If you don't like my commentary, you're free to not read them (or reply to them) and read something else.
other enterprise software (Sharepoint, etc.) which is all integrated together,
I'm familiar with Sharepoint. It took me all afternoon to disable it and/or uninstall its parts from Office 2010 (even after deselecting it during installation). [Thank you MS for force installing a component I didn't want and will *never* use - ever.]
Elop... would eliminate company projects such as Xbox and Bing while focusing resources on Office.
Yes, because putting all your eggs into one basket is always a good idea. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but this seems like a stupid business decision. Good thing there aren't any free alternatives to Office so Microsoft can keep milking their Office cash cow forever...
Elop decided to abandon Nokia's popular homegrown operating systems, including Symbian, in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone.
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Hmm... Microsoft exec gets hired by Nokia, kills in-house OS products in favor of Microsoft OS, company's market share tanks, gets considered for CEO at Microsoft. Nope, nothing fishy here. [/sarcasm]
I don't know about that - the assassin seemed to be as healthy and happy at the end of the movie as the crew of the Serenity. And, despite being the evil sinister bastard all through the movie, he seemed to adapt to the new reality in which he found himself.
"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords." ... A whole lot of government figures should be throwing themselves on their swords....
As I remember from Serenity, it didn't turn out so well for those with the swords...
Big tactical idea: line up all the little ships as armor around the big unarmored ones.
On a more practical note, imagine all the propellent required to have all those little ships circling the big ship at the velocities depicted... (I remember thinking that when George Clooney's character in Gravity was buzzing about with his jetpack.)
The impact of the ACA is that hundreds of millions of people will have to pay more to get less. All in some twisted attempts to insure he mythical 30 million who don't have insurance.
Your assertions, commonly repeated by Fox News, are only burdened by actual facts, easily and routinely demonstrated by 30 second clips on The Daily Show.
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This is already a pain in the ass for me. I use a local proxy/filter (Proxomitron) to allow me to filter my HTTP streams for any application w/o having to configure them individually - or in cases where something like AdBlock would be browser specific. This doesn't work for HTTPS.
For example, Google's switch to HTTPS-only annoys me to no end as I use Proxomitron to clean up and/or disable their various shenanigans - like the damn sidebar, URL redirects, suggestions, etc... At this time using "nosslsearch.google.com" with CNAME of "www.google.com" works to get a non-encrypted page (in Proxomitron, I simply edit the "Host:" header for nosslsearch.google.com hits to be www.google.com) but who know how much longer that will last.
Thankfully, DuckDuckGo and StartPage allow me to customize their display to my liking w/o having to edit it on the fly. If only Google would get their head out of the ass and support the same, rather than only allowing their definition of "enhanced user experience".
Seriously, do we really *need* HTTPS for everything - like *most* web searches, browsing Wikipedia or News? I think not.
Additionally, any violations of these laws will result in life imprisonment for the board of directors and all executives.
Not harsh enough. They should be forced to get root canals from dentistry students getting their instructions live via videos streamed over that company's network. [ Any other ideas? ]
Profit first, principle second.
Profit *is* the principle... From Better Off Ted (one of the funniest work-place shows ever), season 1, episode 4, "Racial Sensitivity":
Veronica: "Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
Thank you Lauren (?). Sue will be a tough act to follow, whenever I start dating again. Perhaps someday I'll meet someone and, if for no other reason than to piss off users turp182 and schneidafunk, it will be Sandra Bullock :-)
Sandra Bullock was in "The Net" and "Speed". "The Net" is my personal "Manos: Hands of Fate" (not the MST3K version). And in "Gravity" she is a medical officer who also seems to be an engineer .... I can't stand her.
Granted, The Net was techno-crap - the "whois" command doesn't resolve to a photo of someone's driver's license (sigh) - but you do know that she isn't the characters she plays - right? Then there's suspension of disbelief and all that - for example, Hubble and the ISS are in two completely different orbits that not even the Shuttle can transit.
Want some quality recent sci-fi, check out Europa Report...
You're right, "Europa Report" was excellent. The film Upside Down wasn't too bad either, especially from a visuals standpoint.
I've posted about this before, so don't want to bore anyone, but I kind of connected with her character's personal loss and willingness to simply give up, especially in the isolation of the situation. I think Sandra Bullock played that pretty well. (enough that I got a little choked up during the movie)
My wife of 20 years died of a brain tumor almost 8 years ago, seven weeks from diagnosis to death, and there are still times I want to curl up in bed, wishing all the air would get sucked out of the room, so I could wake up with her somewhere else... The reasons I don't simply give up is because (a) if there's something after this life, I'll see her again then; (b) if there is *not* anything after this life, then checking out early would be a waste; and (3) I know she would be disappointed in me if I quit.
Remember Sue...
I heard Gravity was a special effects masterpiece. However, I can't stand Sandra Bullock so I'll probably wait for the DVD.
I don't share your dislike of Sandra Bullock, and I'd be curious as to what that dislike is, but she does a pretty good job in this role portraying a strong, smart, yet vulnerable character in an impossible situation -- and I agree with fellow poster SteveFoerster about the experience of the movie:
Seeing it on DVD won't make you like Sandra Bullock better but it will greatly diminish the amazing immerse experience of this particular movie. Seriously, see it on the largest screen you can find and see it in 3-D (and I'm usually a 3-D hater). You won't be sorry.
I generally don't see things in 3-D, but didn't mind for this. In any case, the 3-D is less important than IMAX (though they're usually combined for this movie), and the visual clarity and sound quality of an IMAX theater really shine here.
I haven't been to the movies theater in four years and just went this past weekend... to see Ender's Game.
That was fairly good, but you should have seen Gravity instead - in IMAX. Just my $.02.
That's a problem if you're one of those types of people that would rather go on sucking nitrogen/oxygen mixtures instead of vaccum up there.
Okay that's going to cause some confusion, because in Soviet Russia, vacuum sucks you.
Thanks for explaining the behavior. Doesn't actually make it any better that is installs something unwanted, but thanks anyway. The manual uninstall steps listed on the technet post worked and I prefer *not* having an unwanted network service running, especially for a feature I will *never* use, regardless of how much MS would like me to.
It boggles my mind why you would want to continue doing business with a company that treats you this way. You must be a glutton for punishment.
Want and need are (often) two different things. My company uses Office 2010; I sometimes work from home ... yada, yada, yada.
Just to clarify things, the troublesome Office 2010 sub-component I'm talking about is the Upload Center (MSOSYNC) used by Sharepoint (previously Groove) and auto started just about all the time. Here's a link listing many other people annoyed that they cannot easily disable and remove this component / service - along the instructions from someone in the World with the manual steps to actually do so via msiexec.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/79e88e72-e9a2-4740-a41e-dbec4511ec59/disable-upload-center-via-oct-2010
The Sharepoint IE plugins must still be disabled manually in IE and/or removed via editing the registry.
I've been a Unix(ish) SA and system programmer, on just about every platform known from PC to Cray-2, for ~30 years, as well as a Windows SA / programmer. So while not a glutton for punishment, I certainly have taken some. Computers piss me off.
To make a car analogy, it's like buying a Ford Pinto, and complaining about how it catches on fire, but then refusing to buy a different car, and continuing to buy more Pintos while whining about the gas tank problem.
Apparently, failing to think things though is your primary intelligence flaw. Correcting your analogy: It's like buying a Ford Pinto, explicitly declining the "burst into flames upon rear impact" option, finding that Ford had included it anyway - even though it could have easily been removed (fixed) by Ford, and whining about it when you wake up in the burn ward after your car unexpected exploded.
You see Grasshopper. The Office 2010 install program *allows* the use to deselect Sharepoint, except that it installs it anyway. Re-running it and selecting Modify, allows you to (again) deselect it, but it doesn't get removed. However, explicitly uninstalling the component from the command line, using the component's ID (after digging around on the Internet to find said ID) *does* remove the Sharepoint component - and (wonders of wonders) Office continues to function correctly. So. The component is entirely, functionally, optional yet MS *wants* it installed regardless. In addition, the IE Sharepoint plugins Office 2010 added must be disabled and removed manually.
If you don't like MS's products, you're free to not buy them, and to use something different.
Typical non-thoughtful, unhelpful sheep/fan-boy reply. So, I'm not allowed to complain when a package installed a component that I explicitly deselected? I'm not allowed to complain when a product force installs something unnecessary - something with network/tracking capability to boot - and/or automatically adds other things, like IE plugins (like the Office Sharepoint component does)?
I'm not a huge fan of MS, but their products have their uses (and I have to use it for Work) and I understand that even sipping the Kool-Aid has some consequences, but it doesn't mean I have to go quietly into that goodnight - neither should you dumb-ass.
If you don't like my commentary, you're free to not read them (or reply to them) and read something else.
other enterprise software (Sharepoint, etc.) which is all integrated together,
I'm familiar with Sharepoint. It took me all afternoon to disable it and/or uninstall its parts from Office 2010 (even after deselecting it during installation). [Thank you MS for force installing a component I didn't want and will *never* use - ever.]
I'll stick with my Qualcomm QCP-1900 from 1998 - w/o a GPS chip - that just makes voice calls.
Elop ... would eliminate company projects such as Xbox and Bing while focusing resources on Office.
Yes, because putting all your eggs into one basket is always a good idea. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but this seems like a stupid business decision. Good thing there aren't any free alternatives to Office so Microsoft can keep milking their Office cash cow forever...
Elop decided to abandon Nokia's popular homegrown operating systems, including Symbian, in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone.
.
Hmm... Microsoft exec gets hired by Nokia, kills in-house OS products in favor of Microsoft OS, company's market share tanks, gets considered for CEO at Microsoft. Nope, nothing fishy here. [/sarcasm]
I don't know about that - the assassin seemed to be as healthy and happy at the end of the movie as the crew of the Serenity. And, despite being the evil sinister bastard all through the movie, he seemed to adapt to the new reality in which he found himself.
I'm not sure politicians are that enlightened :-)
A school in British Columbia (the province that now even California can call flakey)
Not very Canadian of you - eh?
And here we have it. A Low information voter who gets his information from Fox News.
FTFY - You're welcome.
"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords." ...
... A whole lot of government figures should be throwing themselves on their swords.
As I remember from Serenity, it didn't turn out so well for those with the swords...
What happens at the nazi themed BDSM orgy stays at the nazi themed BDSM orgy!!!
One would think, but sooner of later it's going to spread to Poland, France...
Best kill everyone just to be sure, eh?
From orbit. (It's the *only* way to be sure.)
Big tactical idea: line up all the little ships as armor around the big unarmored ones.
On a more practical note, imagine all the propellent required to have all those little ships circling the big ship at the velocities depicted ... (I remember thinking that when George Clooney's character in Gravity was buzzing about with his jetpack.)
Separating art from the creator is all too often a very important skill, that too many people lack.
There a very poignant or very funny Hitler as (failed) artist comment to be made here - somewhere ...
The impact of the ACA is that hundreds of millions of people will have to pay more to get less. All in some twisted attempts to insure he mythical 30 million who don't have insurance.
Your assertions, commonly repeated by Fox News, are only burdened by actual facts, easily and routinely demonstrated by 30 second clips on The Daily Show.