I stopped using Netscape as their "new and improved" releases became huge, very slow bloated with unneeded features that don't even belong in a browser (email? Use an email client!) and crashed all the time. (It took the Mozilla guys to do for free what Netscape engineers were paid to do and failed to do: make a nice version of that browser). McAfee, etc should not have to worry about this as long as they improve their products instead of turn them into unusable monsters.
Thanks for the perfect alibi list! The buck? Why hehehe, it never got here!
Can they borrow and change the Google slogan?
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Same Old, Same Old at HP?
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The writing was on the wall when they started to file nasty frivolous lawsuits against other companies that made cartridges for HP printers. HP: Do only evil.
1)Customer looks for tech support number in product manual and literature. No luck.
2)Customer looks for tech support number on web site. No luck. (all you can find is a completely worthless FAQ that is missing even the most basic of questions and answers, alongside a Knowledge...er Know-Nothing-Base)
3)Customer finds the support number by looking in the company's domain registration record.
4)Customer calls number. After being re-routed and bounced and made to call other numbers, customer finally reaches tech support.
5) Customer waits 37 minutes to talk to someone.
6) Customer gets a filtering person, who creates a service record after giving the customer the third degree (When the process is repeated, the filtering person always has to re-create the service record because the previous one forgot to save it)
7) Tech support person asks what the problem is. Customer describes. Support person asks customer to be put on hold. The company disconnects customer after 10 minutes of waiting.
8) Repeat #5,#6,#7 several times. Usually in the same order, but not always (because you so often get staff people who hang up on you instead of transfer you).
9) Real tech support person on the phone! He asks: "Xvswwwovv wavvwat qzxwzvxx?".
Phroggy is correct. Phoning home means phoning home, regardless of the content being transferred during the "phone call." A decent browser won't do this without asking, and should by default not have such spyware features turned on in the first place.
"Phoning home means sending personal, identifying information...."
You are confusing the instance of phoning home (which is clearly happening here) with what is said during the instance of phoning home. Which is quite debatable.
"And you can probably turn it off."
Problem solved if it asked you once, during the installation, if you wanted it turned on in the first place (default answer = No). Then you aren't tricked into turning it on.
"Come on, folks. There's privacy and there's paranoia.
And then there is proper browser behavior. Browsers have no business connecting to pages you don't tell them to or to material not specifically linked into the pages you go to, unless you actually tell the browser to do so.
Such spyware should not be turned on in the first place unless it asks. Browsers have no business connecting to anything other than material you directly link to, material that is linked to specifically in the pages you go to, and the DNS itself....unless you choose to make special exceptions.
The problem is easily solved with Opera asking (during the installation) if you want this feature turned on. The default choice would be "no."
Excellent example of the use of the word "classic" just to mean something older. The term used to be limited to something special. It is similar to how the word "diva" is now used for any female vocalist.
"Same boring box"
So? Who cares? What matters is what is on the computer's screen. A can of spray paint can make any box any color anyway.
"Similarly, there was an old American electronic company called 'Packard-Bell' that made good electronics in the past. Ain't here no more"
It was eaten by NEC, and as far as I know, the name has been gone for several years. I'm pretty sure you can't buy a Packard Bell now. They weren't known for good electronics anyway. But you can buy Apple products.
Given the lack of connections to the Oa battery, can't you possibly get its green energy from kryptonite? At least that stuff is found on THIS planet. An added bonus is that it can help you ensure that you are the only superhero guarding sector 2814.
At the beginning of the 1990s, there was an Apple Computer. At the end of the 1990s, there was still an Apple Computer. Count it as a success, considering all the companies that did not make it.
It's not mere semantics. This involves fundamental differences in word meaning. No, I do not know "damn well what is meant", since what you are claiming has nothing to do with what is going on.
"If you take something without paying for it...."
Of course. However, remember, "apples and oranges". Duplication of files does not meet the definition of taking. You are quite "delusional" if you have such a poor knowledge of what words mean.
"....then you are stealing it. No amount of rationalizing can dispute that fact."
Next time, why not mention something which is actually stealing? The aura of real applicability might be refreshing.
Now, take the challenge. Show me one instance of theft that ever occured using p2p.
I'm sure I'd win, very easily. No judge or lawyer could pass the bar with a misconception that confuses "theft" with "trespassing". I am guessing you might be one of those who thinks that if it is illegal, it must be theft.
"First it's software, then it's computer chips, then it's robots, then it's...well we all saw Terminator..."
But for a while, we will have to put up with Microsoft Robot, whose face goes entirely blue for no reason at all, which crashes into the wall several times a day, which has trouble obeying you since it is constantly bombarded with commands from all over the world, and which considers the Asimov Laws of Robots as mere recommendations.
"Rather than waste another 4 hours on un-intelligible tech support, I bought my son another computer from a different manufacturer. It's worked flawlessly for the past 3 years""
1)Customer looks for tech support number in product manual and literature. No luck.
2)Customer looks for tech support number on web site. No luck.
3)Customer finds the support number by looking in the company's domain registration record.
4)Customer calls number. After being re-routed and bounced and made to call other numbers, customer finally reaches tech support.
5) Customer waits 37 minutes to talk to someone.
6) Customer gets a filtering person, who creates a service record after giving the customer the third degree (When the process is repeated, the filtering person always has to re-create the service record because the previous one forgot to save it)
7) Tech support person asks what the problem is. Customer describes. Support person asks customer to be put on hold. The company disconnects customer after 10 minutes of waiting.
8) Repeat #5,#6,#7 several times. Usually in the same order.
9) Real tech support person on the phone! He asks: "Xvswwwovv wavvwat qzxwzvxx?".
I find an ever increasing reduncancy between a videogame with hi-res state-of-the-art graphics, and a movie of such a game. There's a diminishing narrow gap between seeing such a movie, and the demo mode of the actual game. Let's see Peter Jackson work on something else, please.
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I stopped using Netscape as their "new and improved" releases became huge, very slow bloated with unneeded features that don't even belong in a browser (email? Use an email client!) and crashed all the time. (It took the Mozilla guys to do for free what Netscape engineers were paid to do and failed to do: make a nice version of that browser). McAfee, etc should not have to worry about this as long as they improve their products instead of turn them into unusable monsters.
Thanks for the perfect alibi list! The buck? Why hehehe, it never got here!
The writing was on the wall when they started to file nasty frivolous lawsuits against other companies that made cartridges for HP printers. HP: Do only evil.
1)Customer looks for tech support number in product manual and literature. No luck.
2)Customer looks for tech support number on web site. No luck. (all you can find is a completely worthless FAQ that is missing even the most basic of questions and answers, alongside a Knowledge...er Know-Nothing-Base)
3)Customer finds the support number by looking in the company's domain registration record.
4)Customer calls number. After being re-routed and bounced and made to call other numbers, customer finally reaches tech support.
5) Customer waits 37 minutes to talk to someone.
6) Customer gets a filtering person, who creates a service record after giving the customer the third degree (When the process is repeated, the filtering person always has to re-create the service record because the previous one forgot to save it)
7) Tech support person asks what the problem is. Customer describes. Support person asks customer to be put on hold. The company disconnects customer after 10 minutes of waiting.
8) Repeat #5,#6,#7 several times. Usually in the same order, but not always (because you so often get staff people who hang up on you instead of transfer you).
9) Real tech support person on the phone! He asks: "Xvswwwovv wavvwat qzxwzvxx?".
Phroggy is correct. Phoning home means phoning home, regardless of the content being transferred during the "phone call." A decent browser won't do this without asking, and should by default not have such spyware features turned on in the first place.
"Phoning home means sending personal, identifying information...."
You are confusing the instance of phoning home (which is clearly happening here) with what is said during the instance of phoning home. Which is quite debatable.
"And you can probably turn it off."
Problem solved if it asked you once, during the installation, if you wanted it turned on in the first place (default answer = No). Then you aren't tricked into turning it on.
"Come on, folks. There's privacy and there's paranoia.
And then there is proper browser behavior. Browsers have no business connecting to pages you don't tell them to or to material not specifically linked into the pages you go to, unless you actually tell the browser to do so.
Such spyware should not be turned on in the first place unless it asks. Browsers have no business connecting to anything other than material you directly link to, material that is linked to specifically in the pages you go to, and the DNS itself....unless you choose to make special exceptions.
The problem is easily solved with Opera asking (during the installation) if you want this feature turned on. The default choice would be "no."
(Crickets chirping; assorted other night sounds indicating)
That's what you get when you play a recording of Rush Limbaugh's insightful and biting humor directed at right-wing targets.
It sure made $39.95 disappear from your sight, didn't it?
"If memory serves he fights stupid politicians on both sides of the aisle."
While going light on the politicians who are on his own side of the aisle, of course.
"OS X vs. Classic Mac OS"
Excellent example of the use of the word "classic" just to mean something older. The term used to be limited to something special. It is similar to how the word "diva" is now used for any female vocalist.
"Same boring box"
So? Who cares? What matters is what is on the computer's screen. A can of spray paint can make any box any color anyway.
"Similarly, there was an old American electronic company called 'Packard-Bell' that made good electronics in the past. Ain't here no more"
It was eaten by NEC, and as far as I know, the name has been gone for several years. I'm pretty sure you can't buy a Packard Bell now. They weren't known for good electronics anyway. But you can buy Apple products.
Given the lack of connections to the Oa battery, can't you possibly get its green energy from kryptonite? At least that stuff is found on THIS planet. An added bonus is that it can help you ensure that you are the only superhero guarding sector 2814.
At the beginning of the 1990s, there was an Apple Computer. At the end of the 1990s, there was still an Apple Computer. Count it as a success, considering all the companies that did not make it.
IF FLCL is that anime thing, I'd never seen it or even heard of it before (I just now looked up the acronym to see what it was).
It's not mere semantics. This involves fundamental differences in word meaning. No, I do not know "damn well what is meant", since what you are claiming has nothing to do with what is going on.
"If you take something without paying for it...."
Of course. However, remember, "apples and oranges". Duplication of files does not meet the definition of taking. You are quite "delusional" if you have such a poor knowledge of what words mean.
"....then you are stealing it. No amount of rationalizing can dispute that fact."
Next time, why not mention something which is actually stealing? The aura of real applicability might be refreshing.
Now, take the challenge. Show me one instance of theft that ever occured using p2p.
I'm sure I'd win, very easily. No judge or lawyer could pass the bar with a misconception that confuses "theft" with "trespassing". I am guessing you might be one of those who thinks that if it is illegal, it must be theft.
"! It's probably the new iPod and he thought it was a MS product! He's brainwashed by the DRM! It doesn't run Linux! "
I think so. Someone put an iPod inside a condom and completely fooled the reviewer, who could not help stroking it.
Shemmie was equating "having spyware feature in browser turned on" with "increased security".
Let me guess: your player character will be in the guise of one of a million monkeys with a million typewriters.
"First it's software, then it's computer chips, then it's robots, then it's...well we all saw Terminator..."
But for a while, we will have to put up with Microsoft Robot, whose face goes entirely blue for no reason at all, which crashes into the wall several times a day, which has trouble obeying you since it is constantly bombarded with commands from all over the world, and which considers the Asimov Laws of Robots as mere recommendations.
"Isn't this against everything we say when it comes to Microsoft?"
I recall "us" bashing Microsoft for having spyware enabled. This "phoning home" is a form of spyware.
I'd like it even better if they shipped with it turned off, and you could turn it on if you wanted it.
"Rather than waste another 4 hours on un-intelligible tech support, I bought my son another computer from a different manufacturer. It's worked flawlessly for the past 3 years""
1)Customer looks for tech support number in product manual and literature. No luck.
2)Customer looks for tech support number on web site. No luck.
3)Customer finds the support number by looking in the company's domain registration record.
4)Customer calls number. After being re-routed and bounced and made to call other numbers, customer finally reaches tech support.
5) Customer waits 37 minutes to talk to someone.
6) Customer gets a filtering person, who creates a service record after giving the customer the third degree (When the process is repeated, the filtering person always has to re-create the service record because the previous one forgot to save it)
7) Tech support person asks what the problem is. Customer describes. Support person asks customer to be put on hold. The company disconnects customer after 10 minutes of waiting.
8) Repeat #5,#6,#7 several times. Usually in the same order.
9) Real tech support person on the phone! He asks: "Xvswwwovv wavvwat qzxwzvxx?".
I find an ever increasing reduncancy between a videogame with hi-res state-of-the-art graphics, and a movie of such a game. There's a diminishing narrow gap between seeing such a movie, and the demo mode of the actual game. Let's see Peter Jackson work on something else, please.