Obviously if a site does not contain one of these headers it will default to allow from all. Also called not breaking the whole internet with your new browser feature.
I believe FreeDOS is shipped because otherwise the vendor gets in trouble with various goverments/Microsoft for shipping a computer without an operating system, even if the system is shipped on the understanding the customer will just replace the OS anyway.
You can validate who is on the other end just fine (accounts, encryption keys, etc), what you can't check is what they are doing (cheating, displaying information sent to then in unintended ways or using scripts to generate input faster than a human could).
I am sure the people like me who impulse buy cheap weekend deals on steam that I wouldn't have otherwise outweigh the people who won't use steam because it's evil.
It's the future of PC gaming for that console style ease of use.
They claim to manage the user opt out via a cookie, from reading the FAQ it appears this cookie is injected into every domain you visit
As explained on the Customer Choice Process page, when a user opts into the BT Webwise service, a Webwise UID cookie, containing a unique random number is placed on the userâ(TM)s computer. This master cookie is held is the Webwise.net domain. When the user then visits other websites, the Webwise system stores a copy of the Webwise UID cookie within the browser in each the website domains visited by the user. The cookies are clearly labelled as belonging to Webwise as noted above and as a result can be easily identified as different to those cookies which may be placed by the website itself.
Since it claims to need no client software, I must assume they do this by injecting extra cookie headers into all the HTTP responses sent to my browser....
I believe phorm acts like other advertisers in that you place areas on your site for ads and link to them, the scary bit is they do a deal with ISPs to DPI your web traffic to help profile you for these adverts, so the user has to opt-out of their profiling. This is the scary/illegal bit they are getting bashed for, and the EU is looking into.
As far as I can tell, British Telecom's retail ISP (BT) throttle Bittorrent (BT) to around 10 kb/sec down during peak times, but leaving torrents on overnight works well, as they unthrottle around midnight, and I can usually max out my 8Mb/sec ADSL with bittorrent overnight. This is the only limitation I have come across so am pretty happy with them as an ISP.
It's an interesting idea, that a user could save the javascript from a page, modify it and then command their browser to use the local modified version when viewing the page. It would be cool right up until the web server changes their API and you need to update your local javascript to cope with the change. This also assumes that your page is just enough HTML to load the javascript and is all dynamically generated from there on in, the gmail interface being a good example of this.
I guess a server could even offer a mechanism to store a users modified javascript and serve it to them when it detects they are logged in, and even offer a 'store' for people to choose which javascript client to use with their service.
This does not answer why anyone would do this ofcourse, just thinking out loud.
It would be trivial for Blizzard to disable QuestHelper, or any other addons that broke the rules. They don't need to go after the developer because they control the game, and get to decide which UI code gets executed while people are playing on their servers. Maybe some people work around whatever system they have in place to identify it, but most won't.
I will be very happy if they kill QuestHelper with this update, because of the damage it did to my WOW gaming experience (moaning noobs who cant read the quest text wondering what to do every time the big arrow on their screen stops working).
I agree that the update manager exposes too much to the poor end user who just wants to press a button and be told that everything will be all right.
Perhaps the answer here is for the update manager to wrap up any updates that do not change a bit of software exposed to the user in the applications menu as a generic 'Ubuntu system update'. You could put the details of the actual packages included somewhere accessible, and just push one system package a week/2nd tuesday of the month.
All the people I know that own Rock band, etc, pride themselves on how many songs they have on their list, but only ever play the same 20 or so unless forced to do so by the game. People who care less about music have more fun playing whatever comes up.
So if allocating votes by population is bad, how about you do it per geographic area? So each state gets a number of electoral college votes (or some much larger and finer grained body) dependant on its area. So instead of it being sucks if you don't live in a swing state, it sucks if you live in a city. Means that candidates have to campaign everywhere though, as preaching to a few city blocks with 100,000 people is worth the same as 3 farmers in the middle of nowhere.
Payment to use ATMs? In the UK you can use any banks card with any ATM free, and the only ones that charge to withdraw trend to be standalone ones in small shops/bars/clubs, and it is always prominently displayed that it will charge.
From my understanding the crack was to emulate the VM to the point it could run existing programs, these new disks come with a more complex program their emulated VM can't handle.
Windows XP will let you move your 'My Dcouments' folder to somewhere else, but Documents and Settings/$user is always on C:, you cant change this, so will end up with settings/files on C anyhow.
I was refunded when I has an incomplete journey due to the problem a couple of weeks ago, I got an email even saying I would be refunded next time I touched in at my 'home' station (auto topup only tops up at your home station you designate, maybe any station would refund you if it were not enabled on your card)
I understand what you are getting at, but this leads to far bigger problems. At the moment in the UK, and throughout most of Europe, it is illegal to carry out intercepts without judicial authority. Expecting the ISPs to monitor all of the traffic and make a judgement call on its content means that they are no longer simply looking for the protocol (i.e. BT) but they are actually reading the content of the traffic. While Governments currently might think this is a good idea they will probably change their mind when people start complaining to national courts and possibly the European Court of Human Rights regarding illegal intercepts.
The ISP does not examine the traffic at this stage, but a RIAA style organisation joins torrents then sends ISPs a IP/timestamp for them to send a nastygram to. This way only the ISP does not release the customers details.
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Obviously if a site does not contain one of these headers it will default to allow from all. Also called not breaking the whole internet with your new browser feature.
I believe FreeDOS is shipped because otherwise the vendor gets in trouble with various goverments/Microsoft for shipping a computer without an operating system, even if the system is shipped on the understanding the customer will just replace the OS anyway.
Yes, because those things are evil, and soon result in huge piles of nested font tags and random stylesheet fragments everywhere.
Don't even ask what happens when someone pastes a word document into one, it makes me weep .
Aw man, now you have me wikipediaing old childhood shows. I remember watching that.
You can validate who is on the other end just fine (accounts, encryption keys, etc), what you can't check is what they are doing (cheating, displaying information sent to then in unintended ways or using scripts to generate input faster than a human could).
I am sure the people like me who impulse buy cheap weekend deals on steam that I wouldn't have otherwise outweigh the people who won't use steam because it's evil.
It's the future of PC gaming for that console style ease of use.
As explained on the Customer Choice Process page, when a user opts into the BT Webwise service, a Webwise UID cookie, containing a unique random number is placed on the userâ(TM)s computer. This master cookie is held is the Webwise.net domain. When the user then visits other websites, the Webwise system stores a copy of the Webwise UID cookie within the browser in each the website domains visited by the user. The cookies are clearly labelled as belonging to Webwise as noted above and as a result can be easily identified as different to those cookies which may be placed by the website itself.
Since it claims to need no client software, I must assume they do this by injecting extra cookie headers into all the HTTP responses sent to my browser....
I believe phorm acts like other advertisers in that you place areas on your site for ads and link to them, the scary bit is they do a deal with ISPs to DPI your web traffic to help profile you for these adverts, so the user has to opt-out of their profiling. This is the scary/illegal bit they are getting bashed for, and the EU is looking into.
Do you think they supply a user agent for dynamic generation of robots.txt to block them?
As far as I can tell, British Telecom's retail ISP (BT) throttle Bittorrent (BT) to around 10 kb/sec down during peak times, but leaving torrents on overnight works well, as they unthrottle around midnight, and I can usually max out my 8Mb/sec ADSL with bittorrent overnight. This is the only limitation I have come across so am pretty happy with them as an ISP.
How about posting in the April fools thread and undoing moderation to said thread at the same time?
It's an interesting idea, that a user could save the javascript from a page, modify it and then command their browser to use the local modified version when viewing the page. It would be cool right up until the web server changes their API and you need to update your local javascript to cope with the change. This also assumes that your page is just enough HTML to load the javascript and is all dynamically generated from there on in, the gmail interface being a good example of this.
I guess a server could even offer a mechanism to store a users modified javascript and serve it to them when it detects they are logged in, and even offer a 'store' for people to choose which javascript client to use with their service.
This does not answer why anyone would do this ofcourse, just thinking out loud.
It would be trivial for Blizzard to disable QuestHelper, or any other addons that broke the rules. They don't need to go after the developer because they control the game, and get to decide which UI code gets executed while people are playing on their servers. Maybe some people work around whatever system they have in place to identify it, but most won't.
I will be very happy if they kill QuestHelper with this update, because of the damage it did to my WOW gaming experience (moaning noobs who cant read the quest text wondering what to do every time the big arrow on their screen stops working).
I agree that the update manager exposes too much to the poor end user who just wants to press a button and be told that everything will be all right.
Perhaps the answer here is for the update manager to wrap up any updates that do not change a bit of software exposed to the user in the applications menu as a generic 'Ubuntu system update'. You could put the details of the actual packages included somewhere accessible, and just push one system package a week/2nd tuesday of the month.
The TomTom needs a FAT32 driver so it can read maps/mp3s/etc off a SDCard the user loaded up using windows.....
All the people I know that own Rock band, etc, pride themselves on how many songs they have on their list, but only ever play the same 20 or so unless forced to do so by the game. People who care less about music have more fun playing whatever comes up.
So if allocating votes by population is bad, how about you do it per geographic area? So each state gets a number of electoral college votes (or some much larger and finer grained body) dependant on its area. So instead of it being sucks if you don't live in a swing state, it sucks if you live in a city. Means that candidates have to campaign everywhere though, as preaching to a few city blocks with 100,000 people is worth the same as 3 farmers in the middle of nowhere.
Just thinking out loud, carry on.
Payment to use ATMs? In the UK you can use any banks card with any ATM free, and the only ones that charge to withdraw trend to be standalone ones in small shops/bars/clubs, and it is always prominently displayed that it will charge.
Pressing 3 + 2 * 2 = in windows calculator.
Standard: 10 (as a handheld calculator would produces, as it calculates 3 + 2 when you press *)
Scientific: 7 (as the scientific calculator on my desk produces)
What's the problem?
From my understanding the crack was to emulate the VM to the point it could run existing programs, these new disks come with a more complex program their emulated VM can't handle.
Give it to the EU, then just hope you never need anything changed.
It's only the DNS root, nothing critical to the internet working like IP address allocation or proper routing.
Windows XP will let you move your 'My Dcouments' folder to somewhere else, but Documents and Settings/$user is always on C:, you cant change this, so will end up with settings/files on C anyhow.
A format played by default in windows media player.
I was refunded when I has an incomplete journey due to the problem a couple of weeks ago, I got an email even saying I would be refunded next time I touched in at my 'home' station (auto topup only tops up at your home station you designate, maybe any station would refund you if it were not enabled on your card)
I understand what you are getting at, but this leads to far bigger problems. At the moment in the UK, and throughout most of Europe, it is illegal to carry out intercepts without judicial authority. Expecting the ISPs to monitor all of the traffic and make a judgement call on its content means that they are no longer simply looking for the protocol (i.e. BT) but they are actually reading the content of the traffic. While Governments currently might think this is a good idea they will probably change their mind when people start complaining to national courts and possibly the European Court of Human Rights regarding illegal intercepts.
The ISP does not examine the traffic at this stage, but a RIAA style organisation joins torrents then sends ISPs a IP/timestamp for them to send a nastygram to. This way only the ISP does not release the customers details.