I'd like to point out that it's the republicans who are trying to axe this section 220. Democrat Harry Reid sponsored the original bill. Actually, I don't see what's wrong with the intent of section 220, though it is badly worded. If someone is being PAID to blog a certain point of view (not their own) we should know about it. However, it bothers me they redefine a lobbyist. I thought lobbyists lobbied congressmen, their aids, or their aids' aids. I didn't know someone politicing the general public was also a lobbyist.
Once they have your guns, the rest of your rights are academic.
I think D'ell stopped shipping (and taking orders for) for a month or so in the spring a particular configuration of a core duo notebook for a similar reason. Then some of the ones they did ship still had a noise issue. I haven't heard it myself, but I'm probably too deaf anyway.
D'ell can pull a product and still have plenty of SKUs to offer. Apple cannot. Especially not now.
ABSOLUTELY! We really need a way to format columns in tables. Not because I want to use tables for layout, but because I want to show tabular data in a table! Maybe one column content needs to be red, or bold, or whatever. DUH! Without this, tables are very useless.
I understand the root of the problem is the XHTML DOM where everything has one and only one parent for inheritence. Well, tables are fundamentally two dimensional structures and the XHTML DOM just doesn't allow for this. In the XHTML DOM, a table is structurally no different than a nested list.
CSS is dependent on the DOM, and unless someone fixes the DOM, any implementation done in pure CSS to fix this would likely be a hack subject to breaking.
SOMEONE PLEASE FIX IT! I don't care if it does violate some principle of the DOM.
I agree completely! Please use my default font family for the article summary text and discussion.
Even more important, please use my default font size for the article summary text and discussion!!
One of the main things I've always liked about/. is it didn't presume to choose my font face and font size for me, they way most other inferior websites do. Now/. wants to join the ranks of the inferior??
Why would this new designer think I want to read body text that is 85% of the size I've already chosen for my system!?
I propose a CLIENT side internet security challenge. I cannot script MacOS, but I'm led to believe it is easy to do. So, script two applications as semi-gullible users: Mail and Safari.
For Mail, publish an email address that the Mail client on the target system receives and hackers can spam. Script the mail client to open (view) messages, and to open links in messages. Finally, you perhaps can open (view) attachments to messages. This mimics social engineering techniques which are here for good. Your computer should offer some protection against this.
For Safari, publish a web form for hackers to submit URLs to. Perhaps they can submit a series of them. Script Safari to visit these URLs as if the user had typed them in, or clicked a link.
Run both scripts in the normal MacOS Finder shell with normal user rights (not admin)*.
In both scripts, if an authentication dialog (or any warning dialog) is prompted, cancel it. The user is gullible, but not dumb.
Success would be if no hacker acquired a shell or launched a process.
Utter failure would be if a hacker acquired a root shell and launched a process with root authority.
Mild failure would be a hacker acquiring a shell, or launching a process, but without gaining root authority. I doubt this would happen.
* MacOS does have one of the same big flaws that MS Windows does. If a home user gets a system and sets it up, the OS only leads them to create a second (other than root) administrator account. It doesn't lead them to create a non-admin account for everyday computing. So most home users are running on the internet with administrator rights. Granted, the MacOS second administrator is not as powerful as the WinXP second administrator (which might as well be root), but is privileged.
If the first client security challenge succeeds, repeat but have the Finder and apps run with administrator rights, as a normal home user will do.
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I'd like to point out that it's the republicans who are trying to axe this section 220. Democrat Harry Reid sponsored the original bill.
Actually, I don't see what's wrong with the intent of section 220, though it is badly worded. If someone is being PAID to blog a certain point of view (not their own) we should know about it. However, it bothers me they redefine a lobbyist. I thought lobbyists lobbied congressmen, their aids, or their aids' aids. I didn't know someone politicing the general public was also a lobbyist.
Once they have your guns, the rest of your rights are academic.
I think D'ell stopped shipping (and taking orders for) for a month or so in the spring a particular configuration of a core duo notebook for a similar reason. Then some of the ones they did ship still had a noise issue. I haven't heard it myself, but I'm probably too deaf anyway.
D'ell can pull a product and still have plenty of SKUs to offer. Apple cannot. Especially not now.
Good for Apple to face up to it.
ABSOLUTELY!
We really need a way to format columns in tables. Not because I want to use tables for layout, but because I want to show tabular data in a table! Maybe one column content needs to be red, or bold, or whatever. DUH! Without this, tables are very useless.
I understand the root of the problem is the XHTML DOM where everything has one and only one parent for inheritence. Well, tables are fundamentally two dimensional structures and the XHTML DOM just doesn't allow for this. In the XHTML DOM, a table is structurally no different than a nested list.
CSS is dependent on the DOM, and unless someone fixes the DOM, any implementation done in pure CSS to fix this would likely be a hack subject to breaking.
SOMEONE PLEASE FIX IT! I don't care if it does violate some principle of the DOM.
I agree completely! Please use my default font family for the article summary text and discussion.
/. is it didn't presume to choose my font face and font size for me, they way most other inferior websites do. Now /. wants to join the ranks of the inferior??
Even more important, please use my default font size for the article summary text and discussion!!
One of the main things I've always liked about
Why would this new designer think I want to read body text that is 85% of the size I've already chosen for my system!?
I propose a CLIENT side internet security challenge. I cannot script MacOS, but I'm led to believe it is easy to do. So, script two applications as semi-gullible users: Mail and Safari.
For Mail, publish an email address that the Mail client on the target system receives and hackers can spam. Script the mail client to open (view) messages, and to open links in messages. Finally, you perhaps can open (view) attachments to messages. This mimics social engineering techniques which are here for good. Your computer should offer some protection against this.
For Safari, publish a web form for hackers to submit URLs to. Perhaps they can submit a series of them. Script Safari to visit these URLs as if the user had typed them in, or clicked a link.
Run both scripts in the normal MacOS Finder shell with normal user rights (not admin)*.
In both scripts, if an authentication dialog (or any warning dialog) is prompted, cancel it. The user is gullible, but not dumb.
Success would be if no hacker acquired a shell or launched a process.
Utter failure would be if a hacker acquired a root shell and launched a process with root authority.
Mild failure would be a hacker acquiring a shell, or launching a process, but without gaining root authority. I doubt this would happen.
* MacOS does have one of the same big flaws that MS Windows does. If a home user gets a system and sets it up, the OS only leads them to create a second (other than root) administrator account. It doesn't lead them to create a non-admin account for everyday computing. So most home users are running on the internet with administrator rights. Granted, the MacOS second administrator is not as powerful as the WinXP second administrator (which might as well be root), but is privileged.
If the first client security challenge succeeds, repeat but have the Finder and apps run with administrator rights, as a normal home user will do.