It's great that as a sysadmin/programmer using firefox, you've had less problems than with IE.
More importantly, when I switch my users to Firefox, they cease to have problems. More exploits or not, FF causes fewer headaches. When it's all said and done, I'll choose FF's problems over IE's problems.
Based off the concept of the Power Glove? Sorry, it's quite obviously based off the concept of the Duck Hunt light gun -- in usage if not in technology.
Am I the only one who uses "Ctrl-W", which closes the current tab, or the window if there is only one tab?
BTW, most of the complaints in TFA are nonissues in Opera: Find dialog, tab behavior and toolbar placement, Go menu.
The Go menu, or some similar button, must exist; users can't get the hang of hitting "Enter" to confirm the text they just typed in. I don't know why; I guess that users who were trained on GUIs don't realize that the keyboard is useful for entering commands.
There's a FF extension that does exactly what he wants with the download UI.
If the chili was available in a beanless version, I'd eat it constantly. As it stands, I tend to eat around the beans unless I'm extremely hungry -- but it's so much trouble I generally don't bother with the chili.
So what, I don't like beans. You got a problem with that?
I like Wendy's burgers and fries, though; some of the best drive-through fast food around. Tim Horton's beef stew & bread bowl is damn fine too.
ObSecurity: During the 2003-2004 Big Honkin Helmet Flamewar of rec.bicycles.*, in which I started a mere novice debater but grew to a Master Debater, I was notified (by a real smart fella named Frank Krygowski, who happens to disagree with me) that the effect described here is called Cognitive Dissonance. In that context, the issue was that people take risks while wearing a helmet that they wouldn't take without a helmet. However, the wiki for cognitive dissonance (at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance ) describes something that's not entirely unlike the effect in question.
Is Frank wrong, is the Wiki wrong, or am I not reading the Wiki well enough? After all, I am like, lazy and stuff.
Egads, man! I searched this discussion and only found two mentions of Big Brother, and one reply that discussed the TV show named Big Brother.
This isn't just the first step towards Orwell's "Big Brother Is Watching You!". This is IT! Another post mentioned secret files held by military and such; but this is centralized, out in the open, complete, and will certainly be oppressive, even if it's not flaunted by huge, everpresent murals of Big Brother watching you.
I, for one, do NOT welcome their always-surveilling overlords!
From TFA:
Until now, schools and police have been unable to communicate with each other about truancy records and criminality, which are often linked.
Well, how about a system that allows them to share data on demand? Such systems exist in the US, and seem reasonable.
Sex is something that people do, just like eating, crapping, and farting. Are you going to complain next that TV shows people eating, and this is gross?
For more on this concept, read "Camelot 30K" by Robert L Forward. It's about the discovery of an alien race, less technologically advanced than us. They aren't at all bothered by being seen crapping, but mouths and eating are a major taboo.
Well, when I signed up, it didn't say anything about disallowing business numbers from being placed on the list, just that they can't protect business numbers. Either way, the DNClist police haven't come knocking on my office door yet...
Before I started using spamgourmet.com, my spam address included the word 'spam'. Indeed, that works very well. I always figured that spammers were cutting the 'spam' out of the address, and sending to the result, which is either some poor sap or an invalid address.
I get those pre-recorded messages, too. They're quite illegal, but I'm quite lazy...
As for businesses, there's nothing to say you can't put a business number on the list. However, telemarketers are allowed to call business numbers even if they are on the list
Additionally, in the US anyway, you can block calls from private numbers (those with caller ID information blocked). This forces telemarketers to dial *82 to enable caller ID info to be sent (or to not bother calling you at all); once you have their originating number, you have an extremely useful piece of data for your battle.
I have one "real" email address for my friends and family. I've had it about four years now and have NEVER received spam on it. Never. Ever. It's completely spam free.
What is it, hmq7z4ty@p1dli.ru? Spammers send to random combinations of words and names nowadays...still, your point is valid.
When I want to buy something or sign up for something, I'll create a new account. For example username.newegg@url.com for newegg. If a retailer starts spamming me or sells my address, I'll know EXACTLY who did it and can avoid it again by simply deleting the account.
See spamgourmet.com for an easy way to do this. Signup is quick and painless, and it creates addresses like that automatically as you use them, like slashdotspam.mystaticname@spamgourmet.com -- or @ a bunch of other domains they've got. You can specify a default number of allowed emails, as well as explicitly doing it in the email address. Free. I use it constantly.
AC is right. Business numbers can be placed on the list, but they are not enforceable.
Also, I bet that as an ISP, you deal with companies who are affiliated with other companies, and can try to use the loophole for existing business relationships -- if they have any sort of business relationship to you, or you've ever called or contacted them, then they can market to you unless you explicitly tell them to only call you on existing business.
I'll grant you that I am not a great thrower, but 40 feet is really very high. Modern single family homes in the US are 8 to 12 feet per floor, plus the height of the roof, plus one to three feet for the exposed portion of the foundation.
Try throwing something, especially something with a lot of air resistance, to the top of the roof on a 3 story home of a common modern US style...that will be 35 to 50 feet, depending on roof pitch and width. 40 feet is high.
That's what makes us so superior. If I hadn't taken schitt apart when I was a little geekling, I would never have blossomed into the well rounded geek I am today. Hell, now I can even put stuff back together!
I have a customer with a PSC1210. I've been having an awful time trying to get the thing running. I'm going there tomorrow with a download of the latest driver...
OTOH, at my office we just got an Officejet 6210 all-in-one a few weeks ago. It's performing quite well, although the ADF occasionally feeds two sheets if they haven't been fanned.
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me too
(Haven't you ever read a help forum?)
(No?)
(Well, screw you, too!)
Are you saying that your programs somehow depend on buffer overruns, or that Mcaffee's BOP is broken?
It's great that as a sysadmin/programmer using firefox, you've had less problems than with IE.
More importantly, when I switch my users to Firefox, they cease to have problems. More exploits or not, FF causes fewer headaches. When it's all said and done, I'll choose FF's problems over IE's problems.
Based off the concept of the Power Glove? Sorry, it's quite obviously based off the concept of the Duck Hunt light gun -- in usage if not in technology.
Am I the only one who uses "Ctrl-W", which closes the current tab, or the window if there is only one tab?
BTW, most of the complaints in TFA are nonissues in Opera: Find dialog, tab behavior and toolbar placement, Go menu.
The Go menu, or some similar button, must exist; users can't get the hang of hitting "Enter" to confirm the text they just typed in. I don't know why; I guess that users who were trained on GUIs don't realize that the keyboard is useful for entering commands.
There's a FF extension that does exactly what he wants with the download UI.
If the chili was available in a beanless version, I'd eat it constantly. As it stands, I tend to eat around the beans unless I'm extremely hungry -- but it's so much trouble I generally don't bother with the chili.
So what, I don't like beans. You got a problem with that?
I like Wendy's burgers and fries, though; some of the best drive-through fast food around. Tim Horton's beef stew & bread bowl is damn fine too.
ObSecurity: During the 2003-2004 Big Honkin Helmet Flamewar of rec.bicycles.*, in which I started a mere novice debater but grew to a Master Debater, I was notified (by a real smart fella named Frank Krygowski, who happens to disagree with me) that the effect described here is called Cognitive Dissonance. In that context, the issue was that people take risks while wearing a helmet that they wouldn't take without a helmet. However, the wiki for cognitive dissonance (at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance ) describes something that's not entirely unlike the effect in question.
Is Frank wrong, is the Wiki wrong, or am I not reading the Wiki well enough? After all, I am like, lazy and stuff.
This isn't just the first step towards Orwell's "Big Brother Is Watching You!". This is IT! Another post mentioned secret files held by military and such; but this is centralized, out in the open, complete, and will certainly be oppressive, even if it's not flaunted by huge, everpresent murals of Big Brother watching you.
I, for one, do NOT welcome their always-surveilling overlords!
From TFA:Well, how about a system that allows them to share data on demand? Such systems exist in the US, and seem reasonable.
You'd rather see close-ups of those same bloated bastards stuffing their faces with eachothers' genitals?
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Well, when I signed up, it didn't say anything about disallowing business numbers from being placed on the list, just that they can't protect business numbers. Either way, the DNClist police haven't come knocking on my office door yet...
Before I started using spamgourmet.com, my spam address included the word 'spam'. Indeed, that works very well. I always figured that spammers were cutting the 'spam' out of the address, and sending to the result, which is either some poor sap or an invalid address.
I get those pre-recorded messages, too. They're quite illegal, but I'm quite lazy...
As for businesses, there's nothing to say you can't put a business number on the list. However, telemarketers are allowed to call business numbers even if they are on the list
Additionally, in the US anyway, you can block calls from private numbers (those with caller ID information blocked). This forces telemarketers to dial *82 to enable caller ID info to be sent (or to not bother calling you at all); once you have their originating number, you have an extremely useful piece of data for your battle.
I just RTFA at http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pag ename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1 117404907739&call_pageid=968350072197&col=96904886 3851&DPL=IvsNDS%2F7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes (as linked in another post), and indeed, the rules are essentially the same as the US DNC list. I don't remember if the US one exempts charities, however, I think it does.
However, that said, the one here in the US is quite effective.
AC is right. Business numbers can be placed on the list, but they are not enforceable.
Also, I bet that as an ISP, you deal with companies who are affiliated with other companies, and can try to use the loophole for existing business relationships -- if they have any sort of business relationship to you, or you've ever called or contacted them, then they can market to you unless you explicitly tell them to only call you on existing business.
I'll grant you that I am not a great thrower, but 40 feet is really very high. Modern single family homes in the US are 8 to 12 feet per floor, plus the height of the roof, plus one to three feet for the exposed portion of the foundation.
Try throwing something, especially something with a lot of air resistance, to the top of the roof on a 3 story home of a common modern US style...that will be 35 to 50 feet, depending on roof pitch and width. 40 feet is high.
I question their subjective guess of the height. 40 feet is pretty goddamn high to throw something.
What if you strap a piece of buttered toast to it's back first?
That's what makes us so superior. If I hadn't taken schitt apart when I was a little geekling, I would never have blossomed into the well rounded geek I am today. Hell, now I can even put stuff back together!
Cue the "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that" jokes...
I have a customer with a PSC1210. I've been having an awful time trying to get the thing running. I'm going there tomorrow with a download of the latest driver...
OTOH, at my office we just got an Officejet 6210 all-in-one a few weeks ago. It's performing quite well, although the ADF occasionally feeds two sheets if they haven't been fanned.