My question is: what happens when you insert this happy little 'message' and its CSS into a page with more intensive style-sheeting? php? Google's a fine example because it's so blank, but somehwere along the line, this is going to break some webdesigner's coding.
Why is everybody letting Rogers get away with these shenanigans? Rogers' practises must be costing some business users serious money. I simply don't understand.
Because Canada isn't the United States when it comes to internet - yes, the entire country is connected, but there's often little to no competition; so companies CAN get away with murder. I live out in Vancouver so i don't have to deal with Rogers (just it's evil twin brother, Shaw) but even out here there's only two real choices for high-speed internet; 1 cable company and one DSL; and there are some neighborhoods that are DSL-only & some cable-only. I won't even go into how patchy service can get away from the cities.
For alot of people, it's high-speed with Rogers or back to the dialup line. Rogers knows this, and uses this monopoly to pull pranks like this one.
you're either going to have to downgrade her account (i'm assuming she's on admin) or you're going to have to deal with it.
I share a computer with 3 other tech-illiterate family members - i'm not a crazy codemonkey or anything myself, but i know a spyware-infested program when i see one, so it falls to me to keep the computer clean. i basically end up rooting through their shit on a monthly basis and removing anything i find suspect. if anyone complains, i run a spyware scan, and, when 10-20 spyware/malware programs show up in their doc's/local settings/etc., they generally don't complain anymore. but i'm getting the impression you don't want to do that, so they only way is to limit what she can via account controls until she smartens up.
Flat-out refusing to fix her computer would probably help, too. If no one's going to clean up after her shit anymore, she's either going to learn to be more careful or learn to fix it herself. Both are positive outcomes.
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it appears they're inserting it into the page.
My question is: what happens when you insert this happy little 'message' and its CSS into a page with more intensive style-sheeting? php? Google's a fine example because it's so blank, but somehwere along the line, this is going to break some webdesigner's coding.
Why is everybody letting Rogers get away with these shenanigans? Rogers' practises must be costing some business users serious money. I simply don't understand. Because Canada isn't the United States when it comes to internet - yes, the entire country is connected, but there's often little to no competition; so companies CAN get away with murder. I live out in Vancouver so i don't have to deal with Rogers (just it's evil twin brother, Shaw) but even out here there's only two real choices for high-speed internet; 1 cable company and one DSL; and there are some neighborhoods that are DSL-only & some cable-only. I won't even go into how patchy service can get away from the cities. For alot of people, it's high-speed with Rogers or back to the dialup line. Rogers knows this, and uses this monopoly to pull pranks like this one.
has quite a few grammatical errors. Is this a result of disk failure?
you're either going to have to downgrade her account (i'm assuming she's on admin) or you're going to have to deal with it. I share a computer with 3 other tech-illiterate family members - i'm not a crazy codemonkey or anything myself, but i know a spyware-infested program when i see one, so it falls to me to keep the computer clean. i basically end up rooting through their shit on a monthly basis and removing anything i find suspect. if anyone complains, i run a spyware scan, and, when 10-20 spyware/malware programs show up in their doc's/local settings/etc., they generally don't complain anymore. but i'm getting the impression you don't want to do that, so they only way is to limit what she can via account controls until she smartens up. Flat-out refusing to fix her computer would probably help, too. If no one's going to clean up after her shit anymore, she's either going to learn to be more careful or learn to fix it herself. Both are positive outcomes.