there is a big difference between add-ons & gadgets & plugins.
if you look at FF & Chrome their extensions/add-ons work in a predefined and hopefully secure environment. IE"s "plug-ins" work at raw executable code level at the users permission level and there for can not easily be contained by the browser, hence how easy it is to use a hole in flash to infect the system.
MS would be stupid not to allow extensions/add-ons in the same manner that FF and Chrome and i believe Opera does. But killing "plug-ins" is by far a great decision for security and overall long-term usage.
Hasn't IE been running in a sandbox since Windows Vista?
You know, I read this post and you really sound quite arrogant about the whole thing. Who are you or anyone to decide what is or isn't offensive? That is why places like the US have laws that protect ALL speech. Any abridgement of that simply leads to abuse. I'm sure most people here agree this guy is a piece of shit and we'd all like to give him a swift kick in the ass, but that doesn't mean you should be able to throw him in jail for something he SAID. Saying obnoxious things makes you a dick head, not a criminal and there is simply no good way to draw a line and what is and is offensive. I don't think anyone has the right to not be offended. Your whole post is just so inflammtory and butt hurt as if you just got done arguing with someone. I really don't see what all that bitterness is about. What is wrong with having more freedom? I have no problem with people being assholes to me (in a legal sense) because I understand that the right to free speech is important. Maybe you'd feel different if you suddenly found yourself on the other side of the law. That's what people like you never seem to understand. Things like this are great when they're punishing people you don't like.
Our constitution is structured the way it is because government was not a tool of the people at the time. We lived in a country where the government regularly abused the law to enrich itself. I'm sure you can understand that. Quite frankly, I can't think of a better way to do it anyway. When the government has the power to throw you in jail for things, they need to be limited. It's not that I inherently don't trust "the government" so much as I don't trust PEOPLE. People in power can quite easily turn into corrupted pieces of shit and you can't tell me that's true. For every good leader there is a very bad one it seems.
I mean I see what you're trying to say, but um...no. Fuck all that. No one needs automated police alerts and we sure as hell don't need a camera recording our every action. Jesus christ. I don't even want that stupid "safe driver" program whatever insurance company does that where it records your driving habits. No thanks. I like my privacy and I'm not completely insane about my privacy like some of the tin foil hats here.
Yes. Darwin's system.
When a company gets hacked and customer's information is taken, they lose business. If they get hacked enough, they go out of business. Do the customers get hurt? Sure. They get smarter too.
If a company is smart and secures their data, then they don't get hacked and they keep their customers and the customers don't get hurt.
More laws are not always the best answer.
I think the real point here is that I shouldn't have to keep getting screwed when I have absolutely no say in the matter. I don't KNOW what a company's internal security practices are like so how the hell am I going to be able to do anything about it? What you're saying is ridiculous. You can't know until it is too late and that doesn't seem to really convince anyone else but the company that was attacked to actually do something. So no, your "Darwin" system fails in my mind. I don't see that would ever work in the real world.
I don't get this huge hate for any and all regulation. Sometimes it is necessary. To say it is always necessary or that it is never necessary just makes you sound like a jackass. Come over here and live in the real world with the rest of us, please.
Actually to be fair...all the sales people at my work actually scan in contracts and stuff all the time. Sure, the setup requires a little more care from the IT people than a fax machine but people can learn it and IT people can set it up to be relatively painless. In the end, it's your job so figure it out. If you're too stupid to figure it out, you're going to be hurting. Plus once you have other people in that department that know how to do it, they naturally provide support to the newbies in the department. You see a lot of things skip going to IT like that. People generally DO actually help each other out.
Man this is EXACTLY what I'm doing right now. My contract is up in like March and I hope this is all sorted out because even Verizon is better than fucking AT&T. *shudder*
Hah. Another Litestep user. Man, I remember those days. Eventually, I tried out Linux instead of trying to fight with Windows. I still use Windows and Linux, of course, but learning Linux was valuable for my nerdly needs.
I remember one of the Lightstep themes I used was a Starcraft theme and it even had that green cursor thing. I played (and still do) with a lot of stupid pointless shit when I was younger. I always wanted to do whatever I could to make my computer look cool. Half the time shit was broken but I didn't care as long as it looked cool. Lol.
It's easy but it doesn't work for shit. I used the PS3 with Tversity for a while and it was a buggy pile of crap. Movies would just randomly quit in the middle, if you tried to fast forward it would get all screwed up, and Tversity would just randomly disappear from your list of media servers sometimes. Also I sometimes had to turn my PS3 off to get it to refresh the list of available movies/TV shows because the PS3 would cache and there was no way to manually make it take another look. I mean yeah, it worked most of the time, but a lot of the time it irritated the shit out of me.
I have a media center PC with XBMC on it now and except for a few hiccups here and there which are commonplace for any PC, it works great. I even got one of those Logitech HarmonyOne remote, bought a cheap media center remote to use the IR receiver, and I can use it with XBMC now along with the TV and receiver.
Best part of having a media center always on is that I can also run other servers on it. I've got a remote desktop session with VMWare running an Apache web server and I've also got some game servers like Minecraft and Terraria. Plus I have a half way decent video card in there for using DXVA (1080p video can bring my dual core processor to its knees) and friends can use it to play some PC games on my HDTV. It's kind of cool to watch.
The openness of the source has absolutely nothing to do with this at all. I don't even get why you're saying that. Redhat is open source and they are anything but this. There are plenty of examples of open source COMPANIES. Not every OSS developer is some kid in his mom's basement like some people seem to think. Some of them actually do have deadlines.
The service that hasn't actually officially opened yet to the public has no users? I, for one, am shocked. Absolutely shocked. It's invite only, for crying out loud, shut up already. Let's just wait and see what happens when they actually release the damn thing. You can't say it's dead and you can't say it's going to kill Facebook because IT HAS NOT EVEN BEEN OPENED FOR PUBLIC REGISTRATION YET. Good lord, people. Let's all take a step back for a second, take a deep breathe, and give it a little time before you make your baseless predictions.
Apparently. I cannot believe how much complaining I see on here about every single graphical change. Almost all of them can be reverted by simply changing a few options. Takes a few minutes and hell, you usually don't even have your settings changed if you upgrade the browser. I had to revert stuff to defaults for Firefox 4 a few times to get it to look the new way (which I actually like...I guess I'm weird). Defaults are defaults. We're nerds here...who the hell ever uses ALL of the defaults here?
For a bunch of technology enthusiasts some of you really hate change which really just perplexes me. All I ever seem to see here is complaining about everything. It's exhausting after a while.
What are you doing that your Firefox crashes all the time? Seriously. I see this a lot and I don't understand it. I use Firefox all day at home and work and it is rare for it to crash on me completely. The UI locks up for maybe 10 seconds here and there, I'll give you that. Some computers it does not play nice with on the UI...but outright crashing I don't really experience.
It's amazing they took something that was so championed by the open source community and are now driving it into the ground. Do they honestly think people are going to give a shit anymore if they keep trying to screw the community? They're either going to fork it or they're going to move on to something completely different and then Oracle can go fuck themselves. Either way, they really need to learn how to place nice. It's getting ridiculous now.
Are you being serious right now? You're actually suggesting that somewhere such as, I don't know...Phoenix...where it gets up to 110 regularly, just opening the windows would allow you to not use your A/C? Are you going to tell us next that closing your windows during the winter is all you need to do to keep the house warm in Minnesota? No. Let me tell you what happens when it's 110 outside and you turn off the A/C: You can open every god damn window in your house and your will watch the temperature climb into the high 90's inside the house.
Seriously though, I don't even understand why that is your suggestion. I turn my heat off in the winter here usually but during the summer you would pretty much want to die. Maybe if he lived somewhere like CA near a beach or something that would fly but the grandparent is clearly talking about somewhere REALLY hot. I think I'll pass on that. That's not a novel idea. You clearly aren't paying any attention to what he was talking about. Opening your windows somewhere where it's over 100 degrees outside is not going to happen.
I cannot possibly agree with you more. Even when you got it to work it ran like complete shit. We have good internet out in these parts and this game was horrible. It had shamefully bad lagging for 2 people playing together with extremely low latency connections. We ended up having to use a program called Game Ranger and suddenly everything was wonderful. Hardly any lag at all. Gamespy sucks really bad. I'm still irritated I had to put up with that for so long before we finally found the hack way (Game Ranger latches onto you using LAN mode). Also while they're at it, the ability to have hosted servers like Left 4 Dead would be nice, but I'd understand if they didn't want to deal with that. It's probably expensive.
Ugh, I hate Slashdot's new designs sometimes. I tried posting once and it looked completely screwed up and as if it hadn't been posted twice and then both posts appeared.
See the problem here is that you could still get in trouble even if you aren't doing business with them, can't you? The case right here is that someone said they were using illegal software when they aren't. Would it not be just as easy to say you were using software that you aren't even using?
No kidding. I don't think I've seen someone get modded so high while completely missing the joke either. Do any of you actually know who any of the people he mentioned actually are?:p
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there is a big difference between add-ons & gadgets & plugins.
if you look at FF & Chrome their extensions/add-ons work in a predefined and hopefully secure environment. IE"s "plug-ins" work at raw executable code level at the users permission level and there for can not easily be contained by the browser, hence how easy it is to use a hole in flash to infect the system.
MS would be stupid not to allow extensions/add-ons in the same manner that FF and Chrome and i believe Opera does. But killing "plug-ins" is by far a great decision for security and overall long-term usage.
Hasn't IE been running in a sandbox since Windows Vista?
You know, I read this post and you really sound quite arrogant about the whole thing. Who are you or anyone to decide what is or isn't offensive? That is why places like the US have laws that protect ALL speech. Any abridgement of that simply leads to abuse. I'm sure most people here agree this guy is a piece of shit and we'd all like to give him a swift kick in the ass, but that doesn't mean you should be able to throw him in jail for something he SAID. Saying obnoxious things makes you a dick head, not a criminal and there is simply no good way to draw a line and what is and is offensive. I don't think anyone has the right to not be offended. Your whole post is just so inflammtory and butt hurt as if you just got done arguing with someone. I really don't see what all that bitterness is about. What is wrong with having more freedom? I have no problem with people being assholes to me (in a legal sense) because I understand that the right to free speech is important. Maybe you'd feel different if you suddenly found yourself on the other side of the law. That's what people like you never seem to understand. Things like this are great when they're punishing people you don't like.
Our constitution is structured the way it is because government was not a tool of the people at the time. We lived in a country where the government regularly abused the law to enrich itself. I'm sure you can understand that. Quite frankly, I can't think of a better way to do it anyway. When the government has the power to throw you in jail for things, they need to be limited. It's not that I inherently don't trust "the government" so much as I don't trust PEOPLE. People in power can quite easily turn into corrupted pieces of shit and you can't tell me that's true. For every good leader there is a very bad one it seems.
I mean I see what you're trying to say, but um...no. Fuck all that. No one needs automated police alerts and we sure as hell don't need a camera recording our every action. Jesus christ. I don't even want that stupid "safe driver" program whatever insurance company does that where it records your driving habits. No thanks. I like my privacy and I'm not completely insane about my privacy like some of the tin foil hats here.
Yes. Darwin's system. When a company gets hacked and customer's information is taken, they lose business. If they get hacked enough, they go out of business. Do the customers get hurt? Sure. They get smarter too. If a company is smart and secures their data, then they don't get hacked and they keep their customers and the customers don't get hurt. More laws are not always the best answer.
I think the real point here is that I shouldn't have to keep getting screwed when I have absolutely no say in the matter. I don't KNOW what a company's internal security practices are like so how the hell am I going to be able to do anything about it? What you're saying is ridiculous. You can't know until it is too late and that doesn't seem to really convince anyone else but the company that was attacked to actually do something. So no, your "Darwin" system fails in my mind. I don't see that would ever work in the real world.
I don't get this huge hate for any and all regulation. Sometimes it is necessary. To say it is always necessary or that it is never necessary just makes you sound like a jackass. Come over here and live in the real world with the rest of us, please.
This is really unfortunately true. It really depresses me sometimes. We should have known better but he's basically the only person we had to turn to.
Actually to be fair...all the sales people at my work actually scan in contracts and stuff all the time. Sure, the setup requires a little more care from the IT people than a fax machine but people can learn it and IT people can set it up to be relatively painless. In the end, it's your job so figure it out. If you're too stupid to figure it out, you're going to be hurting. Plus once you have other people in that department that know how to do it, they naturally provide support to the newbies in the department. You see a lot of things skip going to IT like that. People generally DO actually help each other out.
Man this is EXACTLY what I'm doing right now. My contract is up in like March and I hope this is all sorted out because even Verizon is better than fucking AT&T. *shudder*
Hah. Another Litestep user. Man, I remember those days. Eventually, I tried out Linux instead of trying to fight with Windows. I still use Windows and Linux, of course, but learning Linux was valuable for my nerdly needs.
I remember one of the Lightstep themes I used was a Starcraft theme and it even had that green cursor thing. I played (and still do) with a lot of stupid pointless shit when I was younger. I always wanted to do whatever I could to make my computer look cool. Half the time shit was broken but I didn't care as long as it looked cool. Lol.
Look everyone, this guy uses Linux! UPVOTE! UPVOTE!! :p
It's easy but it doesn't work for shit. I used the PS3 with Tversity for a while and it was a buggy pile of crap. Movies would just randomly quit in the middle, if you tried to fast forward it would get all screwed up, and Tversity would just randomly disappear from your list of media servers sometimes. Also I sometimes had to turn my PS3 off to get it to refresh the list of available movies/TV shows because the PS3 would cache and there was no way to manually make it take another look. I mean yeah, it worked most of the time, but a lot of the time it irritated the shit out of me.
I have a media center PC with XBMC on it now and except for a few hiccups here and there which are commonplace for any PC, it works great. I even got one of those Logitech HarmonyOne remote, bought a cheap media center remote to use the IR receiver, and I can use it with XBMC now along with the TV and receiver.
Best part of having a media center always on is that I can also run other servers on it. I've got a remote desktop session with VMWare running an Apache web server and I've also got some game servers like Minecraft and Terraria. Plus I have a half way decent video card in there for using DXVA (1080p video can bring my dual core processor to its knees) and friends can use it to play some PC games on my HDTV. It's kind of cool to watch.
The openness of the source has absolutely nothing to do with this at all. I don't even get why you're saying that. Redhat is open source and they are anything but this. There are plenty of examples of open source COMPANIES. Not every OSS developer is some kid in his mom's basement like some people seem to think. Some of them actually do have deadlines.
The service that hasn't actually officially opened yet to the public has no users? I, for one, am shocked. Absolutely shocked. It's invite only, for crying out loud, shut up already. Let's just wait and see what happens when they actually release the damn thing. You can't say it's dead and you can't say it's going to kill Facebook because IT HAS NOT EVEN BEEN OPENED FOR PUBLIC REGISTRATION YET. Good lord, people. Let's all take a step back for a second, take a deep breathe, and give it a little time before you make your baseless predictions.
So many mods must be struggling with wanting to mod you up more but wanting to claw their eyes out at the "tongue and check" phrase in there.
In Firefox 5 it appears to select the tab bar. Or at least that is what it does for me.
Apparently. I cannot believe how much complaining I see on here about every single graphical change. Almost all of them can be reverted by simply changing a few options. Takes a few minutes and hell, you usually don't even have your settings changed if you upgrade the browser. I had to revert stuff to defaults for Firefox 4 a few times to get it to look the new way (which I actually like...I guess I'm weird). Defaults are defaults. We're nerds here...who the hell ever uses ALL of the defaults here?
For a bunch of technology enthusiasts some of you really hate change which really just perplexes me. All I ever seem to see here is complaining about everything. It's exhausting after a while.
What are you doing that your Firefox crashes all the time? Seriously. I see this a lot and I don't understand it. I use Firefox all day at home and work and it is rare for it to crash on me completely. The UI locks up for maybe 10 seconds here and there, I'll give you that. Some computers it does not play nice with on the UI...but outright crashing I don't really experience.
It's amazing they took something that was so championed by the open source community and are now driving it into the ground. Do they honestly think people are going to give a shit anymore if they keep trying to screw the community? They're either going to fork it or they're going to move on to something completely different and then Oracle can go fuck themselves. Either way, they really need to learn how to place nice. It's getting ridiculous now.
Are you being serious right now? You're actually suggesting that somewhere such as, I don't know...Phoenix...where it gets up to 110 regularly, just opening the windows would allow you to not use your A/C? Are you going to tell us next that closing your windows during the winter is all you need to do to keep the house warm in Minnesota? No. Let me tell you what happens when it's 110 outside and you turn off the A/C: You can open every god damn window in your house and your will watch the temperature climb into the high 90's inside the house.
Seriously though, I don't even understand why that is your suggestion. I turn my heat off in the winter here usually but during the summer you would pretty much want to die. Maybe if he lived somewhere like CA near a beach or something that would fly but the grandparent is clearly talking about somewhere REALLY hot. I think I'll pass on that. That's not a novel idea. You clearly aren't paying any attention to what he was talking about. Opening your windows somewhere where it's over 100 degrees outside is not going to happen.
I cannot possibly agree with you more. Even when you got it to work it ran like complete shit. We have good internet out in these parts and this game was horrible. It had shamefully bad lagging for 2 people playing together with extremely low latency connections. We ended up having to use a program called Game Ranger and suddenly everything was wonderful. Hardly any lag at all. Gamespy sucks really bad. I'm still irritated I had to put up with that for so long before we finally found the hack way (Game Ranger latches onto you using LAN mode). Also while they're at it, the ability to have hosted servers like Left 4 Dead would be nice, but I'd understand if they didn't want to deal with that. It's probably expensive.
Ugh, I hate Slashdot's new designs sometimes. I tried posting once and it looked completely screwed up and as if it hadn't been posted twice and then both posts appeared.
Because the people making the laws are the same people that don't want anyone to criticize them?
Because the people making the laws are the ones that don't want anyone to criticize them?
The law might suck, but businessmen have to play by the law.
Man that statement is cute. I laughed a little when I read it. I mean I get the context, but still. Lol.
See the problem here is that you could still get in trouble even if you aren't doing business with them, can't you? The case right here is that someone said they were using illegal software when they aren't. Would it not be just as easy to say you were using software that you aren't even using?
No kidding. I don't think I've seen someone get modded so high while completely missing the joke either. Do any of you actually know who any of the people he mentioned actually are? :p