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    Well, I've seen beta of IE, and it's a pure COPY of firefox. So stopIE is probably a good idea. But what to do when all those lame users who don't know anything about windows, microsoft, and mostly firefox, or even internet browsers... will never get to this. We all can try to stop microsofts lame attempts to stay on track with latest browsers, but hey, it's microsoft man! you can just shut off such large and such impactive company. They distribute software all over the world, there would be zilions of computers with preinstalled windows and - IE on them. People who will use it, and don't bother with it while it's working ok. Anyway, it's a pretty useless fight when you already know the result, but it's worth of trying. :o


    I agree but we must do something to get a lot or most people to switch off of Internet Explorer. I think we should ask Microsoft to try to make a deal with Mozilla or something, and have firefox and Internet Explorer pre-installed on a windows machine. Sure Internet Explorer would still be the default browser to start with, but eventually, if we keep annoying Microsoft about it, Firefox might become the default web browser on a windows computer. But probably, once that happens, new browsers may come out that exceeds Firefox by far, and the whole thing will start all over again. Anyway, if we got enough people, and maybe support from Mozilla and maybe another large corporation Microsoft trusts to try to get microsoft to break a deal with Mozilla, it might work.

  5. Posted · Edited by jake658879 (see edit history) · Report reply

    I played it for about a year. Once you get past the bad graphics and staring at the browser, then it is alright for a wile. After that it got boring for a wile and I stopped playing. Then I got interested in getting rich. I automined 12,000 coal and 24,000 iron and made a lot of cannon balls and sold those for about, 8 or 9 million gp. Then I bought some extra crap for my character, and I bought 2 santa hats. I didnt play for like, a month and then i sold the hats for almost double the price. By then I was tired of getting rich so I tried doing quests. I just bought all the crap I needed for them and did the quests. Then I got really bored of the game. I just stopped logging in.By the way I rate it 2 out of 5

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    I have a cable and a wireless, 10mbps connection... I would get a better one but I really can't afford it right now. Besides I think 10mbps is alright, even though i wish I had better. But I definatly don't have 56k, and my connection is fairly fast for a wireless 10mbps. The extension still effects me a little though. It was hard to see the difference the day I tested it but I found it. (I was very bored that day.)

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    Divx player plays almost all types of movie files including .avi. It plays them much better than a normal player like winamp, or windows media player. The sound is also significantly better. You can burn DVDs and I think you can use it to make DVDs with "code" but I don't use that part so I'm not sure. In my opinion it's the best vidio player out there right now. Here is where it's at. http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx

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    I hate Norton. It doesn't update fast enough, so after it updates, there are new viruses still in your computer. It has some serious stability issues, it will just mess itself up out of nowhere on a scan, it's overpriced, and to destroy some viruses you have to do a bunch of stuff manually because thier scan isn't capable of destroying it by itself. I try to tell everyone not to use norton just as much as I tell everyone not to use Internet Explorer, Which is quite a bit.

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    Good for th UK users. The United States government better step up with something like that soon or I'm moving to the UK. :o This should boost webste production and make the internet more usable because more people in the UK will want to use the internet for thier needs, and the people that are using it will be able to do things much faster, in the UK of cource.

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    I think everyone should also have the fasterfox extension. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
    It significantly speeds up firefox and tweaks the performance of it too. It does work because I have compared regular firefox with all the same features as firefox without fasterfox on one computer, and firefox that is exactly the same as the other one except for the fact that it had fasterfox on it. I tested them both with the same internet, and i tried about 4 tests because i had to switch some variables around, and my results proved the same thing on all the tests. The fasterfox extension makes firefox significantly faster, and the internet connection last longer, and connect better even though it doesn't seem possible to make the internet connection connect better, fasterfox does it. It is a very good extension. I dont use firefox without it.

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    lol make the message on your website display "Internet Explorer is a horrible, peice of crap web browser. If you do not switch to firefox you are an idiot. here is the download link. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ Firefox does things 100x better than crappy Internet Explorer. Try it and find out for yourself what youve been missing out." I know thts long but thts wut i'm going to use because people need to know tht they have to get rid of IE. And when they get firefox, they will "Rediscover the web". That is the truth.

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    the biggest flaw tht i noticed is tht msn search gives too much results. like ok, for example,i had it index my website, so it added every single page on my website and all the pages linking to my website and some pages linking to the links to my website. Its just too much. if u search for a certain thing on it u get a bunch of crap u dont really need, so it takes a long time to find what you want

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    Ive played koc for about 3 years. My best rank was around 800. Its basically impossible to get in the top 100 and if you want to get a good rank at all below 1000 you have to dedicate all your time to it. I still play it out of addiction since i am much more involved with web developement now and the game takes up too much time and screws with your life. I dont even get on much anymore, like once a day, since i dont manage officers, or mess with clans, and have my commander use an autobuyer every half hour on my account. so my rank is up to like 1300 because i dont recruit any men and stuff.

  21. Posted · Edited by moonwitch (see edit history) · Report reply

    actually, gmail does have a lot of flaws, mainly security issues. I'm not sure if this information is completely accurate because i got it from a third party scource or wutever its called but here it is.

     

    Google offers more storage for your email than other Internet service providers that we know about. The powerful searching encourages account holders to never delete anything. It's easier to just leave it in the inbox and let the powerful searching keep track of it. Google admits that deleted messages will remain on their system, and may be accessible internally at Google, for an indefinite period of time.

     

    A new California law, the Online Privacy Protection Act, went into effect on July 1, 2004. Google changed their main privacy policy that same day because the previous version sidestepped important issues and might have been illegal. For the first time in Google's history, the language in their new policy made it clear that they will be pooling all the information they collect on you from all of their various services. Moreover, they may keep this information indefinitely, and give this information to whomever they wish. All that's required is for Google to "have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Google, its users or the public." Google, you may recall, already believes that as a corporation they are utterly incapable of bad faith. Their corporate motto is "Don't be evil," and they even made sure that the Securities and Exchange Commission got this message in Google's IPO filing.

     

    Google's policies are essentially no different than the policies of Microsoft, Yahoo, Alexa and Amazon. However, these others have been spelling out their nasty policies in detail for years now. By way of contrast, we've had email from indignant Google fans who defended Google by using the old privacy language â but while doing so they arrived at exactly the wrong interpretation of Google's actual position! Now those emails will stop, because Google's position is clear at last. It's amazing how a vague privacy policy, a minimalist browser interface, and an unconventional corporate culture have convinced so many that Google is different on issues that matter.

     

    After 180 days in the U.S., email messages lose their status as a protected communication under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and become just another database record. This means that a subpoena instead of a warrant is all that's needed to force Google to produce a copy. Other countries may even lack this basic protection, and Google's databases are distributed all over the world. Since the Patriot Act was passed, it's unclear whether this ECPA protection is worth much anymore in the U.S., or whether it even applies to email that originates from non-citizens in other countries.

     

    Google's relationships with government officials in all of the dozens of countries where they operate are a mystery, because Google never makes any statements about this. But here's a clue: Google uses the term "governmental request" three times on their terms-of-use page and once on their privacy page. Google's language means that all Gmail account holders have consented to allow Google to show any and all email in their Gmail accounts to any official from any government whatsoever, even when the request is informal or extralegal, at Google's sole discretion. Why should we send email to Gmail accounts under such draconian conditions?

     

     

    Problem 2: Google's policies do not apply

     

    The phrasing and qualifiers in the Gmail privacy policy are creepy enough, but nothing in any of Google's policies or public statements applies to those of us who don't have Gmail accounts. Google has not even formally stated in their privacy policy that they will not keep a list of keywords scanned from incoming email, and associate these with the incoming email address in their database. They've said that their advertisers won't get personally identifiable information from email, but that doesn't mean that Google won't keep this information for possible future use. Google has never been known to delete any of the data they've collected, since day one. For example, their cookie with the unique ID in it, which expires in 2038, has been tracking all of the search terms you've ever used while searching their main index.

     

    Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google since January 2000, used to work for the National Security Agency.

     

    Keyhole, the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in October 2004, was funded by the CIA.

     

    "We are moving to a Google that knows more about you." â Google CEO Eric Schmidt, February 9, 2005

     

     

    Problem 3: A massive potential for abuse

     

    If Google builds a database of keywords associated with email addresses, the potential for abuse is staggering. Google could grow a database that spits out the email addresses of those who used those keywords. How about words such as "box cutters" in the same email as "airline schedules"? Can you think of anyone who might be interested in obtaining a list of email addresses for that particular combination? Or how about "mp3" with "download"? Since the RIAA has sent subpoenas to Internet service providers and universities in an effort to identify copyright abusers, why should we expect Gmail to be off-limits?

     

    Intelligence agencies would love to play with this information. Diagrams that show social networks of people who are inclined toward certain thoughts could be generated. This is one form of "data mining," which is very lucrative now for high-tech firms, such as Google, that contract with federal agencies. Email addresses tied to keywords would be perfect for this. The fact that Google offers so much storage turns Gmail into something that is uniquely dangerous and creepy.

     

     

    Problem 4: Inappropriate ad matching

     

    We don't use Gmail, but it is safe to assume that the ad matching is no better in Gmail, than it is in news articles that use contextual ad feeds from Google. Here's a screen shot that shows an inappropriate placement of Google ads in a news article. We also read about a lawyer who is experimenting with Gmail. He sent himself a message, and discovered that the law practice footer he uses at the bottom of all of his email triggered an ad for a competing law firm.

     

    Another example is seen in the Google ads at the bottom of this story about Brandon Mayfield. There are two ads. One mentions sexual assault charges (sex has nothing to do with the story), and the other is about anti-terrorism. The entire point of this article, as well as a New York Times piece on May 8, 2004, is that a lawyer has had his career ruined due to overreaction by the FBI, based on disputed evidence. He was arrested as a material witness and his home and office were searched. The NYT (page A12) says that "Mr. Mayfield was arrested before investigators had fully examined his phone records, before they knew if he had ever met with any of the bombing suspects, before they knew if he had ever traveled to Spain or elsewhere overseas. His relatives said he had not been out of the United States for 10 years." The only evidence is a single fingerprint on a plastic bag, and some FBI officials have raised questions about whether this print is a match. While Mr. Mayfield will get his day in court, it appears that Google's ads have already convicted him, and for good measure added some bogus sexual assault charges as well. Would Mr. Mayfield be well-advised to send email to Gmail account holders to plead his case?

     

    The Wichita Eagle is pleased to present Google's recommendation for an alarm company that can "protect your home and family." One tiny problem is that the trigger for this ad is an article about an alarm installer who worked for this company for 14 years, while moonlighting as a serial killer.

     

    Our last example shows three ads fed by Google at the bottom of a Washington Post column titled "Gmail leads way in making ads relevant." The columnist argues that Google's relevant ads improve the web, and therefore she finds nothing objectionable about Gmail. These Google-approved ads offer PageRank for sale, something which only a year ago, Google would have considered high treason. Yes, these ads are "relevant" â the column is about Google, and the ads are about PageRank. But here's the point: A relevant ad that shows poor judgment is much worse than an irrelevant ad that shows poor judgment. The ads at the bottom of her column disprove her pro-Google arguments. She has no control over this, and is probably not even aware that it happened.

     

    Most writers, even if they are only writing an email message instead of a column in a major newspaper, have more respect for their words than Google does. Don't expect these writers to answer their Gmail.

     

    Esther Dyson, queen of the digerati, gets it wrong

     

    "We're not going to have any choice but to send mail to people at Gmail just to function in the e-mail world," says Daniel Brandt, founder of the Google-Watch.org Web site. "And what guarantees do we have that all this won't end up on some bureaucrat's desk at some intelligence agency someday?" But those who support Gmail say such privacy concerns are not Google issues so much as constitutional ones, best addressed to Congress and law-enforcement agencies. "They've got a beef with the wrong person. The problem there is the FBI, not Google," says Dyson. "And in the scheme of things, I'd rather have Google than my employer have access to my personal mail." â Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2004

     

    The point is this: Some two-thirds of all Google searches come in from outside the U.S., and Gmail will also have a global reach. We're not dealing with only the FBI (and yes, the same privacy advocates who oppose Gmail are dealing with the FBI), but potentially with hundreds of agencies in dozens of countries. Google has no data retention policies, and never comments on their relationships with governments. The problem must be addressed at the source, which is Google. Elitist digerati do a disservice to the entire world when they assume such narrow points of view.

     

    Privacy: Not enough, and too much!

     

    While there's no privacy for non-Gmail users who receive mail from a Gmail account and might want to reply, there is too much privacy for those who use Gmail to send spammy, abusive, or threatening messages. Unlike Hotmail, Yahoo mail, and most other web mail services, browser-based Gmail does not show the originating IP address in the header. This means that system administrators who are trying to stop abuse cannot identify a Gmail abuser without asking Google for assistance. And normal users, assuming they can read headers, cannot check the identity of someone sending from Gmail. (With an IP address, you can at least do a quick check on the country or city of origin by looking it up at dnsstuff.com or some similiar service.) Since Google always seems to be too busy making billions to bother with complaints, many decide it's easier to just say "no" to all Gmail.

    scource: http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

     

     

    also see http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ for the huge issues about privacy.

     

    So yeah, it doesn't suprise me at all tht a 14 year old kid could find tht flaw. Gmail is very good but they still have issues to work out. They need to change the privacy policy big time and up security. So if u have gmail, i suggest not storing any important documents on it.

     

    Notice from moonwitch:
    Please use quote tags, it cost you 38 credits - automated credit deduction script.

  22. Posted · Edited by jake658879 (see edit history) · Report reply

    I hate IE so much! I try to tell everyone I know about its flaws and about other browsers and y they should switch but they wont listen! Ive given them proof tht it sux horribly and they still like it more than other browsers! They think the IE display is the right display and tht microsoft is invincible and couldn't make anything wrong... They think the security is good if it is windows.(they are very dumb) Ive almost got one person to switch to firefox but he sed, he was so used to IE and wut it shows and bad security, tht he thinks he'll never understand any other browsers... even firefox. I told him he could read the manual and he just ignored me. Everyone around me worships microsoft...By the way, IE will never be like firefox no matter what microsoft does unless they violate some copyright rules.

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    You are absolutely correct. You have done that to check your site statistics in your Google Account.
    GoogleBOT verifies the ownership of a site by requesting you to upload a file named googled_Some_Random_Characters.html at the root directory of your web server. And as it checks back that file from time to time to verify the site ownership ( that is whether you are still the owner of that site or not) , so do not delete that file if you want to see your Site Statistics in Google Account.

    Regards,
    Sid

    Thank you, its just tht i havent dealt with google sitemaps in a long time and i couldn't remember. I havent checked my status in months lol. :o

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    http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

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    http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

    those are some places with website ideas for both business and personal sites. Although it would be my advice to read those and come up with sumthing different and creative. That is what will get u a very successful website. But if you use one of those, just make it a good one and unique than the other similar websites like it.
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