IanTyger

IanTyger

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Reply to Fight the Evil in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I really don't have a problem with pop-ups. And since I use Outlook for e-mail (I also use it for PIM stuff with my PDA, and take precautions against malicious e-mail), I'm not terribly interested in other email packages and their functionality. IF there's a googlebar for Mozilla, perhaps I'll try it - tabbed browsing sounds nifty. But I would still need something to autofill forms in Mozilla - that's actually a feature I use a fair bit. The r

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Blah in Blogging JoeUser Forums

So I woke up this morning with a sore throat, unable to breathe through my nostrils, and my brain on extremely slow speed. I hate being sick. So what do I do? I plop down at the console and prepare to spend the day mindlessly reading websites...

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James Lileks does it again in Misc JoeUser Forums

And if I could get to the bit that lets me add stuff ot My Favorites over on the right, he'd be on it. Once again, a lovely piece of work. OK, he gets paid to write, so you'd expect him to be good at it, but my expectations were lowered by the NYTimes editorial page...

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Fight the Evil in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Steven den Beste of USS Clueless just posted an entry about the tools he uses to control his internet browsing and spam email. I use K9 for email spam catching (based on an earlier recommendation from him). It works quite well for DW, who gets two orders of mag

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A comment on the Spanish Atrocity and its aftermath in International JoeUser Forums

I've been mulling the events of last week in Spain (the bombings and the subsequent electoral aftershock). A couple of times I've started writing an article about it, and the article never went anywhere, so I stopped. Today, the Wall Street Journal's Best of The Web Today posted Rudyard Kipling's <a href="http://wh

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Reply to Slippery slope in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]"The moral of the story? Disarmament won't keep the peasants down." This certainly defeats the argument that a right to own guns is needed as a check for government, doesn't it? [/quote] But not having guns make sthe opportunity cost of a revolution a lot more expensive. So it make sit less likely, and more bloody. And I think the bloodier the revolution, the bloodier the aftermath. (American Revolution vice French Revoluti

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What's in a name in Just Hanging Out JoeUser Forums

I ran across the linked article today, read it, and decided to comment. Part of it is that DW had a heck of a time renewing her driver's license this past year, because she has changed her name upon marrying me (actually shortly after). The paperwork we had was deemed "insufficient" for DMVs purposes, so we had to jump through some hoops to get "sufficient" paperwork.

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Reply to Slippery slope in Politics JoeUser Forums

Steven andalus - didn't your BAR belong to the Marine Corps? I'm not surprised they wanted to keep it... Stockpiling wepons - at what point do you get "too many" weapons. I want to get a pistol, a rifle of some kind, and maybe a shotgun. That's three guns for me right there.

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Slippery slope in Politics JoeUser Forums

I have a lapel button that someone bought me as a gift a while back that says, "If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?" Apparently, in Australia, that option too is being shut down. I can hear people say "Oh, but it's a sword, what purpose does it have for someone to own?" Well, my wife owns one sword right now, and wants to get a second, and the reason she wants them is as works of art. I own a couple myse

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Saudi manipulation of our ecomony? in Politics JoeUser Forums

It sounds out there - the Saudis are raising oil prices and pulling out of the US currency markets to torpedo President Bush's re-election chances. But this is the kind of "conspiracy" theory that works. It isn't complex, it doesn't have a single point of failure, and doesn't require people to act out of character. I've been wondering why gasoline prices have been slowly drifting up over the past y

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A nifty toy for science-fiction starship fans in Misc JoeUser Forums

I found this the other day from a post in Baen's Bar. Now, can someone tell me how to actually create another category in My Favorites to the right? The instructions say I can do it by creating a blank entry without a URL, but that doesn't work.

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Reply to With Great Power comes Great Responsibility in Internet JoeUser Forums

Well, I'm sure I can make a cheesy web joke at the expense of Spidey, but I'm not going there... Shortcutting stuff to the desktop is not necessarily insecure, it depends on how secure your desktop is. Running a remotely accessible account with root privileges and no password is irresponsible.

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With Great Power comes Great Responsibility in Internet JoeUser Forums

I wanted to go into computer security when I was in college. So I keep a interested amateur eye out on computer security issues, and this is a big one. But it illustrates the biggest problem with computer security - people don't want to do it. People take shortcuts to make their systems and networks easier to use, and make them far less secure in the process. They take the easiest option to make re

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Reply to Why I'm a single-issue voter in Politics JoeUser Forums

The war is THE issue for me because war is in the purview of the Executive. It's up to the Congress to take care of domestic issues (and it's up to the states even more). As for trade, I'd surely hate to live in this country if we didn't have free trade - the Great Depression wouldn't begin to describe it. I'm merely pointing out that the US does have the resources to get by, not that being self-sufficient would be easy or a good idea. <BR

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Reply to Why I'm a single-issue voter in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'll say it again - I don't care for many of Bush's policies. I would like to vote for someone else. The War on Terror as he is prosecuting it is working. It isn't perfect, but it is working. Kerry seems to want to go back to the previous administration's policies on terrorists - which led us to 9/11. And that prevents me from voting for him. As for trade etc - I want free trade; from both sides. We don't have it now. I don't know what the id

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Why I'm a single-issue voter in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'm going to list some of the reasons I am not only going to vote against Kerry (despite my numerous problems with President Bush's policies), but encourage as many people as possible to vote against him. I'm relying on the words of those who are much better writers that I. "That isn't enough. Based on everything I know about him now, I cannot in

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Gun Control in Politics JoeUser Forums

I just read the first comment to my post below, started to reply to it, and decided to make a blog entry instead. At this point, calling your senator doesn't matter - opponents of the bill attached a "poison-pill" amendment (extension of the Assault Weapons Ban), and the entire bill was killed to prevent the AWB from being exte

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Help stop reckless lawsuits in Politics JoeUser Forums

Gun-abolitionists have been trying for a number of years to destroy the firearms industry in this country by suing them into bankruptcy. Several states and the House of Representatives have passed legistation to limit this tactic. Now the Senate is considering a bill on the subject. Write your Senators and tell them to vote for S.1805. Thank you.

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