Re: EU nations refuse to force members to farm GM maize

On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:23:22 -0400, Elmo wrote:

Ann wrote:
On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:09:01 -0400, Elmo wrote:

Ann wrote:
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:36:14 -0500, Jim wrote:

Ann wrote:

Jim wrote:

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Ann, businessweek actually gave credit to Spiegel. kind of like
when the local N&O prints a story from the AP.
Yes, the Spiegel logo is on the Business Week page. I think they are
partnered. I was just mentioning that the urls pointed to the same
article. Plus, the Spiegel version has pictures. <g>
did your spyware protection flag the tracking cookies from the
Business Week page?
What spyware protection? I think of spyware as an executable
installed on a computer, which then calls home or commits other
mischief. Since almost all spyware is written to be executed on the
MS Windows OS - and I use Linux - it isn't a problem for me.

As expected, the Business Week website did set several cookies, which
I have now deleted. BW didn't set any Flash cookies, which is not to
say that one of the advertisers on their website didn't But they're
now in the bit bucket too. Flash cookies are the sneaky ones because
they can't be deleted using ones browser; have to go to the Adobe
website here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

Firefox plus Flashblock or Firefox plus NoScript helps to combat the
Evil produced by Adobe Flash. PDF's are evil too -- especially if you
use Internet Exploder which can allow embedded code to run on your
system just by mousing over the link.

Is that the Adobe javaScript thing or something else? I do disable
javaScript in preferences - but sometimes forget to turn it off again
after I've enabled it to do a fill-in tax form.

I'm not sure whether or not it's the Adobe plug-in that does it but PDF's
now have a preview capability that I.E. acknowledges.


Since there are security flaws in PDF files, allowing them to be opened to
show you the thumbnail of the image. Even after taking the course in
"ethical hacking" last year, I'd be at a loss to tell you how to exploit
the flaw. It's enough for me to learn that it exists and that someone
else has already figured out how to do it.

I'm still at a loss to understand why GIF, JPG, TIF, BMP, and other image
formats that are easy for browsers to display natively won't suit some
people who feel they simply *must* stuff everything into a PDF file.

I admit to being fond of PDFs, primarily because they have almost replaced
..doc files for document downloads. The trouble with html documents is that
they don't display consistently across browsers. Many of them are written
to display using IE, which is notoriously tolerant of crappy code.

Speaking of graphic formats, I wanted a photo from a pdf the other day and
tried a screen capture. The app captured in PNG and I was surprised how
good it was. But back when I was doing a website, IE didn't display the
format.

I
think it's probably the same crowd who rush right out and get the newest
version of MS-Oriface even though they don't use more than 15% of the
features in the current version and all of them were in Office for Windows
3.0. Then they send out documents created with their new version that are
not backward compatible so you have to run out and find the translator
which gets to be a pain so then you upgrade to the latest version and
Microsoft gets to pocket your brass farthings.

I reached my level of incompetence back around version 4. <g> Back when
Word was for writing letters, not "document preparation". I know I
*should* like OO, but it's just too bloated.

I pulled Acrobat Reader off my system and substituted SumatraPDF. It
doesn't have a plug-in to show the PDFs in the browser but that's just
fine by me.

I usually don't view PDFs through a browser, largely because of the dialup
limitation (download time). I get the address and use wget.



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