Britney Spears' new smell...

Brit; How DARE you!?


I can't smell a thing!





Come on; I had to.
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Panera Bread, Heavy, but light on WiFi

Panera bread locations that have Wifi (not all do), while free, still might come with a price - two prices, in fact:
1: privacy/security - you can forget about it, they track every website you go to and
2: site blocking; one in particular I found rather odd is the blocking of livevideo.com - as they are one of the few from the "ustream/sitckam/blogtv" crowd that actually has an always-defaulted-on Family "Friendly" button!
The problem I find here is that Panera isn't actually checking these blocked sites for contraband, other than perhaps for keywords; such as "twogirlsonecup!". Well, we all know that 99% of those sites are reaction videos and (thanlfully, yet how would I know) not the "real McCoy" - or is it MacCoy? How Dare You, Panera? You need to lighten up or you may find your free access go the way of the dodo.

And, btw, they also block Anonymizer.com - go figure.

Public Access? Net Neutrality? Can anybody say "throttling"?

Panera Bread, Heavy, but light on WiFi

Panera bread locations that have Wifi (not all do), while free, still might come with a price - two prices, in fact: 1: privacy/security - you can forget about it, they track every website you go to as their mandatory logon portal requires 3rd party cookies,  2: odd site blocking; one in particular I found rather odd is the blocking of livevideo.com - as they are one of the few from the ustream/sitckam/blogtv crowd that actually has an always-default-on Family-Friendly button!

The problem here is that Panera's contracted Internet portal provider isnt actually checking these blocked sites, other than for keywords; such as 1girl2cups! Well, we all know that 99% of those sites are reaction videos and not the "real Macoy". So lighten up Panera, or you may find your free access go the way of the dodo.

And, btw, they also block Anonymizer.com - go figure. They cant block proXPN, however.

"No dice" for drop.io !

Like twitter asks; "What are you doing?" And, although we can all look to Twitter and ask them the same "How Dare You?" question - regarding their API that only lets others send Twitter login information UNENCRYPTED - another loosey-goosey Web 2.0 company is screwing some of their PAYING customers.
I don't care if it's free or paid, but especially if I have to pay for a GB of storage (at $10 US per year ), you'd better make damned sure I can at least re-set my password, especially when using a sales receipt verification number.
Google does NOT have this problem - although sometimes their method of retrievable is rather onerous.
OK, shame on me for not reading the small print (ironically, I usually do), but that is a horrible business model - to not provide a method to reset an Administrator password, when using a sales receipt transaction number should be proof enough that an account holder should be allowed the accommodation. Using a previously entered password for early (account start) verification should be more than enough to allow for this.
The broken English excuse given by drop.io - it's Flash-based. Huh? Wha? WTF!?

From their site:
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I lost the drop's admin password, help!

This is basically the equivalent of losing the drop address - sadly, no dice. Part of the ease and simplicity of drop.io comes from the fact that we do not require usernames or passwords. The downside to this is that if you lose your admin password we have absolutely no way to verify that you made a drop, and therefore that we should grant you access as an admin.

The good news is that if this happens in the absolute worst case scenario your drop will evaporate in less than one year. Again, just consider that drop.io is really more about flash online storage make sure you have your stuff backed up elsewhere!'

And if you think that getting a new "drop code" will help;
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I lost my upgrade drop codes, help!

If you lose your upgrade codes we can sometimes help. While we have a no refund policy, we can re-issue you more drop codes based on your transaction receipt number again, your name or email address will not help here as we don't keep them, so hang onto that receipt. If you contact us because of lost drop codes we will deactivate all of your un-used codes and re-issue you new ones. This could take up to two weeks, so again, be careful."

Drop.io's business model = relying on most people's ability to remember or even write down passwords or keep them in a safe place, we can really make change - especially if we don't authenticate any data in transit and use the cheapest rental servers on the market (so that passwords can get lost more often). Ya, kind of funny they can store all this data and not store a relatively secure password per customer.

CEO, Sam Lessin, HOW DARE YOU? You really need a lesson in standards.

As far as using drop.io for anything even trivial, sorry, but "No dice".

And read the article linked - very good in-depth review, despite my rant.

Shenan Stanley, MS-MVP on tech-archive.net? WHY?

Shenan Stanley, MS-MVP needs to have his MVP status yanked.

I was googling for a way to stop, once and for all, Adobe's shockwave from installing or starting Norton PC whatever-the-crap-software, Shenan didn't help anon. and by default didn't help me.

But, that's not important right now, what is follows:
Check that link - he tells anon. that the SP2 update of WinXP does not "force" the user to install IE7 on their computer. True, but that is NOT what anon. said, nor was that anon.'s concern, nor was that anon',s IT dept.'s concern.

At the time IE7 was being PUSHED on MS customers of XP updating (or not, as it turned out) from SP1 to SP2, MS did not - in fact - force any user to install IE7, BUT every update would always INCLUDE the update to IE7 for EVERY SINGLE UPDATE AFTER installing any update or service pack from then on - until you would actually leave THE BOX CHECKED IN THE UPDATE LIST. Everytime, it never failed to be in s list and checked in that list.

At the same time, a MAJOR known issue of IE7 was that it was not compatible with Blackboard software. That affected a lot of schools who used and still use that service.

PeopleSoft also recommended a "not yet" attitude OFFICIALLY and with CONCURRENCE WITH MS regarding the install of IE7.

All this escaped an MS-MVP? Any MVP that new none of these issues or concerns needs MS to rescind the MVP title from those individuals - and use Stanley as a perfect example.

Shenan Stanley, MS-MVP - How DARE You?

Adobe's Got a Cloud!

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Are there any restrictions on the types of files I can upload and share?

You cannot upload and share the following file types: audio formats (MP3, AAC, OGG), video formats (MOV, WMV, FLV, XVID, DIVX, RETG), font formats (TTF, DFONT, OTF), archive formats (TGZ, RAR 7Z, SIT, JAR, WAR, CAB), system files and executable formats (EXE, DLL, JS, VB, BAT, CMD, COM, CPL, SH, CSH, TCSH, KSH, BASH, ZSH, INF, HTA, HLP, INS, ISP, VB, JSE, LNK, MS, PIF, SCR, SHS, WS), web files (CHM, CRT), database files (MDB), or raster image files (PCD, SCT).

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All the more reason to use Acrobat.com's Cloud. Wait a minute.......HEY!

D. L. Hughley should have new material, "...at least."

D. L. Hughley hoisted up the new 2008 series of Russell Simons' Def Comedy Jam with OOOOOOOOOOOld D. L. jokes, his old act. My God, man, HOW DARE YOU!

The NEW stuff is supposed to go in the middle, not the OLD shit.

Now just stop raping our time with that old shit, and gimme some new jokes, at least. I wish you would! We all...wish you would. At least.


Now, I got my own wood to take out, C-ya!
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