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Is it an abuse of power if only Gillette razors work in a Gillette shaver?

No. But it could be if third party razors did work but Gillette then instituted changes where the third party razors could only be distributed from a Gillette owned centralised depot with a 30% surcharge...

The razor/blade comparison isn't really applicable here.

Unless Gillette made razors that cost hundreds of dollars and then mandated a 30% royalty for all third party products you buy that are related to shaving including blades, shaving cream, towels, sinks, countertops, mirrors... oh, and you have to buy your water service from one of their partner utility companies for two years.

Lot of other shavers on the market, it seems to me. And if one day there aren't, why would that be?

I recently bought an Atra(-like) razor handle just so I could buy crappy, generic Atra knock-offs at Meijer.
Not that it's pertinent here. :)

Now there's a Dutch name, Meijer...

Not too far from HOLLAND Michigan (Grand Rapids). Their HQ

Biffy special to people who don't update their shitty RBL settings on their mail servers.

I don't even know what RBL is.

Ralph bin Laden. Osama's brother who works in IT.

Think it's the same as this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSBL

Are you being bounced mokers?

I'm having a similar problem.

I had a client who was getting bounced from one of their public IPs, but only from certain sites. Luckily they had another IP that I could use and route all outgoing SMTP traffic. I think if you use a blacklist that requires somebody to pay to get delisted, it is a little shady.

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I think if you use a blacklist that requires somebody to pay to get delisted, it is a little shady.

Indeed, I had to threaten moving all of my domain names from an ISP before they got off their ass and fixed one bodgy mailserver.

Intuit's released a Lion-compatible version of Quicken 2007. 2007! A day late, a dollar short. Which is a bad thing for a financial software product.

I'm still hoping that it's got Rosetta embedded in it, and hackers will find a way to extract Rosetta for more general use. It's the only way I'd buy it, at this point. I've moved on to SEE Finance.

There needs to be an #ocuppyQuicken movement...

For those of you not in the U.S., the kicker is that they released this ONE MONTH before people's taxes are due. NOT good timing.

ddt

For their next trick, it will delete your data on April 1.

Ok, so Ive been lurking/back for a few months now, but I've been reading about sandboxing and some of the pain/pleasure that it intends to provide. I too worried that this is Apple trying to "backdoor" a lockdown like IOS has.

From what I see, it looks like Apple has pushed back the "drop dead" date on sandboxing because of many of the complaints that developers have had.

It also looks like they saw Wil Shipley's blog post from last year and took much of that to heart.

So far it seems like folks are going to be able to choose a setting that either:
a) allows Any App from anywhere to install, you're on your own.
b) allows Any "signed" app from any accredited developer in the AppStore (even if the app itself is NOT on the app store)
c) allows ONLY apps from the Appstore to run.

The default setting? (drumroll please)
B

I think that's the best scenario we could have.

If I want to run "absolutely anything" ala Android "snake pit" then I can toggle that setting, and off I go.
If I want to have some security, but I still have some apps that don't need to be or cannot be (API access, low level kernel code, etc) on the App Store, I can.
If I want my grandmother to be completely secure (ala IOS Store) I can do that as well.

If a developer puts out "malware" on a signed App, Apple can kill their signature and boom, that malware fades into obscurity, only running on the 1% of computers that are "wide open". And they can "disable" that developer, which is also a pretty big stick for developers to behave.

Morg "I can be safe *and* my senior citizen Aunt can be safe? I'm in!" anti

I had thought that there was a b* and c*, such that options b or c would allow you to whitelist specific apps, allowing them to run without reducing your overall security profile.

I think that this is a good idea for users, though. Like my youngest daughter who will download anything with a cute icon, or my father who often isn't aware of downloading things.

Oh, and welcome back, Morganti!

Ya, welcome back!

I think there'll be more of a profit motive to the options apple offers and recommends...

So.

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