07-12-15 11:29 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Adobe Flash
Howdy! Mark,

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml> 11 Jul 15 20:03, you wrote to BOB KLAHN:

 EV> I removed Adobe Flash from all of my User Accounts recently. But I
 EV> will check to see if anything shows up about Flash's hardware
 EV> acceleration. Thanks!

 EV> I can see YouTube videos just fine since I selected their HTML5
 EV> setting last month.

 ml> excellent!

 EV> Some websites say they NEED Flash to show me something on their
 EV> page(s) but so far I am trying to live with out Flash.

 ml> that's the best thing...

 EV> I just read Sophos said a third problem happened to Flash recently.

 ml> yes, a so-called security company got hacked and their sources
 ml> are now out in the wild... those sources carry the code for
 ml> many zero-day infiltation methods... a zero-day is an unknown
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 EV> If a lot of the websites that I've bookmarked, and like to visit,
 EV> complain that Flash is needed I guess I'll have to reinstall Flash.

 ml> that's the /wrong/ thing to do... especially if you cannot get
 ml> today's latest flash release that patches the above mentioned
 ml> zero-day flaws... to continue to run flash on an unsupported OS
 ml> is dancing naked with the devil in the bright moon light... you
 ml> should rethink this while also considering what they are using
 ml> flash for... many are for nothing but ads... sites requiring
 ml> flash are more about pretty instead if functionality... there's
 ml> a lot of bandwidth wasted, too, compared to a functional site
 ml> that doesn't use flash at all...

I use Adblock Plus and NoScript with Firefox and don't see many ads.
I must be doing some thing right by reading this echo.

 ml> ... The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

That is a new Tagline to me, thanks!


... I believe the technical term is OOPS!
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