07-12-15 11:29 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Adobe Flash   
   Howdy! Mark,   
      
    ml> @MSGID: <55A2E5BA.14313.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    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   
   -snip-   
    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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