User talk:SteveSims
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[edit] IE7
=I wasn't saying anyone was lying. Even I found IE to be slow, especially on AJAX-heavy pages - even locking up the UI thread (thats blasphemous!). I just said that unless backed by some source, we cannot put it, no matter what our own experience is. --soumসৌমোyasch 08:46, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yep. I totally agree with that. I saw a review on a Slashdotted article, days after IE7 was released, doing the speed tests. Can't find that now.:( --soumসৌমোyasch 09:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Orphaned fair use images
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[edit] MyWay-related posts
[edit] Myway
Hi, it looks like someone is trying to remove the good research you have done on Myway. The person has the login "Kirk_lawrence". There also happens to be an employee by that name at Ask Jeeves, which owns Myway. When doing a google search for "Myway Searchbar", your page is the first to come up, generating a lot of negative publicity for Myway / Ask Jeeves.
The page "Myway Searchbar" was moved to "Myway Speedbar", which has no info on spyware.
I have undone the move, but you may want to keep a watch on this stuff.
It is unclear to me what the difference between Myway Speedbar and Myway Searchbar is.
Alan Rockefeller (Talk - contribs) 23:50, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
That is correct. I am the director of Customer Support for IAC Search & Media. I'd really like to get in touch offline - why don't you send me an email at klawrence at ask d0t c0m, and I'll reply with relevant information to help you discern the fact from the fiction
- Provide me with an e-mail address or a telephone number. Is your email ------@ask.com?
Yes, that is correct klawrence @ the search engine (easiest to type), or @IACSAM.com. Please do get in touch.
Also, your company seems to operate many sock puppets that compromise the MyWay articles' accuracy. Also, don't use open-mindedness and neutrality to mask the fact that your products are spyware.SteveSims 22:41, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Myway Message
> The user kirk_lawrence is claiming to be IAC Search and Media's communications director.
I totally believe him. This thing came to my attention when I was watching the "recent changes", looking for vandalism to revert. (for fun) I saw the myway searchbar article get redirected to a page with no content, and when I looked at the users contributions, I was appalled. Here was a real marketing guy from a spyware company removing info from wikipedia about his products, right before my very eyes. I added all the relevant myway pages to my watchlist, and it has been really enjoyable to watch obviously the same guy come back with different usernames, trying to stamp the spyware info out.
> I will probably contact an administrator with IAC's attempts to skew the MyWay article so that it doesn't appear to be spyware.
I am not quite sure what an administrator could do about this, maybe because I am very new to wikipedia.
He hasn't really made any unreasonable changes yet, but he is certainly threatening to do so. :)
Can't wait for the big revision. It will be a big load of crap with some useful info in there, and will need to be heavily edited for accuracy. If it so unreasonable that it becomes relevant, we would need to add a section to the article documenting the corporations attempts to modify reality.
I will always back you up, in any case.
> Will you back me up, and keep an eye on the MyWay page too?
I watch all the myway related pages, even zwinky! I will probably continue to do so for the next 50 years or so, just because it is really entertaining.
Alan Rockefeller (Talk - contribs) 03:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Myway
You are allowed to contact a Admin. I will keep an eye on it anyways. - Mike Beckham 11:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] From IAC Search and Media, the company that owns MyWay
Well Steve, Since you won't communicate with me, you leave me no choice but to take this to Wikipedia themselves to get a resolution.
Kirk_Lawrence 22:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] pop-up blocker
Hi Steve... I'm not sure what to say about your situation with the pop-up blocker that can fix the problem for sure. Maybe you did disable the pop-up blocker, but maybe some nefarious (or bumbling) piece of software did it for you? Hmmm. Try this: Go back to the web site, and when you hit the page with pop-ups, an icon will appear on the status bar... second box from the left. Click it and have a look through the options to see if you can change things. If nothing else, you can go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab, and hit "Reset...". That'll change IE completely back to the out-of-the-box default. After that, go into Tools -> Manage Add-ons and re-enable the add-ons you want, like Flash or Quicktime. Hope this helps, good luck! -/- Warren 02:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Licence is the noun, license is the verb.
Hi, thanks for catching the "news paper" typo on Permissive and copyleft licences, but the other change you made was a false positive. LicenCe is the noun, and licenSe is the verb. This is true for UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (and India). In the USA, they use "license" for both (and the Philippines). Gronky 13:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
