Belkin riles router users.Some Belkin wireless router A network device that combines a wireless access point (base station), a wired LAN switch and a router with connections to a cable or DSL service. Wireless routers provide a convenient way to connect a small number of wired and any number of wireless computers to the Internet. users are dealing with spam they didn't expect--from their own router. Upon installation, the router automatically grabs the user's browser and opens a page promoting Belkin's parental control software A special browser or filtering program designed to reject Web sites not suited for children. Such programs may screen pages by word content, site rating or by URL, using an updated database of objectionable sites, or any combination of these techniques. See PICS and ICRA. . As you can imagine, but apparently Belkin did not, this caused a customer uproar. Belkin defended the advertisements as notifying non-technical users about important new technology, and claimed the behavior is easy to disable. To quiet the complaints, Belkin has released a firmware upgrade that rids the routers of the controversial feature, assuming non-technical users can apply it. Let's see Let's See was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television between September 6, 1952 to July 4, 1953. The segment, which had a running time of 15 minutes, was a puppet show with a character named Uncle Chichimus (voice of John Conway), which presented each ... we already have a "do not call" list. We might get a "do not e-mail" list. Now we need a "do not mess with mess with Verb Informal, chiefly US to interfere in, or become involved with, a dangerous person, thing, or situation: he had started messing with drugs my browser" list. |
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