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Or watch online. AdLand show many early too!

No, there's likely something else going on, adland has a pretty good article on it.

well, @sweden, controlled by some library entity or something, with a rotating list of curators, had one of its moderators instigate one of the anti-gg blocklists. which ended up blocking people like pewdiepie, among others. one of which was a sitting member of parliament for their conservative party.

http://adland.tv/adnews/how-di...

of course that list included the israeli ambassador, and apparently a war correspondent covering ISIS. putatively because they were all trolls.

While you're making that post, I'll remind you that you were standing up for gawker when they did this. Making the claims that people shouldn't be going after gawker for a "joke." And defending them when Sam "bring back bullying" Biddle made that statement, and that it was unfair to go after Biddle as well because it was also a "joke."

my words were stolen to promote a poorly written substitute to the story that i quoted and that i intended to share. if the plagiarist wanted to promote a different story, then that person should never have used MY NAME nor MY WORDS to do so. this bait-and-switch plagiarism should not be allowed to stand on this, or any, reputable site.

First off, calm down. Bait and switch - I do not think it means what I think you think it means. And given that the folks who make those decisions have been catching a load of bad feedback from references to Forbes.com, they did think your story was interesting enough to search out an alternative link.

That's all. I do suspect that you will never again have to worry about them "plagiarizing" any submission of yours in the future.

FYI: here's the link to the story that i shared: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gr...

i am sure you'll agree that the piece i shared is far superior to the bait-and-switched australian geographic story.

I'll never know, because I won't ever see that article, because I won't disable my adblocker. By the way, this isn't just petulance upon the part of many Slashdotters http://www.tripwire.com/state-...

https://adland.tv/adnews/forbe...

http://www.networkworld.com/ar...

Angler Exploit Kit and CryptoWall ransomware https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...

Befause Forbes is such a noted provider of these malware exploits, and demand you enable the mechanism to allow them installed on your computer in order to see their content - Naaahhh ain't happening.

Regardless - you cured your own problem with your outrage.

Ads. are so annoying too. I do watch ads., but only when I want to like on http://adland.tv/ http://www.funnyplace.org/, Super Bowl's TV ads., etc. Overall, I block/ignore them. I skip most of them on TV too.

American citizens have a long and well publicised record of being shocked and upset by seeing the human body, while being more relaxed about exposing their children to acts of simulated violence. Guns ok, bare bodies not ok.

When Janet Jackson showed a nipple in a show on prime time tv at the superbowl, the USA took to the streets and threatened to riot for this shameful behaviour that would damage their kids for life. Over in Europe, people laughed: you can see posters of half naked people on billboards selling perfume and the like on the way to the shops, no big deal. Sometimes models are completely naked in posters. Europeans are more worried about exposing their children to violence.

Different places, different cultures. Violence is ok in the USA, sex is ok in Europe. You take your choice and live where you feel comfortable I suppose...

> Asimov write's

http://adland.tv/files/bob-the-angry-flower.gif

*sigh*

http://adland.tv/search/node/outpost.com

As near as I can tell, our system is so full of holes that we should just stop worrying about it.

A sufficiently endowed organization can get any decent quality of hydrogen peroxide they desire, and anybody's uncle can get decent quality acetone. Neither of these will change. Given a little care, a large bundle of bombs can be made to look like laptop batteries. I assume the new format Macbook Pros make this even easier, as large normal batteries can have strange form factors. Any terrorist cell can fly a few dozen people from any few dozen cities to directly (or indirectly) converge on a central city. Each individual passes through security with an innocuous looking thing that's not detectable on X-Ray or modern bomb detectors. All it takes is one person to take everyone's "batteries" and assemble them in a backpack in a bathroom. A simple timer, GPS, or even radio activation can take sufficiently determined justice driven passengers out of the equation.

I would fly any day of the year, feeling as secure having faced the full onslaught of the security theater as I would if we all could walk on the plane with as much security screening as a train.

In 1997, I made it through airport security once with steel toed boots on. The metal detector went off, and they wanded me with my boots on. On that date, I recognized the security theater for what it was, and started seeing all the many and various security holes every day. It's insane to think we're impacting security by denying lock blades or water bottles. As long as each individual or family isn't seated in an individual explosive proof canister (ref http://adland.tv/content/vw-polo-viral-punchline-kills-uk ), there are security problems inherent in public mass air transportation.

A simple search for matchhead bombs on youtube starts to suggest the cheapness of rudimentary bombs (honestly, this is a fun 15 minutes). From there, the biggest problem is figuring out an innocuous form factor for your chemistry of choice.