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Hosts protect where addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down or poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~16mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

In 2011, when Netflix came out, ESPN alone was $4.69 of your cable bill. Now it's $7.21. That not only is a far larger increase in percentage terms (over 50% increase vs. under 40% increase for Netflix) but it's dang close to the same cost increase in straight dollar terms ($2.52 vs $3.00). Keep in mind also that is strictly for ESPN's main channel. Your cost for the ESPN block + Fox Sports block of channels is $10.92 per month.

Now I don't have numbers, but it's pretty plausible that anyone short of the most fanatic of sports enthusiasts is going to get more out of their Netflix dollar per year than they get out of the cable sports channels, and the cost difference is only 7 cents.

Exactly this. The U.K. has been working on becoming a full police state for many years now. And every time I point this out I get downmodded here on /.

That's probably because you misunderstand completely. Our poor police are downtrodden and subject to austerity. The UK is becoming a Group 4 security state in which the only freedom the average police officer will have is to rape children and falsely accused foreign students against his will and under the supervision of an elite cabal of bullingdon boys and psychotic robots.

But guess what, the joke's on you, silly Brits. You get what you vote for.

You are assuming some kind of proper democracy where people's votes count equally. Unfortunately there's this thing called the "first past the post constituency system" which means the result doesn't have to match the voting.

The U.S. voted for a clown and got a clown. The U.K. voted for a police state, and got a police state.

Trump votes 46.4% - primary opponent 48.5%. Conservative votes 42.4% Opponents 57.6%. In neither case could the "winnner" be said to have been voted for by the nation. At least in the US you could say that it's possible Trump would have won if he had chosen to target the popular vote, whilst it's clear that would never have happened in the UK.

Definitely both countries have a bunch of voters that need to understand that what they vote for is what they might actually get, however that doesn't mean that the entire country deserves to suffer.

Nice to see they are being recognized for their important work!
Daylight Savings Time is causing health issues and should be abolished!
http://www.businessinsider.com...

To put a bit of a point on it: Mercedes-Benz recently garnered a lot of positive press for an announcement that they're planning to invest $1B (over the course of an unspecified number of years) in electrifying a vehicle plant to make BEVs. That's great! An order of magnitude less than they actually need in order to stay competitive with Tesla's investments, but hey, good for them!

...which is why it is only a small part of the € 10 billion Daimler is investing in electric cars over the next eight years.

So far, there's one company actually pouring in the huge amounts of money to bring EV production to economic scales (and dominating each market class that they enter, even crushing their ICE competition in sales [electrek.co])... and then there's a bunch of others trying to catch up to where said company was years ago

Renault-Nissan may be the market leader, but they are not dominating the market. There is plenty of competition and the number of different electric cars on the market is increasing quickly.

Here's a graph that I think is really telling [statista.com]. The size of the market for vehicles with an average selling price of nearly six figures is vastly smaller than that for vehicles with an average sale price in the ~$35-40k range - and the tax credits on the latter far more meaningful to their buyers.

The US may be diferent (cars in general are comically cheap over there and American car buyers have very different wishes), but in general, Tesla is only succesful in markets where expensive EVs are taxed favourably and even in those countries Renault-Nissan and VW often sell more electric cars than Tesla.

The writer of the 'article' doesn't seem to understand a few things.

1) The entire 'luxury goods' industry exists. Long after $5 quartz watches were introduced, you can still buy yourself a $25k Rolex and enjoy it. Fancy plates and real silverware don't function any differently than Corning Ware and Oneida. Yet they still exist.

2) Think of how often a typical cell-phone using person uses his/her phone. How many times a day does said person interact with his/her phone? Two thousand?

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Based on that, if you have the phone for two years and it's valueless after that (which is not the case), then to a lot of people it's worth spending extra money on a 'premium' device that works a lot lot better than cheaper devices that are slow and you have to reboot constantly. That's only $0.0004 (or 0.04 Cents) per touch different than a cheap cell phone. Or, $1 per DAY. For someone that uses his cell phone a lot, $1 per day to have a reliable device that will be quick and snappy and not need rebooting constantly, that's enough.

3) Some people just like having the latest and greatest gadgets. That's fine.

In short, the OP doesn't understand how anyone would live different than the way he is living now.

One can't take a well defensible, higher ground, position, lock himself up there and keep lobbing cars or pressure cookers at thousands of people half a mile or more in the distance.
Nor can one ambush those thousands of people with a car. Or keep running over people once they realize that the driver of said car is running people over.
Purely based on a fact that a car is a lot more visible and avoidable than a bullet.
One can dodge a Dodge but one can't bullet a bullet.

And while one CAN ambush people with a pressure cooker... Constructing one, then hauling it and placing it without blowing oneself up IS a tiny-winy bit trickier than point and click effort of using a gun.
One can't just bang-bang-bang at a crowd outside one's window with a car or a pressure cooker cause one is suddenly and gravely disappointed in the effectiveness of those pills which promised that penis enlargement OR cause one is annoyed with loud music those pesky kids are playing.
One can't do either on whim - the way someone with a gun can.

Plus... Neither cars nor weaponized pressure cookers grow on trees, and it is easier to find a gun store in US of A than a store selling... well... anything other than gasoline.
There 14146 McDonald's restaurants in the US, 16708 franchised car dealers, 36536 grocery stores and 143849 gas stations... but 51438 gun retailers.
129817 gun dealers if you count in "collectors" (61,562), pawn shops (7,356), and importers and manufacturers.
And WE KNOW that Americans have a McDonald's problem.

But even if cars and cooker did grow on trees - one still has to find the said tree, pick the car, drive it to where people are, get enough traction...

I mean... look at that cunt in Charleston.
He had to drive AAAALLL the way from Ohio to South Carolina, only to be able to run over a single person.
It took planning. And work. And driving. And finding his way around a foreign town.
You can't just type in "People to run over with a car" in your GPS, you know?

Also, fenced venues such as open air concerts tend not to allow one to take cars OR weaponized pressure cookers inside.
But you can still squeeze off a couple of shots inside.
Just get yourself some high ground and... bang-bang-bang your way to that penis enlargement! Show the world you're NOT firing blanks!

Hosts protect vs. what addons can't (or as well):

1.) bad sites (past ads)
2.) protect vs. botnet C&C servers
3.) DNS down
4.) poisoned dns
5.) trackers (dnsrequestlogs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
6.) spam/phish payload
7.) dns blocks
8.) slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

* No single addon does as much as hosts (if stacked addons slowup more)

Hosts = Ez data edit + better efficiency (cpu/ram/I-O):

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?...

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?...

(Hosts = ~ 16mb)

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable

Addons don't work http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

APK

P.S.=> BEST HOSTS FILE = APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

Hosts protect vs. what addons can't (or as well):

1.) bad sites (past ads)
2.) protection vs. botnet C&C servers
3.) DNS down
4.) poisoned dns
5.) trackers (dnsrequestlogs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
6.) spam/phish payload
7.) dns blocks
8.) slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE (bigtime) https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

Hosts = Ez data edit + better efficiency (cpu/ram/I-O) - see p.s. below for proof.

* BEST HOSTS FILE = APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

APK

P.S.=> AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?...

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?...

(Hosts = ~ 16mb)

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable

Addons don't work http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

Ajit Pai is Trump's sort of guy -- advancing the desires of big business over what's good for the average joe.

So were most of these people.

Particularly The Mooch.

UBlock no DNS bennys & NoScript tag parses. Hosts block ad script before it downloads!

What hosts protect vs. addons can't (or as well):

1.) bad sites (past ads)
2.) fastflux C&C
3.) dynDNS C&C
4.) DGA C&C
5.) DNS down
6.) poisoned dns
7.) trackers (dnsrequestlogs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
8.) spam/phish payload
9.) dns blocks
10.) slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes

Hosts = Ez data edit + better efficiency (cpu/ram/I-O) - see p.s. below for proof.

* BEST HOSTS FILE = APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

APK

P.S.=> AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?...

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?...

ClarityRay defeatable

Don't work http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

Apple should stick to their tradition of using technology in meaningful ways when it is ready.

What Apple should do is spend some of their gigantic pile of cash on R&D into anything and everything they've ever considered spending money on. Call it Apple Labs or something, to differentiate it from a polished Apple product. Maybe they'll find the Next Big Thing. At minimum they'll do some good by hiring some people, and maybe find some great employees in the process who they can bring back into the mothership with the various development ventures inevitably fold.

So, 10 BEELION annually isn't a big enough R&D Budget???

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Apple's solution is probably "buy a new Mac". Tim Cook said himself that Apple products are not for the rich so buying another $1000+ computer every year or two shouldn't be a problem for anyone.

Next up: Tim Cook doesn't understand the meaning of "rich" compared to the rest of the population.

Except that the people who upgrade their Macs every year or two are few and far between. Apple knows this well. That said, TFA even mentions the EFI update failed on certain percentages of NEWER systems, like the 2-16 MacBook. To wit: " And three versions of the 2016 Macbook Pro had the wrong EFI version for their operating system version in 25% to 35% of cases, suggesting they too had serious EFI update failure rates."

This doesn't sound nefarious to me, it sounds more like there's a hiccup in the update process, which thankfully doesn't render the system a brick when it fails. Naturally something that needs to be addressed though.

For what it's worth, I'm happily working away on a 2011 iMac, which in the past 6 years has only had one problem, a failed hard drive. This was a recent, and certainly not unexpected failure. Anecdotal for sure, but this is the case for most people I know who own a Mac as well. It's also the reason they (and I) will purchase a new one when the time is right. I know it's trendy to blindly bash on Apple though.

Apple's solution is probably "buy a new Mac". Tim Cook said himself that Apple products are not for the rich so buying another $1000+ computer every year or two shouldn't be a problem for anyone. Next up: Tim Cook doesn't understand the meaning of "rich" compared to the rest of the population.

See subject & AmiMijo data on addons being highly exploitable https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/ & ClarityRay (uses native browser methods to detect which addons you use & blocks them).

Some addons DO NOT WORK by default (which most users won't change) fully BRIBED NOT TO WORK vs. ADS http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

* FACT: Addons don't do as much as hosts do YET USE FAR MORE (not a SINGLE ONE OF THEM BY THEMSELVES unless you 'stack some' creating slowness & inefficiency as I noted in my other reply to you WITH PROOF https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55269607/ )

What really stood out is YOUR ERROR regarding my program doing all that's needed from the BEST security community sources for hosts data - a program YOU couldn't produce yourself equivalent to 15++ *NIX commands & GUI (roughly) + EZ to use vs. script CRAP!

Lastly, considering the "best YOU had" was downmod hiding my replies to you 3x? Make me laugh - I just repost, run you dry of your "downmodpoints" leaving "your kind" with EGG ON THEIR FACES, lol!

APK

P.S.=> Your "layered-security = COMPROMISED & inferior + total "ILLOGIC LOGIC" via using MORE & doing LESS (lol) right there (& you try call ME 'crazy'? Please, lol)... apk

See subject & AmiMijo data on 1st issue above on addons being highly exploitable https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/ & ClarityRay too (which uses scripts to detect browser addons via native browser methods to detect which addons you use & blocks them working).

Also consider SOME addons DO NOT WORK by default (which most users won't change) fully BRIBED NOT TO WORK vs. ADS http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

* LASTLY Addons don't do as much as hosts do YET USE FAR MORE (not a SINGLE ONE OF THEM BY THEMSELVES unless you 'stack some' creating slowness & inefficiency as I noted in my other reply to you WITH PROOF https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55269607/ )

In fact, your rather weak reply full of 'holes' in it I just exposed seems to indicate YOU may be an author of one of those competing INFERIOR addons vs. hosts... lol!

APK

P.S.=> Your "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" = COMPROMISED & inferior right there (& you try call ME 'crazy'? Please, lol)... apk

If anything, the democrats need it to keep whining about "foreign influence" ... while importing millions of illegal voters.

That's an established truth. 17 intelligence agencies said so. It doesn't matter if we can't find the document signed by those 17 agencies. https://www.realclearpolitics.... Hillary said it was so, and we should believe someone as courageous as her. She bravely landed under sniper fire at an airport in Bosnia in 1996. http://www.businessinsider.com...
Plus, we heard about that Russian meddling every day every hour for months. Something that is repeated that much must be true.

You have TOTAL control of a hosts file easily (unlike regex using addons that eat TONS doing less, lol OR NOT WORKING http://www.businessinsider.com... paid off NOT too - which made me LAUGH LARGE when Wladimir Palant had to DELETE IT FROM HIS FORUMS when I confronted his lame & WEAK ass on that much (& how f'ing inefficient his work is too, lol).

* Amateurs, please - GO AWAY before I annihilate you publicly, easily, even more....

APK

P.S.=> LOL, then again? That's why your SIMIAN DIMWIT ASSES troll me via UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts (are you trying to make me LOOK GOOD @ your expense as always, or what... RoTfLmao!)... apk

Not true.

- people going to jail for revealing Obama-ordered atrocities (Manning, Assange, Snowden)

The US has nothing to do with Assange. His line about avoiding extradition to Sweden is a load of crap. Even if he were to fly to the US right now and turn himself in to the FBI, they couldn't legally do anything to him, because he hasn't committed any crimes against the US. Manning put many servicepeople's lives at risk, and by far crossed the line of treason by ANY standard, and he was properly held to account. I am personally satisfied that justice was served there, though the military prison did cross the line a few times during his first few months, and they should be held to account, but this has nothing to do with speech. Manning and Assange are thus irrelevant to free speech.

Snowden is an interesting case. Believe it or not, I was all in on Snowden until I saw the movie "Snowden", and it reeked of so much BS that I started doing my own research into the other side of the debate on him, and now my opinions are mixed. I do believe that the US congress probably isn't being honest about him, namely they stated that he was discharged from the Army for shin splints...I was in the Army around the same time as Snowden, and NOBODY got discharged for shin splints, so I tend to distrust congressional comments about him. But what did catch my attention was a guy named William Binney, who if you don't recall, originally created a surveillance program that respected privacy, and resigned from the NSA when they abused it to completely disregard privacy. Binney, who himself is being constantly harassed by the federal government, made a statement that I agree with, which is that Snowden has crossed the line in a few ways, even though he did a few things that were good.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Also not mentioned in the article, was that Snowden was a run of the mill sysadmin who happened to work for an NSA contracting company, (far from the godlike figure painted in the Snowden movie) and he intended on leaking information (as stated by many witnesses) before he even got the job and was at all aware of what was happening. In that sense, I agree with Binney that Snowden should face trial, but at the same time, I agree with Snowden that he should be granted a public trial.

So if Snowden went to jail, it wouldn't necessarily be a free speech issue, it just depends on what he goes to jail for. And I agree about the mark against Obama who very publicly said that you can't have both privacy and security. However, you would have made a much better point if you mentioned William Binney instead, as the US government shouldn't be harassing him just for speaking about it, and he hasn't done anything wrong. But, at the same time, the government hasn't crossed that threshold you can call censorship, though it is a very thin line here, so it is questionable.

- Journalists getting fired for asking non-scripted questions (Dr. Drew, HuffPo's Seaman, latest is Jedediah Bila off the View)

I agree in the sense that these are bad things...but at the same time, no free speech rights have been violated. These media organizations are private entities, and they can fire people for things that they say; and believe it or not, it would be a violation of the free speech rights of the media organizations if they couldn't fire them.

- people losing jobs for questioning the liberal doctrine (James Damore of Google, anyone?)

I agree that this is wrong, but for the same reason as above, this isn't censorship.

- people persecuted and hounded for expressing anti neo-liberal views (Ward Churchill after 9/11, Milo Yiannopoulos for being a pro-Trump gay Jew).

Being persecuted by other members of the public is not censorship, no matter how much we disagree with it. However it does cross the line of censors

Adblock can't do 14 things hosts do:

1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. botnet C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
4.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned/downed dns
5.) Protect vs. trackers
6.) Protect vs. spam payloads
7.) Protect vs. phish payloads
8.) Protect vs. caps
9.) Get past dns blocks
10.) Keep off dns request logs
11.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks & hardcodes)
12.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
13.) Ez data edit
14.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu/ram/I-O use

* BEST hosts file maker = APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

APK

P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently (a 151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...)

ClarityRay defeats it

Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com...

AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions...

but he did win the election by the rules of US elections.

With each passing day that seems less and less certain.

James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said Friday that the US intelligence community's assessment of Russia's interference in the 2016 election "cast doubt on the legitimacy" of President Donald Trump's victory.

"Our intelligence community assessment did serve to cast doubt on the legitimacy of his victory in the election," Clapper said of Trump in a CNN interview Friday evening.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-legitimacy-russia-election-interference-james-clapper-us-intelligence-assessment-2017-9

Are you honestly suggesting the entire Russian troll army concept is fabricated? There seems to be an awful lot of evidence, some posted before the election. This is separate from the question of whether the Trump campaign was involved in the Russian interference, but the claim that Russia did not seek to interfere in the 2016 presidential elections is absurd.

Rio's dilapidated Olympic stadiums

What a bargain!

Instead what we get is clickbait bullshit that implies Apple, the most valuable publicly traded company in the world and one that doesn't do online advertisement

Er, Apple spent ~$100 million on digital advertising in 2016. Sure that was down 16% from 2015, but just because they no longer call out exactly how much they're spending online in their SEC filings doesn't mean they aren't still doing it.

Yeah, the threat to Microsoft is not that Linux is taking over the desktop, it's that the desktop is in considerable decline from 365 million to 270 million units/year. And it's in absolute decline in a booming market where at the same time you've gone from selling 472 million to 1.5 billion smartphones a year. The same trend is confirmed by browsing statistics. It's not dying, but it's not the future. And I don't understand how you can say their server platform is not threatened and at the same time say 1/3rd of the Azure instances run Linux, yes if you got Windows desktops you'll probably have a AD/Exchange/Sharepoint server but my guess is they're an ever smaller corner of a virtualized server, just like any PC can manage to run MS Office.

It's clear that Microsoft's big plan for the future is to get businesses hooked on Azure services and consumers to give a 30% cut at the store, the product is just a means to an end like how Google delivers you Android so you'll talk to all the Google services and buy from the Play store. Everything else is a hook to get you to use it, if you have to make the tools free and open source that's what they'll do. As in, I think Microsoft is going to a place where releasing a "Windows Open Source Project" wouldn't hurt them more than Google's "Android Open Source Project", because that's not really the moneymaker. If Microsoft can make money selling ice skates, don't be surprised if hell freezes over...

On the other hand, pretty much nobody in the establishment wanted Trump to win, he spent a fraction of what Hilary spent on her campaign, and he won. Not saying he's a good candidate, but there isn't a 1:1 relationship between who the establishment wants, and who actually gets in.

And yet, that same establishment is sitting down to eat at the feast.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

UBlock no DNS bennys &NoScript tag parses. Hosts block ad script before it downloads!

What hosts protect vs. addons can't (or as well):

1.) bad sites (past ads)
2.) fastflux C&C
3.) dynDNS C&C
4.) DGA C&C
5.) DNS down
6.) poisoned dns
7.) trackers (dnsrequestlogs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
8.) spam/phish payload
9.) dns blocks
10.) slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes

Hosts = Ez data edit + better efficiency (cpu/ram/I-O)

* BEST HOSTS FILE = APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

APK

P.S.=> AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?...

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?...

ClarityRay defeatable

Don't work http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

Since the post doesn't mention it, I had to look it up. Gab.ai is claiming to be a "Free Speech" competitor to Twitter. Google banned them for "Hate Speech". A lot of users on that site seem to be Alt-Right types.

More information
http://www.businessinsider.com...

I thought the Gap was a clothing store, you always have to mind while in London.

right here

If they lose, they are no worse off than before. But the news coverage gives them lots of publicity to promote their business.

Google is clearly just blacklisting them because Google wants to shut them up. The cult leaders at Google are committed to persecuting nonbelievers and heretics.

Since the post doesn't mention it, I had to look it up. Gab.ai is claiming to be a "Free Speech" competitor to Twitter. Google banned them for "Hate Speech". A lot of users on that site seem to be Alt-Right types.

More information http://www.businessinsider.com...

The same types who told the Dixie Chicks to "shut up and sing"? It's unfortunate that appeals to free speech are becoming a cover for wanting to act like an asshole and not be called on it.

Except in facial recognition I think Samsung actually bagged that one first

Um, not so much...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Mod parent up-
This was tried by a group of MIT's as a project they entered in a local hackathon. In this scenario you could voluntarily mine BTC on a website and the site turns off ads.

They ended up being subpoenaed and told to hand over the source code. EFF got involved though I never heard the outcome. This could have just been a knee-jerk by the attorney general, though it's not quite tin-foil hat level to suspect the ad agencies had a hand in it.

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

The same JP Morgan that got sued along with Goldman Sachs for manipulating the price of aluminum?

http://www.businessinsider.com/jpm-goldman-face-suits-over-warehouses-2013-8

Why would consuming hydroelectric power slow the Earth down?

1. This explains it better than I could.

2. China's cheap electricity keeps Chinese miners at peak efficiency and allows them to outlast their foreign competitors. Many miners outside of China are attracted to Chinese mining pools due to their size. EG Antpool has mined nearly 20% of all blocks over the past year. I speculate that AntPool disguises its true hashrate by running subsidiary pools (ViaBTC, BTC.com, GBMiners, CANOE).

Also, it's a bit conspiracy-minded, but maybe they're indirectly subsidized by the Chinese government with a long term goal of state control of cryptocurrencies. IE the end-game isn't profit but control.

Adblock can't do (or do as well) 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:

1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnet C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnet C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnet C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned/downed dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam payloads
9.) Protect vs. phish payloads
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get past dns blocks
12.) Keep off dns request logs
13.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks & hardcodes)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data edit
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu/ram/I-O use

APK

P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently (a 128-151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...)

ClarityRay defeats it

Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com...

AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions...

Adblock can't do (or do as well) 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:

1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnet C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnet C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnet C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned/downed dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam payloads
9.) Protect vs. phish payloads
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get past dns blocks
12.) Keep off dns request logs
13.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks & hardcodes)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data edit
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu/ram/I-O use

APK

P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently (a 128-151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...)

ClarityRay defeats it

Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com...

AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions...

Name sounds familiar. Oh yeah, She claimed she was sexually harassed two years ago. Obviously, nothing came of it, so she moved on to the next feminist myth.

Note to anyone hiring: Do not hire people who put "Patriarchy Smashing" on their list of skills on LinkedIn. Or this will happen to you!

See subject & ALL about "AlmostALLAdsBlocked" bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

APK

P.S.=> Thought you *might* find that tidbit useful... apk

What makes you think corporations becoming larger than the government will happen? That's one of many things that anti-competition law is designed to prevent.

Are you sarcastic? I'm sure you are!

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295938213_Multinational_corporations_A_new_global_dimension_-_Corporations_bigger_than_governments
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/234/the-rise-of-corporations
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/51/corporations-and-human-rights
• https://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research
• https://archive.skoll.org/2011/02/21/corporations-are-more-powerful-than-governments/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/25-corporations-bigger-tan-countries-2011-6?op=1
• https://business.time.com/2012/01/27/are-companies-more-powerful-than-countries/
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5-myths-about-big-business-vs-big-government/
• https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16598-focus-monsanto-protection-act-proves-corporations-more-powerful-than-government
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/54/tax-avoidance-and-havens-undermining-democracy
• https://makewealthhistory.org/2014/02/03/the-corporations-bigger-than-nations/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/control-nation-states-corporations-autonomy-neoliberalism
• http://www.confrontcorporatepower.org/how-corporations-influence-the-government/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/15/these-25-companies-are-more-powerful-than-many-countries-multinational-corporate-wealth-power/

South Korea is also known as "Republic of Samsung":

• http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/25/business/fi-samsung25
• https://ipezone.blogspot.com/2008/04/dismantling-of-republic-of-samsung.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-s-korea-the-republic-of-samsung/2012/12/09/71215420-3de1-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html

That's technically state capitalism.

No, state capitalism is when the means of production are privately owned, but the government places very tight controls on prices and wages, and maintains strict control of capital. Definitely not socialism.

This kind of system is super rare and ends up even worse than socialism does, because businesses have practically no financial backing and can't change their business strategy to respond to consumer demand. They also typically become unable to import anything, so the economy really suffers. This is why the stores in that country are almost always short supplied, and why Venezuela is currently in a food shortage crisis:

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Currently, the only government that I'm aware of who does this is Venezuela, and the only reason they even get by at all is because there's a black market exchange rate that is a few orders of magnitude different than the official government mandated exchange rate.

I've already heard that Gates dropped acid and a little googling pulled up some confirmation. I've seen it in other sources too. So. Old school Microsoft *is* a product of the "hippie" generation, just like Apple stuff. That generation gave us the happy-go lucky Woz, and the hard-driving egomaniacal Jobs, and the square Gates.

The jury is out on whether or not it increases your odds of certain cancers; but I've read some bios of other "pscyhonauts", and cancer seems to come up a lot. Of course it's just anecdotal, and they did a lot of other drugs; so it's hard to say.

So. If the Silly Valley wants to guinea pig themselves, I guess they are quasi-free to do that since the government is so dysfunctional these days it can barely even keep nazis and commies from re-enacting the Civil War with less spiffy uniforms. Then again, maybe somebody dosed me without me realizing it. That would explain a lot of things.

there is nothing of value lost

that argument has been studied so many times going back to computer hobby club in 70s passing around disks and sharing.

If a person pirates then they wouldn't have paid for it in the first place. And since it's only a copy then piracy for personal use harms noone and no corporations.

See
http://www.businessinsider.com...

quote:

Downloading music and movies without authorization will remain legal in Switzerland after the conclusion of a government study found that the practise doesn't cause enough damage to copyright holders to warrant making it illegal

lol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://web.stanford.edu/class...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Mark Zuckerberg has been untrustworthy since Facebook's inception - in fact, before that. For the few who don't already know the story, he stole the idea from the Winklevoss brothers, and did so in a particularly underhanded way, by pretending to code it as a work-for-hire but then running off with it for himself. In fact, Zuckerberg himself calls people who trust him "dumb fucks". On that one point and that one alone, I'm willing to take his word.

It would be very, very strange if a company started by a person this amoral was based on ethics and goodness.

Isn't this the same government that mandates that everyone use Internet Explorer with ActiveX to access government services, do banking, or shopping?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/e...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
https://www.reddit.com/r/today...

"Mozilla is exceptionally bad."

Is Microsoft intentionally destroying Firefox? Mozilla Foundation is practically owned by Microsoft, through Yahoo:

When Google stopped paying Mozilla Foundation $300,000,000 each year (Dec. 22, 2011), Mozilla Foundation took money from Yahoo to sneakily "update" Firefox so that it uses "Yahoo search". Yahoo search is actually Microsoft's Bing search. A quote from Marissa:

"I'm thrilled to announce that we've entered into a five-year partnership with Mozilla to make Yahoo the default search experience on Firefox across mobile and desktop," Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said in a blog post Wednesday. "This is the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years."

Now, somehow, the Firefox and Thunderbird user interfaces have been degraded. Firefox no longer allows making a duplicate tab from a tab; it is necessary to right-click on a web page to make a duplicate; that doesn't work well because it is necessary to find a place on the web page that is not a link.

Thunderbird and SeaMonkey composer now have the Save-As bug.

Microsoft paid Yahoo. Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to trick users into using Microsoft's Bing search engine. And now Mozilla Foundation is apparently allowing the degradation of its products. Apparently Microsoft wants Firefox and Thunderbird to be degraded that so there will be more users of Microsoft's browser and email software.

The sneaky tactic is not working: American Firefox users dump Yahoo and go back to Google. (January 13, 2015)

Then: Yahoo's Incredible Shrinking Profitability In Its Core Business (Forbes, March 1, 2015).

Yahoo has been EXTREMELY badly managed:

After Terry Semel, and before Marissa Meyer, there were 5 Yahoo CEOs who stayed less than 2 years each.

Nothing has changed, apparently. Marissa Mayer's second-in-command 'leaves with $109m' on being fired from Yahoo after just 15 months. (January 16, 2014) The rapid changes in management continue, that time with a $109,000,000 loss for Yahoo. (What management arrangement allowed a poor manager, someone who was so bad he was fired, to make $7,266,666 per month?)

Maybe that explains the bad management of Mozilla Foundation. It is possible the story needs updating.

1. Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."
2. BetterPrivacy Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.
3. CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.
4. Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:
   
   "This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."
   
   "This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2)".
   
   "There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."
   
   
5. Cookies Manager+
6. Disconnect
7. Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.
8. Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..."
9. Ghostery DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't allow sufficient user control.
   USE THIS: ghostery-5.4.10-sm+an+fx.xpi Link: Version 5.4.10
   Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013)
   Ghostery web site
10. HTTPS Everywhere Doesn't install in Pale Moon. Encrypts traffic by using HTTPS encryption rather than HTTP wherever web sites accept HTTPS. See How to Protect Your Data After Congress Passed Legislation That Allows Your Internet Search History to Be Sold (Vogue Magazine, March 29, 2017)
11. Mozilla Archive Format For Firefox and Waterfox only. Saves web pages. For the Pale Moon browser, use MozArchiver.
12. MozArchiver For Pale Moon browser only. Like Mozilla Archive Format that is used with Firefox. Saves web pages.
13. NoScript "The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows

You mean after the major movie and television studios see a mysterious 80-90% drop in revenue

How so? Last I checked, revenue from paid apps and IAPs per user is nine times as large on iOS compared to Android. This gap is so big that it more than offsets Android's larger user base.