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What hosts do addons can't (or as well):

PROTECT vs.:

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

11.) Multiplatform
12.) Ez data edit
13.) Efficiency (cpu/ram/I-O)

14.) UBlock no DNS bennys = poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"
15.) NoScript tag parses. Hosts block adservers before it cheaper

APK

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UBlock 64MB http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

(hosts ~6mb)

ClarityRay defeatable

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

SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions/686041/which-leads-to-faster-browsing-an-ad-blocker-or-an-edited-hosts-file/

From that source.

LOL at tumbled.

http://markets.businessinsider...

Regardless, doesn't matter, trump just raised the price of most things by 20%. Elites won't care. Middle America will be going bankrupt faster.

Meanwhile, MX will shift some of it's $318B in trade from US to China. Peso will go up, tariff will cost us even more.

Great policy.

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...

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...

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...

Like on Mexico for cancelling their meeting and embarrassing him.

Mexico's currency tumbled as a result — are you sure, it was Trump, who got embarrassed by the cancellation?

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...

Uber is still losing money by the metric ton and has been for a very long time, though some banks apparently don't care and are willing to lend them billions more.

How long can this bubble last?

Apparently, they did:

Nearly 139 million Americans voted this year, according to the United States Elections Project. This sets a new overall record, surpassing the all-time high of 132 million Americans who voted in the 2008 contest between Barack Obama and John McCain.

But that total suggests that only 60% of the country's 232 million eligible voters actually voted this year.

If manufacturing jobs inherently made countries great (at all), then China and southeast Asia would be The Best. What made America great during the golden years of blue-collar workers wasn't manufacturing per-se, it was in finding productive use of a workforce which happened to be manufacturing at the time. Today, the economy is more focused on services than products[1], and we should be focusing on how to expand service jobs rather than easily outsourced and automated manufacturing jobs.

By the way, unemployment is below 5%[2], which is quite healthy. More important than jobs is that wages for all jobs are above a subsistence level so that people actually have discretionary funds at the end of the day. We don't necessarily need more jobs (although there's nothing wrong with having them), but we *do* need better wages. Adding jobs (and demand for labor) is one way of achieving that, but it's not the only way. Minimum wage is another. Capping CEO and executive total compensation as a multiple of company-average pay is another. And for what it's worth, I'm not someone who needs better wages, but I recognize that it's important nonetheless.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com...
[2] https://data.bls.gov/timeserie...

Dude. That's already what happened with the Carrier "deal" that Trump lied about.

That $7 million Carrier is getting from the state of indiana is going straight into automation.

Trump is going to bring jobs to america, jobs for robots.

What hosts do addons can't (or as well):

PROTECT vs.:

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

11.) Multiplatform
12.) Ez data edit
13.) Efficiency (cpu/ram/I-O)

14.) UBlock no DNS bennys = poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"
15.) NoScript tag parses. Hosts block adservers before it cheaper

APK

P.S.=> AB+ 151mb http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

UBlock 64MB http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

(hosts ~6mb)

ClarityRay defeatable

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

SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions/686041/which-leads-to-faster-browsing-an-ad-blocker-or-an-edited-hosts-file/

They do?
Good for them.
I'm tired of supporting their lazy butts.

...not a single one of their drivers is picking up people who want to go the same direction as the driver.

Not to disagree with your main point. I actually agree with you for the most part.

But this is called a destination filter. As drivers, we're only allowed to use this feature twice a day. For a part-time driver who's only driving to work and back each day, this is ok. For a full-time driver, the idea is to use that destination filter once at the beginning of your shift and once at the end of your shift, so as to not waste gas when you're ready to go home. But in between, you don't want to move your car too much while waiting for the next fare, because as an Uber driver you're operating on razor thin margins and you'd be wasting gas if you did that.

By the way, this is one reason the taxi system is so antiquated. Some taxis from outside the suburbs of a city with hard-to-get medaillons are only allowed to drop off passengers in that city, but not pick them up. In other words, in those cities where the medallions are very expensive to get, the system forces outside taxis to do return trips without passengers in the back. This is actually super wasteful. This increases gridlock, doubles the price for those trips, and reduces the number of available taxis at a time when they're really needed. If you ask me, taxis should be only regulated at the state level, not at the city level. Taxis regularly cross city boundaries. That's a fact of our modern era.

Also, there is something called UberPool (or LyftLine if you use Lyft), which is only available in some areas. The idea is that we pick up person A at one location, pick up person B on the way, pick up person C on the way, drop off person A on the way, drop off person B on the way, and then drop off person C. This actually works extremely well. Several times, I've actually picked up three people that didn't know each other from the same exact night club, just because they were all going in the same general direction. Or I've done the reverse, and picked up three different people at different locations, only to bring them to the same exact location. Although, if person A agrees to do UberPool and we don't pick up anyone else on the way, their fare still gets a discount of 20%. And where fares are not fixed by government regulations, UberPool passengers save more money than 20% the more they can split their journey with other passengers that we've picked up on the way. This feature is especially popular with University students, young professionals, and newbies who got confused by the interface.

...despite all the money they're bilking from people, still can't turn a profit.

By the way, Uber is profitable in the US. It's just not profitable worldwide.
http://www.businessinsider.com...

In any case, I do agree that the company is very deceptive with the way it compensates drivers, it basically lies to us all the freaking time, but I just wanted to set the record straight about a few things.

Day Trading has been dead for a long time.

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

That's the first google link, but there's many more.

You mentioned "next 4 years" as if that were a Trump thing, but you've got it backwards.

Nope, it's forwards, the reality.

Trump appears to be completely pro-consumer in his dealings with corporations; or in other words, a "populist" leader.

Trump appears. That's the correct choice of words. He appears. Actually is.

Recently he came out against the anti-consumer policies of big pharma, and intends to put pressure on them to reduce consumer costs overall.

You mean he randomly babbled a pointless bit of words that mean nothing, and you bought it.

He's met with several companies and suggested that there will be a tariff on off-shored work, with the result that several companies are pledging to keep work in America.

You mean he's met with several companies and offered to hand them taxpayer dollars if they pretend to have work in the country.

He's also convinced Boeing to reduce costs, which isn't a consumer benefit per-se, but it saves the government from being fleeced by Boeing a little.

You mean he randomly spouted his mouth off (again, this is a habit of his), and complained about something that wasn't even real.

It really appears that he's serious about making things better for the people.

Based on what? His complete lack of authenticity and genuineness in his speeches and mannerisms?

He's done a small amount before being elected, and appears to be trying to keep that campaign promise.

When the article about minimum H1B salaries of $100K, people were saying "well, he got one thing right".

Give him a chance.

He might actually make things better.

Nope. He has to change. Stop blathering, stop lambasting, stop acting like a tantrum toddler.

You know, start growing up and acting adult. Not being an asshole.

Considering the US has the highest recidivism rate, around 76%, in the world, the EU countries by definition are doing better. Norway, as an example, has the lowest recidivism rate, around 20%, in the world.

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

For a meaningful comparison, it should be broken down by types of crime.

Considering the US has the highest recidivism rate, around 76%, in the world, the EU countries by definition are doing better. Norway, as an example, has the lowest recidivism rate, around 20%, in the world.

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

Of all the things that are going to come out of the next 4 years the nonstop anti-consumer mergers (and the inevitable round after round of layoffs) is going to suck the hardest. This is pretty much why progressives fought to keep the $2 trillion in cash sitting offshore outside of American. Companies have pretty much admitted that almost none of that is going into R&D and instead they plan to spend it on M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions).

You mentioned "next 4 years" as if that were a Trump thing, but you've got it backwards.

Trump appears to be completely pro-consumer in his dealings with corporations; or in other words, a "populist" leader.

Recently he came out against the anti-consumer policies of big pharma, and intends to put pressure on them to reduce consumer costs overall.

He's met with several companies and suggested that there will be a tariff on off-shored work, with the result that several companies are pledging to keep work in America.

He's also convinced Boeing to reduce costs, which isn't a consumer benefit per-se, but it saves the government from being fleeced by Boeing a little.

It really appears that he's serious about making things better for the people. He's done a small amount before being elected, and appears to be trying to keep that campaign promise.

When the article about minimum H1B salaries of $100K, people were saying "well, he got one thing right".

Give him a chance.

He might actually make things better.

Well there is an inherent guarantee about being on a payroll vs being possibly equally compensated if you happen to be the bloke that spoke with SuperKendall.

So, if you're not one of the drivers that hangs out with SuperKendall, you might be making close to minimum wage.

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

They started using Amazon's stack ranking (a.k.a. "rank and yank") review process on them. Researchers were surprised by the resulting mouse carnage.

Or even with less of a focus on retribution. It may feel good to treat the prisoner like scum, but it's not a good strategy.

See subject: NoScript parses to block scripts - hosts do it before it in 1 step blocking ad/tracker script sources in fast kernelmode (vs. slow usermode in browsers slowing 'em w/ excess cpu, ram, & other I/O use - especially in firefox 'stacking' addons)

Ab+ does less less efficiently - 128-151mb http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions/686041/which-leads-to-faster-browsing-an-ad-blocker-or-an-edited-hosts-file/

UBlock now uses hosts (no DNS benefits - not a resolver itself) - poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"

Hosts ~3mb vs. UBlock = 64MB -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

APK

P.S.=> Hosts = native vs. adding inefficient ClarityRay blockable easily detected addons

lol. I bet you believe in Pizzagate too.

Funny enough if we apply this standard of evidence(that buzzfeed used), Pizzagate goes from the realm of possibility into the realm of probability.

Funnily, what Mashiki won't admit is that Buzzfeed published a real document, and even noted that it should be examined so it can be properly disputed, while the Pizzagaters are like Trump on what his "investigators" in Hawaii were finding.

You picked the WORST possible associate when it comes to blasting others for being fake.

One good thing about Trump, he's far more likely to decide big pharma needs to be beaten with a stick and forced to make new antibiotics

Trump is of the opinion that vaccines are involved with autism. I don't think he's going to be doing too much to "big pharma".

Which is odd since he is a known germaphobe. One would think he of all people would be interested in both vaccines and new antibiotics.

Maybe we can argue about whether CNN are "fake news" or merely partisan hacks, but Buzzfeed is certainly beyond defense at this point. In the Trump era too many outlets are crossing the line between merely biased to outright unethical (see also: CNN collaborating with Donna Brazile and the Hillary campaign and WaPo's recent made up stories about 'fake news' outlets and russia hacking a power station), and it's destroying their already dismal credibility; to circle the wagons would only taint them all.

Two thirds of CNN's own viewers don't trust CNN (other networks are significantly better, but still not great), and overall the media's credibility is 32% (as of September. Probably well down in the 20's by now)

By all means someone needs to be out there to hold Trump (or any president) accountable, but that entity needs credibility and public trust, and the media is actively flushing what trust it has left down the toilet.

I'm hoping that people will wise up after trump and not so blatantly vote based on "feelings".

I switched from being a democrat/independent for most of my life to supporting Trump, and one lesson I learned is that both sides are absolutely convinced the other side is voting on "their feelings" and only we - the good guys - are voting on facts and rationality.

Our infrastructure is horribly vulnerable. Is Russia ready to throw the switch on any secret back doors they have managed to plant? Probably not. Are we? I hope not. Can you trust your average Chinese network router? I seriously doubt it. Embedded backdoors are the worst case as evidenced by the recent B&N tablet.

CNN fired Donna, and they were right to do so. There is no reason to believe they knew before hand.
CNN goes for ratings as opposed to focusing on actual news and such. That being said they don't seem to deliberately tilt it.

FOX and MSNBC do deliberately tilt it link

I only have to have fox on for about 5 minutes to see bias, but then I actively look. Hell I even listened to Rush for a year at one point. In a vacuum the conservatives sound good. They are fighting the good fight and all that. You defend your points by pointing to what people believe? How about pointing to actual tests of what people know? The wikipedia article on fox seems best. Yes it isn't an original source, but it does have links. link

No one is doubting that Fox is making money. I just want to see the bias ended in all networks. Remove hannity and the rest. (Fox does have some legitimate news people. They may be slightly biased, but they are fine.) Remove all the shills, including the ones at CNN. Never ever show me kellyanne conway again. She is not a credible source. Hell she was just conflating there being no proof of any actual voting machine hack with meaning that the election wasn't affecting. Of course the election was affected. People were influenced to vote against Hillary and for Trump.

Finally, if you didn't vote on feelings for Trump then what did you vote for? Hillary had plans. Most were basically to finish what was started. Trump had "make america great again" as his plan, which is no plan at all. He said he had a secret plan for ISIS. Maybe he will tell us soon.

Jim Crow laws were not the work of progressives. The whole point of them was to thwart the progressive agenda and preserve the status quo. They were about as regressive as you could possibly get.

Science at the time said that black were genetically inferiors to whites, and progressives saw segregation and eugenics as the rational response. That is, segregation was "the progressive agenda" at the time, and Jim Crow laws were consistent with it. http://bfy.tw/9SHj

Nazism were not in any way shape or form based on the progressive tradition.

Again, you're disputing basic historical facts. I'm not even going to dignify this with a response; my parents lived through this and were subjected to the "scientific" studies of Nazi scientists. You need to read up on your history, instead of political propaganda .

No one is ever required to disclose their race, religion, or sexual orientation. While various questionnaires may ask about them, you are always permitted to leave them blank.

People are even permitted to lie on them, which I and others certainly do. In addition, these questions don't have an objective, verifiable answer: although for some people, the answer is clear, for many it isn't; race or sexual orientation simply aren't well-defined categories.

Which then raises the question: given that the information is not verifiable, has no objective meaning, and is not statistically representative, how can it possibly be used to accuse and penalize companies for discrimination? Obviously, the current situation can't stand: either you end up with government-defined categories and mandatory responses, or you can't use this data at all as part of law enforcement.

You still are totally avoiding the main subject of this conversation: your claim that anti-discrimination laws are harmful to peace, prosperity, equality, and liberty. I have asked you again and again to provide evidence of that, and you have yet to offer a single shred of evidence

You have already cited the evidence yourself, you just refuse to see it. If you look at economic progress, there was no obvious change in slope when the civil rights act was passed, and that is for all provisions of the act.

Here are high school graduation rates: no effect of the civil rights act

Ditto for median household income: no effect of the civil rights act.

The one thing where you see a big change in social indicators around the civil rights act is illegitimacy, and that's a change for the worse.

So, even minimal fact checking tells you that the civil rights act had no great practical effect on major indicators of progress for African Americans. Its repeal of racist laws and government policies was a moral victory, but beyond that it is massive government interference with no clear benefit.

If you want more analysis, I have told you to read the works of Thomas Sowell as a starting point (there are many other books, but he is an engaging writer, and has credibility and personal experience).

The problem isn't that I have failed to give you evidence, the problem is that you have shown yourself time and again to be resistant to it. Instead of reading up on the history of progressivism, scientific racism, eugenics, or reading up on criticism of affirmative action, you simply and uncritically dig up links to articles that restate your own misconceptions. And, yeah, it's not surprising that you can find such links: obviously, a lot of people have the same erroneous beliefs that you do.

See subject: NoScript parses to block scripts - hosts do it before it in 1 step blocking ad/tracker script sources in fast kernelmode (vs. slow usermode in browsers slowing 'em w/ excess cpu, ram, & other I/O use - especially in firefox 'stacking' addons)

Ab+ does less less efficiently - 128-151mb http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions/686041/which-leads-to-faster-browsing-an-ad-blocker-or-an-edited-hosts-file/

UBlock now uses hosts (no DNS benefits - not a resolver itself) - poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"

Hosts ~3mb vs. UBlock = 64MB -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

APK

P.S.=> Hosts = native vs. adding inefficient ClarityRay blockable easily detected addons

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (August 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Seattle: Together with Microsoft and bad city management, Seattle is a miserable place:

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

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...

8% of the market is pretty safe to ignore

Even if iOS is 8 percent of the installed base, that can still be a lot more than 8 percent of the market. For example, if revenue per iOS user for paid apps and in-app purchases is 9.1 times that on Android (source: a six-month-old Business Insider article), an installed base of 8 percent iOS and 92 percent other corresponds to a market of .08*9.1/(.08*9.1+.92*1.0)*100 = 44 percent iOS and 56 percent other.

First, if there's a market, there is no reason not to make specific applications for various combos of hardware and software

Other than lack of capital on the developer's part. If a company lacks the resources to make five different native applications, one for each platform, it can serve more users with one JavaScript web application than with one native application.

Nobody says you have to buy any particular hardware or operating system.

Other than that you need to test on hardware and software similar to what your users are likely to already have.

Also, there is NO reason that today's smartphones need to run a particular OS.

Good luck convincing users to buy and carry a second device running "a different OS" or to abandon their existing investment in paid apps, in-app purchases, and learning time on their existing devices.

That's the thing about general computing

Android devices are general computers, at least at the userland level, but iOS devices are treated as appliances.

you can always write a different OS if you want.

Just because you write an operating system doesn't mean it's practical to deploy said operating system. Not all devices offer ability to unlock the bootloader, nor are most users willing to buy a new device just to be able to unlock its bootloader.

Also, as the Chinese have shown, you can run apps outside of Apple's walled garden without needing to jailbreak the phone.

To which exploit do you refer? Are you referring to 7659's abuse of the Developer Enterprise Program?

Honestly, the FBI, seems to have a knack for being left a bread crumb and thinking they have found the culprit. Heck, more recent revelations about N. Korea's internet network has cast doubt as to whether it could of even handled the quantities of data in a timely fashion.

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

http://gawker.com/a-lot-of-sma...

Per Wiki
Doubts about accusations against North Korea[edit]

Members of the press and various cybersecurity experts have expressed doubt about the claims that North Korea was behind the hack. Cyber security experts, independently analyzing the hack separately from the FBI—including Kurt Stammberger from cyber security firm Norse,[86][87] DEFCON organizer and Cloudflare researcher Marc Rogers,[88] Hector Monsegur,[89] and Kim Zetter, a security journalist at Wired magazine[90]—have tended to agree that North Korea might not be behind the attack.

Michael Hiltzik, a Los Angeles Times journalist, said that all evidence against North Korea was "circumstantial" and that some cybersecurity experts were "skeptical" about accusations against the government.[91] Cybersecurity expert Lucas Zaichkowsky said, "State-sponsored attackers don't create cool names for themselves like 'Guardians of Peace' and promote their activity to the public."[92] Kim Zetter of Wired magazine called released evidence against the government "flimsy".[93] Former hacker Hector Monsegur, who once hacked into Sony, explained to CBS News that exfiltrating one or one hundred terabytes of data would have taken months or years, not weeks, "without anyone noticing". Monsegur doubted the accusations due to North Korea's possibly insufficient infrastructure to handle much data. He believed that it could have been either Chinese, Russian, or North Korean sponsored hackers working outside of the country, but most likely to be the deed of a Sony employee.[94]

Stammberger provided to the FBI Norse's findings that suggest the hack was an inside job, stating, "Sony was not just hacked; this is a company that was essentially nuked from the inside. We are very confident that this was not an attack master-minded by North Korea and that insiders were key to the implementation of one of the most devastating attacks in history."[95] Stammberger believes that the security failure may have originated from six disgruntled former Sony employees, based on their past skill sets and discussions these people made in chat rooms. Norse employees identified these people from a list of workers that were eliminated from Sony during a restructuring in May 2014, and noted that some had made very public and angry responses to their firing, and would be in appropriate positions to identify the means to access secure parts of Sony's servers.[96][97][98] After a private briefing lasting three hours, the FBI formally rejected Norse's alternative assessment.[99]

- Russia wanted the candidate who didn't want to start WW3 to win

Then why did they help Trump?

He not only believes that nuclear war is inevitable: http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
But that a nuclear arms race is good, and winnable: http://www.businessinsider.com...

I would say it is a /. myth :D

The New York Times disagrees with you. So does businessinsider. And bloomberg. The Chinese control bitcoin, even in Tibet.

When people draw your org chart with guns you might have a problem.

People do FOREX trades based on flows of government fiscal policy, interest rates and taxation flows often. Presumably these are linked to real 'investment' eg: when any arm of the US government spends USD to buy literally anything it wants in the currency it issues. Indeed your criticism is more of currency market hysteria which Bitcoin more prone to or this slashdot article would not be here. eg: brexit http://www.smh.com.au/business... http://uk.businessinsider.com/...

You're a special kind of dipshit, aren't you? Even MS execs use MacBooks. http://www.businessinsider.com...

Yes, collusion and corruption are not nefarious undertakings. If they are not as bad as you want to paint it, then the Russian hacks don't matter, do they? After all, if what they showed American voters was totally mundane regular office affairs how could they have influenced the election? Sorry, you can't have it both ways.

The Russians apparently tried hacking the RNC but failed because no one clicked on a stupid phishing link.

"Stir up trouble" is informing American voters the extent the DNC colluded and how corrupt Clinton was. Good god man, did the Pentagon Papers stir up trouble too? You bet it did and for good reason. Showing the unadulterated truth to voters is not "stirring up trouble" especially compared to the shit that those leaks exposed.

Were they targeted?

Yes, and they failed.

That phishing link was created by the most well trained super sophisticated 1337 hackers the world has ever known. There is obviously no other explanation why the DNC got hacked. Hell even the GOP almost got hacked but it was only because the Russians didn't care as much and really just had it out for Clinton.

> He's also telegraphed every company that the way to be on his good book is jobs...

Lol. Not even close.
He gave Carrier $7M tax dollars in order to replace people with robots.

What he's "telegraphed" is that the way to be on his good book is to say great things about him because then he'll say great things about you.

Also, "A guy calls me a genius and they want me to renounce him? I'm not going to renounce him."

So yeah, if you want Donald Trump to like you, all you gotta do is praise him like a puppy.

Which is wrong.

You are asserting that the continental drift animation made by Dr. Scotese, professor of geology at the University of Texas, is wrong?

Alaska has not even one month of no sunlight.

Barrow has more than two months of darkness.

"Microsoft has run out of ideas..."

I think Microsoft has no competent top-level managers. It appears to me that Satya Nadella was chosen to be CEO because he was less annoying than the other candidates who were considered. Nadella doesn't seem to have the immense social and technology skills that are required for running a huge technology organization.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was called Monkey Boy on the cover of BusinessWeek Magazine. He appeared to have little or no technical knowledge. He appeared to have no interest in learning.

Because Microsoft has a virtual monopoly, it is easy to make money. (Apple charges 3 to 5 times more, and has only 7.4% of PC computer sales.)

What hosts do addons can't (or as well):

PROTECT vs.:

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

11.) Multiplatform
12.) Ez data edit
13.) Efficiency (cpu/ram/I-O)

14.) UBlock no DNS bennys = poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"
15.) NoScript tag parses. Hosts block adservers before it cheaper

APK

P.S.=> AB+ 151mb http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

UBlock 64MB http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

(hosts ~6mb)

ClarityRay defeatable

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

SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions/686041/which-leads-to-faster-browsing-an-ad-blocker-or-an-edited-hosts-file/

With dislreports and other aggregation tests, the bloat for download and upload may not be symmetric. So the resulting score might not be as good as it looks.

Paying for a commercial connection? Test for this kind of performance daily and scream as soon as it drops. Otherwise why bother to pay so much?

In the United States and other jurisdictions a home 'customer' user is not expected to run a "server" on their paid for Internet connection. Downloads may be finely tuned to low bloat. But upload may have significant bufferbloat, caps and gradual dropout. For financial reasons, of course.

This upload problem may get to be much worse in the future. More and more services push data from "client" devices in the home or office. Camera phone videos, twitch streams, shared google docs and your home automation spyware upend the upload/download assumptions of last-hop telcos. P2P is impacted now. The highly asymmetric buffering of uploads is detectable using protocols like bittorrent that don't have client-server separation.

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...

Replying to the false narrative Russia keeps putting out:

I guess they would be defending Crimea and other Russia territory from attacks over the border.

There was nothing to defend since it isn't their territory. It's Ukrainian soil and Ukraine wasn't attacking Russia, let alone even threatening Russia.

However, since the Russian invasion and occupation of Crimea there has been wholesale arrests of Crimean Tartars, the television, radio and other Tartar news sources have been shut down, and their businesses stolen.

Got Crimea back,

There was nothing to get back. It wasn't Russia's to begin with.

got involved in Syria and seems to have resolved it

By deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians, yes, that is one way.

and installed his choice of leader in the White House.

Agreed. Putin did a fantastic job on the gullible rednecks in the U.S. which shows how far this country has sunk.

while removing sanctions and doing deals to boost the Russian economy.

Also agreed. That is what Russia needs most right now because with oil prices still being low, Russia just might run out of money in the coming year. We know the sanctions have been have been having an effect so Putin had to do whatever he could to make sure Hillary Clinton didn't get in since she would have increased sanctions as well as possibly provide military support to Ukraine.

You win some, you lose some.