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BeauHD -- DIGITAL logo =/= digital tech by Anonymous Coward · 2018-07-02 15:53 · Score: 1 · on Would You Pay $700, Plus a Monthly Fee, For a Digital License Plate? (arstechnica.com)

This story was posted with this Slashdot-icon:

https://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/t...

This graphic is the logo for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). This company was a Really Big Deal decades ago - in fact, I bet a lot of Slashdot readers were formerly employed by DEC. Citation needed?

Although the DEC logo uses the word "digital", it does not represent all things that are digital. Putting this label on a story about something "digital" is like putting Mickey Mouse ears on any story involving animation. It's just not correct, and it's a bit abrasive to the brain.

Could the editors stop using this icon unless it's a story related to the Corporation Fomerly Known as DEC?

Re:Websites with a Facebook share icon... by munch117 · 2018-04-17 18:25 · Score: 1 · on Facebook Admits To Tracking Users, Non-Users Off-Site (theguardian.com)

A plain link, using the image https://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/f... - fsdn.com seems to be a sourceforge domain. On this one thing /. comes out clean. No facebook tracking.

Slashdot advert trackers .. by najajomo · 2018-04-09 08:39 · Score: 1 · on Tim Cook Says Ads That Follow You Online Are 'Creepy' (cnet.com)

"To me it's creepy when I look at something and all of a sudden it's chasing me all the way across the web" Cook said. "I don't like that."

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https://www.stack-sonar.com/
https://a.fsdn.com/
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Slashdot advert trackers .. by najajomo · 2018-04-09 08:39 · Score: 1 · on Tim Cook Says Ads That Follow You Online Are 'Creepy' (cnet.com)

"To me it's creepy when I look at something and all of a sudden it's chasing me all the way across the web" Cook said. "I don't like that."

https://snap.licdn.com/
https://analytics.slashdotmedi...
https://ssl.google-analytics.c...
https://ml314.com/
https://consent.trustarc.com/
https://a.fsdn.com/
https://ads.pro-market.net/
https://cdn.taboola.com/
https://rpxnow.com/
https://tag.crsspxl.com/
https://www.stack-sonar.com/
https://a.fsdn.com/
https://cdn-social.janrain.com...
https://d3tglifpd8whs6.cloudfr...

Re:You forgot WebAssembly! by Thiez · 2017-12-31 08:14 · Score: 1 · on 2017: The Year in Programming Languages (infoworld.com)

Since you feel so strongly about this subject, and you're posting on slashdot, I'm sure you (or someone you hired?) have audited the 29k lines of code at https://a.fsdn.com/sd/all.js which get loaded on this very page (well, actually https://a.fsdn.com/sd/all-minified.js gets loaded, but I'm dangerously assuming that the former is the original version of the latter). So did you find anything suspicious? When was the last time those files got updated?

If you haven't actually inspected that JavaScript file, would you agree that your concerns are completely theoretical and that nobody is really going to bother to spend hours reading JavaScript for every new domain they visit (or spend thousands of dollars hiring a consultant to do so)? Given that the vast, vast, vast majority of people have come to like and expect the kind of behavior that scripts in the browser provide, wouldn't it be much more effective to do things such as lobby for user/browser tracking to be outlawed, inventing better tracking protection, etc.? Opposing scripts in the browser sounds like a technical solution to a social problem, which rarely work.

Re:You forgot WebAssembly! by Thiez · 2017-12-31 08:14 · Score: 1 · on 2017: The Year in Programming Languages (infoworld.com)

Since you feel so strongly about this subject, and you're posting on slashdot, I'm sure you (or someone you hired?) have audited the 29k lines of code at https://a.fsdn.com/sd/all.js which get loaded on this very page (well, actually https://a.fsdn.com/sd/all-minified.js gets loaded, but I'm dangerously assuming that the former is the original version of the latter). So did you find anything suspicious? When was the last time those files got updated?

If you haven't actually inspected that JavaScript file, would you agree that your concerns are completely theoretical and that nobody is really going to bother to spend hours reading JavaScript for every new domain they visit (or spend thousands of dollars hiring a consultant to do so)? Given that the vast, vast, vast majority of people have come to like and expect the kind of behavior that scripts in the browser provide, wouldn't it be much more effective to do things such as lobby for user/browser tracking to be outlawed, inventing better tracking protection, etc.? Opposing scripts in the browser sounds like a technical solution to a social problem, which rarely work.

Re:Oh! *intelligence* partners. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-25 19:11 · Score: 0 · on The CIA Built a Fake Software Update System To Spy On Intel Partners (theverge.com)

The story even has the Intel icon.

Re: Story icon by LinuxIsGarbage · 2017-07-11 21:55 · Score: 1 · on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com)

October 2010 "66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP"

The icon is the cracked Windows

Re:Fake red scare by Zontar+The+Mindless · 2017-06-23 12:25 · Score: 1 · on Under Pressure, Western Tech Firms Including Cisco and IBM Bow To Russian Demands To Share Cyber Secrets (reuters.com)

Maybe you should find a better way to waste your time than responding to an obvious ringer?

(ProTip: Posts from real Slashdot editor accounts are badged with the Slashdot logo.)

Re:Cry me a river... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-05-26 13:35 · Score: 0 · on Smartphone Surveillance Tech Used To Target Anti-Abortion Ads At Pregnant Women (rewire.news)