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Ads on /., since when? :) It's amazing what an OSS browser and an add-on will keep you from seeing.

What is Book Burro? It knows about many popular book sites on the web, and does a comparison shop between all of them, offering you a tiny on-screen pop-down way to find the cheapest price.

But that's if you're cheap, and don't want to support slashdot with your referral dollars. Personally, I like giving referrer dollars to whoever actually deserves them. Perhaps not at double the cost, but I like shopping through sites I frequent whenever possible.

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Get it because it'll make you cool like everyone else (Go Go Gadget Peer Pressure!), keep it because you don't miss the ads and just one click brings up any content you do want, as well as whitelist features.

http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/

and also see this PDF

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824-2004/reports/jwolf e.pdf

Thanks to http://mimir.silverfir.net/blogs/index.php?blog=6& cat=31 for the links

Q3:A has the distinction of being battle proven in a commercial product over the others.

Maybe you've never heard of Greasemonkey. Even though it is primarily client-side plugins being added in at the users request, it has cross-site AJAX capabilities built into it.

Why should I have to register with Verisign to send an encrypted email to my girlfriend, co-workers etc.

You don't. The third-party CA is not at all a requirement for encrypting and signing your email.

Why can't I just click a button and generate a random 128 bit key set and use PGP?

You can, although I think the minimum key length might be 1024 bits.

why can I send a MIME encoded attachement anywhere, but not a PGP encoded plain text email?

You can. See Enigmail for example. Anybody with PGP and a key can receive, verify, and decrypt, even if they don't happen to use Enigmail on their end.

I think (and hope) your point was that this isn't built-in and/or integrated into every email client by default, which is absolutely true. But I'd suggest you download GPG and install Enigmail as a plugin to Mozilla or Thunderbird, and actually see that there is a point-and-click solution. You literally click a little key icon in the message as you compose to encrypt, or a pen icon to sign. You can even encrypt and/or sign everything by default.

I'm afraid not. Most deli meat comes from certain cuts of the Spamalope. Shoulder cuts ususally taste like ham, limb and joint cuts taste like capricola and bolognia, and the haunch tastes like...spam.

The statement "This spam tastes like ass!" is therefore redundant.

Spamalope are native to the Hudson Valley area in New York (the state), which is why the best deli meat comes from New York City. The Yiddish word for the Spamalope is Delicatessen.

Once they covered the landscape from horizon to horizon, but their numbers have been drastically reduced. The only known free range spamalope are now controlled by a consortium of deli meat companies, particularly Hormel and Oscar Meyer.

It is rumored you can still hear the lonesome mating cry of the Spamalope in the wilds of Yonkers and Sheboygan, but most people write it off as just another Urban Ledgend.

Hope that clears things up.

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To rid of the ads, consider Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/ with AdBlock http://adblock.mozdev.org/.

Cookie Culler lets Firefox users keep the delicious cookies and toss all the delicate but icky ones.

Sounds like my old plan. What allowed me to improve on this was discovering Cookie button, a Firefox extension. Now I leave the default setting as reject all cookies and click the little button to allow those sites that need it (I think I have about 12 allowed, but I'm probably more conservative than most would be).

Along similar lines, NoScript does the same thing for javascript and most here probably already know about AdBlock and Filterset G (the best pre-made set of adblock filters I know of).

Sounds like my old plan. What allowed me to improve on this was discovering Cookie button, a Firefox extension. Now I leave the default setting as reject all cookies and click the little button to allow those sites that need it (I think I have about 12 allowed, but I'm probably more conservative than most would be).

Along similar lines, NoScript does the same thing for javascript and most here probably already know about AdBlock and Filterset G (the best pre-made set of adblock filters I know of).

Cookie Culler works great for protecting cookies you want to keep without having to set files to read only and having to undo it if you find a new site you want to add.

It's also Mom and Dad friendly.

It will be Good that some admin check how many of /. visitors/users accept cookies, as some form of "statics".

I have CookieCuller http://cookieculler.mozdev.org/index.html (a "modified version of the Cookie Manager built into the Firefox/Mozilla browser".
With that extension its easy to have some "protected" cookies, a list of "blocked" (sites who can not do nothing with cookies), and some other that will be cleaned at start. (and some other options).

Bye

I use Cookieculler to protect those cookies I value (cause not all cookies are out there useless) and I delete the rest frequently.

I believe Opera already has this feature for a long time due to the need to have this in their embedded version.

There is also a mozilla based browser that already does this

Exactly! For example: If you check the WOW Server Status page now, you will see that ALL of their servers are currently (21:10BST) down and have been that way for quite some time now, yet there is no sign of any activity on their message boards here.
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Exactly! For example: If you check the WOW Server Status page now, you will see that ALL of their servers are currently (21:10BST) down and have been that way for quite some time now, yet there is no sign of any activity on their message boards here.
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The edit css plugin for firefox lets you edit the css data for any page and instantly see the changes.

1. Get the Adblock Firefox extension at:
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Install it and restart Firefox.

2. Use Firefox to visit www.slashdot.org, go to Tools > Adblock > List All Blockable Elements >
a) http://.falkag.net/*
b) http://.tacoda.net/* =I'm not sure if this is ad site, but the first one is for sure

3. Right-click and block individual image-type ads, if any.

Personalized ads will be just as invisible, thanks to AdBlock.

My behavior with AdBlock: if the ad contains movement of any sort - animated GIFs, Flash etc. - I will always AdBlock it. Small, stationary ads I generally leave in place, especially if they are around the border of the article I am reading. As Firefox/Mozilla usage increases and tools like AdBlock become (hopefully) widespread, it will be interesting to see if advertising changes in response. The "conventional wisdom" in advertising is you need to make your ad stand out, hence pop-ups and wildly animated adverts. These are the most noxious and instrusive. If users start to react to this sort of ad, maybe it will die out over time? I could live with a world of small, static ads like Google's text ads - they can even be useful sometimes.

We are working in an electronics environment and are mainly working on embedded software and PCB design. We cannot get accross to those Java ppl that memory does not come for free (What! only 32 MB) in terms of money and board space, nor does processor speeds (money, space and energy dissipation)(What! only 66 or 300 MHz, why can't you put a 1GB processor on the board).

Moving the plugins into the optional folder creates dramatic speedup in start time. See here

Good call...at least they are trying
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Depends on the content providers.

But if you're browsing with Mozilla/Firefox, check out Sage. I find it quite useful for floating over feeds from MarketWatch.com, Reuters, freshmeat.

Looking at how RSS works, though, I have to wonder why RFC 822 Mail Subject headers aren't fed into RSS as an option for gmail.

Ya, it's to prevent joint damage.
Still... it gives them an "I told you so" angle if anything like this ever gets to court.
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So *you're* the guy who's been modding my posts down!!!
I swear, I had a post at the default Score:1, and someone modded it "Overrated". Wtf?
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Actually, you won't have to worry about not knowing for a little while. If your cooling system breaks, your CPU will be a blob of silicone in about four seconds, IIRC.

But fans usually make some kind of noise when they're dying/in need of maintainace. When it starts making grinding sounds, you'll notice it.
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1. The shuttle *has* to fly where it does. There's only two landing strips capable of taking it in the world.
2. Do you live in a city with an airport?

The only time I've been woken by the shuttle coming down was when it desintegrated over my house. I didn't know what it was then, (there were no clouds for thunder) but as soon I saw it on TV, I knew what I had heard.
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Yeah typing input has a ways to go for conveying free form information that departs from the simply textual. Over even formated textual... like ever tried doing impromptu columns in a word processor vrs just jotting three lists next to each other on a sheet of paper ? With practice and knowledge (insert and tab stops) it can be done quickly but it isn't very intuitive.

Has that changed? There should be a lot of material that students still need to write longhand, until some kind of standard in-class "terminal" that's hackproof is installed in classrooms.

Don't forget the sneaky introduction of Yahoo toolbar with the installation of the Macromedia stuff .... That couldn't possibly have anything to do with the increase in searches ....
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On Slashdot? Dude, none of us wear designer clothes anyways. It would be like saying "Boycott Microsoft!!!"
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Although you can remove a specific table in a page with an extention called Remove It Perementaly http://rip.mozdev.org/

defend Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong

Because the majority of the readers on /. are American, and we think in miles per hour and feet per second. They did give you KPH, so you shouldn't be complaining - they could have left it out completely, if they felt like it.
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Go to sleep.
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He should have just used the jump pads.
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You should be ashamed. I have a higher userid than you, and I've already made a parody of my own.
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...a short story by Philip K. Dick called "Foster, You're Dead". Find a copy and read it, it's good. It's about a kid during an alternate-reality cold war whose father refuses to buy a nuke shelter. Wikipedia Link
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Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Natalie in the restaurant, but Natalie doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the ISS nearby the restaurant, in the bed-room, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bed-room like that, they got a lot of room accross the tube where the equipment used to be in. Havin' all that room, seein' as how they took out all the equipmnet, they decided that they didn't have to take out their garbage for a long time.

We got up there, we found all the garbage in here, and we decided it'd be a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the Earth. So we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a white Boeing orbiter, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the Earth.

Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the landing strip saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a landing strip closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we flew off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.

We didn't find one. Until we came to low orbit, and off the side of the orbit there was an atmosphere and at the bottom of the atmosphere there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one slightly burned big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down.
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I had an inner ear infection last year, and I went through that. It's way not cool, you seriously cannot stand in one place (or even sit up!) without falling and it's very nauseating to be still or even lie down with your eyes closed. (I must have thrown up at least six times that morning, and I had dry heaves the rest of the day.) It was also very scary because we didn't know what the hell was going on until I had been diagnosed at the hospital.
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ASF
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4) How many processes does it startup on boot?

one to reclaim its file associations every 20 seconds. one to keep a tray icon visible at all times. one to check for updates. and one that sends "usage statistics" back to Real. all 4 are added to the startup registry everytime the player is launched.

Seriously blows the GP out of the water, and is very informative.
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It doesn't matter, they modded your broken post up anyways. That means they either read your mind, or didn't understand it at all.
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The correct answer if for e-mail programs to start including public key encryption as a feature. That WOULD render e-mail as private as a letter. IIRC, KMail has such a feature. Mozilla doesn't appear to, at least not by default. I don't know about Thunderbird. (Perhaps there are add-ons, but this really needs to be a default option.)

Outlook Express had a PGP plugin in the 1990s to support signing and encryption and just about every email program today (certainly any remotely popular commercial one) supports public key signing/encrypting. Not sure what's there by default in Thunderbird, but there is the Enigmail plugin to support GnuPG.

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