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There are a few Roland Piquepaille filters available - they take the form of Greasemonkey scripts running in Firefox

I use this one: http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/5735/ it's called NoRoland - if userscripts.org is down (again), the author (Dave?) hosts it on his own site too - http://davephp.net/

It's very effective - all I see of Roland's pollution now is a greyed out article box with the words "This is a slashvertisement. Please ignore!"

Most of the time I choose to "ignore"

Got Greasemonkey? Don't want to see Roland 'Slashdotters-are-my-ad-view-bitches' Piquepaille's stories?

Screw Roland Piquepaille

greasemonkey: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2588

Greasemonkey script removes null from URLs

Easy...

1. Install the Greasemonkey Add-On for Firefox
2. Install the GMailSecure script for Greasemonkey
3. Profit!

Tweak script parameters as required for Calendar, Apps-For-Your-Domain, etc. etc.

Get GreaseMonkey and add NoRoland!
 
Save your time, and stop Roly Poly freeloading off your clicks!

Get GreaseMonkey and add NoRoland!
 
Save your time, and stop Roly Poly freeloading off your clicks!

Get GreaseMonkey and add NoRoland!

Save your time, and stop Roly freeloading off your clicks!

nothing like the greasemonkey script to kill rolands stories in a pleasant fashion

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735

WiFi, or any other radio does not work in salt water.

This is an automated comment generated by a grease monkey script. If you agree that the Featured Article posted by a blog whore, or if you do not want to read any future articles with no useful or new content, you can gray out all Roland Piquepaille articles with this script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/ [userscripts.org]

Enjoy!

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Try the greasemonkey script to remove all the crap ;)

Firefox users (at least in Windows) can use Greasemonkey with this script
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8346
along with McAfee's SiteAdvisor to see a red/yellow/green icon next to all Google ad links.
Its not the best Greasemonkey script, but it gets the job done.

This is an automated comment generated by a grease monkey script. If you agree that this is posted by a blog whore, or if you do not want to read any future articles with no useful or new content, you can gray out all Roland Piquepaille articles with this script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/ [userscripts.org]

Enjoy!

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I have in the previous post claimed that the FA is void of anything new and useful. This is my opinion, and apparently the opinion of most of /. readers. If you disagree with my position, post a reply as to why, and maybe you can convince me and others.

In any case is is certainly not off-topic.

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If you agree that the FA is posted by a blog whore, or if you do not want to read any future articles with no useful or new content, you can gray out all Roland Piquepaille articles with this script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/ [userscripts.org]

Enjoy!

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Disclaimer: This comment is an automated comment generated by a grease monkey script.

If you agree that the FA is posted by a blog whore, or if you do not want to read any future articles with no useful or new content, you can gray out all Roland Piquepaille articles with this script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/

Enjoy!

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This is an automated comment generated by a grease monkey script. If you agree that this is posted by a blog whore, or if you do not want to read any future articles with no useful or new content, you can gray out all Roland Piquepaille articles with this script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/

Enjoy!

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get the greasemonkey script to block his ass
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735

its great everytime i see a "greyed out" slashdot story its roland! then i come in to look at it and guess what? the fp is always this. its great!

Roland_Piquepaille, the submitter of this story, is apparently a publicist. Apparently he is paid to have stories placed in media like Slashdot.

Mr. Piquepaille's affiliations and motivations should be disclosed. Does he pay someone at Slashdot to run his stories?

Also, for me, computing is an important area of continuing interest. Most of Mr. Piquepaille's stories, like this one, have very little real connection to computing, so they waste my time. I'm not the only one annoyed by this, apparently: Here is a script to Hide stories submitted by Roland Piquepaille from Slashdot.org.

Digg.com or Reddit.com are more appropriate media for Mr. Piquepaille. However, I suspect that his stories would seldom be considered interesting enough to be placed on the Digg or Reddit front pages.

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Most people in the U.S. have no idea how corrupt is the Bush administration. Here's my summary of U.S. gov. corruption. Where's yours?

greasemonkey script to remove piquepaille stories
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/

Works well

Try my userscript: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7114

Makes Amazon useable again.

Here is one of many greasemonkey script to remove piquepaille stories
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/ [userscripts.org]

would like to just suggest a link to Roland Piquepailles blog somewhere where those who are interested can click. And *no more articles please*

I read /. to get real news and facts, and see discussions from people with insight.
Roland Piquepailles submissions has not met this criterium. At least filter away the combination "Piquepailles", "nano" and "quantum".

Take a bottle of nano-beer (yes the water molecules are nano particles), eat some nano-pretzels (the baking soda produced a nano-gas that puffed them up), and run this script.

Here is one of many greasemonkey script to remove piquepaille stories
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/

You should mod this up if you agree or mod away as flamebait/offtopic/troll if you dont agree, but at least mod it.

Unfortunately its become a modern-day whitepages, which is all I ever use Myspace for. I ran across something that made visiting the site more tolerable: a firefox plugin. Using the Greasemonkey plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/748/ and one of several scrips from http://userscripts.org/, all that annoying media is disabled, making for a somewhat more normal experience.

As an ex-myspacer, I know of the ocular and mental angish caused by some of the pages on myspace. However, greasemonkey and the myspace custome style remover script make using myspace bearable.

There are other ways to handle this, too: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5738

Here is one of many scripts:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/

Thank you - it appears that there are several.

I tried 3 of them, but this one seems to work best http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735/

I don't block adverts, flash etc. but Roland's blog spam irritates me.

I think you're right, but when I'm forced to wade through Myspace, this helps.

Actually, you missed one of the more important aspects of the fourth point:

He adds a link to his blog using "additional references and a picture" (or variants) as the text. This results in him getting higher google rankings for his blog, particularly for "additional references and a picture" (or variants). Note the Related Links at the top right of the Slashdot page for this article. In addition to a standard "slashvertisement", the effects also amount to a "googletisement".

While in ordinary circumstances this could potentially be acceptable, the contents of Roland's blog entries are usually redundant (including the picture) to the very articles he is reviewing in his blog. This amounts to an abuse of the trust provided by the Slashdot community.

Many people warn other slashdotters by adding the tag "pigpile" (for those who have tagging enabled). However, more people use the Greasemonkey script that will block Roland's pseudoscientific submissions, which brendandonhue posted in a previous Pigpile thread. That is why the Pigpile rants are low, not necessarily the holidays.

- RG>

Well that took much less time than anticipated.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5738

No more roland piquipaki! Thanks to Brendan Donahue, script author.

I realize that the summary doesn't link to Roland's blog this time, but any Firefox users that want to hide his submissions can use this Greasemonkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5738

For those Firefox users that haven't seen it yet, here's the Greasemonkey script I wrote to hide Roland Piquepaille stories from Slashdot: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5738

Enjoy

For Firefox users, this Greasemonkey script will hide stories submitted by Roland Piquepaille:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5738

I feel your pain.. This may help: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5735

I've posted it before, but there is a greasemonkey script that puts the bsd section back in at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3790 Ta da!

you can use the "google maps in flickr" greasemonkey script for geotagging using google maps.

you can get that here:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1574

then auto-convert 'geotags' to the new flickr format.

there is usually some horrible music playing in the background that is difficult (if not impossible) to stop.

Luckily some of those antithetical-myspace-geeks have http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3299/ saved us from the hell you speak of.

Here are the pieces you will need.

Get Firefox: http://mozilla.com/

Install Greasemonkey: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

Then install the following greasemonkey scripts:
MySpace Tag Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/746
MySpace Custom Style Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/997
MySpace Ad Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/3719

Here are the pieces you will need.

Get Firefox: http://mozilla.com/

Install Greasemonkey: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

Then install the following greasemonkey scripts:
MySpace Tag Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/746
MySpace Custom Style Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/997
MySpace Ad Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/3719

Here are the pieces you will need.

Get Firefox: http://mozilla.com/

Install Greasemonkey: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

Then install the following greasemonkey scripts:
MySpace Tag Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/746
MySpace Custom Style Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/997
MySpace Ad Remover: http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/3719

There's a Greasemonkey script for that sort of thing: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1418

Seems to be inspired by the really cool software tool from IBM: http://www.research.ibm.com/history/

Any Firefox/Greasemonkey users out there that are interested in this may also want to check out the Dict script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1467

It adds a similar, but much less intrusive capability. Simply double-click on any word to highlight it, and the definition is shown in a small window. Once you're done, just click the X (or use my own slgihtly-modified version and click anywhere on the page) to close it.

Of course, this has both it's pros and cons as compared to the original idea discussed in the story. Since it's a client-side solution, this isn't something that will be available to your visitors. However, the good news is that it doesn't hijack your browser's context menu, which, as mnay other people have commented, is something I personally despise.

Greasemonkey and this userscript does it for me: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3703

Oh, there's a Greasemonkey script for that. In fact there's several.

Oh, there's a Greasemonkey script for that. In fact there's several.

Oh, there's a Greasemonkey script for that. In fact there's several.

Oh, there's a Greasemonkey script for that. In fact there's several.

Saw them all through the Google Cache. (I can't function without the Add Mirrors Greasemonkey Script which IMHO is way better than the Slashdotter Extension.)

Anyway, I thought "This is hot" blew all the others away. High production value. Gets some of the firefox message across to a mass audience without getting buried in all the product details. Most of the others will just leave people confused.

I would like to take the opportunity provided by this nitpicking thread to request that the powers-that-be here at Slashdot kindly provide us with collapsible threads. That way, next time I see a preposition joke (and a good one too, GP) attacked by the grammar impaired, I can safely collapse the thread and relax, knowing I won't miss anything of any substance whatsoever.