Alien Atmosphere Hubbled

b-side.org writes "Yahoo! News has a story on yon giant hubble mirrorscope thingy locating an alien, mostly sodium, atmosphere. X10.com popunder ads also included free of charge." Mm....let's mix that atmosphere with water. T cuts in: This turns out to be the major discovery hinted at a few days ago.

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[tcd004]

I'd like my atmosphere with extra MSG please.

Michael Jackson's soul is for sale.

tcd004

X10 pop under ads

[z4ce]

I have to wonder how much business do they actually get from their ads? I mean... I was planning on buying several hundreds to mid-thousand dollars worth of wireless security stuff and they were who I thought of to go to(before the ads). However, now I would be reluctant to even let them send me a free firecracker kit because they've annoyed me so much. I wouldn't give them a dime no matter what. So now I'm ordering all of my wireless stuff from smarthome.com nearly purely because of their advertising tactics (Although, smarthome.com actually has a lot more stuff).

Have the ads had this effect on anyone else? Are these ads actually effective at making sales? I would think about any professional would stay way far away from any company with ads like that.

Ian

Sodium?!?!!!

[Iron Webmaster]

Just a couple months ago there I was watching the first episode of Enterprise and thinking how stupid it was for there to be a layer of sodium in the atmosphere.

Of course, leave it to the Star Trek folks to get the distance all wrong.

HOWTO: getting rid of x10.com

[rneches]

I hate x10.com as much as the next guy. So, I don't look at it. Here's a simple and easy way to enjoy an x10 free browsing experience, no matter where you go!

just copy this into /etc/hosts :

# resolve x10.com as the localhost
127.0.0.1 x10.com
127.0.0.1 ndsex.x10.com
127.0.0.1 ns2.x10.com
127.0.0.1 ns1.x10.com

If you want to get rid of some banner ads, too, you can add this to /etc/hosts :

# resolve all doubleclick names to the localhost
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net

127.0.0.1 gd22.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 dcnyadgds1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 dcnyadgds2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 annyadgds1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 annyadgds2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 uunyadgds1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 uunyadgds2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 cwvaadgds1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 cwvaadgds2.doubleclick.net

You get the idea. Remember, dig and squid are your friends!