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Political Pop-ups, and Follow the Money
finelinebob writes "Now we know why Bush wants broadband for everyone: The Republican National Committee plans on bringing the campaign to Internet pop-up ads. From the article: 'Internet experts said that Republicans have entered a new realm of campaigning. Pop-up and pop-under ads of any variety haven't been around long, and little data exist to suggest how voters might respond to uninvited interruptions.' Okay, folks -- get your pop-up blocking browsers now!" While you're waiting for your first pop-up, pop on over to a website that tracks campaign contributions: vVF4N writes "Fundrace 2004 lets you enter any street address and see what people at or near that location have contributed to a presidential candidate, along with their addresses and occupations. The data is based on reports that campaigns regularly file with the Federal Election Commission. You can also look up a name and get the same information. The Washington Post (registration required) has more. Find out who your friends and neighbors are contributing to."
Alternatively, you could just download the Google toolbar... No popups in IE... Sorted.
It's probably worth noting that IE will do popup blocking itself beginning with SP2. Microsoft has already released SP2 RC1 for public download, for those of you that like to live on the edge. In addition, it upgrades the Windows Firewall to what I think of as a ZoneAlarm lite, which isn't half bad considering it's a freebie for windows users.
I'll personally stick to Firefox, but in the few days I've been running the SP2 RC1 on my windows box, I have to say I'm impressed, and it's a step in the right direction.
By allowing specific sites only to popup windows. Certainly possible with Firefox, probably with Mozilla. Not sure about Opera, though it makes sense that it would support it too.
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Keeping digging your own grave, Rove.
If they want to alienate voters and come off as money-hungry vultures, then pop-ups and spam are the way to go.
Its pretty ironic when Bush has over 100 million sitting in his war chest, which has broken all previous records. Thats what you get for pandering to big business for almost four years, a nice return on your investment.
So here in California, the Republicans already have lots of practice annoying Internet users. Let's hope they keep it up!
Bill Stewart
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Many ad companies already do use location targetted ads - I often see Sainsbury's, Switch etc ads on US sites. Of course this isn't 100% foolproof, but it did even work with my old (pre-RIPE) IP.
Very, very simple to do and if you must use IE, just get the google toolbar for pop-up blocking.
Not only do Opera, Firefox, and MyIE2 all block popups, but so to does the Apple web browser Safari! It is also the standard browser.
yes its a bug... but then again, FireFox is not YET v1.0
If you download an extension/theme, you have to immeadiately restart the browser to clear the install queue.
Otherwise when you download the next one, you will get *TWO" restart messages (and increasing each time)
This bug WILL be fixed by 1.0, and is hardly what you call serious, and better by far than IE, which requires to you restart the system at times.
Have a nice day!
I suspect the system used to select adds is quite primitive, and I'm simply too strange a case to get tailored adds.
That wasn't FUD, I USED IE and it actually did behave that way at times (Having IE explode and take down the 9x kernel was always fun, especially when doing homework/essays) fortunately the NT/2k/XP kernel is significantly better armored than the 9x kernel but IE does still Explode sometimes and when it does it has a habit of leaving messy pieces all over.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Internet junkbuster does this also for EVERY COMPUTER IN YOUR HOUSE or office. even better if you have a linux machine available.. use privoxy
easier, faster and you can issue rules to all broswers instantly
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Nope, 100% illegal. We have labor laws in place that prohibit such coersion. If "Jane" feels that "Jane's Boss" is pressuring her to vote/contribute a certain way, that's grounds for an open-and-shut lawsuit.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Next you`ll be griping about taxation without representation.
What, you mean like Washington D.C.? From the pages of the first site that popped up when I googled:
District of Columbia citizens have no representation of any kind in the US Senate and only a nonvoting delegate to the US House of Representatives. US citizens who live in Washington, DC, have no voting representation on the national issues considered by Congress. Furthermore, since Congress also acts as Washington's "state" legislature, local citizens are also denied voting representation in a state legislative body-something that all other Americans enjoy.
Let the races begin!
Data Quality Act
Trial Begins Over Library Censorship
How Corporate Lobbyists Colonized the Net
White House Files Amicus Brief Favoring RIAA
Clinton Frowns on Anonymity
Feds Want Access to Your Machine
Government Wants to do Massive Internet Monitoring
That's back to only July 1999 and only on negative articles that mention Clinton. I didn't even bother to go further back or search specifically for stuff like Senator Disney and the DCMA. So, just because you forget stuff that doesn't fit your perseption of reality doesn't make it true.
Any sufficiently advanced influence is indistinguishable from control.