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D Squared To Stop Sending Pop-Ups
bizpile writes "D Squared Solutions, the company created by college students Anish Dhingra and Jeffrey Davis, has agreed to stop bombarding computer users with Internet pop-up ads to advertise its ad-blocking software, avoiding a court battle with the Federal Trade Commission. They were sending pop-up ads using the Messenger function enabled on many Windows operating systems. Their attorneys claimed the pair were not trying to extort consumers with their ads and only intended to send one a day to computer users. Lawyer Anthony J. Dain has said the ads are 'annoyances you have to deal with in a free society.'" (The San Diego Union-Tribune also has a story.)
As a resident of Alabama, and not too fond of our current governor, I'm in the process of writing a letter even as we speak.
I'm just a caveman programmer. I don't understand your strange, "modern" ways of thinking.
Ok; I should use some CSS code written by ant-slashdot extremists when I could solve the same exact problem by using light mode why, exactly?
The easy solution (from an AC post the other day) is to backspace over the it.
:)
Poof, no more tan!
I still think taco's wife is creepier than perdida.
Yeah, but you have to do that every time. Too bad there's no way to do an auto-redirect. Maybe Slashdot could sell that as a subscriber feature.
Maybe somebody could create a bookmarklet to remove the 'it'? Too lazy myself, I guess substr() with a document.URL might do the trick.
DONKEY PUNCH MICROSOFT STYLE
http://no-more-baby-shit.slashdot.org/it/04/08/01/ 0222232.shtml?tid=111&tid=123&tid=201
There's a small mistake in your style sheet.
This line:
body#it-slashdot-org a { color: #006666 important; }
is missing a punctuation mark. It should look like this:
body#it-slashdot-org a { color: #006666 !important; }
Other than that, it looks good.
Is the manky horrible colour scheme for this section another one of the annoyances you have to deal with in a free society? If so, where do I sign up for martial law?
I've actually grown kind of used to the scheme and like it. It's very neutral and...just...soothing? I like it.