I have on occasion used Firefox plugins that filter out most banner ads. I've found my pages load about 70% faster. I watch the little status line at the bottom of Firefox and I've found that most of my "waiting" time is for advertisements.
I've also found DNS to be slow for some reason. Things that aren't cached on the local machine slow browsing down significantly (something else adverts contribute to).
Of course the people who just leave P2P applications running non-stop are a bit of a pain.
For me, I always add the urls of banner ads to my host file and redirect them to 127.0.0.1. No slow downs for me when I browse websites.
I tried ad-blocker and found it more annoying then having ads on.
I guess this should be a lesson to all of us parents out there. Do not let your kid use your wireless card outside the nation you have service. Why couldn't he go to a Starbucks or another wifi hotpot and upload the pictures from there and send email? To me the parents had this coming to them when they lent their aircard to their son for foreign travel.
Sounds like she understands basic science and theory just fine. Also she seems to have a grasp on that "separation of church and state" thing.
Err... no.
Let me put this in a way you might understand, since you too apparently have a difficulty with grasping this "basic science and theory":
"Palin has not pushed Flat Earth Theory science as governor"
"As a candidate for governor, Sarah Palin called for teaching Flat Earth Theory alongside evolution in public schools. But after Alaska voters elected her, Palin, now Republican John McCain's presidential running mate, kept her campaign pledge to not push the idea in the schools."
"When asked during a televised debate in 2006 about Earth being spherical and Flat Earth Theory, Palin said, according to the Anchorage Daily News: "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both.""
"In a subsequent interview with the Daily News, Palin said discussion of alternative views on the shape of the Earth should be allowed in Alaska classrooms. "I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn't have to be part of the curriculum," she said."
"Palin said during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign that if she were elected, she would not push the state Board of Education to add Flatness-based alternatives to the state's required curriculum, or look for Flat Earth Society members when she appointed board members."
"Palin's children attend public schools and Palin has made no push to have Flat Earth Theory taught in them."
"Neither have Palin's socially conservative personal views on issues like abortion and gay marriage been translated into policies during her 20 months as Alaska's chief executive. It reflects a hands-off attitude toward mixing government and religion by most Alaskans."... right, pull my other one!
FOr me it was either 1.5Meg Down and 128Kilobit up with Sprint on base DSL, Verizon DSL with 4Meg Down and 256Kilobit Up with port 80 blocked, or Comcast 8Meg Down and 768Kilobit up fully unrestricted. I got Comcast so I could host a personal webserver to host family pictures and what not so I could share my experiences with family and friends. I have since stuck with Comcast, but will be going to Verizon FiOS Business Class 20Meg Up and down with a static IP address. So I can host my son's videos for my my family and friends. Currently the 3Meg Up from comcast doesn't quite fit my needs.
I lived in an Army Base about 1000 feet from NSA Headquarters, and I used comcast for internet and guess what the speeds were far better then what DSL Could offer me. A lot of people picked comcast as their ISP not for a lack of options, but for the speed and performance.
There are various resources available out there on how to become a legal citizen of the United States from being an Immigrant. You can visit the following website: US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
It is criminal for any business or organization to hire an illegal immigrant who doesn't have the right papers to be in the United States. That is what I hate, and our Government doesn't do anything to such businesses.
My ancestors from Spain and Germany did things the right way, and thus they were allowed to remain in the US and become naturalized citizens of the US.
With the PS3 and what not they actually lost like 40 bucks on the total deal.
Also it pays to be educated, and it also pays to actually ask more questions about any other warranty coverages they have. I also get the 3 to 4 year warranties, so I know I am well covered past the manufacturers warranty.
I have never felt ripped off by them.
Fortunately for us, we're still in a position to attract skilled immigrants to make up the labor shortfall...That gives us the benefit of their labor, without having to have paid their costs as they were growing up.
No, you're not. You make immigrants feel like criminals and second class citizens, people are afraid to come to your country on business these days.
If only they came to this country to do things the right way instead of avoiding taxes and stealing peoples identities, then I would have no issues with immigration. As it stands the illegals need to either do it the right way or take the high way home. They are un-needed in our society as illegals. Illegal immigrants take jobs where they are paid under the table in with cash, so they are not taxed. My brother has his identity stolen by an illegal immigrant and fucked up his credit, and made him owe over 19K in back taxes to the IRS. He is lucky he wasn't arrested for tax evasion.
You can find stuff at Best Buy for less than Tiger Direct, NCIX, and other such places?
You're obviously not looking very hard. BB around here has been, on occasion, up to 700% more than even the small mom-n-pop shops. And the major online retailers usually crush the little guys for prices. More often than not, the mom-n-pop shops crush BB, too, but people can't see past the low price guarantee.
You can find stuff at Best Buy for less than Tiger Direct, NCIX, and other such places?
You're obviously not looking very hard. BB around here has been, on occasion, up to 700% more than even the small mom-n-pop shops. And the major online retailers usually crush the little guys for prices. More often than not, the mom-n-pop shops crush BB, too, but people can't see past the low price guarantee.
I dont know of any online place that will replace your product or let you pay the difference in a newer one if you take it back for repair 3 times?
Most online stores only offer a 1 year warranty.
Like recently, I got me a nice 40" LCD FullHD TV which came with a PS3, 1 game, and 1 movie of your choice. The TV was on sale for 800 less then what it retailed for, and the PS3 and the game and movie made up the difference. So you paid for the TV at listing price and got a free PS3 and 1 game and 1 movie.
It doesn't surprise me at all that a Best Buy employee would post here with praise for their Speakeasy brand. That's what you are, anonymous coward... a Best Buy employee. Are you wearing one of their shirts when you pick up the phone and answer, "Speakeasy"?
Why do you and so many other people hate Best Buy so much? I have had nothing but great customer service whenever I walk into a Best Buy store. I always find stuff cheaper then going online and buying it. They have better sales, and far better choice to choose from.
I've got Time Warner (Road Runner) and I'm laughing at my Comcast using friends because of it. While Comcast is cutting people off for using too much, Road Runner is boosting download speeds for big downloads.
I do miss Adelphia, though. During their bankruptcy stuff they boosted our connection from 1.5 MB/s to around 2.5 MB/s. After about a year of that, Road Runner took over and slowed us back to where we should have been.:(
I've got Time Warner (Road Runner) and I'm laughing at my Comcast using friends because of it. While Comcast is cutting people off for using too much, Road Runner is boosting download speeds for big downloads.
I do miss Adelphia, though. During their bankruptcy stuff they boosted our connection from 1.5 MB/s to around 2.5 MB/s. After about a year of that, Road Runner took over and slowed us back to where we should have been.:(
Comcast has thing called Speedboost maybe you should research it a bit before laughing at your friends. Because I am sure they are laughing at you behind your back.
I guess you don't know about all that "science" stuff that allows us to figure out where a hurricane is going to go and how strong it will be.
A lot of factors can change the course of any storm and hurricane. For example, Tropical Storm Hannah off the cost of Florida. If it were to become a cat 5 storm and move fast enough it would push the weaker storm Gustav more westward towards Texas and Mexico or pull it in and devour Gustav's energy and what not.
Are you all forgetting that there is 2 forms of terrorism? Domestic and Foreign? Domestic means within our borders, and the FBI deals with Domestic Terrorism only along with the Department of Homeland Security. The CIA and others deal with Foreign Terrorism like the attacks on 9/11/2001 and the USS Cole bombing.
So that 200K number you are all throwing around could include Eco terrorists, White Supremacist, Black Power Extremists, Members of PETA, and others. There are many groups that could draw attention to themselves from the FBI and warrants the National Security Letters.
In the US, it would be very difficult. You can live off cash, but credit cards are considered a type of ID so you need them for doing things like banking, signing contracts (phone, cable, utilties, etc), and they are critical if you want any kind of loan... or stay at a hotel, or rent a car,.. lots of stuff.
It gets even worse if you want to try to run a buisness.
Uh you can use checks for all the above mentioned. For contracts and getting loans you can prove your worth with a cashiers check from your bank. You can also get a checking/savings account without the use of a credit card. Credit Cards are short term loans that you pay back to keep using. If you don't pay your credit is well fubared.
They don't have laws against it that the break in order to do it. It's the lack of order that causes problems. The USA claimes to be rule-driven, but then breaks its own rules. Other countries, like China are easier to operate in. They have no real rules, and if you fall on the wrong side of one, you pay someone off and everything is ok. The US has some twisted concerns about bribery (it's legal if you call it a "contribution" but not if you fail to report it, and we outlaw a non-US citizen bribing someone in a foreign country as a regular necessary part of operating in that country). So we just don't get it sometimes. But even China can be easier to operate aa business in than the USA.
There are rules in play when you work at any of the intelligence agencies they are called USSID's United States Signals Intelligence Directives. many of them outline such activies as eavesdropping and wiretapping and who and what we can collect on. USSID 18, for example, deals with collection of information on US Citizens, Businesses, and Our Allies. Violation of such rules and guidelines can get your clearance suspended or in some cases completely revoked, and never to be re-instated. If you get it revoked, you are promptly escorted out of the building by security guards with personal effects in a box. In worst of cases you are also read your miranda rights. Not many people understand that portion, yet claim the IC can do what they want because they are the Government and are above the laws, which totally ass backwards.
don't spy on the communications in and out of their countries? The US does not have a monopoly on signals intelligence. This is one of those issues where any country that has any sig int capabilities are using it to monitor the tubes.
You are exactly right, and I agree with you, because I myself have worked in Signals Intelligence Collection and Analyst while stationed at NAVIOCOM Maryland(NAVSECGRUACT Ft Meade). There is a lot of stuff going on behind closed doors that regular people do not even know, and thusly they can only hypothesize or theorize what is going on.
The complete and utter arrogance of our Government and it's treatment of, not only us, but the rest of the World is starting to bite us in the ass. Not only with our Government's attitude with tapping the internet but also with our perceived superiority in space. We are no longer the leaders in space technology thanks to our Government. Other countries have workarounds to our technology because it was too much of a pain to do business with American firms. All because our Government believes that we have a monopoly on technology and smart people.
See, our paranoia and fear is now hurting our economy. And as a result it's hastening our decline. Maybe this will be a wake up call to the powers that be.
And you don't think other Governments world wide do not monitor their citizens traffic? The only reason the US is in the bad light is because the US so greatly frowned upon that people are heavily biased. I would suggest to everyone that thinks their Government doesn't partake in anything like the US to go and query their government leaders. So please quit bashing the US Government, and go investigate your own Governments. I am sure you will find out a lot of information. I hope you all have something Similar to the Freedom of Information Act. Eavesdropping and spying is a part of every governments policies. The US just gets most of the negative energy, because we have whistle-blowing idiots who are protected by the 1st Amendment and other laws protecting them from any type of punishment.
Building on a commitment to bring more people into the Convention experience than ever before, the Democratic National Convention Committee has taken a comprehensive approach to ensure the 2008 Democratic National Convention will be the most technologically-savvy event of its kind.
Really? If it were the "most technologically-savvy event" wouldn't it at least make an effort to support ALL operating systems, especially the one used mostly by the "technologically-savvy" people. It isn't a difficult feat to use technology which is supported by the three major OSes on the market. This isn't acceptable in this day and age. =/
So I am not tech savvy because I use windows for every day use? Nice stereotyping there.
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I have on occasion used Firefox plugins that filter out most banner ads. I've found my pages load about 70% faster. I watch the little status line at the bottom of Firefox and I've found that most of my "waiting" time is for advertisements.
I've also found DNS to be slow for some reason. Things that aren't cached on the local machine slow browsing down significantly (something else adverts contribute to).
Of course the people who just leave P2P applications running non-stop are a bit of a pain.
For me, I always add the urls of banner ads to my host file and redirect them to 127.0.0.1. No slow downs for me when I browse websites.
I tried ad-blocker and found it more annoying then having ads on.
I guess this should be a lesson to all of us parents out there. Do not let your kid use your wireless card outside the nation you have service. Why couldn't he go to a Starbucks or another wifi hotpot and upload the pictures from there and send email? To me the parents had this coming to them when they lent their aircard to their son for foreign travel.
I think they can manage 12 nano meters
NM = Nautical Miles.
Is there more than just being eco-friendly to this? I can see this being used to avoid taxes, censorship laws, etc.
Theyd have to be located 12nm from any shore to be in international waters.
Err... no.
Let me put this in a way you might understand, since you too apparently have a difficulty with grasping this "basic science and theory": "Palin has not pushed Flat Earth Theory science as governor" "As a candidate for governor, Sarah Palin called for teaching Flat Earth Theory alongside evolution in public schools. But after Alaska voters elected her, Palin, now Republican John McCain's presidential running mate, kept her campaign pledge to not push the idea in the schools." "When asked during a televised debate in 2006 about Earth being spherical and Flat Earth Theory, Palin said, according to the Anchorage Daily News: "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both."" "In a subsequent interview with the Daily News, Palin said discussion of alternative views on the shape of the Earth should be allowed in Alaska classrooms. "I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn't have to be part of the curriculum," she said." "Palin said during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign that if she were elected, she would not push the state Board of Education to add Flatness-based alternatives to the state's required curriculum, or look for Flat Earth Society members when she appointed board members." "Palin's children attend public schools and Palin has made no push to have Flat Earth Theory taught in them." "Neither have Palin's socially conservative personal views on issues like abortion and gay marriage been translated into policies during her 20 months as Alaska's chief executive. It reflects a hands-off attitude toward mixing government and religion by most Alaskans." ... right, pull my other one!
There, I hope this gets through better.
If I had more mod points id mod that as funny.
FOr me it was either 1.5Meg Down and 128Kilobit up with Sprint on base DSL, Verizon DSL with 4Meg Down and 256Kilobit Up with port 80 blocked, or Comcast 8Meg Down and 768Kilobit up fully unrestricted. I got Comcast so I could host a personal webserver to host family pictures and what not so I could share my experiences with family and friends. I have since stuck with Comcast, but will be going to Verizon FiOS Business Class 20Meg Up and down with a static IP address. So I can host my son's videos for my my family and friends. Currently the 3Meg Up from comcast doesn't quite fit my needs.
I lived in an Army Base about 1000 feet from NSA Headquarters, and I used comcast for internet and guess what the speeds were far better then what DSL Could offer me. A lot of people picked comcast as their ISP not for a lack of options, but for the speed and performance.
.You can easily buy 16GB drives now, and that's got 4x the info of a DVD.
That's actually 2times the content of a DVD. DVD's are now Dual-Layer to fit 8.4Gigs of Data.
It is criminal for any business or organization to hire an illegal immigrant who doesn't have the right papers to be in the United States. That is what I hate, and our Government doesn't do anything to such businesses.
My ancestors from Spain and Germany did things the right way, and thus they were allowed to remain in the US and become naturalized citizens of the US.
With the PS3 and what not they actually lost like 40 bucks on the total deal. Also it pays to be educated, and it also pays to actually ask more questions about any other warranty coverages they have. I also get the 3 to 4 year warranties, so I know I am well covered past the manufacturers warranty. I have never felt ripped off by them.
Fortunately for us, we're still in a position to attract skilled immigrants to make up the labor shortfall...That gives us the benefit of their labor, without having to have paid their costs as they were growing up. No, you're not. You make immigrants feel like criminals and second class citizens, people are afraid to come to your country on business these days.
If only they came to this country to do things the right way instead of avoiding taxes and stealing peoples identities, then I would have no issues with immigration. As it stands the illegals need to either do it the right way or take the high way home. They are un-needed in our society as illegals. Illegal immigrants take jobs where they are paid under the table in with cash, so they are not taxed. My brother has his identity stolen by an illegal immigrant and fucked up his credit, and made him owe over 19K in back taxes to the IRS. He is lucky he wasn't arrested for tax evasion.
You can find stuff at Best Buy for less than Tiger Direct, NCIX, and other such places?
You're obviously not looking very hard. BB around here has been, on occasion, up to 700% more than even the small mom-n-pop shops. And the major online retailers usually crush the little guys for prices. More often than not, the mom-n-pop shops crush BB, too, but people can't see past the low price guarantee.
You can find stuff at Best Buy for less than Tiger Direct, NCIX, and other such places?
You're obviously not looking very hard. BB around here has been, on occasion, up to 700% more than even the small mom-n-pop shops. And the major online retailers usually crush the little guys for prices. More often than not, the mom-n-pop shops crush BB, too, but people can't see past the low price guarantee.
I dont know of any online place that will replace your product or let you pay the difference in a newer one if you take it back for repair 3 times? Most online stores only offer a 1 year warranty. Like recently, I got me a nice 40" LCD FullHD TV which came with a PS3, 1 game, and 1 movie of your choice. The TV was on sale for 800 less then what it retailed for, and the PS3 and the game and movie made up the difference. So you paid for the TV at listing price and got a free PS3 and 1 game and 1 movie.
It doesn't surprise me at all that a Best Buy employee would post here with praise for their Speakeasy brand. That's what you are, anonymous coward ... a Best Buy employee. Are you wearing one of their shirts when you pick up the phone and answer, "Speakeasy"?
Why do you and so many other people hate Best Buy so much? I have had nothing but great customer service whenever I walk into a Best Buy store. I always find stuff cheaper then going online and buying it. They have better sales, and far better choice to choose from.
I've got Time Warner (Road Runner) and I'm laughing at my Comcast using friends because of it. While Comcast is cutting people off for using too much, Road Runner is boosting download speeds for big downloads. I do miss Adelphia, though. During their bankruptcy stuff they boosted our connection from 1.5 MB/s to around 2.5 MB/s. After about a year of that, Road Runner took over and slowed us back to where we should have been. :(
I've got Time Warner (Road Runner) and I'm laughing at my Comcast using friends because of it. While Comcast is cutting people off for using too much, Road Runner is boosting download speeds for big downloads. I do miss Adelphia, though. During their bankruptcy stuff they boosted our connection from 1.5 MB/s to around 2.5 MB/s. After about a year of that, Road Runner took over and slowed us back to where we should have been. :(
Comcast has thing called Speedboost maybe you should research it a bit before laughing at your friends. Because I am sure they are laughing at you behind your back.
Thank you, Senator McCain.
This should be modded down.
I guess you don't know about all that "science" stuff that allows us to figure out where a hurricane is going to go and how strong it will be.
A lot of factors can change the course of any storm and hurricane. For example, Tropical Storm Hannah off the cost of Florida. If it were to become a cat 5 storm and move fast enough it would push the weaker storm Gustav more westward towards Texas and Mexico or pull it in and devour Gustav's energy and what not.
How is my comment flame bait? It is not flame bait.
So that 200K number you are all throwing around could include Eco terrorists, White Supremacist, Black Power Extremists, Members of PETA, and others. There are many groups that could draw attention to themselves from the FBI and warrants the National Security Letters.
In the US, it would be very difficult. You can live off cash, but credit cards are considered a type of ID so you need them for doing things like banking, signing contracts (phone, cable, utilties, etc), and they are critical if you want any kind of loan... or stay at a hotel, or rent a car,.. lots of stuff. It gets even worse if you want to try to run a buisness.
Uh you can use checks for all the above mentioned. For contracts and getting loans you can prove your worth with a cashiers check from your bank. You can also get a checking/savings account without the use of a credit card. Credit Cards are short term loans that you pay back to keep using. If you don't pay your credit is well fubared.
They don't have laws against it that the break in order to do it. It's the lack of order that causes problems. The USA claimes to be rule-driven, but then breaks its own rules. Other countries, like China are easier to operate in. They have no real rules, and if you fall on the wrong side of one, you pay someone off and everything is ok. The US has some twisted concerns about bribery (it's legal if you call it a "contribution" but not if you fail to report it, and we outlaw a non-US citizen bribing someone in a foreign country as a regular necessary part of operating in that country). So we just don't get it sometimes. But even China can be easier to operate aa business in than the USA.
There are rules in play when you work at any of the intelligence agencies they are called USSID's United States Signals Intelligence Directives. many of them outline such activies as eavesdropping and wiretapping and who and what we can collect on. USSID 18, for example, deals with collection of information on US Citizens, Businesses, and Our Allies. Violation of such rules and guidelines can get your clearance suspended or in some cases completely revoked, and never to be re-instated. If you get it revoked, you are promptly escorted out of the building by security guards with personal effects in a box. In worst of cases you are also read your miranda rights. Not many people understand that portion, yet claim the IC can do what they want because they are the Government and are above the laws, which totally ass backwards.
don't spy on the communications in and out of their countries? The US does not have a monopoly on signals intelligence. This is one of those issues where any country that has any sig int capabilities are using it to monitor the tubes.
You are exactly right, and I agree with you, because I myself have worked in Signals Intelligence Collection and Analyst while stationed at NAVIOCOM Maryland(NAVSECGRUACT Ft Meade). There is a lot of stuff going on behind closed doors that regular people do not even know, and thusly they can only hypothesize or theorize what is going on.
The complete and utter arrogance of our Government and it's treatment of, not only us, but the rest of the World is starting to bite us in the ass. Not only with our Government's attitude with tapping the internet but also with our perceived superiority in space. We are no longer the leaders in space technology thanks to our Government. Other countries have workarounds to our technology because it was too much of a pain to do business with American firms. All because our Government believes that we have a monopoly on technology and smart people.
See, our paranoia and fear is now hurting our economy. And as a result it's hastening our decline. Maybe this will be a wake up call to the powers that be.
And you don't think other Governments world wide do not monitor their citizens traffic? The only reason the US is in the bad light is because the US so greatly frowned upon that people are heavily biased. I would suggest to everyone that thinks their Government doesn't partake in anything like the US to go and query their government leaders. So please quit bashing the US Government, and go investigate your own Governments. I am sure you will find out a lot of information. I hope you all have something Similar to the Freedom of Information Act. Eavesdropping and spying is a part of every governments policies. The US just gets most of the negative energy, because we have whistle-blowing idiots who are protected by the 1st Amendment and other laws protecting them from any type of punishment.
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Really? If it were the "most technologically-savvy event" wouldn't it at least make an effort to support ALL operating systems, especially the one used mostly by the "technologically-savvy" people. It isn't a difficult feat to use technology which is supported by the three major OSes on the market. This isn't acceptable in this day and age. =/
So I am not tech savvy because I use windows for every day use? Nice stereotyping there.
By that logic I shouldn't be allowed to help my neighbor fix his car 'cause I know he'll invite me to his BBQ afterwards.
Just take some beer over and that would be the tax.
I bet that listing will be removed soon.