This is your Human Resources Department j_kenpo, we'd like you to come down at and have a little chat with us. Bring the contents of your desk. Oh, and be sure to have a nice day:-)
The Phorm interception is done at hardware at the ISP on the first hop. It won't matter what is in your hosts file.
OK, as per usual I didn't do more than skim TFA, but when my hosts file is pointing to 127.0.0.1 my ISP doesn't see a request for ad-related sites at all, because it never leaves my machine... there is no "first hop" as such
I do understand that the ISP may sell data about my slashdot, goatse etc. viewing to Phorm, (which is disgusting and deplorable, TOTALLY agree with you) but how can they serve ads to me if they never receive an http request?
All the ISPs have to do to make it "opt-in" is include a clause saying that you agree to share your data in amongst the dozens of existing clauses in the terms and conditions when you sign up.
...and all I have to do is keep my hosts file reasonably up to date and substitute a blank gif for anything requested from an adsite.
nowadays banks create money out of nothing more or less as they see fit, restrained only by statutes requiring them to actually be able to present some tiny percentage of the money they owe and are owed
That's an interesting thought. Serious questions then: what is there to stop banks just changing the figures, giving themselves more money just by adding a couple of zeros here and there? It's not the sort of thing that would necessarily appear on the annual report...
You're supposed to just read the inaccurate summary and then "wing it." You actually read the summaries? I just jump straight to the posts and try and recreate TFA from the threads. It's pretty funny actually, and never ever has it been accurate.
After years of what amounts to wrongful imprisonment and emotional and mental torture, this poor guy developed mental problems, he couldn't make a choice, because of what had been done to him. There, fixed it for you, sadly enough.
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Thank you, very much appreciated.
Bill Hicks was an optimist :-(
oh hai, you should read this:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
This is your Human Resources Department j_kenpo, we'd like you to come down at and have a little chat with us. Bring the contents of your desk. Oh, and be sure to have a nice day :-)
Congratulations, and welcome aboard!
Hey john8791, you should talk to the AC above you, sounds like you two have a lot in common!
+1 Funny. Because it wasn't me.
You're funny. Wish I could give you a mod point.
Agree, a great example of this is Slashdot. A recognised leader in peer-reviewed (and moderated) commentary. Scary, huh?
One of the best posts I have seen in a long time, thanks. +1 imaginary mod points.
OK, as per usual I didn't do more than skim TFA, but when my hosts file is pointing to 127.0.0.1 my ISP doesn't see a request for ad-related sites at all, because it never leaves my machine... there is no "first hop" as such
I do understand that the ISP may sell data about my slashdot, goatse etc. viewing to Phorm, (which is disgusting and deplorable, TOTALLY agree with you) but how can they serve ads to me if they never receive an http request?
...and all I have to do is keep my hosts file reasonably up to date and substitute a blank gif for anything requested from an adsite.
Homer for windows is a lightweight localhost webserver that accomplishes the same thing: http://www.funkytoad.com/content/view/14/32/
crap. posting to fix bad mod. Slashdot give me an undo!!
Slightly offtopic, but I have 3 gmail addresses: one pristine, one junk and one lightweight for emails to my handheld.
I'm guessing you don't work at the international terminal.
What idiot modded this a Troll? Hand in your modpoints and get the hell off my internets!
It's stomach turning, but it's also pretty accurate.
Charles Dawson, is that you?
That's an interesting thought. Serious questions then: what is there to stop banks just changing the figures, giving themselves more money just by adding a couple of zeros here and there? It's not the sort of thing that would necessarily appear on the annual report...
Nice story. Thanks.
WikiLeaks is available at it's IP address: http://88.80.13.160/ also a mirror site: http://wikileaks.be/ For the docs at the centre of the controversy, you can get them at http://cryptome.org/wikileaks-bjb.htm
Thank you for bringing some common sense to this argument, sir.