Of Course the damn Article makes a fundemental Mistake. That mistake is who the customers are. In the case of Facebook and MySpace it's the Advertisers, not the ef*** users.
blocks most of the current attack vectors from hijacked advertisers
reduces bandwidth consumption
reduces need to upgrade computers
All of these are just the benefits of No-Script alone. In fact, I no longer even bother with Adblock since most of the advertisers are now entered into my hosts file. On the company front, I simply add them to our proxy server blocking list and it works quite well to reduce the exposure of our network to attack.
Hey Stupid: I've got a Ti-89a which uses the original Mac CPU. It also includes a bit more memory (not much more) then the original Mac did so something like this would be useful today to many folks using such a Calculator. That's right, there's a current real world use for such an app and I wonder how long before one of the Ti Hackers gets around to rewriting it to run on a Ti Calculator.
My current system is a C2D 1.8GHz E6300 that's now pushing 4 years of age, yet according to all the benchmarks I've seen by Anntech, Tom's Hardware and others, my performance results are less then 20 percent below the latest/greatest CPU's. This raises the question why in hell should I purchase/build a new system as yet when it still suits my needs?
First off the software I run is mainly single threaded. Very few apps depend on much more then my 1.8GHz clock speed to run well enough for my needs. Second I'm not a gamer or someone running heavy number crunching or other specific apps like Video Transcoding/Editing so that's not important to me.
All this means is that I don't need a faster system. What I do need is ever more storage space due to my growing collection of multimedia and porn. Other then that, I don't really need more then what I now have and with No-Script enabled in Firefox, I could easily get by with my old 700MHz Celeron and 512M of memory running Win-Me. Yep I still have a working system running Win-Me and it does it's job nicely - which is home work for the kids.
Our Military is deployed to many different locations. Sea for those in the Navy. Then there are all of those deployed Overseas to various NATO bases. Internet connectivity in the barracks is pretty slim there. Don't forget about all the other stations such as the EWRS (early warning radar stations) in Alaska.
Others include Cruise Ships - Yes there are some cruises geared towards Lan Parties. 3-5 day cruises and people do pay for them.
To me that's funny as hell as I'd gotten an email to my gmail about responses to my facebook wall. WTF? I didn't sign up with facebook. So I reset the pw, taking tha account from the spammer and changed the account name to spammer foad.
In response to idiots thinking I've violated the Facebook TOS, they'd be wrong as I wasn't the idiot who signed the aggreement. Instead, all I did was change the PW as my Email addy was used for the sign-up (did facebook spam me?) and changed the damn account name to represent my interest (nadda/zip/f-off and die)
I'm not a lefty, yet I hold my phone with my left hand. Rarely do I even bother to hold the phone with my right unless I've been talking for a while. Instead I keep my right hand free to pick my nose, scratch my ass, shake hands, open doors, drive, shift gears, pucnch idiots in nose and everything else. My left hand is for phone use only.
I use a Sanya 4930, which is a Phone and Nothing but a Phone. It includes an External Antena and has higher output then these new "So Called" phones. Where I live my single Cell Tower is 60 Miles/100Km from my home. The competitors are within 15 miles and yet, the other day, someone using a competitor, with L.o.S of the cell tower lost signal in front of the building. Me, Still hade 5 bars even not having L.o.S on a tower that's 60Miles/100Km away.
I'm waiting for the big one to finally give me beach front property. L.A. and the rest of So.Cal can drop into the damn ocean for all I care as I live on the East side of the San Andreas
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I have to agree with you on the upgrading bit.
As an example, when I built my current system 2 years ago, I planned on a 10 yr. operational period. This did mean an upgrade would be needed and the only one I expected was the GPU. Things like Hard Drives and burners are all normal replacement parts as I expect them to fail at some point in time seeing as they include moving parts.
Another reason I'll stick with a desktop revolves around monitors. As I get older and my vision gets worse, I find myself needing larger displays at standard resoultions just to be able to see things. My next one is going to be a 19 inch running 1280x1024. The size increase means I'll get about a 15-20 percent increase in font size and since I'll need to replace the blasted display anyhow (stuck pixels) it's not a big expense.
That's what I've never understood. All Noscript has to do is disable scripting across the board. Then enable it on a Site by Site (Whitelist) basis. What's so f""ing hard about that? That's my settings by default. It blocks everything except those websites where I must have scripting enabled and I use the same settings for my 70+ mum and my 50+ sis (both of them are Noobs)
less resources than Banshee + Rssowl + Pidgin + Eclipse + Evolution + Evince.
and the reason why is because of Evolution. It's simply bloated beyond belief comparted to Slypheed, Pine or even Kmail. Yes I've used Kmail with Fluxbox along with Konq and Kwrite. Much smaller footprint even having to load the KDE binaries ontop of fluxbox then what I ever got with Evolution.
Email? Yahoo doesn't Email nobody about new features like this. What they are doing is forcing you to visit the settings page the next time you're forced to log-in. Then they get you. Do you want to disable this? Yes uncheck 30 damn different boxes and change all the settings, otherwise skip that and leave it enabled as they want.
I don't know how long it'll be that they keep redirecting people to the settings page, probably 6 months or so before they figure everyone's had a chance to make their choice.
Stupid Idjit. Here in California a short commute is 30 miles that takes 45 minutes on the freeways. Now tell me another tale about what constitutes a short commute in the United States.
then you've never had a proper bear. I don't care for what the States calls beer (Bud/Coors/Miller) as that aint beer. Get yourself a good microbrew kit and make your own then you have no one but yourself to blame if it's bad.
The Antitrust Laws in the United States "Do NOT"Require you to have a monopoly in any field in order to be subjected to them What they do require is that you have a "Dominant"Position in the market, which iTunes does/did at the time of the possible collusion.
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Of Course the damn Article makes a fundemental Mistake. That mistake is who the customers are. In the case of Facebook and MySpace it's the Advertisers, not the ef*** users.
Lets see:
All of these are just the benefits of No-Script alone. In fact, I no longer even bother with Adblock since most of the advertisers are now entered into my hosts file. On the company front, I simply add them to our proxy server blocking list and it works quite well to reduce the exposure of our network to attack.
Hey Stupid: I've got a Ti-89a which uses the original Mac CPU. It also includes a bit more memory (not much more) then the original Mac did so something like this would be useful today to many folks using such a Calculator. That's right, there's a current real world use for such an app and I wonder how long before one of the Ti Hackers gets around to rewriting it to run on a Ti Calculator.
My current system is a C2D 1.8GHz E6300 that's now pushing 4 years of age, yet according to all the benchmarks I've seen by Anntech, Tom's Hardware and others, my performance results are less then 20 percent below the latest/greatest CPU's. This raises the question why in hell should I purchase/build a new system as yet when it still suits my needs?
First off the software I run is mainly single threaded. Very few apps depend on much more then my 1.8GHz clock speed to run well enough for my needs. Second I'm not a gamer or someone running heavy number crunching or other specific apps like Video Transcoding/Editing so that's not important to me.
All this means is that I don't need a faster system. What I do need is ever more storage space due to my growing collection of multimedia and porn. Other then that, I don't really need more then what I now have and with No-Script enabled in Firefox, I could easily get by with my old 700MHz Celeron and 512M of memory running Win-Me. Yep I still have a working system running Win-Me and it does it's job nicely - which is home work for the kids.
Hey Captain Stupid: The Sea is wet but it's not blue. It's green
Our Military is deployed to many different locations. Sea for those in the Navy. Then there are all of those deployed Overseas to various NATO bases. Internet connectivity in the barracks is pretty slim there. Don't forget about all the other stations such as the EWRS (early warning radar stations) in Alaska.
Others include Cruise Ships - Yes there are some cruises geared towards Lan Parties. 3-5 day cruises and people do pay for them.
To me that's funny as hell as I'd gotten an email to my gmail about responses to my facebook wall. WTF? I didn't sign up with facebook. So I reset the pw, taking tha account from the spammer and changed the account name to spammer foad.
In response to idiots thinking I've violated the Facebook TOS, they'd be wrong as I wasn't the idiot who signed the aggreement. Instead, all I did was change the PW as my Email addy was used for the sign-up (did facebook spam me?) and changed the damn account name to represent my interest (nadda/zip/f-off and die)
With my luck, I'd roll my eyes right into the goatse hole. So I'm damn glad I can't roll my eyes on the internet.
I'm not a lefty, yet I hold my phone with my left hand. Rarely do I even bother to hold the phone with my right unless I've been talking for a while. Instead I keep my right hand free to pick my nose, scratch my ass, shake hands, open doors, drive, shift gears, pucnch idiots in nose and everything else. My left hand is for phone use only.
I use a Sanya 4930, which is a Phone and Nothing but a Phone. It includes an External Antena and has higher output then these new "So Called" phones. Where I live my single Cell Tower is 60 Miles/100Km from my home. The competitors are within 15 miles and yet, the other day, someone using a competitor, with L.o.S of the cell tower lost signal in front of the building. Me, Still hade 5 bars even not having L.o.S on a tower that's 60Miles/100Km away.
to stick with a basic phone. No installs, no web, nothing but phone
I'm waiting for the big one to finally give me beach front property. L.A. and the rest of So.Cal can drop into the damn ocean for all I care as I live on the East side of the San Andreas
I have to agree with you on the upgrading bit.
As an example, when I built my current system 2 years ago, I planned on a 10 yr. operational period. This did mean an upgrade would be needed and the only one I expected was the GPU. Things like Hard Drives and burners are all normal replacement parts as I expect them to fail at some point in time seeing as they include moving parts.
Another reason I'll stick with a desktop revolves around monitors. As I get older and my vision gets worse, I find myself needing larger displays at standard resoultions just to be able to see things. My next one is going to be a 19 inch running 1280x1024. The size increase means I'll get about a 15-20 percent increase in font size and since I'll need to replace the blasted display anyhow (stuck pixels) it's not a big expense.
Teac and Crutchfields for Reel to Reel units. Yes they are still being made.
That's what I've never understood. All Noscript has to do is disable scripting across the board. Then enable it on a Site by Site (Whitelist) basis. What's so f""ing hard about that? That's my settings by default. It blocks everything except those websites where I must have scripting enabled and I use the same settings for my 70+ mum and my 50+ sis (both of them are Noobs)
LMAO - Thank you for such a Pithy Comment. Made the start of my day.
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less resources than Banshee + Rssowl + Pidgin + Eclipse + Evolution + Evince.
and the reason why is because of Evolution. It's simply bloated beyond belief comparted to Slypheed, Pine or even Kmail. Yes I've used Kmail with Fluxbox along with Konq and Kwrite. Much smaller footprint even having to load the KDE binaries ontop of fluxbox then what I ever got with Evolution.
IPv6 - mac address is part of your IPv6 address and uniqe to every Mac on the planet (supposedly).
Email? Yahoo doesn't Email nobody about new features like this. What they are doing is forcing you to visit the settings page the next time you're forced to log-in. Then they get you. Do you want to disable this? Yes uncheck 30 damn different boxes and change all the settings, otherwise skip that and leave it enabled as they want.
I don't know how long it'll be that they keep redirecting people to the settings page, probably 6 months or so before they figure everyone's had a chance to make their choice.
Stupid Idjit. Here in California a short commute is 30 miles that takes 45 minutes on the freeways. Now tell me another tale about what constitutes a short commute in the United States.
Lawyers are not permitted in Small Claims Court.
then you've never had a proper bear. I don't care for what the States calls beer (Bud/Coors/Miller) as that aint beer. Get yourself a good microbrew kit and make your own then you have no one but yourself to blame if it's bad.
The Antitrust Laws in the United States "Do NOT"Require you to have a monopoly in any field in order to be subjected to them What they do require is that you have a "Dominant"Position in the market, which iTunes does/did at the time of the possible collusion.