Wrong answer, bright boy. DO NOT just delete an account, if you're concerned about privacy. The data remains on the server when you delete.
EDIT your account details FIRST. Change your name to Mickey Mouse, your address to something preposterous like 99999 Lost Highway, Bumfuck, Egypt. Change ALL your details, so that existing data is overwritten. Don't forget anything. Break contact with all your friends, unsubscribe to groups, replace your photo(s) with landscapes of the moon. Use your imagination. Really fuck up the account. Then, leave it ACTIVE long enough for several server backups to take place. Finally - delete the account.
Use your little peabrain for something besides playing pocket pool.......
...people use their real names & details TO SIGN UP for online stuff? Wow. We sure have lost some institutional paranoia.
Now, I know some of you will say, "BUT HOW CAN MAH FRIENDS FIND ME???"...if they're your friends, you should've told them your fake name by other means.
If the content industry can't make money from ads, we'll either go out of business or put our information behind a paywall. That may happen whether or not you create the ad block extension
So isn't that a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom?
Google itself depends almost entirely upon ads for their revenue.
Oh no! How can I donate money to help these poor people?
Please consider the long term consequences for building such a tool. The information ecology is much more fragile than you can imagine.
It's tough to reconcile your sort-of-low UID with your opinion that it's worth paying for information on the internet.
I for one miss the internet being a place where the fringe element hung out. So the BBC puts their content behind a paywall; some Grey Hat steals it, we all share it.
Would bursting the second internet bubble really be that tragic?
The "suck" was the part I was interested in hearing about. I've heard anecdotes (from soldiers) that they like it -- but the anecdotes are from Desert Storm era.
How about rewriting the law so that every request to my IT department does result in "This functionality would break SarBox compliance", regardless of how related to SarBox the request actually is?
I'm not a javascript fan, but I have to use it daily for the tasks given to me.
Congratulations, you've just loaded 50-300kb of javascript (depending on your jQuery version) to fade out an element.
The "fading slowly" part is the ONLY bit that can't be accomplished with CSS. Hiding and moving is trivial, even cross-browser. Trust me.
I'm the lead programmer for a Fortune 300 site, and we're handed third-party content forced onto us by Marketing, et al, that uses Jquery, et al, to accomplish the SIMPLEST of tasks. I have yet to see something implemented in jQuery that would require more than 20 lines of javascript.
jQuery is NOT for programmers, it's for tools who think they're coding when they lay out HTML.
My experience as a web developer for a Fortune 300's site is that the Ad Folks want you to put their scripts at the top of the page, and can slow your page to +1000ms if you're lucky (as opposed to ~15ms for the base page).
Of course, I put their scripts at the BOTTOM of the page, after my content, right before the closing body tag.
I can't seem to find a link for the NoScript equivalent, but I know it's out there. I used to have it. Just use that other Google product to search for it.
I can't find it either, even using the "that other Google product"... Having a javascript whitelist in Chrome is VERY interesting to me. I'm actually surprised the NoScript guys haven't released one.
Slashdot Mirror
... after you searched. 'Fuck everyone in the ass for their own gain' ...
Wow, the period in that sentence is really important.
Is that on SourceForge?
Wrong answer, bright boy. DO NOT just delete an account, if you're concerned about privacy. The data remains on the server when you delete.
EDIT your account details FIRST. Change your name to Mickey Mouse, your address to something preposterous like 99999 Lost Highway, Bumfuck, Egypt. Change ALL your details, so that existing data is overwritten. Don't forget anything. Break contact with all your friends, unsubscribe to groups, replace your photo(s) with landscapes of the moon. Use your imagination. Really fuck up the account. Then, leave it ACTIVE long enough for several server backups to take place. Finally - delete the account.
Use your little peabrain for something besides playing pocket pool.......
...people use their real names & details TO SIGN UP for online stuff? Wow. We sure have lost some institutional paranoia.
...if they're your friends, you should've told them your fake name by other means.
Now, I know some of you will say, "BUT HOW CAN MAH FRIENDS FIND ME???"
If the content industry can't make money from ads, we'll either go out of business or put our information behind a paywall. That may happen whether or not you create the ad block extension
So isn't that a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom?
Google itself depends almost entirely upon ads for their revenue.
Oh no! How can I donate money to help these poor people?
Please consider the long term consequences for building such a tool. The information ecology is much more fragile than you can imagine.
It's tough to reconcile your sort-of-low UID with your opinion that it's worth paying for information on the internet.
I for one miss the internet being a place where the fringe element hung out. So the BBC puts their content behind a paywall; some Grey Hat steals it, we all share it.
Would bursting the second internet bubble really be that tragic?
The "suck" was the part I was interested in hearing about. I've heard anecdotes (from soldiers) that they like it -- but the anecdotes are from Desert Storm era.
I have no idea why you get that "immage." Because it should be Michael Palin.
the Bradley Fighting Vehicle program cost $5.6b, and the resulting machine sucks.
Citation?
How about rewriting the law so that every request to my IT department does result in "This functionality would break SarBox compliance", regardless of how related to SarBox the request actually is?
T,FTFY
Intriguing, newsletter, blah, blah, etc.
How do you hide or move a DOM object in real time with css? For example how do you do this with css (jquery example)
$("p").click(function () { $("p").fadeOut("slow"); });
I'm not a javascript fan, but I have to use it daily for the tasks given to me.
Congratulations, you've just loaded 50-300kb of javascript (depending on your jQuery version) to fade out an element.
The "fading slowly" part is the ONLY bit that can't be accomplished with CSS. Hiding and moving is trivial, even cross-browser. Trust me.
I'm the lead programmer for a Fortune 300 site, and we're handed third-party content forced onto us by Marketing, et al, that uses Jquery, et al, to accomplish the SIMPLEST of tasks. I have yet to see something implemented in jQuery that would require more than 20 lines of javascript.
jQuery is NOT for programmers, it's for tools who think they're coding when they lay out HTML.
Beaks for the Beak God!
+1 to Toughness. Spluh.
>The only thing missing from this soap opera is that Google/Microsoft/Apple diabolically combined with SMERSH to stop the CrunchPud
You're on the right track, but in order to be credible, a conspiracy theory must include the Knights Templar.
That's just what the Rosicrucians would like you to think!
crappy external Javascript marketing made us insert in the page header to track stuff.
Say, "Fuck'em" and put the scripts in your FOOTER, bro. It will produce a noticeable difference.
My experience as a web developer for a Fortune 300's site is that the Ad Folks want you to put their scripts at the top of the page, and can slow your page to +1000ms if you're lucky (as opposed to ~15ms for the base page).
Of course, I put their scripts at the BOTTOM of the page, after my content, right before the closing body tag.
Creeped out yet?
Not me, I took a soldering iron to the "Google might be evil" part of my brain about a week ago! It's a bright new future!
Seriously, though, datamining by Google is reaching redonkalous proportions.
...that there aren't any other posts here yet.
By the way, if you're tempted DO NOT READ TFA. I lost sanity points, and that was just from skimming page 1 of 3.
Are you a female porn star?
Done, bro. :-)
Along those lines -- NO REALLY there is a FUCKING ZOMBIE INVASION LOCK THE BASEMENT DOOR!!! Have a nice day.
With [bad things happening], what we really really need is the [subject of TFA]. Way to go, [corporation in TFA]!
I suppose you're posting in between knitting blankets for the homeless on your pedal-powered computer?
Waterboarding, actually, is a dish best served cold.
I can't seem to find a link for the NoScript equivalent, but I know it's out there. I used to have it. Just use that other Google product to search for it.
I can't find it either, even using the "that other Google product" ... Having a javascript whitelist in Chrome is VERY interesting to me. I'm actually surprised the NoScript guys haven't released one.
It looks like you're trying to bring meaning to your empty life by filling the hole in your stomach!
Would you like to...
Thank you, God, for your healing gift of religion.