They have already developed a similar (though somewhat less violent) thing... it's called vibrate mode. I leave my phone on vibrate, and it has the double benefit that:
Other people aren't disturbed when someone calls me, and if I'm busy I can totally ignore the call without anyone else knowing.
When someone else's phone rings, I know it's not mine, so I don't have to run around checking my phone to see if someone's calling me or not.
There is, of course, a third benefit (for female customers), best illustrated at Jeffrey Zeldman's Ad Graveyard.
At his website, Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge computer security guru) displays this rather relevant quote:
The first book written on cryptology in English, by John Wilkins in 1641, remarked that `If all those useful Inventions that are liable to abuse, should therefore be concealed, there is not any Art or Science which might be lawfully profest'.
Rather worrying - where does this criminalisation of knowledge end?
Ross wrote "Security Engineering" (a mighty tome, should be of interest to many Slashdotters, plenty of info about it on his site).
I beg your forgiveness oh mighty one. I am but a lowly peasant.
True.
When I went to google and typed in rebirth island I foolishly omitted the quotes.
Which was, as you say, foolish.
It brings me great shame that I wasted the time of an intellect so vast as your own.
As it should.
Perhaps now that I have been duly reprimanded you will be able to spend you nigh-priceless time correcting other slashdot posters with your rapier wit. (Or at least correcting spelling)
See the rather tasty java applet by Leonardo Boselli, Galactic Collider 1.0, which shows how spiral arms are created when galaxies pass close by each other. You could change the start positions to whack two galaxies together, if that's what you really want to do...
Advertised on the UK site of Deloitte & Touche Forensic Services: "Evidential data recovery - we are able to recover data according to the standards demanded by the police, the Serious Fraud Office, the FBI, the US authorities and the US courts from a wide variety of IT equipment."
I know from working with these guys that this is a real Black Art. Don't think about doing it yourself -- even if you can get it right, the other side's lawyers will crucify you. Get a forensic specialist involved ASAP.
Shouldn't system developers prioritise languages from potential future war (or "peace-keeping") zones? Plenty of locals speak Albanian in Kosovo and Macedonia, as well as Albania proper...
Here in the UK, we've recently had a media frenzy against paedophiles (whipped up by the "News of the World" newspaper, a Murdoch rag) resulting in an attack on a paediatrician.
Congress chose not to listen to him, and passed the legislation anyway. And the next two or three generations of doctors grew up believing that marijuana was the devil's weed.
There's a well-researched series of articles re: the prohibition of heroin (and case for legalisation) at Guardian Unlimited.
Here's the opening paragraphs:
On April 3 1924, a group of American congressmen held an official hearing to consider the future of heroin. They took sworn evidence from experts, including the US surgeon general, Rupert Blue, who appeared in person to tell their committee that heroin was poisonous and caused insanity and that it was particularly likely to kill since its toxic dose was only slightly greater than its therapeutic dose.
They heard, too, from specialist doctors, such as Alexander Lambert of New York's Bellevue hospital, who explained that "the herd instinct is obliterated by heroin, and the herd instincts are the ones which control the moral sense... Heroin makes much quicker the muscular reaction and therefore is used by criminals to inflate them, because they are not only more daring, but their muscular reflexes are quicker." Senior police, a prison governor and health officials all added their voices. Dr S Dana Hubbard, of the New York City health department, captured the heart of the evidence: "Heroin addicts spring from sin and crime... Society in general must protect itself from the influence of evil, and there is no greater peril than heroin."
The congressmen had heard much of this before and now they acted decisively. They resolved to stop the manufacture and use of heroin for any purpose in the United States and to launch a worldwide campaign of prohibition to try to prevent its manufacture or use anywhere in the world. Within two months, their proposal had been passed into law with the unanimous backing of both houses of the US Congress. The war against drugs was born.
To understand this war and to understand the problems of heroin in particular, you need to grasp one core fact. In the words of Professor Arnold Trebach, the veteran specialist in the study of illicit drugs: "Virtually every 'fact' testified to under oath by the medical and criminological experts in 1924... was unsupported by any sound evidence." Indeed, nearly all of it is now directly and entirely contradicted by plentiful research from all over the world. The first casualty of this war was truth and yet, 77 years later, the war continues, more vigorous than ever, arguably the longest-running conflict on earth.
Top firms retreat into bunker to ward off anarchists
By Steve Boggan
11 June 2001
Some of Britain's biggest companies are running their internet operations on systems installed in a 300ft-deep nuclear blast-proof bunker to protect customers from violent anti-capitalist campaigners.
They are renting space in hermetically sealed rooms capable of withstanding a one Kiloton explosion, electro-magnetic "pulse bombs", electronic eavesdropping and chemical and biological warfare.
Hundreds of companies have already installed systems in The Bunker formerly known as RAF Ash, outside Sandwich in Kent and dozens more are understood to be queuing up for space. They have been driven underground by the IRA bombings of Canary Wharf and Bishopsgate in London and, increasingly, by concerns over the operations of anarchists behind sophisticated protests such as the May Day anti-capitalist rallies.
At stake is billions of pounds worth of business conducted over the internet. Companies are concerned that while electronic security using increasingly sophisticated encryption codes is gradually making customers feel more confident about conducting credit-card transactions over the internet, the physical side of e-business is still vulnerable. The fear is that servers, the small electronic boxes through which customer traffic and business transactions on the web are channelled, could be physically vulnerable to theft, damage or sabotage.
For companies conducting business solely over the internet, the loss of a server could be catastrophic; while offline there can be no sales and no income, and customers will go elsewhere. Records, too, are vulnerable to attack, hacking or simple damage, resulting in shut-downs that could cost even traditional companies millions of pounds.
Now organisations such as Scottish Widows, BTCellnet, Richer Sounds and the Bank Automated Clearance System which deals with inter-bank transactions have acted, putting their e-business and confidential dealings out of harm's way behind guards, barbed wire, dogs, electronic detection systems, millions of tons of earth, 4m of concrete, pressurised air locks and rows of steel doors up to 18in thick.
"This isn't paranoia or fantasy, this is the future," said Dr Ian Angell, professor of information systems at the London School of Economics and author of The New Barbarian Manifesto. "There are sophisticated anti-capitalists out there who feel a great deal of resentment against the business world. These are the new Luddites and, given half a chance, they would smash the machine to pieces."
Behind The Bunker is a company called AL Digital Communications, established by the brothers Adam and Ben Laurie and Dominic Hawken. Ben Laurie is already revered in the computing world as the man who co-wrote Apache-SSL, perhaps the best-known encryption technology available over the internet a tool used by some anti-capitalists when arranging demonstrations.
Three years ago, AL Digital heard that an RAF facility with state-of-the art electronics and communications systems was to be auctioned off. RAF Ash was one of four underground command and control centres at the heart of Britain's national air defence system. As part of a cost-cutting exercise, it was to be mothballed only seven years after undergoing a complete overhaul and upgrade.
The AL Digital team made a sealed bid still secret, according to the Ministry of Defence and the 60,000sq ft bunker with 18 acres of land was theirs. "The facility was designed to withstand a nuclear attack without disrupting RAF computer systems," Dominic Hawken said. "Their computers were about radar, but there is little difference between that and hosting a website. Some people have argued that our defences are a little over the top, but they're here now what can we do, shave a little off the walls?"
To enter, visitors must pass through security checks before being allowed through layer after layer of restricted access; of the 49 employees on site, only a handful are allowed into the bowels of the structure. Here, one finds doors that take two people to open and concrete grottoes called Faraday cages that act as electric buffers between the hostile outside and the environmentally pure, air-filtered inside.
There are three back-up power systems big enough to fire up a small town when busy, the National Grid buys energy from The Bunker's four turbines. There are dedicated telecommunications lines installed for the RAF but now available to customers at between £250 a month for a single server on a shelf, to "several millions" of pounds a year for the kind of huge space being rented by a large and unnamed international computer company already inside The Bunker.
There is also a fire station, vast underground fuel and water tanks and an array of cameras on corridors and servers you can even have a camera pointed permanently at your little box to make sure no one tampers with it.
Mr Hawken added: "Co-location is now the buzzword; if your records are destroyed, you want at least one back-up in another place so your business can keep operating. There are many reasons why companies are choosing the safety of a nuclear bunker, but I think the anti-capitalist threat is the most compelling.
"That whole thing is about bringing down large companies and the weakest link is to get to where their information is stored and destroy it. Because of encryption, they can no longer interfere with data, so they may try to damage the hardware that physically contains or controls it. For companies operating over the internet, that means targeting their servers."
None of The Bunker's customers contacted by The Independent would comment for security reasons. However, one, a large multinational computer corporation, said: "The Bunker provides us with a level of physical security and reliability unobtainable in the US. Experience taught us that digital security unaccompanied by physical security is worthless. The Bunker provides us with the highest levels of both."
Other companies said they simply felt they could relax knowing their internet operations were physically safe from attack.
Professor Angell said: "You have to understand. Future wars will be fought by capitalists and anti-capitalists as society polarises. When that happens, control of information will be as important as control of territory used to be in conventional conflicts. If you can stop your enemy from destroying your information, then you have a good chance of winning the war."
Corporations are imaginary -- they are a legal fiction.
So we can make up whatever we want to do to them, then.
Trying to impose a "death penalty" on something that is no more than words on a piece of paper is just plain silly.
But an entertaining thought experiment, regardless.
Just because the State has to approve the creation of a corporation does not mean the State created it...
Can't the State revoke its approval, then? Other posters suggest as much above.
What happens to your grandmother who lives off a pension that is heavily in X's stocks and bonds?
If something like this were to become law (and don't panic your granny yet!), surely there would be immense pressure from investors on their pension and other investment-holding companies to ensure they weren't doing business with dodgy criminal companies. (Take your pick from the usual suspects: arms dealers, tobacco barons, closed-source software companies...:-)
What happens to the employees?
What happens to drug barons' household staff or fraudsters' chauffeurs when they go under?
Corporations, in many ways, are similar to democracies, except the shareholders are the citizens.
So their voting decisions would be shaped by the knowledge that if their company acted in an outrageously illegal ("death-penalty-worthy") way, it would be utterly eradicated. Increased shareholder scrutiny of corporate boards' activities would be part of the pay-off -- for all of us!
it makes logical sense that something that is created entirely by the State can be killed by the State (lets thank god 1984 isn't here yet, when the State starts making babies, the same logic will apply =( ).
I think you mean Brave New World (cloned Alphas & Betas everywhere), not 1984 (Ingsoc scientists working to abolish the orgasm).
A Dying Earth role-playing game (pencil & paper, not computer-based) has just been published in a snazzy hardback volume from Pelgrane Press. It was written by Robin D. Laws (Over The Edge, Feng Shui, Hero Wars...), who is thought to be rather good at writing this kind of thing. Worth a look, if you still play those old-fashioned sociable multiplayer games we had before computers came along.
There are various PDF downloads on Pelgrane's site if you want to check out the quality before you buy.
There's only two Cugel books, right? They're definitely the funniest things I've read from Vance.
There's a third, The Quest for Simbilis, but it's not by Vance. It's an alternate sequel to Eyes of the Overworld, written by Michael Shea (whose Nifft the Lean stories are well worth a look, if you like Vance or Leiber), and I suppose was rendered obsolete when Cugel's Saga came out.
Rumour has it that Vance didn't like Shea's book one little bit. (Though I did).
Shea's most recent book is The A'Rak, and The Incomplete Nifft collects his other Nifft stories, AFAIK. (Please advise me if I'm wrong!).
He's the one true master prose stylist that the genres of science fiction and fantasy have produced
Maybe so. But if you want a true master prose stylist from pre-genre fantasy, check out James Branch Cabell.
His most notorious novel, Jurgen, was prosecuted for obscenity in the 1920s; I mention this in case it tempts any goatse.cx-fanciers to give it a go. (Though, for my money, Something About Eve is far ruder).
With the exception of the stultifying Lyonesse series (I suppose Someone liked them), Vance is an excellent author
I find some of Vance's series just tail off: the first Lyonesse book (Suldrun's Garden) was better than either of its sequels; the Durdane novels started well with The Anome but kinda lost it by the time of The Asutra.
The exceptions -- The Demon Princes, Tschai (Planet of Adventure), and of course the Dying Earth books themselves -- only make this more painful for the reader.
Vance's standalone books (other than the lamentable Slaves of the Klau) are by and large excellent. It's just when he's finishing off a long series you sometimes get a feeling he got bored before the end and wanted to move on...
Even Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, produced over 30 years later, has an apparent debt to Vance.
Gene Wolfe has a published article examining all of the stories that make up the first Dying Earth collection in Jack Vance: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (published 2000 by The British Library, ISBN 0-7123-1102-5).
The book also has an article by Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion et al., acknowledging his immense debt to Vance.
SatireWire (formerly FNWire) has the Good News: Gates' "Kindness" Unrelated to Trial: Company Says It's Not Behind Spate of Charitable Works Stories in Press.
WebWasher works for me -- and it's free. You don't see what you're missing, and can control what referrer information is sent.
From their website: WebWasher is a powerful filter program for Web pages, originally developed by Siemens: it is installed on your PC or server as an add-on to your browser. Unwanted content - such as advertising - is not even loaded via the network. WebWasher also avoids unnecessary reloading of web objects and de-animates images. This saves you up to 45% of the data which are transmitted. Your browser displays Web pages practically free of advertising.
Slashdot Mirror
This movie got there years ahead of Katz. Why do we waste time reading his dross?
Rather worrying - where does this criminalisation of knowledge end?
Ross wrote "Security Engineering" (a mighty tome, should be of interest to many Slashdotters, plenty of info about it on his site).
I beg your forgiveness oh mighty one. I am but a lowly peasant.
True.
When I went to google and typed in rebirth island I foolishly omitted the quotes.
Which was, as you say, foolish.
It brings me great shame that I wasted the time of an intellect so vast as your own.
As it should.
Perhaps now that I have been duly reprimanded you will be able to spend you nigh-priceless time correcting other slashdot posters with your rapier wit. (Or at least correcting spelling)
Let's hope so.
BTW, you can't spell "details" either.
Strange to find that some people still can't be bothered to head to Google and type in "Rebirth Island" before wasting our time, innit?
See the rather tasty java applet by Leonardo Boselli, Galactic Collider 1.0, which shows how spiral arms are created when galaxies pass close by each other. You could change the start positions to whack two galaxies together, if that's what you really want to do...
Advertised on the UK site of Deloitte & Touche Forensic Services: "Evidential data recovery - we are able to recover data according to the standards demanded by the police, the Serious Fraud Office, the FBI, the US authorities and the US courts from a wide variety of IT equipment."
I know from working with these guys that this is a real Black Art. Don't think about doing it yourself -- even if you can get it right, the other side's lawyers will crucify you. Get a forensic specialist involved ASAP.
Shouldn't system developers prioritise languages from potential future war (or "peace-keeping") zones? Plenty of locals speak Albanian in Kosovo and Macedonia, as well as Albania proper...
N.B. there doesn't seem to be a Chinese word for civillian...
Maybe there's a Chinese word for civilian (sp.)?
Which is *also* an amazingly good translation! Cuts the crap, straight to the point: this is about high-tech ways of executing the local rabble.
"They weren't killed in the War. They were killed in the Peace Process."
Ken McLeod, The Star Fraction - also a good source for US/UN teletroopers.
Here in the UK, we've recently had a media frenzy against paedophiles (whipped up by the "News of the World" newspaper, a Murdoch rag) resulting in an attack on a paediatrician.
There's a well-researched series of articles re: the prohibition of heroin (and case for legalisation) at Guardian Unlimited.
Here's the opening paragraphs:
This was also covered by the BBC a week ago.
Top firms retreat into bunker to ward off anarchists
By Steve Boggan
11 June 2001
Some of Britain's biggest companies are running their internet operations on systems installed in a 300ft-deep nuclear blast-proof bunker to protect customers from violent anti-capitalist campaigners.
They are renting space in hermetically sealed rooms capable of withstanding a one Kiloton explosion, electro-magnetic "pulse bombs", electronic eavesdropping and chemical and biological warfare.
Hundreds of companies have already installed systems in The Bunker formerly known as RAF Ash, outside Sandwich in Kent and dozens more are understood to be queuing up for space. They have been driven underground by the IRA bombings of Canary Wharf and Bishopsgate in London and, increasingly, by concerns over the operations of anarchists behind sophisticated protests such as the May Day anti-capitalist rallies.
At stake is billions of pounds worth of business conducted over the internet. Companies are concerned that while electronic security using increasingly sophisticated encryption codes is gradually making customers feel more confident about conducting credit-card transactions over the internet, the physical side of e-business is still vulnerable. The fear is that servers, the small electronic boxes through which customer traffic and business transactions on the web are channelled, could be physically vulnerable to theft, damage or sabotage.
For companies conducting business solely over the internet, the loss of a server could be catastrophic; while offline there can be no sales and no income, and customers will go elsewhere. Records, too, are vulnerable to attack, hacking or simple damage, resulting in shut-downs that could cost even traditional companies millions of pounds.
Now organisations such as Scottish Widows, BTCellnet, Richer Sounds and the Bank Automated Clearance System which deals with inter-bank transactions have acted, putting their e-business and confidential dealings out of harm's way behind guards, barbed wire, dogs, electronic detection systems, millions of tons of earth, 4m of concrete, pressurised air locks and rows of steel doors up to 18in thick.
"This isn't paranoia or fantasy, this is the future," said Dr Ian Angell, professor of information systems at the London School of Economics and author of The New Barbarian Manifesto. "There are sophisticated anti-capitalists out there who feel a great deal of resentment against the business world. These are the new Luddites and, given half a chance, they would smash the machine to pieces."
Behind The Bunker is a company called AL Digital Communications, established by the brothers Adam and Ben Laurie and Dominic Hawken. Ben Laurie is already revered in the computing world as the man who co-wrote Apache-SSL, perhaps the best-known encryption technology available over the internet a tool used by some anti-capitalists when arranging demonstrations.
Three years ago, AL Digital heard that an RAF facility with state-of-the art electronics and communications systems was to be auctioned off. RAF Ash was one of four underground command and control centres at the heart of Britain's national air defence system. As part of a cost-cutting exercise, it was to be mothballed only seven years after undergoing a complete overhaul and upgrade.
The AL Digital team made a sealed bid still secret, according to the Ministry of Defence and the 60,000sq ft bunker with 18 acres of land was theirs. "The facility was designed to withstand a nuclear attack without disrupting RAF computer systems," Dominic Hawken said. "Their computers were about radar, but there is little difference between that and hosting a website. Some people have argued that our defences are a little over the top, but they're here now what can we do, shave a little off the walls?"
To enter, visitors must pass through security checks before being allowed through layer after layer of restricted access; of the 49 employees on site, only a handful are allowed into the bowels of the structure. Here, one finds doors that take two people to open and concrete grottoes called Faraday cages that act as electric buffers between the hostile outside and the environmentally pure, air-filtered inside.
There are three back-up power systems big enough to fire up a small town when busy, the National Grid buys energy from The Bunker's four turbines. There are dedicated telecommunications lines installed for the RAF but now available to customers at between £250 a month for a single server on a shelf, to "several millions" of pounds a year for the kind of huge space being rented by a large and unnamed international computer company already inside The Bunker.
There is also a fire station, vast underground fuel and water tanks and an array of cameras on corridors and servers you can even have a camera pointed permanently at your little box to make sure no one tampers with it.
Mr Hawken added: "Co-location is now the buzzword; if your records are destroyed, you want at least one back-up in another place so your business can keep operating. There are many reasons why companies are choosing the safety of a nuclear bunker, but I think the anti-capitalist threat is the most compelling.
"That whole thing is about bringing down large companies and the weakest link is to get to where their information is stored and destroy it. Because of encryption, they can no longer interfere with data, so they may try to damage the hardware that physically contains or controls it. For companies operating over the internet, that means targeting their servers."
None of The Bunker's customers contacted by The Independent would comment for security reasons. However, one, a large multinational computer corporation, said: "The Bunker provides us with a level of physical security and reliability unobtainable in the US. Experience taught us that digital security unaccompanied by physical security is worthless. The Bunker provides us with the highest levels of both."
Other companies said they simply felt they could relax knowing their internet operations were physically safe from attack.
Professor Angell said: "You have to understand. Future wars will be fought by capitalists and anti-capitalists as society polarises. When that happens, control of information will be as important as control of territory used to be in conventional conflicts. If you can stop your enemy from destroying your information, then you have a good chance of winning the war."
Here's a link to the classic critical review of Tolkien's work by Edmund Wilson (April 14, 1956).
Corporations are imaginary -- they are a legal fiction.
:-)
So we can make up whatever we want to do to them, then.
Trying to impose a "death penalty" on something that is no more than words on a piece of paper is just plain silly.
But an entertaining thought experiment, regardless.
Just because the State has to approve the creation of a corporation does not mean the State created it...
Can't the State revoke its approval, then? Other posters suggest as much above.
What happens to your grandmother who lives off a pension that is heavily in X's stocks and bonds?
If something like this were to become law (and don't panic your granny yet!), surely there would be immense pressure from investors on their pension and other investment-holding companies to ensure they weren't doing business with dodgy criminal companies. (Take your pick from the usual suspects: arms dealers, tobacco barons, closed-source software companies...
What happens to the employees?
What happens to drug barons' household staff or fraudsters' chauffeurs when they go under?
Corporations, in many ways, are similar to democracies, except the shareholders are the citizens.
So their voting decisions would be shaped by the knowledge that if their company acted in an outrageously illegal ("death-penalty-worthy") way, it would be utterly eradicated. Increased shareholder scrutiny of corporate boards' activities would be part of the pay-off -- for all of us!
it makes logical sense that something that is created entirely by the State can be killed by the State (lets thank god 1984 isn't here yet, when the State starts making babies, the same logic will apply =( ).
I think you mean Brave New World (cloned Alphas & Betas everywhere), not 1984 (Ingsoc scientists working to abolish the orgasm).
The US has gone from being the most respected country in the world to being the whipping boy of third-world nations with poor human rights records
You mean "the whipping boy of other third-world nations with poor human rights records," right?
A Dying Earth role-playing game (pencil & paper, not computer-based) has just been published in a snazzy hardback volume from Pelgrane Press. It was written by Robin D. Laws (Over The Edge, Feng Shui, Hero Wars...), who is thought to be rather good at writing this kind of thing. Worth a look, if you still play those old-fashioned sociable multiplayer games we had before computers came along.
There are various PDF downloads on Pelgrane's site if you want to check out the quality before you buy.
There's only two Cugel books, right? They're definitely the funniest things I've read from Vance.
There's a third, The Quest for Simbilis, but it's not by Vance. It's an alternate sequel to Eyes of the Overworld, written by Michael Shea (whose Nifft the Lean stories are well worth a look, if you like Vance or Leiber), and I suppose was rendered obsolete when Cugel's Saga came out.
Rumour has it that Vance didn't like Shea's book one little bit. (Though I did).
Shea's most recent book is The A'Rak, and The Incomplete Nifft collects his other Nifft stories, AFAIK. (Please advise me if I'm wrong!).
He's the one true master prose stylist that the genres of science fiction and fantasy have produced
Maybe so. But if you want a true master prose stylist from pre-genre fantasy, check out James Branch Cabell.
His most notorious novel, Jurgen, was prosecuted for obscenity in the 1920s; I mention this in case it tempts any goatse.cx-fanciers to give it a go. (Though, for my money, Something About Eve is far ruder).
With the exception of the stultifying Lyonesse series (I suppose Someone liked them), Vance is an excellent author
I find some of Vance's series just tail off: the first Lyonesse book (Suldrun's Garden) was better than either of its sequels; the Durdane novels started well with The Anome but kinda lost it by the time of The Asutra.
The exceptions -- The Demon Princes, Tschai (Planet of Adventure), and of course the Dying Earth books themselves -- only make this more painful for the reader.
Vance's standalone books (other than the lamentable Slaves of the Klau) are by and large excellent. It's just when he's finishing off a long series you sometimes get a feeling he got bored before the end and wanted to move on...
Even Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, produced over 30 years later, has an apparent debt to Vance.
Gene Wolfe has a published article examining all of the stories that make up the first Dying Earth collection in Jack Vance: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (published 2000 by The British Library, ISBN 0-7123-1102-5). The book also has an article by Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion et al., acknowledging his immense debt to Vance.
SatireWire (formerly FNWire) has the Good News: Gates' "Kindness" Unrelated to Trial: Company Says It's Not Behind Spate of Charitable Works Stories in Press.
From their website: WebWasher is a powerful filter program for Web pages, originally developed by Siemens: it is installed on your PC or server as an add-on to your browser. Unwanted content - such as advertising - is not even loaded via the network. WebWasher also avoids unnecessary reloading of web objects and de-animates images. This saves you up to 45% of the data which are transmitted. Your browser displays Web pages practically free of advertising.