The real problem that the Democrat and Republican parties are facing is that they each have an outsider candidate, who is not part of their party but just "running as" a member, who is either blowing everyone else out (Trump) or putting up a much more substantial fight than expected (Sanders). If the election actually came down to Sanders versus Trump there would be a lot of democrats and republicans looking around feeling like they don't have a candidate in the election, and rightly so. That's the conclusion to the Democrat policy of "more Obama" and the Republican policy of "stop Obama". It's not all about Obama, and plenty of people want to move in a completely different direction than where either party wants to go. You can still see it with the Republican-majority Congress vowing to just stonewall any attempt by the president to do his job and nominate a new SC justice. Congress is there to do a job that they are just outright refusing to do because the other guy is Obama, and it seems stupid to a lot of people. Or the dozens of times that republicans have tried to repeal or cripple Obamacare, knowing full well that Obama will veto any attempt. They know that they are wasting their time, and they do it anyway instead of actually getting anything done. The people watching that happen are the kinds of people who are voting for Trump or Sanders.
At this point it's not unthinkable that Trump fails to secure the majority he needs to be the nominee, it goes to the brokered convention, the convention votes to nominate a different person, Trump breaks off as an independent and takes 40% or whatever of Republican voters with him, the Democrats anoint Hillary, Sanders says F this and signs on as an independent, and then Bloomberg jumps in for good measure to stir the pot a little more. A general election with 5 major candidates, in addition to people like Gary Johnson or Jill Stein, might be what we need at this point. The two-party bickering has reached a level that is no longer sustainable, and that's why Sanders and Trump are where they are.
If he tells you that he doesn't want you to post any more, would you leave? I seriously doubt you would. You already claimed once that you were finished posting, but like a disease, here you are again.
And this topic is about ad-blocking. You're a spammer, so this is on topic.
APK, seriously, what is the point of making that post in the third person? Is there any purpose at all? You just want to point out again that you have multiple personalities? Is there any point?
whipslash said apk's free to post just not as much on his program but he never told apk to leave or stated he wants him to.
So saying "APK's days are numbered" means that he wants you to stick around for a while? When he implements filters to stop your incessant advertising, and you respond by personally trolling him, you're trying to make friends? You think people enjoy seeing that shit from you? You think that anyone at all sees that kind of embarrassing behavior from you and thinks "wow, I hope I get to see more of that"?
Both parties have little to be proud of in their candidates..
That's true, the candidates that both parties have put forward are generally failing. Thankfully, though, at least we have Bernie to vote for. And, don't worry, if Trump somehow loses the GOP nomination you'll still be able to vote for him as an independent candidate.
Trump doesn't do that. He calls important people a pussy on national TV as easily as the common man does it at the bar or the office cooler. That's what's driving his popularity - he's an anti-politicians.
Right, he's Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, but with worse hair.
Trump referred to Ted Cruz as a pussy. A couple things: one, Cruz is not a former governor, he's a former solicitor general and a current senator. And, two, Cruz sort of is a pussy.
We all would because the FBI would point out Apple had already done this.
That's neither evidence nor proof of anything. What Apple does in China has no bearing on US law. Apple is arguing in a US court that US laws say that it cannot be compelled by the US government to create a backdoor. The FBI trying to claim that they did that in China would have no effect on the US case. So your claim is not evidence of anything. Apple already stores Chinese customer data on servers located in China, do you honestly believe that the Chinese government does not have access to that data? The Chinese government and military infiltrates corporate and government networks in this country, you think they can't do it in their own on infrastructure that they control?
Don't ask APK to live up to his word or be honest. Everyone knows that the first rule when dealing with a spammer is that spammers lie. APK is no exception. If he wanted to be honest then he would have made an account and used that to post instead of making a bunch of AC posts that try to pass themselves off as someone other than him.
It can't be done by people like the IAB or government advertising agencies who are in the pockets of the worst elements of the advertising industry.
It has to be done by them, because they are really the only people who can enforce it. They must police their own industry, or the private sector is going to block them. Their words and actions are the only ones that really matter in this "debate", and until they start saying and doing the right things they will continue to be blocked.
I know it's popular to hate on advertisers but I'm kinda with them on this. You know. Nice web site ya got heres. Be a shame if anything happened to it...
That's why a lot of people, myself included, don't use ABP. Their business model will collapse when they lose market share, no one will pay them to whitelist an ad for 25% of people using ad blockers.
Can it block your ads? No, it can't. Therefore, your claim is false. It's another in the long line of APK lies and half-truths.
I see you're still posting as other people, so you're still the same old lying spamming APK. No one should believe any of your claims when you can't even be honest with people here by identifying yourself. You know all of the posts that I make, because I put my username on them due to the fact that I'm logged in, but you're still trying to lie to everyone here by representing yourself as someone else posting on your behalf. It's pathetic. You're still a liar, because that's just "how you roll". On that other thread you linked to, Lotana was correct: you have no goodwill here. Do not confuse a few people who use your software with goodwill, it's not nearly the same. There are a few people on Slashdot who are happy to install the software of a lying spammer, just like there are plenty of old people who click links in spam email. Those are your users. It's nothing to be proud of, but you still quote those people to try and show that you have some sort of following here. You don't, people don't like you here. For every 1 of those people that you quote saying that they use your software, there are thousands more who will never install it just because of the fact that you are a lying spammer. That's about the same success rate as any other lowlife spammer, send out 1000 spam emails and maybe you'll get a bite or two, that's what they live off and that's what you live off also. So go ahead, call out the handful of people among the millions of Slashdot users who say something good about your software, because that's all you have left. You have no goodwill here, and both the management and other users want you to leave. But, just like genital herpes, here you are. You are the herpes of the internet, APK.
APK, get back to me when a host file solution can block the ads that you post on Slashdot without blocking the rest of Slashdot. Browser extensions can remove those from the DOM, a host file can't. Until then, your claim about blocking all ads is demonstrably false, ironically disproven by your own ads.
I think part of the reason why the threat is funny is because they are threatening to "delete" Facebook, like you can just click on it and press the Del key and, that's it, no more Facebook. It's also funny because you have some sort of international terrorist group threatening the founders of social networks because they keep getting kicked off. They don't sound so tough and scary when they're whining about getting kicked off Twitter.
Anyway, it's funny in the same way that Donald Trump being the GOP nominee for president is funny. You don't expect them to have success so it's funny to see the bluster. And, if they actually did have success, then yes, the entire world would recoil in shock and horror, stock markets would collapse, there would be a general panic, laws would be passed that restrict our rights, and the US military would immediately spring into action and start attacking everything in sight.
I saw a quote from a woman in her 70s maybe a month ago who said that she believes in what Bernie Sanders is saying, but she's going to vote for Hillary because it's her last chance to see a woman president.
can you give us more information about what these questionable third-party hosts are doing
But you just said you didn't care to know. They are "market research" or whatever else, they make money by profiling your browsing habits and selling that data. If you don't like it, block them, there are many extensions that will block trackers like that.
More importantly, when will slashdot.org stop trying to get my browser to make requests to them?
Probably when they either start charging people for accounts, or start asking everyone for donations like Wikipedia.
I think that mainstream users are just starting to wake up to the fact that ad blockers exist. Ads may be getting more and more prevalent and annoying, but frankly I don't think many of us here would know if they are.
Google and Yahoo have accused ad-blocking software Shine of "destroying the relationship" between advertisers and consumers
That's funny, because no one forces anyone to install and use an ad blocker (compare this with advertisers wanting to force people to "consume" ads). People make the choice of installing an ad blocker because the so-called "relationship" between advertisers and consumers essentially consists of advertisers wanting consumers to bend over and accept anything that gets shoveled at them. Maybe that relationship was doomed to fail from the start, and maybe most people are just waking up to the fact that they don't have to be in that relationship any more. This is like an abusive relationship where the person getting abused realizes that this isn't a normal productive healthy relationship, and they don't have to put up with it any more.
Benjamin Faes, managing director of media and platforms at Google, called Shine's technology a "blunt" solution that punishes users and good advertisers
If advertisers aren't going to police their own industry then, yeah, count on other people to create a blunt solution. It may not solve the problem the way that advertisers would like the problem to be solved, but then again advertisers have had a good 2 decades to figure out a workable relationship for online advertising. So far their solution has been to abuse people and not call each other out when they notice other bad actors. Thankfully we don't need to count on them for a solution, but it's not going to be the solution they want.
Blocking all ads I think it's diminishing my experience of advertising
Of course it's diminishing your experience of advertising, you're an advertiser. Blocking all ads actually improves my experience of advertising, by a lot. If only I could extend it to the physical world.
I don't know if you know the answer to this or not, but if someone leaves their iPhone sitting around can anyone pick it up, enter the incorrect PIN 10 times, and destroy all of the data on it?
I think he's wrong on a lot of things but he's a stand up guy.
He disagrees with Bernie's positions but he likes him as a person. Which is understandable, because Bernie is honest and consistent, you can look through his history and see the same themes over and over for the past 5 decades. That's what a politician should be like, not someone whose opinion changes with every poll or donor check. Our political races would have a whole lot more substance and meaning if the people participating in them had anywhere near the same level of integrity that Bernie Sanders has. Note that nothing that I just said has anything to do with his actual policy positions, just the fact that they have remained stable. Everyone else changes their policy positions based on who is giving them money and what the polls say, and Bernie doesn't do that.
That's a major reason why he has the level of success that he does against Clinton. The media has portrayed him as unelectable since day 1, but Clinton is not out there winning landslides against him, if she wins at all it's a small margin. People don't trust Clinton, and they do trust Sanders. It's that simple.
I noticed that also, I was looking at the album's article on Wikipedia and looking at all of the names in the track list for the writers and producers of each track. Some tracks have 15 writers or 9 producers (that has to make royalties fun to sort out), but there was only a single track on the album with 1 writer and 1 producer: "I Love Kanye", written by Kanye West and produced by Kanye West. Sure, it's only 44 seconds long, but there's another track called "Siiiiiiiiilver Surffffeeeeer Intermission" which is 56 seconds and that one has 2 writers, neither of which are West.
Additional filters have been added. His posts are pretty easy to spot, even for a computer (at least when he's behaving like he normally does). Sure, he can act like a normal human and probably still post, but he's shown difficulty in the past being able to behave in a rational manner.
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The real problem that the Democrat and Republican parties are facing is that they each have an outsider candidate, who is not part of their party but just "running as" a member, who is either blowing everyone else out (Trump) or putting up a much more substantial fight than expected (Sanders). If the election actually came down to Sanders versus Trump there would be a lot of democrats and republicans looking around feeling like they don't have a candidate in the election, and rightly so. That's the conclusion to the Democrat policy of "more Obama" and the Republican policy of "stop Obama". It's not all about Obama, and plenty of people want to move in a completely different direction than where either party wants to go. You can still see it with the Republican-majority Congress vowing to just stonewall any attempt by the president to do his job and nominate a new SC justice. Congress is there to do a job that they are just outright refusing to do because the other guy is Obama, and it seems stupid to a lot of people. Or the dozens of times that republicans have tried to repeal or cripple Obamacare, knowing full well that Obama will veto any attempt. They know that they are wasting their time, and they do it anyway instead of actually getting anything done. The people watching that happen are the kinds of people who are voting for Trump or Sanders.
At this point it's not unthinkable that Trump fails to secure the majority he needs to be the nominee, it goes to the brokered convention, the convention votes to nominate a different person, Trump breaks off as an independent and takes 40% or whatever of Republican voters with him, the Democrats anoint Hillary, Sanders says F this and signs on as an independent, and then Bloomberg jumps in for good measure to stir the pot a little more. A general election with 5 major candidates, in addition to people like Gary Johnson or Jill Stein, might be what we need at this point. The two-party bickering has reached a level that is no longer sustainable, and that's why Sanders and Trump are where they are.
Low UIDs aren't that uncommon. There are 899 three digit UIDs.
That represents about 0.02% of the Slashdot user base, give or take, and they aren't all active.
If he tells you that he doesn't want you to post any more, would you leave? I seriously doubt you would. You already claimed once that you were finished posting, but like a disease, here you are again.
And this topic is about ad-blocking. You're a spammer, so this is on topic.
APK, seriously, what is the point of making that post in the third person? Is there any purpose at all? You just want to point out again that you have multiple personalities? Is there any point?
whipslash said apk's free to post just not as much on his program but he never told apk to leave or stated he wants him to.
So saying "APK's days are numbered" means that he wants you to stick around for a while? When he implements filters to stop your incessant advertising, and you respond by personally trolling him, you're trying to make friends? You think people enjoy seeing that shit from you? You think that anyone at all sees that kind of embarrassing behavior from you and thinks "wow, I hope I get to see more of that"?
What happens when China devalues it's currency?
Trump calls the Chinese a bunch of pussies.
Or Russia eyes up another former republic that we deal with?
Trump calls up Putin and personally congratulates him on the acquisition.
Both parties have little to be proud of in their candidates..
That's true, the candidates that both parties have put forward are generally failing. Thankfully, though, at least we have Bernie to vote for. And, don't worry, if Trump somehow loses the GOP nomination you'll still be able to vote for him as an independent candidate.
I saw an awful lot of Obama voters at the trump rally I went to.
What do you mean, they showed up to the Trump rally, presumably in support of Trump, wearing their Obama '12 shirts?
But Trump's support seems more party agnostic than you want to admit.
I think that Trump's policies are more party-agnostic than he wants to admit.
Trump doesn't do that. He calls important people a pussy on national TV as easily as the common man does it at the bar or the office cooler. That's what's driving his popularity - he's an anti-politicians.
Right, he's Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, but with worse hair.
Trump referred to Ted Cruz as a pussy. A couple things: one, Cruz is not a former governor, he's a former solicitor general and a current senator. And, two, Cruz sort of is a pussy.
We all would because the FBI would point out Apple had already done this.
That's neither evidence nor proof of anything. What Apple does in China has no bearing on US law. Apple is arguing in a US court that US laws say that it cannot be compelled by the US government to create a backdoor. The FBI trying to claim that they did that in China would have no effect on the US case. So your claim is not evidence of anything. Apple already stores Chinese customer data on servers located in China, do you honestly believe that the Chinese government does not have access to that data? The Chinese government and military infiltrates corporate and government networks in this country, you think they can't do it in their own on infrastructure that they control?
Don't ask APK to live up to his word or be honest. Everyone knows that the first rule when dealing with a spammer is that spammers lie. APK is no exception. If he wanted to be honest then he would have made an account and used that to post instead of making a bunch of AC posts that try to pass themselves off as someone other than him.
It can't be done by people like the IAB or government advertising agencies who are in the pockets of the worst elements of the advertising industry.
It has to be done by them, because they are really the only people who can enforce it. They must police their own industry, or the private sector is going to block them. Their words and actions are the only ones that really matter in this "debate", and until they start saying and doing the right things they will continue to be blocked.
I know it's popular to hate on advertisers but I'm kinda with them on this. You know. Nice web site ya got heres. Be a shame if anything happened to it...
That's why a lot of people, myself included, don't use ABP. Their business model will collapse when they lose market share, no one will pay them to whitelist an ad for 25% of people using ad blockers.
Here's what you said:
As it actually BLOCKS ALL ADS
Can it block your ads? No, it can't. Therefore, your claim is false. It's another in the long line of APK lies and half-truths.
I see you're still posting as other people, so you're still the same old lying spamming APK. No one should believe any of your claims when you can't even be honest with people here by identifying yourself. You know all of the posts that I make, because I put my username on them due to the fact that I'm logged in, but you're still trying to lie to everyone here by representing yourself as someone else posting on your behalf. It's pathetic. You're still a liar, because that's just "how you roll". On that other thread you linked to, Lotana was correct: you have no goodwill here. Do not confuse a few people who use your software with goodwill, it's not nearly the same. There are a few people on Slashdot who are happy to install the software of a lying spammer, just like there are plenty of old people who click links in spam email. Those are your users. It's nothing to be proud of, but you still quote those people to try and show that you have some sort of following here. You don't, people don't like you here. For every 1 of those people that you quote saying that they use your software, there are thousands more who will never install it just because of the fact that you are a lying spammer. That's about the same success rate as any other lowlife spammer, send out 1000 spam emails and maybe you'll get a bite or two, that's what they live off and that's what you live off also. So go ahead, call out the handful of people among the millions of Slashdot users who say something good about your software, because that's all you have left. You have no goodwill here, and both the management and other users want you to leave. But, just like genital herpes, here you are. You are the herpes of the internet, APK.
APK, get back to me when a host file solution can block the ads that you post on Slashdot without blocking the rest of Slashdot. Browser extensions can remove those from the DOM, a host file can't. Until then, your claim about blocking all ads is demonstrably false, ironically disproven by your own ads.
I think part of the reason why the threat is funny is because they are threatening to "delete" Facebook, like you can just click on it and press the Del key and, that's it, no more Facebook. It's also funny because you have some sort of international terrorist group threatening the founders of social networks because they keep getting kicked off. They don't sound so tough and scary when they're whining about getting kicked off Twitter.
Anyway, it's funny in the same way that Donald Trump being the GOP nominee for president is funny. You don't expect them to have success so it's funny to see the bluster. And, if they actually did have success, then yes, the entire world would recoil in shock and horror, stock markets would collapse, there would be a general panic, laws would be passed that restrict our rights, and the US military would immediately spring into action and start attacking everything in sight.
If I recall correctly, we don't yet have the capability to detect Earth sized planets.
That's not true. You can walk outside any morning right now and detect Venus yourself.
Cool guys don't spend all day spamming and trolling.
I saw a quote from a woman in her 70s maybe a month ago who said that she believes in what Bernie Sanders is saying, but she's going to vote for Hillary because it's her last chance to see a woman president.
can you give us more information about what these questionable third-party hosts are doing
But you just said you didn't care to know. They are "market research" or whatever else, they make money by profiling your browsing habits and selling that data. If you don't like it, block them, there are many extensions that will block trackers like that.
More importantly, when will slashdot.org stop trying to get my browser to make requests to them?
Probably when they either start charging people for accounts, or start asking everyone for donations like Wikipedia.
I think that mainstream users are just starting to wake up to the fact that ad blockers exist. Ads may be getting more and more prevalent and annoying, but frankly I don't think many of us here would know if they are.
Google and Yahoo have accused ad-blocking software Shine of "destroying the relationship" between advertisers and consumers
That's funny, because no one forces anyone to install and use an ad blocker (compare this with advertisers wanting to force people to "consume" ads). People make the choice of installing an ad blocker because the so-called "relationship" between advertisers and consumers essentially consists of advertisers wanting consumers to bend over and accept anything that gets shoveled at them. Maybe that relationship was doomed to fail from the start, and maybe most people are just waking up to the fact that they don't have to be in that relationship any more. This is like an abusive relationship where the person getting abused realizes that this isn't a normal productive healthy relationship, and they don't have to put up with it any more.
Benjamin Faes, managing director of media and platforms at Google, called Shine's technology a "blunt" solution that punishes users and good advertisers
If advertisers aren't going to police their own industry then, yeah, count on other people to create a blunt solution. It may not solve the problem the way that advertisers would like the problem to be solved, but then again advertisers have had a good 2 decades to figure out a workable relationship for online advertising. So far their solution has been to abuse people and not call each other out when they notice other bad actors. Thankfully we don't need to count on them for a solution, but it's not going to be the solution they want.
Blocking all ads I think it's diminishing my experience of advertising
Of course it's diminishing your experience of advertising, you're an advertiser. Blocking all ads actually improves my experience of advertising, by a lot. If only I could extend it to the physical world.
I don't know if you know the answer to this or not, but if someone leaves their iPhone sitting around can anyone pick it up, enter the incorrect PIN 10 times, and destroy all of the data on it?
Did you just ignore the rest of that line? Here:
I think he's wrong on a lot of things but he's a stand up guy.
He disagrees with Bernie's positions but he likes him as a person. Which is understandable, because Bernie is honest and consistent, you can look through his history and see the same themes over and over for the past 5 decades. That's what a politician should be like, not someone whose opinion changes with every poll or donor check. Our political races would have a whole lot more substance and meaning if the people participating in them had anywhere near the same level of integrity that Bernie Sanders has. Note that nothing that I just said has anything to do with his actual policy positions, just the fact that they have remained stable. Everyone else changes their policy positions based on who is giving them money and what the polls say, and Bernie doesn't do that.
That's a major reason why he has the level of success that he does against Clinton. The media has portrayed him as unelectable since day 1, but Clinton is not out there winning landslides against him, if she wins at all it's a small margin. People don't trust Clinton, and they do trust Sanders. It's that simple.
I noticed that also, I was looking at the album's article on Wikipedia and looking at all of the names in the track list for the writers and producers of each track. Some tracks have 15 writers or 9 producers (that has to make royalties fun to sort out), but there was only a single track on the album with 1 writer and 1 producer: "I Love Kanye", written by Kanye West and produced by Kanye West. Sure, it's only 44 seconds long, but there's another track called "Siiiiiiiiilver Surffffeeeeer Intermission" which is 56 seconds and that one has 2 writers, neither of which are West.
Kanye is definitely his biggest fan.
Additional filters have been added. His posts are pretty easy to spot, even for a computer (at least when he's behaving like he normally does). Sure, he can act like a normal human and probably still post, but he's shown difficulty in the past being able to behave in a rational manner.