There are also several domains relating to Google and Apple.
If you have a small list of several domains you want to block, you can probably just search for hosts files and include several of those domains as additional keywords.
I don't think Slashdot is happy with you, this time I only had 1 instance of your initials and it flagged the text as being lame. Removed those 5 characters (including a comma and space) and the text is fine.
You're all the way back to trying to assert that I can't program again now, huh? Haha, you were doing that months ago. You don't like where this argument is headed so you're trying to fall back to the old standby, huh?
Mirrors of his site where you complained (& yes, I know it's you)
Wow, how did you know it was me? Was it when I told you that it was me? Truly, your intellect knows no bounds.
I 'spam'
Yes, I know you do. That's what I'm trying to stop.
You "oddly" (not) neglected to note I ONLY POST ON TOPIC, & IF OTHERS USE INFERIOR BROWSER ADDON SOLUTIONS which I show them the superiority of hosts doing more for less gaining them MORE speed, security, reliability, & anonymity (& not being clarityray detectable + blockable like all addons are mind you) FOR MASSIVELY LESS resources consumed on all levels!
It's still spam when you get downmodded only to come back and post the exact same thing over and over again. You've admitted all of this before when you were gloating about defeating the moderation system. We've already established that 1) you spam Slashdot and 2) you will continue to spam Slashdot. These facts aren't in question at this point. You're ignoring everything we're talking about now and trying to go back to "but, but..." with whatever old arguments have already been settled. That doesn't sound like a strategy to win an argument. I'm glad that you understand where you stand in this.
I don't see "the trolling b.s.'ing likes of YOU" adblock shill, doing better yourself!
Again, we already settled this months ago after many, many times of me telling you that I have no desire to identify myself to you. That hasn't changed, no matter how much you want to derail this and try to go back to old arguments.
Man - LOL, I even saw BOTH AdBlock's author & AB+'s author RUN FROM MY POINTS ON HOSTS by email 2x from 2 diff. accounts I sent them challenge in (after the said "hosts = shit" well, they wouldn't back it vs. me & RAN, lol)!
Who cares? Truly? How is this on topic to anything we're talking about? 1) You spam Slashdot. 2) You claim you will continue to spam Slashdot. 3) You constantly post as other people trying to support your own position (and then thanking yourself for posting). You don't want to talk about any of that, you just want to spout random statements or try to bring up old arguments. I get it, you don't have anything else to say. If that's the case, then just stop talking. You don't have to keep talking, you don't have to keep replying when you have nothing else to say. Seriously. Just stop. No, you don't have to reply to this either. You're done here, you've said everything you can think to say and now you're just repeating yourself. Go away. No one else is watching this, this thread is several days old and is about to be automatically closed anyway. Just stop responding. Find a hobby. Maybe try to meet a woman. Go for a walk. Go play one of your games and entertain yourself if you don't have anyone to hang out with, just stop trying to re-hash the same tired shit over and over again like you're making valid points about anything that we're discussing. You're not, you're not impressing anyone. I know you spam, I know you lie, you know I'm right. It's done, it's over.
Like every other weekend, I'm out of here until I'm back in the office next week. You have yourself a great weekend there buddy, have fun posting comments as other people.
Never in my life have I wished that I could be a spammer like yourself.
BUT YOU PROJECT YOU ACTUALLY USE PROXIES (for downmodding my posts, right? RIGHT!)
What's the point of using a proxy for downmodding? You can't see IP address information anyway. Why would I access Slashdot through a proxy? Is this more of your "outsmarting" me? You're brilliant!
ask Mr. Burn & see what he says as to the results of how many folks use my ware the past year or so from his logs.
Will he be able to tell me how many of those IPs are actually you running through a proxy to inflate the numbers? I bet you also post reviews referring to yourself in the third person. There's no way that Slashdot is the only place where you try to pass yourself off as someone other than you, I don't believe that for a second.
Every SINGLE ac poster on/. has to be me (according to you AmicusNYCL).
No, just the ones who use all of the exact same grammar structure, insults, name-calling, etc. Although, that actually does turn out to be every AC who responds to me backing you up. Weird how that works, huh? Why hasn't a single registered user posted in reply to me to back you up? Why are all of them ACs using the exact same kind of language and insults that you use? If there are so many people here who like your software, then why are you the only person replying to me in your own defense? I know the answer to that question, APK. What's the first rule when dealing with spammers? Spammers lie.
REAL others in/. registere users are QUOTED liking MY work
And not a single one of them has ever replied to me to back you up. It's always an AC using the exact same kind of language that you use. And you think it's so clever, too. That's your idea of what being clever and smart is.
IF you're not attacking me, then why are you bothering me @ all?
I'm trying to get you to stop spamming. Stay on topic, I'm not technically attacking you, which is what I said and what you accused me of. I'm not attacking your software from a technical point of view, I'm opposing you for the spammer that you are. If you stopped spamming Slashdot, and posted your advertisement only once in any comment thread, then I wouldn't attack you. I just can't stand spammers, I think they're pathetic parasites.
THE WAY YOU SHILL FOR ADBLOCK & TRY CUT ME DOWN MAKES IT FAIRLY OBVIOUS YOU'RE SOME PAID OFF SHILL FOR THEM or ARE ONE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES.
Sweet, APK, another "obvious" statement from you that is completely wrong. I'll add that to the list of reasons why you have no idea what you're talking about. I've never asked for nor received any compensation from the anti-advertising industry, and I've never done work on their behalf. I do this for fun, APK, just because I believe in it. I just want to see a world where people aren't forced to look at unwanted ads, like the ones that you post 30+ times per comment thread.
I like the fact that if I use your initials too many times in one post, it triggers the "lameness filter". Indeed, Slashdot, indeed....
ISIS already knows that their communications are not private. That's why they're creating an RSS reader using the MIT App Inventor and trying to pass it off as an encrypted communication tool in the media.
Part of the purchase agreement was that the label wouldn't release the songs before some time after the year 2100, commercially at least.
Although there's something really, really childish about a guy who ponied up $2 million for a record album to then go and talk shit about that artist, talking about how their music sucks. He called Ghostface a non-profit rapper, right after he paid $2 million for a single album. It's like one of this guy's fantasies was to have a rap feud, and he finally found his opportunity.
Aaaand now you're thanking yourself. I think we've gone full circle. It looks like I'm back to being an Adblock shill instead of an advertiser, and now you're also thanking yourself for posting.
ask Mr. Burn... how many different people use it everyday
If I had to guess, based on what I know about you, I would say that you probably use 7 proxies to download your own software thousands of times every day. That would fit your behavioral pattern.
after I released my ware & pr'd it here
Is that what you call spamming? "PR"ing? Is that the term that spammers use?
attempting to first technically attack me
I haven't technically attacked you. This is still part of the APK Imagination Game.
Adblock shill, and you CLEARLY are?
Earlier today you said I was "OBVIOUSLY" making money from advertising. CLEARLY you are a very confused person.
I will continue to be true to myself and do so!
I have no doubt, APK. Spammers gotta spam.
You make me look GOOD
My friend, there are not enough psychiatrists and drugs on the planet to make you look good. You look like a child, that's what you look like. A narcissistic, sociopathic, egotistical child whose best friend doesn't actually exist.
They should start the planning now, because there's probably at least a 10% chance of deployment issues.
I highly doubt that. On their first try, NASA gently placed a chunk the size of a car on the surface of Mars after dangling it from a crane floating in the sky via rockets. I'm sure they can unfold the telescope.
That's the information I was wondering about also (I can't read the article though, because it's hosted on Forbes and I'm not turning off ad blocking for them). But, Wikipedia says this:
The JWST will offer unprecedented resolution and sensitivity from long-wavelength (orange-red) visible light, through near-infrared to the mid-infrared
So it's orange and "longer", right? Isn't that one of the more useful ranges for looking at objects in space, though? I realize that the very small wavelengths are good for looking at specific things like neutron stars, but isn't infrared more useful for looking at some of the larger structures? What about planets, if we point that thing around our own solar system what kind of surface resolution would we get from it?
Your quote above also says it's ok for me to post & you don't own/. either!
I never said it's not OK for you to post. Here, let me say the exact same thing I already said: if you want to make a post about host files, go right ahead. If you want to make the same post 35 times in the same comment thread, then go fuck yourself, because then you're a spammer.
It's OBVIOUS you represent these parties or are one:
Statements like these are why I know you're full of it. That's a false statement, but you think it's "obvious". You're full of it.
Fact - Nobody sane or not those adversely affected would bitch about hosts giving them more speed, security, reliability, or anonymity
I'm not bitching about hosts. Go ahead, find a single instance where I did. If you look at the post that you're replying to, in fact, you'll even see me say where it's useful. I'm not bitching about hosts, APK, I'm bitching about spammers. I'm bitching about you.
You'll LIE but YOU ARE LOSING to adblocking!
I'm "losing" to adblocking? Read my post history, genius, I'm a proponent of adblocking, I use it proudly to avoid advertisements and spam, such as yourself. I use multiple extensions to block various kinds of advertising and tracking (yes, including same-domain advertising). I educate my less-technical friends and family about the fact that they don't need to see all of those ads. I block ads on my mobile devices and my desktops. But look at you, you're proving my point by continuing to think that you're in some sort of competition with me about adblocking, hosts files, whatever. That's not why I fight you APK, I fight you because you're a spammer with a proven track record of spamming. You are the advertising scum that I block.
I was also, I even know which teacher's room I was in and what she looked like (my memory of younger years kind of sucks, but I remember that). We had the TV on the cart wheeled in so we could watch the launch. I don't remember much about what we did after the explosion, but I can point to the specific room where I was and who was there.
Alex, you schizo, if you want to make a post about host files, go right ahead. If you want to make the same post 35 times in the same comment thread, then go fuck yourself, because then you're a spammer. And, no, just because someone mods your post down does not give you some sort of right to post it again. The reason people mod your spam down is specifically because it is spam and they don't want to see it here. That's specifically why the moderation system exists, to get rid of spam and highlight the good comments.
You want to talk about Article 19 and free speech? Because you sound exactly like the advertising dickhead who tried to use that argument also. He thinks that Article 19 says that he is free to transmit any information, in the form of his unwanted advertisements, and people should look at them. You do literally the EXACT SAME THING. You think you have some right to post your spam advertising your software, and when someone mods it down you post it again, because you think that people should look at them. You are using the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT as the advertising dickhead that you're trying to block. But you don't understand that, because in your world you think you're in some grand competition of proving whether or not the hosts file is a valid method of blocking advertisements. And, for many purposes, it is a valid method, except obviously host-based blocking falls over when the content you want to block comes from the same host as the content you want to see. I have rules to block certain things from slashdot.org, for example, but that doesn't mean I want to block all of it. Hosts won't help with that situation, but for many other situations it works fine. But that's all you hear, you think this is some giant dick-waving competition about hosts files and it is not. Yes, using hosts files solves some problems (specifically, blocking content based on origin instead of the actual content). There are other problems it does not address. So fucking what? Stop shitting all over Slashdot in your stupid attempt to prove yourself right in a competition in which only you are engaged.
And, for the record, the advertising dickhead's interpretation of Article 19, the same interpretation that you use to think you have some right to have everyone read your spam, is wrong. That is neither the letter nor the spirit of what is written in Article 19.
I have no more respect for you than I have for any other spammer. I know the first rule when dealing with spammers, also: they lie. Spammers lie, it's what they do. You lie also, because you're a spammer. I know this.
Sorry, that probably confused you. Here, maybe if I refer to myself in the third person like you do then you'll understand why I don't like you:
amicusNYCL has no more respect for you than amicusNYCL has for any other spammer. amicusNYCL knows the first rule when dealing with spammers, also: they lie. Spammers lie, it's what they do. You lie also, because you're a spammer. amicusNYCL knows this.
I'm not sure that I follow you APK, are you saying that your proof or evidence of me having multiple accounts is because I denied having multiple accounts? Or you're saying I have multiple accounts because it's obvious that you keep posting and referring to yourself in the third person? I don't quite follow your logic. This is what this feels like to me:
APK: What did you have for lunch today? Me: I got a sandwich and some fruit salad, but I didn't finish all of the fruit salad because I didn't really like the cantaloupe all that much. APK: Ah ha! So you are a cantaloupe farmer! You have an entire greenhouse full of cantaloupe! You can't deny it! The reason that I, I mean we, the reason that all of us know this to be true is because you said you didn't like it! And what color is that cantaloupe greenhouse that you clearly own and operate?! It's transparent! Check, and mate! Victory is mine!
Your logic and reasoning skills are far too impressive for me to combat, APK, so I guess I'll just ignore your trolling posts altogether and continue to report your spam.
You really think the ad companies saying "boo hoo, we're being censored" don't know every trick in the book the lie, manipulate, and skew the response their way all the while knowing damned well they're full of shit??
Yeah, I realize that he's probably slightly more self-aware than he projects. I do really enjoy seeing these stories though. I have never been a fan of advertisers, on any medium, and seeing these people start to fight back, and seeing places like Forbes block people using ad-blockers, it just shows that our efforts are being noticed. We're finally eating into their bottom line enough that they've decided they need to fight back, and I love that. Advertisers have seemed so tone-deaf and obstinate that it's been so frustrating trying to deal with ads, so the fact that they're feeling it in their pocketbook means that we're finally getting through to them, finally forcing them to pay attention. Especially the name-calling of the ABP folks, I enjoyed that part especially:
Now, you may be aware of a kerfuffle that began about 10 days ago, when an unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes at a for-profit German company called AdBlock-Plus took to the digisphere to complain over and over that IAB had "disinvited" them to this convention.
Ooooh yes, more name-calling! Nothing says "I'm about to make a fantastic argument" like some grade-school-level name calling. And why are they "techie wannabes", of all things? Because they're beating him at every opportunity. He's in an arms race against people who are on a level that he doesn't even understand, so he specifically picks that as the way to insult them. I love it, he's admitting that he's getting beaten at the technical arms race. Instead of trying to figure out new ways to get around the filters, their solution is to just block people using the filters. Here's what I love even more: he's going to realize that their only solution is to end up paying ABP for inclusion on their whitelist, and as soon as that check is written he's going to wake up and realize that ABP just failed after everyone left and now there are 5 other blockers that people are using that don't have a whitelist. Who is he going to call names then?
On another note, I noticed this question in his speech:
But since you are here, I want to take the opportunity to ask you a personal question - a question that may make you uncomfortable.
Go on.....
Sure, $50 billion in revenue is a great thing - for the businesses taking it in. But how will we create - and how will you, personally, contribute to creating - the next $50 billion in value... value to society, value to the culture, value to your family, value to your friends and neighbors?
Yeeeesssss... considering the fact that your work is not valuable to any culture, and that your friends and neighbors probably secretly hate you and the work you're doing, how are you going to personally create that... ahem... "value"?
But if money is your only goal, then you risk falling into relativism - a pernicious trap, for you begin weighing all potential returns based on the single metric of how much more money you can make. Truth, beauty, fairness, justice, honesty, civic pride, neighborliness - they become means to an end, rather than ends in themselves. That is debilitating, and ultimately deadens the soul.
There you go, Ad Guy, THAT was the message you should have been spreading 20 years ago when you started. Now it's a bit late to try and get everyone "on board" with doing things the right way. You've spent the last 20 years treating things like truth, beauty, fairness, justice, and honesty as means to a profitable end, and now I'd like to invite you to Sit'n'Spin while you think about how you've spent those last 20 years. Welcome to your funeral.
Ooooh, he's referring to his freedom, not mine. I see. It sounds like he believes that crap too, he thinks he has the right to advertise:
The full speech begins with an overview of the development of the $600 billion online ad industry in the twenty years since the formation of the Internet Advertising Council in 1996, and includes... direct comparisons between freedom of expression and freedom to advertise, citing advertising’s pivotal connection with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Here's what Article 19 says:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
So the head of the advertising industry thinks that Article 19 means that he's allowed to shove anything he wants at us, and we have to take it. Apparently he thinks that "freedom to... impart information and ideas" means that the person on the receiving end does not have the freedom to reject that information. I wonder if he feels the same way about us, I wonder if he also thinks that other people have the right to shove whatever information we want at the IAB, and they have to take it.
This is what happens when your only motivation, your only metric, is money.
This is the head of a $50 billion per year industry referring to the people in charge of a $120 million per year company. Yeah, they're the ones just out for profit at the expense of morals and ethics.
Real users are the people modding you down, APK. Those downmods speak volumes. That is someone actively taking the time to use a limited resource to make sure that other people don't have to see your trash. If that isn't a vote against your spam, then I don't know what is. If you think that I actually take the time to register multiple accounts and post enough comments with those accounts to get modded up and then get mod points myself on those accounts, then you think way too highly of yourself. I have a single account here, and this is it. Frequently (like right now!) I'll be given 15 modpoints and don't even use them before they expire. I have 15 points that will expire on the 29th. That's it. I rarely find things that I feel needed to be moderated by me. Other people see your spam and decide that they want to mod that, other people feel that your spam is a good use of their limited mod points. I usually post in those topics instead, so obviously I can't use my mod points there.
None of those describe me. If you think I'm an advertiser then you haven't paid attention to my posts, which is highly probable since you typically just ignore what people say and instead only pay attention to the running narrative in your own delusional mind. I don't know what "webmaster" means, but I don't build or manage my companies' public web sites (other than running the servers) and we do not use online advertising to promote our business. I am not a competitor of Adblock, inferior or otherwise. And I'm not the bad actor here either. You know what else I'm not? A spammer. You're the spammer, APK, I'm the one trying to stop you. How about that, huh? You're trying to talk so tough about security and protection, but in reality you're the spammer and I'm the one trying to stop your spam. Weird how that works out.
This comment thread is going to be automatically closed soon, so I'm not going to look to see if you've replied here (and, being that you don't bother to register an account that will only get down-modded, I get no notice that you've replied anyway). The next time a story about blocking ads pops up I'll be sure to check in and compile the next list of spam to report to Steve.
Good lord, APK. OK, you have a single person who likes your spam (notice that he still calls it spam!!). What do you want to do, do you want to make a poll for the Slashdot homepage about your spam, asking if people enjoy seeing it here?
you can't manage to prove my points on hosts wrong either
I'm not trying to! You still don't understand that? Why don't you understand that if you're so smart?
Slashdot Mirror
In his quest to block ads that he doesn't want to see, maybe he's just looking for a piece of software that isn't advertised via spamming Slashdot.
There's a curated hosts file here that contains a section for blocking domains used for Windows 10 reporting, if that's your thing:
http://someonewhocares.org/hos...
There are also several domains relating to Google and Apple.
If you have a small list of several domains you want to block, you can probably just search for hosts files and include several of those domains as additional keywords.
I don't think Slashdot is happy with you, this time I only had 1 instance of your initials and it flagged the text as being lame. Removed those 5 characters (including a comma and space) and the text is fine.
You're all the way back to trying to assert that I can't program again now, huh? Haha, you were doing that months ago. You don't like where this argument is headed so you're trying to fall back to the old standby, huh?
Mirrors of his site where you complained (& yes, I know it's you)
Wow, how did you know it was me? Was it when I told you that it was me? Truly, your intellect knows no bounds.
I 'spam'
Yes, I know you do. That's what I'm trying to stop.
You "oddly" (not) neglected to note I ONLY POST ON TOPIC, & IF OTHERS USE INFERIOR BROWSER ADDON SOLUTIONS which I show them the superiority of hosts doing more for less gaining them MORE speed, security, reliability, & anonymity (& not being clarityray detectable + blockable like all addons are mind you) FOR MASSIVELY LESS resources consumed on all levels!
It's still spam when you get downmodded only to come back and post the exact same thing over and over again. You've admitted all of this before when you were gloating about defeating the moderation system. We've already established that 1) you spam Slashdot and 2) you will continue to spam Slashdot. These facts aren't in question at this point. You're ignoring everything we're talking about now and trying to go back to "but, but..." with whatever old arguments have already been settled. That doesn't sound like a strategy to win an argument. I'm glad that you understand where you stand in this.
I don't see "the trolling b.s.'ing likes of YOU" adblock shill, doing better yourself!
Again, we already settled this months ago after many, many times of me telling you that I have no desire to identify myself to you. That hasn't changed, no matter how much you want to derail this and try to go back to old arguments.
Man - LOL, I even saw BOTH AdBlock's author & AB+'s author RUN FROM MY POINTS ON HOSTS by email 2x from 2 diff. accounts I sent them challenge in (after the said "hosts = shit" well, they wouldn't back it vs. me & RAN, lol)!
Who cares? Truly? How is this on topic to anything we're talking about? 1) You spam Slashdot. 2) You claim you will continue to spam Slashdot. 3) You constantly post as other people trying to support your own position (and then thanking yourself for posting). You don't want to talk about any of that, you just want to spout random statements or try to bring up old arguments. I get it, you don't have anything else to say. If that's the case, then just stop talking. You don't have to keep talking, you don't have to keep replying when you have nothing else to say. Seriously. Just stop. No, you don't have to reply to this either. You're done here, you've said everything you can think to say and now you're just repeating yourself. Go away. No one else is watching this, this thread is several days old and is about to be automatically closed anyway. Just stop responding. Find a hobby. Maybe try to meet a woman. Go for a walk. Go play one of your games and entertain yourself if you don't have anyone to hang out with, just stop trying to re-hash the same tired shit over and over again like you're making valid points about anything that we're discussing. You're not, you're not impressing anyone. I know you spam, I know you lie, you know I'm right. It's done, it's over.
Like every other weekend, I'm out of here until I'm back in the office next week. You have yourself a great weekend there buddy, have fun posting comments as other people.
YOU WISH YOU HAD SOMETHING TO "SPAM"
Never in my life have I wished that I could be a spammer like yourself.
BUT YOU PROJECT YOU ACTUALLY USE PROXIES (for downmodding my posts, right? RIGHT!)
What's the point of using a proxy for downmodding? You can't see IP address information anyway. Why would I access Slashdot through a proxy? Is this more of your "outsmarting" me? You're brilliant!
ask Mr. Burn & see what he says as to the results of how many folks use my ware the past year or so from his logs.
Will he be able to tell me how many of those IPs are actually you running through a proxy to inflate the numbers? I bet you also post reviews referring to yourself in the third person. There's no way that Slashdot is the only place where you try to pass yourself off as someone other than you, I don't believe that for a second.
Every SINGLE ac poster on /. has to be me (according to you AmicusNYCL).
No, just the ones who use all of the exact same grammar structure, insults, name-calling, etc. Although, that actually does turn out to be every AC who responds to me backing you up. Weird how that works, huh? Why hasn't a single registered user posted in reply to me to back you up? Why are all of them ACs using the exact same kind of language and insults that you use? If there are so many people here who like your software, then why are you the only person replying to me in your own defense? I know the answer to that question, APK. What's the first rule when dealing with spammers? Spammers lie.
REAL others in /. registere users are QUOTED liking MY work
And not a single one of them has ever replied to me to back you up. It's always an AC using the exact same kind of language that you use. And you think it's so clever, too. That's your idea of what being clever and smart is.
IF you're not attacking me, then why are you bothering me @ all?
I'm trying to get you to stop spamming. Stay on topic, I'm not technically attacking you, which is what I said and what you accused me of. I'm not attacking your software from a technical point of view, I'm opposing you for the spammer that you are. If you stopped spamming Slashdot, and posted your advertisement only once in any comment thread, then I wouldn't attack you. I just can't stand spammers, I think they're pathetic parasites.
THE WAY YOU SHILL FOR ADBLOCK & TRY CUT ME DOWN MAKES IT FAIRLY OBVIOUS YOU'RE SOME PAID OFF SHILL FOR THEM or ARE ONE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES.
Sweet, APK, another "obvious" statement from you that is completely wrong. I'll add that to the list of reasons why you have no idea what you're talking about. I've never asked for nor received any compensation from the anti-advertising industry, and I've never done work on their behalf. I do this for fun, APK, just because I believe in it. I just want to see a world where people aren't forced to look at unwanted ads, like the ones that you post 30+ times per comment thread.
I like the fact that if I use your initials too many times in one post, it triggers the "lameness filter". Indeed, Slashdot, indeed....
ISIS already knows that their communications are not private. That's why they're creating an RSS reader using the MIT App Inventor and trying to pass it off as an encrypted communication tool in the media.
Part of the purchase agreement was that the label wouldn't release the songs before some time after the year 2100, commercially at least.
Although there's something really, really childish about a guy who ponied up $2 million for a record album to then go and talk shit about that artist, talking about how their music sucks. He called Ghostface a non-profit rapper, right after he paid $2 million for a single album. It's like one of this guy's fantasies was to have a rap feud, and he finally found his opportunity.
Lastly - I'd like to thank this gent
Aaaand now you're thanking yourself. I think we've gone full circle. It looks like I'm back to being an Adblock shill instead of an advertiser, and now you're also thanking yourself for posting.
ask Mr. Burn ... how many different people use it everyday
If I had to guess, based on what I know about you, I would say that you probably use 7 proxies to download your own software thousands of times every day. That would fit your behavioral pattern.
after I released my ware & pr'd it here
Is that what you call spamming? "PR"ing? Is that the term that spammers use?
attempting to first technically attack me
I haven't technically attacked you. This is still part of the APK Imagination Game.
Adblock shill, and you CLEARLY are?
Earlier today you said I was "OBVIOUSLY" making money from advertising. CLEARLY you are a very confused person.
I will continue to be true to myself and do so!
I have no doubt, APK. Spammers gotta spam.
You make me look GOOD
My friend, there are not enough psychiatrists and drugs on the planet to make you look good. You look like a child, that's what you look like. A narcissistic, sociopathic, egotistical child whose best friend doesn't actually exist.
They should start the planning now, because there's probably at least a 10% chance of deployment issues.
I highly doubt that. On their first try, NASA gently placed a chunk the size of a car on the surface of Mars after dangling it from a crane floating in the sky via rockets. I'm sure they can unfold the telescope.
(It's Ethan, the goatblower with the shaved head and the beard, if you hadn't guessed)
I thought that was Brian "Booda" Cavalier. Which goatblower are we talking about?
That's the information I was wondering about also (I can't read the article though, because it's hosted on Forbes and I'm not turning off ad blocking for them). But, Wikipedia says this:
The JWST will offer unprecedented resolution and sensitivity from long-wavelength (orange-red) visible light, through near-infrared to the mid-infrared
So it's orange and "longer", right? Isn't that one of the more useful ranges for looking at objects in space, though? I realize that the very small wavelengths are good for looking at specific things like neutron stars, but isn't infrared more useful for looking at some of the larger structures? What about planets, if we point that thing around our own solar system what kind of surface resolution would we get from it?
If the JWST can focus on something on the ground a few meters from it then I'm not sure that the focus is set correctly for when it's in space.
You have failed and I also believe you are either an advertiser, malware or botnet herder, or webmaster making monies from ads.
You can't even get your story straight, APK. A few days ago you're calling me an Adblock shill, today I make money from advertising. You're pathetic.
I've seen apk
Unbelievably pathetic. "If I type everything in one long paragraph, no one will know it's me! I'm so clever!"
Your quote above also says it's ok for me to post & you don't own /. either!
I never said it's not OK for you to post. Here, let me say the exact same thing I already said: if you want to make a post about host files, go right ahead. If you want to make the same post 35 times in the same comment thread, then go fuck yourself, because then you're a spammer.
It's OBVIOUS you represent these parties or are one:
Statements like these are why I know you're full of it. That's a false statement, but you think it's "obvious". You're full of it.
Fact - Nobody sane or not those adversely affected would bitch about hosts giving them more speed, security, reliability, or anonymity
I'm not bitching about hosts. Go ahead, find a single instance where I did. If you look at the post that you're replying to, in fact, you'll even see me say where it's useful. I'm not bitching about hosts, APK, I'm bitching about spammers. I'm bitching about you.
You'll LIE but YOU ARE LOSING to adblocking!
I'm "losing" to adblocking? Read my post history, genius, I'm a proponent of adblocking, I use it proudly to avoid advertisements and spam, such as yourself. I use multiple extensions to block various kinds of advertising and tracking (yes, including same-domain advertising). I educate my less-technical friends and family about the fact that they don't need to see all of those ads. I block ads on my mobile devices and my desktops. But look at you, you're proving my point by continuing to think that you're in some sort of competition with me about adblocking, hosts files, whatever. That's not why I fight you APK, I fight you because you're a spammer with a proven track record of spamming. You are the advertising scum that I block.
I was also, I even know which teacher's room I was in and what she looked like (my memory of younger years kind of sucks, but I remember that). We had the TV on the cart wheeled in so we could watch the launch. I don't remember much about what we did after the explosion, but I can point to the specific room where I was and who was there.
Alex, you schizo, if you want to make a post about host files, go right ahead. If you want to make the same post 35 times in the same comment thread, then go fuck yourself, because then you're a spammer. And, no, just because someone mods your post down does not give you some sort of right to post it again. The reason people mod your spam down is specifically because it is spam and they don't want to see it here. That's specifically why the moderation system exists, to get rid of spam and highlight the good comments.
You want to talk about Article 19 and free speech? Because you sound exactly like the advertising dickhead who tried to use that argument also. He thinks that Article 19 says that he is free to transmit any information, in the form of his unwanted advertisements, and people should look at them. You do literally the EXACT SAME THING. You think you have some right to post your spam advertising your software, and when someone mods it down you post it again, because you think that people should look at them. You are using the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT as the advertising dickhead that you're trying to block. But you don't understand that, because in your world you think you're in some grand competition of proving whether or not the hosts file is a valid method of blocking advertisements. And, for many purposes, it is a valid method, except obviously host-based blocking falls over when the content you want to block comes from the same host as the content you want to see. I have rules to block certain things from slashdot.org, for example, but that doesn't mean I want to block all of it. Hosts won't help with that situation, but for many other situations it works fine. But that's all you hear, you think this is some giant dick-waving competition about hosts files and it is not. Yes, using hosts files solves some problems (specifically, blocking content based on origin instead of the actual content). There are other problems it does not address. So fucking what? Stop shitting all over Slashdot in your stupid attempt to prove yourself right in a competition in which only you are engaged.
And, for the record, the advertising dickhead's interpretation of Article 19, the same interpretation that you use to think you have some right to have everyone read your spam, is wrong. That is neither the letter nor the spirit of what is written in Article 19.
I have no more respect for you than I have for any other spammer. I know the first rule when dealing with spammers, also: they lie. Spammers lie, it's what they do. You lie also, because you're a spammer. I know this.
Sorry, that probably confused you. Here, maybe if I refer to myself in the third person like you do then you'll understand why I don't like you:
amicusNYCL has no more respect for you than amicusNYCL has for any other spammer. amicusNYCL knows the first rule when dealing with spammers, also: they lie. Spammers lie, it's what they do. You lie also, because you're a spammer. amicusNYCL knows this.
"Gal-wing"? Is that where the young ladies enter and exit?
I'm not sure that I follow you APK, are you saying that your proof or evidence of me having multiple accounts is because I denied having multiple accounts? Or you're saying I have multiple accounts because it's obvious that you keep posting and referring to yourself in the third person? I don't quite follow your logic. This is what this feels like to me:
APK: What did you have for lunch today?
Me: I got a sandwich and some fruit salad, but I didn't finish all of the fruit salad because I didn't really like the cantaloupe all that much.
APK: Ah ha! So you are a cantaloupe farmer! You have an entire greenhouse full of cantaloupe! You can't deny it! The reason that I, I mean we, the reason that all of us know this to be true is because you said you didn't like it! And what color is that cantaloupe greenhouse that you clearly own and operate?! It's transparent! Check, and mate! Victory is mine!
Your logic and reasoning skills are far too impressive for me to combat, APK, so I guess I'll just ignore your trolling posts altogether and continue to report your spam.
Cook needs to let the past go and do what he knows big Steve would have done.
Deny the parentage of his daughter? Park in handicapped spaces? Screw Wozniak over?
So what? Who is forcing people to use ABP?
You really think the ad companies saying "boo hoo, we're being censored" don't know every trick in the book the lie, manipulate, and skew the response their way all the while knowing damned well they're full of shit??
Yeah, I realize that he's probably slightly more self-aware than he projects. I do really enjoy seeing these stories though. I have never been a fan of advertisers, on any medium, and seeing these people start to fight back, and seeing places like Forbes block people using ad-blockers, it just shows that our efforts are being noticed. We're finally eating into their bottom line enough that they've decided they need to fight back, and I love that. Advertisers have seemed so tone-deaf and obstinate that it's been so frustrating trying to deal with ads, so the fact that they're feeling it in their pocketbook means that we're finally getting through to them, finally forcing them to pay attention. Especially the name-calling of the ABP folks, I enjoyed that part especially:
Now, you may be aware of a kerfuffle that began about 10 days ago, when an unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes at a for-profit German company called AdBlock-Plus took to the digisphere to complain over and over that IAB had "disinvited" them to this convention.
Ooooh yes, more name-calling! Nothing says "I'm about to make a fantastic argument" like some grade-school-level name calling. And why are they "techie wannabes", of all things? Because they're beating him at every opportunity. He's in an arms race against people who are on a level that he doesn't even understand, so he specifically picks that as the way to insult them. I love it, he's admitting that he's getting beaten at the technical arms race. Instead of trying to figure out new ways to get around the filters, their solution is to just block people using the filters. Here's what I love even more: he's going to realize that their only solution is to end up paying ABP for inclusion on their whitelist, and as soon as that check is written he's going to wake up and realize that ABP just failed after everyone left and now there are 5 other blockers that people are using that don't have a whitelist. Who is he going to call names then?
On another note, I noticed this question in his speech:
But since you are here, I want to take the opportunity to ask you a personal question - a question that may make you uncomfortable.
Go on.....
Sure, $50 billion in revenue is a great thing - for the businesses taking it in. But how will we create - and how will you, personally, contribute to creating - the next $50 billion in value... value to society, value to the culture, value to your family, value to your friends and neighbors?
Yeeeesssss... considering the fact that your work is not valuable to any culture, and that your friends and neighbors probably secretly hate you and the work you're doing, how are you going to personally create that ... ahem... "value"?
But if money is your only goal, then you risk falling into relativism - a pernicious trap, for you begin weighing all potential returns based on the single metric of how much more money you can make. Truth, beauty, fairness, justice, honesty, civic pride, neighborliness - they become means to an end, rather than ends in themselves. That is debilitating, and ultimately deadens the soul.
There you go, Ad Guy, THAT was the message you should have been spreading 20 years ago when you started. Now it's a bit late to try and get everyone "on board" with doing things the right way. You've spent the last 20 years treating things like truth, beauty, fairness, justice, and honesty as means to a profitable end, and now I'd like to invite you to Sit'n'Spin while you think about how you've spent those last 20 years. Welcome to your funeral.
Ooooh, he's referring to his freedom, not mine. I see. It sounds like he believes that crap too, he thinks he has the right to advertise:
The full speech begins with an overview of the development of the $600 billion online ad industry in the twenty years since the formation of the Internet Advertising Council in 1996, and includes ... direct comparisons between freedom of expression and freedom to advertise, citing advertising’s pivotal connection with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Here's what Article 19 says:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
So the head of the advertising industry thinks that Article 19 means that he's allowed to shove anything he wants at us, and we have to take it. Apparently he thinks that "freedom to ... impart information and ideas" means that the person on the receiving end does not have the freedom to reject that information. I wonder if he feels the same way about us, I wonder if he also thinks that other people have the right to shove whatever information we want at the IAB, and they have to take it.
This is what happens when your only motivation, your only metric, is money.
This is the head of a $50 billion per year industry referring to the people in charge of a $120 million per year company. Yeah, they're the ones just out for profit at the expense of morals and ethics.
And since when is the ability to rejected unwanted things in opposition of freedom?
Real /. users say otherwise LOUDER:
Real users are the people modding you down, APK. Those downmods speak volumes. That is someone actively taking the time to use a limited resource to make sure that other people don't have to see your trash. If that isn't a vote against your spam, then I don't know what is. If you think that I actually take the time to register multiple accounts and post enough comments with those accounts to get modded up and then get mod points myself on those accounts, then you think way too highly of yourself. I have a single account here, and this is it. Frequently (like right now!) I'll be given 15 modpoints and don't even use them before they expire. I have 15 points that will expire on the 29th. That's it. I rarely find things that I feel needed to be moderated by me. Other people see your spam and decide that they want to mod that, other people feel that your spam is a good use of their limited mod points. I usually post in those topics instead, so obviously I can't use my mod points there.
P.S.=> Which of these do you represent:
1.) Advertiser
2.) Webmaster
3.) Inferior competitor
4.) Malware maker/Botnet herder
None of those describe me. If you think I'm an advertiser then you haven't paid attention to my posts, which is highly probable since you typically just ignore what people say and instead only pay attention to the running narrative in your own delusional mind. I don't know what "webmaster" means, but I don't build or manage my companies' public web sites (other than running the servers) and we do not use online advertising to promote our business. I am not a competitor of Adblock, inferior or otherwise. And I'm not the bad actor here either. You know what else I'm not? A spammer. You're the spammer, APK, I'm the one trying to stop you. How about that, huh? You're trying to talk so tough about security and protection, but in reality you're the spammer and I'm the one trying to stop your spam. Weird how that works out.
This comment thread is going to be automatically closed soon, so I'm not going to look to see if you've replied here (and, being that you don't bother to register an account that will only get down-modded, I get no notice that you've replied anyway). The next time a story about blocking ads pops up I'll be sure to check in and compile the next list of spam to report to Steve.
I have 1 account here on Slashdot, APK. You apparently have multiple personalities. That is not the same thing as supporters.
Good lord, APK. OK, you have a single person who likes your spam (notice that he still calls it spam!!). What do you want to do, do you want to make a poll for the Slashdot homepage about your spam, asking if people enjoy seeing it here?
you can't manage to prove my points on hosts wrong either
I'm not trying to! You still don't understand that? Why don't you understand that if you're so smart?