Are you using any kind of HOSTS block? If so search on: Windows HOSTS "DNS Client"
All sorts of things start timing out for extended periods when your HOSTS file becomes to large for the "DNS Client" of Win7 forward not sure about Vista.
Are you running antivirus? Could also be DLL hooks "helpfullY" inspecting your traffic.
Not sure about the backup battery because my two alarm models don't have one but I can recommend Sangean. They work okay with blackouts and brownouts without loosing my programmed alarms so I'm guessing it has backup of some sort but there is no battery compartment.
They are both very important but I don't believe that is true. I found an xpi extension on bugzilla before the first leadership change that I can't fucking find anymore. It blocks silent cross-site Authentication Header cookies that you CANNOT normally block. They are SuperCookies. The site can silently "authenticate" without your knowledge creating a basic auth authentication "Supercookie" that is remembered and retained until browser exit (Or possibly remembered by your Session saver extension if so configured) and can be used to bypass the normal cookies that Mozilla has been making "easier" to disable, ha, har har, har. The extension is called authtest.xpi. Another that to my knowledge hasn't been ported to Firefox yet is WindowNameEraser which conditionaly clears window.name between transitioning sites. Please check out ip-check.info to see the authtest/Authentication Header and Window Name in action as a proof of concept. Also if not already known panopticlick.eff.org, and browserspy.dk. There are others but I don't have the exhaustive list handy. Then there is geo location/positioning, canvas, webrtc, visited links (Still not fucking fixed and known about since Phoenix/Gecko/Firefox 1 ), cache. Still firefox aside from Torbrowser or Jondo is the most *secureable* browser out there. What ever security "gains" you get with Chrome OR Chromium fly out the window wrt ip-check.info. What is a good site to share an extension on and forget about?
It isn't documented any where and I can't recall where I first learned of it because it was years ago but you can get TLS on Slashdot. Subscribe. Once subscribed and logged in it should transition you to TLS, at least it does for me. If it does not you can force the matter with Noscript.
Off hand has anyone noticed Noscript unblocking Google analytics and other domains and certain other analytics domains with each new update?
I also use the Calomel TLS grading extension for Firefox. Slashdot has been graded Red for years. Dice just upgraded the cert a couple of days ago and it is now graded Blue with PFS. Not Green but at least it's not Red anymore.
Please google OSI and look into "Open Source" that's a capital O and a capital S! Please also google FSF and look into "Free Software". Again a capital F and a capital S. The capitals !@#$@!# matter! Public Domain does not == Open Source, There is no such thing as open source. Or are you just trolling!?
Public Domain is public domain. Copyright has expired or been forfeit in order to put it, what ever it is, into the public domain. With Free Software and Open Source software someone holds the attribution to the rights of the work.
You are correct that they do not come right out and say that in the faq. I'm not sure if they did in the past. However in the FAQ at: https://slashdot.org/faq At section Subscriptions with question: Why subscribe to Slashdot? Can't I read for free? You find the link: https://slashdot.org/faq#subsc... That takes you further down the page with more details where as you said it does not mention this. *It is an unmentioned plum.*
While you are logged into your account observe on the upper right where I expect you have your Slashbox. If you don't then go enable it. With that enabled you have the default content that goes in your Slashbox and it lists your current Karma. Mine has been Bad since I think about 2007. Haven't seen a mod point sense. Below Karma you have three links: Journal Subscription Account
Where in you read: Absolutely nothing about this!? Hrm. I could have sworn I read about this and didn't just figure it out on my own.
Okay they either covered this before and removed it. Not sure and don't know why they would do that. Or I read this in a post several years ago and just assumed everyone I've been reading complain about this just didn't want to subscribe. I subscribed a few years ago and wanted encryption and also had trouble with this feature due to redirects. I resolved this by putting *slashdot.org* in my forced HTTPS NoScript settings and then added slashdot.org/my/login into the whitelist for the never force https list. Anytime my session/cookie expires I put in slashdot.org/my/login and then get redirected to a https slashdot url. Hope that helps you and many others and that they don't degrade this for some reason!?
They want you to pay to use https. If you subscribe and login you can browse with https urls for as long as your session cookie is remembered/hasn't expired.
Not positive this would resolve the issue but maybe a iframe with sandbox parameters as applicable. I think I've read you can do this. Not sure though.
I was using their http://www.google.com/ncr for the I believe national character recognition and just changed it to https://www.google.com/ncr which was leaving the https secure site and going to their regular unencrypted site with the "Go to {_nation} Google". I found it only works when I don't use/ncr and use only https://www.google.com/ Modifying Firefox's search function works as well. Just don't use/ncr and possible the/intl/kbcode/ strings.
*UNLISTED* HEARD OF IT? KNOW OF IT? YEAH? JUST BEING PETULANT!? YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR TEETH KICKED IN
NOT *everyone* knows how to hide their SSID, configure WPA2 AES, setup RADIUS, with TLS and or *radius* mac filtering, and setup a hotspot to guarantee AAA. Configuring even *ONE* of these is a direct indication that those who didn't setup and **OWN** the hardware HAVE NO FUCKING BUSINESS interacting with the device PERIOD!
An open front door IS NOT INVITATION TO TRESPASS!!!
Slashdot Mirror
RPM
What are you talking about?
For which state?
Should be modded 5. FULL STOP.
From what version forward if you know?
That's what Stylish is for!
Paying for privacy is an oxymoron.
Are you using any kind of HOSTS block?
If so search on:
Windows HOSTS "DNS Client"
All sorts of things start timing out for extended periods when your HOSTS file becomes to large for the "DNS Client" of Win7 forward not sure about Vista.
Are you running antivirus? Could also be DLL hooks "helpfullY" inspecting your traffic.
You will, of course, lead by example by posting your own, right?
Thought, so.
Could be a combination of things.
Never seen any discussion here on aspartame.
Not sure about the backup battery because my two alarm models don't have one but I can recommend Sangean.
They work okay with blackouts and brownouts without loosing my programmed alarms so I'm guessing it has backup of some sort but there is no battery compartment.
They are both very important but I don't believe that is true.
I found an xpi extension on bugzilla before the first leadership change that I can't fucking find anymore.
It blocks silent cross-site Authentication Header cookies that you CANNOT normally block. They are SuperCookies. The site can silently "authenticate" without your knowledge creating a basic auth authentication "Supercookie" that is remembered and retained until browser exit (Or possibly remembered by your Session saver extension if so configured) and can be used to bypass the normal cookies that Mozilla has been making "easier" to disable, ha, har har, har.
The extension is called authtest.xpi.
Another that to my knowledge hasn't been ported to Firefox yet is WindowNameEraser which conditionaly clears window.name between transitioning sites. Please check out ip-check.info to see the authtest/Authentication Header and Window Name in action as a proof of concept. Also if not already known panopticlick.eff.org, and browserspy.dk. There are others but I don't have the exhaustive list handy.
Then there is geo location/positioning, canvas, webrtc, visited links (Still not fucking fixed and known about since Phoenix/Gecko/Firefox 1 ), cache. Still firefox aside from Torbrowser or Jondo is the most *secureable* browser out there. What ever security "gains" you get with Chrome OR Chromium fly out the window wrt ip-check.info.
What is a good site to share an extension on and forget about?
One word.
Amway
It isn't documented any where and I can't recall where I first learned of it because it was years ago but you can get TLS on Slashdot.
Subscribe.
Once subscribed and logged in it should transition you to TLS, at least it does for me.
If it does not you can force the matter with Noscript.
Off hand has anyone noticed Noscript unblocking Google analytics and other domains and certain other analytics domains with each new update?
I also use the Calomel TLS grading extension for Firefox.
Slashdot has been graded Red for years. Dice just upgraded the cert a couple of days ago and it is now graded Blue with PFS. Not Green but at least it's not Red anymore.
Please google OSI and look into "Open Source" that's a capital O and a capital S!
Please also google FSF and look into "Free Software".
Again a capital F and a capital S.
The capitals !@#$@!# matter!
Public Domain does not == Open Source, There is no such thing as open source.
Or are you just trolling!?
Public Domain is public domain. Copyright has expired or been forfeit in order to put it, what ever it is, into the public domain.
With Free Software and Open Source software someone holds the attribution to the rights of the work.
You are correct that they do not come right out and say that in the faq. I'm not sure if they did in the past.
However in the FAQ at:
https://slashdot.org/faq
At section Subscriptions with question:
Why subscribe to Slashdot? Can't I read for free?
You find the link:
https://slashdot.org/faq#subsc...
That takes you further down the page with more details where as you said it does not mention this.
*It is an unmentioned plum.*
While you are logged into your account observe on the upper right where I expect you have your Slashbox.
If you don't then go enable it.
With that enabled you have the default content that goes in your Slashbox and it lists your current Karma.
Mine has been Bad since I think about 2007. Haven't seen a mod point sense.
Below Karma you have three links:
Journal Subscription Account
Subscription is this link:
https://slashdot.org/subscribe...
Where in you read:
Absolutely nothing about this!?
Hrm. I could have sworn I read about this and didn't just figure it out on my own.
Okay they either covered this before and removed it. Not sure and don't know why they would do that.
Or I read this in a post several years ago and just assumed everyone I've been reading complain about this just didn't want to subscribe.
I subscribed a few years ago and wanted encryption and also had trouble with this feature due to redirects.
I resolved this by putting
*slashdot.org*
in my forced HTTPS NoScript settings and then added
slashdot.org/my/login
into the whitelist for the never force https list.
Anytime my session/cookie expires I put in slashdot.org/my/login and then get redirected to a https slashdot url.
Hope that helps you and many others and that they don't degrade this for some reason!?
They want you to pay to use https.
If you subscribe and login you can browse with https urls for as long as your session cookie is remembered/hasn't expired.
Not standardized from what I can see but work has been done to allow this:
https://encrypted.google.com/#...
Not positive this would resolve the issue but maybe a iframe with sandbox parameters as applicable. I think I've read you can do this. Not sure though.
Bad side effects: Forces DNT:1 header regardless of firefox preferences set.
Examine ip-check.info to know why this would matter.
window.name
Window Name Eraser for chrome.
Nothing for Firefox as yet.
Tracking can be done via more than 3rd party cookies.
Whether you use TOR or not please check out:
http://ip-check.info/
Certificate Watch
Two feet tall.
I was using their http://www.google.com/ncr for the I believe national character recognition and just changed it to https://www.google.com/ncr which was leaving the https secure site and going to their regular unencrypted site with the "Go to {_nation} Google". /ncr and use only https://www.google.com/ /ncr and possible the /intl/kbcode/ strings.
I found it only works when I don't use
Modifying Firefox's search function works as well. Just don't use
*UNLISTED*
HEARD OF IT?
KNOW OF IT?
YEAH?
JUST BEING PETULANT!?
YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR TEETH KICKED IN
NOT *everyone* knows how to hide their SSID, configure WPA2 AES, setup RADIUS, with TLS and or *radius* mac filtering, and setup a hotspot to guarantee AAA.
Configuring even *ONE* of these is a direct indication that those who didn't setup and **OWN** the hardware HAVE NO FUCKING BUSINESS interacting with the device PERIOD!
An open front door IS NOT INVITATION TO TRESPASS!!!