Clarity Ray doesn't even run if you have noscript running. Or at least that has been my experience. I do not get ads on any site unless I want to get ads.
Any site. What. So. Ever.
Now, I am not running javascript on about 95 percent of the pages I visit. I find that most of the scripts serve no purpose for me. They're mostly tracking or ad related. So I just don't enable them.
While I'm sure they'll figure out how to inject ads into the sites eventually, you must also appreciate that they can opt to host the ads on the website itself or use the website as a proxy thus fooling your IP/DNS/Host file solution.
That poses a problem for advertisers in how to affirm that sites are not scamming them with false hits. But that really boils down to which problem is harder to deal with... countering adblock systems or countering fraudster sites that generate false hits.
As to batch files... I'm actually very good with them. I just don't understand why you're so adverse to the DNS server idea. It just seems so much more elegant.
And beyond that, you're missing the whole point about being cross compatible. Your idea doesn't work for ipads etc which are increasingly a part of the office community.
As a network administrator, I need to be able to effect all machines on my network at the same time across all platforms, across all versions of all operating systems... or I will have a disjunction between the way some machines are supposed to interact.
Also appreciate that someone could sit there downloading malware or infected apps to their android or ipad and then connecting to the network (assuming the admin hasn't isolated the wifi network into VLAN2 and not bridged it to VLAN1). I personally always isolate the wifi network from the wired network. It causes some problems when the fuzzy bunnies get a wireless printer and complain about it not working. But I just plug the stupid thing into the wired network and pat them on their silly heads.
I'm not incompetent, sir. Please stop suggesting I am... I hurts my feelings.:D
well, one thing is that I like to turn adblock on and off a lot. Some sites won't work with it for example.
Your host file solution would have to be togglable. And it would be nice if it had some sort of context interlink between internet enabled programs so you could easily add or remove entries from the host file from other programs. Say with an addon.
Possibly this ruins some of the efficiency. But ideally the host file shouldn't be a burden to maintain and manage. Integration with browsers etc makes it easier to manage the list.
What is more, you might consider making this effectively a firewall system in that given programs might be subject to different host files.
all this said, I still think the privately hosted DNS server is still more practical.
Again, push your file and update program to a raspberry pi. Plug that into your network, then point the router at the Raspberry pi for DNS resolution.
Is that perfect? No... but its simple and much more scalable for large networks.
If you have 40 machines it isn't practical to go around updating all their host files all the time. You could write a program/script that pushes a current file at intervals but it just seems easier to have a privately hosted DNS server.
We've seen a good deal of this in the US with establishment politicians... no names mentioned because their allies will reflexively defend them. They get criticized and the politicians have no one they can strike back at... which for much of the establishment is their default response to attack. They either ignore it or undermine/put pressure upon the people that did it.
The recent abuses of federal bureaucracy to attack political rivals should highlight the danger of giving politicians this sort of access. They could for example trigger punitive tax audits or start burdening political enemies with hostile regulations.
This is not new. Politicians have done this sort of thing for at least a hundred years in the US alone.
The anonymity takes away their ability to hurt the people criticizing them which increases the likelihood that they'll be forced to simply respond to the criticism directly.
I'm beyond it. Our parents aren't. But I think my generation is beyond it. Once they phase out of leadership roles, I think parasites like Jessie will find they have guilt upon which to feed.
The alternative is letting radical islamists kill them without a fight.
Lets say I just started killing your family... lets say to protect myself I covered myself in babies. Literally strapped them to my body as macabre armor.
Are you going to shoot me? Baby killer. Punch me? Baby puncher.
The islamists are following no accepted rules of war. They've broken every portion of the Geneva convention and have broken rules older and more basic then that.
Violating ceasefires. Violating flags of truce. Violating parole.
Every time they promise anything they break it. No agreement matters to these people. No cease fire. No truce. No armistice. No treaty. No oath of honor. They're all violated the instant its convenient.
And then they strike as viciously as they can and when the israelis try to defend themselves they're accused of attacking civilians.
Well, who's fault is that? The side that keeps putting their weapons stockpiles IN schools, hospitals, Mosques, etc.
Again. If I wore armor made of screaming babies would you not try to stop me? Or would you let me do anything I want for fear of hitting a baby? Could I go on an unchecked murder spree forever in your mind?
Obviously not.
And there is the crux of the problem: You. You don't know what you're talking about. It is people like you that enable the Palestinians to get away with this... that perpetuates this conflict.
Absent people like you... the ignorant and gullible... the Palestinians would have given it up or suffered large enough military defeats that they were unable to keep attacking.
I said I wouldn't say anything more but this was just too funny...
"change agnostic"
What does that even mean?
""Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claimsâ"especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, as well as other religious and metaphysical claimsâ"are unknown or unknowable.""
So if we take that you mean "the view that certain values are unknowable"... how do I combine that concept with change?
This appears to be mental vomit. You've got melted ice cream mixed with your masticated steak. They don't go together and make no sense in context.
Anyway... that little pearl of stupidity had to be stunned and then transfixed to a collection board. Seriously... bravo... that was some impressively meaningless babble.
Yes and every deluded fanatic sees evil in the face of everyone he meets.
What did that little bit of circular reasoning get you, halfwit?
You bore me... you know nothing, aren't terribly clever, lack any apparent creativity, and aren't especially funny.
You have no value to me or anyone else here. I amused myself for a time coming up with insults to throw at you. It was at least diverting. But you're too stupid to even understand most of them which spoils it.
To imply women are lessor I'd have to imply I am greater. I didn't say I was superior, you sniveling halfwit. I made a statement of identity.
Lets say you don't eat meat. And you state that. Are you claiming that you're superior because you don't eat meat? Are you claiming people that do eat meat are inferior? No.
you're making a statement of identity.
It says much that you'd try to strip your supposed rivals of even the right to have an identity. You're trying to take my face away. You're attempting to claim that I have no right to opinions, no right to a personality, no right to self determination.
And from this position you presume to be morality superior to me?
Your grasp of morality is so shallow it doesn't merit consideration. Your whole world view is a cardboard cut out joke.
No you're not attempting to sound intelligent. You're attempting to sound righteous. The effort is undermined by your depressing ignorance and provincial grasp of philosophy.
^^ See that? That is someone attempting to sound intelligent.
Whether I am or not is something only intelligent people could judge. But that is not what you're trying to do. You're trying to sound morally superior. Not intelligent. And your first mistake there is assuming your morality means anything in the first place. Its just an opinion, little one. Small and irrelevant in the face of time. Your notions of good and evil are little more then talking points in an evolving system.
What you see as moral will be seen by generations to come as immoral or ignorant. Just like every generation before.
Think about how your grand parents or their grand parents saw the world and compare it to your own. Do you think you're more intelligent then any of them?
If you lived long enough you'd grow to see everything you value thrown away as garbage. Once you grasp that, you look instead for the eternal truths. The philosophy beyond the transient. And in that context your sad fascination with these PC tropes are as nothing.
Define what conservative means to you? Can you even articulate you position? Or is your mind so disorganized and ill considered that you don't even know your own mind?
Conservative is merely what your faction calls its enemies.
Think about it if you can. Think of all your enemies. They're all "conservatives" aren't they? Does that seem rational to you? Or can you just begin to pierce the vale of propaganda.
I am not your enemy you stupid little child. I am merely awake and aware. I hope one day you too open your eyes... though I'm not holding my breath.
I've lived in Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, Dallas, and Seattle.
I can tell you that people deal with morons screaming at them on and off again.
Most of them are harmless emotional outbursts. Some of them are crazy people. Some of them are bullies that like to see other people flinch.
You take it case by case and respond as you see appropriate. But claiming no one is cused out is frankly idiotic. Everyone lives in such societies. Its just human.
What is the murder rate of your city? what is the rape rate? What is the assault rate?
Do you have a verbal abuse rate? Of course not. Its beneath notice. Much like this topic, no one gives a shit.
She didn't say "people should be nicer to people". She said that women are discriminated against.
I pointed out that in the contexts she cited that was not the case. That in fact, men suffer the same treatment all the time therefore there is no sexual discrimination since the abuse is generally equal between the genders.
Now you sit here saying I'm arguing against people being nice to each other.
You're an intellectual vacuum. A perfect absence of thought or reason.
That's just what your political faction calls its enemies. Its your own version of "heretic"... and really the fact that you don't realize it renders your petty judgements of my opinions or positions in these issues laughable.
You're a callow puppet. Maybe some day you'll be more. But today... nothing more.
you've had all the advantages to do it for years... any of the major cable companies has a huge advantage if they wanted to release a video on demand service.
but you're so determined to suck off the TV model that you've crippled yourself.
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Clarity Ray doesn't even run if you have noscript running. Or at least that has been my experience. I do not get ads on any site unless I want to get ads.
Any site. What. So. Ever.
Now, I am not running javascript on about 95 percent of the pages I visit. I find that most of the scripts serve no purpose for me. They're mostly tracking or ad related. So I just don't enable them.
While I'm sure they'll figure out how to inject ads into the sites eventually, you must also appreciate that they can opt to host the ads on the website itself or use the website as a proxy thus fooling your IP/DNS/Host file solution.
That poses a problem for advertisers in how to affirm that sites are not scamming them with false hits. But that really boils down to which problem is harder to deal with... countering adblock systems or countering fraudster sites that generate false hits.
As to batch files... I'm actually very good with them. I just don't understand why you're so adverse to the DNS server idea. It just seems so much more elegant.
And beyond that, you're missing the whole point about being cross compatible. Your idea doesn't work for ipads etc which are increasingly a part of the office community.
As a network administrator, I need to be able to effect all machines on my network at the same time across all platforms, across all versions of all operating systems... or I will have a disjunction between the way some machines are supposed to interact.
Also appreciate that someone could sit there downloading malware or infected apps to their android or ipad and then connecting to the network (assuming the admin hasn't isolated the wifi network into VLAN2 and not bridged it to VLAN1). I personally always isolate the wifi network from the wired network. It causes some problems when the fuzzy bunnies get a wireless printer and complain about it not working. But I just plug the stupid thing into the wired network and pat them on their silly heads.
I'm not incompetent, sir. Please stop suggesting I am... I hurts my feelings. :D
well, one thing is that I like to turn adblock on and off a lot. Some sites won't work with it for example.
Your host file solution would have to be togglable. And it would be nice if it had some sort of context interlink between internet enabled programs so you could easily add or remove entries from the host file from other programs. Say with an addon.
Possibly this ruins some of the efficiency. But ideally the host file shouldn't be a burden to maintain and manage. Integration with browsers etc makes it easier to manage the list.
What is more, you might consider making this effectively a firewall system in that given programs might be subject to different host files.
all this said, I still think the privately hosted DNS server is still more practical.
Again, push your file and update program to a raspberry pi. Plug that into your network, then point the router at the Raspberry pi for DNS resolution.
Is that perfect? No... but its simple and much more scalable for large networks.
If you have 40 machines it isn't practical to go around updating all their host files all the time. You could write a program/script that pushes a current file at intervals but it just seems easier to have a privately hosted DNS server.
... is saying mean things about them.
We've seen a good deal of this in the US with establishment politicians... no names mentioned because their allies will reflexively defend them. They get criticized and the politicians have no one they can strike back at... which for much of the establishment is their default response to attack. They either ignore it or undermine/put pressure upon the people that did it.
The recent abuses of federal bureaucracy to attack political rivals should highlight the danger of giving politicians this sort of access. They could for example trigger punitive tax audits or start burdening political enemies with hostile regulations.
This is not new. Politicians have done this sort of thing for at least a hundred years in the US alone.
The anonymity takes away their ability to hurt the people criticizing them which increases the likelihood that they'll be forced to simply respond to the criticism directly.
I'm beyond it. Our parents aren't. But I think my generation is beyond it. Once they phase out of leadership roles, I think parasites like Jessie will find they have guilt upon which to feed.
You don't know what the word means.
Complex ideas can be expressed in simple statements. It just takes knowledge and wisdom to unpack it.
Its only eroded as socialism has advanced.
The alternative is letting radical islamists kill them without a fight.
Lets say I just started killing your family... lets say to protect myself I covered myself in babies. Literally strapped them to my body as macabre armor.
Are you going to shoot me? Baby killer. Punch me? Baby puncher.
The islamists are following no accepted rules of war. They've broken every portion of the Geneva convention and have broken rules older and more basic then that.
Violating ceasefires. Violating flags of truce. Violating parole.
Every time they promise anything they break it. No agreement matters to these people. No cease fire. No truce. No armistice. No treaty. No oath of honor. They're all violated the instant its convenient.
And then they strike as viciously as they can and when the israelis try to defend themselves they're accused of attacking civilians.
Well, who's fault is that? The side that keeps putting their weapons stockpiles IN schools, hospitals, Mosques, etc.
Again. If I wore armor made of screaming babies would you not try to stop me? Or would you let me do anything I want for fear of hitting a baby? Could I go on an unchecked murder spree forever in your mind?
Obviously not.
And there is the crux of the problem: You. You don't know what you're talking about. It is people like you that enable the Palestinians to get away with this... that perpetuates this conflict.
Absent people like you... the ignorant and gullible... the Palestinians would have given it up or suffered large enough military defeats that they were unable to keep attacking.
Nothing else we've done in recent memory is as important.
I said I wouldn't say anything more but this was just too funny...
"change agnostic"
What does that even mean?
""Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claimsâ"especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, as well as other religious and metaphysical claimsâ"are unknown or unknowable.""
So if we take that you mean "the view that certain values are unknowable"... how do I combine that concept with change?
This appears to be mental vomit. You've got melted ice cream mixed with your masticated steak. They don't go together and make no sense in context.
Anyway... that little pearl of stupidity had to be stunned and then transfixed to a collection board. Seriously... bravo... that was some impressively meaningless babble.
Yes and every deluded fanatic sees evil in the face of everyone he meets.
What did that little bit of circular reasoning get you, halfwit?
You bore me... you know nothing, aren't terribly clever, lack any apparent creativity, and aren't especially funny.
You have no value to me or anyone else here. I amused myself for a time coming up with insults to throw at you. It was at least diverting. But you're too stupid to even understand most of them which spoils it.
I won't waste any more of my time on you.
To imply women are lessor I'd have to imply I am greater. I didn't say I was superior, you sniveling halfwit. I made a statement of identity.
Lets say you don't eat meat. And you state that. Are you claiming that you're superior because you don't eat meat? Are you claiming people that do eat meat are inferior? No.
you're making a statement of identity.
It says much that you'd try to strip your supposed rivals of even the right to have an identity. You're trying to take my face away. You're attempting to claim that I have no right to opinions, no right to a personality, no right to self determination.
And from this position you presume to be morality superior to me?
Your grasp of morality is so shallow it doesn't merit consideration. Your whole world view is a cardboard cut out joke.
You're really unable to parse simple logic aren't you?
You say I am unaware but my statement concerned things I had seen or experienced. Therefore, it was a statement of awareness.
Your comment would be more rational if you claimed I was hallucinating or something.
Regardless, your inability to grasp simple logical concepts does little to bolster your position.
Its as much about me as it is about you or that woman or anyone else.
You wish judge and change and those judgements and changes effect everyone.
Limit your silly little comments to something that cannot effect me and you'll find I care little for it.
Touch upon me and I have as much right to involve myself as anyone including little fools like you.
No you're not attempting to sound intelligent. You're attempting to sound righteous. The effort is undermined by your depressing ignorance and provincial grasp of philosophy.
^^ See that? That is someone attempting to sound intelligent.
Whether I am or not is something only intelligent people could judge. But that is not what you're trying to do. You're trying to sound morally superior. Not intelligent. And your first mistake there is assuming your morality means anything in the first place. Its just an opinion, little one. Small and irrelevant in the face of time. Your notions of good and evil are little more then talking points in an evolving system.
What you see as moral will be seen by generations to come as immoral or ignorant. Just like every generation before.
Think about how your grand parents or their grand parents saw the world and compare it to your own. Do you think you're more intelligent then any of them?
If you lived long enough you'd grow to see everything you value thrown away as garbage. Once you grasp that, you look instead for the eternal truths. The philosophy beyond the transient. And in that context your sad fascination with these PC tropes are as nothing.
Did I tell women to go back to the kitchen or are you attempting another sad strawman argument?
You're apparently utterly ignorant as to what sexism means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
""Sexism or gender discrimination is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.""
How does saying I have balls mean I am a sexist?
Would it be sexist for a women to say she has a vagina?
Are you even aware of how idiotic you're sounding here?
Log off the internet. There are more then enough halfwits on the internet without you adding to this carnival of ignorance and stupidity.
Define what conservative means to you? Can you even articulate you position? Or is your mind so disorganized and ill considered that you don't even know your own mind?
I'm neither a conservative nor a troll.
Conservative is merely what your faction calls its enemies.
Think about it if you can. Think of all your enemies. They're all "conservatives" aren't they? Does that seem rational to you? Or can you just begin to pierce the vale of propaganda.
I am not your enemy you stupid little child. I am merely awake and aware. I hope one day you too open your eyes... though I'm not holding my breath.
I've lived in Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, Dallas, and Seattle.
I can tell you that people deal with morons screaming at them on and off again.
Most of them are harmless emotional outbursts. Some of them are crazy people. Some of them are bullies that like to see other people flinch.
You take it case by case and respond as you see appropriate. But claiming no one is cused out is frankly idiotic. Everyone lives in such societies. Its just human.
What is the murder rate of your city? what is the rape rate? What is the assault rate?
Do you have a verbal abuse rate? Of course not. Its beneath notice. Much like this topic, no one gives a shit.
I'm not a snake. I am a man. Though I begin to question what you are?... Are you some sad little chat bot masquerading as a person?
Not the best attempt at the turning test.
Another stupid strawman.
She didn't say "people should be nicer to people". She said that women are discriminated against.
I pointed out that in the contexts she cited that was not the case. That in fact, men suffer the same treatment all the time therefore there is no sexual discrimination since the abuse is generally equal between the genders.
Now you sit here saying I'm arguing against people being nice to each other.
You're an intellectual vacuum. A perfect absence of thought or reason.
I'm not a conservative.
That's just what your political faction calls its enemies. Its your own version of "heretic"... and really the fact that you don't realize it renders your petty judgements of my opinions or positions in these issues laughable.
You're a callow puppet. Maybe some day you'll be more. But today... nothing more.
I don't care how big they get because they can't form the same kind of monopoly.
Power to them. What makes the cable companies unacceptable is the non-competition agreements.
you've had all the advantages to do it for years... any of the major cable companies has a huge advantage if they wanted to release a video on demand service.
but you're so determined to suck off the TV model that you've crippled yourself.
And now you're paying the price.