The TV analogy just hit me. Hadn't thought of it like that. Can you imagine if right in the middle of your fav show that PIP windows of other channels and ads just started flying across the screen? That right there is a stab-worthy offense!
And when they do, you can hover over said ad, right click it, and select 'hide element' from the ABP menu. And when they circumnavigate that, we'll click something else and it'll go away, and they'll avoid that so we'll click this other thing. It's a war that cannot be won by either side. I'll keep fighting though!
While in principle you're correct, I find blocking the ads actually slows them down. They'll keep repeatedly sending reqs for the page and many will lock up if they can't get them. At the very least, you have to wait for every one of them to time out. It's easily observable how voracious they are if you'll look at connections being block in Peer Block, if you use it. The page will hammer one URL twenty times and when it times out, it'll switch to another affiliate network and repeat until it ultimately gives up. I find the porn sites are the worst offenders of the affiliate networks crap and the refusal to give up, but news sites are no angels either. I do still block the shit out of em though. Surfing internet porn without a condom is a sure way to get digital herpes.
Something like maybe, iBlocklist, the providers to Peer Guardian/Peer Block. They work well, when they work, but that's the issue- they are just as extortive as everyone else. If you want daily updates or anything requiring heavy traffic, you gotta pay. I understand that, and I'm not decrying the process, but mainly trying to point out that there are no saints on the internet.
My dreams were trashed by Bush Jr, so I had no expectations. Also, are you a prophet? I was completely unaware that the Repubs already won the 2016 election! Sounds to me that you Hoping for Some Change. Where have I heard that before....
Look guy, there is no winning the Internet no matter how much people may claim otherwise. As such, I speak my mind. I mean, what the hell ARE you gonna do about it? Not a fucking thing! You got insulted, grandpa, because you sounded like a crotchety old bastard, and I call em like I see em. Now, however, you're whining like a prepubescent tween and throwing a fit. Talk about crying and "needing" to have the last word. You replied to an AC to justify and support your non-existent position of being a pretentious electronics snob. You threw out an insulting holier than thou post and I called you on it. What else do you expect when you post on/.? I bet you think you have some kind of "right" to just spout your nonsense and never have not one person argue with you about it. Like your OP, you're just wrong. You are currently at the point now that you may want to give me the last word, shut the fuck up, and go build something useful with your MOSFETs because I am on-shift for TEN more hours tonight (paid for by YOU btw, THAT is the best part!) so I can troll you all night. If you wanna dance, we can dance.
Hey, fucker, I'm a grandpa too. I agree with AC below, you need to stay away from every impressionable young person alive. Not only because you'd probably run them away from the electronics field, but there'd be a significant chance you'd pass on your assholery and that is something the world doesn't need. Now get the fuck off my lawn!
Not if you have one of those cheap shit E2 APUs. That laptop is slower than my 32bit Thinkpad from 2005. My Galaxy Note cellphone is faster. What a piece of junk. I would have been pissed if I actually paid retail for it.
Don't laugh. NEVER laugh. You'd be bitching if they were out in the streets in gangs, stealing your stuff, vandalizing your property, or any of that other shit old people complain about. Instead, you have a youth who has a desire to learn and invent something which will hopefully lead them into being a productive member of society instead of serving 20 to life for cooking meth. Young folks, especially in the high school age range, are easily discouraged and you ridiculing them about being too hipster or whatever will only alienate them. When faced with this situation, I will show them how to blink that LED with their Arduino, then show them how to blink it over a USB port with their gaming rig, then show them how to blink it with a mechanical cam switch (old points distributors work great for that fyi). If I've got some lying around, I'll show them how to blink it with some vacuum tubes! What you have to do is find out why they chose to do it the way the are doing it (typically because that's all they know) and then show them all the choices available, why you'd use each one in a different application, and show them why they get to use that Arduino now instead of wire wrapping an 1802 on perfboard. The key to all of this, I've found, is maintaining the balance between lengthy enough to get the concept across but short enough to keep them from picking up their phone and tweeting their facepage.
Besides, grandpa, you should be happy the hipster Makers are doing what they do. Thanks to steampunk, vacuum tubes(especially nixies) are making a huge come back. I have a USB vacuum tube audio amp similar to this. You couldn't buy that shit when we were kids. You had that 100lb behemoth amp that made the house lights dim when the bass hit, and kept your room 80deg during the coldest of winters. And that was if you had a good bit of money. If you had a little money you might be able to buy a Heathkit. Otherwise, like me, you cobbled together some barely functional and noisy bullshit from an old guitar amp and a half working tube powered CB radio. Now you can get something handheld portable for a hundred bucks with the further satisfaction that your "dying" craft is actually living on and they'll need people like you to teach the new gen.
The overall point is, no matter how they get to the destination, what really matters is that they're taking the journey. Time itself will teach them when they need to blink that LED with an RPi or if they need to use a couple transistors./. is always posting stories about how we need more STEM graduates, more hardware hackers, and more programmers. A lot of folks here agree with that sentiment and perhaps you've said as much in the past, so please, don't ever laugh at them. They're sensitive.
DISCLAIMER: I am dense at times. If "laugh at" was just a figure of speech, please don't take the post personally- perhaps someone else can be inspired.
I would think maybe, being very generous here, that back in the day America probably didn't care about exporting vehicles. Though in this day and age you are completely correct. Differences now are mostly tradition IMHO. I mainly responded because I love to hear the arguments people make why one side is preferable to the other. You evidently weren't claiming that, my bad.
Gotcha. I guess the world isn't filled with too many people with the view you have. Instead of cleaning out their closet, they just shove a dresser in front of it and hope no one notices.
Thanks for the clarification. It's all trash nowadays and I've drastically reduced my consumption so I doubt I'll go back anyway. Don't congratulate me though, to make up for healthier eating I've increased my tobacco consumption, lol!
You suggestions are leveled headed and if I am remembering correctly the exact solution suggested in the flamewar- by the only female participating fyi. What really got the shit started, IMHO, was that chain of command was broken. Ben had authority to tell the luser to fuck off with his sanitizing and said luser made an end run around him and got someone else to do it. If you're my kid and I tell you 'no', and then you run off to grandpa to get your way, I'm gonna spank your ass, and chew grandpa out. Same happened here. Ben said no, dude said fuck off I'll get whoeverthefuck to do it instead, and Ben got mad because his authoritay was not respected. You MUST respect his authoritaaaay!
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The TV analogy just hit me. Hadn't thought of it like that. Can you imagine if right in the middle of your fav show that PIP windows of other channels and ads just started flying across the screen? That right there is a stab-worthy offense!
No offense, but that does sound like an "average user". That was probably your point, carry on!
And when they do, you can hover over said ad, right click it, and select 'hide element' from the ABP menu. And when they circumnavigate that, we'll click something else and it'll go away, and they'll avoid that so we'll click this other thing. It's a war that cannot be won by either side. I'll keep fighting though!
While in principle you're correct, I find blocking the ads actually slows them down. They'll keep repeatedly sending reqs for the page and many will lock up if they can't get them. At the very least, you have to wait for every one of them to time out. It's easily observable how voracious they are if you'll look at connections being block in Peer Block, if you use it. The page will hammer one URL twenty times and when it times out, it'll switch to another affiliate network and repeat until it ultimately gives up. I find the porn sites are the worst offenders of the affiliate networks crap and the refusal to give up, but news sites are no angels either. I do still block the shit out of em though. Surfing internet porn without a condom is a sure way to get digital herpes.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. What? Are you not a human?
Something like maybe, iBlocklist, the providers to Peer Guardian/Peer Block. They work well, when they work, but that's the issue- they are just as extortive as everyone else. If you want daily updates or anything requiring heavy traffic, you gotta pay. I understand that, and I'm not decrying the process, but mainly trying to point out that there are no saints on the internet.
That was a very informative description put in laymen's terms. If I had mod points, you'd get two!
My dreams were trashed by Bush Jr, so I had no expectations. Also, are you a prophet? I was completely unaware that the Repubs already won the 2016 election! Sounds to me that you Hoping for Some Change. Where have I heard that before....
The toggle switch on the front panel is not what a Scottish programmer is flipping.......
Look guy, there is no winning the Internet no matter how much people may claim otherwise. As such, I speak my mind. I mean, what the hell ARE you gonna do about it? Not a fucking thing! You got insulted, grandpa, because you sounded like a crotchety old bastard, and I call em like I see em. Now, however, you're whining like a prepubescent tween and throwing a fit. Talk about crying and "needing" to have the last word. You replied to an AC to justify and support your non-existent position of being a pretentious electronics snob. You threw out an insulting holier than thou post and I called you on it. What else do you expect when you post on /.? I bet you think you have some kind of "right" to just spout your nonsense and never have not one person argue with you about it. Like your OP, you're just wrong. You are currently at the point now that you may want to give me the last word, shut the fuck up, and go build something useful with your MOSFETs because I am on-shift for TEN more hours tonight (paid for by YOU btw, THAT is the best part!) so I can troll you all night. If you wanna dance, we can dance.
Hey, fucker, I'm a grandpa too. I agree with AC below, you need to stay away from every impressionable young person alive. Not only because you'd probably run them away from the electronics field, but there'd be a significant chance you'd pass on your assholery and that is something the world doesn't need. Now get the fuck off my lawn!
Could you link us to which mission you've successfully completed?
Not if you have one of those cheap shit E2 APUs. That laptop is slower than my 32bit Thinkpad from 2005. My Galaxy Note cellphone is faster. What a piece of junk. I would have been pissed if I actually paid retail for it.
A machinist?
Damned near every person on this website is an engineer then. I am in charge of and run the engine in my vehicle daily. Aren't definitions fun?
Don't get penisy, kid. Have you ever done the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs? I mean, do you even Pirate, bro?
So where's your data, bruh?
Don't laugh. NEVER laugh. You'd be bitching if they were out in the streets in gangs, stealing your stuff, vandalizing your property, or any of that other shit old people complain about. Instead, you have a youth who has a desire to learn and invent something which will hopefully lead them into being a productive member of society instead of serving 20 to life for cooking meth. Young folks, especially in the high school age range, are easily discouraged and you ridiculing them about being too hipster or whatever will only alienate them. When faced with this situation, I will show them how to blink that LED with their Arduino, then show them how to blink it over a USB port with their gaming rig, then show them how to blink it with a mechanical cam switch (old points distributors work great for that fyi). If I've got some lying around, I'll show them how to blink it with some vacuum tubes! What you have to do is find out why they chose to do it the way the are doing it (typically because that's all they know) and then show them all the choices available, why you'd use each one in a different application, and show them why they get to use that Arduino now instead of wire wrapping an 1802 on perfboard. The key to all of this, I've found, is maintaining the balance between lengthy enough to get the concept across but short enough to keep them from picking up their phone and tweeting their facepage.
/. is always posting stories about how we need more STEM graduates, more hardware hackers, and more programmers. A lot of folks here agree with that sentiment and perhaps you've said as much in the past, so please, don't ever laugh at them. They're sensitive.
Besides, grandpa, you should be happy the hipster Makers are doing what they do. Thanks to steampunk, vacuum tubes(especially nixies) are making a huge come back. I have a USB vacuum tube audio amp similar to this. You couldn't buy that shit when we were kids. You had that 100lb behemoth amp that made the house lights dim when the bass hit, and kept your room 80deg during the coldest of winters. And that was if you had a good bit of money. If you had a little money you might be able to buy a Heathkit. Otherwise, like me, you cobbled together some barely functional and noisy bullshit from an old guitar amp and a half working tube powered CB radio. Now you can get something handheld portable for a hundred bucks with the further satisfaction that your "dying" craft is actually living on and they'll need people like you to teach the new gen.
The overall point is, no matter how they get to the destination, what really matters is that they're taking the journey. Time itself will teach them when they need to blink that LED with an RPi or if they need to use a couple transistors.
DISCLAIMER: I am dense at times. If "laugh at" was just a figure of speech, please don't take the post personally- perhaps someone else can be inspired.
Correct, right about nothing.
I would think maybe, being very generous here, that back in the day America probably didn't care about exporting vehicles. Though in this day and age you are completely correct. Differences now are mostly tradition IMHO. I mainly responded because I love to hear the arguments people make why one side is preferable to the other. You evidently weren't claiming that, my bad.
Gotcha. I guess the world isn't filled with too many people with the view you have. Instead of cleaning out their closet, they just shove a dresser in front of it and hope no one notices.
I meant to say "That implies RHD is superior"
If I was a technician in those wonderfully warm glowy tube days I would have probably known that. Thanks for putting a method to the madness.
Thanks for the clarification. It's all trash nowadays and I've drastically reduced my consumption so I doubt I'll go back anyway. Don't congratulate me though, to make up for healthier eating I've increased my tobacco consumption, lol!
You suggestions are leveled headed and if I am remembering correctly the exact solution suggested in the flamewar- by the only female participating fyi. What really got the shit started, IMHO, was that chain of command was broken. Ben had authority to tell the luser to fuck off with his sanitizing and said luser made an end run around him and got someone else to do it. If you're my kid and I tell you 'no', and then you run off to grandpa to get your way, I'm gonna spank your ass, and chew grandpa out. Same happened here. Ben said no, dude said fuck off I'll get whoeverthefuck to do it instead, and Ben got mad because his authoritay was not respected. You MUST respect his authoritaaaay!