I think that page fetches from ad-serving websites are orders of magnitude slower than 'expensive' regular expression comparisons, so I wouldn't be surprised running ad block software will save clock-time on any web-page that has ads served from a different page/server.
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...less important to do things that may have nebulous or down-the-road benefit in favor of only putting effort into things from which you can draw a straight line to profit.
Which has been Oracle's apparent MO since the beginning, I would say.
"auto-detects a user's browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome...relying on the user's trust in their browser, a tactic that hasn't been seen before".
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I don't agree.
I think that page fetches from ad-serving websites are orders of magnitude slower than 'expensive' regular expression comparisons, so I wouldn't be surprised running ad block software will save clock-time on any web-page that has ads served from a different page/server.
Yep. Got it.
Thanks.
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Some days I wake up grumpy, others I let her sleep in...
...if I don't want to hear a politician speaking, I just walk away until his voice can't be heard).
Now if only that worked with certain /. users, or am I overlooking the tool that allows that sort of filtering?
Wikipedia didn't cause this mistrial. A dumbass juror who broke the rules did.
There it is, nothing else to see here, please move along.
...less important to do things that may have nebulous or down-the-road benefit in favor of only putting effort into things from which you can draw a straight line to profit.
Which has been Oracle's apparent MO since the beginning, I would say.
OT: It sounds to me like geekoid and mcgrew are angry, angry men.
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Ferris, is that you?
Damned with faint praise, again.
Should I be required to invade the tenants privacy more often and visit the tenants monthly? Weekly? Daily?
Body scanners/pat-downs at every entrance. Every time a door opens, in or out.
It's the only way to be safe.
Oh, I get it; it's like:
- What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison?
- You can't wash your hands in a buffalo.
Orwell was a hungry hobo?
Now THAT makes sense!
It was hard to write, so it should be hard to read.
... There are functional languages which are actually readable, lispish languages are definitely not one of those.
There are functional posts which are actually readable, but yours is definitely not one of those ;-)
It still is.
No, your fat makes you look fat.
Next.
SHUT UP, already!
There, was that too gentle? ;-)
The major difference between a Buffalo and a Bison is that you can't wash your hands in a Buffalo.
Dog-got-me-bangers? ie Sausage theft, with menaces.
Please mod parent down - it's NSFW.
Not sure I'm keen on them dropping religion from the game, but nearly everything else I've heard about seems like a shift in the right direction.
Now if we could just get civilization to drop it from RL...
He said:
"Quando você não pode competir, você se declara aberto. Isso mascara a incompetência".
from:
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/798606-microsoft-critica-posicao-do-governo-brasileiro-sobre-o-software-livre.shtml
linked from:
http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=10523.0
which was linked from TFA.
Well, let's see now; from RTFS:
"auto-detects a user's browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome...relying on the user's trust in their browser, a tactic that hasn't been seen before".
So, mebbe?
rm -rf /^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hoops wrong window
THAT is one problem with devs with privs working on Production system, right there.
With the best will in the world, it can all go sideways when you type in the wrong window.