I have to fight the urge to hit that man, never mind trust him. He looks like the kind of scum you would expect to find selling lemons on a used car lot...
You're justify the black rage argument btw.
Black people aren't in control of their actions when faced with racial slurs, and their "instincts" take over.
Everyones instincts take over at some point. Deliberately provoking a violent response makes you just as bad as the guy who's swinging. Taking advantage of human nature to get some poor schmuck fired is a scumbag thing to do. People who do that are exactly the reason there is a backlash in this country against political correctness.
I for one would like to see a return to the days when "He needed killing" was a defense for murder. Society as a whole would be better off if some people were safely removed from the gene pool. It's just too bad there isn't anyone we can trust to make that decision impartially.
I sure as heck won't be replacing my video editing machine with an ultra-low power laptop
Sure, but otoh if you are using your video editing machine fro browsing the web, and powering it on just to listen to music...
Most people dont have / dont need a computer for video editing. Their needs can often even be met using a tablet. It should also be noted that the cost of my time to wait for a PC to boot every day exceeds the cost of the electricity to just leave it on 24/7. This is especially true when the PC automatically goes into sleep mode automatically, thus reducing the power consumption dramatically.
Not all of us live in countries where we can happily piss 100watts of power continuously into the wind. Admittedly the parent's basement dwellers may not realise electricity has a cost.
And not all of us have such an incredibly inefficient PC.
I don't know if you saw the picture, but the protesters here were sitting down with linked arms, not in any way threatening the "peace" officer or pushing him to his limit. So while your point may be justified in some contexts, this isn't one of them.
A person who is otherwise entirely inert can be *saying* things that are intended to provoke a violent response. To provide a simple example, a white person who is otherwise unmoving using a racial slur on a black officer in an attempt to elicit a violent response. The officer would have to be a saint to keep their cool while facing a verbal barrage of that type, yet the only thing that would make the news would be the video of that cop taking a swing at the protester. It is far too easy to take even video evidence out of context, and protesters know it and abuse their powers in ways that themselves should be illegal (and quite often are over that line).
The geek has had about twenty years now to topple Windows as a desktop OS --- with damn little to show for it.
Thats because toppling windows cant be done with a technical solution. Doing so requires a sales and marketing solution, which requires things that computer geeks are not good at, nor desire to be good at.
Microsoft got windows where it is by being good at the business side of selling software. It had little to do with the quality of their product, and much to do with their ability to create vendor lock in, and then de facto standards. Remember: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Magic convenient solution that Liberals think is impossible: STOP COMMITTING CRIMES
Magic convenient solution that Conservatives think is impossible: STOP DEFINING RELIGIOUS TRANSGRESSIONS AS CRIMES
Not everyone subscribes to your particular religion, and even if they did, making a crime out of drug use is actually making things worse by anyones definition.
If only that were true. Executives almost never go to jail, even for knowingly engaging in practices that are killing people. Just ask Volkswagon, or Enron, or BP, etc...
Do you really believe that someone sat down and laid out each of the individual gates and wire interconnects of a modern cpu, or even a stick of ram? Even if they did one a second, they would have had to start before the first moon walk.
The way it is done, is that small individual components are layed out by hand. These smaller components are then copied, and combined into larger blocks. RAMs are especially easy to do this way. Processors and other ASICs are typically built up over time, meaning that a modern processor still has large portions of layout that were simply copied from earlier designs.
The problem with autolayout software is that place and route is and NP-hard problem (similar to the traveling salesman problem). For as little as 100 gates, the problem is prohibitively difficult. For as little as 100,000 the problem is so complex that all of the compute power in the world combined would be needed for the remainder of the lifespan of the universe to get an optimal routing.
Given the complexity of the problem, the best solution so far has been the method I described where the small circuits are ages old designs that have proven resilient over the years, and designers build up their designs lego-style, and then they just have to wire the modules together. Your modern Intel or Arm processor has significant parts that were designed as much as 30-40 years ago. These days, Intel isn't even modifying the cores anymore, they just plant more and more of them on a die, and hook them together with "interconnects".
Oh come on. It couldn't possibly be that simple. I write software for a living and even I know to look for back emf first.
True, but as the article mentioned, the system was designed for 1/20th of the current passenger load. I suspect that the problem actually lies in the way these cars are slowed. The obvious (intelligent) way to do it would be to induce back emf into the supply, and put some of the energy back into the system in the form of increased mains voltage. In small amounts (one car at a time), this would be a relative non-issue. In larger amounts, an especially unlucky synchronization of cars all slowing simultaneously could, in theory, overload the system and cause massive transients.
The articles also mention that the cars have both DC and AC motors, but only the DC motors are getting cooked. This leads me to expect that the problem has been building up for a while, but has been below the threshold of damage to the motors until recently. The fact that it is the thyristors (used to rectify the AC power for DC use) which are failing, tells me that both the AC motors and the DC motors have been receiving severe overloads, but the Thyristor was simply the weakest component and has been failing first.
If it turns out that the back emf is the culprit, the solutions are not simple. In effect, they need to find somewhere for that energy to go other than back into the supply network. Any option they go with is either going to A) significantly reduce the efficiency of the system or B) require additional expensive hardware be installed onto every car.
If they used a REAL control system this would not be the issue.
I can only assume that by "REAL control system" you mean industrial / commercial control system. There are two basic problems with that:
First, The Modbus over TCP protocol *IS* the standard system for industrial controls systems, and has been for over 30 years. This is part of the problem with industrial control systems, and one of the key reasons why SCADA is immediately associated with security fail.
Second, there are *no* proper control systems that are designed to display controls for end users that are both acceptable for customer facing interfaces, and reasonably priced. There are any number of engineering firms out there that will custom design a solution for you, and almost all of them would come up with a system similar to what TFA describes. The reason for that is because security is damn difficult. Because of what security has to accomplish, it has to be built into the very core of the systems design, but it has absolutely no affect on the operation of the system during "normal" use, so it is very easy to demonstrate a working system that has zero security, and the customer would not have any immediately obvious indication that the system has a flaw. There is no other part of the design requirements for a project like this where, parts of the requirements can be absent and the system still functions.
If you're over 30, you're far more likely to be replaced in the next 5-10 years by some wet-behind-the-ears punk than by a robot.
As someone mentioned above, if you don't want to be replaced by some kid in diapers, then you need to handle the jobs that are significantly above the run of the mill stuff churning out websites and apps. I personally recommend embedded, as the typical embedded software designer will venture into the hardware realm a little, especially when debugging. This crossover into hardware means that no simple pure software AI will ever take over the task, it would need to be a very sophisticated system indeed to be able to deal with and debug the system when the hardware is not 100%.
Embedded is easier now than it used to be, thanks to the RPI and its brethren, but the task will be one of the very last that automation reaches due to its dependence on so many different disciplines. It might fall to the H1B bug, but automation-wise its as secure as surgery or plumbing.
I'm not sure if I see embedded falling to the lowest common denominator either. Embedded systems development is as difficult compared to the average programmers, as surgery is to a first year med student. It still depends largely on the dark arts, and there are a million gotchas, that a seasoned professional will dodge with impunity. That 23 year old who still has wet ink on his degree is going to stomp blindly right in to every one of those pitfalls, and will take forever to get a stable design, because embedded systems programming is a whole different world. The difference can be illustrated simply as: Standard programming is highly procedural, embedded programming is interrupt driven. A windows or Linux (non-kernel) programmer can go an entire career without ever writing an interrupt handler. In the embedded space, everything is an interrupt handler (or you are doing it very badly wrong, and will have no end of hell getting your system to work).
They might not be able to put a grill over the pipe. It could get clogged and cut off the flow of coolant to the nuclear plant.
The typical solution to that problem is burst suction. There is a holding pond that is used to source water for the cooling system. This pond is periodically refilled by opening a giant valve and letting seawater refill the cooling pond. By doing it that way, nothing gets permanently stuck against the protective bars, and thus nothing can clog it up permanently. It does however mean that when pulling water, the pipe has many times the suction that would otherwise be required.
Or this guy brought a torch under water, cut through the protective bars and then got sucked in.
I saw one of these rigs being repaired near Niagara falls. If its a similar setup, then the grills are not intended to be tamper proof, just keep out accidental intrusions. A diver would be easily able to bypass the protection, as it was similar to a latched gate for a metal fence. The whole thing was painted bright orange though, so there was no way anyone was going to mistake that for something friendly. Sounds like this intake could've used a coat of paint...
So, apparently these guys moored to the warning buoy being interested in what was beneath it. Upon entering the water, they see a gigantic pipe, with some hardware that was clearly intended to prevent marine stuff from accidentally entering the pipe, so they thought: "What a great idea! lets bypass these things intended to keep big stuff out and enter this here pipe!"
there's a chicken cannon that is used to test that the engines can withstand bird impacts:
True, but ingesting things like that cause the affected engine to have to shut down. Running on reduced engine power is always dangerous for an aircraft, as they are now one failure closer to a fail-deadly condition, not to mention that the level of excitement created by an engine failure creates an atmosphere where pilots are running on adrenaline and are consequently more likely to make fatal mistakes.
2./3. Libreoffice is great for personal use, but if your whole company/job doesn't use it then you might be stuck with whatever they use for formatting and compatibility reasons. Hopefully it's Google Docs/Sheets/etc. or you're stuck back on Office for Mac or PC. In general the alternatives, to OS-specific software, are always going to be lacking one or more features the original program has even if they have a bunch of other great features added.
I have found that generally speaking, Libreoffice does fine with formatting and conversion of MS formats. In general, the types of problems that cause compatibility issues with Libreoffice, also cause compatibility problems with different versions of MS office as well. Failing all else, if you have a specific file that is causing you trouble, and it is something that you can legally distribute, submit a copy with a bug report, and let the OSS guys do what they do best.
I think the definition of a candidate's attributes can be accurately gleaned from his behavior and his followers. Trump is a bully who's core support comes from disenfranchised xenophobes.
He says what he thinks.
Trump says what an uneducated idiot would say to his buddy in private company. He attacks detractors like a schoolyard bully with a foul mouth, and he is of zero substance.
And yet, he's still better than Clinton, who will never stand up to an ideological fight because theres a chance she might not win. At least with trump, we know what his agenda is. With Clinton, we just don't know what shes been paid to do, and you can bet its not in our best interests.
I'm particularly in favor of Sanders, as he not only understands the problems we are facing (as do most of the candidates), but is willing to stand up and fight for the right solutions even if it means loosing. Even a loosing fight is worth fighting sometimes. If Obama had had an ounce of real fight in him, we might not have a complete mess of a healthcare law, that failed to meet most of its objectives, and half the population hates.
The only way this election gets close for me is if Its Trump Vs Sanders. I would likely vote for Sanders, but failing that, Trump it is.
There are lots of people out there who think Trump and sanders are at the opposite ends of the spectrum, but they are the same in the truly important ways: Both are willing to take up the fights they believe in, consequences be damned. With Sanders, we know what his politics are about, and his ideas do not jibe with Wall-street, nor Washington, and hes the better man for it. With Trump, we don't know what many of his positions are because, like any real leader, he hasn't made up his mind about a great many issues because he hasn't had the time or the need to make a decision one way or the other.
The single biggest failing of democracy, is that most voters are too stupid to understand that a candidate that has all the answers right now, is far more likely to be dead wrong about most of them. Voters should stop looking for candidates who already know where they stand on everything, and start looking for candidates with a track record of making good decisions. Voters also have to realize that they themselves are not good at making decisions, and that finding a candidate that matches their views, prejudices against candidates who can make good impartial decisions.
It's only been like this for at least a decade, so I'm not surprised you haven't managed to keep up in this fast moving field.
I don't use ad-blockers. I have no need for them. I don't actually care if they serve ads at me, since if they are annoying enough I don't use that site.
What I do use is no-script. I use it because I don't like all the tracking shit, and the potential for malware that comes with everything. A consequence of that is seeing where all the cookies and advertising is coming from, or not as the case may be...
Is a two way street. I wonder how many businesses and business models that bit the dust over the last 15 years felt the same way about Google?
It absolutely blows my mind that the online advertisers haven't figured out how to defeat ad-blocking. It's actually retarded simple to do. All the advertisers have to do is proxy their ads through the site the users are trying to access. If www.forbes.com is directly serving the ads from their own domain, no adblocker in the world will prevent the user from seeing it, as blocking forbes.com will shut out the whole site, and the user wont get anything.
Talk about not "getting it", This really is a no-brainer from a technical standpoint.
Wow...Bulleit bourbon, delivered to her at work. And she was supposedly poor?
I didn't see any indication that she was the one who payed for it. Assuming for the moment that she did, it could easily have been intended as a gift. A $25 bottle of whiskey is not an unreasonable thing to buy as a gift for someone, even if you don't have a lot of money.
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How could you not trust an app from this man?
I have to fight the urge to hit that man, never mind trust him. He looks like the kind of scum you would expect to find selling lemons on a used car lot...
You're justify the black rage argument btw. Black people aren't in control of their actions when faced with racial slurs, and their "instincts" take over.
Everyones instincts take over at some point. Deliberately provoking a violent response makes you just as bad as the guy who's swinging. Taking advantage of human nature to get some poor schmuck fired is a scumbag thing to do. People who do that are exactly the reason there is a backlash in this country against political correctness.
I for one would like to see a return to the days when "He needed killing" was a defense for murder. Society as a whole would be better off if some people were safely removed from the gene pool. It's just too bad there isn't anyone we can trust to make that decision impartially.
I sure as heck won't be replacing my video editing machine with an ultra-low power laptop
Sure, but otoh if you are using your video editing machine fro browsing the web, and powering it on just to listen to music...
Most people dont have / dont need a computer for video editing. Their needs can often even be met using a tablet. It should also be noted that the cost of my time to wait for a PC to boot every day exceeds the cost of the electricity to just leave it on 24/7. This is especially true when the PC automatically goes into sleep mode automatically, thus reducing the power consumption dramatically.
Not all of us live in countries where we can happily piss 100watts of power continuously into the wind. Admittedly the parent's basement dwellers may not realise electricity has a cost.
And not all of us have such an incredibly inefficient PC.
You can get laptops that idle at less than 2 watts. Even under load, they're going to use far less than 100 watts,
I don't know if you saw the picture, but the protesters here were sitting down with linked arms, not in any way threatening the "peace" officer or pushing him to his limit. So while your point may be justified in some contexts, this isn't one of them.
A person who is otherwise entirely inert can be *saying* things that are intended to provoke a violent response. To provide a simple example, a white person who is otherwise unmoving using a racial slur on a black officer in an attempt to elicit a violent response. The officer would have to be a saint to keep their cool while facing a verbal barrage of that type, yet the only thing that would make the news would be the video of that cop taking a swing at the protester. It is far too easy to take even video evidence out of context, and protesters know it and abuse their powers in ways that themselves should be illegal (and quite often are over that line).
The geek has had about twenty years now to topple Windows as a desktop OS --- with damn little to show for it.
Thats because toppling windows cant be done with a technical solution. Doing so requires a sales and marketing solution, which requires things that computer geeks are not good at, nor desire to be good at.
Microsoft got windows where it is by being good at the business side of selling software. It had little to do with the quality of their product, and much to do with their ability to create vendor lock in, and then de facto standards. Remember: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
For the Average Joe, Microsoft "forcing updates" onto their machine might actually be beneficial.
So, to paraphrase: "They raped her, and she might be a better person because of the experience..."
I'm afraid of people who can lie with such ease and so much scorn from the intelligence of others.
Around here, we call them "marketers", and somebody,whom I have never met, pays them hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual salary to do it!
Magic convenient solution that Liberals think is impossible: STOP COMMITTING CRIMES
Magic convenient solution that Conservatives think is impossible: STOP DEFINING RELIGIOUS TRANSGRESSIONS AS CRIMES
Not everyone subscribes to your particular religion, and even if they did, making a crime out of drug use is actually making things worse by anyones definition.
CIOs go to jail over incidents like that.
If only that were true. Executives almost never go to jail, even for knowingly engaging in practices that are killing people. Just ask Volkswagon, or Enron, or BP, etc...
Do you really believe that someone sat down and laid out each of the individual gates and wire interconnects of a modern cpu, or even a stick of ram? Even if they did one a second, they would have had to start before the first moon walk.
The way it is done, is that small individual components are layed out by hand. These smaller components are then copied, and combined into larger blocks. RAMs are especially easy to do this way. Processors and other ASICs are typically built up over time, meaning that a modern processor still has large portions of layout that were simply copied from earlier designs.
The problem with autolayout software is that place and route is and NP-hard problem (similar to the traveling salesman problem). For as little as 100 gates, the problem is prohibitively difficult. For as little as 100,000 the problem is so complex that all of the compute power in the world combined would be needed for the remainder of the lifespan of the universe to get an optimal routing.
Given the complexity of the problem, the best solution so far has been the method I described where the small circuits are ages old designs that have proven resilient over the years, and designers build up their designs lego-style, and then they just have to wire the modules together. Your modern Intel or Arm processor has significant parts that were designed as much as 30-40 years ago. These days, Intel isn't even modifying the cores anymore, they just plant more and more of them on a die, and hook them together with "interconnects".
Oh come on. It couldn't possibly be that simple. I write software for a living and even I know to look for back emf first.
True, but as the article mentioned, the system was designed for 1/20th of the current passenger load. I suspect that the problem actually lies in the way these cars are slowed. The obvious (intelligent) way to do it would be to induce back emf into the supply, and put some of the energy back into the system in the form of increased mains voltage. In small amounts (one car at a time), this would be a relative non-issue. In larger amounts, an especially unlucky synchronization of cars all slowing simultaneously could, in theory, overload the system and cause massive transients.
The articles also mention that the cars have both DC and AC motors, but only the DC motors are getting cooked. This leads me to expect that the problem has been building up for a while, but has been below the threshold of damage to the motors until recently. The fact that it is the thyristors (used to rectify the AC power for DC use) which are failing, tells me that both the AC motors and the DC motors have been receiving severe overloads, but the Thyristor was simply the weakest component and has been failing first.
If it turns out that the back emf is the culprit, the solutions are not simple. In effect, they need to find somewhere for that energy to go other than back into the supply network. Any option they go with is either going to A) significantly reduce the efficiency of the system or B) require additional expensive hardware be installed onto every car.
If they used a REAL control system this would not be the issue.
I can only assume that by "REAL control system" you mean industrial / commercial control system. There are two basic problems with that:
First, The Modbus over TCP protocol *IS* the standard system for industrial controls systems, and has been for over 30 years. This is part of the problem with industrial control systems, and one of the key reasons why SCADA is immediately associated with security fail.
Second, there are *no* proper control systems that are designed to display controls for end users that are both acceptable for customer facing interfaces, and reasonably priced. There are any number of engineering firms out there that will custom design a solution for you, and almost all of them would come up with a system similar to what TFA describes. The reason for that is because security is damn difficult. Because of what security has to accomplish, it has to be built into the very core of the systems design, but it has absolutely no affect on the operation of the system during "normal" use, so it is very easy to demonstrate a working system that has zero security, and the customer would not have any immediately obvious indication that the system has a flaw. There is no other part of the design requirements for a project like this where, parts of the requirements can be absent and the system still functions.
Chip and motherboard layout is already almost exclusively done by computers.
Umm, no.
If you're over 30, you're far more likely to be replaced in the next 5-10 years by some wet-behind-the-ears punk than by a robot.
As someone mentioned above, if you don't want to be replaced by some kid in diapers, then you need to handle the jobs that are significantly above the run of the mill stuff churning out websites and apps. I personally recommend embedded, as the typical embedded software designer will venture into the hardware realm a little, especially when debugging. This crossover into hardware means that no simple pure software AI will ever take over the task, it would need to be a very sophisticated system indeed to be able to deal with and debug the system when the hardware is not 100%.
Embedded is easier now than it used to be, thanks to the RPI and its brethren, but the task will be one of the very last that automation reaches due to its dependence on so many different disciplines. It might fall to the H1B bug, but automation-wise its as secure as surgery or plumbing.
I'm not sure if I see embedded falling to the lowest common denominator either. Embedded systems development is as difficult compared to the average programmers, as surgery is to a first year med student. It still depends largely on the dark arts, and there are a million gotchas, that a seasoned professional will dodge with impunity. That 23 year old who still has wet ink on his degree is going to stomp blindly right in to every one of those pitfalls, and will take forever to get a stable design, because embedded systems programming is a whole different world. The difference can be illustrated simply as: Standard programming is highly procedural, embedded programming is interrupt driven. A windows or Linux (non-kernel) programmer can go an entire career without ever writing an interrupt handler. In the embedded space, everything is an interrupt handler (or you are doing it very badly wrong, and will have no end of hell getting your system to work).
They might not be able to put a grill over the pipe. It could get clogged and cut off the flow of coolant to the nuclear plant.
The typical solution to that problem is burst suction. There is a holding pond that is used to source water for the cooling system. This pond is periodically refilled by opening a giant valve and letting seawater refill the cooling pond. By doing it that way, nothing gets permanently stuck against the protective bars, and thus nothing can clog it up permanently. It does however mean that when pulling water, the pipe has many times the suction that would otherwise be required.
Or this guy brought a torch under water, cut through the protective bars and then got sucked in.
I saw one of these rigs being repaired near Niagara falls. If its a similar setup, then the grills are not intended to be tamper proof, just keep out accidental intrusions. A diver would be easily able to bypass the protection, as it was similar to a latched gate for a metal fence. The whole thing was painted bright orange though, so there was no way anyone was going to mistake that for something friendly. Sounds like this intake could've used a coat of paint...
So, apparently these guys moored to the warning buoy being interested in what was beneath it. Upon entering the water, they see a gigantic pipe, with some hardware that was clearly intended to prevent marine stuff from accidentally entering the pipe, so they thought: "What a great idea! lets bypass these things intended to keep big stuff out and enter this here pipe!"
Darwin just missed on this one...
there's a chicken cannon that is used to test that the engines can withstand bird impacts:
True, but ingesting things like that cause the affected engine to have to shut down. Running on reduced engine power is always dangerous for an aircraft, as they are now one failure closer to a fail-deadly condition, not to mention that the level of excitement created by an engine failure creates an atmosphere where pilots are running on adrenaline and are consequently more likely to make fatal mistakes.
It's a witch!
Burn the witch!
2./3. Libreoffice is great for personal use, but if your whole company/job doesn't use it then you might be stuck with whatever they use for formatting and compatibility reasons. Hopefully it's Google Docs/Sheets/etc. or you're stuck back on Office for Mac or PC. In general the alternatives, to OS-specific software, are always going to be lacking one or more features the original program has even if they have a bunch of other great features added.
I have found that generally speaking, Libreoffice does fine with formatting and conversion of MS formats. In general, the types of problems that cause compatibility issues with Libreoffice, also cause compatibility problems with different versions of MS office as well. Failing all else, if you have a specific file that is causing you trouble, and it is something that you can legally distribute, submit a copy with a bug report, and let the OSS guys do what they do best.
I think the definition of a candidate's attributes can be accurately gleaned from his behavior and his followers. Trump is a bully who's core support comes from disenfranchised xenophobes. He says what he thinks. Trump says what an uneducated idiot would say to his buddy in private company. He attacks detractors like a schoolyard bully with a foul mouth, and he is of zero substance.
And yet, he's still better than Clinton, who will never stand up to an ideological fight because theres a chance she might not win. At least with trump, we know what his agenda is. With Clinton, we just don't know what shes been paid to do, and you can bet its not in our best interests.
I'm particularly in favor of Sanders, as he not only understands the problems we are facing (as do most of the candidates), but is willing to stand up and fight for the right solutions even if it means loosing. Even a loosing fight is worth fighting sometimes. If Obama had had an ounce of real fight in him, we might not have a complete mess of a healthcare law, that failed to meet most of its objectives, and half the population hates.
The only way this election gets close for me is if Its Trump Vs Sanders. I would likely vote for Sanders, but failing that, Trump it is.
There are lots of people out there who think Trump and sanders are at the opposite ends of the spectrum, but they are the same in the truly important ways: Both are willing to take up the fights they believe in, consequences be damned. With Sanders, we know what his politics are about, and his ideas do not jibe with Wall-street, nor Washington, and hes the better man for it. With Trump, we don't know what many of his positions are because, like any real leader, he hasn't made up his mind about a great many issues because he hasn't had the time or the need to make a decision one way or the other.
The single biggest failing of democracy, is that most voters are too stupid to understand that a candidate that has all the answers right now, is far more likely to be dead wrong about most of them. Voters should stop looking for candidates who already know where they stand on everything, and start looking for candidates with a track record of making good decisions. Voters also have to realize that they themselves are not good at making decisions, and that finding a candidate that matches their views, prejudices against candidates who can make good impartial decisions.
It's only been like this for at least a decade, so I'm not surprised you haven't managed to keep up in this fast moving field.
I don't use ad-blockers. I have no need for them. I don't actually care if they serve ads at me, since if they are annoying enough I don't use that site.
What I do use is no-script. I use it because I don't like all the tracking shit, and the potential for malware that comes with everything. A consequence of that is seeing where all the cookies and advertising is coming from, or not as the case may be...
Is a two way street. I wonder how many businesses and business models that bit the dust over the last 15 years felt the same way about Google?
It absolutely blows my mind that the online advertisers haven't figured out how to defeat ad-blocking. It's actually retarded simple to do. All the advertisers have to do is proxy their ads through the site the users are trying to access. If www.forbes.com is directly serving the ads from their own domain, no adblocker in the world will prevent the user from seeing it, as blocking forbes.com will shut out the whole site, and the user wont get anything.
Talk about not "getting it", This really is a no-brainer from a technical standpoint.
Wow...Bulleit bourbon, delivered to her at work. And she was supposedly poor?
I didn't see any indication that she was the one who payed for it. Assuming for the moment that she did, it could easily have been intended as a gift. A $25 bottle of whiskey is not an unreasonable thing to buy as a gift for someone, even if you don't have a lot of money.