What do most of these other blockers do that Noscript doesn't? Been using NS for years and it seems to handle all my needs just fine.
Yep...I use Adblock and NoScript and together they seem to sanitize the web fairly well.
I've considered installing Ghostery but I'm not sure what it would bring to the table. Blocking ads and scripts seems to cover most of the stuff I don't want running in my browser.
Adblock and NoScript seem to make the web a much nicer, faster, safer, cleaner place.
I used a browser without Adblock the other day and was stunned by the amount of crap that litters most pages. Without Adblock and NoScript most pages load megabytes of ads and run dozens of scripts from a hundred different places. Using Adblock speeds up browsing to the point where not using it is downright painful.
The advertising scheme where they mine your data and monitor every keystroke you make and every website you visit, and then sell that information to advertisers.
"In a statement to The Seattle Times, the company said: We believe the plaintiffs' claims are without merit and we are confident we'll be successful in court."
Said every lawyer ever born, even when they know for a fact that their client is as guilty as sin.
They'd say this if their client was caught on national TV red-handed murdering someone in the middle of the street at high noon with the entire country watching.
Please, stop mixing up units of measurement. Please try wolframalpha and get a clue what 10 feet is in relation to several meters (diameter).
In other words, you can't, can you? That's because you're lying, there is no working hyperloop, nor anything like it. And there never will be a working hyoerloop outside of some experimental bullshit designed to suck investors into the scam.
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That is off topic. Obviously no one has built that yet.
Exactly, and that's why you're full of shit, like always. No one has built one because it's impractical beyond all measure from nearly every angle.
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The technology for it is readily available since decades.
No, it hasn't. If it has, SHOW US ONE, just one example of this in the real world. As usual, you can't.
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Then: no. I rather put $10,000 into Elons company and either lose it or become a billionaire.
You'd lose it, but you couldn't raise $10,000 if your life depended on it.
You are assuming that people at 4am will want to travel between austin/sa every 10 minutes. Buses run when they run because demand warrants it, and they run empty a good bit of the time even with that. To give you some idea of how much $ we are talking about, they say it is going to cost 20B, so assume for crazy sake they are correct and not off by the typical 5X. If capital costs 1 dollar per ride, that is 5.5million trips/day for 10 years. Austin/SA only has about 3 million people. So unless everyone (man, woman and child) is taking 2 trips/day for 10 years will they recover capital, assuming zero interest. This is a nerd site, does no one on this site even do a rough back of the envelope calculation for stuff like this.
Thank you for bringing a bit of sanity into the discussion. Most of the people cheering this nonsense on are dull-witted suckers who are hard of thinking.
I'll bet anyone here $10,000 that nothing comes of it and that not a single functioning vehicle or route will exist, even after 10 years of "development".
You have it backwards. It is because it runs every ten minutes that it costs 10 bucks to ride.
Because running something more often costs less? Then why don't operation and maintenance costs go down when you use a car 24/7? Your thinking is faulty. See if you can guess where.
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It's spreading the cost of the system over many uses. A bus ride across town doesn't have the number of users or duty cycle that would allow the cost to go down.
Yeah, and guess what? Neither does the demand for trips from L.A. to San Francisco have the demand or duty cycle to make it cost effective to that level. There's even less demand for longer distance routes than for shorter distance routes. Seriously, give me a fucking break, have any of you people actually thought about this shit?
Shame on all of you who're accepting this pie-in-the-sky bullshit without the slightest bit of rational examination. For a bunch of geeks/nerds/techies, you all sure are a bunch of gullible fuckers willing to suspend your disbelief at the drop of a hat. Do ANY of you even own a calculator? Have ANY of you run some simple calculations or thought critically about ANY of the claims that are being made?
in America on a fibre roll out that never happened and nobody has the balls to ask for our money back. So you're forgive me if I'm not in even the tinciest bit surprised shit like this can fly. The loans will be private with public guarantees and we'll all eat it like we eat sports Colosseums.
Exactly. They'll spend a shitload of public money and in the end there will be nothing to show for it. Where will the money have gone? To a magical place called "someone else's wallet".
And whatever was built will be abandoned and left to rot, never having moved a single person from point A to point B.
As I said before, I'll bet anyone here $10,000 that nothing comes of it and that not a single functioning vehicle or route will exist even after 10 years. Money to be held in escrow by an agreed-upon 3rd party. All of you cheerleaders who are soooooo convinced this will happen, here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is.
And this is what we get when somebody tries to use a word processor for complex document layout.
I couldn't agree more, but Microsoft promotes Word as a tool that can do all of these things. Look at any of their promo stuff and it shows Word being used as a layout tool, a graphics design tool, etc etc.
Actually it is minimum 45 years old and especially in Switzerland a research project since 40 years.
And as usual, you are full of shit.
Show us ONE functioning hyperloop station or route like the one Elon Musk is proposing, just ONE. Show us ONE high-vacuum tunnel several meters in diameter that is more than 10 feet long. Show us ONE self-contained, vacuum-capable passenger container that has ever been used.
You can't, because they don't exist and never will.
Mark my words: The hyperloop, as proposed, is bullshit and will never, ever be built. I'll bet anyone here $10,000 that nothing comes of it and that not a single functioning vehicle or route will exist even after 10 years. Money to be held in escrow by an agreed-upon 3rd party. Put up or shut up.
Exactly what they said in 1900 about the airplane...
A few well-known people at the time scoffed, but the majority of technical people at the time realized it was indeed possible.
One cool thing about airplanes is that, unlike the hyperbullshitloop, when one of them has a failure, it doesn't kill everyone else in every other plane flying that route.
The temperature-contraction of the tube issues alone make this unworkable, but don't let physics get in the way of your fantasy. Producing a high vacuum environment in that size of a vessel is also wildly impractical, and I speak as someone who worked with high vacuum extensively for over a decade early in my career.
If you've ever tried to get anything done with Tables or moving text round then it's taken you way longer than it used to.
Me: "I want to move this paragraph a little to the left." Word: "No, I'm going to fuck up the entire document instead."
Me: "Insert an extra-indented bullet point here." Word: "Excuse me while I ruin all your formatting and renumber everything from the start of your thesis."
Me: "Remove this line from the Table Of Contents." Word: "HEY! Look at all the extra shit I found and slammed into the Table Of Contents!"
The whole "Hyperloop" thing is a ridiculous joke that will never, EVER be built.
It has so many technical problems and downsides that it's not possible for me to state them here succinctly, but for a complete takedown of this bullshit pie-in-the-sky idea, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"All the problems of deep space travel, bought down to the surface of the planet, such that you can travel about the speed of a bullet within a couple of cm of a gun barrel.
Sadly almost no one in the main stream media assessed this stuff critically from a scientific/ engineering point of view. They just took them at their word when they said they could construct the completely untested large scale hyperloop for 1/10th the cost of a regular high speed rail connection. They took them at their word when they said it would only cost 20 bux, and take on 25 minutes.
In reality the engineering problems are probably insurmountable. It would be like proposing a floating roadway across the Mediterranean or something."
The whole thing is utterly ridiculous, and shame on the engineering people who failed to do even the most cursory examination of this impossible "project".
Would you mind video recording your face while watching an Apple unveiling?
I'd never stoop so low as to watch an unveiling, by Apple or by any other company.
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If you think this is bad, I would love to see your reaction to an iOS keynote. Hell, people have written entire articles just talking about a *font change*.
Oh I know, the commentary went on for days; some of it seemed to be fairly reasonable in terms of the readability of the font in certain situations. And then I fell asleep.
Yes, and their operating system is designed around their advertising schemes and the ability to monitor whatever they like in order to better monetize your entire existence.
It's part of the OS just like Internet Explorer was, until it turned out it wasn't.
"You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update"
Of course not- that might interfere with their advertising schemes and the ability to monitor whatever they like in order to better monetize your entire existence.
Welcome to the Brave New World of surveillance, brought to you by the same forward-thinking folks that brought you Windows ME, the Zune, and PlaysForSure.
People who pre-order stuff like this don't actually care about receiving the product. They care about the excitement of being a part of something.
This is pretty much it...it's part gambling and part "I'm a visionary helping to build the FUTURE!"
The whole "I'm smart enough to help fund this awesomely cool idea" and the absurdly long wait time before fulfillment is what turns most of the investors on.
rofl @ "reporting on loosened regulations is a conspiracy/troll"
That made me chuckle too. How DARE different news sources all report on a common topic?? IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!1! OMG CHEMTRAILS!
If "reporting on loosened regulations" is a "conspiracy", then it's also a conspiracy when my neighbors order the same kind of pizza as me. Or if they mow their lawn on the same day I do. IT'S SO OBVIOUS, WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!
"Facebook needs you to fill its News Feed, Oculus Rift, and Gear VR with 360 content."
Like I give a FUCK what Facebook needs.
But anyway, yeah, I'll just get right on that. I'll just run out at lunch and buy $30,000 worth of camera shit so I can help poor little Facebook keep its content flowing.
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What do most of these other blockers do that Noscript doesn't? Been using NS for years and it seems to handle all my needs just fine.
Yep...I use Adblock and NoScript and together they seem to sanitize the web fairly well.
I've considered installing Ghostery but I'm not sure what it would bring to the table. Blocking ads and scripts seems to cover most of the stuff I don't want running in my browser.
Adblock and NoScript seem to make the web a much nicer, faster, safer, cleaner place.
I used a browser without Adblock the other day and was stunned by the amount of crap that litters most pages. Without Adblock and NoScript most pages load megabytes of ads and run dozens of scripts from a hundred different places. Using Adblock speeds up browsing to the point where not using it is downright painful.
What advertising schemes?
The advertising scheme where they mine your data and monitor every keystroke you make and every website you visit, and then sell that information to advertisers.
What I want to know is where the button is for disabling the installation of new and "popular" apps from the store.
Lo, there isn't one. How DARE you attempt to interfere with Microsoft's control of their PC??
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I do NOT want my machine to download all kinds of shit wasting a metered connection for me to keep uninstalling again every week...
Then it's time to switch to Linux, or possibly Apple, because you sure as shit won't have any control over the matter while you're running Windows.
"In a statement to The Seattle Times, the company said: We believe the plaintiffs' claims are without merit and we are confident we'll be successful in court."
Said every lawyer ever born, even when they know for a fact that their client is as guilty as sin.
They'd say this if their client was caught on national TV red-handed murdering someone in the middle of the street at high noon with the entire country watching.
Please, stop mixing up units of measurement. Please try wolframalpha and get a clue what 10 feet is in relation to several meters (diameter).
In other words, you can't, can you? That's because you're lying, there is no working hyperloop, nor anything like it. And there never will be a working hyoerloop outside of some experimental bullshit designed to suck investors into the scam.
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That is off topic. Obviously no one has built that yet.
Exactly, and that's why you're full of shit, like always. No one has built one because it's impractical beyond all measure from nearly every angle.
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The technology for it is readily available since decades.
No, it hasn't. If it has, SHOW US ONE, just one example of this in the real world. As usual, you can't.
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Then: no. I rather put $10,000 into Elons company and either lose it or become a billionaire.
You'd lose it, but you couldn't raise $10,000 if your life depended on it.
You are assuming that people at 4am will want to travel between austin/sa every 10 minutes. Buses run when they run because demand warrants it, and they run empty a good bit of the time even with that. To give you some idea of how much $ we are talking about, they say it is going to cost 20B, so assume for crazy sake they are correct and not off by the typical 5X. If capital costs 1 dollar per ride, that is 5.5million trips/day for 10 years. Austin/SA only has about 3 million people. So unless everyone (man, woman and child) is taking 2 trips/day for 10 years will they recover capital, assuming zero interest. This is a nerd site, does no one on this site even do a rough back of the envelope calculation for stuff like this.
Thank you for bringing a bit of sanity into the discussion. Most of the people cheering this nonsense on are dull-witted suckers who are hard of thinking.
I'll bet anyone here $10,000 that nothing comes of it and that not a single functioning vehicle or route will exist, even after 10 years of "development".
You have it backwards. It is because it runs every ten minutes that it costs 10 bucks to ride.
Because running something more often costs less? Then why don't operation and maintenance costs go down when you use a car 24/7?
Your thinking is faulty. See if you can guess where.
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It's spreading the cost of the system over many uses. A bus ride across town doesn't have the number of users or duty cycle that would allow the cost to go down.
Yeah, and guess what? Neither does the demand for trips from L.A. to San Francisco have the demand or duty cycle to make it cost effective to that level. There's even less demand for longer distance routes than for shorter distance routes. Seriously, give me a fucking break, have any of you people actually thought about this shit?
Shame on all of you who're accepting this pie-in-the-sky bullshit without the slightest bit of rational examination. For a bunch of geeks/nerds/techies, you all sure are a bunch of gullible fuckers willing to suspend your disbelief at the drop of a hat. Do ANY of you even own a calculator? Have ANY of you run some simple calculations or thought critically about ANY of the claims that are being made?
in America on a fibre roll out that never happened and nobody has the balls to ask for our money back. So you're forgive me if I'm not in even the tinciest bit surprised shit like this can fly. The loans will be private with public guarantees and we'll all eat it like we eat sports Colosseums.
Exactly. They'll spend a shitload of public money and in the end there will be nothing to show for it. Where will the money have gone? To a magical place called "someone else's wallet".
And whatever was built will be abandoned and left to rot, never having moved a single person from point A to point B.
As I said before, I'll bet anyone here $10,000 that nothing comes of it and that not a single functioning vehicle or route will exist even after 10 years. Money to be held in escrow by an agreed-upon 3rd party. All of you cheerleaders who are soooooo convinced this will happen, here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is.
And this is what we get when somebody tries to use a word processor for complex document layout.
I couldn't agree more, but Microsoft promotes Word as a tool that can do all of these things. Look at any of their promo stuff and it shows Word being used as a layout tool, a graphics design tool, etc etc.
Actually it is minimum 45 years old and especially in Switzerland a research project since 40 years.
And as usual, you are full of shit.
Show us ONE functioning hyperloop station or route like the one Elon Musk is proposing, just ONE.
Show us ONE high-vacuum tunnel several meters in diameter that is more than 10 feet long.
Show us ONE self-contained, vacuum-capable passenger container that has ever been used.
You can't, because they don't exist and never will.
Mark my words: The hyperloop, as proposed, is bullshit and will never, ever be built. I'll bet anyone here $10,000 that nothing comes of it and that not a single functioning vehicle or route will exist even after 10 years. Money to be held in escrow by an agreed-upon 3rd party. Put up or shut up.
Exactly what they said in 1900 about the airplane...
A few well-known people at the time scoffed, but the majority of technical people at the time realized it was indeed possible.
One cool thing about airplanes is that, unlike the hyperbullshitloop, when one of them has a failure, it doesn't kill everyone else in every other plane flying that route.
The temperature-contraction of the tube issues alone make this unworkable, but don't let physics get in the way of your fantasy. Producing a high vacuum environment in that size of a vessel is also wildly impractical, and I speak as someone who worked with high vacuum extensively for over a decade early in my career.
The only good thing about PowerPoint was that it forced people to think about what they were going to say and in what order.
Too funny! I'm gonna print this out and frame it, that's how funny it is.
If you've ever tried to get anything done with Tables or moving text round then it's taken you way longer than it used to.
Me: "I want to move this paragraph a little to the left."
Word: "No, I'm going to fuck up the entire document instead."
Me: "Insert an extra-indented bullet point here."
Word: "Excuse me while I ruin all your formatting and renumber everything from the start of your thesis."
Me: "Remove this line from the Table Of Contents."
Word: "HEY! Look at all the extra shit I found and slammed into the Table Of Contents!"
....just like the Segway did.
Except you could actually build the Segway, and they did. And no, it's didn't change everything, it barely changed anything.
This hyperloop bullshit is technologically impossible to construct and maintain, let alone protect against the simplest of threats or malfunctions.
The whole "Hyperloop" thing is a ridiculous joke that will never, EVER be built.
It has so many technical problems and downsides that it's not possible for me to state them here succinctly, but for a complete takedown of this bullshit pie-in-the-sky idea, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"All the problems of deep space travel, bought down to the surface of the planet, such that you can travel about the speed of a bullet within a couple of cm of a gun barrel.
Sadly almost no one in the main stream media assessed this stuff critically from a scientific/ engineering point of view. They just took them at their word when they said they could construct the completely untested large scale hyperloop for 1/10th the cost of a regular high speed rail connection. They took them at their word when they said it would only cost 20 bux, and take on 25 minutes.
In reality the engineering problems are probably insurmountable. It would be like proposing a floating roadway across the Mediterranean or something."
The whole thing is utterly ridiculous, and shame on the engineering people who failed to do even the most cursory examination of this impossible "project".
Would you mind video recording your face while watching an Apple unveiling?
I'd never stoop so low as to watch an unveiling, by Apple or by any other company.
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If you think this is bad, I would love to see your reaction to an iOS keynote. Hell, people have written entire articles just talking about a *font change*.
Oh I know, the commentary went on for days; some of it seemed to be fairly reasonable in terms of the readability of the font in certain situations. And then I fell asleep.
It's part of the operating system.
Yes, and their operating system is designed around their advertising schemes and the ability to monitor whatever they like in order to better monetize your entire existence.
It's part of the OS just like Internet Explorer was, until it turned out it wasn't.
"You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update"
Of course not- that might interfere with their advertising schemes and the ability to monitor whatever they like in order to better monetize your entire existence.
Welcome to the Brave New World of surveillance, brought to you by the same forward-thinking folks that brought you Windows ME, the Zune, and PlaysForSure.
People who pre-order stuff like this don't actually care about receiving the product. They care about the excitement of being a part of something.
This is pretty much it...it's part gambling and part "I'm a visionary helping to build the FUTURE!"
The whole "I'm smart enough to help fund this awesomely cool idea" and the absurdly long wait time before fulfillment is what turns most of the investors on.
It's not complicated. Don't buy a product that doesn't exist. You'd be surprised how often people make this mistake.
Kickstarter is just an abstracted form of gambling. Sometimes you'll win, but it's best to keep your expectations low, very very low.
rofl @ "reporting on loosened regulations is a conspiracy/troll"
That made me chuckle too. How DARE different news sources all report on a common topic?? IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!1! OMG CHEMTRAILS!
If "reporting on loosened regulations" is a "conspiracy", then it's also a conspiracy when my neighbors order the same kind of pizza as me. Or if they mow their lawn on the same day I do. IT'S SO OBVIOUS, WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!
Sell "it"? Sell what? There isn't any product to sell. They never made any.
This obsession of your with facts is just going to dampen their entrepreneurial spirit.
"Facebook needs you to fill its News Feed, Oculus Rift, and Gear VR with 360 content."
Like I give a FUCK what Facebook needs.
But anyway, yeah, I'll just get right on that. I'll just run out at lunch and buy $30,000 worth of camera shit so I can help poor little Facebook keep its content flowing.
Facebook is in the tank for the DNC and Hillary. Just look at who all the big-wigs their support with their contribution dollars.
Yep.
I'm a Democrat and I think Debbie Waserman-Shultz should be prosecuted for subverting the democratic process, along with all her cohorts.