I "defraud" cold callers, telephone solicitors, and religious cranks who knock on my door, I "defraud" the people who send bullshit mail offers to "buy my home sight unseen", etc etc. I defraud them all by wasting their time, placing dead-end orders, making never-to-be-kept appointments, etc etc.
It frustrates them and eventually they go away and don't come back. It may not be "fraud" in the classic sense of the word, but I'm happy to extend it to my activities.
Forbes does this bullshit. Guess what, I don't care about Forbes anymore.
Same here. I used to go to Forbes, but with their aggressive "Turn off your ad blocker" shit, I abandoned them. Like you, I don't care about Forbes anymore.
Instead, you should be looking to poison advertisers click-though information.
Yep- we should make the advertisers efforts useless by filling their click-through databases with mountains of irrelevant 'data'. If we all clicked away like psychos their analytics would be worthless.
Unfortunately, the prevalence of malware in ads (and in their target pages) prevent me from doing this (plus I use NoScript and Adblock, so I don't actually see the ads).
That's how I do it. I use NoScript, and rarely ever see ads. The ads themselves are all being served up from some other site anyway, so even if I allow the scripts coming from the site itself, the ads are still blocked, which is fine by me.
^^^THIS. NoScript will block 99% of ads just by killing Javascript.
I use NoScript and Adblock, and I never see ads. I've forgotten what they look like. So much so, that when I used a friend's PC the other day I was just flabbergasted by all the ads littering the page. "Hmmmm," I thought, "this is ungood."
A few clicks later I had installed NoScript and Adblock, and peace and tranquility reigned throughout the land again.
He hasn't stopped thanking me since- "And the pages load so fucking fast dude!!"
He's now on an absolute crusade to install NoScript and Adblock on every PC he sees, lol.
Use NoScript. NoScript will kill 99% of ads just by stopping Javascript. If they insist on having Javascript enabled then I'll abandon their site and go elsewhere.
If they force unavoidable ads on us, we'll all just start clicking away like mad motherfuckers and bury them in useless, irrelevant clicks. I'll click on every fucking ad I see and never buy anything.
I do the same thing (more or less) with cold callers who want to sell me duct cleaning or tree trimming services over the phone. I say, sure, come on out- then I give them a bogus address.
If they somehow make it to my door (which occasionally happens) I just give them a blank look and tell 'em, "Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about." (Plus, as I point out to them, we have no trees on our property, so why in the world would I make an appointment for a tree trimming service? heh heh heh)
My hope is that making them respond to the false positives will waste enough of their time and gas and money that they'll eventually sour on the idea, and it may just force them to reconsider if cold calling is really worth it. Three or four wasted trips a day starts to add up for a business that depends on booking valid (i.e. paying) appointments.
I know I'm just one guy....but just imagine the result if we all did that.
Not this shit again...a super-rich dude envisions his idea of Utopia and everything goes great...that is, until the humans show up.
And then it starts....petty greed, disputes, minor conflicts breeding simmering revenge, jealousy, vying for power, undue influence, bribery, power plays, pervy sexual urges, and a host of other human traits come into play, and before you know it someone's handing you a cup of Kool-Aid.
Yeah, this whole "come live in my Utopia compound" thing never seems to end well. For example: Jim Jones, the Branch Davidians, The Hale-Bopp nutters (Heaven's Gate), David Berg and the Children of God, Aum Shinrikyo, Scientology, etc etc.
(I know, it was actually "Flavor Aid" but you get my point.)
Doesn't sound like you went through the OnDemand type service your friend has. I have every channel, between just the movie channels like FX, HBO, STARS, etc you're going to find something. Through TV it's got almost everything from the current season of any show, plus backlogs of tons especially on premium networks.
I appreciate the suggestion, but my goal in life isn't to watch more TV.
There's next to nothing on television I want to watch. Internet service is adequate (and has been since my 2009 DSL line) for my tele-viewing needs.
^^^^^^^^^^^This this this
I was browsing at a friend's place who has a cable package of a bazillion channels...I went through about 100 channels and found nothing, literally nothing worth watching or paying for.
I have an Amazon Prime account, and between that and Youtube and PirateBay I don't see the need to buy cable. As Newton C. Minnow said waaaaaay back in 1961:
"But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland."
And nothing has changed except the wasteland is far bigger. Yippee.
But only photogenic models in commercials actually try to do real work on tablets. Nobody else does.
It's not possible. They want you to think it's The New Thing, but it simply is impossible to do anything meaningful on a tablet. The ergonomics are all wrong.... Nobody in reality does anything much more with a tablet than Netflix and Facebook and app store candy games. Desktops are for creating content, tablets are for consuming it.
Exactly, and thank you. That's exactly what I said above: tablets are for consuming media, not creating it.
Not so great if you want to actually do anything serious with a tablet - like run Photoshop. Are you going to be editing a 3GB PSD on that Samsung? I think not.
Lol, the only reason anyone would want to do any serious photo editing on a tablet is because they can't afford a PC.
Most people, including myself, use a tablet to consume media, not to create it.
When I edit PSD files or cut video or work with spreadsheets, I use a real PC- a desktop loaded with RAM and a big ol' hard drive. Tablets are for fun and screwing around.
I just got a Galaxy Tab A 10.1" tablet with 32GB for $205 off of eBay (Amazon sells the same thing for about $250).
It comes with a micro SD card slot (expandable up to 2TB), a standard headphone jack, Bluetooth, micro-USB, wi-fi, and a gorgeous 10.1" screen, 1900x1200.
I just can't see any reason why I would pay close to $1000 for the Apple device.
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Congratulations, you invented the desktop PC.
I'm actually surprised you couldn't already hook up a mouse and a keyboard, but I don't follow gaming or gaming consoles.
Mix the sand with some good binder or epoxy. Yes, it will cost more, that's life.
Apple: "Hey users..."
Users: "What?"
Apple: "Fuck you, ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Oh yes it is. Ask me how I know.
Okay, how do you know?
Because I've used it and it works great.
I "defraud" cold callers, telephone solicitors, and religious cranks who knock on my door, I "defraud" the people who send bullshit mail offers to "buy my home sight unseen", etc etc. I defraud them all by wasting their time, placing dead-end orders, making never-to-be-kept appointments, etc etc.
It frustrates them and eventually they go away and don't come back. It may not be "fraud" in the classic sense of the word, but I'm happy to extend it to my activities.
Forbes does this bullshit. Guess what, I don't care about Forbes anymore.
Same here. I used to go to Forbes, but with their aggressive "Turn off your ad blocker" shit, I abandoned them. Like you, I don't care about Forbes anymore.
Fraud is not an appropriate way to fight.
Oh yes it is. Ask me how I know.
Instead, you should be looking to poison advertisers click-though information.
Yep- we should make the advertisers efforts useless by filling their click-through databases with mountains of irrelevant 'data'. If we all clicked away like psychos their analytics would be worthless.
Unfortunately, the prevalence of malware in ads (and in their target pages) prevent me from doing this (plus I use NoScript and Adblock, so I don't actually see the ads).
That's how I do it. I use NoScript, and rarely ever see ads. The ads themselves are all being served up from some other site anyway, so even if I allow the scripts coming from the site itself, the ads are still blocked, which is fine by me.
^^^THIS. NoScript will block 99% of ads just by killing Javascript.
I use NoScript and Adblock, and I never see ads. I've forgotten what they look like. So much so, that when I used a friend's PC the other day I was just flabbergasted by all the ads littering the page. "Hmmmm," I thought, "this is ungood."
A few clicks later I had installed NoScript and Adblock, and peace and tranquility reigned throughout the land again.
He hasn't stopped thanking me since- "And the pages load so fucking fast dude!!"
He's now on an absolute crusade to install NoScript and Adblock on every PC he sees, lol.
Most of the annoying ads can be defeated by simply turning javascript off, or selectively on for only the site serving the actual content.
Bingo. Use something like NoScript and 99% of ads just disappear.
Use NoScript. NoScript will kill 99% of ads just by stopping Javascript. If they insist on having Javascript enabled then I'll abandon their site and go elsewhere.
If they force unavoidable ads on us, we'll all just start clicking away like mad motherfuckers and bury them in useless, irrelevant clicks. I'll click on every fucking ad I see and never buy anything.
I do the same thing (more or less) with cold callers who want to sell me duct cleaning or tree trimming services over the phone. I say, sure, come on out- then I give them a bogus address.
If they somehow make it to my door (which occasionally happens) I just give them a blank look and tell 'em, "Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about." (Plus, as I point out to them, we have no trees on our property, so why in the world would I make an appointment for a tree trimming service? heh heh heh)
My hope is that making them respond to the false positives will waste enough of their time and gas and money that they'll eventually sour on the idea, and it may just force them to reconsider if cold calling is really worth it. Three or four wasted trips a day starts to add up for a business that depends on booking valid (i.e. paying) appointments.
I know I'm just one guy....but just imagine the result if we all did that.
Not this shit again...a super-rich dude envisions his idea of Utopia and everything goes great...that is, until the humans show up.
And then it starts....petty greed, disputes, minor conflicts breeding simmering revenge, jealousy, vying for power, undue influence, bribery, power plays, pervy sexual urges, and a host of other human traits come into play, and before you know it someone's handing you a cup of Kool-Aid.
Yeah, this whole "come live in my Utopia compound" thing never seems to end well. For example: Jim Jones, the Branch Davidians, The Hale-Bopp nutters (Heaven's Gate), David Berg and the Children of God, Aum Shinrikyo, Scientology, etc etc.
(I know, it was actually "Flavor Aid" but you get my point.)
Tell us the risks of sharing your kids' Halloween pics with Aunt Helen?
Facial recognition of your kids (possibly), geotagging, aggregating it with other sources to "refine" the specificity of the data, etc etc etc.
If you don't think your "harmless" publicly-posted data can be misused or weaponized, you haven't been paying attention.
I don't have a Facedork account, how can I get in on this free dissemination of my data??
, or spending Christmas in Cambodia
I did that once...the Christmas music in the stores (in a country that's 99% Buddhist) saddened me.
The fact is that you could carpet bomb Cambodia from one end to the other and you wouldn't hit a Christian unless you were really lucky.
Now there are fucking Mormons there trying to spread their brand of noxious crap too. I throw shit at them if I go by them on a moto or in a tuk-tuk.
Yes, but if you have cable/satellite, it comes with a DVR, so at any time you have the last X days worth of shows you like from 100 channels.
So there's 100 days of more craptastic junk that I didn't want to watch then and (still) don't want to watch now. How is that better?
Most of the time, I find it much easier to push 3 buttons on my remote
Most of the time I find it much easier to go outside or visit friends or have fun in my workshop or spend time with my wife and family.
Enjoy your remote; I'm sure the two of you will have many rewarding hours together.
The fact you mentioned Piratebay means you steal for part of your content watching, so no, you're not proving anything here.
Actually, PirateBay has a lot of perfectly legal stuff.
Shame on you for assuming that I'm "stealing" anything.
Doesn't sound like you went through the OnDemand type service your friend has. I have every channel, between just the movie channels like FX, HBO, STARS, etc you're going to find something. Through TV it's got almost everything from the current season of any show, plus backlogs of tons especially on premium networks.
I appreciate the suggestion, but my goal in life isn't to watch more TV.
"Playing board games" WTF, get a freaking life.
Pro Tip: Get a wife or girlfriend and maybe you won't be such a bitter cunt.
There's next to nothing on television I want to watch. Internet service is adequate (and has been since my 2009 DSL line) for my tele-viewing needs.
^^^^^^^^^^^This this this
I was browsing at a friend's place who has a cable package of a bazillion channels...I went through about 100 channels and found nothing, literally nothing worth watching or paying for.
I have an Amazon Prime account, and between that and Youtube and PirateBay I don't see the need to buy cable. As Newton C. Minnow said waaaaaay back in 1961:
"But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland."
And nothing has changed except the wasteland is far bigger. Yippee.
Did you also miss that AutoCad is porting the full AutoCad engine over to the iPad for editing?
Lol, no, I must have missed that exciting announcement.
Seriously, use AutoCad on an iPad? Kill me now. NO ONE who wants to use AutoCad wants to use it on a tablet, no one.
But only photogenic models in commercials actually try to do real work on tablets. Nobody else does.
It's not possible. They want you to think it's The New Thing, but it simply is impossible to do anything meaningful on a tablet. The ergonomics are all wrong. ...
Nobody in reality does anything much more with a tablet than Netflix and Facebook and app store candy games. Desktops are for creating content, tablets are for consuming it.
Exactly, and thank you. That's exactly what I said above: tablets are for consuming media, not creating it.
Not so great if you want to actually do anything serious with a tablet - like run Photoshop. Are you going to be editing a 3GB PSD on that Samsung? I think not.
Lol, the only reason anyone would want to do any serious photo editing on a tablet is because they can't afford a PC.
Most people, including myself, use a tablet to consume media, not to create it.
When I edit PSD files or cut video or work with spreadsheets, I use a real PC- a desktop loaded with RAM and a big ol' hard drive. Tablets are for fun and screwing around.
Or you can just buy the base model (maybe with a CPU upgrade) and UPGRADE THE MEMORY YOURSELF?!?
And pay 5 times the cost. Brilliant. Now I see why you're so frequently modded down.
Let me guess the most probable reason: Someone is paying you to port an Android application to iOS
Nope.
I just got a Galaxy Tab A 10.1" tablet with 32GB for $205 off of eBay (Amazon sells the same thing for about $250).
It comes with a micro SD card slot (expandable up to 2TB), a standard headphone jack, Bluetooth, micro-USB, wi-fi, and a gorgeous 10.1" screen, 1900x1200.
I just can't see any reason why I would pay close to $1000 for the Apple device.