experts-exchange.com is probably the perfect example of an arms race that ended with everybody leaving the site.
^^^ This times about a billion.
Experts-exchange used to be halfway useful.....and they started trying to hide the content. It went from "okay" to "miserable" to "fuck all" and never got better.
After a while I just said "screw 'em!" and never went back. That was years ago and frankly I'm surprised they're still there. I used to go there for Oracle info but there are dozens of better sites, some with ads, some without, but no one ever needs to go to experts-exchange for anything these days.
psoug.org (Oracle stuff and other code snippets) and stack-exchange.com (tons of stuff for every language under the Sun) are the two I hit the most, but there are gobs of lesser ones that have all the info anyone will ever need.
GP most likely meant that you set up a box in running a transparent proxyyour house (running NotWindows(R), natch), force all traffic to go through it, then put your whitelists/hosts/etc on that.
Yeah, I'll just run right out and do that.
Sure, the technically savvy can do this, but what about the other 99.999999% of users?
I can just see telling my mom, "Hey ma, all ya gotta do is run another computer as a transparent proxy using Linux, route all the traffic through it and spend a few days or weeks building a whitelist and hosts!"
Now I'm heading a project that uses a RoR application...
To quote an old Irishman I knew once, "Oh boy, now yez' inna helluva fix!":)
But seriously, as for what language to use, that would be one that you know and are familiar with that can do what you need it to do.
In other words, I have no idea because there wasn't really enough specific info in your post for me to take a good guess. Sometimes it's best to work backwards and figure out what tools or languages won't work or aren't suited to the task. That can often help narrow down the list of possible choices, of which there are many.
Logic would force me to conclude that while those places are pretty safe, anywhere with a large percentage of politicians and youth pastors is another story entirely.
This is very true. Sad, but true. Wanna get your child molested? Send him or her to a church youth group.
If some creeper gets the photo and photoshops it into something horrible, I may get mixed up in something that will ruin me.
What if they take a photo of an adult that you've shot pics of (or a pic of you) and photoshops it into something horrible, perhaps involving children?
The chances of that happening are very, very small, but there's nothing really to be gained from allowing photos of adults to be misused in some nefarious way. Obviously I'm taking this to an extreme silliness, but how is it different?
Maybe one of your pictures gets used in a frame-up or photoshopped into child porn or something that looks really incriminating...at what point do we all just say this is paranoia running wild?
The fact is that anyone that wants pictures of kids will have no trouble finding them on the web, so I think that boat has already sailed.
Pedophiles are everywhere, under your BED, in the CLOSET, in your SCHOOLS, hiding behind TREES, at the SUPERMARKET!!!
They're at the AUTO DEALER, they're in the POOL, they're climbing MOUNTAINS, be AFRAID!!! Everyone you know is SECRETLY a pedophile or a satanist or BOTH!! AAAAHH!!!
and they would walk you right to it, probably ask you what you were using it for, discuss circuits, talk about electronics, ham radio (since I am one), SW radio and all sorts of things. Now, the only thing they know are phones, phone cases and the like.
Yep, I used to enjoy talking to the RS employees- they were mostly hobbyists and enthusiasts and they knew stuff. They were into the gear they sold and would happily debate the difference between the NE555 and the LM555CN timer.
Now I would bet that not one out of a thousand of them knows what Ohm's Law is, or has even heard of it. They can barely tell you the differences between the different shitty phones they sell.
Anything is possible, but I don't see it coming to pass.
It's super-duper-mega illegal to download movies, and that hasn't seemed to stop it.
I suppose you could pack all the jails full of people accused of downloading The Hurt Locker or Dr Who Episode #462346, but honestly...I just don't see it happening.
They can make something as illegal as they want, but that won't stop people from doing it. Look at the "War On Drugs", they filled the prisons with people who smoked or sold pot, and it didn't even scratch the surface. If anything all it did was increase drug use.
The problem is that there are literally billions of us and not very many of them. The Chinese have tried stuff like this for years and still can't do it. The Great Firewall of China has been a resounding flop for anyone who wants to get around it. It's got more holes than a New Orleans whorehouse.
No matter what they come up with there will always be a way around it. Until they put a chip in our brains I don't see them winning at this game.
Yeah, no, fuck that. Just uninstall Flash to begin with if you have it on your system;
Well, sometimes I like to play some of the silly Flash games I have to kill a little time. I turn it on when I'm bored and turn it back off when I'm done.
AdBlock... nothing to do with Flash. This is for blocking ads. While some ads are built in Flash, most are images or text or HTML5 based.
I'd say that ~50% of all the ads I see (well, used to see, lol) were Flash. And sadly, Flash is still used all over the place, especially on older sites.
So for me, blocking Flash is a no-brainer.
As for NoScript, it blocks a lot of the javascript that's often used to launch the ads you see on sites, including the ads that use Flash.
If you've ever run ads from Advertising.com, Doubleclick, FastClick, etc etc, they're almost always pulled from the ad company's servers by a snippet of javascript that you paste into the page (or into your ad rotator). Blocking javascript knocks that shit out, period.
NoScript and AdBlock are indispensable for me, together they're a one-two punch that knocks out most of the stuff I'd normally have to worry about.
Advertisers don't want to waste their time and money on ineffective advertising or pointless advertising. If they knew I just bought a widget they'd much rather market something else to me, such as a follow-on product or some other product that they me to buy. The last thing they want to do is try to market a product to me that there's no chance I'll buy.
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experts-exchange.com is probably the perfect example of an arms race that ended with everybody leaving the site.
^^^ This times about a billion.
Experts-exchange used to be halfway useful.....and they started trying to hide the content. It went from "okay" to "miserable" to "fuck all" and never got better.
After a while I just said "screw 'em!" and never went back. That was years ago and frankly I'm surprised they're still there. I used to go there for Oracle info but there are dozens of better sites, some with ads, some without, but no one ever needs to go to experts-exchange for anything these days.
psoug.org (Oracle stuff and other code snippets) and stack-exchange.com (tons of stuff for every language under the Sun) are the two I hit the most, but there are gobs of lesser ones that have all the info anyone will ever need.
In closing, "Piss on you, experts-exchange!"
GP most likely meant that you set up a box in running a transparent proxyyour house (running NotWindows(R), natch), force all traffic to go through it, then put your whitelists/hosts/etc on that.
Yeah, I'll just run right out and do that.
Sure, the technically savvy can do this, but what about the other 99.999999% of users?
I can just see telling my mom, "Hey ma, all ya gotta do is run another computer as a transparent proxy using Linux, route all the traffic through it and spend a few days or weeks building a whitelist and hosts!"
Seriously, who didn't see this coming? Ever since Windows 8 the whole thing has been nothing but a thinly-veiled ad platform.
"Live tiles", AKA "a space on your desktop to display ads". Gee, who wouldn't want that?
This latest move should surprise no one who has been paying even the slightest attention.
Now I'm heading a project that uses a RoR application...
To quote an old Irishman I knew once, "Oh boy, now yez' inna helluva fix!" :)
But seriously, as for what language to use, that would be one that you know and are familiar with that can do what you need it to do.
In other words, I have no idea because there wasn't really enough specific info in your post for me to take a good guess. Sometimes it's best to work backwards and figure out what tools or languages won't work or aren't suited to the task. That can often help narrow down the list of possible choices, of which there are many.
Speaking as an attendee of such camps, never noticed any shenanigans like that.
I'm pretty sure it happens, whether you noticed it or not. Ask me how I know.
Logic would force me to conclude that while those places are pretty safe, anywhere with a large percentage of politicians and youth pastors is another story entirely.
This is very true. Sad, but true. Wanna get your child molested? Send him or her to a church youth group.
If some creeper gets the photo and photoshops it into something horrible, I may get mixed up in something that will ruin me.
What if they take a photo of an adult that you've shot pics of (or a pic of you) and photoshops it into something horrible, perhaps involving children?
The chances of that happening are very, very small, but there's nothing really to be gained from allowing photos of adults to be misused in some nefarious way. Obviously I'm taking this to an extreme silliness, but how is it different?
Maybe one of your pictures gets used in a frame-up or photoshopped into child porn or something that looks really incriminating...at what point do we all just say this is paranoia running wild?
The fact is that anyone that wants pictures of kids will have no trouble finding them on the web, so I think that boat has already sailed.
Be afraid, be VERY afraid!
Pedophiles are everywhere, under your BED, in the CLOSET, in your SCHOOLS, hiding behind TREES, at the SUPERMARKET!!!
They're at the AUTO DEALER, they're in the POOL, they're climbing MOUNTAINS, be AFRAID!!! Everyone you know is SECRETLY a pedophile or a satanist or BOTH!! AAAAHH!!!
Be afraid of everyone everywhere all the time!!
OoooOOooooh scary!!
and they would walk you right to it, probably ask you what you were using it for, discuss circuits, talk about electronics, ham radio (since I am one), SW radio and all sorts of things. Now, the only thing they know are phones, phone cases and the like.
Yep, I used to enjoy talking to the RS employees- they were mostly hobbyists and enthusiasts and they knew stuff. They were into the gear they sold and would happily debate the difference between the NE555 and the LM555CN timer.
Now I would bet that not one out of a thousand of them knows what Ohm's Law is, or has even heard of it. They can barely tell you the differences between the different shitty phones they sell.
Not that I'm old, but I remember when Radio Shack not only sold lots of electronic parts and kits, they also sold Tandy leather working kits.
Okay, maybe I am old. :(
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Personally, I measure everything using chi, bu, and li. It's easier to convert from myriad and avoirdupois quartiers that way.
It all goes to hell when I'm baking, though. :)
Heh, I once printed out a recipe for my girlfriend that listed all the ingredients in micro-grams.
"120 million micro-grams of flour"
"56 million micro-grams of Nestles chocolate drops"
She never did bake that cake for me. :(
I support the metric system every inch of the way.
The last kilo I bought was off by almost 0.00000000000002%, and I was cranky for days.
Got a refund though, so it all worked out in the end.
Anything is possible, but I don't see it coming to pass.
It's super-duper-mega illegal to download movies, and that hasn't seemed to stop it.
I suppose you could pack all the jails full of people accused of downloading The Hurt Locker or Dr Who Episode #462346, but honestly...I just don't see it happening.
They can make something as illegal as they want, but that won't stop people from doing it. Look at the "War On Drugs", they filled the prisons with people who smoked or sold pot, and it didn't even scratch the surface. If anything all it did was increase drug use.
Have you read "The Right to Read"?
Yes, years ago.
The problem is that there are literally billions of us and not very many of them. The Chinese have tried stuff like this for years and still can't do it. The Great Firewall of China has been a resounding flop for anyone who wants to get around it. It's got more holes than a New Orleans whorehouse.
No matter what they come up with there will always be a way around it. Until they put a chip in our brains I don't see them winning at this game.
Yeah, no, fuck that. Just uninstall Flash to begin with if you have it on your system;
Well, sometimes I like to play some of the silly Flash games I have to kill a little time. I turn it on when I'm bored and turn it back off when I'm done.
But for browsing the web? No way, not a chance.
Good luck with that.
Thanks, I really value your input because it's always good to hear what the unable-to-get-a-date basement dwellers have to say about stuff. lol
The operating system won't let you.
Someone will just write a nifty little program that will bypass that restriction.
maybe the problem isn't his lack of a sense of humor but the marginal "joke" you think you told.
I'll be sure to give your comment all the consideration it deserves. lol
Lighten up, I'm not the guy who came down to where you work and knocked all the dicks out of your mouth.
All this nonsense, defeated by a simple screenshot.
And I'm sure someone will quickly write a DRM-stripper to clean up these DRM-infected files.
Let me be as succinct as I can regarding DRM in .jpg files: No. No, no, no.
Wow, the terror of 4th graders everywhere strikes again.
Lol, having trouble letting go, eh?
Take a warm bath and some Midol, then go have yourself a nice cry. You'll feel better.
You mean another reason to not use Flash?
AdBlock... nothing to do with Flash. This is for blocking ads. While some ads are built in Flash, most are images or text or HTML5 based.
I'd say that ~50% of all the ads I see (well, used to see, lol) were Flash. And sadly, Flash is still used all over the place, especially on older sites.
So for me, blocking Flash is a no-brainer.
As for NoScript, it blocks a lot of the javascript that's often used to launch the ads you see on sites, including the ads that use Flash.
If you've ever run ads from Advertising.com, Doubleclick, FastClick, etc etc, they're almost always pulled from the ad company's servers by a snippet of javascript that you paste into the page (or into your ad rotator). Blocking javascript knocks that shit out, period.
NoScript and AdBlock are indispensable for me, together they're a one-two punch that knocks out most of the stuff I'd normally have to worry about.
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Keep your shit-spam to yourself, asshole.
They don't care if you bought your widget.
I have to disagree.
Advertisers don't want to waste their time and money on ineffective advertising or pointless advertising. If they knew I just bought a widget they'd much rather market something else to me, such as a follow-on product or some other product that they me to buy. The last thing they want to do is try to market a product to me that there's no chance I'll buy.