Most of the new versions of pop-unders use Javascript to sneak past the pop-up blockers. I really hope that you are not actually surfing with Javascipt enabled.
That's why you use NoScript. You can selectively enable JavaScript for those sites that really need it and leave it off everywhere else.
Do you think continuing to torture people is an improvement?
In order for something to continue, it must first have occurred at some point. Your premise is flawed; it would be like my asking you if you have stopped beating your wife.
I believe the term is "exculpatory", and the way my legal environment professor explained it was this: "If clauses like that worked, we'd all be driving around with signs on the front of our cars that say, 'Not responsible if I hit you'."
Signs like that are already on the road. Around here ("here"="Las Vegas"), the gravel trucks all have signs that say something like this:
Keep Back 200 Feet
Not Responsible for Broken Windshields
I suspect the signs carry no legal weight whatsoever, but I don't know if anybody with a busted windshield, dented fender, or whatever has taken one of the trucking companies to court, or won in court.
Honestly, it's about time that we got a new type of power source for mobile products (I'm thinking Cell Phones in particular). Honestly, after I've walked around with my phone for the whole day, I've got 1.5 hours talk time, max.
What kind of ancient phone are you using that gets only 90 minutes of talk time? My first phone (an analog model from Motorola that I bought back in '96 or '97) did better than that.
Indeed, my NEC MultiSync FE1250 CRT monitor has a Sony trinitron tube in it. At least according to the graphics guy at my previous employer. You can see two wires streched across the screen, one on top, and one on the bottom when the display is white--apparently a trinitron signature.
NEC merged its monitor business with Mitsubishi a while back. Mitsubishi makes the Diamondtron tube, which uses the same cylindrical section (as opposed to a spherical section) for the face of the tube as a Trinitron. It wouldn't surprise me if the internal structures of the Diamondtron and Trinitron are similar (unlike conventional color CRTs that use three electron guns and a shadow mask, Trinitrons use only one electron gun and an aperture grille). That, most likely, is what's in your monitor.
I guess cable companies in the US aren't common carriers, so they can (and do) block other VoIP.
Speaking from experience, Cox doesn't block Packet8. It probably doesn't block other VoIP services either, but I can't say for certain if this is the case. While it is true that cable companies aren't considered common carriers, competition from DSL and other broadband services should keep most cable companies from trying to block VoIP, at least in the US. Over in Europe, where cable TV (and related services) never really caught on and each nation has only one government-run phone company, the situation is likely to be different.
So by doing a print to pdf (or print to postscript and ps2pdf) you can achieve a basic PDF without any of the more complex features... Often such PDFs will be of very poor quality, and using rasterised text instead of properly rendered fonts for instance..
FWIW, CutePDF (which is basically a Windows printing subsystem wrapper for Ghostscript) produces PDFs with text that can be selected and copied/pasted. Size, style, and font information get preserved for common fonts so you can paste text into a word processor (or whatever) that looks identical to what was in the PDF. For less-common fonts, while the appearance of the font is preserved in the PDF, a standard font gets substituted (the size and style are still preserved).
Printing to the "MS Publisher Color Printer" driver (which generates PostScript output) and washing this through Ghostscript to create a PDF produces similar results.
Odd statistics. Mac shows up as 3%, yet Safari does not rate at all in the browsers.
They could be running Firefox. It was one of the first things I installed on my Mac mini, mainly so I'd have the same browser (and the same essential add-ons, such as Adblock and NoScript) on Mac OS X as on Windows and Linux.
No, I don't get lots of spam. Most of it is denied at the SMTP protocol level and is never even written to disk.
But the fact that you're using a *FILTER* means that it's using up your bandwidth. Whether it gets written to disk or not is irrelevant. Your server (and hence you) still receives it.
There are filtering methods that don't result in the entire message being received. With graylisting, for instance, an unknown sender receives a temporary failure from the receiving MTA before it even has a chance to start sending the message. The SMTP exchange between the spambot and your MTA looks something like this:
-- connection opened to slashdot.org:25 --
mail from: h3rb4lv14gr4@alanralsky.com
250 2.1.0 sender OK
rcpt to: anonymouscoward@slashdot.org
451 4.7.1 try again later
-- connection closed by slashdot.org --
Unless the spambot knows how to deal with temporary failures and is smart enough to try again before the offending IP is graylisted again, the traffic shown above is all that is getting through to your server.
That doesn't make spam any less annoying, but there are measures you can take that'll reduce the burden it imposes on your network.
Use the Wayback Machine to see what red-rose-stories.com was hosting. It was plain text, as you say, but it did not only depict "consenting adults", and frequently not in a "fantasy" setting. There was rape, and child molestation, and sometimes a heady mix of the two. So, of course, it's a little harder to defend. I mean, I'd feel a bit strange getting up on my soapbox and saying, "I will defend this woman's right to spread stories about raping infants to my very last breath!"---wouldn't you?
Regular people would have trouble defending things like rape fantasy and pedophilia, but the ACLU has no such qualms.
I bet Bush caused 9/11? And the TSUNAMI right? And the Pakistani earthquake? You are not even an american, yet you claim you ""KNOW"" our voting was rigged. Yeah. Right.
On the one hand, they say Bush is a drooling moron who's led around by Cheney, Rove, or $RANDOM_EVIL_RETHUGLICAN. On the other hand, they say he (1) figured out how to collapse two skyscrapers and make it look like someone else did it, (2) figured out how to control the weather to get tsunamis and hurricanes to wreak havoc on people he allegedly doesn't like, and (3) figured out how to generate seismic activity that leads to earthquakes.
That popping sound you just heard is the sound of a liberal's head exploding when it could no longer handle the cognitive dissonance brought about by trying to reconcile the above assertions.
I am picking on Boxer and for a very good reason, dum-dum, she's always on the side of the entertainment industry, read: Hollywood/Burbank/Studio City, when she as a Dem should be on the side of the people.
False assumption. Since when have Democrats ever been on the side of the people?
Another great option is the Hauppage MediaMVP. The guys over at MVP Media Center (MVPMC) have ported a mythtv client to it, as well as a replay client, nfs, and other useful transports. It's as thin a set top box as you could ask for (about the size of DSL modem) and costs $80 US (I've heard rumors as low as $40).
Radio Shack has them (or had them, at least) on clearance for ~$40. This link will tell you if any stores near you still have them available.
I picked one up last week. It was fairly easy to get it talking to my MythTV box (just needed to tweak the DHCP server settings a bit and set up a TFTP server to push the mvpmc image out to it), but it crashes my backend when it stops playing video. I don't know if I have a version mismatch somewhere or if I'm doing things the wrong way on the MediaMVP end. Playback quality was fairly decent while it was running, though, and it'd be more convenient than running the MythTV frontend on a computer because it already has a remote control.
When a regular joe asks from me, what to buy, i just say that the last item [a white box] is extendeable and upgradeable, the first [the appliance described in the article] is probably not.
20 years ago, that was how I convinced my parents to buy an Apple IIe instead of a IIc: the IIe's slots made it more likely to be able to adapt to future needs. (Yes, that machine eventually saw all sorts of add-ons. 1 MB RAM, a SCSI card for a hard drive, a mouse, and a 10-MHz accelerator were only some of the goodies I added to it.)
I think amd should add a windows-less variant of the same box, with a reduced priced ofcourse (if the box would cost 199$ it would be a bit more fair).
Fry's already has white boxes at $199. They're usually built around VIA processors and typically come with 30-40 GB of disk, 128 MB of RAM, and Lindows/Linspire/Lin-whatever-we're-calling-oursel ves-this-week. They've sold them in the past for as little as $99, usually on holiday weekends.
I'd hope that it convinced the clueless that the continuation of the welfare state is a disaster waiting to happen. By making a whole class of people dependent on Big Government (TM) for their every need, you rob them of the self-reliance with which they could've saved themselves.
From the way you're writing, though, it looks like this lesson zipped right over your head.
We need to start demanding more from our journalists, and stop allowing people like Bill O'Idiot of Fox News to have air time.
You've just summarized the moonbat mindset (such as it is) in a nutshell: free speech for me, but not for thee. As others have already pointed out, we have this thing called the First Amendment (since you're a foreigner, you're probably not familiar with it) that says you get to say pretty much whatever you want. There are a handful of exceptions for things like incitement and slander, but Bill O'Reilly (who really isn't a conservative), Cindy Shitbird, and everyone else all get to speak their piece.
Free speech is a Good Thing. You might want to try it out in your country sometime. It's worked well for us.
And whilst we're on the subject - why is radio technology in N. America so far behind the rest of the world? In other countries I can tune in to a national radio station (or a station with national affiliates - read: Clear Channel has the same stations in every city across N. America with just the name and some voices changed), then drive across country and have the radio automatically re-tune itself as it needs to.
It's not hard to cover an entire nation with one station when that nation is only as large as one of our mid-sized states. More recently, satellite radio has started gaining popularity; it allows nationwide coverage with a much smaller investment in infrastructure.
There's also the consideration that (with the exception of NPR) radio here doesn't depend on the government for its funding. Just as the lack of a government monopoly on phone service means we have a half-dozen mutually-incompatible cell-phone standards that fight it out in the marketplace, the lack of a government radio monopoly means that as you drive down the road, you'll need to either seek out different radio stations (most car stereos anymore have a button or two to make that easy) or bring your own music (which is what I'd recommend).
Source based component upgrade is the path to madness (well, it is cool and usefull, but for an end-user, it is madness). You newly build IRC client will need some upgraded version of libxml, which may have an incompatibility with the Nvu HTML composer. After a few upgrades, you end up in dependency hell. Your binaries starts to randomly segfault, and you end up re-installing the whole OS.
Maybe if you're using something that isn't designed to resolve those dependencies...hell, my understanding of RPM is that it has a hard-enough time keeping dependencies in binary packages straightened out. If you're using a distro that's designed for source-based upgrades, it'll pull in any updated dependencies automagically and build them before building a new version of Firefox (or whatever).
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That's why you use NoScript. You can selectively enable JavaScript for those sites that really need it and leave it off everywhere else.
In order for something to continue, it must first have occurred at some point. Your premise is flawed; it would be like my asking you if you have stopped beating your wife.
Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.
Has anyone figured out a way to cluster Ataris yet? You can cluster Apple IIs, but a search on "Atari cluster" turns up nothing useful.
Works for me in Firefox (1.0.7 on AMD64 Linux, x86 Linux, and Windows).
Even that isn't always enforced. If it were, Err America would've been knocked off the radio long ago.
Signs like that are already on the road. Around here ("here"="Las Vegas"), the gravel trucks all have signs that say something like this:
Keep Back 200 Feet
Not Responsible for Broken Windshields
I suspect the signs carry no legal weight whatsoever, but I don't know if anybody with a busted windshield, dented fender, or whatever has taken one of the trucking companies to court, or won in court.
What kind of ancient phone are you using that gets only 90 minutes of talk time? My first phone (an analog model from Motorola that I bought back in '96 or '97) did better than that.
NEC merged its monitor business with Mitsubishi a while back. Mitsubishi makes the Diamondtron tube, which uses the same cylindrical section (as opposed to a spherical section) for the face of the tube as a Trinitron. It wouldn't surprise me if the internal structures of the Diamondtron and Trinitron are similar (unlike conventional color CRTs that use three electron guns and a shadow mask, Trinitrons use only one electron gun and an aperture grille). That, most likely, is what's in your monitor.
Speaking from experience, Cox doesn't block Packet8. It probably doesn't block other VoIP services either, but I can't say for certain if this is the case. While it is true that cable companies aren't considered common carriers, competition from DSL and other broadband services should keep most cable companies from trying to block VoIP, at least in the US. Over in Europe, where cable TV (and related services) never really caught on and each nation has only one government-run phone company, the situation is likely to be different.
FWIW, CutePDF (which is basically a Windows printing subsystem wrapper for Ghostscript) produces PDFs with text that can be selected and copied/pasted. Size, style, and font information get preserved for common fonts so you can paste text into a word processor (or whatever) that looks identical to what was in the PDF. For less-common fonts, while the appearance of the font is preserved in the PDF, a standard font gets substituted (the size and style are still preserved).
Printing to the "MS Publisher Color Printer" driver (which generates PostScript output) and washing this through Ghostscript to create a PDF produces similar results.
They could be running Firefox. It was one of the first things I installed on my Mac mini, mainly so I'd have the same browser (and the same essential add-ons, such as Adblock and NoScript) on Mac OS X as on Windows and Linux.
There are filtering methods that don't result in the entire message being received. With graylisting, for instance, an unknown sender receives a temporary failure from the receiving MTA before it even has a chance to start sending the message. The SMTP exchange between the spambot and your MTA looks something like this:
-- connection opened to slashdot.org:25 --
mail from: h3rb4lv14gr4@alanralsky.com
250 2.1.0 sender OK
rcpt to: anonymouscoward@slashdot.org
451 4.7.1 try again later
-- connection closed by slashdot.org --
Unless the spambot knows how to deal with temporary failures and is smart enough to try again before the offending IP is graylisted again, the traffic shown above is all that is getting through to your server.
That doesn't make spam any less annoying, but there are measures you can take that'll reduce the burden it imposes on your network.
Perhaps you've heard of Mt. Pinatubo. (This appears to be a decent summary of what happened when it last blew its top.)
Regular people would have trouble defending things like rape fantasy and pedophilia, but the ACLU has no such qualms.
On the one hand, they say Bush is a drooling moron who's led around by Cheney, Rove, or $RANDOM_EVIL_RETHUGLICAN. On the other hand, they say he (1) figured out how to collapse two skyscrapers and make it look like someone else did it, (2) figured out how to control the weather to get tsunamis and hurricanes to wreak havoc on people he allegedly doesn't like, and (3) figured out how to generate seismic activity that leads to earthquakes.
That popping sound you just heard is the sound of a liberal's head exploding when it could no longer handle the cognitive dissonance brought about by trying to reconcile the above assertions.
False assumption. Since when have Democrats ever been on the side of the people?
Radio Shack has them (or had them, at least) on clearance for ~$40. This link will tell you if any stores near you still have them available.
I picked one up last week. It was fairly easy to get it talking to my MythTV box (just needed to tweak the DHCP server settings a bit and set up a TFTP server to push the mvpmc image out to it), but it crashes my backend when it stops playing video. I don't know if I have a version mismatch somewhere or if I'm doing things the wrong way on the MediaMVP end. Playback quality was fairly decent while it was running, though, and it'd be more convenient than running the MythTV frontend on a computer because it already has a remote control.
20 years ago, that was how I convinced my parents to buy an Apple IIe instead of a IIc: the IIe's slots made it more likely to be able to adapt to future needs. (Yes, that machine eventually saw all sorts of add-ons. 1 MB RAM, a SCSI card for a hard drive, a mouse, and a 10-MHz accelerator were only some of the goodies I added to it.)
Fry's already has white boxes at $199. They're usually built around VIA processors and typically come with 30-40 GB of disk, 128 MB of RAM, and Lindows/Linspire/Lin-whatever-we're-calling-oursel ves-this-week. They've sold them in the past for as little as $99, usually on holiday weekends.
I'd hope that it convinced the clueless that the continuation of the welfare state is a disaster waiting to happen. By making a whole class of people dependent on Big Government (TM) for their every need, you rob them of the self-reliance with which they could've saved themselves.
From the way you're writing, though, it looks like this lesson zipped right over your head.
You've just summarized the moonbat mindset (such as it is) in a nutshell: free speech for me, but not for thee. As others have already pointed out, we have this thing called the First Amendment (since you're a foreigner, you're probably not familiar with it) that says you get to say pretty much whatever you want. There are a handful of exceptions for things like incitement and slander, but Bill O'Reilly (who really isn't a conservative), Cindy Shitbird, and everyone else all get to speak their piece.
Free speech is a Good Thing. You might want to try it out in your country sometime. It's worked well for us.
For music (or what passes for music nowadays), it would indeed be pointless. For talk radio, though, it'd be nice to timeshift it, skip past ads, etc.
It's not hard to cover an entire nation with one station when that nation is only as large as one of our mid-sized states. More recently, satellite radio has started gaining popularity; it allows nationwide coverage with a much smaller investment in infrastructure.
There's also the consideration that (with the exception of NPR) radio here doesn't depend on the government for its funding. Just as the lack of a government monopoly on phone service means we have a half-dozen mutually-incompatible cell-phone standards that fight it out in the marketplace, the lack of a government radio monopoly means that as you drive down the road, you'll need to either seek out different radio stations (most car stereos anymore have a button or two to make that easy) or bring your own music (which is what I'd recommend).
Maybe if you're using something that isn't designed to resolve those dependencies...hell, my understanding of RPM is that it has a hard-enough time keeping dependencies in binary packages straightened out. If you're using a distro that's designed for source-based upgrades, it'll pull in any updated dependencies automagically and build them before building a new version of Firefox (or whatever).
Maybe they'd make it so crappy that it wraps around and actually becomes good, in a strange way...kinda like Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Then again, maybe monkeys might fly out of my butt.