What was I supposed to see there? I saw a fairly simple page with an iframe, no popups etc, a few minibanners in the friends section in the lower left.
What does Redirect Remover do that NoScript doesn't? I know that NoScript does stop many redirects, but haven't looked too closely at that part of its functionality.
My workaround, FWIW, is that when I find a post funny, especially if it is already modded as "Funny", I mod it as "Underrated". Not really enough to make a big difference, but it's all I've got.
Note that the following comment doesn't apply to popup ads, popunders, obnoxious noisy Flash applets, etc, but:
OK, so what do you recommend people use to deal with these if not Adblock or something similar?
You know that Simpsons episode where Homer and Lisa are going to the museum and Homer starts taking the piss out of the voluntary $5 donation? Then Lisa's teacher comes along and he starts telling him he doesn't have to pay either, and laughing like a selfish moron?
That's the way I see people who gleefully tell the world to use Adblock. Do you want to be like that?
Your example doesn't address the fact that the price you're paying is not only your attention and bandwidth but also your privacy. Those ads aren't just passive images, they're tracking your movements across the web (and your email, if you're stupid enough to allow it).
Actually, Filterset.G is probably the problem if you're using AdBlock Plus with it. ABP gets bogged down by all the regex in Filterset.G. Try it with EasyList/EasyElement, it's a lot faster.
I'm not a fan of this internet-only distribution model, because if it were to become ubiquitous, the music industry would be shafting a significant number of people. Shafting whom, and howso? Would there be more people shafted than with the current model?
I probably will, mainly because I like what they're doing with this release.
But what really I wanted you to elaborate on was what knowing them would have told me about how this isn't about the money (if I'm remembering/interpreting your earlier post correctly - don't want to go back to it and possibly lose my text in this reply).
My guess is that Radiohead has accepted the "piracy". They're making non-DRMed music available, so either they are aware that people will share the files or they are idiots - and they just left EMI, so I'm guessing they're not idiots.
I've actually been trying to find information from Radiohead (looked around the In Rainbows site, mostly) regarding what they authorize or even prefer in terms of sharing/not sharing this album. They don't seem to specify, which to me, given that they are very specifically distributing non-DRM laden digital music in a time when DRM is the norm, seems to imply that they don't actually mind it being distributed by others.
If you have information on this please do post links, I am very interested in reading about it. I'm especially interested in finding out Radiohead's thoughts on the matter at this point.
I don't think so. I think the author of the article is right, and that what it would do is encourage current MS-installing OEMs to compete by offering alternative OSes. I think that were MS to try to squeeze out their OEMs with their usual anticompetitive practices they'd lose much more than they'd gain.
If Microsoft wanted to sell a Windows PC that it itself made, then this also wouldn't be a problem. It would substantially tick off Microsoft's hardware OEM partners, but wouldn't be a problem from a competitiveness perspective.
And along the same lines, Microsoft could bundle whatever software they wanted in the box they produce.
Viper is far superior to Vimacs! (A new kind of flame war, whee!)
In all seriousness, I have never tried Vimacs (I don't think I'd actually heard of it before reading your post) and am only recently playing with Viper as a method of reacquainting myself with vi commands. No actual flame war intended, I just thought the idea of emacs-emulating-vi vs vi-emulating-emacs as a flame war was kinda funny.
Yeah right. You can request your money back and ask for technical support all you want, but when exactly was the last time you actually received your money back or useful technical support from Microsoft?
...And do you have some delusion that Microsoft is focused 100% on getting everyday usage right? Then why is it that nearly every home user's Windows box that I see is constantly alerting about the security updates they haven't downloaded? And why do these users complain about the problems their computers give them instead of rejoicing with the ease and perfection of having a 100% everyday usage oriented OS?
As a simple example, a couple weeks ago, when I was visiting a realtor, she tried for 5 or 10 minutes to get her computer to bring up some MLS site, and was about to give up before I had to step in and get her connected to the office's wireless network. If Windows is such an ideal, usable operating system, why would the user have such a problem? Should she have called Microsoft, would they have walked her through getting the system on the network?
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What was I supposed to see there? I saw a fairly simple page with an iframe, no popups etc, a few minibanners in the friends section in the lower left.
I've never seen one (Running same combination as GP).
What does Redirect Remover do that NoScript doesn't? I know that NoScript does stop many redirects, but haven't looked too closely at that part of its functionality.
Neat! I'll try it out soon.
My workaround, FWIW, is that when I find a post funny, especially if it is already modded as "Funny", I mod it as "Underrated". Not really enough to make a big difference, but it's all I've got.
Why not just text it?
Note that the following comment doesn't apply to popup ads, popunders, obnoxious noisy Flash applets, etc, but:
OK, so what do you recommend people use to deal with these if not Adblock or something similar?
You know that Simpsons episode where Homer and Lisa are going to the museum and Homer starts taking the piss out of the voluntary $5 donation? Then Lisa's teacher comes along and he starts telling him he doesn't have to pay either, and laughing like a selfish moron?
That's the way I see people who gleefully tell the world to use Adblock. Do you want to be like that?
Your example doesn't address the fact that the price you're paying is not only your attention and bandwidth but also your privacy. Those ads aren't just passive images, they're tracking your movements across the web (and your email, if you're stupid enough to allow it).
Actually, Filterset.G is probably the problem if you're using AdBlock Plus with it. ABP gets bogged down by all the regex in Filterset.G. Try it with EasyList/EasyElement, it's a lot faster.
Nice, Slashdot has invented a new logical fallacy: The Burning Man Fallacy.
Despite the insightful mods, I think GP was trying to be funny.
Emacs has a mode for that.
OK got it. Now I understand your earlier post. Thanks.
I probably will, mainly because I like what they're doing with this release.
But what really I wanted you to elaborate on was what knowing them would have told me about how this isn't about the money (if I'm remembering/interpreting your earlier post correctly - don't want to go back to it and possibly lose my text in this reply).
My guess is that Radiohead has accepted the "piracy". They're making non-DRMed music available, so either they are aware that people will share the files or they are idiots - and they just left EMI, so I'm guessing they're not idiots.
I've actually been trying to find information from Radiohead (looked around the In Rainbows site, mostly) regarding what they authorize or even prefer in terms of sharing/not sharing this album. They don't seem to specify, which to me, given that they are very specifically distributing non-DRM laden digital music in a time when DRM is the norm, seems to imply that they don't actually mind it being distributed by others.
If you have information on this please do post links, I am very interested in reading about it. I'm especially interested in finding out Radiohead's thoughts on the matter at this point.
I don't. Please elaborate.
I don't think so. I think the author of the article is right, and that what it would do is encourage current MS-installing OEMs to compete by offering alternative OSes. I think that were MS to try to squeeze out their OEMs with their usual anticompetitive practices they'd lose much more than they'd gain.
And along the same lines, Microsoft could bundle whatever software they wanted in the box they produce.
Those are Cheech & Chong references.
Does this include IE?
Hey, did you come up with that sig yourself? I did mine.
Viper is far superior to Vimacs! (A new kind of flame war, whee!)
In all seriousness, I have never tried Vimacs (I don't think I'd actually heard of it before reading your post) and am only recently playing with Viper as a method of reacquainting myself with vi commands. No actual flame war intended, I just thought the idea of emacs-emulating-vi vs vi-emulating-emacs as a flame war was kinda funny.
I somehow doubt that the settings in fstab would matter to Windows at all.
Yeah right. You can request your money back and ask for technical support all you want, but when exactly was the last time you actually received your money back or useful technical support from Microsoft?
...And do you have some delusion that Microsoft is focused 100% on getting everyday usage right? Then why is it that nearly every home user's Windows box that I see is constantly alerting about the security updates they haven't downloaded? And why do these users complain about the problems their computers give them instead of rejoicing with the ease and perfection of having a 100% everyday usage oriented OS?
As a simple example, a couple weeks ago, when I was visiting a realtor, she tried for 5 or 10 minutes to get her computer to bring up some MLS site, and was about to give up before I had to step in and get her connected to the office's wireless network. If Windows is such an ideal, usable operating system, why would the user have such a problem? Should she have called Microsoft, would they have walked her through getting the system on the network?