It's not that I want to hide the ads. What I want is to hide the annoyance of the ads. Keep the ads subtle and out of the flow of what I'm on a site for, and I won't want to block them.
It's not that I want to hide the ads -- well I do want to hide the annoying ones that suddenly start playing sound, or distract me with animations that catch the eye, and especially ones that overly what I went to the site to see in the first place -- but I want to remove everything from my browsing experience that involves slowing it down by downloading more data than absolutely necessary. Unwanted ads add no information to the page and slow down the whole experience.
Why on earth isn't "Adobe Reader X Protected Mode" the default?
Wouldn't matter since Reader X crashes on every XP system I've tried it on. That leaves me with Reader 9, and I don't really care to hear any comments about why I shouldn't be on XP. It's not dead or out of support yet and I have my reasons to still be running it.
My question is: after all of these years, why can't Adobe write a secure version of reader. I mean it's just one program to do basically one simple enough thing. Are they too busy on new development to actually fix their existing product?
There have been a lot of nice and informative comments to this point about the various facets and symptoms of the problem, but here is the problem itself: Corporate Attitudes.
1: Companies don't give you time to write peer-reviewed documentation because that doesn't contribute to Time To Market and overall productivity.
2: Companies seldom ask you to train your replacement in the I.T. world because they don't want you around once you realize that you're about to be laid off/fired. Who in I.T. hasn't had the experience yet of being marched off the property under the watchful eye of somebody (I've had it done where they guy actually carried a gun) within an hour of being told that you don't work here any longer. You find that you passwords were disabled during your 15 minute (at most) exit interview and given a box to clean out your work-area under guard.
3: Most importantly, the corporate belief is that nobody is indispensable, and they're willing to prove it with you no matter how much you know that no one else does because the more senior that you were, the less anyone else was watching over what you did in the first place.
In short, you're gone and they simply don't appreciate or value what they lost with you. And find this far more prevalent in I.T. than in most other areas.
The flip-side is that you've probably also been hired at least once to pick up and complete an undocumented project of someone else that they previously let go. Isn't that fun?
Apple finally rediscovered its favorite business model in the iPhone, because cell phone customers haven't yet figured out that phones are little computers with antennas now.
Well, I have a college degree in Computer Science and I figured that out a long time ago, as well as just how much I despise just abut everything Apple out there -- starting with Job's iArrogance. I have no Apple products in my life and never had.
What would it take to get Apple into my life? You'd probably have to give it to me for free, and that includes free of any monthly subscription charges. I didn't go to college to become stupid.
...if someone came to me looking for work with Zynga on their resume I'd throw them out of the building on the spot. Working for those scum makes you unemployable.
Wouldn't the fact that they were smart enough to no longer be working for Zynga count somewhat in their favor?
ENOUGH OF THIS! It's time for the governments to step like they once did for automobiles and institute a compulsory license (including removing all of the invalid patents) scheme for everyone. Otherwise it will soon either be impossible to build anything that we, the people as a whole, wish to purchase, or we will have to purchase it from the monopoly builder at extortionate rates. Waiting for all of these patents to expire is not an option.
The proof of the fact that your guess is wrong is that the CO2 level in the atmosphere has never been above around 300 ppmv for millions of years but since the advent of human burning of fossil fuels it has risen to 390 ppmv in a bit over 200 years. That is unprecedented in the existence of the genus homo.
What a proper scientist would say, given that data, is: "All we can know from that is that we're in unknown territory, and nothing else yet is proven, or dis-proven."
Lying climate change deniers like the Koch brothers and many thousands of their other petrofuel and polluter cronies do make millions.
You are a lying fool.
Tell me again how the Koch brothers are melting the Martian icecaps as well right now. I kind of missed that part.
And oh, btw, are they also responsible for the last 7 warming periods after mini-ice ages? Or were all of those Doc Brown and his time-traveling DeLorean?
One can quite easily accept climate change, heck it changes all of the time, and still deny that it is either human caused -- or human fixable, no matter how much money you try to take away from me on that flimsy pretense. It was only 35 years ago that Global Cooling was the great national panic.
A year or more ago, I commented that I didn't think the Tea Party would have a long-term affect because they weren't motivated enough to burn down an ROTC building nor were the police scared enough of them to hit them with tear gas.
The Tea Party took their protests out of the parks and into the voting booths -- and have already had a long-term effect.
I mean, how can the policeman be threatened if during the entire video there wasn't a single threatening movement from the students?
Disobeying a lawful order to disperse is threatening the social order. The police cannot have their authority questioned here without surrendering their authority everywhere. I would have hosed the protesters down myself if I'd been there.
I am posting in anon-mode for reasons that will become obvious.
I find it unfortunate that you feel the need to hide yourself because your views aren't their views. That they have intimidated you, if not into silence, at least into anonymity. When the maniacs out there can shout down the opposing voices, they've taken a large step towards winning.
In other words many of the protestors are just off of the free ride, last point where parents cover you, and hit the point where everything they have worked hard for, they finally could be independent, but the economy and job market are in such chaos, they have nowhere to go but down.
Then why aren't they protesting in front of the White House? Wall Street isn't going to fix the problem. And it really is okay to protest a Democratic president -- even the first Black one. Remember Chicago 1968?
You have far to much faith in the system. As long as this massive inequity exists these protests will continue.
And just what system are you proposing to replace this one with? One that transfers even more money from those who actually do work to those who sit in dirty parks demanding college educations and everything else for free?
Somehow I strongly suspect that I would like any replacement system a whole lot worse than the current one.
If a cop beats a protester to death for no apparent reason and it is covered by several independent video cameras, he's a lot more likely to answer for his actions than if it was merely witnessed by 50 protesters who were also being beaten.
And just how many OWS protesters have been beaten to death so far by the cops? About zero maybe?
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It's not that I want to hide the ads. What I want is to hide the annoyance of the ads. Keep the ads subtle and out of the flow of what I'm on a site for, and I won't want to block them.
It's not that I want to hide the ads -- well I do want to hide the annoying ones that suddenly start playing sound, or distract me with animations that catch the eye, and especially ones that overly what I went to the site to see in the first place -- but I want to remove everything from my browsing experience that involves slowing it down by downloading more data than absolutely necessary. Unwanted ads add no information to the page and slow down the whole experience.
Why on earth isn't "Adobe Reader X Protected Mode" the default?
Wouldn't matter since Reader X crashes on every XP system I've tried it on. That leaves me with Reader 9, and I don't really care to hear any comments about why I shouldn't be on XP. It's not dead or out of support yet and I have my reasons to still be running it.
My question is: after all of these years, why can't Adobe write a secure version of reader. I mean it's just one program to do basically one simple enough thing. Are they too busy on new development to actually fix their existing product?
There have been a lot of nice and informative comments to this point about the various facets and symptoms of the problem, but here is the problem itself: Corporate Attitudes.
1: Companies don't give you time to write peer-reviewed documentation because that doesn't contribute to Time To Market and overall productivity.
2: Companies seldom ask you to train your replacement in the I.T. world because they don't want you around once you realize that you're about to be laid off/fired. Who in I.T. hasn't had the experience yet of being marched off the property under the watchful eye of somebody (I've had it done where they guy actually carried a gun) within an hour of being told that you don't work here any longer. You find that you passwords were disabled during your 15 minute (at most) exit interview and given a box to clean out your work-area under guard.
3: Most importantly, the corporate belief is that nobody is indispensable, and they're willing to prove it with you no matter how much you know that no one else does because the more senior that you were, the less anyone else was watching over what you did in the first place.
In short, you're gone and they simply don't appreciate or value what they lost with you. And find this far more prevalent in I.T. than in most other areas.
The flip-side is that you've probably also been hired at least once to pick up and complete an undocumented project of someone else that they previously let go. Isn't that fun?
Anyone else think they sound like made-up names from really bad science fictions movies?
Treknobabble.
I'm waiting for the magical, life-changing element #125, that should either be called Protonite, or Magicium -- because it will be.
Apple finally rediscovered its favorite business model in the iPhone, because cell phone customers haven't yet figured out that phones are little computers with antennas now.
Well, I have a college degree in Computer Science and I figured that out a long time ago, as well as just how much I despise just abut everything Apple out there -- starting with Job's iArrogance. I have no Apple products in my life and never had.
What would it take to get Apple into my life? You'd probably have to give it to me for free, and that includes free of any monthly subscription charges. I didn't go to college to become stupid.
...if someone came to me looking for work with Zynga on their resume I'd throw them out of the building on the spot. Working for those scum makes you unemployable.
Wouldn't the fact that they were smart enough to no longer be working for Zynga count somewhat in their favor?
Time for a Union!
That is almost never the right solution in today's world.
Seriously. If you aren't paying for it, you aren't the customer. You're the product being sold.
That should be your sig line.
Does anybody believe this any longer?
Considering that Zynga is being run by a moron and a thief, how much worse can it get?
And if you're not building a product utilizing your patent, you lose it.
ENOUGH OF THIS! It's time for the governments to step like they once did for automobiles and institute a compulsory license (including removing all of the invalid patents) scheme for everyone. Otherwise it will soon either be impossible to build anything that we, the people as a whole, wish to purchase, or we will have to purchase it from the monopoly builder at extortionate rates. Waiting for all of these patents to expire is not an option.
1: How can I determine if this rootkit crapware is on my Android phone?
2: How can I remove it?
3: How can I sue Carrier IQ for invasion of privacy and anything else that good lawyer can think of?
The proof of the fact that your guess is wrong is that the CO2 level in the atmosphere has never been above around 300 ppmv for millions of years but since the advent of human burning of fossil fuels it has risen to 390 ppmv in a bit over 200 years. That is unprecedented in the existence of the genus homo.
What a proper scientist would say, given that data, is: "All we can know from that is that we're in unknown territory, and nothing else yet is proven, or dis-proven."
Climate scientists don't make much money.
Lying climate change deniers like the Koch brothers and many thousands of their other petrofuel and polluter cronies do make millions.
You are a lying fool.
Tell me again how the Koch brothers are melting the Martian icecaps as well right now. I kind of missed that part.
And oh, btw, are they also responsible for the last 7 warming periods after mini-ice ages? Or were all of those Doc Brown and his time-traveling DeLorean?
One can quite easily accept climate change, heck it changes all of the time, and still deny that it is either human caused -- or human fixable, no matter how much money you try to take away from me on that flimsy pretense. It was only 35 years ago that Global Cooling was the great national panic.
And so the T-Mobile girl lives to strut another day.
And it took them how long to figure this out? Most of us knew it in the first 5 minutes.
A year or more ago, I commented that I didn't think the Tea Party would have a long-term affect because they weren't motivated enough to burn down an ROTC building nor were the police scared enough of them to hit them with tear gas.
The Tea Party took their protests out of the parks and into the voting booths -- and have already had a long-term effect.
I mean, how can the policeman be threatened if during the entire video there wasn't a single threatening movement from the students?
Disobeying a lawful order to disperse is threatening the social order. The police cannot have their authority questioned here without surrendering their authority everywhere. I would have hosed the protesters down myself if I'd been there.
I am posting in anon-mode for reasons that will become obvious.
I find it unfortunate that you feel the need to hide yourself because your views aren't their views. That they have intimidated you, if not into silence, at least into anonymity. When the maniacs out there can shout down the opposing voices, they've taken a large step towards winning.
In other words many of the protestors are just off of the free ride, last point where parents cover you, and hit the point where everything they have worked hard for, they finally could be independent, but the economy and job market are in such chaos, they have nowhere to go but down.
Then why aren't they protesting in front of the White House? Wall Street isn't going to fix the problem. And it really is okay to protest a Democratic president -- even the first Black one. Remember Chicago 1968?
I'd +1 punch you in the face if you weren't an anonymous coward.
And I'd +1 punch YOU in the face for punching him. He makes a lot more sense than you do.
You have far to much faith in the system. As long as this massive inequity exists these protests will continue.
And just what system are you proposing to replace this one with? One that transfers even more money from those who actually do work to those who sit in dirty parks demanding college educations and everything else for free?
Somehow I strongly suspect that I would like any replacement system a whole lot worse than the current one.
If a cop beats a protester to death for no apparent reason and it is covered by several independent video cameras, he's a lot more likely to answer for his actions than if it was merely witnessed by 50 protesters who were also being beaten.
And just how many OWS protesters have been beaten to death so far by the cops? About zero maybe?