There is certainly nothing illegal about and no realistic way to stop them.
No way to stop them? AdBlock currently uses a very simple wildcard to filter out Ads. If it's use becomes widespread, you can be sure that sites will become smarter about strucuring their pages so that it is difficult or impossible to block Ads without blocking text and/or image content.
e.g.: Take a page at url mysite.com/index.html . This page just consists of a bunch of iframes, which contain the page content, and the ads. The source of those iframes are from apparently random URLs that all look like mysite.com/?2pg904a82n84 . These content/ad URLs also change with each page reload. How do block the ads next time?
The only reason that a small 'elite' percentage of net users are able to surf Ad-free is that they're not yet a statistically significant group. Whey they become signficant, things will change. Enjoy the Ad-free content while you can!
I agree with other comments that state that a film scanner is probably your best option- they're quite slow, but will give vastly superior results.
If you only want to scan a few slides/negs (less than, say, a few hundred) it might be cheaper and faster to just sent them to a good Photo Lab.
If you have the scans done at at the same time as development, it's even cheaper.
Yes, before the leap to 8 billion pages they were indexing 4285199744 pages, which is 99.8% of 2^32 (4294967296) - these numbers seem too close to be a coincidence (they differ by about 1 million).
The only real way to make sure that your grandkids get to see your digital photos is to make real photographic prints from them.
This isn't really true- people use their grandparents photographs as an example, but their grandparents photographs were black and white prints on high quality acid-free paper. Colour negatives also start to deteriorate within a few years.
Unless you're using very high paper it's chances of being guaranteed for more than 30 years are low.
I can see how a colony of honeybees could survuve a few years of absolute darkness.
I don't think the whole colony has to survive- only the queen. As far as I know, in northern climates, new queens are sent out from the hive at the end of the year to hibernate for the winter, and the old hive dies off.
It's not impossible to imagine the queens hibernating for a year or two while waiting for the flowers to return.
Isnt this like the whole "Frosted Mini-Wheats" VS. "Frosted Mini-Spooners" (Brand X) debate? I think a Kroger grocery store billboard in Richmond VA put it best. There is a picture of a field of String Peas plants on a farm. In the middle is a LARGE string pea sliced open. On the left is an arrow pointing to the top pea in the pod which says "National Brand" while the pea in the middle has an arrow on the right pointing to it which says "Kroger Brand".
Doesn't always hold true though; supermarket own-brand Corn Flakes and Shreddies are rarely a patch on Kellogs and Nabisco, and non-Heinz baked beans are often just bean mush.
I had a summer job in the UK at a vegetable pickling plant a few years ago. We produced a few different brands, including supermarket brands. While most did brands did just get a different lid and label at the end of the line, Marks & Spencer sent their own Quality Control people to monitor the production line and finished product. At the other end of the scale, a cheapo supermarket sent us back some almost-expired jars of beetroot for re-pasturising and re-labelling- yumm.
Windows XP Professional saw 46 advisories in 2003-2004, with 48% of vulnerabilities allowing remote attacks and 46% enabling system access, Secunia said.
So that would mean, multiplying 46 by 48% would give you the number of remote attacks, and multiplying 46 by 46% would give you the number of attacks enabling system access. So for Windows:
22.08 remote attacks.
21.16 system access attacks.
Don't ask me why they are not integers. I suppose that some advisorys covered more than one bug?
They're close to, but not exactly, integers because the percentages have been rounded off- 47.82608695652...% is less useful to the reader than 48%
This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done
"I think one of the major points that Michael Moore was trying to get across, is that American's [sic] have more gun violence because of fear"
I felt this was where the film went off the rails. Americans aren't as as frightened and paranoid now as they were between the Second World War and the 60's.
The bit in Toronto was stupid too- I've seen people who don't lock their houses in some neighbourhoods there, but don't try that in the rest of the country (or even the City).
...it was obviously written by the guy that did this. I mean come on, he had to have some kind of idea what would happen, right?
I'm sure he knew exactly what could happen- maybe he feels like more of a complete geek now that he's been slashdotted. I'm sure his imaginary friends are impressed at any rate.
Slashdot Mirror
e.g.: Take a page at url mysite.com/index.html . This page just consists of a bunch of iframes, which contain the page content, and the ads. The source of those iframes are from apparently random URLs that all look like mysite.com/?2pg904a82n84 . These content/ad URLs also change with each page reload. How do block the ads next time?
The only reason that a small 'elite' percentage of net users are able to surf Ad-free is that they're not yet a statistically significant group. Whey they become signficant, things will change. Enjoy the Ad-free content while you can!
If you only want to scan a few slides/negs (less than, say, a few hundred) it might be cheaper and faster to just sent them to a good Photo Lab. If you have the scans done at at the same time as development, it's even cheaper.
Some examples: 35mm Negative scans of the protests to George Bush's trip to Ottawa last week done for CAD$5/film at a cheapy 1-hour photo place
Some negative scans with my Nikon Coolscan V ED
The joystick looks like the classic Kempston Competition Pro 5000. Anyone know if it's got the same rugged microswitches that used to be in these?
Yes, before the leap to 8 billion pages they were indexing 4285199744 pages, which is 99.8% of 2^32 (4294967296) - these numbers seem too close to be a coincidence (they differ by about 1 million).
This isn't really true- people use their grandparents photographs as an example, but their grandparents photographs were black and white prints on high quality acid-free paper. Colour negatives also start to deteriorate within a few years.
Unless you're using very high paper it's chances of being guaranteed for more than 30 years are low.
It's not impossible to imagine the queens hibernating for a year or two while waiting for the flowers to return.
Wasn't it the slightly uglier and funnier:
This has to be the least funny "Score:5, Funny" comment I've seen.
Useful for listening to tunes in the darkroom...
Quick course in copy edititing:
With 2 screens, they can finally do that faithful Donkey Kong Game & Watch conversion that we've all been wating for.
Doesn't always hold true though; supermarket own-brand Corn Flakes and Shreddies are rarely a patch on Kellogs and Nabisco, and non-Heinz baked beans are often just bean mush.
I had a summer job in the UK at a vegetable pickling plant a few years ago. We produced a few different brands, including supermarket brands. While most did brands did just get a different lid and label at the end of the line, Marks & Spencer sent their own Quality Control people to monitor the production line and finished product. At the other end of the scale, a cheapo supermarket sent us back some almost-expired jars of beetroot for re-pasturising and re-labelling- yumm.
- 22.08 remote attacks.
- 21.16 system access attacks.
Don't ask me why they are not integers. I suppose that some advisorys covered more than one bug?They're close to, but not exactly, integers because the percentages have been rounded off- 47.82608695652...% is less useful to the reader than 48%
I think the granparent post meant "rev counter", which is a reasonably common synonym for tachometer: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22rev+counter%22
Err, slightly worse than 60fps...
My brother in the UK snapped a few pictures using a pair of binoculars and a bit of cardboard.
This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done
Americans also say "Fourth of July". There's an old British rhyme that starts "Remember, remember the 5th of November...".
Ssshhh, don't tell them how good it is here or they'll come and ruin the place.
Any-country-in-the-world-ian: "do Americans *really* think?"
American: "we don't".
I felt this was where the film went off the rails. Americans aren't as as frightened and paranoid now as they were between the Second World War and the 60's.
The bit in Toronto was stupid too- I've seen people who don't lock their houses in some neighbourhoods there, but don't try that in the rest of the country (or even the City).
An article by Simon & Garfunkel?
I'm sure he knew exactly what could happen- maybe he feels like more of a complete geek now that he's been slashdotted. I'm sure his imaginary friends are impressed at any rate.