And here I am, using an unmodified three-year-old copy of the Proxomitron, watching all the antics with mild amusement. It's been three years since I last saw a popup, popunder, floating, or any sort of ad other than banner ads. I've even been seeing fewer banner ads, since the new techniques of showing them rely so heavily on javascript.
I've been using the Proxomitron to block popup and javascript ads for 3+ years now, without updating the filters, and the only effect I've seen from the anti-ad-blocker techniques is fewer ads are showing up -- the javascript techniques now used to display regular banner ads are running right into the Proxomitron's anti-javascript filters. I wonder how many fewer ads I'll see as a result of this latest round of techniques.
Even if you did hit it, a blimp is not going to suddenly pop like a rubber balloon. You might get lucky and hit a motor or some other critical component, but just hitting the surface of the blimp (which is what makes it such a big target) is just going to put a 1/3" hole in something as big as a skyscraper, and make it leak at a negligible rate.
On the other hand, if you explode a shell from a 3.5" antiaircraft gun in the balloon, you get a ~5" entry hole, a bunch of variable-sized holes from the shrapnel, and enormous rips connecting them from the explosion overpressure. Seems quite effective to me.
The higher you go, the farther you can see. I don't recall it exactly, but @ the beach, you can see something like 22~25 miles out to sea. Raise yourself 20 or 30 feet and your viewing distance increases tremendously.
If you're standing at the edge of the water, the horizon is less than three miles away. At 30 feet, it's six and a half miles.
If they are this big, won't any idiot with a gun be able to shoot them down ? Kinds of defeats the purpose if they are meant for surveillance
Not at an altitude of 65,000 feet they can't. Some of the large anti-aircraft guns from WWII, such as the German Flak 18, could, but those aren't exactly the sort of thing J. Random Paranoiac can get his hands on, or make in his basement.
On my Linux install? I don't know which ten executables the X11 package installs first.
Seriously? The first 10 packages I installed when I installed Linux on my system were: 1) Lynx, so I could browse the internet while waiting for everything to compile 2) X11 3) KDE 4) XMMS 5) Opera 6) VNC 7) dnetc 8) Basilisk 9) DosBox 10) GIMP
Of course, most of these have a mess of dependant packages that I'm not counting.
What are you talking about? Those have always been specific brands. By intentionally limiting their use, the companies keep their trademark rights. If the word becomes commonly used, they then have no right to use it as a trademark. Xerox vigorously reminds people that Xerox is a type of copy, not the act of copying itself.
Go back 20 years. In common speech, "Xerox" was a generic verb meaning "the act of making a photocopy". Go back 50 years. In everydayt speech, "Hoover" (capital "H") was a generic noun meaning "a device for cleaning carpets by use of suction".
all cola is coke, all tissues are kleenex, etc... doesn't really suprise me.
Sometimes, the trend can go the other way, too. For example, these days "Hoover" is just a brand of vacuum cleaner, and Xerox is a manufacturer of photocopiers.
Willing? Perhaps. Able? I doubt it. What kind of delivery system would they use?
I don't know about N. Korea, but I'd use a short-range ballistic missile. With a nuke, you don't have to hit, you just need to come close enough. An air-blast nuke a mile off probably won't sink any of the ships of the carrier group, but it'll probably render the entire group unfit for battle.
I think it's correct. A lot of these games don't release accurate subscriber numbers. For example, the numbers for TSO are certainly an estimate, because EA isn't about to admit how badly it's failing.
That would make a lot more sense. Protect against the exploit, publicize it, then watch what happens to determine which groups are most adept at quickly exploiting published vulnerabilities and raid their location. Neat idea for a large-scale honeypot.
The exploit depends on a spoofed source IP address. There's no way of tracing it back to the true source.
Q:How many libertarians does it take to stop a Panzer division? A:None, obviously market forces will take care of it.
Actually, it depends. An economic libertarian will let market forces do the job. A social libertarian may very well have an anti-tank gun in the garage.
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Babelfish made its typical butchery of that, but am I correct in assuming that's the Quebecois version of "O Canada!"?
We've previously discussed the pluses and minuses of paper-based 'official' game guides.
The problem with "official" game guides is that the game publisher usually uses them as an excuse not to include a manual with the game.
Sounds good. What's the job market like up there?
And here I am, using an unmodified three-year-old copy of the Proxomitron, watching all the antics with mild amusement. It's been three years since I last saw a popup, popunder, floating, or any sort of ad other than banner ads. I've even been seeing fewer banner ads, since the new techniques of showing them rely so heavily on javascript.
So what? The next service pack for Internet Explorer is about to come out, with popup blocking enabled by default, that's what.
All of a sudden, it's going to go from 20% to (potentially) 100%. Major change.
Someone mod parent up! An un-obfusicated link to Tubgirl should be preserved for posterity!
I've been using the Proxomitron to block popup and javascript ads for 3+ years now, without updating the filters, and the only effect I've seen from the anti-ad-blocker techniques is fewer ads are showing up -- the javascript techniques now used to display regular banner ads are running right into the Proxomitron's anti-javascript filters. I wonder how many fewer ads I'll see as a result of this latest round of techniques.
You mean like this?
I thought cigs were something you smoked, not something you snorted!
All Hail the Great GNU! All Hail the Great GNU!
Even if you did hit it, a blimp is not going to suddenly pop like a rubber balloon. You might get lucky and hit a motor or some other critical component, but just hitting the surface of the blimp (which is what makes it such a big target) is just going to put a 1/3" hole in something as big as a skyscraper, and make it leak at a negligible rate.
On the other hand, if you explode a shell from a 3.5" antiaircraft gun in the balloon, you get a ~5" entry hole, a bunch of variable-sized holes from the shrapnel, and enormous rips connecting them from the explosion overpressure. Seems quite effective to me.
The higher you go, the farther you can see. I don't recall it exactly, but @ the beach, you can see something like 22~25 miles out to sea. Raise yourself 20 or 30 feet and your viewing distance increases tremendously.
If you're standing at the edge of the water, the horizon is less than three miles away. At 30 feet, it's six and a half miles.
At 65000 feet, it's 314 miles away.
If they are this big, won't any idiot with a gun be able to shoot them down ? Kinds of defeats the purpose if they are meant for surveillance
Not at an altitude of 65,000 feet they can't. Some of the large anti-aircraft guns from WWII, such as the German Flak 18, could, but those aren't exactly the sort of thing J. Random Paranoiac can get his hands on, or make in his basement.
On my Linux install? I don't know which ten executables the X11 package installs first.
Seriously? The first 10 packages I installed when I installed Linux on my system were:
1) Lynx, so I could browse the internet while waiting for everything to compile
2) X11
3) KDE
4) XMMS
5) Opera
6) VNC
7) dnetc
8) Basilisk
9) DosBox
10) GIMP
Of course, most of these have a mess of dependant packages that I'm not counting.
alURbaseRbelng2us. Who-ever invented sms has caused a generation of teenagers to hack sentences down to as few characters as they can.
You've got too many characters in that, then. Try
LURbseRblng2us.
What are you talking about? Those have always been specific brands. By intentionally limiting their use, the companies keep their trademark rights. If the word becomes commonly used, they then have no right to use it as a trademark. Xerox vigorously reminds people that Xerox is a type of copy, not the act of copying itself.
Go back 20 years. In common speech, "Xerox" was a generic verb meaning "the act of making a photocopy". Go back 50 years. In everydayt speech, "Hoover" (capital "H") was a generic noun meaning "a device for cleaning carpets by use of suction".
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Tonkat (The OS Now Known As Tonkat) actually sounds much better than Linspire.
It's about time someone came up with a tail-recursive acronymic name! There are entirely too many head-recursive names already.
all cola is coke, all tissues are kleenex, etc... doesn't really suprise me.
Sometimes, the trend can go the other way, too. For example, these days "Hoover" is just a brand of vacuum cleaner, and Xerox is a manufacturer of photocopiers.
Willing? Perhaps. Able? I doubt it. What kind of delivery system would they use?
I don't know about N. Korea, but I'd use a short-range ballistic missile. With a nuke, you don't have to hit, you just need to come close enough. An air-blast nuke a mile off probably won't sink any of the ships of the carrier group, but it'll probably render the entire group unfit for battle.
Sewing involves applying force over a very small area. Stabbing involves applying that force over a much larger area.
I think it's correct. A lot of these games don't release accurate subscriber numbers. For example, the numbers for TSO are certainly an estimate, because EA isn't about to admit how badly it's failing.
You're favorite class/race/job not the best? Complain and flame about 'balance' issues.
You know a game is balanced when every class is screaming that every other class should be nerfed.
That would make a lot more sense. Protect against the exploit, publicize it, then watch what happens to determine which groups are most adept at quickly exploiting published vulnerabilities and raid their location. Neat idea for a large-scale honeypot.
The exploit depends on a spoofed source IP address. There's no way of tracing it back to the true source.
Q:How many libertarians does it take to stop a Panzer division? A:None, obviously market forces will take care of it.
Actually, it depends. An economic libertarian will let market forces do the job. A social libertarian may very well have an anti-tank gun in the garage.