But keep in mind that the URL and filename are just the most obvious ways to filter ads -- even if they obfuscate those, you can filter based upon link targets, and image size/location.
An ISP can't just insert an ad in a page -- if they just send you a.jpg or flash file when you open a site, the browser won't know where to put it and discard it. They'd have to modify the HTML so it contains a tag that says "place http://isp.com/ad.jpg here," and once that happens you can nuke it with Adblock.
Unless the ISP stores the ads in random directories with random names, it'll be possible to construct an Adblock filter for them. The bigger concern is that even if I block the ads, the ISP is still aggregating information about my surfing habits and distributing it to third parties.
Use tor... Sure, it is slower, but it bypasses the ISP tracking.
However the last node in the chain can see anything you do that isn't using HTTPS/SSL, and if anything you do gives away your identity, they can figure out who you are.
Oh, and some of them may be run by governments and criminal organizations.
IMHO once you start reinforcing it with kevlar it ceases to be a pop bottle. At least I've never drank soda out of such a thing before...
It's cutting edge military tech -- Halliburton produces them at $6000 per bottle, or $3500 for a six pack. But the damned liberal Congress refuses to include them in the budget, so our noble soldiers in Iraq end up with bullet-riddled soda bottles.
FRY: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
LEELA: Of course.
FRY: But, how is that possible?
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg.
[He shows an egg and injects it with liquid from a syringe until the egg explodes.]
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
LEELA: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?
FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree.
No, at present time you can have pretty decent security if you go through the trouble of enabling it, and even if you don't, you can make sure that anything important you do online is encrypted between your computer and the server.
On the up side, if we're talking a wireless setup with the weak signal most home setups have, anyone attempting to crack it is also within physical ass-kicking distance.
What do you do if you live in an apartment? Beat up twenty people who are close enough to latch on to your signal?
Information wants to be free! Whether it's your diary, pr0n collection (including home made pr0n), resume, or friends network, it will find a way to get into the wild. You cannot escape it. It is the future.
If artificial intelligence ever gets to the point where it is greater than humans, won't it be capable of producing even better AI, which would in turn create even better AI, and so on?
You aren't going to get modded up for repeating things Vernor Vinge said twenty years ago.
The increasingly dull associations with the Dell brand? Maybe they should change their name to Dull.
If you're the sort of retard who thinks a custom built case that looks like a silly alien is |3\/\/1, sure. But if you're the sort of person who buys computers based on reliability and capabilities, Dell is a great brand. I'd rather have a plain-jane cell phone that's reliable, than some overpriced flanged monstrosity that looks like it was designed by a pimply-faced 13 year old boy who spends more time playing D&D than fantasizing about girls.
There is a case that, for me, was the last straw. It was written in the Pilot, which is a major Virginia media outlet. I have a write up here showing how much of a f$%^ing lapdog the media was in not questioning how the police carried out this raid.
Say what you will about the mainstream media, but they don't have guys shilling their websites on Internet fora.
RTFA - the laptop was stolen from Worst Buy, most probably by an employee, as it was in a "secure area". As such, they are liable for the contents - it has nothing to do with any warranty or protection plan.
Not just any employee -- an NSA agent who was tipped off that the woman is in fact international superspy Nadia Baderinka. This is obviously a viral marketing campaign for "Chuck".
People need to realize that once data hits a public facing server unsecured you can say goodby to any privacy. From that point on you will be archived, scraped, spidered, copied, pasted, jacked off to, daydreamed about, blogged, included in research, and a million other things you never intended to happen
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Hydrazine+lunar eclipse=zombies!
But keep in mind that the URL and filename are just the most obvious ways to filter ads -- even if they obfuscate those, you can filter based upon link targets, and image size/location.
An ISP can't just insert an ad in a page -- if they just send you a .jpg or flash file when you open a site, the browser won't know where to put it and discard it. They'd have to modify the HTML so it contains a tag that says "place http://isp.com/ad.jpg here," and once that happens you can nuke it with Adblock.
Unless the ISP stores the ads in random directories with random names, it'll be possible to construct an Adblock filter for them. The bigger concern is that even if I block the ads, the ISP is still aggregating information about my surfing habits and distributing it to third parties.
Oh, and some of them may be run by governments and criminal organizations.
No, it's bad when Google does it, and anyone who is really concerned about privacy sends Google's cookies to the bitbucket and blocks the ads.
Impossible. It took about sixty to lift Kari.
Worse than that:
FRY: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
LEELA: Of course.
FRY: But, how is that possible?
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg.
[He shows an egg and injects it with liquid from a syringe until the egg explodes.]
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
LEELA: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?
FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree.
No, at present time you can have pretty decent security if you go through the trouble of enabling it, and even if you don't, you can make sure that anything important you do online is encrypted between your computer and the server.
Information wants to be free! Whether it's your diary, pr0n collection (including home made pr0n), resume, or friends network, it will find a way to get into the wild. You cannot escape it. It is the future.
You aren't going to get modded up for repeating things Vernor Vinge said twenty years ago.
If you're the sort of retard who thinks a custom built case that looks like a silly alien is |3\/\/1, sure. But if you're the sort of person who buys computers based on reliability and capabilities, Dell is a great brand. I'd rather have a plain-jane cell phone that's reliable, than some overpriced flanged monstrosity that looks like it was designed by a pimply-faced 13 year old boy who spends more time playing D&D than fantasizing about girls.
This is what P2P and Usenet is for -- skanky college girls who need money for pot getting pounded by a tattooed guy in the back of a van.
There'll be time to strip mine the other planets later.
Where I live, "local" friends might live up to thirty, forty miles away. A bit of a trip for a drink.
Information!
-You won't get it.
By hook or by crook
If by that you mean "a collection of buzz-words that everyone uses without having Clue 1 what the hell they're talking about," yes.