Edit your hosts file (theres even one for Windows), and put in all adservers to redirect to localhost. There. No ads, similarly, no extra bloat from Adblock. Plus, it works on whatever, e-mail, browsers, etc.
Thanks for the tip. But this has been discussed before on slashdot the problems with the privoxy and host file mechanisms.
AFAIR Privoxy needs to load the whole page before delivering to the client (that's expected, since it needs the whole stuff in memory in order to analyse it properly).
Anyways, if your problem is restricted to not displaying advertisements, you may try Ziproxy.
It's a transcoding proxy (recompresses pictures and other stuff) and it has a number of weird features, one of those being an option which may be used to replace only pictures from a URL list for empty ones. Not really an ad-blocker proxy per se, but it may be used that way.
Your IQ has just placed you within 1 stdev of mainstream intelligence. Prepare to laugh at fart jokes, cry at the plight of 2 dimensional characters, and rabidly justify gaping plot holes with the theory of intelligent design!
Yes! Finally, I will learn to enjoy Star Trek: Nemesis!
After that movie I'm sure Gene Roddenberry is brent-spinning in his grave.
Nothing new really. We know Microsoft is going to die sooner or later. They've had their run in the industry (...)
While I don't like MS products, neither the company itself, I don't think they will fold (well, at least not so soon).
Depending on how the crisis goes, their market may shrink a lot, FOSS may eat their lunch and lick its fingers. Given enough market pressure MS will be forced to offer better (or different and good) products/services at reasonable prices/terms.
IBM was yesterday's MS and they changed (well, perhaps not that much, but still) and they're no longer the hardware monopoly they were. That's life, nothing personal, life goes on.
Hopefully the following years will be interesting for the IT industry.
Like, a couple want to have kids, but they have to pay for a "DNA combination license" prior to the conception.
Since sex carries the risk of conception, even non-conceptive sex will need a proper authorization and a ID (specifying, among other things, sexual orientation). Gay people don't like that and say it does not apply to them, but so is the law.
Parents would not only worry with feeding, paying school etc. There will be a regular tax which would go to a RIAA-like organization, just in case (how can they be sure your DNA is not owned by them)
Your DNA will entitle you to certain activities, jobs etc and restrict other ones. Much like GATTACA, except that in the real world you will be ugly and sick. But you will have pay anyway.
Then, after you lived a glorious life, you unexpectedly die.
Since your death lacked prior notification, your descendants will have to pay a fine for "unauthorized deactivation of a DNA-carrying device".
Sounds like concerns for the establishments those people are coming from, just as my original point relates to the US.
In a way, your intentional derailment of the point I had made serves to reinforce the point. Thanks!
Derailment? I disagree. I found your comment intriging and I simply added a view from the other side as counterbalance.
Though your thinking may cause a effect which, let's say, may solve the situation I've described, its purpose is different.
Another good question is why we aren't putting the money we put into these people into our own citizens; citizens who will be much less likely to sneak off and leave the hand that fed them out to dry.
Ohh... Poor Uncle Sam.
Let's say a guy gets his education in his home country. It was paid somehow, perhaps the local government paid for him, or perhaps he's indebted. In either case, it's not a trivial amount of money.
Then the guy goes to the U.S. to work. The U.S. did not pay a dime for his education, nor any other expenses he/his_parents/his_country had with him during his whole life. The U.S. did not invest in him, he came ready and is immediately productive.
Will the U.S. take the less qualified people and educate them? Sorry, no. Instead the U.S. cherry picks the best, for free, at the expense of the rest of the World.
And what if he never returns, what about his home country losing a highly qualified person? Well, that's just too bad.
And the U.S. won't be giving anything for free. No way, the guy's going to work his ass off (or else), he'll pay the same taxes as the locals but will have less rights.
If there's a parasite in this history, it's not the foreign guy.
I remember Be, years ago, calling Amiga users to BeOS since it was (so they said) the philosophical successor of Amiga and, differently from the Commodore machine, it had a future and bla bla.
"Don't waste your time with Amiga, it's gone. Go to BeOS" they said.
Choosing a ST over Amiga they saved, what, 100 USD and got a good processor, a OK display, a horrible sound output and a mediocre OS (the MIDI output was nice, but how many people actually used that?). Atari had some good software, let's be fair.
But then they started that ridiculous holy war vs Amiga. If they were so frustrated, why didn't they buy an Amiga in the first place?
Atari ST was an OK machine back then, but comparing to an Amiga was just ridiculous.
Guard: Oh come on, be serious, if you aren't going to do this baggage check stuff properly don't do it at all. Now shove off!
Outcome: Guard doesn't believe such amazingly incriminating answer. Thinks you are obnoxious. Tells you to keep going.
Some people already tried something like that.
Tell me about lacking sense of humor!
Well, since you're reading the news on an American website(...)
Hmm... People love to write that, but where did you get the information the site is U.S.-only?
The Slashdot's first-level domain is not a.us, neither I see the main page stating the site's scope is not world-wide.
Interesting.
But, from what I saw there, you didn't make a real RAID0, you benchmarked several mountpoints simultaneously instead.
A md0-like benchmark will be nice to see.
Kelly is the manager. The thinks that by being so, all she has to do is to blindly believe what is reported to her by her immediate subordinates and act accordingly.
She probably thinks like "Well, if the guy is doing something wrong he will tell me for sure. I mean, people are honest, right? Doing differently would be micromanagement, and that is a bad thing, not synergic at all!".
She was shit-scared of the situation, then the Doug guy came and said this and that. She didn't question herself "Hey, this guy is afraid of losing his job, and some people say what it takes to survive. How can I be sure it was not BS?".
But she was a just a passive manager, and Doug offered her the comfort of a complete solution. He delivered that solution to her, wrapped in cute box with a card.
And she got the bait, because no one else offered to do the very work she was supposed to do.
Slashdot Mirror
Uh... perhaps you didn't check the link?
The GP was actually being critical towards the government.
(...)
- realize OMG I have a job in _IT_
- quit. Become stand up comedian
Where's the "profit" part?
Oh, that's IT we're talking about... nevermind.
I'm looking at around 400 American coders in just my (relatively small) office right now...
Uh... Are they the ones in the line for a job interview, perchance?
The only realistic way to break in to any industry with little to no actual experience is to know someone who can get you a job.
What are the best practices in coming "to know someone who can get you a job"?
Well, it starts with knowing people and keeping the contacts alive.
"It's not what you know, it's who you know"
Not only true, it's also universal.
Hard work, talent and experience are good things, but with only those you may still end up unemployed.
Edit your hosts file (theres even one for Windows), and put in all adservers to redirect to localhost. There. No ads, similarly, no extra bloat from Adblock. Plus, it works on whatever, e-mail, browsers, etc.
Thanks for the tip. But this has been discussed before on slashdot the problems with the privoxy and host file mechanisms.
AFAIR Privoxy needs to load the whole page before delivering to the client (that's expected, since it needs the whole stuff in memory in order to analyse it properly).
Anyways, if your problem is restricted to not displaying advertisements, you may try Ziproxy.
It's a transcoding proxy (recompresses pictures and other stuff) and it has a number of weird features, one of those being an option which may be used to replace only pictures from a URL list for empty ones. Not really an ad-blocker proxy per se, but it may be used that way.
Your IQ has just placed you within 1 stdev of mainstream intelligence. Prepare to laugh at fart jokes, cry at the plight of 2 dimensional characters, and rabidly justify gaping plot holes with the theory of intelligent design!
Yes! Finally, I will learn to enjoy Star Trek: Nemesis!
After that movie I'm sure Gene Roddenberry is brent-spinning in his grave.
Oh my.. that was awful.
Nothing new really. We know Microsoft is going to die sooner or later. They've had their run in the industry (...)
While I don't like MS products, neither the company itself, I don't think they will fold (well, at least not so soon).
Depending on how the crisis goes, their market may shrink a lot, FOSS may eat their lunch and lick its fingers. Given enough market pressure MS will be forced to offer better (or different and good) products/services at reasonable prices/terms.
IBM was yesterday's MS and they changed (well, perhaps not that much, but still) and they're no longer the hardware monopoly they were. That's life, nothing personal, life goes on.
Hopefully the following years will be interesting for the IT industry.
"imagery" is the stuff you see inside your head when you read that strong language.
You mean inside your skull... Or outside it.
Well, whatever.
Hmm... Imagine the possibilities:
Like, a couple want to have kids, but they have to pay for a "DNA combination license" prior to the conception.
Since sex carries the risk of conception, even non-conceptive sex will need a proper authorization and a ID (specifying, among other things, sexual orientation). Gay people don't like that and say it does not apply to them, but so is the law.
Parents would not only worry with feeding, paying school etc. There will be a regular tax which would go to a RIAA-like organization, just in case (how can they be sure your DNA is not owned by them)
Your DNA will entitle you to certain activities, jobs etc and restrict other ones. Much like GATTACA, except that in the real world you will be ugly and sick. But you will have pay anyway.
Then, after you lived a glorious life, you unexpectedly die.
Since your death lacked prior notification, your descendants will have to pay a fine for "unauthorized deactivation of a DNA-carrying device".
Sounds like concerns for the establishments those people are coming from, just as my original point relates to the US.
In a way, your intentional derailment of the point I had made serves to reinforce the point. Thanks!
Derailment? I disagree. I found your comment intriging and I simply added a view from the other side as counterbalance.
Though your thinking may cause a effect which, let's say, may solve the situation I've described, its purpose is different.
Regardless of that, you're welcome!
Another good question is why we aren't putting the money we put into these people into our own citizens; citizens who will be much less likely to sneak off and leave the hand that fed them out to dry.
Ohh... Poor Uncle Sam.
Let's say a guy gets his education in his home country. It was paid somehow, perhaps the local government paid for him, or perhaps he's indebted. In either case, it's not a trivial amount of money.
Then the guy goes to the U.S. to work. The U.S. did not pay a dime for his education, nor any other expenses he/his_parents/his_country had with him during his whole life. The U.S. did not invest in him, he came ready and is immediately productive.
Will the U.S. take the less qualified people and educate them? Sorry, no. Instead the U.S. cherry picks the best, for free, at the expense of the rest of the World.
And what if he never returns, what about his home country losing a highly qualified person? Well, that's just too bad.
And the U.S. won't be giving anything for free. No way, the guy's going to work his ass off (or else), he'll pay the same taxes as the locals but will have less rights.
If there's a parasite in this history, it's not the foreign guy.
BeOS was, in many ways, an Amiga-ripoff.
I remember Be, years ago, calling Amiga users to BeOS since it was (so they said) the philosophical successor of Amiga and, differently from the Commodore machine, it had a future and bla bla.
"Don't waste your time with Amiga, it's gone. Go to BeOS" they said.
How ironic now.
I never could understand Atari ST users.
Choosing a ST over Amiga they saved, what, 100 USD and got a good processor, a OK display, a horrible sound output and a mediocre OS (the MIDI output was nice, but how many people actually used that?). Atari had some good software, let's be fair.
But then they started that ridiculous holy war vs Amiga. If they were so frustrated, why didn't they buy an Amiga in the first place?
Atari ST was an OK machine back then, but comparing to an Amiga was just ridiculous.
"Its a gig of encrypted kiddie pr0n."
Guard: Oh come on, be serious, if you aren't going to do this baggage check stuff properly don't do it at all. Now shove off! Outcome: Guard doesn't believe such amazingly incriminating answer. Thinks you are obnoxious. Tells you to keep going.
Some people already tried something like that.
Tell me about lacking sense of humor!
It's " Associated Press" they're talking about.
Well, since you're reading the news on an American website(...)
Hmm... People love to write that, but where did you get the information the site is U.S.-only? .us, neither I see the main page stating the site's scope is not world-wide.
The Slashdot's first-level domain is not a
"Funny"? More like "Insightful".
Agreed. I'm also expecting an answer for that.
Interesting.
But, from what I saw there, you didn't make a real RAID0, you benchmarked several mountpoints simultaneously instead.
A md0-like benchmark will be nice to see.
I don't want to see the day Microsoft launch food products.
Replying my own - I would prefer to put it this way
Is it cross-platform?
Technically - Yes
Practically - Yes
Out-of-the-box - Not always.
Huh?
Well, while you're at it, why not making a more complete list:
Technically - Yes
Practically - Yes
Out-of-the-box - Not always
In principle - Yes
Philosophically - Yes and No.
Karmically - No
Politically - Yes
Hypothetically - In theory, yes
If the problem was the uncertainty of your data's integrity due to a firmware bug, then your problem is solved.
Now you are sure.
...and dump a Rosetta stone somewhere.
Let's add some color then:
Kelly is the manager. The thinks that by being so, all she has to do is to blindly believe what is reported to her by her immediate subordinates and act accordingly.
She probably thinks like "Well, if the guy is doing something wrong he will tell me for sure. I mean, people are honest, right? Doing differently would be micromanagement, and that is a bad thing, not synergic at all!".
She was shit-scared of the situation, then the Doug guy came and said this and that. She didn't question herself "Hey, this guy is afraid of losing his job, and some people say what it takes to survive. How can I be sure it was not BS?".
But she was a just a passive manager, and Doug offered her the comfort of a complete solution. He delivered that solution to her, wrapped in cute box with a card.
And she got the bait, because no one else offered to do the very work she was supposed to do.