One feature is regular expressions to block certain patterns from some sites, and allow other things though. Not sure how much that's used by people, though.
I think a good HOSTS file followed by a small adblock for specifics that you come across would be pretty efficient. Anyone know how efficient is Adblock when it's got a large list?
Personally, I just love the form factor of the Mac Mini. That's the only mac I'd buy. I'd like it to dual boot into Windows for the odd games that I do like to play and for application development. But really, I think I could go all Mac and not really miss anything... Dual boot would just be something nice to have, but I'd be happy with either OS, I think, in that form factor.
And then disconnect your computer and lock yourself in your basement bedroom you fucking paranoid dumbass. Are you really getting your silk panties in a wad because of a fucking user agent? Pathetic. (This is to the GP, btw... just adding to your suggestions.)
Well, according to another guy behind the filter (me), every one of those sites comes up.
Like someone else said above, the policies are applied differently across the services and down to the different levels. rushlimbaugh.com proabably isn't blocked because NO ONE F'N GOES THERE and no bandwidth is being wasted on it. If a flood of users went there and started eating up / wasting bandwidth, then it's be blocked for operation reasons because the site is not mission essential.
You know, just _maybe_ there is someone pushing a political agenda here. I can't say for sure that there's not. But this isn't a "DOD" or "Marine" policy to block these sites. Every situation and site is different and what happens at one shouldn't be lumped with the entire DOD.
IIRC, the first few links are prefetched. So Firefox is requesting them and caching them in case you click on the link. I don't remember if it's a feature within Google's code that causes this or something with Firefox itself. I'm sure it can be disabled, though.
Almost every site uses tracking cookies that violates the original security model that only an original site will acess data about the sesion. If the 12o7 cookie exists at amazon and the fly-by-night-shady-blogger, one must assume that the safety of your amazom stored credit card informaiton is compromised.
Huh? Cookies are only sent to the site that set them, regardless of what they are named. So the "12o7" cookie could exist for both sites, but they're separate files and the sites only retrieve the cookie that they created. There is no security issue unless the browser has a security flaw and returns cookies when it shouldn't. Cookies can be used to violate privacy and track you around the Internet, though. I'll give you that.
I hear ya, man. I just got a new T43 and these things are solid. I've owned two other older Thinkpads and they're still going strong. I bought an R-series for my wife that's a little heavier and thicker, but still performs great. Performance is great, security features are great, it's thin and light but doesn't feel cheap or plastic like the Dells do.
I hope that down the road they continue the performance and reliability of the Thinkpads. These new models don't give me much hope, though.
As for the alternatives, we have some toughbooks here, but they are so small and hard to type on, plus no trackpoint like you said. The cost is another factor. maybe used they are cheap, but not to buy new. Apples look pretty and have a solid OS, but I'm not to sure on their components. I've heard mixed stories. Debating getting my wife a mac laptop when I get back from Iraq just so we can see how well it works and holds up (especially around the kids!;))
Those laptops are hideous. They look cheap and don't have a trackpoint. Heavy, too. Are these supposed to replace ThinkPads eventually? Don't they have a time limit on how long they can use the ThinkPad name?
I've been a ThinkPad fan for a while now and just bought some new ones for my wife and myself. I really hope Lenovo keeps up the quality that they (thinkpads) have been known for. Time will only tell, I guess. I'll be looking for reviews and user comments on these new systems... let's hope they don't become just another Dell shitting out crappy, cheap computers...
If they add support for multiple href's in a a href tag, such as Link then it would open up the possibilities of doing P2P type webserving,
Wouldn't this be better handled at the DNS level? Security issues forthcoming, wouldn't it be easier to link to "example.com/file.pdf" and have the DNS resolution point to any number of mirrors. Have an automatic way of registering them, include hashes in the request/registrations, etc. Security would of course be the issue, but it just seems better to handle it at this level, transparent to the user, rather than having multiple links in an href.
Heh... a forum I'm on tried to filter the words "rent-a-coder" because of spam and the filter took each word individually. So all "a" characters ended up getting filtered to *. Was pretty funny.
And Apple doesn't want to have to support you when the OS craps out because of some crazy hardware setup you've got.
That being said, though, why don't they throw it out there for cheap with NO support. You buy it, you install it, you figure it out, on your own. Or you pay extra for support? They still make some money on a product already developed (which is what businesses need to do in order to survive) and the do-it-yourself type gets something to play with and hopefully enjoy.
HA! That's awesome. ThinkGeek should market something like this to use for all of the parnoid people out there. Make and sell it cheap and it's throw all kinds of wrenches into this plan... I'm sure the ones that already exist aren't at a very affordable price level.
Hmmm... I have one. Well, a Lenovo Thinkpad with a fingerprint reader. Is this something that's already implemented on all of their laptops? Or something new they'll be adding? I couldn't tell from the article. Doesn't really bother me, either way, but just curious if there's a way to tell. I've never been asked to scan my fingerprint when opening a document. I'd probably just cancel the document and decide it's not worth bothering with, anyhow.
As opposed to simply using your personal hard drive to store all that info. Yes, I can see that this is a revolutionary idea;).
Well of course it won't appeal to everyone. You can continue to run your own OS. On the other hand, some company can offer a $50 thin-client terminal that runs WebOS or GoogleOS or whatever and for an extra $10 you get a LiveCD to use in times of web outages. Or businesses that don't want to give people the opportunity to store anything local... Just saying that you have an option.:)
But if the OS and most of the apps I want to use are completely internet-based? What then?
You pop in your personalized LiveCD and mess around with the programs on there, save 'em to your USB pen drive and wait until you can get back online. Simple.
Create a playlist of stuff you DO like, then, and select a random amount out of that.;)
The write issues may be valid, but I'm confident the iPod will fail for other reasons before I have to worry about that. (Plus, only changed songs are reloaded).
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One feature is regular expressions to block certain patterns from some sites, and allow other things though. Not sure how much that's used by people, though.
I think a good HOSTS file followed by a small adblock for specifics that you come across would be pretty efficient. Anyone know how efficient is Adblock when it's got a large list?
---John Holmes...
I googled for myself and was horrified by what I saw. Why did you do it Dad?!?
---John Holmes...
You feel bad for him? Imagine when the employers search for me!
---John Holmes...
Right... because being an excellent button masher obviously makes you qualified to judge the sound quality of a pair of speakers.
Isn't that just lipstick on a pig?
Depends. What color lipstick? Just so I can, uh... get a visual, you know?
---John Holmes...
Yes. I could until you brought it up again. Damn you.
Personally, I just love the form factor of the Mac Mini. That's the only mac I'd buy. I'd like it to dual boot into Windows for the odd games that I do like to play and for application development. But really, I think I could go all Mac and not really miss anything... Dual boot would just be something nice to have, but I'd be happy with either OS, I think, in that form factor.
---John Holmes...
And then disconnect your computer and lock yourself in your basement bedroom you fucking paranoid dumbass. Are you really getting your silk panties in a wad because of a fucking user agent? Pathetic. (This is to the GP, btw... just adding to your suggestions.)
---John Holmes...
Well, according to another guy behind the filter (me), every one of those sites comes up.
Like someone else said above, the policies are applied differently across the services and down to the different levels. rushlimbaugh.com proabably isn't blocked because NO ONE F'N GOES THERE and no bandwidth is being wasted on it. If a flood of users went there and started eating up / wasting bandwidth, then it's be blocked for operation reasons because the site is not mission essential.
You know, just _maybe_ there is someone pushing a political agenda here. I can't say for sure that there's not. But this isn't a "DOD" or "Marine" policy to block these sites. Every situation and site is different and what happens at one shouldn't be lumped with the entire DOD.
---John Holmes...
IIRC, the first few links are prefetched. So Firefox is requesting them and caching them in case you click on the link. I don't remember if it's a feature within Google's code that causes this or something with Firefox itself. I'm sure it can be disabled, though.
---John Holmes...
Almost every site uses tracking cookies that violates the original security model that only an original site will acess data about the sesion. If the 12o7 cookie exists at amazon and the fly-by-night-shady-blogger, one must assume that the safety of your amazom stored credit card informaiton is compromised.
Huh? Cookies are only sent to the site that set them, regardless of what they are named. So the "12o7" cookie could exist for both sites, but they're separate files and the sites only retrieve the cookie that they created. There is no security issue unless the browser has a security flaw and returns cookies when it shouldn't. Cookies can be used to violate privacy and track you around the Internet, though. I'll give you that.
---John Holmes...
I hear ya, man. I just got a new T43 and these things are solid. I've owned two other older Thinkpads and they're still going strong. I bought an R-series for my wife that's a little heavier and thicker, but still performs great. Performance is great, security features are great, it's thin and light but doesn't feel cheap or plastic like the Dells do.
;))
I hope that down the road they continue the performance and reliability of the Thinkpads. These new models don't give me much hope, though.
As for the alternatives, we have some toughbooks here, but they are so small and hard to type on, plus no trackpoint like you said. The cost is another factor. maybe used they are cheap, but not to buy new. Apples look pretty and have a solid OS, but I'm not to sure on their components. I've heard mixed stories. Debating getting my wife a mac laptop when I get back from Iraq just so we can see how well it works and holds up (especially around the kids!
---John Holmes...
Those laptops are hideous. They look cheap and don't have a trackpoint. Heavy, too. Are these supposed to replace ThinkPads eventually? Don't they have a time limit on how long they can use the ThinkPad name?
---John Holmes...
I've been a ThinkPad fan for a while now and just bought some new ones for my wife and myself. I really hope Lenovo keeps up the quality that they (thinkpads) have been known for. Time will only tell, I guess. I'll be looking for reviews and user comments on these new systems... let's hope they don't become just another Dell shitting out crappy, cheap computers...
---John Holmes...
If they add support for multiple href's in a a href tag, such as Link then it would open up the possibilities of doing P2P type webserving,
Wouldn't this be better handled at the DNS level? Security issues forthcoming, wouldn't it be easier to link to "example.com/file.pdf" and have the DNS resolution point to any number of mirrors. Have an automatic way of registering them, include hashes in the request/registrations, etc. Security would of course be the issue, but it just seems better to handle it at this level, transparent to the user, rather than having multiple links in an href.
---John Holmes...
amusive
Amusing and abusive? Like how it's funny watching your kid brother get his ass whupped?
Is anyone else pronoucing that WASP online, also?
Submitter could have just included the next two sentences and left off the link entirely, too.
---John Holmes...
Heh... a forum I'm on tried to filter the words "rent-a-coder" because of spam and the filter took each word individually. So all "a" characters ended up getting filtered to *. Was pretty funny.
---John Holmes...
And Apple doesn't want to have to support you when the OS craps out because of some crazy hardware setup you've got.
That being said, though, why don't they throw it out there for cheap with NO support. You buy it, you install it, you figure it out, on your own. Or you pay extra for support? They still make some money on a product already developed (which is what businesses need to do in order to survive) and the do-it-yourself type gets something to play with and hopefully enjoy.
We'll see...
---John Holmes...
HA! That's awesome. ThinkGeek should market something like this to use for all of the parnoid people out there. Make and sell it cheap and it's throw all kinds of wrenches into this plan... I'm sure the ones that already exist aren't at a very affordable price level.
---John Holmes...
Hmmm... I have one. Well, a Lenovo Thinkpad with a fingerprint reader. Is this something that's already implemented on all of their laptops? Or something new they'll be adding? I couldn't tell from the article. Doesn't really bother me, either way, but just curious if there's a way to tell. I've never been asked to scan my fingerprint when opening a document. I'd probably just cancel the document and decide it's not worth bothering with, anyhow.
---John Holmes...
Well of course it won't appeal to everyone. You can continue to run your own OS. On the other hand, some company can offer a $50 thin-client terminal that runs WebOS or GoogleOS or whatever and for an extra $10 you get a LiveCD to use in times of web outages. Or businesses that don't want to give people the opportunity to store anything local... Just saying that you have an option. :)
---John Holmes...
You pop in your personalized LiveCD and mess around with the programs on there, save 'em to your USB pen drive and wait until you can get back online. Simple.
---John Holmes...
Create a playlist of stuff you DO like, then, and select a random amount out of that. ;)
The write issues may be valid, but I'm confident the iPod will fail for other reasons before I have to worry about that. (Plus, only changed songs are reloaded).
---John Holmes...
Size matters... the size of the iPod that is, not storage (to some people).