Sure, that's a workaround, but it doesn't solve the real problem - because the problem is not connecting to blocked sites (I have absolutely no interest in online gambling). The real problem is censorship.
So we in Quebec must fight this proposal - not because it has anything to do with gambling, but because it restricts our freedom.
Google's customers (like Adsense or Adwords customers) can already contact Google. The general public can't. But that's because they aren't customers, they are the content.
>> Google makes no money in the sell of either. Firefox and/or Opera could change their default to MSN if they so desired.
Sorry?! Let's get this straight: the Mozilla Corporation made over $72 million in 2005 from Google - if you search Google with the integrated search box Mozilla earn approx. 80% of the search ads revenue. Same goes for the default Firefox-branded home page.
Opera is no different - it is no secret that they dropped the ad banners in the browser and have moved to a "free" model because they have negotiated a similar deal to Mozilla.
Google makes plenty of money from these two browsers, Firefox in particular. It's not for nothing they pay $1 per installation of Firefox (via AdSense referrals) and advertize it heavily.
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For those entirely missing the point, the problem is the old maxim that over time the usefulness of proprietary software (and also proprietary plugins) drops inexorably to zero.
A simple example - I'm running a 64-bit version of Firefox on Linux. There is no Flash plugin available for this platform, and there is nothing I or anyone else can do about it because only Macromedia make the plugins (yes, I know you could reverse-engineer the thing...)
So, I can't see the content, now in 2005. What will it be like in 2056? What are the chances of Macromedia still producing a plugin or supporting a 60 year-old technology? Flash content has an unknown lifespan completely out of your control.
HTML is an open standard. There are free programs available now which can parse it. When you use HTML you can be sure that in the future there is a very good chance of it still being accessible because even if the standard falls into disuse you can still go back and read the open spec and recompile / reuse the free code out there.
Your machine is very high-end for that distro. Once you've got the basic system running with the IceWM window manager, you can download and install Firefox which should run OK. DeLi Linux is based on Slackware 7.1 and runs briskly even on hardware much slower than yours.
Another option is to go with Debian stable (Woody). Like DeLi Linux, it has the old 2.2 kernel by default. The main browser in there however is Netscape 4.77 Communicator - which can be hard work as a web browser these days, although the email client is excellent (and loads better than many "lightweight" alternatives available today).
(I have a 166MHz Pentium with 72Mb RAM running Woody with Netscape 4.77 which I use as a test web server - a good simple, old-fashioned machine.)
You don't specifically need Greasemonkey for that (although GM would be able to do this automatically) - there is a bookmarklet available here which will do the trick:
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Sure, that's a workaround, but it doesn't solve the real problem - because the problem is not connecting to blocked sites (I have absolutely no interest in online gambling). The real problem is censorship.
So we in Quebec must fight this proposal - not because it has anything to do with gambling, but because it restricts our freedom.
This actually exists (well, not the George Jetson bit) - in Europe Renault sells a car with six user-selectable engine sounds:
See: http://www.autoblog.com/2012/0...
Choices include a Clio V6, a Nissan GT-R or a Harley motorcycle...
Google's customers (like Adsense or Adwords customers) can already contact Google. The general public can't. But that's because they aren't customers, they are the content.
>> Google makes no money in the sell of either. Firefox and/or Opera could change their default to MSN if they so desired.
Sorry?! Let's get this straight: the Mozilla Corporation made over $72 million in 2005 from Google - if you search Google with the integrated search box Mozilla earn approx. 80% of the search ads revenue. Same goes for the default Firefox-branded home page.
Opera is no different - it is no secret that they dropped the ad banners in the browser and have moved to a "free" model because they have negotiated a similar deal to Mozilla.
Google makes plenty of money from these two browsers, Firefox in particular. It's not for nothing they pay $1 per installation of Firefox (via AdSense referrals) and advertize it heavily.
"Google" is itself a misspelling - so should all requests for Google go to Googol?
Another example - "slashdot" is not a real word - so should Slashdot.org go to Slashers.org? :)
For those entirely missing the point, the problem is the old maxim that over time the usefulness of proprietary software (and also proprietary plugins) drops inexorably to zero.
A simple example - I'm running a 64-bit version of Firefox on Linux. There is no Flash plugin available for this platform, and there is nothing I or anyone else can do about it because only Macromedia make the plugins (yes, I know you could reverse-engineer the thing...)
So, I can't see the content, now in 2005. What will it be like in 2056? What are the chances of Macromedia still producing a plugin or supporting a 60 year-old technology? Flash content has an unknown lifespan completely out of your control.
HTML is an open standard. There are free programs available now which can parse it. When you use HTML you can be sure that in the future there is a very good chance of it still being accessible because even if the standard falls into disuse you can still go back and read the open spec and recompile / reuse the free code out there.
Flash in 2056? It's true irony...
I don't think that the security community has a unanimously high opinion of Steve Gibson: see http://www.grcsucks.com/ for a counter-point.
Gibson is certainly a gifted self-publicist, but Ill leave others more qualified to comment on whether he is a good security consultant...
You could try DeLi Linux:
http://www.delilinux.de/
Your machine is very high-end for that distro. Once you've got the basic system running with the IceWM window manager, you can download and install Firefox which should run OK. DeLi Linux is based on Slackware 7.1 and runs briskly even on hardware much slower than yours.
Another option is to go with Debian stable (Woody). Like DeLi Linux, it has the old 2.2 kernel by default. The main browser in there however is Netscape 4.77 Communicator - which can be hard work as a web browser these days, although the email client is excellent (and loads better than many "lightweight" alternatives available today).
(I have a 166MHz Pentium with 72Mb RAM running Woody with Netscape 4.77 which I use as a test web server - a good simple, old-fashioned machine.)
You don't specifically need Greasemonkey for that (although GM would be able to do this automatically) - there is a bookmarklet available here which will do the trick:
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html# remember_password
Very useful ;)