If they are licensing the Ghostery list, it sure as heck does block it, as they don't allow end modification of their list contents. In their official extension, you can enable or disable the blocking of individual items on the list, but as a licensee, I am not sure you can do that in your own application or not.
Anyone who worked directly for, or as a contractor for AT&T as far back as at least the early 1990's can tell you there were rooms set up specifically for.gov and LEO use only. You needed security clearances to get into them even as a direct AT&T employee, and they were locked behind keycard/numpad protected doors, etc. It didn't take a genius to figure out what they were using those rooms for, especially when an awful lot of power and telecoms lines ran right to them (we weren't allowed to discuss or ask about them outside of our training sessions when our corporate trainers would say "those rooms are off limits at all times, except that some of you will be promoted to work in them as needed").
The Verge suffers from many ills, of which this was only a part (shit-tier articles worse than the Slashvertisements found here being #1). It would be a kindness if someone dragged it out behind the proverbial woodshed and gave it the Old Yeller' treatment.
I do know people that use it, but that's not only because Google is now basically pushing it as their version of iMessage for Android devices. It has group video calling for up to 10 people and a concurrent text conversation with up to 150 people at a time, which I think are the main features that have been attracting the people to the service. It also works cross device - so if someone on their Samsung Note 4 initiates a Hangout, everyone from people on tablets to PCs can join in, which is a pretty big deal.
You do realize the kernel has been re-written several times since then, right. What you're suggesting is that it hasn't changed at all, when in fact it's probably far more different under the hood than the Linux kernel is from its 90's version.
For some reason the Linux kernel guys keep shoving more and more drivers and all of the bugs that go with them into the kernel for some godforsaken reason, but the size of the Windows kernel has actually been reduced a few times.
Now, as for exact changes, I haven't signed an MS NDA to review their kernel code, but the compiled result of that code has simply been getting better and far more stable as we go along, to the point where I am seeing more and more (we're talking rollouts in the thousands of devices here) Windows 7 embedded devices showing up at retail and industrial client sites, compared to only being used to seeing SUSE, Debian, or Redhat for the last decade.
LEL, I post a response as you asked, with actual evidence, used by an actual journalist, and you set me as foe and moderate my post as -1 Troll from your sockpuppet.
"PS. -1 offtopic and -1 troll are not your personal censorship tools. Don't be cowards with your moderation, post your responses instead."
PBS had a doc on the coffee thing, and it turns out it isn't companies like Starbucks, Keurig, etc that are the issue with the pricing - it's the source markets. Coffee is harvested and sold to what amounts to an auction house for a single product, then the speculators, etc bid up or bid down the price of the batches based on amount and quality, and then the winners resell on to the "open" market, where the coffee companies purchase from.
So you have middle-men all taking their cut, and of course the farmers themselves get a "take it or leave it" amount from the auction houses. Those auction houses are about omnipresent anywhere coffee is grown and are mandated by trade (and sometimes national) law.
Growers in South America are starting to bypass this nonsense entirely by growing, harvesting, roasting (basically the entire coffee production process) and then selling directly to companies, since there are no regulations requiring processed coffee to be sold at one of those auctions, only the raw beans.
CLAIM: RANDI HARPERâ(TM)S âANTI-ABUSE CHARITYâ(TM) CONSISTS OF AN EMAIL ACCOUNT AND A TUMBLR TRUE. Harper describes herself as the founder and chief executive of the âoeOnline Abuse Prevention Initiative.â She has set up a Tumblr and and email account for the organisation. But it has no staff, no proper website, no offices, no external funding and, most importantly, no 501(c)(3) registration. Harper says OAPI is âoein the processâ of being registered.
CLAIM: RANDI HARPER ACCUSED A STANFORD ACADEMIC AND DIVERSITY ADVOCATE OF ABUSE TRUE. Harper tweeted at or about acclaimed campaigner and academic Vivek Wadhwa, who holds appointments at Duke, Stanford, and Singularity University, over 40 times, accusing him of harassment. He sent back two tweets, both apologetic. She tweeted at him for nine months, and even wrote a fake book review on Amazon to try to besmirch his character.
CLAIM: RANDI HARPER IS HERSELF A TROLL AND A HARASSER TRUE. She is a notorious one, in fact, whose aberrant online behaviour goes back to the 1990s. Harper has relentlessly pursued dozens of innocent people over the slightest of perceived ideological infractions or personal slights over the years.
CLAIM: RANDI HARPER DOXED A DEBT COLLECTOR TRUE. In 2011, Harper was being pursued for a debt. Her response was to post the home phone number of the collection firmâ(TM)s chief executive, after first threatening to release his familyâ(TM)s personal information.
Actually, it did nothing of the sort as far as blocking "harassers" goes. What it did, was that it automatically applied you to the blocklist if you followed Christina Hoff Summers, Adam Baldwin, or Milo Yiannopoulos on Twitter.
Hilariously, Randi received a cease and desist from Twitter because her Perl code was so terribly bad and inefficient at what it was doing that it was causing problems on their end (it was submitting too many pull requests at too rapid a pace on top of the pull requests being too large). She was forced to rewrite how it actually operates.
Reddit is rather stupid in that it counts mobile devices as unique visitors every time they swap network ids, such as when they move from wifi to cell, or from cell tower to cell tower. Even if you are using a verified/registered account, say you swap from your home wifi network to your cell provider, to the wifi network at the coffee shop down the block - you've now just been counted three times as a unique visitor.
What's worse is seeing your submission with an actual wrote-out summary, etc in the rejection pile, but see the exact same story get posted hours (and sometimes days) later and it's nothing but a copy-paste of the PR blurb found on one of the sites linked, including all of their spelling mistakes.
Shadowbanning was never meant to be used in the corrupt manner it is being used for. It was a tool originally created to help filter out spam bots that at the time were plaguing the site. Now it's simply being used to punish people with the wrong opinions or whatever other whim an admin has on that day.
The majority of banks also trust Diebold (who have ridiculously insecure default settings on their ATM terminals, the manuals of which are available online, and yes, criminals have exploited this), so take that into consideration.
Well yeah, because potatoes are in the same family (Solanaceae) as nightshade and raw potatoes exhibit the exact same alkaloids (at a reduced concentration).
"The family includes the Datura or Jimson weed, eggplant, mandrake, deadly nightshade or belladonna, capsicum (paprika, chile pepper), potato, tobacco, tomato, and petunia."
Get into robotics, especially any of the companies working on space-bound robotics. There's several companies designing and testing robots right now for space missions that aren't currently feasible for humans to do. There's going to be a need for all sorts of software engineers and other IT specialists for this industry.
(Also because so many industries are heading towards automation, it's good to get in on the ground floor, so to speak, especially in one that is going to do nothing but grow.)
"What's clear is that allowing ad-blockers in iOS 9 could deliver a serious blow to Google, the biggest rival to Apple in the mobile space, because advertising remains a massive portion of the search giant's income."
These people keep saying this, and yet Apple is still considered an also-also-ALSO ran in two of the world's potentially largest markets: China and India. In these markets, Android and other OSes (and the mobile manufacturers behind them) rule the roost and Apple barely makes a dent (and isn't that much in total world-wide market share, either).
Not when so many of them think the planet is only a bit over 6,000 years old, and the asteroids that used to hit our planet back then were much older than that yet.
What is interesting to me, is the fact that the brain itself might be operating automatically in a way that color correction software does when working with photographs for some people, while for others it simply does not do so in a consistent manner, or at all.
That being said, my first self-response when seeing the photo was "The entire photo looks wrong".
I saw a kind of bluish-white and the kind of brown with yellow hints that you see when you shine a flashlight that gives off "yellow" light through dyed black cloth (which is also similar to the effect you get when you apply a little chlorine to cloth that has been dyed black).
Another thing that I found personally interesting to me, was that from my perception, the overall photo itself seemed to have had a blue tint to it, as if the room it was taken in was being lit by a LED light similar to the ones I have in my bathroom (when first turned on, the light they give off is very blue-shifted until they warm up and become a very bright white).
Try AdFree, AdAway, or minminguard (an Xposed module).
I believe the first two require full root, the module works with either temproot or full root.
Minminguard blocks the API calls in apps directly, so they can't even call for the ad download (thus no ads get downloaded period).
AdFree and AdAway work with the HOSTs file, so it is also recommended to have a HOSTs editor of some sort if you need to manually make adjustments.
I use AdFree and see very minimal amount of adverts - on the mobile version of Slashdot for instance, I only get the static ads in between the post and the comments section, and none of the annoying, moving, flashy, sound-filled ads.
There's nothing they can do. Every measure so far they've implemented to filter out trolls has been side-stepped entirely within seconds by the likes of GNAA or Baphoment.
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If they are licensing the Ghostery list, it sure as heck does block it, as they don't allow end modification of their list contents. In their official extension, you can enable or disable the blocking of individual items on the list, but as a licensee, I am not sure you can do that in your own application or not.
Anyone who worked directly for, or as a contractor for AT&T as far back as at least the early 1990's can tell you there were rooms set up specifically for .gov and LEO use only. You needed security clearances to get into them even as a direct AT&T employee, and they were locked behind keycard/numpad protected doors, etc. It didn't take a genius to figure out what they were using those rooms for, especially when an awful lot of power and telecoms lines ran right to them (we weren't allowed to discuss or ask about them outside of our training sessions when our corporate trainers would say "those rooms are off limits at all times, except that some of you will be promoted to work in them as needed").
The Verge suffers from many ills, of which this was only a part (shit-tier articles worse than the Slashvertisements found here being #1). It would be a kindness if someone dragged it out behind the proverbial woodshed and gave it the Old Yeller' treatment.
I do know people that use it, but that's not only because Google is now basically pushing it as their version of iMessage for Android devices. It has group video calling for up to 10 people and a concurrent text conversation with up to 150 people at a time, which I think are the main features that have been attracting the people to the service. It also works cross device - so if someone on their Samsung Note 4 initiates a Hangout, everyone from people on tablets to PCs can join in, which is a pretty big deal.
It was already disabled entirely in my Gmail account and the only offered replacement was Hangouts.
You do realize the kernel has been re-written several times since then, right. What you're suggesting is that it hasn't changed at all, when in fact it's probably far more different under the hood than the Linux kernel is from its 90's version.
For some reason the Linux kernel guys keep shoving more and more drivers and all of the bugs that go with them into the kernel for some godforsaken reason, but the size of the Windows kernel has actually been reduced a few times.
Now, as for exact changes, I haven't signed an MS NDA to review their kernel code, but the compiled result of that code has simply been getting better and far more stable as we go along, to the point where I am seeing more and more (we're talking rollouts in the thousands of devices here) Windows 7 embedded devices showing up at retail and industrial client sites, compared to only being used to seeing SUSE, Debian, or Redhat for the last decade.
LEL, I post a response as you asked, with actual evidence, used by an actual journalist, and you set me as foe and moderate my post as -1 Troll from your sockpuppet.
"PS. -1 offtopic and -1 troll are not your personal censorship tools. Don't be cowards with your moderation, post your responses instead."
Hypocrite.
PBS had a doc on the coffee thing, and it turns out it isn't companies like Starbucks, Keurig, etc that are the issue with the pricing - it's the source markets. Coffee is harvested and sold to what amounts to an auction house for a single product, then the speculators, etc bid up or bid down the price of the batches based on amount and quality, and then the winners resell on to the "open" market, where the coffee companies purchase from.
So you have middle-men all taking their cut, and of course the farmers themselves get a "take it or leave it" amount from the auction houses. Those auction houses are about omnipresent anywhere coffee is grown and are mandated by trade (and sometimes national) law.
Growers in South America are starting to bypass this nonsense entirely by growing, harvesting, roasting (basically the entire coffee production process) and then selling directly to companies, since there are no regulations requiring processed coffee to be sold at one of those auctions, only the raw beans.
CLAIM: RANDI HARPERâ(TM)S âANTI-ABUSE CHARITYâ(TM) CONSISTS OF AN EMAIL ACCOUNT AND A TUMBLR
TRUE. Harper describes herself as the founder and chief executive of the âoeOnline Abuse Prevention Initiative.â She has set up a Tumblr and and email account for the organisation. But it has no staff, no proper website, no offices, no external funding and, most importantly, no 501(c)(3) registration. Harper says OAPI is âoein the processâ of being registered.
CLAIM: RANDI HARPER ACCUSED A STANFORD ACADEMIC AND DIVERSITY ADVOCATE OF ABUSE
TRUE. Harper tweeted at or about acclaimed campaigner and academic Vivek Wadhwa, who holds appointments at Duke, Stanford, and Singularity University, over 40 times, accusing him of harassment. He sent back two tweets, both apologetic. She tweeted at him for nine months, and even wrote a fake book review on Amazon to try to besmirch his character.
CLAIM: RANDI HARPER IS HERSELF A TROLL AND A HARASSER
TRUE. She is a notorious one, in fact, whose aberrant online behaviour goes back to the 1990s. Harper has relentlessly pursued dozens of innocent people over the slightest of perceived ideological infractions or personal slights over the years.
CLAIM: RANDI HARPER DOXED A DEBT COLLECTOR
TRUE. In 2011, Harper was being pursued for a debt. Her response was to post the home phone number of the collection firmâ(TM)s chief executive, after first threatening to release his familyâ(TM)s personal information.
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Actually, it did nothing of the sort as far as blocking "harassers" goes. What it did, was that it automatically applied you to the blocklist if you followed Christina Hoff Summers, Adam Baldwin, or Milo Yiannopoulos on Twitter.
Hilariously, Randi received a cease and desist from Twitter because her Perl code was so terribly bad and inefficient at what it was doing that it was causing problems on their end (it was submitting too many pull requests at too rapid a pace on top of the pull requests being too large). She was forced to rewrite how it actually operates.
Reddit is rather stupid in that it counts mobile devices as unique visitors every time they swap network ids, such as when they move from wifi to cell, or from cell tower to cell tower. Even if you are using a verified/registered account, say you swap from your home wifi network to your cell provider, to the wifi network at the coffee shop down the block - you've now just been counted three times as a unique visitor.
She's already had an offer from Ken Levine (formerly of Irrational Games) to come speak with them about joining him and his group.
What's worse is seeing your submission with an actual wrote-out summary, etc in the rejection pile, but see the exact same story get posted hours (and sometimes days) later and it's nothing but a copy-paste of the PR blurb found on one of the sites linked, including all of their spelling mistakes.
Shadowbanning was never meant to be used in the corrupt manner it is being used for. It was a tool originally created to help filter out spam bots that at the time were plaguing the site. Now it's simply being used to punish people with the wrong opinions or whatever other whim an admin has on that day.
The majority of banks also trust Diebold (who have ridiculously insecure default settings on their ATM terminals, the manuals of which are available online, and yes, criminals have exploited this), so take that into consideration.
Well yeah, because potatoes are in the same family (Solanaceae) as nightshade and raw potatoes exhibit the exact same alkaloids (at a reduced concentration).
"The family includes the Datura or Jimson weed, eggplant, mandrake, deadly nightshade or belladonna, capsicum (paprika, chile pepper), potato, tobacco, tomato, and petunia."
Get into robotics, especially any of the companies working on space-bound robotics. There's several companies designing and testing robots right now for space missions that aren't currently feasible for humans to do. There's going to be a need for all sorts of software engineers and other IT specialists for this industry.
(Also because so many industries are heading towards automation, it's good to get in on the ground floor, so to speak, especially in one that is going to do nothing but grow.)
"What's clear is that allowing ad-blockers in iOS 9 could deliver a serious blow to Google, the biggest rival to Apple in the mobile space, because advertising remains a massive portion of the search giant's income."
These people keep saying this, and yet Apple is still considered an also-also-ALSO ran in two of the world's potentially largest markets: China and India. In these markets, Android and other OSes (and the mobile manufacturers behind them) rule the roost and Apple barely makes a dent (and isn't that much in total world-wide market share, either).
Not when so many of them think the planet is only a bit over 6,000 years old, and the asteroids that used to hit our planet back then were much older than that yet.
Germany didn't like finding out that the NSA had tapped all of Merkel's communications lines directly. That's what.
What is interesting to me, is the fact that the brain itself might be operating automatically in a way that color correction software does when working with photographs for some people, while for others it simply does not do so in a consistent manner, or at all.
That being said, my first self-response when seeing the photo was "The entire photo looks wrong".
I saw a kind of bluish-white and the kind of brown with yellow hints that you see when you shine a flashlight that gives off "yellow" light through dyed black cloth (which is also similar to the effect you get when you apply a little chlorine to cloth that has been dyed black).
Another thing that I found personally interesting to me, was that from my perception, the overall photo itself seemed to have had a blue tint to it, as if the room it was taken in was being lit by a LED light similar to the ones I have in my bathroom (when first turned on, the light they give off is very blue-shifted until they warm up and become a very bright white).
No, they most certainly do not. My system is 5 years in age and has no IDE ports whatsoever, only USB, SATA, and e-SATA.
My wife's is 1 year in age and also has no IDE.
Try AdFree, AdAway, or minminguard (an Xposed module).
I believe the first two require full root, the module works with either temproot or full root.
Minminguard blocks the API calls in apps directly, so they can't even call for the ad download (thus no ads get downloaded period).
AdFree and AdAway work with the HOSTs file, so it is also recommended to have a HOSTs editor of some sort if you need to manually make adjustments.
I use AdFree and see very minimal amount of adverts - on the mobile version of Slashdot for instance, I only get the static ads in between the post and the comments section, and none of the annoying, moving, flashy, sound-filled ads.
I think they have an E series Ideapad, so it is probably that.
There's nothing they can do. Every measure so far they've implemented to filter out trolls has been side-stepped entirely within seconds by the likes of GNAA or Baphoment.