Try http://www.ukfsn.org/ - they use Entanet as their upstream provider (no filtering, as another commenter pointed out). Additionally, you are supporting free software by using them, and unlike pretty much every other they are customer friendly - e.g. if you want a MAC code, you can get one instantly from their web site, without them making you go through multiple phone calls where they try and persuade you not to leave.
Check out their statement of policy:
Statement of policy regarding censorship, Phorm/Webwise and other content interception
Our policy is that the electronic communications of our customers are private. We do not intercept, censor, scan or otherwise interfer with our customers' internet service.
UKFSN does not and will not have any dealings with Phorm, the company behind the Webwise system being deployed by some other ISPs to intercept customer internet traffic. We are firmly of the opinion that the Phorm Webwise system is illegal under UK and EU laws. We also believe it to be fundamentally unethical to intercept customer traffic in this manner. It will never happen here.
There is some suggestion that the UK government would like to mandate some form of interception and possibly censorship. We would encourage all interested persons to make it clear to MPs and the government generally that this is not acceptable.
Hmm. I don't know what this 'leech' business is, but the whole point of AdBlock is to stop annoying adverts from being displayed. (Note that as a side effect the site is saved some bandwidth and the advertiser is saved from being mentally modded -1 irritating, so everyone's a winner)
Your alternative solution that lets the ads be displayed doesn't cut it for me.
I'll admit it too. The search results weren't all that bad, but they stuck a picture of some random guy (I'll regret saying that I'm sure) next to me for no apparent reason whatsoever.
It always surprises me how much love there seems to be for OpenDNS on/.
A DNS server returns you a result, or tells you that it can't resolve the domain. Instead of doing the latter, OpenDNS redirects you somewhere you didn't intend to go and attempts to hit you with some advertising. That seems more like typosquatting to me, although admittedly it's with your permission.
This isn't a court of law is it?
That sounded like a perfectly reasonable suggestion to me. I sometimes have cause to interface with some very old systems in banks and other financial institutions. That's just another anecdote though.
I do all my development on a laptop, in a perfectly adequate 1024x768. Since I (mostly) work from home, right now I'm in an armchair. If the weather was better, I might swap that for a deckchair in the garden. If I want to be chained to a desk, I might as well go to the office.
Also, sometimes a laptop is the only option, e.g. when working on a customer site, travelling, etc. Once you're used to your triple-widescreen-monitor setup with your favourite keyboard and mouse, I think you're disadvantaged in those other situations. Personally, I prefer to be comfortable working with the lowest common denominator.
Metametamods: the parent was referring to the parent of the parent when he said "this", and the parent of the parent of the parent when he said "the parent".
I wouldn't call it "crazy word functionality", it's a very commonly used and important facility.
The same thing is supported in Open Office Writer 2.0 as well, see Changes on the Edit menu. I *think* it's even reasonably compatible with the Word implementation, but don't make any more dubious claims to your friends based on my say so.
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Well, I guess everyone could go get a programming degree and write their own copying software.
It's much simpler than that. Just don't buy the pesky things in the first place.
Try http://www.ukfsn.org/ - they use Entanet as their upstream provider (no filtering, as another commenter pointed out). Additionally, you are supporting free software by using them, and unlike pretty much every other they are customer friendly - e.g. if you want a MAC code, you can get one instantly from their web site, without them making you go through multiple phone calls where they try and persuade you not to leave.
Check out their statement of policy:
Statement of policy regarding censorship, Phorm/Webwise and other content interception
Our policy is that the electronic communications of our customers are private. We do not intercept, censor, scan or otherwise interfer with our customers' internet service.
UKFSN does not and will not have any dealings with Phorm, the company behind the Webwise system being deployed by some other ISPs to intercept customer internet traffic. We are firmly of the opinion that the Phorm Webwise system is illegal under UK and EU laws. We also believe it to be fundamentally unethical to intercept customer traffic in this manner. It will never happen here.
There is some suggestion that the UK government would like to mandate some form of interception and possibly censorship. We would encourage all interested persons to make it clear to MPs and the government generally that this is not acceptable.
You're confused because you're thinking in terms of a login system, not encrypted data which you can easily see. (i.e. it's transmitted 'at you')
In simple terms, once you've intercepted some data you can have as many attempts as you like to find the right key to decrypt it.
I, for one, have no idea what the word "Mammel" means.
You've got your subsequently backwards. The BBC Micro came first - the Electron was a cut-down budget version.
If you'd had the foresight to do anything, surely it would have been making backups and arranging insurance.
Surely it would be impossible for the one written first to have foreseen the latter and incorporated praise for it. Or did you mean complement?
Never? Or 1953? http://www.minbuza.nl/history/en/1953,1953.html
Hmm. I don't know what this 'leech' business is, but the whole point of AdBlock is to stop annoying adverts from being displayed. (Note that as a side effect the site is saved some bandwidth and the advertiser is saved from being mentally modded -1 irritating, so everyone's a winner)
Your alternative solution that lets the ads be displayed doesn't cut it for me.
I'll admit it too. The search results weren't all that bad, but they stuck a picture of some random guy (I'll regret saying that I'm sure) next to me for no apparent reason whatsoever.
Screenshot here: http://blog.ciarang.com/posts/who-the-hell/
The Check Engine Light Light?
It's completely different, otherwise they wouldn't be my ISP.
It always surprises me how much love there seems to be for OpenDNS on /.
A DNS server returns you a result, or tells you that it can't resolve the domain. Instead of doing the latter, OpenDNS redirects you somewhere you didn't intend to go and attempts to hit you with some advertising. That seems more like typosquatting to me, although admittedly it's with your permission.
His allegiance is to a giant rectangle with a "this crap is blocked by NoScript" icon in the corner? Weird.
That's an interesting way to make sure no sane employer ever touches you with a bargepole.
Seriously, an email not being delivered would have ruined your life? Who's smoking crack?
At the risk of stating the obvious, what ads?
Apparently I can't convey a thought through writing, or you don't understand the English language. Someone looses here.
You "loose"!?
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Have your own 'planet' and answer this question with a single url: http://planet.ciarang.com/
This isn't a court of law is it? That sounded like a perfectly reasonable suggestion to me. I sometimes have cause to interface with some very old systems in banks and other financial institutions. That's just another anecdote though.
I do all my development on a laptop, in a perfectly adequate 1024x768. Since I (mostly) work from home, right now I'm in an armchair. If the weather was better, I might swap that for a deckchair in the garden. If I want to be chained to a desk, I might as well go to the office.
Also, sometimes a laptop is the only option, e.g. when working on a customer site, travelling, etc. Once you're used to your triple-widescreen-monitor setup with your favourite keyboard and mouse, I think you're disadvantaged in those other situations. Personally, I prefer to be comfortable working with the lowest common denominator.
Metametamods: the parent was referring to the parent of the parent when he said "this", and the parent of the parent of the parent when he said "the parent".
I wouldn't call it "crazy word functionality", it's a very commonly used and important facility.
The same thing is supported in Open Office Writer 2.0 as well, see Changes on the Edit menu. I *think* it's even reasonably compatible with the Word implementation, but don't make any more dubious claims to your friends based on my say so.
So you have to release the source code to the six of you that can access it. You already have it. What's the problem?