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the Coast Guard?

You suck, man. You have nothing better to do than make yourself feel smart by correcting slashdot grammar. You might as well start get in a fist fight with a five year old, man.

If you do it because you feel like you're doing anyone a service, you must be new here. People have been bitching about editor incompetence for eight years now, and look where it's gotten us. The editors are well aware that their grasp of the English language and keyboard skills are subpar, and they have shown that they have no intention of changing. Give it up already.

I think the typos, the sixth grade grammar, and the general idiocy around here are so ingrained in slashdot culture that fixing them would in fact be deleterious.

Can you imagine a slashdot that didn't suck? It would suck.

What's the worst they could do to my neighbor?

Google wants to read your cookies, cache files, bookmarks, etc

When making a tinfoil hat, does the shiny side go on the inside or outside?

Nobody's going to voluntarily download a Firefox extension that scans through their cookies and cache

Nobody's going to voluntarily download a Google Browser that scans through their cookies and cache either, bub.

I've already got Google Ads in Firefox.

Take that, Google!

I keep hearing this, and it still doesn't make sense.

Why wouldn't Google just provide kick-ass extensions for Firefox and then promote it heavily? It doesn't make sense for them to fork Firefox and make their own browser when they could just pick up on the momentum Firefox has and offer their Google-specific content via extensions.

If there was a "Get Firefox, dumbass" link on google.com, Firefox downloads would hit 100 million in days.

I want to block */banners/*, but not foo.bar/banners/

This is not possible without a whitelist.

What is wrong with the adblock home page?

The whole page looks like it's a 50% opacity version of a regular web page. The colors are way too washed out to be readable. Repeated requests in the forums have all been met with, essentially, "go fuck yourselves."

Also, what would be the rush on adblock 0.6?

Whitelists.

As for Filterset.G, what problems do you have with the filters or the person who makes them?

The filters are decent, but the guy is just a douchebag. His replies to any questions about his filters are usually exceedingly rude "WFM, you must be an idiot" type responses or, once again, "go fuck yourselves."

The devs have been stalling 0.6 for a year. The assmunch that writes filterset.g is a total dickhat. The homepage design completely sucks, yet they refuse to change it despite repeated requests.

All the signs of a project that the devs really truly don't give a shit about.

I know a few people who spent their unemployment checks on iPods.

Gotta have priorities.

I access most of the machines on my network without a fully qualified domain name. Anything without a tld gets resolved locally. I'm sure most people use their local domains this way, so your scheme would much things up.

what's wrong with 'http://monster' by itself?

Ask my MySQL server, monster.(mydomain).org

I strongly recommend it.

For christ's sake, making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is just too much hassle for some people? I'm sorry, but if you're having trouble mastering the recipe for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I'm not really sure you're fit to prepare your own food.

I have a terrible ratio there because once I'm, uhm, done with my downloaded material I come to the realization that there are a bunch of perverts connected to my machine and shut down the torrent.

Otherwise, yep, it rocks.

Due process is a pile of horse shit.

We should firebomb the home of anyone suspected of violating a software license agreement the moment suspicion arises.

It's a fine line, but there is a difference between SEO and search engine spamming.

Writing Googlebot-friendly pages, minimizing Flash use, using proper titles and headers, etc are legitimate techniques for increasing your Google juice.

Linkfarms, on the other hand, are not.

Left edge of the browser window.

Maybe we should give them the benefit of the doubt and suppose they were designing for exceptionally wide screens.

Really, the aura of godliness geeks had has been gone for years.

We're not really all that special, we never were.

It's just a job, man.

So?

They're preventing discussion of a non-support issue in a support forum.

How is this not reasonable?

What right does google have to remove them when wordpress hasnt signed any agreement with google.

Google hasn't signed a contract with WordPress, either. It's their right to lay out ground rules and ban anyone who doesn't follow them.

Newsflash: Google can do what they want.

You don't have to invite Googlebot, but you can certainly entice it, and that's what I think is going on here.

It's not hard to be optimized when your content is optimal.

When your content is useless fucking spam, you've got to use dirty tricks.

See, before it was people bookmarking personal sites where some goofball had pictures of their cat and other useless content.

Now it's people bookmarking weblogs which almost exclusively deal with the subject of weblogging.

This is progress.

"If something costs us 5 minutes now, or 5 hours later, they always choose to wait until later."

They're probably figuring that they won't be working for that company 5 hours from now. VB is a fantastic tool for creating problems for other people.