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Yeah, the entrance is dual purpose 
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For those of you who are relatively new to the Web, the <blink> tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its behavior to be extremely annoying. "Don't blink. Blink and you're dead."
OK, this is not exactly of broad interest, so I admit I'm putting it in mostly so I can use that quote. However, a great view into the pre-standards standards, and this money quote that explains so much of the Web, "One of the engineers liked my idea so much that he left the bar sometime past midnight, returned to the office and implemented the blink tag overnight."
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Well, to be fair, blinking text pre-dates HTML.
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True, but even then its sole purpose was so that movies could flash the "bomb about to blow up" text.
TTFN - Kent
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The whole "let's parallelize" thing is a huge waste of everybody's time. There's this huge body of "knowledge" that parallel is somehow more efficient, and that whole huge body is pure and utter garbage. Linus has never met two lines he'd like to meet
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Quote: End users are fine with roughly on the order of four cores
The thing about IT is that it is not ever defined or restrained by the needs and desires of the present but rather the edge of what is possible is what drives us.
For example, many of the things that required a very high end machine last decade can be comfortably done on a multi-core PC.
Where Linus is right is that the complexity and potential for errors is often much higher than the realised benefit and this requires languages to change too. Things like immutable objects, tail recursion, PLinq etc. are all clues to the direction in which we should be heading (IMHO).
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If you've ever done any 3D rendering for video, you'd definitely be happy with all the cores you could lay your hands on.
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The Random Darknet Shopper, an automated online shopping bot with a budget of $100 a week in Bitcoin, is programmed to do a very specific task: go to one particular marketplace on the Deep Web and make one random purchase a week with the provided allowance. The purchases have all been compiled for an art show in Zurich, Switzerland titled The Darknet: From Memes to Onionland, which runs through January 11.
The concept would be all gravy if not for one thing: the programmers came home one day to find a shipment of 10 ecstasy pills, followed by an apparently very legit falsified Hungarian passport– developments which have left some observers of the bot’s blog a little uneasy.
If this bot was shipping to the U.S., asks Forbes contributor and University of Washington law professor contributor Ryan Calo, who would be legally responsible for purchasing the goodies? The coders? Or the bot itself?
Methinks it is like a weaselblank check for a lawyer.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I believe the coder, there must have been an if else condition, more like,
if(product != typeof(Product.Drug)) {
}
.. well who knows what would be done there or here, but I'm still very much confused, how did bot made the agent agree to give him a Hungarian passport?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It is not a very new project, I think it runs now for several months.
First I hated this project, meanwhile I start to like it. It shows all the pervert possibilities of a not controlled net.
Also internet must not become a lawless area!
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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An interesting story, but I have trouble believing the "Hungarian Passport" forgery thing.
A faked passport without a photo of a real individual is useless.
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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Mary Jo Foley wrote: Spartan is still going to use Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine and Microsoft's Trident rendering engine (not WebKit), sources say. As Neowin's Brad Sams reported back in September, the coming browser will look and feel more like Chrome and Firefox and will support extensions. Sams also reported on December 29 that Microsoft has two different versions of Trident in the works, which also seemingly supports the claim that the company has two different Trident-based browsers.
Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push[^]
It must be warrior like the 300[^]
Wonde Tadesse
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Seems good. But I don't think IE will be my default browser anytime soon.
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Holy Cow, they weren't kidding. I loaded the VIM color page and FireFox sucked up a GB.
I disabled ADB and FF instantly went down by 200MB in memory usage, from about 800MB to 600MB.
Good grief. What a piece of crap. Blocking ads with CSS? Geez, I thought it was actually stripping the href tags or whatever so the browser wasn't even loading the ad crap.
Marc
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It could be useful for pay-per-view ads. This way the owner of the site still gets his money and the user simply don't see crap on the screen. Until the ads seller find it out it works...
I have NoFlash plugin and it does its job well, the most obnoxious ads are the flash ones, the play audio, video, weight a ton, start unprompted and generally slow down the navigation, especially if they are present in every page of a site and I open several links in different tabs. AdBlock + NoFlash does its job well, bu now that I know the inner working of AdBlock I think I'll search another...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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shouldn't this[^] option be the choosen always?
It Works with all the browsers and I've not noticed any impact on my everyday working...
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Absolutely. It boggles the mind why anyone would use a plug-in to block ads when a hosts file tweak is all you need.
/ravi
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Seems reasonable, I looked for something that:
- Would work with all the browsers.
- That could not be disabled (by a normal user).
- Which would block unwanted ads.
Probably what @BillWoodruff says about a better filtering on this kind of ad blockers is true, but hosts file satisfies my needs perfectly.
And isn't it amazing to see a web without ads?
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0) Easier to troubleshoot and work around problems.
0.0) 1 click to turn off and see if it was the problem.
0.1) Ability to see everything blocked and toggle rules 1 at a time to figure out which is he problem.
1) Ability to set different rules for different sites.
2) Ability to block some but not all content from a domain.
2.0) CDNs hosting ads and legit content.
2.1) Sites hosting ads under locations where dns blocking won't work, eg something like www.codeproject.com/ads/ but on a site you want to use ad blocking on.
2.2) Ability to block useless non-ad content from a page. - back before Google buried it under Stack Overflow results this made Expert Sexchange pages usable without scrolling down past 500 screens of "ugentz giv uss teh moneyz 4 da cod" begging first.
3) No holes in layout where failed to load ads were placed.
2.2 and 3 are the two most important reasons for me; and why despite being aware of the performance implications, I'm mostly writing DOM based blocking rules instead of host based rules in my custom filter list these days.3
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Hi Joan,
I've been using the MVPS Hosts file for years; I do have the impression that using AdBlockPlus does block out ads that are not intercepted by the Hosts file. I have assumed that's because ABP has listings for that the Hosts file does not ... what do you think ?
cheers, Bill
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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No idea Bill, I've never used a plugin to block ads  (I'm using IE  ), I started searching for a solution to avoid seeing ads (for myself and for all the people in the company as I saw that most of the virus issues came from unwanted clicks on some "interesting" ads). As we don't have a policy about which browser we have to use I searched for a global option and I found MVPS which worked like charm in all the browsers that can be installed on the computer (of course)...
Probably you are right and an ad blocker will intercept more things as it can use different methods than only the hosts file approach.
and an ad too early for that here...
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That's what I use as well, but it tends to slow down browsing as well.
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I have always assumed that using the Hosts file must have some overhead if it filters out certain browsing activity as pages load ... how could it not have overhead ?
cheers, Bill
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards ... as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push» Wittgenstein
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The overhead is incurred by a failing 404, which while definitely non-zero is (for all practical purposes, IMHO) negligible.
/ravi
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