"And now, Mr. Bond, I will show you the power of this fully armed and operational Weimar economy! You stole a stick of gum that only cost 950 DM? 33 MONTHS IN JAIL! Bwahahahaaa!"

Other people maintain AdBlock block lists for me. Pretty sure they update automatically, too.

I liked the part where you casually handwaved generations of bitter resentment between India and Pakistan as "not enemies."

I thought most of the reason the UK didn't get invaded in WWII was because they managed to keep the Nazis from physically getting across the Channel (paratroop operations at the time were horribly messy and not very likely to be successful...nearly impossible unless you reinforced them via sea or land during the invasion). Just letting the Nazis conquer Scotland and get a proper foothold on the island is about the most colossally stupid idea I can think of, especially considering Hitler's penchant for invading countries that were neutral and he said he'd leave alone.

The only reasonable choice is selling them back to the rest of the UK, I guess? If that's not what he meant I have no idea.

Do you mean "The Englishwoman Shirts"? Rather changes the meaning.

But if they moved the nukes to London, the aliens would get them when they invade next Christmas.

Oh wait...or are we not doing it on a regular schedule anymore since Tennant left?

Technically I highly doubt that there is an equal amount of energy in going from 40 to 80 and going from 40 to a stop (*accelerating* from 0 to 40 vs 40 to 80 will definitely involve different gears). And I wasn't talking about doubling my speed...15 or 20 may be enough to get past them, vs. coming to a complete stop in a limited distance to avoid either party being t-boned or a corner impact.

And we're not even talking about if there are drivers behind you. The commuting traffic I drive in, I would bet money that if I were to randomly stand on my brakes, I would get nailed almost instantly.

Just to remind you, my original point was that "100.000% compliance with the speed limit no matter what in all circumstances" was a bit unreasonable. Our definitions of technically correct are butting heads :)

Well, mostly because I was at lunch, but hey :)

I haven't been arguing this whole time that Hosts is less featureful than AdBlock, just harder to use.

Now look who "can't prove wrong" all his points :)

I assume what you mean is "it has a better blacklist." Because that's what we're talking about, right? Not heuristics to determine whether something's an ad? If so, then no, it does NOT "block all ads."

Okay, fine. Apart from any potential security concerns, it'll be faster.

I keep hearing these "OMG Firefox is eating up all my available memory" responses and I just don't buy it. I'm a tab whore, and I only have 2GB of RAM even in my machine and neither AdBlock nor Firefox (well, technically I'm on Palemoon now) chokes.

...Aaaaaand we're back to the APK rhetoric. At least this post was almost entirely free of bizarro punctuation, bolding, italics, etc. You missed a + and &.

As a final thought, all this whining about "AdBlock doesn't even do it's job anymore! It's sold out!" can be solved by merely going into preferences and unchecking the "Allow some non-intrustive advertising" box. At least, I have no reason to suspect it doesn't.

It's called a joke, dude.

I'm talking from an end user perspective. Maybe it's not as efficient with clock cycles but who cares because it's good enough. I'm sure there's a few fiddly technical reasons for HOSTS but AdBlock + NoScript does everything *I* care about.

No, I haven't done benchmarks. And I'm not going to commission an interface usability team to compare them either, because as we've learned on /. they're generally idiots (the ones we hear about, anyway). AdBlock is virtually the definition of a set-and-forget, zero-effort-required product. NoScript isn't so much, but I really doubt ApkTool9000 is any better.

I can't help but notice the conspicuous absence of NoScript on his list of poo-poo'd extensions. Not like it's one of the top 2 names in Firefox security plugins or anything...

Not quite sure how that's a challenge...it's an infodump of declarative statements saying his program is good.

And as stated previously, I have no desire to compare penis sizes. Presumably he/you'd reject any arguments I made anyway. Posting the same thing 12 times an article for years is a fairly good indication he's not open to having his mind changed :)

AdBlock works well, and you don't have to manually tinker with much of anything. Throw in Element Hiding Helper for click-based blocking for the edge cases. If you *enjoy* messing with fiddly bits, good on you--I can understand that as I rather enjoy setting up a new Linux install myself. But at a certain point I just become tired of all the fiddly bits and want something to Just Work(tm).

P.S: I'm sure you'll ignore all these points and just keep ranting about HOSTS so good day, sir.

God, you can stop posting the same stuff 12 times per article, dude. I got the information.

And I can also do without the chest-beating and calling me feeble. Grow up.