Imagine running a restaurant where 40% of the people who came and ate didn't pay. In a way, that's what ad blocking is doing to us.

I am not making an argument that blocking ads is a form of stealing, or is immoral, or unethical, [...]

really. because when you compare ad blocking to stealing food at a restaurant, it seems that you are making the argument that blocking ads is a form of stealing, is immoral, and unethical.

developing a methodology to search for something is usually considered publishable research in and of itself. (if said methodology is genuinely unique) the results (be they positive or negative) are often presented in a follow-up paper.

you joke, but if you had read the article, you would have known that this is exactly what they think it might have meant. =P

a bias wouldn't matter. simply use it as a seed into a fully generative cyclical group with a flat output distribution. (for example, any good hash function)

+1 in my book.

text file + ccencrypt, that is. =P
(stored in a git repo, one file per site/system, passwords generated by pwgen, reads done using ccat)

crashes chrome on linux HARD...

why only drink and fuck on fridays? =P

that would be the JMP instruction. =P

In addition to better performance, this technology shift also increases font quality and readability with sub-pixel positioning:

they say "sub-pixel positioning", but the example shows aliased vs. anti-aliased font rendering.... *really*? that's their "closing the gap w/ rivals" strategy? WOW.

math and computer science exercise very similar critical thinking and problem solving skills. not to mention, once you're beyond for loops and object inheritance, *many* areas of computer science boil down to applied mathematics. granted, it's more from discrete math, abstract algebra or diffeq, but you have to learn to walk before you can learn to run.

in college we used to call "ackee" "icky", after an incident where a friend cooked it for a group of us. =P

where can you buy an iphone 3gs for $100? here in the states it costs $100 + $70/month*24 months = $1780

i second this interpretation. =P

says who? trust me, the software the phone runs is the "main selling point". i've never even used the itunes syncing feature.