I use a HOSTS file, it serves me well; quite large at this time. I also take the time to read a sites TOS they will tell you what to block (though one link says they don't mention Flash Cookies (or one of the three mentioned).

Read the TOS of ROVIO.COM (Angry Birds); "sent overseas" well where?
When I last read it long ago it gave me a lot of sites to block; the most important being Flurry.com.

Angry birds (all of ROVIO.COM programs) collect your information then sells it to Flurry.com (It's Google) who in turn sell it to parties who wish to target ads to you.

Ever wonder why there are so many free game for your Cell Phone, they make money off of them selling to Flurry.com at the least. The information being sent or collected will or should be listed in a sites TOS. Most of the time you need to use your browser for Google's "Play Store" to get the website of the program your looking at.

I have always been under the impression that Jpg's and other graphic formats are already compressed (i don'thing BPM's are), and will sometimes grow larger if compressed again. Try this with a batch of Jpg or another graphic's format, it will be larger than the batch total. Sometimes by just a little; sometimes by a great deal.

Can't argue though as BPG seems to compress,while I figure with just more loss of the data you can see anyhow - JPG's line when it first came out.

It's a state of mind really. I'm 61 and could be called old, hell I get senior discounts now.

I have no illnesses and feel as well as I ever have, or I could dwell on every ache and pain and start acting like I was 61 instead of a "kid" (say 35 yrs old : } ) still.

http://computer.howstuffworks....

It appears to of been posted in 1999, I remember reading it a long time ago thinking are you nuts!

(might be a dupe post, wasn't logged in the first time around).

I have a stupid 4 second video that was part of a much longer post; Posted to a MineCraft website my son and I played on.

I had forgotten all about it till the e-mail started to come in, at this time it's seen around 430,000 unique views and nobody likes it (go figure), It's being seen out of conetxt.

I refuse to put any ads on it or screw with it in any way, it's as it was when it was first posted (other than it's description).

If you want to hunt it down, search for badactorep on youtube - of all my Gmail accounts that's the handle Google (gmail) stuck me with (and the worst of em all).

The demographics one can get from that amount of views is just amazing, one can really zero in on their visitors - and why I don't log onto sites unless I have a real need, like posting a new video to another account that is my main site (also no ads or overlays, just videos),

Trax3001bbs - always ad free :}

http://computer.howstuffworks....

It appears posted in 1999, I know I read it a long time ago and thought are you nuts!

I started late as well (30 something) I was learning assemble language on the TRS-80 3, The AmigA while a great system stopped me cold (no programs, even the basic was very broken).

I tried to get my son to learn hacking or at the least assemble language he had no interest.

So tried hard, failed due to the system I was using.

I jest, but my ISP Charter is selling out to Comcast; Very soon I'll be lucky to get crawling speeds on a torrent, and I'm sure lose my UseNet which Charter provided free of charge (just part of your account).

Guizi (Chinese: ; pinyin: guzi) is a Chinese slang term for foreigners, and has a long history of being used as a racially depreciating insult. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

(Also posted below before it hit the front page)

/. is one of the few if not the only places one can post as Anonymous, this ability makes it as unique as it's articles (one stop catch up area).

Sad a Coward like you post such meaningless drivel with this freedom.

"In the letter, Sony defended its decision to wait five days to admit its security had been compromised and called on the government to help make the internet safer."

They asked for outside help (expected the government to stop it) and apparently took security a bit lax in one area.
"In the letter, Sony defended its decision to wait five days to admit its security had been compromised and called on the government to help make the internet safer." http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomgar...

I did get two free simple games over that one, I expect money this time they need to take their security a bit more serious. I mean even shutting down the gym (who knows why, terminals?

Once burnt twice shy, not something Sony is familiar with.

Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals (at the time) has a very good article on this. You can learn a lot through it, least I did.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mar...

His first post I can't find in the time I have, is intense as well as much longer.