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Comment Maybe I'd Be Capable... (Score 1) 511

... of doing a goddamn crossword again. My *shortcuts* have shortcuts to Google. How the hell am I supposed to resist the sum total of all human knowledge when I'm stuck with "42D: 1972 Red Sox shortstop (8 letters)" and all I've got is a tentative P crossing through the second space?

Comment Re:Devil's Advocate (Score 2, Informative) 385

I've never used AdBlock — I just use NoScript. I'm not blocking based on content, I'm just enforcing tighter security on my computer.

It cleanly kneecaps admonger arguments — static ads (I also disable animated gifs) and text ads display just fine, but you don't have my permission to run Flash, Java, or JavaScript on my system. And strangely enough, NoScript's control is finely-grained enough to give a site general permission to execute content without also granting access to skeevyads.cx and other bastions of consumer rights.

(And I'd use NoScript even if it did none of those things, because the act of *not loading a PDF by default* has saved me hours and hours of dodging lockups and crashes.)

The Media

Submission + - The Dark Side of Accountability? (latimes.com) 2

jesdynf writes: I saw an LA Times story — a restaurant manager donated $100 to support California's anti-gay Proposition 8; eventually, her name surfaced on donor lists, and her business is in the process of collapsing. This affair has The Internet written all over it — wide distribution of donor lists, with someone zeroing in on the lady's name, rapid (and snowballing) online communication about the topic, coordination of response... I haven't seen it discussed to my satisfaction, so I throw the question to the floor — is the internet working as designed? Is what we're seeing here a bug or a feature? Nobody accuses the protesters of lies or violence; the writer took the position that he didn't approve of the protests, but I'm not sure I understand why.
The Courts

Submission + - Has RIAA expert Jacobson contradicted himself? (blogspot.com) 1

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "A year and five months after examining the defendant's hard drive in UMG v. Lindor, the RIAA's "expert" witness, Dr. Doug Jacobson, has issued a "supplemental report" which appears to contradict his earlier "reports" alluding to the hard drive inspection. In view of the superb job the Slashdot community and the Groklaw community did in helping first to prepare for, and then to vet, Jacobson's deposition, I humbly submit for your learned review the now three (3) versions of the "expert's" opinions based on the hard drive, for your analysis. As with almost all federal litigation documents nowadays, they are, unfortunately, in *pdf format: (a) December 19, 2006, declaration; (b) unsigned October 25, 2006, report, awaiting approval from RIAA lawyers; and (c) December 15, 2007, version. The initial observations of commentators on my blog are located here."
Windows

Submission + - Concise Windows Vista Poll

jesdynf writes: "Deploy and support Windows Vista on six thousand systems, or I'll shoot you in the leg."
  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. What's my deductible?
Windows

Submission + - FSF launches campaign against Windows Vista

FrankNFurter writes: "The FSF yesterday launched BadVista, a campaign against Microsoft's new operating system. The aim of this is to inform users about the (alleged) harms inflicted by it on the user and free software alternatives. Quoth program administrator John Sullivan: "Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and using a computer: your control over what it does. Obviously MS Windows is already proprietary and very restrictive, and well worth rejecting. But the new 'features' in Vista are a Trojan Horse to smuggle in even more restrictions. We'll be focusing attention on detailing how they work, how to resist them, and why people should care.""

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