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Submission + - How do you block ads in embedded IE?

Submitted by Anonymous
Anonymous writes: There are plenty of ad/pop-up blockers than work well when running IE as a stand alone application, but how do you block ads when running IE as an embedded object (e.g., in Firefox using the IE Tab plug-in)? Are proxies, either local or as a server, the only solution?
User Journal

Journal Journal: WAR-fare, not LAW-fare

Journal by ahbi

from: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=387487&cid=21680537

innocent people simply because guilty people use
This is WAR-fare, not LAW-fare.
We are not establishing guilt or innocence.
Censorship

Submission + - Canada bans complaining about speech restrictions

Submitted by Anon E. Mouse
Anon E. Mouse writes: Calling Speech Restrictors "Enemies of Free Speech" Can Now Lead to Legal Liability in Canada:

Richard Warman, a lawyer who worked as an investigator for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, often filed complaints against "hate speech" sites — complaints that were generally upheld under Canadian speech restrictions.
Paul Fromm, a defender of various Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites, has been publicly condemning Warman for, among other things, being "an enemy of free speech."
Warman sued, claiming that these condemnations are defamatory.

Friday, the Ontario Superior Court held for Warman — chiefly on the grounds that because Warman's claims were accepted by the legal system, they couldn't accurately be called an attack on free speech.

Snippets of the opinion may be found at the legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy.

Eugene Volokh writes:

It seems to me that Fromm was simply expressing opinions that the court disapproved of — that people who try to restrict "hate speech" are "enem[ies] of free speech," that people who are punished for hate speech are "dissidents," that people who for ideological reasons use the law to restrict speech they disagree with are ideologues who want only to deny freedom of speech to those with whom they disagree. Who is an "enemy of free speech" obviously turns on the speaker's view of free speech, and the view that he expects his audience to share, or that he wants to persuade his audience to share. Who deserves to be labeled with the generally positive term "dissident" depends on what dissent the speaker believes to be legitimate and morally proper.

Yet the Canadian justice system not only allows the suppression of certain viewpoints, and excludes them from free speech restrictions. With this case, it also tries to deny critics the right to label the speech they support "free speech," and the dissenters they like "dissidents."

The court is insisting that Canadians' speech not only follows the government-approved ideology on the topic of race, ethnicity, and religion (an ideology that I agree with, but that I don't think should be legally coerced). It is also insisting that Canadians' speech follows the government-approved ideology and terminology on the topic of free speech itself.
Software

Submission + - Microsoft kills off HP legacy drivers 1

Submitted by couchslug
couchslug writes: I went looking for drivers for a friend and found this proof that Microsoft can make use of older Windows versions more difficult." http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01080344&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=59270&lang=en "As of July 2007, HP will no longer be able to offer driver downloads or replacement driver CD ordering for Windows 98, 98 Second Edition (SE), or Windows Millennium (Me) for your HP printer, all-in-one, camera, or scanner. Microsoft has stopped providing and supporting certain files related specifically to Windows 98 SE, and this change affects all technology companies. HP, along with other technology companies, is no longer able to use selected components in support of Windows 98SE, which has an impact on our software strategy for Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and Windows Me. HP will continue to provide other selected HP software and applications that do not depend on Windows 98 SE components for the foreseeable future."
Education

Submission + - Why Are College Dorms Such Dumps?

Submitted by
theodp
theodp writes: "'I will be paying for this overcrowded, unsanitary, fly-infested, sinking dorm with hostile doorways for what could be half my life.' So writes 'Stephan K.' of the trailer that serves as his home-away-from-home at Bard College, where students can shell out $36,534 in tuition and $10,346 for room-and-board for such luxurious digs. Which begs the bigger question: With the nation's brightest minds on their payrolls, why can't universities and colleges figure out how to provide students with something better than slumlord-level accommodations?"
Censorship

Submission + - San Fran' Chronicle secretly censors their webpage

Submitted by ahbi
ahbi writes: The San Francisco Chronicle has recently activated a devious system by which it deceives commenters on its website, SFGate.com. Here's how it works:

If you make a comment on an article posted at SFGate, and if the site moderators then subsequently delete your comment for whatever reason, it will only appear as deleted to the other readers. HOWEVER, your comment will NOT appear to be deleted if viewed from your own computer! The Chronicle's goal is to trick deleted commenters into not knowing their comments were in fact deleted.
The Internet

Submission + - Sky's botched Google migration (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Rupert Murdoch-owned British ISP Sky is migrating their customers to the Google Apps platform, and the customer experience is terrible. Their 1m customers were told that they need to change their client settings to enable SMTP Authentication and other settings on a certain date — but not to do it before then or their e-mail would break; but if you don't do it on the date your e-mail will also break. Oh, and if you're a POP user you also need to enable that manually in the 'Skoogle' interface, as seemingly they chose not to run a system-wide command to allow it for all users. In addition, if you want help then you're pretty much on your own. One user has made 7 support calls and still not been able to access his e-mail since the migration. Hardly surprising that the story has made the papers with their helpdesk in meltdown. It does make you wonder why they simply didn't put proxy servers in place to proxy the new service by modifying the old settings in the network and give their customers time to switch over without their e-mail breaking in the meantime. Or even a simple ActiveX tool to help out the less technical users. Apparently the move is all about a greater customer experience for their users. An interesting way of showing it.
Handhelds

Submission + - No Bars For iPhone Brits

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The newest iPhone users, who bought the Apple phones when they went on sale in England on Nov. 9, are reporting persistent signal-strength problems on O2, the UK's only iPhone service provider. InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe says there's a debate as to whether O2 or the iPhone is at fault; it appears to be the handset, which is unusual since U.S. users haven't reported similar problems. Some 02 customers report that getting a replacement phone fixes things; others have had to do a software restore back to version 1.1.2 of the iPhone software.
Security

Submission + - Canadian Taser Death Sparks Canadian Uproar

Submitted by e-scetic
e-scetic writes: Yesterday a video was put on YouTube depicting an obviously frightened and non-threatening Polish man being tasered by police and dying within minutes. The incident actually happened a month ago but police had been holding onto the video. It was just released.

The incident is causing a diplomatic "spat" between the Canadian and Polish governments, Canadians are horrified and in an uproar over it, and the Canadian government is calling for a review of police use of tasers.

Some links can be found here, here and here. Probably better to Google it, though.
Patents

Submission + - Obama plans major patent shake up

Submitted by Stony Stevenson
Stony Stevenson writes: Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has unveiled his technology strategy and is calling for an overhaul of the US patent system and the appointment of a national chief technology officer. The policy states that Obama wants to upgrade the national internet network to next-generation broadband and put in laws to encourage open access for all. He has also made clear his commitment to network neutrality, but it is his policies on patents that will raise eyebrows in Silicon Valley.
Government

Submission + - Demonoid tracker down again

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: According to demonoid.com, their servers have been pulled due to threats from the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association).

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