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Comment: Set a filtering proxy (Score 1) 301

by Hemi Rodner (#43059591) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Software To Help Stay On Task?

At first, I could just disconnect from the internet to get work done.

But now, since I have to interact with servers on the internet during work, I just set up a proxy which allows me only to connect to the work servers. It's called Privoxy and it can run on windows or linux, and it's easy to enable/disable it.

Comment: I use it.. as a Pandora browser (Score 1) 302

by Hemi Rodner (#41743803) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers?

I'm kinda addicted to Pandora, so I use Seamonkey just for accessing Pandora.
I have to use a US proxy in order to access Pandora since I live in Israel and Pandora cannot be accessed outside the US. So I defined a proxy (through ssh SOCKS) in Seamonkey and I use it only for accessing Pandora.

Comment: Not really - they skipped IE support everywhere (Score 2) 273

by Hemi Rodner (#40141657) Attached to: Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings

Here's an example of what they are telling their customers:

IE is becoming a really outdated browser - we can't offer full support for IE, though we do try our best to offer that. IE uses different syntax for CSS than many other browsers, and generally causes problems. It will be nice when everyone stops using it!

Thanks for using 4ormat, Stefan

So it implies that IE manages to display most of their content, but thet don't really bother fixing IE-related problems.

Comment: Bing and DDG suck (Score 1) 405

by Hemi Rodner (#39317729) Attached to: Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft

I wrote a short story called "It's hard living in Jerusalem during the winter".
Search engines, can you please help people find it?

Google: First result.
Bing: Not found - at least not in the first 250 results. Searching with quotes does help though.
DuckDuckGo: Miserable failure - even quotes don't help - and it IS supposed to use other search engines.

So either Bing and DDG suck, or they just hate me personally. Either way, I'm not going to use any of them.

+ - Blasting Tumors With Radioactive Radiation From Th->

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Hemi Rodner writes "Israeli medical researchers say they have developed a new technique for blasting cancer tumours from the inside out which reduces the risk of the disease returning after treatment.
Unlike conventional radiation therapy, which bombards the body with gamma rays from outside, the alpha particles "diffuse inside the tumour, spreading further and further before disintegrating," a Tel Aviv University statement quoted Keisari as saying.
"Not only are cancerous cells more reliably destroyed, but in the majority of cases the body develops immunity against the return of the tumour," the statement said."

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Comment: I don't want Flash ads to be replaced w/ HTML5 ads (Score 1) 485

by Hemi Rodner (#38011618) Attached to: Adobe Ends Development of Flash On Mobile Browsers

I don't like Flash (mostly because of its non-free nature), but paradoxically, I worry what would happen when it dies.

Currently, ALL the annoying ads are in Flash. So I just block Flash with FlashBlock (and click on the Flash objects that I want to see, which are usually embedded videos). That makes the web very tolerable for me.

What will I do when Flash dies, and everyone moves to HTML5 ads? Will it be easy to block them as well? I suspect it'll be much easier for publishers to make it hard-to-block ads, now when it's all in the HTML.

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