This is what I loved about playing WoW, if I felt like I wanted a certain part of the UI to be bigger/smaller, I could make it happen. If I wanted extra awesome translucent bars so I could have more slots for spells, I could. And let me tell you, that spoiled me. These days, I come upon an interface that is wholly uncustomizable and it makes me a little ill. Perfect example: iPhones. I hate them, you cannot configure anything except the background.

And with Androids, you already can download new interface packages, they are called Launchers. I use Nova Launcher, it is free, and it rocks my socks off. I can change everything down to the icons. If you want to change the notification bar, they have those apps too. This is why I love Android over iPhone, customization. And also why I am sad when I see someone with a Galaxy S3 that still has all the default settings on it.

Apple would never do this, customization means fragmentation. Suddenly their walled garden is editable by their end users? No no, that would be impossible.

Anyway, I feel like I am ranting now, I will stop.

I thought they explained that they had to bury the machines under the earth because the actual aliens could not travel fast enough, so they sent their tanks first, then traveled the slow way themselves.

But yeah, why did they think we would build cities in those areas? Why did they hate us so much that they would predict how our populations would boom, and where to plant the tanks to murder us?

Aliens make no sense these days.

Can you convert to LOC?

I have no idea if it does or not, I have them blocked either way.

The number of times I read the article are astoundingly slim. I mean, this is Slashdot, after all.

I dismissed the entire ad industry as soon as I got background popup videos that were playing sound, and an ad somewhere near the bottom of a long page that was also playing sound at the same time. At that point, it just became a battle of who could make me hate the internet more, so I decided to surrender and make a blanket statement of "I never want to see another ad again, lest I destroy my computer out of sheer rage".

It is not my fault that sound-based advertisements ruined the entire game for everyone.

I know these guys, and none of those are a part of their reasoning. As far as my implied "Pathological fear" of ads, I have none. I simply dislike clutter, and I really hate having to watch an ad before I can watch a video on Youtube.

In a similar vein, on sites I visit the most I use Adblock Element hider to get rid of extra unwanted elements that are meaningless to me. For example, share buttons. I will never share content except maybe on Youtube, thus if I commonly use a website, I will hide the "Sharing pane". It is pointless for me, so I would rather have extra reading space, than have something else drawing my attention away from the main purpose of the site.

And if you are really worried about your point #1, the vast majority of web browsing I do is spent on Google-owned websites, and Slashdot. Google does not need the revenue generated by my adviews, and I contribute often enough on Slashdot that I am "Eligible to disable ads". So I am not worried about preventing the sites I visit from much-needed ad revenue.

I work for an IT contracting company, and my co-workers do not have Adblock of any type. They go around on the web, VIEWING ADS. I do not understand it, they know a lot about IT, yet do not sterilize their browsers? Who would do that willingly? One of them even uses IE, ON PURPOSE.

I do not think I will ever understand their logic as to why they do not use Adblock, which, when questioned, results in a shrug.

The video in TFA looked like control was incredibly arduous, the only thing I would be interested in would be scrolling or zooming. But, considering I would like to be able to type at the same time (In order to search for words, for example) it would be more impractical than a keyboard/mouse combo.

While linking arms with Parent: "Doooomed"

Hmmm... I never thought of anything like warning fatigue. It has definitely happened to me though:

I was a System Admin for a ~50 user company, I had notification alerts on the three servers that would show me anything that appeared in event viewer that was anything higher than "Warning". I got so used to seeing so many random warnings that had no relevance (i.e. Print Spooler service being unable to start, not an issue until I need to print, not worth the time it would take to fix) I eventually pretty much stopped paying attention to the warnings entirely. Luckily, the one day I actually glanced at them was the same day one of the HDDs in the NAS got a predictive SMART error. I was incredibly fortunate, and was able to get a spare ordered and replaced before any real damage was done.

I bet the B1 situation was significantly more dangerous than my HDD thing, but you know.

Yeah, my thought was "License agreement? Whatever, this thing is free".

Yeah, that was just about the least provocative thing I have ever read.

Oohh, and if they have good enough resolution (They do not in real life, but hey, comics!) they could see the escape pod travel toward the planet/away from the planet and meet up with itself as it reaches FTL speeds. My brain hurts from the relativity of that sentence, but I think I got it right.

Dang it. I really need to read the Simirillion. I thought the Balrog was a a part of a whole race of creatures that looked similarly, now I feel like I am missing out on a big chunk of the story. Thanks for nothing! Jerk! I hope you know that someone out there is going to have a blast because you forced them to read a fantastic book just to get the whole picture! Grrr!

It was not really the language that concerned him, but probably the lack of being on-topic.