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Comment: Do ads pay per view, or just per click? (Score 1) 1051

by piojo (#31397080) Attached to: Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking

Do all ads pay per click, nowadays? Because I think I've only clicked one ad in the past year, so I shouldn't feel guilty about bypassing ads.

On the other hand, if some ads still pay per page-view, then I might want to think about tweaking my ad-blocking so that I don't block ads on a domain until they do something that bothers me (ad with sound, ads that severly slow down a page, inappropriate ad, etc.)

Comment: Lenovo keyboards (Score 2, Interesting) 806

by piojo (#30765700) Attached to: Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore?

I love the keyboard on my 2.5 year old thinkpad. Especially the dedicated "back" and "forward" buttons, which I've remapped to more useful functions. In fact, I think the keyboard is almost a "killer feature" that none of their competitors can match. If they start removing buttons I use, I may be able to make my next laptop a system76 or clevo.

Comment: Re:Are they serious? (Score 1) 154

by piojo (#30743360) Attached to: Smartphones Receive Holy Blessing

Why would the word jewry be offensive?

The word isn't offensive--it would only be offensive if the church was claiming to be Jewish. (I had before never heard "Jewry" used as a location--only things like the "Jewish Quarter".)

To understand why it's offensive when Christians say they're Jews, imagine you're a Catholic. Some guy (born Catholic) takes your Bible and starts a cult around it, decrying old tenets, adding new and incompatible beliefs, and worshipping another god (alongside your old God). The cult becomes very big, many times more numerous than Catholicism. Then some members of this cult start calling it Catholicism. You might feel like your own culture was a little threatened.

Ambiguity: Telling the truth when you don't mean to.

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