May I ask you why do you visit these offensive ad-supported web sites? Is there something which forces you enter their URL into your browser? Are there armed thugs in your house sent by these disgusting sites? Do you hear voices in your head urging you to suffer?

By the way, I see that you are regularly using Slashdot. Have you bought a Slashdot subscription to not get advertisements? Or do you use an ad-blocker, which is free after all, and the Slashdot employees are gladly work for free for your entertainment anyway? Maybe you can add a third candidate for being a parasite to your analysis.

You hit the nail on the head.

No, I am a software developer from the EU, who happens to work on a somewhat popular web site, and I value both my work and the work of other people who create content which proves to be useful or at least entertaining for me. This is the reason for example why I never click on the disable ads checkbox here on Slashdot, buy all the games are rarely play nowdays, etc.

In many contries highway ads are banned.

I do not remember that I broke into your house armed with guns and forced you to view advertisements. For example the only TV channel I occassionally view is HBO, I pay the subscription fee, and do not view any ads.

No respectable company use spam nowdays.

I seriously consider your recommendation, because you seem to be a person who is very experienced in this subject, i.e. in fucking yourself.

Yes, maybe a button is also required to be binding. The current notice banners introduced because of the EU cookie law are everything but invisible. I assume you haven't see any of them. They are displayed either on the top of the browser windows or at the bottom of the window, in a relatively large rectange in a vivid color. Actually I find them more annoying than any ads except maybe the wrongest.

I do not think so. A web page is protected by copyright law and the owner can decide about the terms under which he allows you to use page. You either agree to the terms or skip the page.

Well, maybe if you don't use the latest uber cookie killer and total privacy add-on, than you would get relevant ads from Google.

For example the Google banner displayed for me here on Slashdot is about a cloud backup solution.

You do not need to block ads if you have some self-respect. You have to visit ad-free and payment free pages. Good luck for that.

Web sites should put a message rectangle - like the current idiotic EU cookie banner -, that says:
"You are licensed to continue using this web site, if either you view ads and do not use any ad blocker, or if you pay our modest subscription fee, which is 2 cent/day." It is even better if it is displayed by the advertising agency, so if a somebody regularly use an ad blocker and do not pay on many sites, than he accumulates enough dept that it worths pursuing him by some debt collection agencies.

I develop web applications in Java as a full time job for about 12 years, but I have no idea what are you talking about. Serialization deals with object data, it does not save or retrieve code. And what kind of scripting engine do you talk about? There are scripting engines written in Java, but Java is not a scripting engine. Of course everybody can write unsafe code in any language, but Java makes it hard. I never heard a single high profile exploited vulnerability in Java server side applications. There were serious vulnerabilities recently in the Java browser plugin and in sandboxing of downloaded applet code. It is quite sad that Oracle does not put more effort into securing the plugin. However, these issues has absolutely nothing to do with web applications, such as a forum.

On the other hand AMD is quite good in "Performance per dollar".

Standard floating point is already per-core even in Bulldozer. The shared 256 bit floating point unit can be split into two 128 bit unit. Standard floating point is less than 128 bits, so both cores perform these operations simultaneously.

The only case when one core of the unit waits for the other core to execute a standard floating point operation is when the other core is executing not a usual floating point operation, but a 256 bit AVX extended instruction. (MMX is only 128 bit).

The power at full load means a high load which can easily occur in real life.

The maximum power usage is exactly that, the wattage used in the theoretically worst case. It is practically impossible to reach the maximum power usage with any real life load.

Do you talk about business desktops? They are idling all the time, you have to look at the idle power, not TDP.

The predecessors of this series, the Opteron 6200 is used in quite a few supercomputers. Actually I counted 21 Opteron bases systems in the last supercomputer top 100 list.

Although that is not on a driver level, but macro programmable keyboards do exist. The advantage is that you do not have install anything on any OS. The disadvantage is that keyboards are not really mobile.