Re:micropayments / banner ads (Score 1)

"Junkbuster has suffers from the same problems as spam-fighting email filters. You are either going to eliminate non-banner ad content or you are going to still get some banner ads. There are no perfect heuristics which will allow you to determine what is a banner ad and what is not."

I disagree. I am using a firewall program called AtGuard (which has been discontinued and bought by Network Associates) which does a *great* job of blocking all banner ads, including java applets, etc. The heuristics this thing uses must be pretty good, b/c as far as I can tell, it is not eliminating anything but ads. When turning the software on and off and viewing my favorite pages; no non-related ad content is killed, but when turned on, *everything* (regardless of location on page) that is advertising is whacked.

/dev/null =)

In response to the post "Sure, lets all use Junkbuster and make sure nobody makes any money whatsoever... that way we can shut down this stupid Slashdot.org website and put Malda and his boyz out of business.. "

//rant begins here

Do you work for the RIAA/MPAA/BSA or something? Do you and your ilk actually think about the rhetoric that you spout? Guess what? In business, no one "deserves" and damn thing. If you sink a gazillion dollars into personnel, R&D, and somebody comes along with a better distribution model, oh *fscking* well. That's capitalism. Millions of business fail every year, don't go crying when technology and your target market finds a easier/cheaper way to obtain your services/product. And before you start with your moralizing and backward ethics, read this and this. If people could obtain free COPIES of hotdogs or gold bars or whatever, believe me, they would. Stealing, pheh.

//end of rant.

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