Re: Answer: The hosts file.
"Answer: The hosts file. "
That can only block whole sites, and not intelligently match urls....Not an effective filtering method for many sites that host both content and adverts.
Posts by TheVogon
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Sorry, Windows 10 early adopters: Microsoft Edge WON'T block ads at launch
Thursday 7th May 2015 09:01 GMT
"Unfortunately, that will leave Edge users with virtually no ability to adjust the browser's behavior or add new features. (We're looking at you, AdBlock.) The new browser supports neither ActiveX controls nor Browser Helper Objects (BHOs), which developers could use to extend Internet Explorer with plugins and add-on toolbars, respectively."
But no one needs to use any of these things to block adverts in IE. It has great built in advert filtering which can use the same blocking list as Adblock via the "Tracking Protection" feature. As far as I can see this will still be supported in Microsoft Edge as it does not seem to be on the list of removed features.
See http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/TrackingProtectionLists/
Yow! It's the HOT NEW 'Collections' from Google! Oh wait ... it's a Google+ thing
Word to your mother: Office 2016 preview flung at world + dog
Tuesday 5th May 2015 16:27 GMT
Re: Dunno, have they fixed outlook?
"it seems that outlook 2010 really doesn't like it when you get mailboxes in the 5+ Gb area."
Nope that's fine. Default limit is 50GB. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/982577
If you have with 5GB mailboxes then the issue probably isn't directly caused by Outlook. So your Office staff might well be right. (Assuming you have deployed all "recommended" Office updates from Windows Update of course...)
Who thinks Microsoft Edge sucks? Erm, Microsoft
Marvell: We don't want to pay this $1.5bn patent bill because, cripes, it's way too much
Thursday 9th April 2015 12:17 GMT
Re: Patents: Sought by the Wright brothers while Europe built planes
""!The corporate ownership of the US is so successful that for instance over half of Americans still don't acknowledge that Global Warming is real " ... one track mind hey? and tunnel vision for good effect."
This is actually true. The majority of Americans are just as ignorant regarding the facts of anthropomorphic global warming as they are on say geography:
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/06/37-of-americans-cant-find-america-on-a-map-2676508.html
LOL @ "Despite Americans’ seemingly underdeveloped sense of their own geography, history and domestic policy, they did score high points on the issue of patriotism, calling America .....“a place to definitely explore when I finally get my passport” (22 percent).”"
Also see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0502_060502_geography.html
SCREW YOU, BRITS: We're going through with UK independence ANYWAY – Scotland
Wednesday 18th February 2015 14:38 GMT
Re: Oil based economy?
"Scotland contributes 9.6% of UK tax revenue "
Isn't that counting oil and gas? Which Scotland doesn't actually produce - it just happens to be offshore. And of course is now much lower in revenue. And much of the receipts of which would be tied up paying off your share of the national debt. GERS has estimated Scotland's share of debt would be £92 billion which is 62% of estimated GDP.
According to the BBC as a percentage of the UK, Scotland contributes 8.2% in taxes (excluding North Sea oil and gas revenue), but receives 9.3% of government spending.
Also Scotland has among the shortest life expectancies in Western Europe - meaning that your future social and healthcare costs would be huge.
Microsoft: Office 365 IT admins get free device-wrangling controls
This is what happens when a judge in New York orders an e-hit on a Chinese software biz
Microsoft gets data centres powered up for big UPS turn-off
Tuesday 24th March 2015 14:37 GMT
"But the problem with fuel cells is they have to be run through Uninterruptible Power Supply units (UPSs) – and these cost big money and take up a lot of space."
Utter rubbish: http://www.bloomenergy.com/fuel-cell/mission-critical-data-center/
"A data centre powered by Bloom Energy eliminates the need for traditional backup equipment like diesel generators, UPS, batteries, and complex switchgear"
Windows 10 apps to rule them all – phones, slabs and PCs: Microsoft pulls out 'universal' tool
Swedish city demands £40,000 to repair teenage hacking spree
Our 4King benders are so ace we're going full OLED, says LG
Internet Explorer LIVES ON, cackle sneaky Microsoft engineers
Patch Flash now: Google Project Zero, Intel and pals school Adobe on security 101
Redmond's Patch Tuesday to kill off the Windows FREAK show
France enacts law to block terror and child sexual abuse sites
RIP Windows RT: Microsoft murders ARM Surface, Nokia tablets
Thursday 5th February 2015 13:58 GMT
Re: Surface 2 with Win 8 RT-edition
"The primary annoyance is not being able to install an ad-blocker, thus making it less than useful for consuming ad-supported content (e.g. YouTube)."
IE's built in advert blocking works just fine. No need to use a third party product. I use the same block list as AdAware, plus the one that blocks Google.
Look out - it's a Goober! Google's über-Uber robo apptaxi ploy
Wednesday 4th February 2015 14:13 GMT
Presumably these will the privacy equivalent of using Google Chrome and The Borg will target all of your personal information to make the most money possible out of you.
I for one expect to soon see lines of 'Borg-Mobiles' outside every strip club and whorehouse in town - so that Google can fully monetise targeting punters with adverts for one handed viewing material....
Google, Amazon 'n' pals fork out for AdBlock Plus 'unblock' – report
Wednesday 4th February 2015 10:21 GMT
Re: Begun the Ad Wars have
"And right there your plan falls apart for probably %80+ of the people visiting this site.
Current Internet Explorer PC desktop market share is about 58%, and probably higher for this site as many users will be using corporate desktops: http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qpcustomd=0
"Open IE for anything but the intranet? Haha good one."
The last 3 major versions of IE have all been faster (on the SunSpider benchmark) than the current release of Chrome at the time of release and have also had far fewer security vulnerabilities over time than Chrome. And more importantly to me, they don't report your browsing habits back to The Borg like Chrome does. Oh - and as above Ad Blocking is built in (and is extremely fast).
Monday 2nd February 2015 14:39 GMT
Re: Begun the Ad Wars have
No need to use something like Ad Block on IE. Ad blocking is built in:
• Open IE11 in Modern or Desktop mode
• Bring up the Charms bar (swipe from the right)
• Tap 'Settings'
• Select 'Privacy'
• Tap 'Add Tracking Protection Lists' and select an appropriate block list. EasyList Standard is the same list that powers the Adblock Plus plugin. Recommended also is 'Stop Google Tracking,' which gets around Google's circumventing of IE's privacy preferences.
Google boffins PROVE security warnings don't ... LOOK! A funny cat!
NXP flings sueball at Marvell over Xbox NFC chips
Friday 30th January 2015 11:23 GMT
Re: Going for Chip company
"“It's interesting that they're going for a chip company and not a product manufacturer.”
Well firstly Microsoft have one of the largest relevant patent collections on the planet, so NXP would risk being spanked into orbit by return fire, and secondly Microsoft don't so far even use Bluetooth or NFC on the Xbox one AFAIK so any 'damages' would likely be minimal.
Ugly, incomplete, buggy: Windows 10 faces a sprint to the finish
Friday 30th January 2015 09:42 GMT
"Ugly, incomplete, buggy: Windows 10"
That's probably what Service Pack 1 (or whatever they decide to call the first major point release) will fix! Disagree on the ugly though - I think it looks pretty cool already.
Microsoft's recent OSs have all been useable and very stable out of the door, but there are always plenty of things to improve, clean up and optimise later...
Adobe finds, patches ANOTHER exploited Flash 0day
Hola HoloLens: Reg man gets face time with Microsoft's holographic headset
FIVE Things (NOT 10: these are REAL) from the WINDOWS 10 event
Friday 23rd January 2015 11:46 GMT
Re: Nobody talks to Cortana
"This means Microsoft needs to get business users upgrading again – 85 per cent of installations run Windows 7 or earlier – but without unnecessarily pissing off the minority who are happy with the 8.x Sinofsky’d Windows 8.0/8.1 design.
Microsoft is going to do this by writing off next year’s Windows upgrade revenue. "
Rubbish - this has nothing to do with business users. They generally pay maintenance and can upgrade for free anyway. And this offer doesn't even apply to business versions!
Free Windows 10 could mean the END for Microsoft and the PC biz
Friday 23rd January 2015 11:04 GMT
Re: Oh no!!!
"Modern Apps is that they start so damn slowly in comparison to far more feature rich desktop applications "
Install this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2913270 and this http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=42642
Then from an Elevated command prompt, run this:
WSRESET
and then
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\WinStore\AppxManifest.XML
and your issue should be resolved...
Scientific consensus that 2014 was record hottest year? No
Wednesday 21st January 2015 12:16 GMT
Re: Well
"Please stop the bull crap. All ice core "measurements" are completely suspect. The other gasses that would provide the real proportion data are all more permeable than CO2. IE most everything else leaked away besides the CO2."
These measurements are extremely widely accepted - and we now have multiple concurring measurements from different locations. What real proportion data? All gases tend to be permeable! What has 'leaked away' that would change these measurements? You are spouting fluent effluent.
If you actually had any knowledge of what you are trying to disparage, you would understand that no other gases are directly involved in the measurement other than CO2 and that the temperature at the time the ice was deposited can be measured by comparing the ratio of isotopes in the water.
Tuesday 20th January 2015 15:10 GMT
Re: Well
"Out of interest TheVogon, what do you do for a living?"
Build intergalactic highways and hyperspace bypasses...
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co2-temperature-plot.svg
(Actually this one goes back 800,000 years! Note where the current CO2 level of 400ppm is - the Earth hasn't seen levels that high for about 20 million years!)
Tuesday 20th January 2015 11:21 GMT
Re: Well
"If over the course of the last decade the 3 hottest years are on record but of a similar record level but literally gigatons of Co2 have been released suggests that our understanding of Co2 is off and we need to be reexamined the situation so we can properly take action."
No it doesn't suggest that at all - graphs of increasing concentrations of CO2 matches the increasing temperature very closely in the medium and long term - and we have vast historical evidence for this - in fact going back over 400,000 years!
That there are other factors that may speed up or slow down the resulting effects of CO2 in the short term is well known - just look at the natural variations in temperature in the short term since 1880!. But in the longer term the correlation is clear - the eventual and inevitable effects of increasing CO2 in the atmosphere are well known and not in any scientific doubt. The only real question is how fast will it happen and how bad will it get?
Monday 19th January 2015 14:06 GMT
Re: Well
"it doesn't support anthropogenic global warming. "
Yes it does when you match it to the CO2 readings for the last 150 years. Which by the way have just gone over 400 parts per million - for the first time in the last 20 million years.
"Presumably something stopped the little ice age"
Presumably you need to Bing Maunder Minimum.
"that correlation between the two appears to have broken down in the last 15 years"
No - no it doesn't. The correlation is still well within existing historical variations.
"I doubt there was enough CO2 released in the 18th & 19th centuries to be the cause of that temperature rise"
Sounds very scientific.
That a) global warming is happening and than b) it is at least significantly anthropomorphic in nature have not been in any scientific doubt whatsoever for at least a decade now. You might want to argue about the impacts or what to do about, it but denying it is happening and that we are at least partly to blame is simply laughable.
nb - we are also now statistically about 99% sure that man is not just a significant cause, but is the primary cause of global warming.
Monday 19th January 2015 13:41 GMT
Re: Well
"Our best estimate for the global temperature of 2014 puts it slightly above (by 0.01 C) that of the next warmest year (2010) but by much less than the margin of uncertainty (0.05 C). Therefore it is impossible to conclude from our analysis which of 2014, 2010, or 2005 was actually the warmest year."
Riiiight - but they are all in the last decade - so if the 3 warmest years since the 1800s are in the last decade, that sort of supports the global warming thing right? You are just arguing about the order of the deckchairs on the Titanic. Not to mention ignoring other overwhelming observable evidence like the on-going sea level rises every year, and that the oceans were the warmest on record too...
Microsoft snubs Codeplex, moves big projects to GitHub
‘Get off of my Cloud’ Verizon tells users ahead of 48-hour maintenance outage
Monday 5th January 2015 08:32 GMT
Re: WTF?
"I thought the whole idea of hosted, sorry, Cloud computing, is how amazing and reliable it is"
No idea where you got that perception from.
Typical public cloud services offer only 99.9% uptime guarantees - and only limited credits if they don't make it. The normal approach is to run critical services across multiple zones or providers - or to split between public and private clouds.
The Reg's review of 2014: Naked JLaw selfies, Uber and monkey madness
Friday 2nd January 2015 12:23 GMT
Re: 10 page spread
Something else rather of note about 2014:
December 2014 will soon be confirmed at 0.6C above normal which means 2014 was the warmest year in the Central England Temperatures series which began in 1659.
Year Ave temp (c)
2014 10.93
2006 10.83
2011 10.70
1990 10.63
1949 10.62
1999 10.62
2002 10.61
1997 10.53
1995 10.53
1989 10.50
2003 10.50
2004 10.48
2014 was also the warmest year recorded globally.
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