take back the web.. again

Yes, by now most people with any sense have abandoned Internet Explorer and switched to firefox. Take back the web again with this literally killer extension:

http://www.noscript.net/

"Literally" killer? I very seriously doubt that.

with no loss of functionality? huh? How does disabling JS on a whitelist basis not reduce functionality? Jesus if you're that anal go back to lynx.

Clodfobble wrote:

"Literally" killer? I very seriously doubt that.

doubt away.. let me know how you get on without gravity

it literally kills javascript. Whitelisting is an awesome feature. I never turn java on unless there's a really really good reason to have it on. pages are much less capable of being annoying without javascript.

Damn.

I thought we were going to go out and be a roving gang of vigilantes. A kind of internet town-watch. Keeping content safe for all. Approching people who put flashing ad banners on their sites and poking them in the eye with a sharp stick.

Instead he's talking about software.

Be Less Bored wrote:

it literally kills javascript.

No, you don't get it. Javascript is not alive. It cannot be killed. Unless someone chokes on their spam-flavored-pop-tarts in amazement over the abilities of this little app, it has not literally killed anything.

It has, however, metaphorically killed Javascript. The pros and cons of which are a perfectly reasonable thing to discuss, if that were what you were attempting. But all your posts instead reek of self-marketing, which is annoying, so I was taking the opportunity to mock you and your misuse of the word "literally."

But please, link us to yet another site of something totally awesome or really worth checking out. I'm sure we'd all benefit. :rolleyes:

Oooh. :corn:

I must say Clodfobble, your tauntage is quite excellent today.

wow, this is fun. it is unusual to see clodfobble poking people with sticks.

Clodfobble wrote:

No, you don't get it. Javascript is not alive. It cannot be killed. Unless someone chokes on their spam-flavored-pop-tarts in amazement over the abilities of this little app, it has not literally killed anything.

Well as long as we're being pedantic - the Merriam-Webster online dictionary also defines 'kill' as 'to cause to stop' ex: to kill the motor. In programming and IT, 'kill' is an often used phrase in reference to stopping a process. So, despite BLB's general dweebiness, his statement is literally correct. The plug-in kills processes.

dar512 wrote:

Well as long as we're being pedantic - the Merriam-Webster online dictionary also defines 'kill' as 'to cause to stop' ex: to kill the motor. In programming and IT, 'kill' is an often used phrase in reference to stopping a process. So, despite BLB's general dweebiness, his statement is literally correct. The plug-in kills processes.

Actually the plugin does not kill the process - it prevents the process from ever starting. A cybortion, if you will.

lookout123 wrote:

wow, this is fun. it is unusual to see clodfobble poking people with sticks.

she has great potential. i'm quite proud of her. come, clodfobble, come to the dark side. your destiny awaits. mwoo hoo hoo haaaaaaaaa!:vader1:

Beestie wrote:

A cybortion, if you will.

:lol: True. But think of the nasty threadjacking that is now likely to occur.

I'm surprised BLB hasn't posted a link to <a href="http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/">Greasemonkey</a> yet, the zealot-geek fanboy flavor of the month.

"cybortion" and "tauntage."


this thread is worthwhile for verbiage alone...

beavis wrote:

this thread is worthwhile for verbiage alone...

Yes... highly cromulent words, those. My vocabulary has been embiggened today.

Oh yay. I haven't unlimbered my pedantic muscles in a long time.

"Cybortion"? That's funny, but its more like a process-prophylactic since it prevents something from starting instead of ending something already begun.

While we're on the subject of funny usage, why are y'all getting exercised about "kill" being inappropriate for describing the stopping, but no eyelash is batted when "execute" is used to describe go, run, activate?

NoScript provides extra protection for your Mozilla Firefox browser: this extension allows JavaScript execution only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site).

This whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality...

You can enable JavaScript execution for sites you trust with a simple left-click on the NoScript status bar icon (look at the picture), or using the contextual menu, for easier operation in popup statusbar-less dialog.

Staying safe has never been so easy!. Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-)

(bold mine) ...yeah. Pro(cess)phylactic.

lookout123 wrote:

wow, this is fun. it is unusual to see clodfobble poking people with sticks.

Spammers and poor grammar both push my buttons. :) I've been thinking about the first, and I think that it's because I am inexplicably terrified that this board will somehow become overrun with people like this and I will have the most awesome place on the internet taken away from me. I know that UT would never let that happen, but I'm still rabid about protecting it. :vikingsmi

That's why this place is so cool.

Except for some very rare exceptions (and the Invasion of the Intelligence Snatchers (released in the UK as TINPeople) ... it's self-correcting.

Be Less Bored wrote:

Yes, by now most people with any sense have abandoned Internet Explorer and switched to firefox. Take back the web again with this literally killer extension:

http://www.noscript.net/

BLB, you'd get a better response if you didn't belittle people (any sense) before evangelising a possibly good thing. The "literally killer" phrase is also annoying; I didn't think you meant literally "kill -9 29323", but it evokes the idea that someone died from executing (re:earlier post) javascript.

It seems that whitelisting javascript publishers would work pretty well, at least in the short term. Eventually, web site publishers would have to switch to serving ads from third party ad networks on the publisher's own whitelisted URLs.

A popular extension for FireFox is AdBlock, which allows the reader to black list URLs with regular expression patterns. AdBlock works very well once you have a decent black list.

The company I work for is one of the largest ad networks on the Internet. We serve over 9 Billion impressions per month. In a face near you. :muse:

hot_pastrami wrote:

Yes... highly cromulent words, those. My vocabulary has been embiggened today.

To contiue the thread hijacking, I stumbled on this beauty yesterday:

tetrahedrotransmogrispinnify: To spin round faster than the speed of light.
Example: The ball spun round really fast. I thought it would tetrahedrotransmogrispinnify.

Personally, I don't know how I got along without using StumbleUpon.

I forget who introduced me to this surfing tool, but now I can waste hours and hours surfing sites I would never have found otherwise. On one memorable occasion, I only stopped because I noticed the sun coming up and realized that I had forgotten to sleep!

a POX on your head, whoever you are! :D

Brian

BrianR wrote:

I forget who introduced me to this surfing tool, but now I can waste hours and hours surfing sites I would never have found otherwise. On one memorable occasion, I only stopped because I noticed the sun coming up and realized that I had forgotten to sleep!

a POX on your head, whoever you are! :D

I fear that I may be the one whose head you mean to pox. Fortunately, I have an impoxable head.

BrianR wrote:

I forget who introduced me to this surfing tool, but now I can waste hours and hours surfing sites I would never have found otherwise. On one memorable occasion, I only stopped because I noticed the sun coming up and realized that I had forgotten to sleep!

a POX on your head, whoever you are! :D

Brian

HP's post was before mine, but I promise mine was an independent discovery. So, there is a chance I am guilty as well.

hot_pastrami wrote:

Yes... highly cromulent words, those. My vocabulary has been embiggened today.

I dream of the entire cellar being waited on by stacyv and having her ask our table if we've been "embeveraged" yet.

A boy can DREAM can't he???

wolf wrote:

I thought we were going to go out and be a roving gang of vigilantes

Hey I'm not going to stop you. At least not as long as you carry a pointy stick.

Clodfobble wrote:

No, you don't get it. Javascript is not alive. It cannot be killed.

You must have been really annoying in programming classes.

Clodfobble wrote:

"Sir, processes aren't really alive. Please stop promoting the slaughter. I'm having a hard time sleeping at night. I don't literally have a porn addiction. It's only a virtual relationship I swear. The school counselor insists I'm a good person. Can you help me write a program to remind myself of that?"

Wow.. you have so many issues. Take a metaphor and don't call me in the morning.

Gwennie! wrote:

The company I work for is one of the largest ad networks on the Internet. We serve over 9 Billion impressions per month. In a face near you. :muse:

Now where'd that pointy stick weilding gun run off to?

Hmmmm.

Yes... highly cromulent words, those. My vocabulary has been embiggened today.

And not hemipygian either. Unlike that Hubbardism "enturbulate."

Wolf...what does it do? There is a deplorable lack of description.

The Bene Geserrit prayer. Whenever you need it. Pops up on your desktop in a window. You click "ok" when you're done.