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Internet Advert Invasion internet adverts slowly creeping... i don't really mind when its a proper programme cos its just like the tv, but now youtube ads that you could skip after 5 secs are being replaced with 20-30 sec ads, there are now ads everywhere that will spring into life on all kinds of pages should you mouse accidentally hover in the wrong place, and on tv channels they are cramming in more ads so can be 3 mins before programme starts... it seems like a weening process, they didn't want to scare viewers off initially by putting long ads, but now were used to the short ones the real horror is ensuing
anyone know anything bout this?... where is it heading?... where's it going to end?... thoughts?
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How serious could be dating on the internet? I never got acquainted with the girls on the Internet, looking at it has become fashionable. Where do you usually get acquainted with the girls on the internet? This dating sites, forums, social networks, or what? I'd really like to chat with Russian girls, because I like a long time their beauty and charm. How can I do? Can someone advise?
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Don’t be shy – its only the internet ! It may surprise some of you out there to know this (apart from those who have met me) but at parties I'm actually a fairly quiet and shy person......
Despite the amount of stuff I post on here, IRL I still sometimes find it very hard to let go of my inhibitions and talk to new people (plus I find it difficult hearing or speaking to people over the sound of rigs) - I was always shy even when I was a young boy and to be fair I reckon raves made me come out of my shell a lot more than I would have otherwise.. (I've still met loads of new people over the years many of whom are now good friends...)
Anyway what I'm getting at is theres 150-200 of you logging on here every night, from all corners of the World; yet it seems sometimes that only a handful of people actually pluck up the courage to post here...
Although PV has a reputation for good solid info particularly on the legal and media monitoring side; I wouldn't mind seeing a few more people talking about themselves, their party activities and life in general and I'm sure the other mods and regulars here would agree.
All we say is just leave out any "incriminating stuff" and keep any personal arguments away from here!
There are so many of you on here and you probably have loads of stories, ideas and other stuff to share.
Its only the internet; and we try to make this place as friendly as possible - why not register and contribute?
Alex / GL
Reading, UK1234
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When where and how did you first use the internet?? For me it was at school in 1998, we were lucky enough to have 3 brand new computer labs at school. It was the first time I had propperly uses a modern windows operating system Windows NT. My home PC still had windows 3.11 at that point cos we had never botherd to upgrade it as I didn't use ot to play games anymore, just use it for word processing really. I remember looking at ebsites like the hamster dance and pikachumustdie.com (was a little flash game can now be found here Pikachu Must Die | Owen's World. The schools default search page was altavista and shortly after that it was lycos. Lycos was good for one reason, you coul send SMS text messages for free from it.12
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Internet Explorer will not start up, help I click on the IE icon, the hour glass appears for a few seconds but nothing happens. I tried reinstalling IE 8 but problem is still the same.
I have scanned my PC (using AntiMalware) and did find a few Trojans, but having removed all these I still have the same problem. I did a complete virus scan (using Symantec) and found nothing. I have also scanned the registry (using Advanced SystemCare), found a lot of problems and fixed all of them, but still have the problem.
I remember this happened after some Java icon appeared in the bottom LHS of the screen, and also about that time the web page stopped responding. Maybe something that was enabled is now disabled??
I am now using Firefox, but am still curious to know how to fix this.123
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Quick Paypal Question can you send money directly from your own bank account to anothers paypal account? i would much perfer doing it that way instead of going through the whole ''wait for 7-10 days for money to be transfered into your paypal account'', would suit me better off as i've just bought a few tunes of discogs.
thanks!
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bloody internet. for the last few days my internet's not been letting me look at stuff on partyvibe, it would just come up with things saying internet explorer could not open tp://ww.partyvibe.com/vbulletin/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=8
operation aborted or summin like that.
only happend with p.v though.
now i've just got an update thingy and its working again.
I don't get these things:you_crazy12
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1972 film about what lead to the Internet This is a film about the technology which eventually led to todays internet. It is as old as I am...
If you don't want to watch the entire documentary (which admittedly isn't very interesting unless you are a hardcore techie), at least watch the intro for the comedy value (imagine if PV's server was like that!)
I reckon though that the University profs still all dress like that even today.
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Getting online in late 1990s… I found these photos one one of my hard drives (there's also a load of rave photos which I will upload here as it should be safe to do so after 18 years...) the second hand Compaq laptop weighed more than this one I am currently using, only had a 640 x 480 display and I had to carry around a second accu if I wanted to use it away from a 230v mains supply for more than 1.5 hours...
It dit not come with a built in modem ; you had to insert the card into a slot on the side.
I remember that modem being quite advanced for the era, the markings are official approval signs from various Communications Ministries across the world - you had to set the driver correctly for your local telephone company's signalling or it would not work properly.
the other end plugged into the telephone line; unlike todays ADSL/VDSL modems it actually made a telephone call and used audio frequencies so no one else could use the phone when you were online and you had to pay for the length of time you were connected to the ISP (usually it was local call rate).
This was taken round af friends house somewhere in Reading; the 3.5" disk would have contained drivers for the modem and other notes as the signalling and levels varied very subtly depending on whether you were connecting to a BT or NTL circuit. Also bad wiring in the building would often upset the modem to the point it didn't connect or ran slow; top speed was 56 kilobits ( 56 000 bits/second)
Although I could connect with my GSM mobile and we had free minutes back then it was even slower at 9600 bits/second - so the Internet was then only useful for email, newsgroups (a bit like this forum but text only) and downloading a file from a known location (which could take several hours rather than seconds/minutes).
Facebook is to add a "dislike" button to its social network Is probably a good idea.
The only problem is, that now i can see every crap thing my family and friend likes, now I'll probably also be annoyed of everything they dislike.
Facebook is to add a "dislike" button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said.In a Q+A session held at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, the 31-year-old said the button would be a way for people to express empathy.
He said Facebook was "very close" to having it ready for user testing.
A "dislike" button has been constantly requested by some users since the introduction of the now-iconic "like" button in 2009.
"People have asked about the 'dislike' button for many years," Mr Zuckerberg told the audience on Tuesday.
"Probably hundreds of people have asked about this, and today is a special day because today is the day that I actually get to say we are working on it, and are very close to shipping a test of it."
However he went on to say he did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could "down vote" others' posts.
Instead, it will be for times when clicking "like" on "sad" posts felt insensitive.
Prof Andrea Forte, an expert in social and participatory media at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said users will not suddenly turn on each other's posts.
In an email, she wrote: "They may use a dislike button to express some negative emotions (like frustration with ads popping up in their feeds) but I doubt it will cause them to start wantonly disliking pictures of their friends' babies, dogs, cats and cooking experiments.
"I suspect it will mainly be used to express mild disapproval, or to express solidarity when someone posts about a negative event like a death or a loss."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34264624
Dutch close Utopia website selling guns, drugs, murder Police have seized Dutch online bazaar Utopia, a site similar to the infamous Silk Road for trading illegal goods, and arrested five suspects, the Dutch public prosecutor said Wednesday.
Buyers could access the site using the Tor platform, which provides anonymity on the Internet, and purchase drugs including ecstasy and cocaine as well as guns and stolen credit cards.
Purchases could be made using the virtual Bitcoin currency, of which police seized 900, worth between 400,000 and 600,000 euros ($540,000-$815,000).
"Police infiltrated and bought several items of drugs and firearms," the public prosecutor said in a statement.
Undercover Dutch police were also contacted and received a down payment to carry out a contract killing, the statement said.
Internet news website DeepDotWeb published screen grabs of some of the products previously available on Utopia, including "Blue Nintendo" ecstasy pills at 207 euros ($281) for 50.
Police opened their investigation last year into Utopia and similar website Black Market Reloaded (BMR), which "left the Internet after receiving a lot of visitors at the end of last year", the prosecutor said.
The increase in BMR visitors came after US authorities in October shut down the Silk Road website, known as "the drugs eBay".
Police seized Utopia's Germany-based servers and arrested one person there. The Dutch authorities hope he will be extradited to The Netherlands.
The other four suspects, aged 29 to 46, were detained in The Netherlands.
Utopia was accessible using Tor (originally an acronym for The Onion Router), an anti-censorship navigator that affords web anonymity by shifting the apparent identity of a user's computer around the world by changing its IP address.
US authorities in October arrested 29-year-old Ross William Ulbricht for allegedly running the Silk Road online black market bazaar.
He pleaded not guilty on February 7 to charges including money laundering and drug smuggling.
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David Cameron’s web filter proposed to extend to more than just porn! The British prime minister's internet filters will be about more than just hardcore pornography, according to obtained by the Open Rights GroupThe organisation, which campaigns for digital freedoms, has spoken to some of the Internet Service Providers that will be constructing Cameron's content filters. They discovered that a host of other categories of supposedly-objectionable material may be on the block-list.
As well as pornography, users may automatically be opted in to blocks on "violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia and eating disorder websites" and "suicide related websites", "alcohol" and "smoking". But the list doesn't stop there. It even extends to blocking "web forums" and "esoteric material", whatever that is. "Web blocking circumvention tools" is also included, of course.
Hardcore sex in 'Nymphomaniac' puts porn actor genitals on cast's bodies
The ORG's Jim Killock says: "What's clear here is that David Cameron wants people to sleepwalk into censorship. We know that people stick with defaults: this is part of the idea behind 'nudge theory' and 'choice architecture' that is popular with Cameron."
He adds: "The implication is that filtering is good, or at least harmless, for anyone, whether adult or child. Of course, this is not true; there's not just the question of false positives for web users, but the affect on a network economy of excluding a proportion of a legitimate website's audience."
Censorship and surveillance: Cameron's internet
Open Rights Group's website
I had a feeling this could be the case.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/27/pornwall
google behaving oddly whenever i search on google and i click a link it loads a page that looks sketchy at best, saying this page may be dangerous to my computer and tells me to go to stopbadware.org..... any ideas whats going on as i dont think iv downloaded anything recently and it wasnt happening earlier today
Google Chrome incognito? fuck knows how, but i have managed to open a page/function on google chrome called incognito. no idea how i did it, think i was pressing shift and maybe control then clicked something with the mouse and a new page popped up saying it was incognito. anyone know how to access this normally?
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