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Im waiting for the first TV zapper induce death, as a result of a TV being turned off in a sports bar during the world series.
Used to use it for when those am cb people used to "walk all over" my stereo ..
Actually, I've been surfing (with FF) ad and popup free for some months now. It's nice....
Thing is, I DO have to use other browsers on occasion, and that's where I tend to get "zapped" - I have AdsGone as well, but it seems to have lost some of its effectiveness lately.... and nope, I am NOT installing XP SP2 ANY TIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE. Maybe never - looking to migrate to linux over the winter....
I sort of want a "one size zaps them all everywhere on every browser" kind of solution, y'know? *laughing* Any more, when I have to use IE (especially), I just start sighing and cringing before it ever gets going.... but even the popups aren't the worst - it's the darn popunders.... 'cause you mostly don't even know when they got there or where they came from....
Guinness Stout?
Of course, Marcia! Is there any other kind? Yummy stuff it is too....
The ads are sort of silly, just that the word "BRILLIANT" is such a big part of them....
...or maybe an "internet security" program that strips out advertising banners or affiliate links?
What's an ad banner? ;) Oh, I think I remember those... I saw one last year sometime, before I got FF with adblock...
What gives me the right to shut off someone else's TV? What gives THEM the right to invade public spaces with the incessant noise, glare, and images blazed out from ever larger TVs showing me things I never wanted to see?
The big trend in the indoor malls here is to have "screen-strips" - banks of TV screens lined up in a row, on every available surface, showing nothing but advertising for the various mall vendors, and various product companies (Sony is big into this).
I can't wait to get my hands on one of these devices and spend a pleasant afternoon walking around and knocking these nuissances off.
Better, and less likely to cause me legal trouble, than the alternative. Walking through the mall with a sledgehammer and taking the things out permanently.
Ok maybe I'm daft but what gives someone else the right to turn off my TV?
I don't know.
But what gives you the right to deny my right to make infrared tranmissions?
If you've left a device on, in public, that will naively obey the IR signals from any passing stranger, that surely is your problem.
Your question is a bit like asking: "what gives someone the right to use the word 'off'?" just because you've left an unsecured device in public that response to voice commands.
Looks like TV manufacturers have boobed here. And I'm very happy for the opportunities it creates.
I do know how to make a gadget that will cause most car radios that are that close to "flip flop" sort of spacey beeps:cheeps/twitters and stuff .
Leo, if it works on CD players, you could make a fortune.
Great fun. the teachers at college never figured out what was happening :). Nor did the noisy bar/disco owners - in the Friday night discos, we used to switch the screens over from MTV to the local po*n channels. :)
As I remember, it cost about 3.500 pesetas in '97 (30 euros? A lot of money in those days!) Made in Taiwan, of course. Great fun. Ah, those were the days!
Wait, cant you do this with a bluetooth PDA?
Actually, you can do this with any bluetooth device, or anything else with an IR LAN capability.
The advantages of this device in particular are size (very small), cost (pretty cheap), it comes pre-programmed to do it (no downloading software), and simplicity (one button).
