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• Greg. Tingey commented on His Master's Voice
  Oh bum, sorry, tried to edit & hit "Submit" by mistake ... typos strike again!...
• scott-sanford commented on His Master's Voice
  What you want is to install the NoScript add-on for Firefox. Does exactly what you want, and a bunch more. Huzzah. Yes, that's what I had in mind! I'm already using Ad-Aware and limited HTTPS (some of my machines are of the old & slow type). It does remind us how little encryption was thought of when laying down the original internet protocols. To be sure, often just getting them to work at all was plenty of challenge - but we are now faced with a much more populous network, with more bad actors....
• nelc commented on His Master's Voice
  As an imaginary human being, he's utterly vile. But as a fictional character, he has his good interesting points. Although he's placed in the protagonist's role, he's not a good guy, and if he does good, it's usually by accident. You could do worse than writing a Laundry story from the antagonist's point of view someday....
• Greg. Tingey commented on His Master's Voice
  @ 41 IIRC, G M Fraser said that he felt all of Flashman's emotions, especially the cowardly ones ( the leching not quite so much, apparently ) but just that he never, you know, gave way to them. Especially in the unpleasantness in NW Burma fighting the IJA .........
• Gerald Fnord commented on His Master's Voice
  An 'American accent'? Do you mean the 'This is Audible' announcer at the beginning?---Gideon Emery is English.......