Gyroscopic Investing

Yay, a non-political thread involving Israel.

Warning, there's a video that loads without your permission, so be ready to pause it and read.

Divers stumble across Israel's biggest ever discovery of gold coins
http://cnn.it/1zYtKM1

It's the biggest hoard of gold coins ever discovered in Israel -- and it could lead to further archaeological finds.

"There is probably a shipwreck there of an official treasury boat which was on its way to the central government in Egypt with taxes that had been collected," said Kobi Sharvit, director of the Marine Archaeology Unit of the antiquities authority.

dualstow wrote: Warning, there's a video that loads without your permission, so be ready to pause it and read.

Using AdBlock Plus or NoScript addons would prevent it from loading without your permission. 

Yeah, I just have poor man's adblock, though I send a few bucks his way from time to time. Maybe after I find a trove of coins I'll get Plus.

dualstow wrote: Yeah, I just have poor man's adblock, though I send a few bucks his way from time to time. Maybe after I find a trove of coins I'll get Plus.

Both are F-R-E-E!

https://adblockplus.org/ (Interestingly, there's a version for Android too...)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /noscript/

ahahhahahah! 

Desert wrote: I wonder if anyone believed the guy, 1000 years ago, when he claimed he lost all this gold in a tragic boating accident.

Ha, you beat me to it!!

Adblock Plus rocks.  Also check out "Block Site".  I used that to block stackly.org, which suddenly started putting popups in the middle of every page and making it impossible to read anything online.  Does anyone know what to do with those annoying flash-like popups that popup blockers don't recognize?

sophie wrote: Adblock Plus rocks.  Also check out "Block Site".  I used that to block stackly.org, which suddenly started putting popups in the middle of every page and making it impossible to read anything online.  Does anyone know what to do with those annoying flash-like popups that popup blockers don't recognize?

I haven't run across popups like that, but it sounds like you might have a browser hijack trojan or something that ignores/overrides any popup blocker settings.  Since you're on a Mac, I can't help you further.

sophie wrote: Does anyone know what to do with those annoying flash-like popups that popup blockers don't recognize?

Send me the link the next time you run into one. I want to see if I even get those. (I'm running Mac - Mavericks & Chrome browser).

sophie wrote: Does anyone know what to do with those annoying flash-like popups that popup blockers don't recognize?

Ive used adwaremedic http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php to strip adware browser hijackers off a mac.
However I think what you have might be a 'feature' of the Stackly research cataloging and collaboration tool. If it's installed and you don't actively use it, I'd get rid of it. If you do actively use it, read the privacy policy (and weep).   

Thanks all!  The popups aren't that common on mac os x but will send a link next time I see one.  Blocksite took care of stackley on my desktop but I probably have a bit of malware installed somehow...even though I'm running sophos on it.

The problem is worst on the iphone, especially because you can't get around those popups.  I'm trying out the Mercury browser.

sophie wrote: ~
I'm trying out the Mercury browser.

That looks neat, especially Desktop mode.