Your options for viewing content are (1) tolerate ads, (2) subscribe to the site, (3) pay per view or (4) hope the site is backed by a very generous and wealthy doner.
Political and other sites certainly should rely on support from the group or candidate whose message the site promotes. Putting ads on such sites is conscripting the readers into being doners. Instead, use "Donate" buttons and let your content inspire your readers to donate. you want people to read your message - especially the people who aren't inclined to donate to your cause. If your content can inspire them to donate, it has done a better job than if only your supporters donate. If not, you need to rethink your content.
Pay-per-view web pages are still not practical except on a site you view often. In which case, you could maintain a balance with the site. as you view pages, your account with the site gets debited accordingly. When your balance is low, you transfer more money to your account with that site.
Subscriptions also only work well for frequented viewed websites. However, they are much easier to manage than pay-per-view.
So, most websites will have to rely on ads. As a website visitor, you have to decide if the content is worth tolerating the ads.
To the websites and advertisers: Good ads are more likely to lead to click-throughs. Bad ads just annoy your visitors. Resource hogging ads piss off your visitors. Pop-ups and pop-unders also piss off visitors. More than a few ads collectively hog resources. And remember that most of your potential visitors are sharing heavily oversubscribed bandwidth.
In theory, LiFi could be fully bidirectional, using protocols similar to those used by WiFi. In practice, I have to agree with zlives; probably WiFi will be used as the uplink.
And LiFi's speed advantage would really only apply to local or cached content on your LAN - also know as intranet
How do you that another department of Amex wasn't buying the rest of the purchase information from the stores? The payment to the stores could be as simple as offering a discount on the transaction processing fees.
In commercial DAW products, Harrison Consoles offers MixBus for Linux in both 64-bit and 32-bit editions. When I first tried it, the boot-able DVD demo edition was running AVLinux.
Manufacturers have been removing part numbers and embedding circuitry in resin for decades. I remember taking apart (after it died) my dad's answering machine, which he got back in the 1970s. The component side of the circuit board was covered with a hardened, black plastic goo. Where I was able to break off bits of the plastic, the chips I found had their part numbers and other identifying marks sanded off.
For those who are curious, the machine had dual, full-size, audio tape cassette drives. The drive for the outgoing message was play-only and had a pair of rounded metal contacts to sense a short piece of metal tape stuck on the loop of audio tape in the outgoing message cassette. The drive for recording and listening to incoming messages was also used to record the outgoing message by loading the loop-tape cassette into it. Once recorded, the loop-tape was reloaded into the outgoing drive and a normal (non-loop) tape cassette was loaded in the incoming drive. To enable the machine to receiving incoming messages, the mode switch was set to "Answer" and the record button on the incoming drive was pressed and locked. To play incoming messages, press and release the stop button, set mode switch to "Manual", press the rewind button, then, after the tape drive stopped, press the play button. If you didn't want to keep any messages, you would rewind the tape, again, then mode to "Answer" and press record. To keep all messages, don't rewind. To keep only some, use rewind and play to find the end of the last message you want to keep.
Everyone I know on disability is doing a big fat nothing to help the world that helps them.
Do you know why they doing nothing? Retraining for a desk job might not be a viable option. It requires time and money. Often more money than a disabled person is able to afford. And even when one does retrain, it can be very hard to get employment. Also, the disability system has perverse incentives to not retrain (because, if you can be retrained, you are not (legally) disabled).
I know a former nurse who was force out of clinical practice due to an injury. At the time, she was lucky the hospital she worked at was willing to move her in to a clerical position. In the meantime, because, as a nurse, she had learned enough about pharmacy to qualify, she retrained as a pharmacist. Over time, continuing complications from her injury ultimately confined her a wheelchair. Despite the fact she could still do her job very well, the fact that she could not reach supplies on shelves above a certain height with out help caused her employer to lay her off. Unfortunately, there were no longer any "desk jobs" available that she qualifies for with out at least 2 years of expensive retraining - or she was over qualified. She did take classes, but could only afford 1 class at a time, so it took twice as long to retrain. Despite her efforts, potential employers are still not interested. Health care related employers consider her over qualified, while non-health care related employers are looking for people with 5+ years "industry experience" and/or are afraid she will try to return to healthcare related work. The only job she has been able to get is 10 hours/week as a minimum wage greeter in a retail store So, she's been forced to move back in with her parents - who have only a tiny one bedroom apartment.
How many other disabled people are in a similar situation? How many are afraid to even to even try, given how many of those who do try are treated?
I don't like the "time sensitive" touch switches either. My GF and I recently installed a different kind. If you tap it, it adjusts the light level according to where you tapped the switch pad - bottom fades to off, top to 100% on, elsewhere, proportionately. If you slide your finger up, the level increases proportionately to how far you slide your finger. Similar for sliding your finger down. Makes sense and is designed to resist accidental change by ignoring touches of more that 2 fingertips of area and slides not close to vertical.
You are in for a _real_ surprise the first time that you check out the Centerfold...
My GF was disappointed to hear that. She very much enjoyed posing nude for one of their college girls specials. (And yes, I enjoyed watching her pose. (Not that I needed to watch.))
Not so much, the patent office gets paid to grant capricious patents
As technology has gotten more complex, the patent office's ability to properly evaluate applications has diminished. As such, the patent office has become a registry, leaving it to the courts to decide. Unfortunately, that is a very expensive and inefficient way to evaluate innovation. Although the litigants do pay substantial court fees, it would still cost taxpayers less to allocate more money to the patent office to hire more AND better patent examiners.
(Partially because corporations will just deduct court (and other litigation) costs, and partially because the cost will be passed along to the consumers. So, no. Shifting the court costs to the litigants won't save taxpayers' money, only change the route the money follows when it leaves the taxpayers' accounts/wallets/whatever.)
Just because what you are doing isn't illegal, doesn't mean there isn't someone who doesn't like what you are doing. And if that person is in (or knows someone who is in) a position of power, he can cause you a lot of grief.
In this case, it's emergency managers that were appointed under a law that was repealed by a voter referendum, then re-enacted by attaching it as an addendum to a "must pass" appropriations bill (which also makes it immune to referendum). Basically, the governor and treasurer, acting together, took Flint's elected officials power away.
I have friends in MI - and, I actually read the news.
If you were paying attention, you would know that (a) Flint, MI is, and has been for several years, under the control of a series of emergency managers appointed by the current governor (now in his 6th year in office) of MI. And (b) the current and previous mayors of Flint attempted to raise the issue with those emergency managers and the state government, to no avail. Those mayors (and the city counsel) had no voice in the decisions that lead to the problem and were in fact among the people being lied to by the emergency managers and the state government.
The emails you mention are to/from the emergency managers and the state government. The participation by the mayors was to raise the problem and ask for help.
I do not use my tablet or phone for company business (other than short phone calls). If the company really wants me to use such a device for company business, they will have to provide it. I've told them this when they've said "just use your tablet". And their response has, so far, been "Oh. Then don't worry about it." the customer liaison "engineers", "resident" engineers, their managers and department directors (and above) have company issued phones and tablets. The rest of us don't, despite the fact it would benefit the company if we did.
and an adversarial relationship between bureaucrats and their legislative overseers.
We have an adversarial relationship between them. But, the legislative overseers are also under surveillance.
Remember, just because you aren't doing something wrong, doesn't mean there aren't enough people who won't like what you are doing to make life miserable for you when what you're doing is exposed.
Games use client-server encryption to make it difficult to cheat. Carrying in-game chat over that encryption costs them nothing extra. Enhancing that to provide end-to-end chat encryption is a small cost beyond that. Some of my friends tell me that some games explicitly offer OTR-style end-to-end encryption.
Turns out Illinois has now passed a law which makes it illegal (potentially) to leave any child under 14 home alone.
When I was 6, my "baby sitter" was a 12 year old girl who lived nearby. I wonder how many of the legislators had similar experiences that they are now denying to todays' young children?
The listed behaviors are very typical of any teenage nerd - some are typical of any teenager.. If anything, it does more damage by scaring non-nerds, who will then increase the level social isolation imposed on nerds.
As long as there's no presumption of "my kid might be a criminal" there's no harm in conversation. If you presume they are (or might be) doing something wrong, they will pick up on that and react defensively (which is normal for anyone, not just teenagers).
Are they interested in coding? Do they have independent learning material on computing?
So were I and my girlfriend. So did we. We are now senior product developers (and team leaders) in highly rated companies.
Do they have irregular sleeping patterns?
Both my daughter and I are diagnosed as being nocturnal. We are forced to function in a world of diurnal people. Of course we have irregular sleeping patterns.
As a kid, I did a lot of camping with the only technology brought along being flashlights and walkie-talkie 2-way radios. We minimized using the flashlights and radios. We even put out our fire at sunset. Did not "reset" me in to being diurnal. Actually made me more nocturnal. We've taken our daughter camping many times, following the same "rules". Like me, our daughter didn't become diurnal. Even a week in a medically supervised sleep lab didn't change either of us. And we know many others who are also nocturnal and we have plenty of face-to-face social contact with them.
Do they get an income from their online activities, do you know why and how?
Both my girlfriend and I did. Again, we turned to be productive good citizens.
Have they become more socially isolated?
Social isolation is not limited to nerds. The fact that nerds are more likely to be socially isolated is far more a problem with how our society treats technically competent people. Things like this list of "signs of potential cyber criminality" just re-enforce the problem.
Are they resistant when asked what they do online?
Both my girlfriend and I were. Normal for kids, especially teenagers. Our daughter was/is less so - but she knows (some of) what we did online at her age.
If either my girlfriend or I had turned criminal, why would it not have been cyber crime? As a kid, I had a friend who was a very good magician. She could have turned out to be a very good pick-pocket thief. Instead, she's a pediatrician who's very good at distracting her patients from pain.
Criminal specialization is no different normal work specialization. Also, there are far more non-nerd criminals than nerdy ones.
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It's software. Without trusted hardware to run the app on, the security can be circumvented.
Your options for viewing content are (1) tolerate ads, (2) subscribe to the site, (3) pay per view or (4) hope the site is backed by a very generous and wealthy doner.
Political and other sites certainly should rely on support from the group or candidate whose message the site promotes. Putting ads on such sites is conscripting the readers into being doners. Instead, use "Donate" buttons and let your content inspire your readers to donate. you want people to read your message - especially the people who aren't inclined to donate to your cause. If your content can inspire them to donate, it has done a better job than if only your supporters donate. If not, you need to rethink your content.
Pay-per-view web pages are still not practical except on a site you view often. In which case, you could maintain a balance with the site. as you view pages, your account with the site gets debited accordingly. When your balance is low, you transfer more money to your account with that site.
Subscriptions also only work well for frequented viewed websites. However, they are much easier to manage than pay-per-view.
So, most websites will have to rely on ads. As a website visitor, you have to decide if the content is worth tolerating the ads.
To the websites and advertisers: Good ads are more likely to lead to click-throughs. Bad ads just annoy your visitors. Resource hogging ads piss off your visitors. Pop-ups and pop-unders also piss off visitors. More than a few ads collectively hog resources. And remember that most of your potential visitors are sharing heavily oversubscribed bandwidth.
PoE == "Power over Ethernet"
(But that's not the GP's question.)
In theory, LiFi could be fully bidirectional, using protocols similar to those used by WiFi. In practice, I have to agree with zlives; probably WiFi will be used as the uplink.
And LiFi's speed advantage would really only apply to local or cached content on your LAN - also know as intranet
How do you that another department of Amex wasn't buying the rest of the purchase information from the stores? The payment to the stores could be as simple as offering a discount on the transaction processing fees.
In commercial DAW products, Harrison Consoles offers MixBus for Linux in both 64-bit and 32-bit editions. When I first tried it, the boot-able DVD demo edition was running AVLinux.
Manufacturers have been removing part numbers and embedding circuitry in resin for decades. I remember taking apart (after it died) my dad's answering machine, which he got back in the 1970s. The component side of the circuit board was covered with a hardened, black plastic goo. Where I was able to break off bits of the plastic, the chips I found had their part numbers and other identifying marks sanded off.
For those who are curious, the machine had dual, full-size, audio tape cassette drives. The drive for the outgoing message was play-only and had a pair of rounded metal contacts to sense a short piece of metal tape stuck on the loop of audio tape in the outgoing message cassette. The drive for recording and listening to incoming messages was also used to record the outgoing message by loading the loop-tape cassette into it. Once recorded, the loop-tape was reloaded into the outgoing drive and a normal (non-loop) tape cassette was loaded in the incoming drive. To enable the machine to receiving incoming messages, the mode switch was set to "Answer" and the record button on the incoming drive was pressed and locked. To play incoming messages, press and release the stop button, set mode switch to "Manual", press the rewind button, then, after the tape drive stopped, press the play button. If you didn't want to keep any messages, you would rewind the tape, again, then mode to "Answer" and press record. To keep all messages, don't rewind. To keep only some, use rewind and play to find the end of the last message you want to keep.
Everyone I know on disability is doing a big fat nothing to help the world that helps them.
Do you know why they doing nothing? Retraining for a desk job might not be a viable option. It requires time and money. Often more money than a disabled person is able to afford. And even when one does retrain, it can be very hard to get employment. Also, the disability system has perverse incentives to not retrain (because, if you can be retrained, you are not (legally) disabled).
I know a former nurse who was force out of clinical practice due to an injury. At the time, she was lucky the hospital she worked at was willing to move her in to a clerical position. In the meantime, because, as a nurse, she had learned enough about pharmacy to qualify, she retrained as a pharmacist. Over time, continuing complications from her injury ultimately confined her a wheelchair. Despite the fact she could still do her job very well, the fact that she could not reach supplies on shelves above a certain height with out help caused her employer to lay her off. Unfortunately, there were no longer any "desk jobs" available that she qualifies for with out at least 2 years of expensive retraining - or she was over qualified. She did take classes, but could only afford 1 class at a time, so it took twice as long to retrain. Despite her efforts, potential employers are still not interested. Health care related employers consider her over qualified, while non-health care related employers are looking for people with 5+ years "industry experience" and/or are afraid she will try to return to healthcare related work. The only job she has been able to get is 10 hours/week as a minimum wage greeter in a retail store So, she's been forced to move back in with her parents - who have only a tiny one bedroom apartment.
How many other disabled people are in a similar situation? How many are afraid to even to even try, given how many of those who do try are treated?
I don't like the "time sensitive" touch switches either. My GF and I recently installed a different kind. If you tap it, it adjusts the light level according to where you tapped the switch pad - bottom fades to off, top to 100% on, elsewhere, proportionately. If you slide your finger up, the level increases proportionately to how far you slide your finger. Similar for sliding your finger down. Makes sense and is designed to resist accidental change by ignoring touches of more that 2 fingertips of area and slides not close to vertical.
You are in for a _real_ surprise the first time that you check out the Centerfold...
My GF was disappointed to hear that. She very much enjoyed posing nude for one of their college girls specials. (And yes, I enjoyed watching her pose. (Not that I needed to watch.))
Not so much, the patent office gets paid to grant capricious patents
As technology has gotten more complex, the patent office's ability to properly evaluate applications has diminished. As such, the patent office has become a registry, leaving it to the courts to decide. Unfortunately, that is a very expensive and inefficient way to evaluate innovation. Although the litigants do pay substantial court fees, it would still cost taxpayers less to allocate more money to the patent office to hire more AND better patent examiners.
(Partially because corporations will just deduct court (and other litigation) costs, and partially because the cost will be passed along to the consumers. So, no. Shifting the court costs to the litigants won't save taxpayers' money, only change the route the money follows when it leaves the taxpayers' accounts/wallets/whatever.)
Let 'em look. I've got nothing to hide.
You really think so?
Just because what you are doing isn't illegal, doesn't mean there isn't someone who doesn't like what you are doing. And if that person is in (or knows someone who is in) a position of power, he can cause you a lot of grief.
In this case, it's emergency managers that were appointed under a law that was repealed by a voter referendum, then re-enacted by attaching it as an addendum to a "must pass" appropriations bill (which also makes it immune to referendum). Basically, the governor and treasurer, acting together, took Flint's elected officials power away.
I have friends in MI - and, I actually read the news.
If you were paying attention, you would know that (a) Flint, MI is, and has been for several years, under the control of a series of emergency managers appointed by the current governor (now in his 6th year in office) of MI. And (b) the current and previous mayors of Flint attempted to raise the issue with those emergency managers and the state government, to no avail. Those mayors (and the city counsel) had no voice in the decisions that lead to the problem and were in fact among the people being lied to by the emergency managers and the state government.
The emails you mention are to/from the emergency managers and the state government. The participation by the mayors was to raise the problem and ask for help.
I do not use my tablet or phone for company business (other than short phone calls). If the company really wants me to use such a device for company business, they will have to provide it. I've told them this when they've said "just use your tablet". And their response has, so far, been "Oh. Then don't worry about it." the customer liaison "engineers", "resident" engineers, their managers and department directors (and above) have company issued phones and tablets. The rest of us don't, despite the fact it would benefit the company if we did.
If you don't think the IoT is going to be a gong-show of bad security, you haven't been paying attention
It already is and has been for a while. Hard coded admin passwords, no or broken encryption implementations, "phoning the mothership", etc.
"Geek engagement is found to be associated with elevated grandiose narcissism, extraversion, ...."
Most geeks I know are somewhat introverted.
You mean like putting the split in between the NSA and FBI? The one Bush removed? Removing that split allowed the "Parallel Construction" path
Supposedly, a DEA official told Reuters: "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day. It's decades old, a bedrock concept."
and an adversarial relationship between bureaucrats and their legislative overseers.
We have an adversarial relationship between them. But, the legislative overseers are also under surveillance.
Remember, just because you aren't doing something wrong, doesn't mean there aren't enough people who won't like what you are doing to make life miserable for you when what you're doing is exposed.
Games use client-server encryption to make it difficult to cheat. Carrying in-game chat over that encryption costs them nothing extra. Enhancing that to provide end-to-end chat encryption is a small cost beyond that. Some of my friends tell me that some games explicitly offer OTR-style end-to-end encryption.
Turns out Illinois has now passed a law which makes it illegal (potentially) to leave any child under 14 home alone.
When I was 6, my "baby sitter" was a 12 year old girl who lived nearby. I wonder how many of the legislators had similar experiences that they are now denying to todays' young children?
The listed behaviors are very typical of any teenage nerd - some are typical of any teenager.. If anything, it does more damage by scaring non-nerds, who will then increase the level social isolation imposed on nerds.
As long as there's no presumption of "my kid might be a criminal" there's no harm in conversation. If you presume they are (or might be) doing something wrong, they will pick up on that and react defensively (which is normal for anyone, not just teenagers).
Too late. She's over 18, a student at a university and has a steady boyfriend she's has sex with.
Sadly, no. Also, the writer sounds like he was a shill for Intel and Microsoft.
BTW, my daughter said, sarcastically, she's glad she's not at risk.
Also, FWIW, both my parents were avid Castle Wallenstein / Doom / Quake players. Not sure what they play, now.
Are they interested in coding? Do they have independent learning material on computing?
So were I and my girlfriend. So did we. We are now senior product developers (and team leaders) in highly rated companies.
Do they have irregular sleeping patterns?
Both my daughter and I are diagnosed as being nocturnal. We are forced to function in a world of diurnal people. Of course we have irregular sleeping patterns.
As a kid, I did a lot of camping with the only technology brought along being flashlights and walkie-talkie 2-way radios. We minimized using the flashlights and radios. We even put out our fire at sunset. Did not "reset" me in to being diurnal. Actually made me more nocturnal. We've taken our daughter camping many times, following the same "rules". Like me, our daughter didn't become diurnal. Even a week in a medically supervised sleep lab didn't change either of us. And we know many others who are also nocturnal and we have plenty of face-to-face social contact with them.
Do they get an income from their online activities, do you know why and how?
Both my girlfriend and I did. Again, we turned to be productive good citizens.
Have they become more socially isolated?
Social isolation is not limited to nerds. The fact that nerds are more likely to be socially isolated is far more a problem with how our society treats technically competent people. Things like this list of "signs of potential cyber criminality" just re-enforce the problem.
Are they resistant when asked what they do online?
Both my girlfriend and I were. Normal for kids, especially teenagers. Our daughter was/is less so - but she knows (some of) what we did online at her age.
If either my girlfriend or I had turned criminal, why would it not have been cyber crime? As a kid, I had a friend who was a very good magician. She could have turned out to be a very good pick-pocket thief. Instead, she's a pediatrician who's very good at distracting her patients from pain.
Criminal specialization is no different normal work specialization. Also, there are far more non-nerd criminals than nerdy ones.
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