You've got to the nub of the gist there. Inserting adverts into content would be unacceptable to most people IMHO, and impossible for content being displayed from an external source, unless the HDMI spec were changed to accommodate such things.
But would people accept 'screensaver' adverts? Maybe. I've got a Kindle that shows adverts but it does so when the device is in sleep mode; as soon as you swipe the screen to start reading something, the ad disappears. That doesn't bother me at all, and I'm fairly sensitive to extraneous content on screens.
The worry for me would be that if the screen were disconnected from the Internet, or you'd managed to block the ad server's IP address(es), then the screen would be disabled. That would be unacceptable.
If you buy a smart TV at a discount in exchange for giving the TV manufacturer the rights to show you adverts then of course there's no law that's going to 'protect' you from this. By buying the TV with those conditions attached, you've accepted the conditions.
I was happily using Ubuntu until 17.10. Gnome desktop scaling is very primitive compared to Unity and made my small hi-res screen look awful at 125% and 150% scaling. So I've gone back to Windows 10, which is a shame really.
I recall reading some time ago that if you select two US citizens at random, there is a 1 in 30 chance that they have a mutual friend. I'm no statistics or probability expert (as you can probably already tell) but I would be tempted to ascribe the coincidental appearance of this person's great aunt as simple probability, coupled with 'cocktail party effect' name recognition.
"We tried convincing corrupt customs officials to change to a new payment method which would prevent them from stealing large sums of money but they weren't interested. We are at a loss to explain why that might be."
Douglas tells BoingBoing (adding "when RMS writes you telling you to change the name of your music project, you change the name of your music project.")
Really? I think quite a lot of musicians would tell him RMS to take a hike.
No amount of talent in the world can get good shots out of bad cameras.
Well I remember an article in a Sunday newspaper, probably 25 years ago, where David Bailey was given a £10 disposable camera (remember those?!) and asked to see what he could do with it. The results were pretty good.
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This 'bacteria' will be analysed and found to be a mixture of borscht and jizz.
We never had this problem with Manic Miner.
Blu-ray video quality is still superior to most streamed video, in my experience.
(I know the answer to this, btw, but why assume that everyone does?)
WTF is 'ASLR?'
You've got to the nub of the gist there. Inserting adverts into content would be unacceptable to most people IMHO, and impossible for content being displayed from an external source, unless the HDMI spec were changed to accommodate such things.
But would people accept 'screensaver' adverts? Maybe. I've got a Kindle that shows adverts but it does so when the device is in sleep mode; as soon as you swipe the screen to start reading something, the ad disappears. That doesn't bother me at all, and I'm fairly sensitive to extraneous content on screens.
The worry for me would be that if the screen were disconnected from the Internet, or you'd managed to block the ad server's IP address(es), then the screen would be disabled. That would be unacceptable.
If you buy a smart TV at a discount in exchange for giving the TV manufacturer the rights to show you adverts then of course there's no law that's going to 'protect' you from this. By buying the TV with those conditions attached, you've accepted the conditions.
A man found it in west London and handed it into the paper
Should read:
A man found it in west London, checked the contents and then hawked it round the gutter press, eventually selling it to the highest bidder.
Vi not?
No, but I've downloaded Kubuntu and will try that out later.
In retrospect that would have been the ideal solution.
No, I'm pretty new to using Linux so I wasn't aware that that was an option.
I was happily using Ubuntu until 17.10. Gnome desktop scaling is very primitive compared to Unity and made my small hi-res screen look awful at 125% and 150% scaling. So I've gone back to Windows 10, which is a shame really.
Hong Kong is a coastal city/region; problem solved.
https://mineblock.org/
I'm sure Adblock Plus etc will also contain the URLs that need blocking if they haven't already done so.
Oh how quaint! Did he like to hide in her petticoats?
Presumably they just bought it from https://www.reddit.com/r/micro... like the rest of us?
Should have been 22/7.
At least in the US you only have to worry about the white supremacists and the police shooting you dead, often at the same time.
I recall reading some time ago that if you select two US citizens at random, there is a 1 in 30 chance that they have a mutual friend. I'm no statistics or probability expert (as you can probably already tell) but I would be tempted to ascribe the coincidental appearance of this person's great aunt as simple probability, coupled with 'cocktail party effect' name recognition.
"We tried convincing corrupt customs officials to change to a new payment method which would prevent them from stealing large sums of money but they weren't interested. We are at a loss to explain why that might be."
It is reported that the train service will boast a monitoring system that will automatically slow the trains in case of emergency.
Most trains will tend to slow down in the case of an emergency. The question is how quickly they slow down and what they hit whilst doing so.
I bought a pair and they Snapped.
Douglas tells BoingBoing (adding "when RMS writes you telling you to change the name of your music project, you change the name of your music project.")
Really? I think quite a lot of musicians would tell him RMS to take a hike.
No amount of talent in the world can get good shots out of bad cameras.
Well I remember an article in a Sunday newspaper, probably 25 years ago, where David Bailey was given a £10 disposable camera (remember those?!) and asked to see what he could do with it. The results were pretty good.