Like I said, it doesn't work. There isn't really a way out with the latest YouTube architecture. I'm sure your hosts can block other video ads, especially on websites using a third party ad service. But there are several other hosts files that accomplish the same thing without using your specifically. The mechanism is pretty widely understood, and not significantly different than the RBL I use for spam filtering. (although that is distributed through DNS rather than through a file, but it's the same sort of data)
I guess my complaints are: it's not a panacea (which is not a fair complaint, so sorry about that), your hosts file is not the only one out there.
*... but @ least I'm on topic (stalling zero-day malware payloads) - you're not - I also keep another quote from you on how hosts files stall ads even in video streams too!
Used to be effective with YouTube ads, but not any more. More due as a quirk with how YouTube/Google set up their content distribution than due to any special magic of hosts file.
I'd sell it to them, collect their dirty money, and then publicly notify the right people.
Depends on the government I guess. If it was sold to the Russian government then waking up with polonium poisoning is not worth $500k.
Then maybe disappear for a while, heheheh!
Spies and KGB agents that have defected still die of mysterious deaths sometimes years later, you'd think they would be experts in this. Russia's need for revenge is strong, Ramón Mercader found Leon Trotsky 10 years after his exile and put an ice axe into his head.
I don't think this is really a trolling statement, just maybe not delicately stated.
Just because Europe is fucked up doesn't mean the USA isn't also fucked up, the two are not mutually exclusive (both is perhaps the more likely scenario). There are several countries that ought to either learn to cooperate online or get the hell out of cyberspace. Nothing stops a country from running their own network and routers, other than the public outrage of their citizens.
To be fair, it's less work for everyone involved to format and re-install, even if you can manually fix something major. And with a Windows box you'll probably have to re-install sometime in the next 5 years anyways.
Just ban the collection, consolidation, and exchanging of such information. It doesn't serve the public good. Businesses have operate just fine in the past without this information.
The law can be simple. Unless I have done business with you, you don't get to keep records on me. If you wish to exchange or share records on me, you must get my explicit permission. Some of the information sold is from public records, but what is key here is that it also includes additional data not in public records. It's how marketing research companies add value to otherwise public data and is the core of their business.
Perhaps you haven't made the right campaign contributions. Also you have not laid down the proper legal boiler plate by establishing a legal personhood known as a corporation.
I'm for that. Every single thing we make should have a deposit on it that assumes it will end up in the ocean. the amount should be the cost to remove it from the ocean. If you manage to recycle your shit properly, then a refund may be possible. If the cost of cleaning up the ocean goes down, then the deposits should go down.
But you know how nobody likes paying what amounts to a tax. It'll be a bunch of money that some government entity collects and keeps and doesn't go to any useful purpose. And that organization will grow and depend on that money until it claims it can't survive without increasing the tax further.
I'm not supposed to waste water in a drought. so I am supposed to put the "scraped clean" but rinsed plastic in the bin (ref), then the recycling facility washes it in a system that recycles the grey water.
except these recycling companies often get caught sending much of what they pick up to the dump, often before it even hits the sort facility. The protocol at most centers is if the sorting line is backed up, recycling trucks are routed to the dump.
plastics are hydrocarbons, and hydrocarbons are fuel.
reuse what is practical to reuse.
recycle the bits you can.
potentially do some catalytic cracking of mixed materials.
burn what is left over as fuel, it can be burned without releasing toxins.
optionally capture the CO2 from the burning if it is clean enough, bottle it for industrial use.
In the future we should design products to be more easily recycled. New plastics and coatings are possible that make contaminates less likely to adhere to it, those may be useful for food containers and possibly medical products.
And I would agree that letting everything fall into the "burn it" category is a stupid idea. But that's not really how this works.
Some steps are not economical, but are environmentally sound. This is a problem if you let the free market make ecological decisions for you.
Not really, game theory and visual recognition are two different things.
You assume a visible light camera is the only sensor possible. Chemical "sniff" sensors, spectrography, infra-red cameras, soft laser desorption. I don't think it would take long to construct a rather long list of possible avenues to research for their effectiveness versus cost. A multi sensor system will have much better probabilities, and that really matters for deep learning and neural net training. And even if such a system is instead done heuristically it can be helpful to use multiple kinds of sensors.
A lot of work? No, a useful solution is a dissertation away for PhD candidate. So this is potentially a solved problem in 2-4 years, at least on paper.
Some loot crate systems I've seen you get gems/etc from trading in the worthless crap. Then you spend the gems on the stuff you want. If you get lucky you get some loot that is valuable. Some loot is useful in game but not a great value like ones that give you a temporary boost on earning experience. To be fair it's kind of hart to generalize the loot crate mechanic because each game does something different.
Now if you have a game where your loot crates are zonk prizes (like winning a goat on Let's Make a Deal) then that's a problem. Although with Let's Make a Deal they'd at least offer you $100 in exchange for your zonk prize.
I think I'd draw the line on if a game mechanic is primarily to be exchanged for money, like with a lotto ticket. With the additional constraint that failure to win results in literally nothing. Not even a low value prize. Lotto and scratchers have lots of secondary prize categories, even so the is a chance you get nothing. It might be OK you buy loot crates and they are all hats that you already own, that sucks. It helps if you can exchange them for credits where you can potentially use for some other purpose in game, even if only another kind of hat you don't own. If you have zero interest in hats, that doesn't mean it's worthless, but you should probably not be buying loot crates if you don't find them entertaining.
Of course game developers with pay-to-play models are extremely manipulative and exploit particular obsessive personality types. (e.g. whales)
Intel dumped ARM (Xscale) over 10 years ago (2006), and it's not clear even with hindsight that it would have been a successful strategy for Intel to use that ARM license. It seems doubtful that an Apple-Intel alliance around Xscale would have been possible given that iPhone's development (2006-2007) likely began when Intel still had Xscale. I can assume it was explored by Apple or Intel, even if only on a whiteboard, but history shows us that Xscale wasn't used by Apple. (probably price, performance, and lack of cell modem integration)
Furthermore I predict ARM's dominance to be on a decline as the consumer industry diversify into more CPU architectures like RISC-V. But sadly I don't think this will translate into more x86 sales for Intel. Ultimately the end user want a very full featured web browser on an inexpensive device (mobile, laptop, or tablet) with a long battery life, and there are lots of ways to reach that kind of high level goal. Full time connectivity to "the cloud" is going to be the marketing mantra for devices for the next decade I believe, and not so much about the gory details of the instruction set architecture. (sometimes I wonder if people aren't stuck in the mid-1980's to mid-2000's PC industry way of thinking about MHz and CPU revision)
My local theater has several Indian films, but I don't include that because it's not clear to me that Moviepass is going to work at such a theater. And the little independent theater is showing stuff like Pink Flamingos and Re-Animator right now. I'm not convinced something like Moviepass is worthwhile for that, nor do I know if it will even work.
There are only maybe 5 movies out at any given time. Plus whatever crap from last season the cheap theaters are still showing, but if you're an avid enough movie goer to have a subscription you've already seen those older movies.
That said the current subscription price doesn't make a lot of sense and is probably too low. But people don't like paying more for subscriptions especially if it's a per-person sort of thing like Moviepass.
Even if it's sold at Walmart it's still made in China and imported by a third party. You're still going to have a heck of a time getting any traction in court. Also I've found that cpsc.gov (Consume Product Safety Commission) doesn't usually announce recalls for unbranded products. Probably because cheap imported junk doesn't comply with federal product safety requirements, and Amazon doesn't enforce any of this for their sellers.
I guess the moral of the story is that Amazon is not a trusted brand, and I don't understand why people buy stuff from them thinking it will be good.
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The scooters have a user agreement that set the weight limit to 200 lbs
"1.10 Weight and Cargo Limits. You must not exceed the maximum weight limit for the Vehicle (200 pounds)."
Like I said, it doesn't work. There isn't really a way out with the latest YouTube architecture. I'm sure your hosts can block other video ads, especially on websites using a third party ad service. But there are several other hosts files that accomplish the same thing without using your specifically. The mechanism is pretty widely understood, and not significantly different than the RBL I use for spam filtering. (although that is distributed through DNS rather than through a file, but it's the same sort of data)
I guess my complaints are: it's not a panacea (which is not a fair complaint, so sorry about that), your hosts file is not the only one out there.
Or not. NOBODY KNOWS
Seems like a risky game to play and I wouldn't do it. There are easier ways to make money.
* ... but @ least I'm on topic (stalling zero-day malware payloads) - you're not - I also keep another quote from you on how hosts files stall ads even in video streams too!
Used to be effective with YouTube ads, but not any more. More due as a quirk with how YouTube/Google set up their content distribution than due to any special magic of hosts file.
I'd sell it to them, collect their dirty money, and then publicly notify the right people.
Depends on the government I guess. If it was sold to the Russian government then waking up with polonium poisoning is not worth $500k.
Then maybe disappear for a while, heheheh!
Spies and KGB agents that have defected still die of mysterious deaths sometimes years later, you'd think they would be experts in this. Russia's need for revenge is strong, Ramón Mercader found Leon Trotsky 10 years after his exile and put an ice axe into his head.
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I've terminated my use of APK hosts. Too much spam from the creator.
BSD. the one true religion
remain stupid I guess
Cut Europe off from the Internet.
I don't think this is really a trolling statement, just maybe not delicately stated.
Just because Europe is fucked up doesn't mean the USA isn't also fucked up, the two are not mutually exclusive (both is perhaps the more likely scenario). There are several countries that ought to either learn to cooperate online or get the hell out of cyberspace. Nothing stops a country from running their own network and routers, other than the public outrage of their citizens.
don't be so fucking stupid.
To be fair, it's less work for everyone involved to format and re-install, even if you can manually fix something major. And with a Windows box you'll probably have to re-install sometime in the next 5 years anyways.
Just ban the collection, consolidation, and exchanging of such information. It doesn't serve the public good. Businesses have operate just fine in the past without this information.
The law can be simple. Unless I have done business with you, you don't get to keep records on me. If you wish to exchange or share records on me, you must get my explicit permission. Some of the information sold is from public records, but what is key here is that it also includes additional data not in public records. It's how marketing research companies add value to otherwise public data and is the core of their business.
Perhaps you haven't made the right campaign contributions. Also you have not laid down the proper legal boiler plate by establishing a legal personhood known as a corporation.
Assuming there is no anti-competitive price fixing going on.
I'm for that. Every single thing we make should have a deposit on it that assumes it will end up in the ocean. the amount should be the cost to remove it from the ocean. If you manage to recycle your shit properly, then a refund may be possible. If the cost of cleaning up the ocean goes down, then the deposits should go down.
But you know how nobody likes paying what amounts to a tax. It'll be a bunch of money that some government entity collects and keeps and doesn't go to any useful purpose. And that organization will grow and depend on that money until it claims it can't survive without increasing the tax further.
I'm not supposed to waste water in a drought. so I am supposed to put the "scraped clean" but rinsed plastic in the bin (ref), then the recycling facility washes it in a system that recycles the grey water.
except these recycling companies often get caught sending much of what they pick up to the dump, often before it even hits the sort facility. The protocol at most centers is if the sorting line is backed up, recycling trucks are routed to the dump.
plastics are hydrocarbons, and hydrocarbons are fuel.
In the future we should design products to be more easily recycled. New plastics and coatings are possible that make contaminates less likely to adhere to it, those may be useful for food containers and possibly medical products.
And I would agree that letting everything fall into the "burn it" category is a stupid idea. But that's not really how this works.
Some steps are not economical, but are environmentally sound. This is a problem if you let the free market make ecological decisions for you.
Not really, game theory and visual recognition are two different things.
You assume a visible light camera is the only sensor possible. Chemical "sniff" sensors, spectrography, infra-red cameras, soft laser desorption. I don't think it would take long to construct a rather long list of possible avenues to research for their effectiveness versus cost. A multi sensor system will have much better probabilities, and that really matters for deep learning and neural net training. And even if such a system is instead done heuristically it can be helpful to use multiple kinds of sensors.
A lot of work? No, a useful solution is a dissertation away for PhD candidate. So this is potentially a solved problem in 2-4 years, at least on paper.
That's fine. AT&T can figure out to pay those costs, since it's not my fucking business.
Maybe I don't want any administration of my line. I doubt I'll miss it, whatever it is.
Some loot crate systems I've seen you get gems/etc from trading in the worthless crap. Then you spend the gems on the stuff you want. If you get lucky you get some loot that is valuable. Some loot is useful in game but not a great value like ones that give you a temporary boost on earning experience. To be fair it's kind of hart to generalize the loot crate mechanic because each game does something different.
Now if you have a game where your loot crates are zonk prizes (like winning a goat on Let's Make a Deal) then that's a problem. Although with Let's Make a Deal they'd at least offer you $100 in exchange for your zonk prize.
I think I'd draw the line on if a game mechanic is primarily to be exchanged for money, like with a lotto ticket. With the additional constraint that failure to win results in literally nothing. Not even a low value prize. Lotto and scratchers have lots of secondary prize categories, even so the is a chance you get nothing. It might be OK you buy loot crates and they are all hats that you already own, that sucks. It helps if you can exchange them for credits where you can potentially use for some other purpose in game, even if only another kind of hat you don't own. If you have zero interest in hats, that doesn't mean it's worthless, but you should probably not be buying loot crates if you don't find them entertaining.
Of course game developers with pay-to-play models are extremely manipulative and exploit particular obsessive personality types. (e.g. whales)
Intel dumped ARM (Xscale) over 10 years ago (2006), and it's not clear even with hindsight that it would have been a successful strategy for Intel to use that ARM license. It seems doubtful that an Apple-Intel alliance around Xscale would have been possible given that iPhone's development (2006-2007) likely began when Intel still had Xscale. I can assume it was explored by Apple or Intel, even if only on a whiteboard, but history shows us that Xscale wasn't used by Apple. (probably price, performance, and lack of cell modem integration)
Furthermore I predict ARM's dominance to be on a decline as the consumer industry diversify into more CPU architectures like RISC-V. But sadly I don't think this will translate into more x86 sales for Intel. Ultimately the end user want a very full featured web browser on an inexpensive device (mobile, laptop, or tablet) with a long battery life, and there are lots of ways to reach that kind of high level goal. Full time connectivity to "the cloud" is going to be the marketing mantra for devices for the next decade I believe, and not so much about the gory details of the instruction set architecture. (sometimes I wonder if people aren't stuck in the mid-1980's to mid-2000's PC industry way of thinking about MHz and CPU revision)
My local theater has several Indian films, but I don't include that because it's not clear to me that Moviepass is going to work at such a theater. And the little independent theater is showing stuff like Pink Flamingos and Re-Animator right now. I'm not convinced something like Moviepass is worthwhile for that, nor do I know if it will even work.
There are only maybe 5 movies out at any given time. Plus whatever crap from last season the cheap theaters are still showing, but if you're an avid enough movie goer to have a subscription you've already seen those older movies.
That said the current subscription price doesn't make a lot of sense and is probably too low. But people don't like paying more for subscriptions especially if it's a per-person sort of thing like Moviepass.
Even if it's sold at Walmart it's still made in China and imported by a third party. You're still going to have a heck of a time getting any traction in court. Also I've found that cpsc.gov (Consume Product Safety Commission) doesn't usually announce recalls for unbranded products. Probably because cheap imported junk doesn't comply with federal product safety requirements, and Amazon doesn't enforce any of this for their sellers.
I guess the moral of the story is that Amazon is not a trusted brand, and I don't understand why people buy stuff from them thinking it will be good.