Then let me try again: Without the opportunity presented by advertising-supported publication, how likely is it that companies would have built out infrastructure to bring tens or hundreds of Mbps to the home?
It doesn't matter, it is done.
One can enjoy acres of land in New York due to the subjugation of Native Americans, it doesn't mean that subjugation was right, or that we should continue subjugating peoples to this day in an attempt to reap the benefits. It also doesn't mean I'd begrudge that guy his land or his happiness to enjoy it in 2015.
So I suppose that decades of broadcast and cable television had no right to exist, if I follow your thinking. Same with radio.
Sure they did, but I was entitled to use the mute button, or wire up a device to mute my radio for X minutes at the top of every hour if their schedule got too predictable.
And before anyone brings up advertising in newspapers please note that they placed static, non tracking images clearly delineated from the content, hosted on the first-party newspaper page.
This would be pretty much unblockable short of an adblocking AI, so this is your solution right here.
I'm not arguing 'safe', because the jury is still out on that, but you'd have to be an idiot to see it doesn't have an impact on the perception of pain. Just try the shit.
meh, while marijuana should be legalized for recreational use, I don't think you'd have much trouble documenting legitimate medical uses of it. It's not homeopathy in the sense of diluted sugar water drops, but probably needs better regulation on claims being made.
I mean it's quite clear that marijuana has analgesic effects, and I wouldn't have issue with people selling it as as an over-the-counter painkiller in that case. For me, its a hell of a lot more effective than a bunch of ibuprofen or most other OTC painkilllers. The list of legally-mandated "might cause" side-effects in the commercial will be pretty long and hilarious, I'm sure.
The problem comes if someone sells a cannabis cream to fix your acne or whatever, and there isn't any medical research to back it up. That goes on to some degree in today's medical marijuana community. But no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater -- if someone is claiming Aspirin is going to cure your cataracts, you don't go banning Aspirin, you just crack down on the quacks and their false claims.
In a desperate effort to follow the "trendy" herd they've made the browser much harder to use. eg: Bookmark folders - good luck trying to create them in the latest versions on OS/X.
Granted I haven't created a new one in years, but I tried Show All Bookmarks, Right-Click, New Folder.
I'll agree that it should probably be labelled as something like "Manage Bookmarks", and maybe not hidden in a context menu, but it wasn't that hard.
I just run Classic Theme Restorer and use the built in Customize function to hide their wacky new features when then introduce them and force them onto the Navigation Bar.
Maybe thats less than ideal but the browser seems to behave OK, and I get all of my nice Adblocking/privacy add-ons without using a browser coded by a literal advertising company.
It was because he didn't have a proven track record of paying anything off. It makes plenty of sense when you think about it -- they don't know where the hell he got his house or cattle from, but if they see that he's paid a bunch of lenders back for various loans over his lifetime, they can surmise that he will probably pay back theirs, too.
Blu-ray.iso backups? Still that would be like 1,500 discs (assuming like 50GB per disc) so it would be a pretty hardcore movie collection, but it seems on the borderline of possibility. I know people who had 1,500 audio CDs in their heyday.
But the availability of tech advances to the public can disappear over time due to perceived lack of demand driving lack of supply. Case in point: Affordable X11/Linux-compatible laptops with a 10" screen were easy to find in 2010. They're a lot harder to find since manufacturers discontinued the category.
True but I don't think it really applies to what the person I was responding to was saying. I don't see a reduction in average people subscribing to ISPs in the near future driving up costs there even in an imagined world where adblocking kills the commercial web, because there are too many popular services that live off of subscriptions being pushed down that same pipe.
I suppose less money in the ecosystem might eventually slow down stuff like backbone upgrades, but I don't really care that much. I would rather have a 2000-era web stagnating on today's technology with no ads than some ad-and-tracking bloated future web that is capable of streaming 4K video to everyone at once. And I really don't think I'm going to have to choose since people like Netflix are going to probably throw enough money at that problem that the rest of us will benefit from the ridiculous connections and hardware it will take in order to deliver that.
Why spend time playing a game that a computer can play perfectly?
I'm not particularly into checkers, but why not? I've enjoyed sudoku and doing the daily Jumble -- both of which should be solvable by undergrad CS students, but they are still fun as a *human* brain exercise
If there are no advertisers to fund the distribution of compelling articles, videos, and social networking platforms, how many people will continue to subscribe to home Internet? Probably not nearly as many. This means ISPs will have to spread their fixed costs across fewer customers. Internet won't be "cheap as chips" anymore.
Oh please, Netflix and Amazon alone will keep people subscribed to ISP service in mass quantity, and Twitter could be built out, if a bit clunkier, without some massive corporate force behind it. I don't have an answer for YouTube and its massive bandwidth use -- probably will have to go subscription or die. Oh well.
Remember that we're not going to lose the tech advances that the current internet drove -- a modern computer and home network connection can serve a shitload of 1999-era web content. We'll be fine.
Not Excessive Tracking -- any tracking. They can put whatever they want in a static, hosted by the first-party domain, text or image ad, with no javascript, and I'll happily allow it past my blockers. Hell they probably wouldn't be able to catch it anyway.
Just treat it like taking out an ad in Time Magazine or the New York Times, and there won't be any serious number of people blocking you.
As I recall, you're right, the email account was used for little of import, but I don't think it was hacked by some nefarious (D) operative. Wasn't it just some guy on a forum that guessed her password reset answers based on publicly available information?
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It's a bit lifted from someone else so not really attributable to Banksy, but a an excellent quote nonetheless.
Then let me try again: Without the opportunity presented by advertising-supported publication, how likely is it that companies would have built out infrastructure to bring tens or hundreds of Mbps to the home?
It doesn't matter, it is done.
One can enjoy acres of land in New York due to the subjugation of Native Americans, it doesn't mean that subjugation was right, or that we should continue subjugating peoples to this day in an attempt to reap the benefits. It also doesn't mean I'd begrudge that guy his land or his happiness to enjoy it in 2015.
So I suppose that decades of broadcast and cable television had no right to exist, if I follow your thinking. Same with radio.
Sure they did, but I was entitled to use the mute button, or wire up a device to mute my radio for X minutes at the top of every hour if their schedule got too predictable.
And before anyone brings up advertising in newspapers please note that they placed static, non tracking images clearly delineated from the content, hosted on the first-party newspaper page.
This would be pretty much unblockable short of an adblocking AI, so this is your solution right here.
If websites asked for a donation Wikipedia style it would be 1000% better than the situation we currently have.
I guess they won't be paying benefits to their obvious employees then.
Oh please, political != scientific.
I'm not arguing 'safe', because the jury is still out on that, but you'd have to be an idiot to see it doesn't have an impact on the perception of pain. Just try the shit.
meh, while marijuana should be legalized for recreational use, I don't think you'd have much trouble documenting legitimate medical uses of it. It's not homeopathy in the sense of diluted sugar water drops, but probably needs better regulation on claims being made.
I mean it's quite clear that marijuana has analgesic effects, and I wouldn't have issue with people selling it as as an over-the-counter painkiller in that case. For me, its a hell of a lot more effective than a bunch of ibuprofen or most other OTC painkilllers. The list of legally-mandated "might cause" side-effects in the commercial will be pretty long and hilarious, I'm sure.
The problem comes if someone sells a cannabis cream to fix your acne or whatever, and there isn't any medical research to back it up. That goes on to some degree in today's medical marijuana community. But no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater -- if someone is claiming Aspirin is going to cure your cataracts, you don't go banning Aspirin, you just crack down on the quacks and their false claims.
Try right clicking on the folder tree on the left sidebar.
In a desperate effort to follow the "trendy" herd they've made the browser much harder to use. eg: Bookmark folders - good luck trying to create them in the latest versions on OS/X.
Granted I haven't created a new one in years, but I tried Show All Bookmarks, Right-Click, New Folder.
I'll agree that it should probably be labelled as something like "Manage Bookmarks", and maybe not hidden in a context menu, but it wasn't that hard.
I just run Classic Theme Restorer and use the built in Customize function to hide their wacky new features when then introduce them and force them onto the Navigation Bar.
Maybe thats less than ideal but the browser seems to behave OK, and I get all of my nice Adblocking/privacy add-ons without using a browser coded by a literal advertising company.
Maybe those 10 guys should understand that living 10 to a house means that you have to ration internet just as much as fridge space and shower time.
It was because he didn't have a proven track record of paying anything off. It makes plenty of sense when you think about it -- they don't know where the hell he got his house or cattle from, but if they see that he's paid a bunch of lenders back for various loans over his lifetime, they can surmise that he will probably pay back theirs, too.
Blu-ray .iso backups? Still that would be like 1,500 discs (assuming like 50GB per disc) so it would be a pretty hardcore movie collection, but it seems on the borderline of possibility. I know people who had 1,500 audio CDs in their heyday.
But the availability of tech advances to the public can disappear over time due to perceived lack of demand driving lack of supply. Case in point: Affordable X11/Linux-compatible laptops with a 10" screen were easy to find in 2010. They're a lot harder to find since manufacturers discontinued the category.
True but I don't think it really applies to what the person I was responding to was saying. I don't see a reduction in average people subscribing to ISPs in the near future driving up costs there even in an imagined world where adblocking kills the commercial web, because there are too many popular services that live off of subscriptions being pushed down that same pipe.
I suppose less money in the ecosystem might eventually slow down stuff like backbone upgrades, but I don't really care that much. I would rather have a 2000-era web stagnating on today's technology with no ads than some ad-and-tracking bloated future web that is capable of streaming 4K video to everyone at once. And I really don't think I'm going to have to choose since people like Netflix are going to probably throw enough money at that problem that the rest of us will benefit from the ridiculous connections and hardware it will take in order to deliver that.
Thanks grandpa!
Why spend time playing a game that a computer can play perfectly?
I'm not particularly into checkers, but why not? I've enjoyed sudoku and doing the daily Jumble -- both of which should be solvable by undergrad CS students, but they are still fun as a *human* brain exercise
well, I suck at tags, but the point still stands :-)
If there are no advertisers to fund the distribution of compelling articles, videos, and social networking platforms, how many people will continue to subscribe to home Internet? Probably not nearly as many. This means ISPs will have to spread their fixed costs across fewer customers. Internet won't be "cheap as chips" anymore.
Oh please, Netflix and Amazon alone will keep people subscribed to ISP service in mass quantity, and Twitter could be built out, if a bit clunkier, without some massive corporate force behind it. I don't have an answer for YouTube and its massive bandwidth use -- probably will have to go subscription or die. Oh well.
Remember that we're not going to lose the tech advances that the current internet drove -- a modern computer and home network connection can serve a shitload of 1999-era web content. We'll be fine.
Not Excessive Tracking -- any tracking. They can put whatever they want in a static, hosted by the first-party domain, text or image ad, with no javascript, and I'll happily allow it past my blockers. Hell they probably wouldn't be able to catch it anyway.
Just treat it like taking out an ad in Time Magazine or the New York Times, and there won't be any serious number of people blocking you.
I disagree with the labeling, I mean. I don't exist to 'consume' their products.
Fuck you, I'm a customer not a consumer. And no shit, its called public transit and living somewhere walkable.
Being Slashdot, it seems like a horrible misuse of the word 'hacking'.
Where was the hacking though?
As I recall, you're right, the email account was used for little of import, but I don't think it was hacked by some nefarious (D) operative. Wasn't it just some guy on a forum that guessed her password reset answers based on publicly available information?