Tracking on your website isn't the real issue here anyway. Most people don't seem to understand that very well.
The real issue is advertisement company tracking you all over the web and combining that information because they have ads on a lot of the websites out there. Then you are talking about things like: Online Behavioral Advertising
Actually the default DNT is no header. The user did not make a choice.
If advertisers don't respect it and we are fairly sure it is going on, we'll sent lawyers because there are laws (like in the EU) which says they can't do that without consent.
And as you know (and can already see on that page) the graphs vary widely between these "providers".
The graph at the top shows visitors to Wikipedia yes.
The graphs from statcounter count pageviews, the graphs from netmarketshare count by visitors (maybe even IP-address).
Which means statcounter is skewed for heavy Internet users (users which do many page views will skew the results in their 'favor'). Heavy users of the web will probably use a newer browser.
But the netmarketshare numbers are also delibertly by them changed to fit the number of Internet users per country (so the large share of for example IE-users in China skew the results a lot in that direction).
I think the reason why this does not yet exist is because the builders of websites which support it don't want their images in the middle of the text. Browsers which support HTML5 do support drag&drop so I wouldn't be surprised if it is possible al though I'm not yet sure how that would integrate (well).
It is actually the browser that creates most of the garbage. The editor mostly uses an API to tell the browser that a certain part of the page is editable.
I won't be installing it on my desktop or servers any time soon, but it is an interresting experiment and maybe interresting to see what new ideas they've come up with.
Who knows maybe they came up with something interresting which could apply to servers.
The point of the video/presentation is you can still do targetted ads (same something on the client instead of on the server) you don't need tracking to do it.
I run a kind of populair website and we a few ads and it does help us pay the bills.
So it is at least somewhat true on the web.
We deliver a free service to society, some people want to have others use their work for free (they upload to our site) we collect it and present it to the potential users (these download these free works).
So who would pay us for that ? Is this the user at home who pays the access provider ? Does the access provider pay us ?
Obviously not, so yes it is a horrendously inefficient micropayment system. But is their an alternative ?
Not only the enterprice developer, but also the sysadmins. The advantage of WinRT could have been intergration with Windows Domain/AD for administration, but they choose to make WinRT not useful for the enterprise. So if you want a Windows tablet for the enterprise, Windows 8 x86 it is.
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You know what is funny tests show that Firefox Mobile is the fastest browser on Android, faster than the default browser, Chrome, Opera or Dophin.
So it can't be completely crap, can it ?
If only I had bookmarked the tests...
Tracking on your website isn't the real issue here anyway. Most people don't seem to understand that very well.
The real issue is advertisement company tracking you all over the web and combining that information because they have ads on a lot of the websites out there. Then you are talking about things like: Online Behavioral Advertising
Actually the default DNT is no header. The user did not make a choice.
If advertisers don't respect it and we are fairly sure it is going on, we'll sent lawyers because there are laws (like in the EU) which says they can't do that without consent.
Actually the idea behind DNT is that it works when it is combined with laws.
As an example the EU already has an opt-in law (well ok, most countries in the EU have created a law based on what was agreed up on at the EU level).
That is an exciting prospect that when I'm 50 I might actually still enjoy these things :-)
I should correct myself, I did realize something from reading his answers.
Torvalds wants the same thing from licensing as he wants from his version control system for his projects: easy forking and especially easy merging.
As someone who has read a lot of his interviews there wasn't anything really new or unexpected in these questions/answers.
But hey if that makes Linus predictable that could be good for Linux development, right ? ;-)
Good to see Linus keeps up with his traditions in the first answer already by calling certain people morons. :-)
And as you know (and can already see on that page) the graphs vary widely between these "providers".
The graph at the top shows visitors to Wikipedia yes.
The graphs from statcounter count pageviews, the graphs from netmarketshare count by visitors (maybe even IP-address).
Which means statcounter is skewed for heavy Internet users (users which do many page views will skew the results in their 'favor'). Heavy users of the web will probably use a newer browser.
But the netmarketshare numbers are also delibertly by them changed to fit the number of Internet users per country (so the large share of for example IE-users in China skew the results a lot in that direction).
Good luck finding good numbers.
I think the reason why this does not yet exist is because the builders of websites which support it don't want their images in the middle of the text. Browsers which support HTML5 do support drag&drop so I wouldn't be surprised if it is possible al though I'm not yet sure how that would integrate (well).
It is actually the browser that creates most of the garbage. The editor mostly uses an API to tell the browser that a certain part of the page is editable.
I won't be installing it on my desktop or servers any time soon, but it is an interresting experiment and maybe interresting to see what new ideas they've come up with.
Who knows maybe they came up with something interresting which could apply to servers.
Anyway, I'm gonna take a look.
Forget I even mentioned it, this new frequency probably sucks are penetrating walls.
Well, if you can put a couple of access points around the house with roaming it wouldn't be to bad.
Obvious problem then is price.
Between 1% and 2% is generally what people think it is if they look at all the statistics.
The point of the video/presentation is you can still do targetted ads (same something on the client instead of on the server) you don't need tracking to do it.
Go is meant as a system language.
I don't think complexity has anything to do with it.
But maybe the author meant C, in the form of Google NaCl (Native Client).
Because Facebook is the best known (founding) member of the Open Compute project.
Not sure about the rack, but at least some of the machines that Facebook and the others have designed do have all the cables in the cold isle.
This also means, you "never" have to visit the hot isle.
Thus they have it completely enclosed and it really is hot there. Like close(r) to 30 degrees Celsius or something like that (86 F).
That means the cold isle doesn't have to be as cold either which means less work for the airco.
How about Lego bricks ? I know Lego has patents, but what if I print Lego bricks for my own use and don't sell them ?
You might want this page then:
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.6
It usually has links to http://www.h-online.com/ http://lwn.net/ and/or Wikipedia which hopefully explains it in a way you'll understand.
I run a kind of populair website and we a few ads and it does help us pay the bills.
So it is at least somewhat true on the web.
We deliver a free service to society, some people want to have others use their work for free (they upload to our site) we collect it and present it to the potential users (these download these free works).
So who would pay us for that ? Is this the user at home who pays the access provider ? Does the access provider pay us ?
Obviously not, so yes it is a horrendously inefficient micropayment system. But is their an alternative ?
Well, I agree with them that a lot of content is paid for by ads.
Look at TV or newspaper or websites or mobile apps, a lot of them have ads. Even if you've already payed for it.
Why ? Because it makes it cheaper for the user, which lowers the barrier to entry.
Hell, if you have a loyalty program card from a store they use that to track you too even though you are buying stuff from them.
What I don't agree with is they think they need tracking. That is just BS. You can do most of what they do without tracking.
Do these people really believe that advertising only works without tracking ?
Most of the things they do now, they can do without tracking:
https://air.mozilla.org/tracking-not-required/
Not only the enterprice developer, but also the sysadmins. The advantage of WinRT could have been intergration with Windows Domain/AD for administration, but they choose to make WinRT not useful for the enterprise. So if you want a Windows tablet for the enterprise, Windows 8 x86 it is.