You can't use the same metaphor because the tv station gets paid for showing the commerical break, regardless of how many people are watching it or urinating or whatever - and getting ratings for those is difficult, so the advertiser never gets to know.
If of course there was some magical technology available for everyone which would remove all commercials, then I would expect my favourite channel to suffer for it, and would be unethical.
Certain websites offer you free content, don't try anything nasty, and the least you can do is try to let them scrape some money which you're not paying for.
Yes I agree that when you end up with giant half-page "POP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN" flash ads its kinda overdoing it...
Web bugs are again hard to find to remove. Blacklisting doesn't really work for long.
"Privacy Mode" means "Do not store information about what I've been doing ON THIS COMPUTER" "Do not Track" means "Dear Advertisers, Do not store information about what I've been doing ON YOUR SERVERS"
So why didn't they put a giant spotlight on it? A desktop shortcut, an introduction... more push towards it... Sometimes I wonder whether Microsoft Marketting is composed entirely of monkeys.
Android finish building out their Tablets and start moving to Desktops in 2 years.
Given that it uses the Linux Kernel... its pretty much an uh... Linux Distribution.
Or would it be a case of prestege or something? Because people 'fear' linux because of all the Terminal work you need (still living under a rock?) while Android is famous.
If your job is mostly using word processing, do you really need a Windows 7 Quad-core with 4GB of RAM? Or do you just want it because its shiny?
A development company I worked with was moving its PCs to Windows 7, and souping them up with a ton of RAM and that sort of thing. But its because we needed that sort of power. But the way I see most offices working.. if your software still works and you can do your job, what's the complaining about?
What would be interesting is determining how much advertisments cost to put on a kindle - how much Amazon takes from each 'click' (do people still pay for impressions?) and work out just how many times a user needs to react to an ad for Amazon to get its money worth.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe you should try it when the site's not been slashdotted...
Is force copyright owners who flag videos for no reason whatsoever to watch that as well.
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If nothing its a precursor to Net Neutrality.
Of course there needs to be that clause, otherwise they couldn't filter child pornography.
You can't use the same metaphor because the tv station gets paid for showing the commerical break, regardless of how many people are watching it or urinating or whatever - and getting ratings for those is difficult, so the advertiser never gets to know.
If of course there was some magical technology available for everyone which would remove all commercials, then I would expect my favourite channel to suffer for it, and would be unethical.
Blocking all advertisments is kinda unethical.
Certain websites offer you free content, don't try anything nasty, and the least you can do is try to let them scrape some money which you're not paying for.
Yes I agree that when you end up with giant half-page "POP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN" flash ads its kinda overdoing it...
Web bugs are again hard to find to remove. Blacklisting doesn't really work for long.
* Blocks web bugs
What?
* Disables loading of tracking ads
How? Magic? How do you work out which ads are tracking?
* Spoofs the referrer to be the root of the domain being visited
Possible yes. Useful? Not really.
* Changes your default search engine off google and onto one that doesn't log your searches
All search engines log searches, its how they get feedback.
To summarise:
"Privacy Mode" means "Do not store information about what I've been doing ON THIS COMPUTER"
"Do not Track" means "Dear Advertisers, Do not store information about what I've been doing ON YOUR SERVERS"
Large difference.
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I think the main point is that you shouldn't get kicked off the net because the *IAA said so.
Its not like communications and the invention of the radio changed warfare and coordination forever.
Think of the poor CEOs who will have to stay without their gold plated toiletseats because of your egoism.
Now that's the porn shortage fixed.
It seems that everyone is going to go for the accelerated releases now.
10 is much bigger than 5 (firefox), so I think IE is going to win.
So why didn't they put a giant spotlight on it? A desktop shortcut, an introduction... more push towards it... Sometimes I wonder whether Microsoft Marketting is composed entirely of monkeys.
"Games for Windows Marketplace"
Hmmm... interesting link I found in my Games folder on Windows 7.
I remember the Catalog in Windows 98...
Android finish building out their Tablets and start moving to Desktops in 2 years.
Given that it uses the Linux Kernel... its pretty much an uh... Linux Distribution.
Or would it be a case of prestege or something? Because people 'fear' linux because of all the Terminal work you need (still living under a rock?) while Android is famous.
Seriously, Ubuntu has had an 'app store' for ages. Was a brilliant idea. Now apple's getting into the game, and Microsoft might step in.
Why now? Seriously? Given how popular 'one stop get everything' services are... why hasn't someone had this idea a few years earlier?
2011 the year of the app store.
...do they need it?
If your job is mostly using word processing, do you really need a Windows 7 Quad-core with 4GB of RAM? Or do you just want it because its shiny?
A development company I worked with was moving its PCs to Windows 7, and souping them up with a ton of RAM and that sort of thing. But its because we needed that sort of power. But the way I see most offices working.. if your software still works and you can do your job, what's the complaining about?
But I wonder how it'll react to being touched. They should put out an API for this sort of thing. Could truly change the industry.
What would be interesting is determining how much advertisments cost to put on a kindle - how much Amazon takes from each 'click' (do people still pay for impressions?) and work out just how many times a user needs to react to an ad for Amazon to get its money worth.
Why would apple want to do such a thing?
You're suggesting giving users more freedom to program what they want. This is blasphemy. Burn the Heretic!
The book copying industry used to put a lot of people in jobs. The Printing press destroyed the book industry!
Its stealing the work of creative people-who-copy-books-for-a-living.
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Technology moves forward. Deal with it.
I would expect just like policemen have contacts in the criminal underworld, I would assume security researchers would do the same thing.
Tinfoil hats on.