That's with such reasoning like that things are unlikely to go forward. One one side there are advertisers who seem to think that a good way to do business is to make sure that you only get ads and not what you initially came for, and the other side won't tolerate a single monetized pixel. Yes, there are such things as acceptable ads, but it is not something that can be settled with brains switched off. For example, are appeal to donation by charities acceptable? is self-promotion acceptable? is mentioning a friend's business in a blog post acceptable? is classified advertising (craigslist-style) acceptable? What is more tolerable for you : a small google text ad powered at the bottom of a page or an aggressive appeal to donation popup, Wikipedia-style, why? If both are unacceptable, how about a small text appeal to donation at the bottom of a page? And how about tracking? Is all tracking unacceptable, even if it is unrelated to ads? what about A/B testing? And opt-in tracking? Is there a difference if content, ads, tracking, whatever comes from a third party rather than a first party? What if the first party is Google?
Honda has a reputation for unreliable cars there? I've always heard about Japanese cars as the top end of reliability, ahead of everything else, even the German.
One problem with the approach used is that the firewall is configured to drop all connections. This is not a realistic picture. An analysis of the content would also be interesting because even with telemetry disabled, there are plenty of reason for connecting to Microsoft servers such as software updates. Most of them are port 80 and port 443. Port 80 is normal http traffic and is easy to analyse, port 443 is encrypted so it is a bit harder but if you can add your own certificate authority to the windows install, you can try doing man-in-the-middle. There is also UDP port 3544 which is related to IPv4 - IPv6 transition, which in itself is probably harmless but may hide other connection attempts (that's one of the reasons why you won't get a realistic picture by dropping everything).
The only thing this experiment tells us is that Windows communicates with MS servers even with telemetry disabled. It smells but without further analysis, it is not very useful information.
Oooh, ooh, can an app mess with my internet connection by loading many ads? So anything that uses the device bandwidth excessively could also be banned now?
If it does it in the background than yes, probably. Google banned several apps that were a bit too aggressive running in the background because it interfered with the "doze" feature. However, as long as you stay confined within you app, anything goes. There are ad blocking browsers on the Play store, there are also apps that abuse your bandwidth in the foreground, for ads or anything. What is forbidden is for an app to act on another app. And while Google may be a bit partial regarding this rule, it doesn't only apply to ad blockers, for example, they kicked out apps that did multi-window because it changed the way apps were rendered.
Buy a good Android device with an unlocked bootloader and use an AOSP based ROM with no gapps. Use Firefox mobile with your favorite blocking extensions as your browser. Use permission control to restrict apps that are a bit too curious. There you have it : premium device, no ads, no tracking. It may not be enough if you wear a tinfoil hat but nothing is good enough for tinfoil hats. According to XDA, Sony seems to be the recommended brand because they are developer friendly and produce nice devices. Nexus have good support too. Also don't buy your phone through your carrier.
It is not as easy as buying a phone off the shelf and there are some downsides but you have understand that what you are asking is not what most people want. People want tracking because it allows plenty of nice features (like Google now), they like free stuff and ads are an effective way of financing free stuff, and they just want things to work out of the box rather than control all the details.
There are no alternatives. We have evolved to live on Earth only. It has the gravity and protection from the radiation we need. Also we cannot "colonize other planets". They are too far away. You are limited by physics from reaching the ones outside of our solar system. And the ones in our Solar System cannot sustain human life. We are stuck here.
Venus has 1g, protection from radiation, and a surface so hellish that even demons refuse to live there. But believe it or not, flying cities in the atmosphere of Venus are considered and may be a better choice than Mars for long term colonization, if such a thing is possible.
Do you love patent trolls or do you just want to hurt Apple so much? Like it or not, Apple actually makes good products, maybe they are overpriced, maybe they don't fit your expectations but there is no denying they have some technical merit. And while I would like them to lose against another innovative company or for consumer rights there is no way I want them to lose against a company whose whole purpose is to exploit the patent system for personal profit without contributing anything meaningful.
Unfortunately for you (or any Java hater), Java as a programming language is as healthy as ever, with Java devs being on high demand despite being commonly taught in school. Android is probably no stranger to its renewed success. If you are talking about Java applets (that's what the browser plugin is for), it only had limited success : Flash and then JavaScript essentially killed it. As for advertising/abuse, I don't remember it being that bad, at least compared to Flash. It did have a lot of vulnerabilities though but it was mostly because of sloppy coding rather than a fundamentally broken design.
Here is a relevant Gaston Lagaffe comic : http://a407.idata.over-blog.co... It is in French so here is an approximate translation 1. - What is this strange thing Gaston??!? - Wonderful isn't it! I bought it in a flea market, it is an automaton that plays chess!! 2. - I am curious to see this!! - It is very strong said the seller... 3. - I played! what will the champion do? - It seems like it always win! 5. - You see, you see!!
Machina Dynamica is the best. Did you see the other products? They are all just as ridiculous as that bag of rocks. One of the best is that he can improve your gear over the phone, using "quantum teleportation", genius.
Thinking it was a joke, I proceeded to order something and had to stop just before paying. So yes, he will really take your money, and according to some audiophile forums, the guy is serious about his stuff, using customer feedback to "improve" his products and all that.
Playing Monopoly properly requires quite a bit of maths. Mortgaging is the obvious one. But the biggest one is how to decide where to build : you may need to take into account the position of other players (and know that a 7 will fall much more often than a 12), whether it is better to build a lot on cheap property or less on expensive property, the risks, etc...
There are plenty of keyboard layouts that can be used to type French correctly, like the one that is used in Canada. If you want to be more exotic, there is the bepo layout, which is the French equivalent to the Dvorak layout. And while French could benefit from some revision to fix the many irregularities of the language, it won't make it easier to type on an AZERTY keyboard unless we add even more irregularities or turn French into another language entirely.
- Look inside flying saucer, you should find a flying cup and a flying spoon - (optional) put flying sugar in flying cup, stir with flying spoon - Drink flying coffee
It's Naples, saying that Naples is Europe is like saying the Bronx is the USA. Maybe a poor analogy but the idea is that Naples is full of shit or at least it was a few years ago. And by full of shit I mean it literally : it had a major waste problem with piles of garbage littering the streets. As for the economy, it was all governed by the mafia. Businesses had to pay money to them for "protection". Maybe it has improved but when I went there it didn't look at all like what one could expect from an European city (excluding tourist places I suppose).
Good 3G is actually more than enough in most cases, you can stream 1080p video with it... if you are alone with a very good signal. The only real benefit I got from 4G is access to another frequency band with more capacity in crowded areas. I think the same is true for 5G.
The massive speed argument is just marketing. Telling you that you may finally get the bandwidth that they advertised a decade ago doesn't sell as well.
If you trust no one, sure, you need that 67 gig ledger and the matching decent connection. It is likely to be too much for a smartphone but it is well within reach of home PCs. However, the only ones that really need to do this check are people who sign the transaction, i.e. the miners. They could not do the checks but they better do, because otherwise, they are likely to get rejected by other signers and lose their rewards. In a normal transaction, several confirmations may be required, which make double spending extremely unlikely. The only weakness is if more than 50% of the computing power is held by dishonest actors. So, in practice, all you need is to see your transaction signed a few times.
Not really. ABP seems to be more open to discussion than other adblockers. They have an "acceptable ads" policy with guidelines and an optional whitelist. If they don't want people to go full "fuck off", they better play along.
Crap tools are sometimes not good enough to use even once. Adjustable pliers that slip off, screwdrivers that can't put any torque without damaging the screw, a try square that was off by several degrees, hacksaw blades that can barely cut a rusty nail... These are all examples I've seen myself. Some stuff look like tools, but aren't.
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That's with such reasoning like that things are unlikely to go forward.
One one side there are advertisers who seem to think that a good way to do business is to make sure that you only get ads and not what you initially came for, and the other side won't tolerate a single monetized pixel.
Yes, there are such things as acceptable ads, but it is not something that can be settled with brains switched off.
For example, are appeal to donation by charities acceptable? is self-promotion acceptable? is mentioning a friend's business in a blog post acceptable? is classified advertising (craigslist-style) acceptable? What is more tolerable for you : a small google text ad powered at the bottom of a page or an aggressive appeal to donation popup, Wikipedia-style, why? If both are unacceptable, how about a small text appeal to donation at the bottom of a page? And how about tracking? Is all tracking unacceptable, even if it is unrelated to ads? what about A/B testing? And opt-in tracking? Is there a difference if content, ads, tracking, whatever comes from a third party rather than a first party? What if the first party is Google?
Honda has a reputation for unreliable cars there?
I've always heard about Japanese cars as the top end of reliability, ahead of everything else, even the German.
One problem with the approach used is that the firewall is configured to drop all connections. This is not a realistic picture.
An analysis of the content would also be interesting because even with telemetry disabled, there are plenty of reason for connecting to Microsoft servers such as software updates. Most of them are port 80 and port 443. Port 80 is normal http traffic and is easy to analyse, port 443 is encrypted so it is a bit harder but if you can add your own certificate authority to the windows install, you can try doing man-in-the-middle. There is also UDP port 3544 which is related to IPv4 - IPv6 transition, which in itself is probably harmless but may hide other connection attempts (that's one of the reasons why you won't get a realistic picture by dropping everything).
The only thing this experiment tells us is that Windows communicates with MS servers even with telemetry disabled. It smells but without further analysis, it is not very useful information.
Oooh, ooh, can an app mess with my internet connection by loading many ads? So anything that uses the device bandwidth excessively could also be banned now?
If it does it in the background than yes, probably. Google banned several apps that were a bit too aggressive running in the background because it interfered with the "doze" feature.
However, as long as you stay confined within you app, anything goes. There are ad blocking browsers on the Play store, there are also apps that abuse your bandwidth in the foreground, for ads or anything. What is forbidden is for an app to act on another app. And while Google may be a bit partial regarding this rule, it doesn't only apply to ad blockers, for example, they kicked out apps that did multi-window because it changed the way apps were rendered.
Buy a good Android device with an unlocked bootloader and use an AOSP based ROM with no gapps. Use Firefox mobile with your favorite blocking extensions as your browser. Use permission control to restrict apps that are a bit too curious. There you have it : premium device, no ads, no tracking. It may not be enough if you wear a tinfoil hat but nothing is good enough for tinfoil hats.
According to XDA, Sony seems to be the recommended brand because they are developer friendly and produce nice devices. Nexus have good support too. Also don't buy your phone through your carrier.
It is not as easy as buying a phone off the shelf and there are some downsides but you have understand that what you are asking is not what most people want. People want tracking because it allows plenty of nice features (like Google now), they like free stuff and ads are an effective way of financing free stuff, and they just want things to work out of the box rather than control all the details.
There are no alternatives. We have evolved to live on Earth only. It has the gravity and protection from the radiation we need. Also we cannot "colonize other planets". They are too far away. You are limited by physics from reaching the ones outside of our solar system. And the ones in our Solar System cannot sustain human life. We are stuck here.
Venus has 1g, protection from radiation, and a surface so hellish that even demons refuse to live there. But believe it or not, flying cities in the atmosphere of Venus are considered and may be a better choice than Mars for long term colonization, if such a thing is possible.
Do you love patent trolls or do you just want to hurt Apple so much?
Like it or not, Apple actually makes good products, maybe they are overpriced, maybe they don't fit your expectations but there is no denying they have some technical merit. And while I would like them to lose against another innovative company or for consumer rights there is no way I want them to lose against a company whose whole purpose is to exploit the patent system for personal profit without contributing anything meaningful.
If you really don't like AC, just set a -6 modifier to anonymous posts.
It seems to show that Apple's margins are so ridiculously high that a decrease in manufacturing costs doesn't do much.
I was at home, working on my plumbing, wondering why I received space grade o-rings instead of the cheap ones I ordered.
Unfortunately for you (or any Java hater), Java as a programming language is as healthy as ever, with Java devs being on high demand despite being commonly taught in school. Android is probably no stranger to its renewed success.
If you are talking about Java applets (that's what the browser plugin is for), it only had limited success : Flash and then JavaScript essentially killed it. As for advertising/abuse, I don't remember it being that bad, at least compared to Flash. It did have a lot of vulnerabilities though but it was mostly because of sloppy coding rather than a fundamentally broken design.
Here is a relevant Gaston Lagaffe comic : http://a407.idata.over-blog.co...
It is in French so here is an approximate translation
1.
- What is this strange thing Gaston??!?
- Wonderful isn't it! I bought it in a flea market, it is an automaton that plays chess!!
2.
- I am curious to see this!!
- It is very strong said the seller...
3.
- I played! what will the champion do?
- It seems like it always win!
5.
- You see, you see!!
Any cable which was incorrectly labeled, was subject to be connected to what the label said
Good thing you didn't have network cables labeled "mains"...
Machina Dynamica is the best. Did you see the other products? They are all just as ridiculous as that bag of rocks.
One of the best is that he can improve your gear over the phone, using "quantum teleportation", genius.
Thinking it was a joke, I proceeded to order something and had to stop just before paying. So yes, he will really take your money, and according to some audiophile forums, the guy is serious about his stuff, using customer feedback to "improve" his products and all that.
Playing Monopoly properly requires quite a bit of maths.
Mortgaging is the obvious one. But the biggest one is how to decide where to build : you may need to take into account the position of other players (and know that a 7 will fall much more often than a 12), whether it is better to build a lot on cheap property or less on expensive property, the risks, etc...
There are plenty of keyboard layouts that can be used to type French correctly, like the one that is used in Canada. If you want to be more exotic, there is the bepo layout, which is the French equivalent to the Dvorak layout.
And while French could benefit from some revision to fix the many irregularities of the language, it won't make it easier to type on an AZERTY keyboard unless we add even more irregularities or turn French into another language entirely.
I don't know if backtracking is used but if it is, that's 1.21 gigawatts.
Or maybe the opposite : Emacs can now be used as an init system and has a systemd mode.
- Look inside flying saucer, you should find a flying cup and a flying spoon
- (optional) put flying sugar in flying cup, stir with flying spoon
- Drink flying coffee
It's Naples, saying that Naples is Europe is like saying the Bronx is the USA. Maybe a poor analogy but the idea is that Naples is full of shit or at least it was a few years ago.
And by full of shit I mean it literally : it had a major waste problem with piles of garbage littering the streets. As for the economy, it was all governed by the mafia. Businesses had to pay money to them for "protection". Maybe it has improved but when I went there it didn't look at all like what one could expect from an European city (excluding tourist places I suppose).
Good 3G is actually more than enough in most cases, you can stream 1080p video with it... if you are alone with a very good signal.
The only real benefit I got from 4G is access to another frequency band with more capacity in crowded areas. I think the same is true for 5G.
The massive speed argument is just marketing. Telling you that you may finally get the bandwidth that they advertised a decade ago doesn't sell as well.
Considering the number of actual women on Ashley Madison, his wife can sleep well, there is no way he cheated on her that way.
If you trust no one, sure, you need that 67 gig ledger and the matching decent connection. It is likely to be too much for a smartphone but it is well within reach of home PCs.
However, the only ones that really need to do this check are people who sign the transaction, i.e. the miners. They could not do the checks but they better do, because otherwise, they are likely to get rejected by other signers and lose their rewards. In a normal transaction, several confirmations may be required, which make double spending extremely unlikely. The only weakness is if more than 50% of the computing power is held by dishonest actors.
So, in practice, all you need is to see your transaction signed a few times.
Not really. ABP seems to be more open to discussion than other adblockers. They have an "acceptable ads" policy with guidelines and an optional whitelist.
If they don't want people to go full "fuck off", they better play along.
Crap tools are sometimes not good enough to use even once. Adjustable pliers that slip off, screwdrivers that can't put any torque without damaging the screw, a try square that was off by several degrees, hacksaw blades that can barely cut a rusty nail... These are all examples I've seen myself. Some stuff look like tools, but aren't.