Yes, using an RSS reader for most sites does reduce ad revenue.
Instead of visiting the home page of the site, and seeing all the top tier front page ads and the click-bait paid articles and opening a few tabs of interesting content (and seeing the ads again) and generally lingering, you're heading straight into one page of the content.
Sites make less ad revenue from RSS readers because you're not hanging around.
I'm loathe to give good advice to a bad idea, but one possible way to "break the encryption" for Government wouldn't be a direct attack on the cryptography, but a sanctioned attack on the client:
"Hey, Facebook. Government agency here. Could you silently instruct the Messenger app on target X or all users in Y area to encrypt using this escrow key for Z days? Tnx."
However, you can quite easily get a family of four on a modest income to pay $10 a month for Netflix.
Which is a good idea, but it assumes that you live in a country that has access to Netflix or an equivalent service. Most of us living outside of the US don't.
For the rest of us, there's the local cable TV monopoly (who abuse that monopoly to stop legal download services competing with them)... or Bittorrent.
The media blowup is being fuelled by "I bought a hard disk and it had hard core porn on it!" sensationalism but seem to be ignoring this deeper issue - Dick Smith Electronics, Harvey Norman, JB-HiFi and the rest have been getting away with it for years but the fact is selling used goods (no matter how good a condition it's in) as new is illegal.
They can ask the same price for it if the return is in great condition but they can't just seal it back up and pop it back on the shelf next to the new unopened boxes.
From TFA, "Since World War II, the United States has played a key role in international standardization"
Umm. Played a key role in international standardisation? This is a country - the only major industrialised nation in the entire world - that so far refuses to embrace the metric system. Key role, indeed.
Australia may rank 16th on the Press Freedom Index, But unfortunately Australia doesn't have US 1st Amendment-like protection for political free speech. (The High Court has ruled that it's heavily implied in the constitution, but it's not absolutely stated). There's no "You can't block that, it's political free speech!" kind of laws.
This is pretty much what happens right now in Australia.
All income taxpayers pay the Medicare levy. A large payment base means there's enough in the nation-wide pool to cover pensioners, unemployed, etc who can't afford to pay-in.
Private health insurers then come in and make a killing on gap insurance and covering things Australian Medicare doesn't - like dental.
There's no morse code required for any class of license in Australia any more.
This, and combined with the new easy-to-obtain foundation license, and guess what? The number of radio amateurs in Australia is going up for the first time in years AND these new amateurs are active and enthusiastic.
Shock, horror! The oldies complaining about the death of amateur radio by removing the morse code requirement were completely unfounded.
I've posted this type info before...on other stories, but, depending on the state you are in, if you know you're gonna blow over the limit....refuse ALL tests...don't blow anything, don't give blood.... Depends. Where I live even refusing a breath test is an instant fail, thanks for coming. (Ok, so they can't do you for DUI but the penalty for "refusing sample of breath/blood" is just as bad)
That's why blood tests are used in many jurisdictions after a fatal accident where alcohol or drugs are suspected. It could be the difference between someone being convicted or not of a crime like manslaughter or murder, and they're not going to rely on the results of a handheld breathaliser as proof.
If a newbie reads this, their first question will be, "What's an operating system?" The next question will be, after clicking 'Install' because they are installing something, "What the fuck happened to my stuff!?" When did we start agreeing that this is the kind of person that should be running Linux in the first place?
People have to install Linux at least once. Most people have never installed Windows. Newbies don't get the big deal about "free linux". As far as they're concerned, Windows came "free" with the computer.
The effort in UI design for Linux needs to go into the actual day to day operations, not the first install. IMHO, That will be complete when I can buy something like a multifunction device (fax, scan, print) and it just works. Just like it does in, say, Windows. (Multifunctions usually have sucky Windows drivers... but at least I don't have to mess around with CUPS)
I have never understood the need to separately install application software on every PC. When you want to roll out an application, install the application on a server and let the users double click the application icon. What's the problem ? Why take up disk space on every PC ? Users still have their own settings, preferences, recently used files list, etc.
Windows has this lovely binary configuration database called the Windows Registry. Many programs install bucket loads of device drivers, hooks into browsers and media players, default settings, etc when installed and refuse to work otherwise.
Yes this is crazy, yes there are ways of properly deploying applications automatically in an enterprise (such as group policy) but few applications, even Microsoft ones, actually properly deploy that way, either.
Windows application management is pain inherited from the Windows 3.1 "insert Disk 1 into the A: drive and double click SETUP.EXE" days. Most application developers release their apps with the genuine belief that sys admins are going to do that across hundreds of machines or waste time sitting down and work out how to package their program properly (which they should have done before they released the thing)
This is a problem Apple seem to have solved, but Mac machines are a pain to admin for a whole slew of different reasons...
2038 will be everything that Y2K wasn't. 2038 and I'll be just hitting retirement age. Hmm, now I know how the 60s and 70s COBOL programmers felt about Y2K...
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Yes, using an RSS reader for most sites does reduce ad revenue.
Instead of visiting the home page of the site, and seeing all the top tier front page ads and the click-bait paid articles and opening a few tabs of interesting content (and seeing the ads again) and generally lingering, you're heading straight into one page of the content.
Sites make less ad revenue from RSS readers because you're not hanging around.
I was agreeing with you there until you got to Ethereum classic - which is a (probably) dead project run by refusniks of the DAO hard fork.
I'm loathe to give good advice to a bad idea, but one possible way to "break the encryption" for Government wouldn't be a direct attack on the cryptography, but a sanctioned attack on the client:
"Hey, Facebook. Government agency here. Could you silently instruct the Messenger app on target X or all users in Y area to encrypt using this escrow key for Z days? Tnx."
There's some good news here. This ABS blunder sets the likelihood of paperless and/or online voting happening in Australia back another decade or so.
It's probably weird that as a technology geek I'd be a fan of paper voting, but paper forms are a lot harder to hack or manipulate without a trace.
Fancy breath sensitive ink vs just start making notes out of plastic like everybody else..?
Let's see the future free from pennies, first.
However, you can quite easily get a family of four on a modest income to pay $10 a month for Netflix.
Which is a good idea, but it assumes that you live in a country that has access to Netflix or an equivalent service. Most of us living outside of the US don't.
For the rest of us, there's the local cable TV monopoly (who abuse that monopoly to stop legal download services competing with them) ... or Bittorrent.
I never had to pay for them either. And yes, we had to give them back, they belonged to the school.
Yes, but somebody had to pay for them. That somebody was the school, through the taxpayer.
Selling used stuff as new aside for a second
Umm. No.
The media blowup is being fuelled by "I bought a hard disk and it had hard core porn on it!" sensationalism but seem to be ignoring this deeper issue -
Dick Smith Electronics, Harvey Norman, JB-HiFi and the rest have been getting away with it for years but the fact is selling used goods (no matter how good a condition it's in) as new is illegal.
They can ask the same price for it if the return is in great condition but they can't just seal it back up and pop it back on the shelf next to the new unopened boxes.
Yes, and..?
From TFA, "Since World War II, the United States has played a key role in international standardization"
Umm. Played a key role in international standardisation? This is a country - the only major industrialised nation in the entire world - that so far refuses to embrace the metric system. Key role, indeed.
Australia may rank 16th on the Press Freedom Index, But unfortunately Australia doesn't have US 1st Amendment-like protection for political free speech. (The High Court has ruled that it's heavily implied in the constitution, but it's not absolutely stated). There's no "You can't block that, it's political free speech!" kind of laws.
This is pretty much what happens right now in Australia.
All income taxpayers pay the Medicare levy. A large payment base means there's enough in the nation-wide pool to cover pensioners, unemployed, etc who can't afford to pay-in.
Private health insurers then come in and make a killing on gap insurance and covering things Australian Medicare doesn't - like dental.
1995 called. They want their instant messaging back.
This is why one should always refuse a breathalyzer test even if you haven't been drinking
"Refused to give a sample of breath for analysis." Instant fail. Off to gaol for you. Thanks for coming.
You're wrong. Australian law, not US law, applies in Australia
Well, for now at least, anyway.
Already invented. Next!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Coil
There's no morse code required for any class of license in Australia any more.
This, and combined with the new easy-to-obtain foundation license, and guess what? The number of radio amateurs in Australia is going up for the first time in years AND these new amateurs are active and enthusiastic.
Shock, horror! The oldies complaining about the death of amateur radio by removing the morse code requirement were completely unfounded.
That's why blood tests are used in many jurisdictions after a fatal accident where alcohol or drugs are suspected. It could be the difference between someone being convicted or not of a crime like manslaughter or murder, and they're not going to rely on the results of a handheld breathaliser as proof.
People have to install Linux at least once. Most people have never installed Windows. Newbies don't get the big deal about "free linux". As far as they're concerned, Windows came "free" with the computer.
The effort in UI design for Linux needs to go into the actual day to day operations, not the first install. IMHO, That will be complete when I can buy something like a multifunction device (fax, scan, print) and it just works. Just like it does in, say, Windows. (Multifunctions usually have sucky Windows drivers... but at least I don't have to mess around with CUPS)
you'll generally find that the blocklists are controlled by individual schools, *not* by the department of education
Just checked... Department of Education and Training has centrally blocked the site for all 700 odd Western Australian government schools.
You stay away from Australia, now, you hear?
I have never understood the need to separately install application software on every PC. When you want to roll out an application, install the application on a server and let the users double click the application icon. What's the problem ? Why take up disk space on every PC ? Users still have their own settings, preferences, recently used files list, etc.
Windows has this lovely binary configuration database called the Windows Registry. Many programs install bucket loads of device drivers, hooks into browsers and media players, default settings, etc when installed and refuse to work otherwise.
Yes this is crazy, yes there are ways of properly deploying applications automatically in an enterprise (such as group policy) but few applications, even Microsoft ones, actually properly deploy that way, either.
Windows application management is pain inherited from the Windows 3.1 "insert Disk 1 into the A: drive and double click SETUP.EXE" days. Most application developers release their apps with the genuine belief that sys admins are going to do that across hundreds of machines or waste time sitting down and work out how to package their program properly (which they should have done before they released the thing)
This is a problem Apple seem to have solved, but Mac machines are a pain to admin for a whole slew of different reasons...