The idea that ad supported "journalism" becomes more of an independent and innovative source of diverse information and a "virtuous circle" is disproved by our current corporate-shill megaglomerate owned media. It's turned all the major news organizations into advertisers pretending to be journalists, and the "information" they spew, pure propaganda.
But with regards to making profits off of ad blocking, if anyone is paying for ad blockers other than contributions to open-source efforts, they're idiots. Ad blocking is not all that hard, ad blocking products are as much of a scam as advertising is for the most part. I haven't watched cable or any of the mainstream "broadcast" (if they still call it that), content for years and years now, my tolerance for any of that is near-zero and fortunately, I've not missed it in the least. I rarely encounter ads for anything, I don't open the door for solicitors, and I maintain that is MY freedom to prohibit that, my attention simply, is not "free to abuse."
Yes, make them CHOKE on it. Make them EAT every last bit of surveillance data, and record every second of it for posterity. And they better not have suddenly deleted it, that's destruction of evidence, and they should be punished for that.
It doesn't matter where the phones are made, US carriers have to support them. Chinese or Korean made phones that Verizon, AT&T and Sprint won't operate with won't do anyone any good. And the manufacturers of the phones will do whatever they have to do to keep their business. And, if you hadn't noticed, the carriers are already the government's lapdogs.
I believe the point was, you can do without it and the world doesn't come to an end. Only a knee-jerk xenophobe would interpret that to mean we should "just do whatever Canada does."
Only outlaws will have encryption. And you won't be able to recognize it as such, it'll come in the form of steganography, or code talking that looks like mundane communications. The whole anti-encryption thing is a boondoggle, and only helps to catch the low-hanging fruit, that which is too stupid to even try to cover their tracks. And that's even if they have the time and energy to scan every piece of data for that low hanging fruit, to find the needles in the haystacks. The recent attackers in France weren't even using encryption, and they weren't able to prevent the attacks. Banning encryption isn't going to change that.
One notable difference is, with a library, a publisher isn't going to send every book it has to the library for free, since that would impact its bottom line. Free books do not constitute advertising for the books given away, since the people who get them no longer need to buy the book, they just got to read it for free.
I've seen some pretty bad "random number" generators in my time. In one case, it was implemented by a pointer that would walk through the processes memory space and use whatever it found as-is. And another where the coder clearly thought that if you multiply something by enough made up crap and take the remainder, you get randomness. An understanding of random numbers in computing is not something the classrooms ever cover as far as I can tell.
Ads are the reason why a lot of good content can stay afloat
No, ads are actually a sign of distorted, bad, or otherwise disfunctional content. The only thing ads are doing is keeping the ISPs from metering bandwidth more closely-- if ISPs metered like they'd like to, you'd be motivated to reduce ads simply because the use of your bandwidth is costing you money. As long as ads exist, bandwidth metering will be unpopular with the corporations who don't want to see you have a financial stake in ad blocking.
Then who funds the operation of the sites through which you 'inform yourself'?
Sales. Amazon and similar sites that sell products provide information and often, independent reviews. The manufacturer's sites provide specs and user manuals for free, because they want you to buy the product. I don't need any more than that.
To be governed by Skynet couldn't be any worse than what we've got now-- at least we'd have SOME kind of intelligence in government, even if it's artificial. It's clear there's no natural intelligence in government as it currently exists...
So we'll start seeing new drones with lighter cameras and that work in tandem to perform the tasks of heavier drones. No doubt that making it under the weight limit will be a significant selling point...
For the most part, by the time an AV vendor is able to add a check for a new vulnerability, it's too late, the damage has already been done. So then you end up carrying around thousands of checks for old viruses from then on, and you wonder why performance slowly grinds to a halt. Do everything risky in an expendable VM.
You forgot to mention that fearmongering about threats sells more products. An unscrupulous AV maker could even release malware/worms/viruses into the wild simply to drive more people to buy AV products. How do we know they're not? Conflict of interest, anyone?
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Root your own kindle and install your own encryption. Sounds like Amazon just made that process easier...
You'd think he'd be concerned how much data is going to be saved and distributed on him, and his family, in the future.
The idea that ad supported "journalism" becomes more of an independent and innovative source of diverse information and a "virtuous circle" is disproved by our current corporate-shill megaglomerate owned media. It's turned all the major news organizations into advertisers pretending to be journalists, and the "information" they spew, pure propaganda.
But with regards to making profits off of ad blocking, if anyone is paying for ad blockers other than contributions to open-source efforts, they're idiots. Ad blocking is not all that hard, ad blocking products are as much of a scam as advertising is for the most part. I haven't watched cable or any of the mainstream "broadcast" (if they still call it that), content for years and years now, my tolerance for any of that is near-zero and fortunately, I've not missed it in the least. I rarely encounter ads for anything, I don't open the door for solicitors, and I maintain that is MY freedom to prohibit that, my attention simply, is not "free to abuse."
They own ESPN for Christ sakes.
There could hardly be ANYTHING you could mention that I care less about than ESPN...
Your HP printers are my cloudserver. I back up all my data in PAR files to them. All your printers are belong to us.
Yes, make them CHOKE on it. Make them EAT every last bit of surveillance data, and record every second of it for posterity. And they better not have suddenly deleted it, that's destruction of evidence, and they should be punished for that.
Why do they seem to think they have the right to force my eyelids open ala-Clockwork Orange? You want my eyeballs buddy, it's gonna cost ya...
It doesn't matter where the phones are made, US carriers have to support them. Chinese or Korean made phones that Verizon, AT&T and Sprint won't operate with won't do anyone any good. And the manufacturers of the phones will do whatever they have to do to keep their business. And, if you hadn't noticed, the carriers are already the government's lapdogs.
That's easy, all they have to do is legislate that smart phone manufacturers must also make them jailbreak proof. I expect that'll be the next step.
I believe the point was, you can do without it and the world doesn't come to an end. Only a knee-jerk xenophobe would interpret that to mean we should "just do whatever Canada does."
Only outlaws will have encryption. And you won't be able to recognize it as such, it'll come in the form of steganography, or code talking that looks like mundane communications. The whole anti-encryption thing is a boondoggle, and only helps to catch the low-hanging fruit, that which is too stupid to even try to cover their tracks. And that's even if they have the time and energy to scan every piece of data for that low hanging fruit, to find the needles in the haystacks. The recent attackers in France weren't even using encryption, and they weren't able to prevent the attacks. Banning encryption isn't going to change that.
It's not clear Knuth was used all that much even back then, and I wonder if it's been in use at all in the last 20 years or so.
If you give them a half that is mostly advertising, if I were them I'd say it's not better than none.
One notable difference is, with a library, a publisher isn't going to send every book it has to the library for free, since that would impact its bottom line. Free books do not constitute advertising for the books given away, since the people who get them no longer need to buy the book, they just got to read it for free.
I've seen some pretty bad "random number" generators in my time. In one case, it was implemented by a pointer that would walk through the processes memory space and use whatever it found as-is. And another where the coder clearly thought that if you multiply something by enough made up crap and take the remainder, you get randomness. An understanding of random numbers in computing is not something the classrooms ever cover as far as I can tell.
Ads are the reason why a lot of good content can stay afloat
No, ads are actually a sign of distorted, bad, or otherwise disfunctional content. The only thing ads are doing is keeping the ISPs from metering bandwidth more closely-- if ISPs metered like they'd like to, you'd be motivated to reduce ads simply because the use of your bandwidth is costing you money. As long as ads exist, bandwidth metering will be unpopular with the corporations who don't want to see you have a financial stake in ad blocking.
Advertisers are not entitled to my eyeballs. If they want access to my eyeballs, they will have to pay for that.
Then who funds the operation of the sites through which you 'inform yourself'?
Sales. Amazon and similar sites that sell products provide information and often, independent reviews. The manufacturer's sites provide specs and user manuals for free, because they want you to buy the product. I don't need any more than that.
So when can I order a light sabre with a beam shaped like Princess Leia?
Yeah, I guess I see the similarities. Never mind. When are they going to do that with gun ownership?
FB video comes up black much of the time, any chance the switch to HTML5 fixed that issue?
To be governed by Skynet couldn't be any worse than what we've got now-- at least we'd have SOME kind of intelligence in government, even if it's artificial. It's clear there's no natural intelligence in government as it currently exists...
So we'll start seeing new drones with lighter cameras and that work in tandem to perform the tasks of heavier drones. No doubt that making it under the weight limit will be a significant selling point...
For the most part, by the time an AV vendor is able to add a check for a new vulnerability, it's too late, the damage has already been done. So then you end up carrying around thousands of checks for old viruses from then on, and you wonder why performance slowly grinds to a halt. Do everything risky in an expendable VM.
You forgot to mention that fearmongering about threats sells more products. An unscrupulous AV maker could even release malware/worms/viruses into the wild simply to drive more people to buy AV products. How do we know they're not? Conflict of interest, anyone?