City governments that allow their cable franchisees to charge less for Internet and TV than for Internet alone likewise "deserve to die a quick, but painful, death. Scum."
Bundle pricing. Some Slashdot users report being quoted a smaller monthly rate for a bundle of basic television and Internet than for Internet alone, even with surcharges for local channels, regional sports, and CableCARD rental. In other words, DOCSIS operators are dumping TV service on their subscribers.
Fallacies are another name for heuristics. A heuristic such as "anecdata" is what you need when you're trying to prove to regulators that a particular claim is likely enough to warrant further study.
Others have suggested finding a city with a more freedom-friendly incumbent ISP
That's just silly.
Not everybody agrees with you that voting with your feet for a better city with better home Internet access is "just silly". Over the past few years, I've been collecting comments by other Slashdot users who appear willing to move for better home Internet access: here and here.
So just to ensure I understand you correctly: the owner of an x86 Chromebook can back up all data, go to developer mode, enable legacy boot, leave developer mode, and press Ctrl+L to boot a different GNU/Linux OS installed on something like a Cruzer Fit flash drive. Do I have that right? And if so, would the Arch guide work for other Chromebooks and other GNU/Linux distributions?
the fact that Columbus got it wrong doesn't make the name derogatory, only technically incorrect, just like calling a Nintendo cartridge a "tape".
You're right. NES Game Paks aren't tapes; FDS disks are. The Mitsumi Quick Disk mechanism treats the spiral track on each side of a disk as a single rewindable stream of magnetic media.
For one thing, the $2.50 cable wasn't in U.S. electronics showroom chains at the time. For another, would the $2.50 cable have sturdy connectors on both the proprietary end (connected to the console) and the 5xRCA end (connected to the TV)?
You can install legacy boot option rom without removing the screw Tepples.:P
Based on the results of a Google search for legacy boot chromebook, such as this and this and this, I'm under the impression that legacy boot can be reached only from developer mode, which we've established is fragile, and it tends to corrupt itself when the battery runs dry. What keywords should I have used to find a guide to setting up legacy boot on Chromebook?
Also, you normally dont need to disassemble the hinge mechanism to get to the screw. It is usually accessible just after removing the back of the clamshell.
That's not the scenario I had in mind. What I had in mind was that the hinge would eventually develop a fault through wear and tear unrelated to the installation of custom firmware, and then a warranty service program trying to minimize costs might notice that the firmware isn't stock and refuse to service the hinge on grounds of having modified the firmware.
The Apache word for "people" is Ndee, sounding roughly like "in-day". It resembles Diné in closely related Navajo and similar words in other Athabaskan languages. It's not a big leap from there to "Indian".
Sometimes Monster is overpriced, and sometimes Monster is less overpriced than the alternative. When I bought a Wii console a decade ago, Monster's component cable was $25 and Nintendo's was $35.
Why would we keep using C and C++ when there's a better language out there in the form of Rust?
Because there exist many non-PC platforms to which a C compiler or a C++ compiler has been ported but a Rust compiler has not. How would you even bootstrap stage 0 of a Rust compiler on a new ABI if it's written in Rust and there are no other independent implementations of Rust? My best guess, which I haven't tried, is to go back to some OCaml compiler, build old Rust, and then build new Rust from that.
There is a custom firmware called MrChromebox, which is fairly painless to install.
Does installing MrChromebox or the "boot legacy OS" module void the warranty on a Chromebook's screen, hinge, and keyboard? If so, how would a MrChromebox or "boot legacy OS" module user who needs the screen, hinge, or keyboard serviced go about having the device repaired?
But you're bypassing the silly advertising agencies that pay pennies to those sites, too.
If by "agencies" you mean ad exchanges, why does advertising have to go through ad exchanges? Why can't advertisers buy ad space directly on each publisher's site? This way, the money would go directly to the publisher, and serving them wouldn't require third-party scripts or even scripts at all.
There are three ways you can make your app available to script abstainers. If you have separated your model from your view, at least one should be practical.
A. Produce a multiple-page front-end that accesses the same back-end as the single-page app.
B. Produce a native app in Qt, using the same web service that your single-page app accesses, and test it on Windows, Mac, X11/Linux, Android, and iOS. Then distribute its source code and executable packages to the public under a free software license. You already had to test your single-page app in Windows 10, macOS, and iOS anyway because of Edge and Safari.
C. Publicly document the web service that your single-page app accesses and allow third parties to develop applications against your web service.
You can avoid reloading the page every time without making it completely unviewable when javascript is disabled. How is that done? With a big tree of nested <iframe> elements, such that each navigation reloads only a fraction of the page (and doesn't change the URL in the location bar because the history API is unavailable)?
Then make a single-page version for the stakeholders, which automatically falls back to a "page reloads every time I do something" version for script abstainers if the script fails to load.
What's quiz on identifying lossy compression from a spectrogram used to be the de facto entry point to the private tracker community. But with What gone and its ex-users eating up all the open signup slots elsewhere, how does someone get into private trackers for the first time if he has no IRL friends who openly use a private tracker?
Actually the amount of fuckery with JS these days - modal popups, paywalls, disabling the clipboard and autoplay video - means you should probably move to a whitelist model. I.e. rather than enabling by default and disabling for sites that abuse it, disable by default and enable it for sites that don't.
In principle, I agree. So in practice, what steps can the operator of a website take to reassure prospective users that the site does not abuse script?
Or they want stuff but the publisher is unwilling to take the going price for a copy of a given type of work. Where's the legit U.S. home video release of the film Song of the South in any popular format?
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City governments that allow their cable franchisees to charge less for Internet and TV than for Internet alone likewise "deserve to die a quick, but painful, death. Scum."
where's the incentive to stay with cable?
Bundle pricing. Some Slashdot users report being quoted a smaller monthly rate for a bundle of basic television and Internet than for Internet alone, even with surcharges for local channels, regional sports, and CableCARD rental. In other words, DOCSIS operators are dumping TV service on their subscribers.
Fallacies are another name for heuristics. A heuristic such as "anecdata" is what you need when you're trying to prove to regulators that a particular claim is likely enough to warrant further study.
Others have suggested finding a city with a more freedom-friendly incumbent ISP
That's just silly.
Not everybody agrees with you that voting with your feet for a better city with better home Internet access is "just silly". Over the past few years, I've been collecting comments by other Slashdot users who appear willing to move for better home Internet access: here and here.
Others have suggested finding a city with a more freedom-friendly incumbent ISP, interviewing for jobs in that city, and moving there.
So just to ensure I understand you correctly: the owner of an x86 Chromebook can back up all data, go to developer mode, enable legacy boot, leave developer mode, and press Ctrl+L to boot a different GNU/Linux OS installed on something like a Cruzer Fit flash drive. Do I have that right? And if so, would the Arch guide work for other Chromebooks and other GNU/Linux distributions?
there are like five people in your entire user base who don't use Javascript.
Is this a guess, or do you actually have analytics that only five people have visited your site without attempting to load the script?
Once you install the legacy boot firmware blob, you can put it back in regular mode.
According to this page, setting legacy boot as default "requires disabling the write protection".
the fact that Columbus got it wrong doesn't make the name derogatory, only technically incorrect, just like calling a Nintendo cartridge a "tape".
You're right. NES Game Paks aren't tapes; FDS disks are. The Mitsumi Quick Disk mechanism treats the spiral track on each side of a disk as a single rewindable stream of magnetic media.
Even if you can cross-compile, you can't ensure that the cross-compiler binary is free of Ken Thompson's self-propagating "trusting trust" attack unless you bootstrapped it from an independently developed compiler.
For one thing, the $2.50 cable wasn't in U.S. electronics showroom chains at the time. For another, would the $2.50 cable have sturdy connectors on both the proprietary end (connected to the console) and the 5xRCA end (connected to the TV)?
You can install legacy boot option rom without removing the screw Tepples. :P
Based on the results of a Google search for legacy boot chromebook, such as this and this and this, I'm under the impression that legacy boot can be reached only from developer mode, which we've established is fragile, and it tends to corrupt itself when the battery runs dry. What keywords should I have used to find a guide to setting up legacy boot on Chromebook?
Also, you normally dont need to disassemble the hinge mechanism to get to the screw. It is usually accessible just after removing the back of the clamshell.
That's not the scenario I had in mind. What I had in mind was that the hinge would eventually develop a fault through wear and tear unrelated to the installation of custom firmware, and then a warranty service program trying to minimize costs might notice that the firmware isn't stock and refuse to service the hinge on grounds of having modified the firmware.
The Apache word for "people" is Ndee, sounding roughly like "in-day". It resembles Diné in closely related Navajo and similar words in other Athabaskan languages. It's not a big leap from there to "Indian".
Sometimes Monster is overpriced, and sometimes Monster is less overpriced than the alternative. When I bought a Wii console a decade ago, Monster's component cable was $25 and Nintendo's was $35.
Why would we keep using C and C++ when there's a better language out there in the form of Rust?
Because there exist many non-PC platforms to which a C compiler or a C++ compiler has been ported but a Rust compiler has not. How would you even bootstrap stage 0 of a Rust compiler on a new ABI if it's written in Rust and there are no other independent implementations of Rust? My best guess, which I haven't tried, is to go back to some OCaml compiler, build old Rust, and then build new Rust from that.
Cron can't agree to an updated End User License Agreement.
There is a custom firmware called MrChromebox, which is fairly painless to install.
Does installing MrChromebox or the "boot legacy OS" module void the warranty on a Chromebook's screen, hinge, and keyboard? If so, how would a MrChromebox or "boot legacy OS" module user who needs the screen, hinge, or keyboard serviced go about having the device repaired?
But you're bypassing the silly advertising agencies that pay pennies to those sites, too.
If by "agencies" you mean ad exchanges, why does advertising have to go through ad exchanges? Why can't advertisers buy ad space directly on each publisher's site? This way, the money would go directly to the publisher, and serving them wouldn't require third-party scripts or even scripts at all.
There are three ways you can make your app available to script abstainers. If you have separated your model from your view, at least one should be practical.
You can avoid reloading the page every time without making it completely unviewable when javascript is disabled.
How is that done? With a big tree of nested <iframe> elements, such that each navigation reloads only a fraction of the page (and doesn't change the URL in the location bar because the history API is unavailable)?
Then make a single-page version for the stakeholders, which automatically falls back to a "page reloads every time I do something" version for script abstainers if the script fails to load.
In winter at least, it's just creating heat which you were going to pay for anyhow.
Unless you live somewhere where burning natural gas produces a kilojoule of heat at a lower price than a kilojoule of electric power.
What's quiz on identifying lossy compression from a spectrogram used to be the de facto entry point to the private tracker community. But with What gone and its ex-users eating up all the open signup slots elsewhere, how does someone get into private trackers for the first time if he has no IRL friends who openly use a private tracker?
Actually the amount of fuckery with JS these days - modal popups, paywalls, disabling the clipboard and autoplay video - means you should probably move to a whitelist model. I.e. rather than enabling by default and disabling for sites that abuse it, disable by default and enable it for sites that don't.
In principle, I agree. So in practice, what steps can the operator of a website take to reassure prospective users that the site does not abuse script?
People that use torrents want free stuff.
Or they want stuff but the publisher is unwilling to take the going price for a copy of a given type of work. Where's the legit U.S. home video release of the film Song of the South in any popular format?