But what if incognito is your normal way of browsing?
Then you've probably already run into a lot of demands to whitelist a site.
Private Browsing in Firefox enables tracking protection, a built-in blacklist of servers involved in tracking a user's behavior from one site to another. Numerous ad-supported websites depend on this tracking for interest-based advertising and aren't smart enough to fall back to self-hosted ads if the tracking servers can't be reached. So if tracking doesn't work, a site like TV Tropes pops up a demand to disable tracking protection. Though users can work around this on many sites by disabling JavaScript, I see room for sites to get smarter about insisting on allowing tracking by putting everything past the first paragraph in an AJAX request.
Also, Stackoverflow users a formatting syntax called "markdown". It's the same as Github.
In this case, no, it isn't the same as GitHub. GitHub recognizes several extensions to Markdown that Stack Exchange does not, such as the triple-backtick for code blocks as an alternative to the four-space indent.
With the strict "App Store only" execution privilege model of the iPhone 7 and iPad Pro, how do you test your "small snippets of code" before submitting them through the Stack Exchange app? Do you lease a server somewhere and then SSH into that to test them?
Many new users don't know how to behave, and spam with comments. You need a few reputation points to comment... that's easy to get.
if you have no life beyond stackoverlfow.
It takes 50 points (five answer upvotes) to earn comment privileges, and an accepted answer is worth 15 (an upvote and a half). Does making two upvoted, accepted answers imply "no life beyond Stack Overflow"?
A few hardline anti-JavaScript users I've run into are under the impression that Slashdot ought to have been an NNTP site viewed through a news reader, not a website viewed through a web browser. They tolerate web-based discussion forums, though they would prefer a discussion-specific protocol.
I run a private IRC network for about a dozen of my friends. I cannot do that with YIM or AIM or the others.
So how do "a dozen of [your] friends" communicate with others who don't use your network? As far as I can tell, they'd have to add another IRC server to their copies of Pidgin, just as they'd have to add Skype or whatever to Pidgin.
IRC handles multiple devices just fine.
I thought privileges in a channel were associated with a nickname, and only one connection to a server could use a particular nickname at once. What IRC server software doesn't have this limit? And what IRC server software stores and allows retrieval of a log of older messages, stores and allows retrieval of binary attachments, or allows the owner of a set of related channels (a "server" on Discord) to synchronize users' privileges across them? I ask because I'm trying to build a plan to move a few communities I'm in from proprietary stacks (Skype, Slack, Discord) to IRC without losing features on which we depend.
What is good enough? If anything short of "all" is not good enough, then Windows market share ought to be quoted separately by version as well, as Windows 10's compatibility with applications designed for Windows XP is not perfect either.
Qt, GTK, SDL, and other libraries are ported to Windows.
But building and testing a Windows application built with one of these libraries still requires the program's maintainer to have a valid Windows license for the environment on which to run the tests. Technically, the building part doesn't, as GCC can be built on GNU/Linux as a cross-compiler to target Windows, but testing still does. And no, the OEM license that came with the Windows PC that you bought, wiped, and Linuxed doesn't count, as OEM Windows is licensed to run only on metal, not in a virtual machine.
Most modern US cellphone plans include texts for nothing.
Plans priced to replace a landline do. Plans designed to augment one do not. Some home ISPs' pricing plan provides a landline at negligible or no extra charge: Internet with TV and Internet with voice cost about the same as Internet alone. Subscribers to those ISPs may see duplicative phone service with unlimited voice and unlimited text as an unnecessary charge and decide to use a mobile phone on a sub-$10/mo pay-as-you-go plan for urgent calls, with home or restaurant Wi-Fi instead of cellular data. These pay-as-you-go plans include a pittance of voice minutes or texts, with additional outgoing voice minutes, incoming voice minutes, outgoing texts, or incoming texts at 10 cents each.
Adding *.facebook.com, *.facebook.net, and *.fbcdn.net to your DNS blocklisting tool will severely curtail Facebook's ability to gather information to add to your shadow profile.
"Facebook has to allow people to access their relationships however they want through other businesses or tools that are not controlled by Facebook" --Matt Stoller
I have accessed Facebook through Firefox and Chromium [...] Heck, Facebook doesn't even make a web browser. So where's the comparison to AIM?
It's not necessarily the browser as much as the extensions. Facebook doesn't really like extensions such as Fluff Busting Purity. Its FAQ page mentions occasional "big changes that Facebook makes to break features of FBP."
Almost everyone I know (it's way over 95%) has SMS at a minimum
Cellular carriers in the United States charge per message for SMS: 10 cents to send and 10 cents to receive. Facebook doesn't charge for Facebook Messenger. Nor does Microsoft charge for Skype text chat.
if you can run OS/2 applications under Windows but not Windows application under OS/2 then 99% of consumers will pick Windows.
So why have people chosen Windows over GNU/Linux? Many Windows applications work in Wine, but GNU/Linux applications didn't work in Windows until very recently (WSL for Windows 10), and GUI applications for GNU/Linux still don't.
The point isn't that every last network was connected, it was that YOU, the user, could talk to any of them or all of them at once, interact with people on several networks at the same time
And Pidgin is a multiprotocol client that lets YOU, the user, talk to AIM, Skype, or any other server for which a plug-in is available, just as easily as with multiple IRC or XMPP servers. So what's the practical difference between AIM closing down and a widely used IRC network closing down?
I see three key differences between multiple IRC servers and multiple own-protocol servers. Which did I miss?
IRC networks use the same documented protocol.
Each single IRC network has a much smaller user base than each single network.
IRC never standardized how to handle a single user's multiple devices, such as a home computer, a work computer, a tablet, and a smartphone.
Anyone could start their own server
With no users other than you, because all the users are already on servers on other networks that refuse to link with yours. So a user who wants to IM users of other servers has to maintain an account on Freenode, QuakeNet, IRCnet, EFnet, Undernet, SlashNET, and EsperNet, just as with AIM, ICQ, MSN (now called Skype), and Yahoo! Messenger (when it was in operation).
connect it to other servers if they wanted
Only with the permission of the owner of the other server, which permission is hard to obtain for any notable network, I imagine. The last notable IRC server to allow any random server to link to it is eris.berkeley.edu, and the oldest IRC network (EFnet) is so called (Eris-free network) because its administrators formed a consensus to evict eris.berkeley.edu.
As we all know it's basically impossible for people to move to where there are jobs available
"Impossible" is hyperbole, but retraining and moving for a job is a substantial sudden expense, especially for someone with a social skills disability. Is it better to move before finding the job or vice versa?
Besides, the Constitution probably forbids [moving for a job] anyways.
Correct. It grants the Congress power to set criteria for allowing immigrants to work in the United States. This affects someone who resides out of the United States but whose job was "concentrated" to the United States.
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you're competing against an accepted answer - which is not the same thing as a "best" or "correct" answer.
So perhaps the real problem is how to make it more obvious to readers that the good answer has twice the upvotes of the accepted answer.
"Log in to see the price" is part of how sites work around "minimum advertised price" (MAP) policies imposed by manufacturers.
The RSA crypto used to negotiate a session's ephemeral AES key still uses semiprimes.
No, the alternative to your browser storing it is that you type it in every time you buy something
And getting demerits on your credit report for failing to remember to pay a monthly bill.
But what if incognito is your normal way of browsing?
Then you've probably already run into a lot of demands to whitelist a site.
Private Browsing in Firefox enables tracking protection, a built-in blacklist of servers involved in tracking a user's behavior from one site to another. Numerous ad-supported websites depend on this tracking for interest-based advertising and aren't smart enough to fall back to self-hosted ads if the tracking servers can't be reached. So if tracking doesn't work, a site like TV Tropes pops up a demand to disable tracking protection. Though users can work around this on many sites by disabling JavaScript, I see room for sites to get smarter about insisting on allowing tracking by putting everything past the first paragraph in an AJAX request.
Also, Stackoverflow users a formatting syntax called "markdown". It's the same as Github.
In this case, no, it isn't the same as GitHub. GitHub recognizes several extensions to Markdown that Stack Exchange does not, such as the triple-backtick for code blocks as an alternative to the four-space indent.
With the strict "App Store only" execution privilege model of the iPhone 7 and iPad Pro, how do you test your "small snippets of code" before submitting them through the Stack Exchange app? Do you lease a server somewhere and then SSH into that to test them?
Users of the Stack Exchange application for Android can long-press buttons to see what they do without activating them.
Many new users don't know how to behave, and spam with comments. You need a few reputation points to comment... that's easy to get.
if you have no life beyond stackoverlfow.
It takes 50 points (five answer upvotes) to earn comment privileges, and an accepted answer is worth 15 (an upvote and a half). Does making two upvoted, accepted answers imply "no life beyond Stack Overflow"?
This is a web site, made by web developers.
A few hardline anti-JavaScript users I've run into are under the impression that Slashdot ought to have been an NNTP site viewed through a news reader, not a website viewed through a web browser. They tolerate web-based discussion forums, though they would prefer a discussion-specific protocol.
I run a private IRC network for about a dozen of my friends. I cannot do that with YIM or AIM or the others.
So how do "a dozen of [your] friends" communicate with others who don't use your network? As far as I can tell, they'd have to add another IRC server to their copies of Pidgin, just as they'd have to add Skype or whatever to Pidgin.
IRC handles multiple devices just fine.
I thought privileges in a channel were associated with a nickname, and only one connection to a server could use a particular nickname at once. What IRC server software doesn't have this limit? And what IRC server software stores and allows retrieval of a log of older messages, stores and allows retrieval of binary attachments, or allows the owner of a set of related channels (a "server" on Discord) to synchronize users' privileges across them? I ask because I'm trying to build a plan to move a few communities I'm in from proprietary stacks (Skype, Slack, Discord) to IRC without losing features on which we depend.
What is good enough? If anything short of "all" is not good enough, then Windows market share ought to be quoted separately by version as well, as Windows 10's compatibility with applications designed for Windows XP is not perfect either.
Qt, GTK, SDL, and other libraries are ported to Windows.
But building and testing a Windows application built with one of these libraries still requires the program's maintainer to have a valid Windows license for the environment on which to run the tests. Technically, the building part doesn't, as GCC can be built on GNU/Linux as a cross-compiler to target Windows, but testing still does. And no, the OEM license that came with the Windows PC that you bought, wiped, and Linuxed doesn't count, as OEM Windows is licensed to run only on metal, not in a virtual machine.
Unlimited texting has been thing for nearly a decade.
True on plans that charge tens of dollars per month or hundreds of dollars per year.
What crappy company are you signed up for that still charges by the text?
T-Mobile USA's $3 per month pay-as-you-go plan includes 30 minutes or texts per month, with overages at 10 cents per minute or text.
Most modern US cellphone plans include texts for nothing.
Plans priced to replace a landline do. Plans designed to augment one do not. Some home ISPs' pricing plan provides a landline at negligible or no extra charge: Internet with TV and Internet with voice cost about the same as Internet alone. Subscribers to those ISPs may see duplicative phone service with unlimited voice and unlimited text as an unnecessary charge and decide to use a mobile phone on a sub-$10/mo pay-as-you-go plan for urgent calls, with home or restaurant Wi-Fi instead of cellular data. These pay-as-you-go plans include a pittance of voice minutes or texts, with additional outgoing voice minutes, incoming voice minutes, outgoing texts, or incoming texts at 10 cents each.
Adding *.facebook.com, *.facebook.net, and *.fbcdn.net to your DNS blocklisting tool will severely curtail Facebook's ability to gather information to add to your shadow profile.
"Facebook has to allow people to access their relationships however they want through other businesses or tools that are not controlled by Facebook" --Matt Stoller
I have accessed Facebook through Firefox and Chromium [...] Heck, Facebook doesn't even make a web browser. So where's the comparison to AIM?
It's not necessarily the browser as much as the extensions. Facebook doesn't really like extensions such as Fluff Busting Purity. Its FAQ page mentions occasional "big changes that Facebook makes to break features of FBP."
Almost everyone I know (it's way over 95%) has SMS at a minimum
Cellular carriers in the United States charge per message for SMS: 10 cents to send and 10 cents to receive. Facebook doesn't charge for Facebook Messenger. Nor does Microsoft charge for Skype text chat.
if you can run OS/2 applications under Windows but not Windows application under OS/2 then 99% of consumers will pick Windows.
So why have people chosen Windows over GNU/Linux? Many Windows applications work in Wine, but GNU/Linux applications didn't work in Windows until very recently (WSL for Windows 10), and GUI applications for GNU/Linux still don't.
An LLC or S corporation is composed of its investors. But once a corporation becomes publicly traded, it becomes much more impersonal.
The point isn't that every last network was connected, it was that YOU, the user, could talk to any of them or all of them at once, interact with people on several networks at the same time
And Pidgin is a multiprotocol client that lets YOU, the user, talk to AIM, Skype, or any other server for which a plug-in is available, just as easily as with multiple IRC or XMPP servers. So what's the practical difference between AIM closing down and a widely used IRC network closing down?
I see three key differences between multiple IRC servers and multiple own-protocol servers. Which did I miss?
Anyone could start their own server
With no users other than you, because all the users are already on servers on other networks that refuse to link with yours. So a user who wants to IM users of other servers has to maintain an account on Freenode, QuakeNet, IRCnet, EFnet, Undernet, SlashNET, and EsperNet, just as with AIM, ICQ, MSN (now called Skype), and Yahoo! Messenger (when it was in operation).
connect it to other servers if they wanted
Only with the permission of the owner of the other server, which permission is hard to obtain for any notable network, I imagine. The last notable IRC server to allow any random server to link to it is eris.berkeley.edu, and the oldest IRC network (EFnet) is so called (Eris-free network) because its administrators formed a consensus to evict eris.berkeley.edu.
As we all know it's basically impossible for people to move to where there are jobs available
"Impossible" is hyperbole, but retraining and moving for a job is a substantial sudden expense, especially for someone with a social skills disability. Is it better to move before finding the job or vice versa?
Besides, the Constitution probably forbids [moving for a job] anyways.
Correct. It grants the Congress power to set criteria for allowing immigrants to work in the United States. This affects someone who resides out of the United States but whose job was "concentrated" to the United States.
A third-party plug-in for Pidgin supports Skype.
AIM was to IM what AOL was to the internet: a dumbed down non-federated service [...] anyone could start their own IRC server.
But how easily can users on one network of IRC servers talk to users on another network, such as EFnet to Freenode?
That or they already keep Pidgin open in the background (perhaps for other reasons) and have an AIM account loaded into Pidgin.