How is that possible while respecting viewers' privacy? As far as I'm aware, most web ads are served through a third-party server that not only serves ads but also builds an interest dossier based on tracking each viewer's request history across multiple websites. I guess websites could fall back to self-hosted ads when the browser fails to connect to the tracking server, but I haven't seen a lot of sites whose coding is smart enough for this sort of ad replacement.
In addition, sites end up playing the "Ads alone don't pay enough CPM to keep our writers fed" card.
That's what people think they're buying when they pay $60/mo to Comcast.
In the late 1990s, there was actually a service like that: Adult Check. A subscriber could pay $10 per month for access to all participating publishers' sites, and publishers would earn a commission based on page views. But nowadays, each publisher wants its own separate subscription. If the top 10 results for a Google Search query all want $4 for a 30-day subscription just to view one page, how is a viewer supposed to build a rounded picture of an issue by comparing articles from multiple sources? Just picking one site and preferring articles from that site "because I already subscribe" puts a reader into the filter bubble of that site's point of view.
But there's a difference between the "urge to watch something" and acting on someone's recommendation to watch a particular movie. Redbox tends to discontinue movies a year or so after DVD release.
Plan was to display site monetized by borrowing some cpu cycles
That plan wasn't viable to start off with for one reason: Good luck getting a lot of revenue mining on the dinky little ARM in a pocket mobile computer.
To how many websites do you expect the median web user to maintain a subscription in any given month? For example, if the top ten results on Google Search for a given query are all subscription sites charging $4 per month, how many people would you expect to pay upwards of $20 to sample the majority of the results from a single query?
For another, publishers often don't even want to take my money. Where's the lawfully made region 1 or all region DVD copy of the film Song of the South, the film Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, or the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (the English language dub of Les mondes engloutis)?
I didn't offer any dichotomy. I asked you which you prefer.
Let me try to rephrase the answer you got:
Distracting interest-based ads and cryptocurrency mining are tied for unacceptable. It's futile to argue which is farther below the threshold of acceptability when at least one third option exists and is above this threshold. In this case, there are two third options: subscriptions and cessation of business.
Unicode won't happen until two problems are solved.
Bidirectionality override characters ("erocS")
The first attempt to introduce Unicode on Slashdot led to what I've referred to as the "erocS" problem, in which vandals posted subjects comments containing bidirectionality override characters, which made others' comments illegible and spoofed moderation scores. Though the software could strip out currently known control characters, new control characters in a later version of Unicode may gain operating system support before Slashdot's software can be updated to handle them.
ASCII art
It used to be common on Slashdot to post a fairly large (49 by 25 character) ASCII art rendering of the NSFW photo on the front page of Goatse.info (formerly Goatse.cx). It depicts a man stretching his anus wide. It somewhat resembles the September 20, 2004, cover of Time (safe for work). It also used to be common to put a small (5 column by 4 row) ASCII rendering of the photo "The Incident with the Bird", which depicted a parrot perched on an erect penis. This led to a policy decision to use the "lameness filter" to reject posts consisting primarily of ASCII art. The larger character repertoire of Unicode would make this harder to maintain.
Though the threshold setting (now "abbreviated") setting isn't useful anymore, the breakthrough (now "full") setting is still useful. I have my account set to threshold -1 and breakthrough 1. That way, most of the comments show up in "nested" style when I open a story.
And I run 8-bit home computers for video gaming. But like my 8-bit computers, the MS-DOS PC controlling your CNC mill is probably air-gapped, which means threats won't propagate through it unless they're of nation-state sophistication like Stuxnet. (Air-gapped means no need for anything like Firefox.) Besides, your CNC driver will probably run just as well under FreeDOS, which is still maintained.
I gave Firefox 57 a shot. An accidental press of Ctrl+Q while reaching for Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Tab closed the whole thing, causing me to lose data in unsubmitted forms. The extensions I had been using to disable the Ctrl+Q shortcut no longer work on Firefox 57, and the new Ctrl+Q-blocking WebExtensions don't work on my operating system because of bug 1325692, which won't be fixed in time for Firefox 57.
So they'll probably stay on their older browser and older OS until their computer dies. Why can't we at least give them a secure and up-to-date browser?
Of course we can. It's called "Lubuntu", and it replaces both the older browser and the unsupported operating system.
If you've got a PS4 pro or even a cheaper base PS4 you really don't need a $700 PC. [...] Not everybody is interested in the Nintendo franchises.
Nor the Sony franchises for that matter. So if exclusives aren't the deciding factor, the fair comparison is between a desktop PC with a discrete GPU and the combination of a base PlayStation 4 and a desktop PC with integrated graphics. As of two weeks ago, a $160 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is cheaper than a $300 PS4.
The Chromebooks all have to be put into developer mode to boot another OS, and a bad button press can wipe out the system.
As BarbaraHudson wrote in a reply to me, wiping the drive if you are dumb enough to follow the prompts is a feature. It helps ensure that the majority of people, who are unfamiliar with Chrome OS, will not access private data that you have stored on the device's internal storage. Just make sure to carry two USB flash drives with your developer mode Chromebook: one with reinstallation media for the operating system and applications, and the other to back up data that you expect to persist for more than five minutes.
You ARE aware that being [one who nigs] has nothing to do with whether you're black or white-skinned, right?
Correct. Skin color differences exist primarily to regulate solar-powered production of Vitamin D based on the latitude in which one's ancestors dwelt.
What happens once you stop paying your Dropbox bill? I thought in such a case, files past 2 GB got deleted.
I don't have a Dropbox bill
Then you're limited to 2 GB in your Dropbox account, or perhaps slightly more if you obtained invitation bonuses when they were available.
upstream is $5 to $10 per GB
Maybe you live somewhere with exorbitant LTE prices, I pay $40/month for my SIM 8GB
$40/month divided by 8 GB/mo is $5 per GB, as I estimated. That can still be expensive for moving multi-GB video files around.
As above, maybe LTE is expensive where you live.
Where I live, home Internet alone is about $60 per month from Comcast. If I were to cancel cable Internet with its 1000 GB/mo quota in favor of LTE, I'd end up using far more than the 8 GB per month that you quoted.
What happens once you stop paying your Dropbox bill? I thought in such a case, files past 2 GB got deleted. And how well does Dropbox work when upstream is $5 to $10 per GB, such as satellite or LTE, or when upstream isn't available at all, such as between a laptop and tablet on a city bus?
So other than banking and shopping, I take it you'd consider a web app to be as worthless as a native app that you can't use because it's for a different operating system. Am I right?
Slashdot Mirror
So I take it you don't care to watch pre-1972 classic films at all. Do I understand you correctly?
How is that possible while respecting viewers' privacy? As far as I'm aware, most web ads are served through a third-party server that not only serves ads but also builds an interest dossier based on tracking each viewer's request history across multiple websites. I guess websites could fall back to self-hosted ads when the browser fails to connect to the tracking server, but I haven't seen a lot of sites whose coding is smart enough for this sort of ad replacement.
In addition, sites end up playing the "Ads alone don't pay enough CPM to keep our writers fed" card.
I'd like a subscription to the Internet, please.
That's what people think they're buying when they pay $60/mo to Comcast.
In the late 1990s, there was actually a service like that: Adult Check. A subscriber could pay $10 per month for access to all participating publishers' sites, and publishers would earn a commission based on page views. But nowadays, each publisher wants its own separate subscription. If the top 10 results for a Google Search query all want $4 for a 30-day subscription just to view one page, how is a viewer supposed to build a rounded picture of an issue by comparing articles from multiple sources? Just picking one site and preferring articles from that site "because I already subscribe" puts a reader into the filter bubble of that site's point of view.
So when did you watch movies produced before you turned 18?
But there's a difference between the "urge to watch something" and acting on someone's recommendation to watch a particular movie. Redbox tends to discontinue movies a year or so after DVD release.
Plan was to display site monetized by borrowing some cpu cycles
That plan wasn't viable to start off with for one reason: Good luck getting a lot of revenue mining on the dinky little ARM in a pocket mobile computer.
Which CDN would you recommend to use instead of Cloudflare to mitigate request bursts and DDoS?
To how many websites do you expect the median web user to maintain a subscription in any given month? For example, if the top ten results on Google Search for a given query are all subscription sites charging $4 per month, how many people would you expect to pay upwards of $20 to sample the majority of the results from a single query?
Maybe you're saying that they don't respect your time because they're demanding more than you think is fair? Browse elsewhere
When I tried that, I got modded down for saying I couldn't RTFA.
or pay for ad-free premium content.
If I "pay for ad-free premium content" on one site, which other sites will honor my having "pa[id] for ad-free premium content"?
What about providing something to help cover the costs of creating content you consumed?
For one thing, the act of viewing a work of authorship does not consume the work.
For another, publishers often don't even want to take my money. Where's the lawfully made region 1 or all region DVD copy of the film Song of the South, the film Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, or the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (the English language dub of Les mondes engloutis)?
I didn't offer any dichotomy. I asked you which you prefer.
Let me try to rephrase the answer you got:
Distracting interest-based ads and cryptocurrency mining are tied for unacceptable. It's futile to argue which is farther below the threshold of acceptability when at least one third option exists and is above this threshold. In this case, there are two third options: subscriptions and cessation of business.
Unicode won't happen until two problems are solved.
Bidirectionality override characters ("erocS") The first attempt to introduce Unicode on Slashdot led to what I've referred to as the "erocS" problem, in which vandals posted subjects comments containing bidirectionality override characters, which made others' comments illegible and spoofed moderation scores. Though the software could strip out currently known control characters, new control characters in a later version of Unicode may gain operating system support before Slashdot's software can be updated to handle them. ASCII art It used to be common on Slashdot to post a fairly large (49 by 25 character) ASCII art rendering of the NSFW photo on the front page of Goatse.info (formerly Goatse.cx). It depicts a man stretching his anus wide. It somewhat resembles the September 20, 2004, cover of Time (safe for work). It also used to be common to put a small (5 column by 4 row) ASCII rendering of the photo "The Incident with the Bird", which depicted a parrot perched on an erect penis. This led to a policy decision to use the "lameness filter" to reject posts consisting primarily of ASCII art. The larger character repertoire of Unicode would make this harder to maintain.Though the threshold setting (now "abbreviated") setting isn't useful anymore, the breakthrough (now "full") setting is still useful. I have my account set to threshold -1 and breakthrough 1. That way, most of the comments show up in "nested" style when I open a story.
And I run 8-bit home computers for video gaming. But like my 8-bit computers, the MS-DOS PC controlling your CNC mill is probably air-gapped, which means threats won't propagate through it unless they're of nation-state sophistication like Stuxnet. (Air-gapped means no need for anything like Firefox.) Besides, your CNC driver will probably run just as well under FreeDOS, which is still maintained.
But seriously- give it a shot again with FF57.
I gave Firefox 57 a shot. An accidental press of Ctrl+Q while reaching for Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Tab closed the whole thing, causing me to lose data in unsubmitted forms. The extensions I had been using to disable the Ctrl+Q shortcut no longer work on Firefox 57, and the new Ctrl+Q-blocking WebExtensions don't work on my operating system because of bug 1325692, which won't be fixed in time for Firefox 57.
So they'll probably stay on their older browser and older OS until their computer dies. Why can't we at least give them a secure and up-to-date browser?
Of course we can. It's called "Lubuntu", and it replaces both the older browser and the unsupported operating system.
Thank you for the link to Mr. Chen's article. I'll proceed to bug game developers to add support for Raw Input.
If you've got a PS4 pro or even a cheaper base PS4 you really don't need a $700 PC. [...] Not everybody is interested in the Nintendo franchises.
Nor the Sony franchises for that matter. So if exclusives aren't the deciding factor, the fair comparison is between a desktop PC with a discrete GPU and the combination of a base PlayStation 4 and a desktop PC with integrated graphics. As of two weeks ago, a $160 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is cheaper than a $300 PS4.
a laptop/tablet that can play modern 3d games at modern resolutions
Nintendo Switch is a "tablet that can play modern 3d games at modern resolutions".
The Chromebooks all have to be put into developer mode to boot another OS, and a bad button press can wipe out the system.
As BarbaraHudson wrote in a reply to me, wiping the drive if you are dumb enough to follow the prompts is a feature. It helps ensure that the majority of people, who are unfamiliar with Chrome OS, will not access private data that you have stored on the device's internal storage. Just make sure to carry two USB flash drives with your developer mode Chromebook: one with reinstallation media for the operating system and applications, and the other to back up data that you expect to persist for more than five minutes.
Or if your hardware warranty has already expired, install replacement firmware without the warning.
Steemit runs on Steem, a cryptocurrency that currently has a market cap of $294 million
Can you buy PC games on Steam with Steem?
You ARE aware that being [one who nigs] has nothing to do with whether you're black or white-skinned, right?
Correct. Skin color differences exist primarily to regulate solar-powered production of Vitamin D based on the latitude in which one's ancestors dwelt.
What happens once you stop paying your Dropbox bill? I thought in such a case, files past 2 GB got deleted.
I don't have a Dropbox bill
Then you're limited to 2 GB in your Dropbox account, or perhaps slightly more if you obtained invitation bonuses when they were available.
upstream is $5 to $10 per GB
Maybe you live somewhere with exorbitant LTE prices, I pay $40/month for my SIM 8GB
$40/month divided by 8 GB/mo is $5 per GB, as I estimated. That can still be expensive for moving multi-GB video files around.
As above, maybe LTE is expensive where you live.
Where I live, home Internet alone is about $60 per month from Comcast. If I were to cancel cable Internet with its 1000 GB/mo quota in favor of LTE, I'd end up using far more than the 8 GB per month that you quoted.
What happens once you stop paying your Dropbox bill? I thought in such a case, files past 2 GB got deleted. And how well does Dropbox work when upstream is $5 to $10 per GB, such as satellite or LTE, or when upstream isn't available at all, such as between a laptop and tablet on a city bus?
So other than banking and shopping, I take it you'd consider a web app to be as worthless as a native app that you can't use because it's for a different operating system. Am I right?