You're really poor (and assets no longer are counted in "poor", only income). Your answer is Medicaid.
This depends on whether your state's legislature has decided to expand Medicaid. Republican states have tended on the whole to opt out as part of the general GOP philosophy to provide fewer public services.
Your income is below 400% of FPL (i.e., about $100K for a family of four). Your answer is to get insurance on the exchanges and get a government subsidy to help with premiums.
Republicans in Congress are attempting to repeal exactly this.
Government regulation allows those permits to have effect in the first place. Without government regulation, any non-subscriber can use trespassing and destruction of property laws to prevent an ISP from pulling cable or fiber across his land to reach subscribers on the other side.
From the article (if only people read before commenting):
Not every Slashdot commenter subscribes to The Wall Street Journal, in which the featured article was published. To which sites should Slashdot users expect to have to subscribe before participating in comments?
I remember back in the early-mid nineties (I guess I had internet access from around '94 through the university I worked at) how much nicer it was when everything wasn't filled with ads and most of the content was just from people with an interest in something.
How fast was home Internet access back in the good old days you remember? Without commercial works, is there really enough demand to sustain a market for high speed Internet? Or ought Internet access at a public or university library during regular library hours to be enough for anyone?
How is an advertiser (or a publisher that takes advertisers' money and runs it's ads) supposed "to get accurate" other than by tracking you from one website to the next, building a profile of your web browsing habits, and using data from that to infer your interests?
ads from a power company are useless to begin with. They're usually a monopoly and everybody loves electricity. Why bother with ads then?
Electric utility ads are often safety PSAs (avoid power lines, call before you dig, etc.) or generic ads for electric appliances (such as "the electric heat pump" of no particular brand).
It is bad enough to see ads on TV which I avoid by recording the shows and then using the Fast Forward Button on my remote control.
How much have you paid TiVo for the privilege of avoiding TV ads? Or if you instead rent a DVR from your pay TV provider, how much have you paid for DVR rental since you started doing so?
Sure, as soon as federated subscription becomes a thing again. Back in 1999, the web had a $9.99 per month service called Adult Check. Subscribers could access numerous participating sites, whose respective publishers were paid based on page view count. I assume the name was supposed to mean "Because grown-ups can pay for nice things."
But nowadays it's $4/mo for WIRED, a similar amount for The Atlantic, etc. Take the number of distinct domains in your past month's browser history and multiply by $4 to see how much you'd have to pay.
VMs are irrelevant to the discussion. The fact of the matter is if upgrading Windows breaks your app, you can't do anything about it except wait for an update.
I disagree with you that "VMs are irrelevant to the discussion" because they are they means by which you can do something about it in the case of an application for (desktop) Windows. What do you think "XP Mode" in Windows 7 Professional was?
If a news and editorial site makes it part of its economic bargain that viewers must allow their behavior to be tracked across sites in exchange for access to the site's articles, then the news and editorial site deserves no readership.
The difference is that new GNU/Linux or new Windows can run old GNU/Linux or old Windows isolated in a virtual machine. By contrast, iOS is locked down so hard that this isn't possible.
Unless you're doing things that benefit from having a 64 bit word size
One benefit is immunity to return-oriented programming (ROP) and other exploits of vulnerabilities caused by inadvertent programming defects. Address space layout randomization (ASLR), a common mitigation against ROP, is more effective with 64-bit pointers than with 32-bit pointers.
On the NT kernel, Windows itself runs in a container called the "Win32 subsystem". WSL is a container that uses the Linux ABI. There used to be an OS/2 subsystem as well.
It's a subsystem inside Windows (a Windows subsystem) for running applications that use the Linux ABI. Perhaps "Windows Subsystem for Linux Apps" would have been more honest
If a "malicious advertiser" were to spam through a particular domain, the user could block notifications from that domain and (optionally) report the advertiser to the domain's webmaster.
I already subscribe to Xfinity Internet through Comcast. But even if I did subscribe to The Atlantic, I'd see the same problem on WIRED and the INQUIRER, as they don't accept subscription credentials from The Atlantic. Why isn't there a service where I can subscribe to a large basket of sites? Back in 1999, we used to have one called Adult Check, because grown-ups can pay for nice things.
As I understand it: The MacBook and the MacBook Pro can run all desktop applications because Windows and GNU/Linux can be installed in virtual machines. Other brands of laptop cannot run many well-known desktop applications because they are exclusive to macOS, which in turn is exclusive to Mac hardware. Without access to key applications, how do laptop makers other than Apple even continue to sell laptops?
Last I checked, blocking the trackers causes The Atlantic to put up a paywall, claiming that Firefox Tracking Protection is an ad blocker. I'm willing to look at ads, just not video ads and not ads tied to trackers. When I discovered that The Atlantic doesn't even know how to fall back to replacement ads that aren't based on a cross-site "interest-based" profile, I set the domain to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file.
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For the record the concept of Free speech simply means the government cannot act to silence you.
Not even by exclusively licensing radio frequency spectrum to carriers who would silence you?
You're really poor (and assets no longer are counted in "poor", only income). Your answer is Medicaid.
This depends on whether your state's legislature has decided to expand Medicaid. Republican states have tended on the whole to opt out as part of the general GOP philosophy to provide fewer public services.
Your income is below 400% of FPL (i.e., about $100K for a family of four). Your answer is to get insurance on the exchanges and get a government subsidy to help with premiums.
Republicans in Congress are attempting to repeal exactly this.
Government regulation allows those permits to have effect in the first place. Without government regulation, any non-subscriber can use trespassing and destruction of property laws to prevent an ISP from pulling cable or fiber across his land to reach subscribers on the other side.
From the article (if only people read before commenting):
Not every Slashdot commenter subscribes to The Wall Street Journal, in which the featured article was published. To which sites should Slashdot users expect to have to subscribe before participating in comments?
It looks like you're using Pi-hole filtering software. To view this comment, please add this site to Pi-hole's whitelist.
I remember back in the early-mid nineties (I guess I had internet access from around '94 through the university I worked at) how much nicer it was when everything wasn't filled with ads and most of the content was just from people with an interest in something.
How fast was home Internet access back in the good old days you remember? Without commercial works, is there really enough demand to sustain a market for high speed Internet? Or ought Internet access at a public or university library during regular library hours to be enough for anyone?
So do cissexuals, especially in a workplace that doesn't allow more comfortable masculine clothes such as the kilt or thobe.
How is an advertiser (or a publisher that takes advertisers' money and runs it's ads) supposed "to get accurate" other than by tracking you from one website to the next, building a profile of your web browsing habits, and using data from that to infer your interests?
ads from a power company are useless to begin with. They're usually a monopoly and everybody loves electricity. Why bother with ads then?
Electric utility ads are often safety PSAs (avoid power lines, call before you dig, etc.) or generic ads for electric appliances (such as "the electric heat pump" of no particular brand).
Plus $550 up front or $15 per month for the required service (source: tivo.com)
It is bad enough to see ads on TV which I avoid by recording the shows and then using the Fast Forward Button on my remote control.
How much have you paid TiVo for the privilege of avoiding TV ads? Or if you instead rent a DVR from your pay TV provider, how much have you paid for DVR rental since you started doing so?
Sure, as soon as federated subscription becomes a thing again. Back in 1999, the web had a $9.99 per month service called Adult Check. Subscribers could access numerous participating sites, whose respective publishers were paid based on page view count. I assume the name was supposed to mean "Because grown-ups can pay for nice things."
But nowadays it's $4/mo for WIRED, a similar amount for The Atlantic, etc. Take the number of distinct domains in your past month's browser history and multiply by $4 to see how much you'd have to pay.
VMs are irrelevant to the discussion. The fact of the matter is if upgrading Windows breaks your app, you can't do anything about it except wait for an update.
I disagree with you that "VMs are irrelevant to the discussion" because they are they means by which you can do something about it in the case of an application for (desktop) Windows. What do you think "XP Mode" in Windows 7 Professional was?
If you value your data, never install an app in the first place unless it allows migrating data to another app.
If a news and editorial site makes it part of its economic bargain that viewers must allow their behavior to be tracked across sites in exchange for access to the site's articles, then the news and editorial site deserves no readership.
Then how do you plan to work around the developer's problem in order to preserve data that you have created?
The difference is that new GNU/Linux or new Windows can run old GNU/Linux or old Windows isolated in a virtual machine. By contrast, iOS is locked down so hard that this isn't possible.
Unless you're doing things that benefit from having a 64 bit word size
One benefit is immunity to return-oriented programming (ROP) and other exploits of vulnerabilities caused by inadvertent programming defects. Address space layout randomization (ASLR), a common mitigation against ROP, is more effective with 64-bit pointers than with 32-bit pointers.
On the NT kernel, Windows itself runs in a container called the "Win32 subsystem". WSL is a container that uses the Linux ABI. There used to be an OS/2 subsystem as well.
It's a subsystem inside Windows (a Windows subsystem) for running applications that use the Linux ABI. Perhaps "Windows Subsystem for Linux Apps" would have been more honest
In general, go with the platform with the largest market share first.
In this case, "the platform with the largest market share" is HTML5.
If a "malicious advertiser" were to spam through a particular domain, the user could block notifications from that domain and (optionally) report the advertiser to the domain's webmaster.
I already subscribe to Xfinity Internet through Comcast. But even if I did subscribe to The Atlantic, I'd see the same problem on WIRED and the INQUIRER, as they don't accept subscription credentials from The Atlantic. Why isn't there a service where I can subscribe to a large basket of sites? Back in 1999, we used to have one called Adult Check, because grown-ups can pay for nice things.
As I understand it: The MacBook and the MacBook Pro can run all desktop applications because Windows and GNU/Linux can be installed in virtual machines. Other brands of laptop cannot run many well-known desktop applications because they are exclusive to macOS, which in turn is exclusive to Mac hardware. Without access to key applications, how do laptop makers other than Apple even continue to sell laptops?
Last I checked, blocking the trackers causes The Atlantic to put up a paywall, claiming that Firefox Tracking Protection is an ad blocker. I'm willing to look at ads, just not video ads and not ads tied to trackers. When I discovered that The Atlantic doesn't even know how to fall back to replacement ads that aren't based on a cross-site "interest-based" profile, I set the domain to 0.0.0.0 in my hosts file.