If you're willing to accept standard definition video, T-Mobile has the "Binge On" program not to count video against your data plan. (There is no charge for a video provider to participate in Binge On; it just has to register with T-Mobile and detect throttling to 1000-1500 kbps.)
Develop your client and distribute it without keys. Then each user of the application can register on Twitter as a developer, register his own copy of the client as an application, and paste the keys that Twitter issues to that user into the client.
Even adding a phone number doesn't work. I tried adding my landline to the add_phone form today. But instead of Twitter reading out the verification code through text-to-speech the way my bank does, it produced a message "There was an error sending a text to that phone number. Please try again."
The first, recommended by OAuth 1 spec author Dick Hardt, is to proxy all API calls through a server that the app developer operates. The API keys then never leave this server. Yet the app developer needs to find some way to recover the cost of operating this proxy server.
If you were developing a free application that uses the Twitter API, how would you go about recovering the cost of operating "your own web service"?
And even worse, having to PAY to lease said router so others can share your pipe.
In exchange, however, you get to share others' pipes. This lets some smartphone users, such as myself, avoid needing to buy a data plan at all because the xfinitywifi SSID is available everywhere they go except a moving vehicle.
One big problem with the Twitter API that I'm aware of is the requirement of an OAuth "consumer secret", which I've mentioned before.
Twitter's implementation of OAuth 1 requires each application to sign all requests with a private key that an application's developer is obligated to keep secret even from the application's users. This is fine for a web application that runs on a server. But a native application, particularly one distributed as free software, can't avoid exposing its private key to the user. Twitter can and does revoke keys that leak. Though most other services have switched to the more cookie-like OAuth 2 spec, which has an option to allow desktop applications to operate without a private key, Twitter has persisted in requiring this idiocy, which both the OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 RFCs discourage.
Does this new announcement include a move away from a mandatory "consumer secret" for applications that run on a desktop or mobile computer?
Those are macOS 10.12, Android 7, and Debian 8 respectively. In addition, both Android and Ubuntu version codenames progress through the Latin alphabet regularly.
The complaint as I understand it is that Microsoft is no longer assigning traditional minor version numbers for Windows, instead relying on less scrutable build numbers. Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 got "Service Pack x", which users could compare, and Windows 8 had "8.1", which users understood as the first service pack. Windows 10 build numbers increase monotonically, but because they're not sequential, it's hard to tell whether someone has skipped an update.
install that update and none of your Windows programs will work anymore
sudo apt install wine and most still work. I use Xubuntu 16.04, and the Windows applications on which I depend (Modplug Tracker, FamiTracker, FCEUX debugging version, and NO$SNS) still work.
You'll probably lose all of your data too.
In the era of affordable USB hard drives and "cloud" backup, both Microsoft and its competition have begun to consider loss of data on a single device as acceptable collateral damage. Case in point from Microsoft's competition: When you switch a Chromebook from normal mode to developer mode or vice versa, the firmware performs a factory reset, deleting all user data stored on the device. And it's incredibly easy for someone else who turns on a developer mode Chromebook to begin a factory reset by pressing two keys without understanding: press Space to reenable OS verification, press Enter to confirm.
It also has Beam streaming built in, if you like to broadcast your play.
What limits has Microsoft placed on Beam to appease Hollywood studios who would complain that the user can stream, say, a movie playing in a browser? And can game publishers trigger these limits if they don't want their copyrighted games performed publicly without a license? Capcom, for one, has been known to require royalties for streaming Street Fighter matches (source).
Microsoft is giving people a choice of how to pay for continued maintenance of Windows: either through payment or through analytics that Microsoft can use to boost relevance of ads presented to the user. Thus a user can choose to be a customer or to be the product. Several other service providers don't even give users this choice.
And $10/month isn't that much more than, say, Apple charges for the Apple Developer Program.
Most of the U.S. population is within the coverage area of at least one wired ISP (cable or DSL) and at least three cellular ISPs (AT&T, Verizon, and at least one of Sprint and T-Mobile). That makes four choices.
For example, wireless covers a very large part of the US, especially when you realize that a fixed wireless customer can use external directional antennas to connect from much further away than a cell phone user can. Is there truly no 3g or 4g service where you live?
How is it that Comcast can offer an order of magnitude more GB per month than its competitors for the same price?
an op-ed written by Pai and Acting FTC Chair Maureen Ohlhausen ignored the lack of competition in home Internet service, focusing only on the competitive wireless broadband market
Is he saying that I have "choice" because I can relocate my household if I want to change ISPs?
They're saying that you have "choice" because you can switch from Verizon DSL or Verizon fiber to at least one of AT&T cellular, Sprint cellular, or T-Mobile cellular.
What was the baseline cost of riding the city bus?
City buses in Fort Wayne, Indiana, charge 3 USD for an all-day pass. (Source: fwcitilink.com) Is this price abnormally low by the standards of the rest of anglophone North America?
You could also maybe recognize that computers are computers. They compute. Size isn't really the issue.
You're right. The issue is whether it's truly a personal computer, in that the person who owns it controls what computing is done. A home microwave oven has a computer in it, but it's not a personal computer in this sense. Neither is an iPhone or iPad in most cases, particularly when the device for loading user-written programs into an iPhone or iPad costs more than the iPhone or iPad itself.
HTTPS is an improvement but still leaves the hostname and response length visible to a passive eavesdropper, who can use that to determine which sites you visit and which apps you use.
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If you're willing to accept standard definition video, T-Mobile has the "Binge On" program not to count video against your data plan. (There is no charge for a video provider to participate in Binge On; it just has to register with T-Mobile and detect throttling to 1000-1500 kbps.)
Develop your client and distribute it without keys. Then each user of the application can register on Twitter as a developer, register his own copy of the client as an application, and paste the keys that Twitter issues to that user into the client.
Even adding a phone number doesn't work. I tried adding my landline to the add_phone form today. But instead of Twitter reading out the verification code through text-to-speech the way my bank does, it produced a message "There was an error sending a text to that phone number. Please try again."
route your shit through your own web service
That was already mentioned in the linked comment:
If you were developing a free application that uses the Twitter API, how would you go about recovering the cost of operating "your own web service"?
And even worse, having to PAY to lease said router so others can share your pipe.
In exchange, however, you get to share others' pipes. This lets some smartphone users, such as myself, avoid needing to buy a data plan at all because the xfinitywifi SSID is available everywhere they go except a moving vehicle.
Renaming service to Xfinity. (Brilliant waste of money)
What else should Comcast have done to distinguish its home services from its small business services?
Slashdot users have hated twitter since 2008, if willyhill's sockpuppet exposé is to be believed.
One big problem with the Twitter API that I'm aware of is the requirement of an OAuth "consumer secret", which I've mentioned before.
Twitter's implementation of OAuth 1 requires each application to sign all requests with a private key that an application's developer is obligated to keep secret even from the application's users. This is fine for a web application that runs on a server. But a native application, particularly one distributed as free software, can't avoid exposing its private key to the user. Twitter can and does revoke keys that leak. Though most other services have switched to the more cookie-like OAuth 2 spec, which has an option to allow desktop applications to operate without a private key, Twitter has persisted in requiring this idiocy, which both the OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 RFCs discourage.
Does this new announcement include a move away from a mandatory "consumer secret" for applications that run on a desktop or mobile computer?
You could switch to the combination of a GNU/Linux PC and a PlayStation 4. Or a GNU/Linux PC and a Switch for that matter.
Those are macOS 10.12, Android 7, and Debian 8 respectively. In addition, both Android and Ubuntu version codenames progress through the Latin alphabet regularly.
The complaint as I understand it is that Microsoft is no longer assigning traditional minor version numbers for Windows, instead relying on less scrutable build numbers. Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 got "Service Pack x", which users could compare, and Windows 8 had "8.1", which users understood as the first service pack. Windows 10 build numbers increase monotonically, but because they're not sequential, it's hard to tell whether someone has skipped an update.
install that update and none of your Windows programs will work anymore
sudo apt install wine and most still work. I use Xubuntu 16.04, and the Windows applications on which I depend (Modplug Tracker, FamiTracker, FCEUX debugging version, and NO$SNS) still work.
You'll probably lose all of your data too.
In the era of affordable USB hard drives and "cloud" backup, both Microsoft and its competition have begun to consider loss of data on a single device as acceptable collateral damage. Case in point from Microsoft's competition: When you switch a Chromebook from normal mode to developer mode or vice versa, the firmware performs a factory reset, deleting all user data stored on the device. And it's incredibly easy for someone else who turns on a developer mode Chromebook to begin a factory reset by pressing two keys without understanding: press Space to reenable OS verification, press Enter to confirm.
It also has Beam streaming built in, if you like to broadcast your play.
What limits has Microsoft placed on Beam to appease Hollywood studios who would complain that the user can stream, say, a movie playing in a browser? And can game publishers trigger these limits if they don't want their copyrighted games performed publicly without a license? Capcom, for one, has been known to require royalties for streaming Street Fighter matches (source).
Microsoft is giving people a choice of how to pay for continued maintenance of Windows: either through payment or through analytics that Microsoft can use to boost relevance of ads presented to the user. Thus a user can choose to be a customer or to be the product. Several other service providers don't even give users this choice.
And $10/month isn't that much more than, say, Apple charges for the Apple Developer Program.
Most of the U.S. population is within the coverage area of at least one wired ISP (cable or DSL) and at least three cellular ISPs (AT&T, Verizon, and at least one of Sprint and T-Mobile). That makes four choices.
To work around the cap, switch from Netflix's streaming plan to its DVD or Blu-ray plan.
For example, wireless covers a very large part of the US, especially when you realize that a fixed wireless customer can use external directional antennas to connect from much further away than a cell phone user can. Is there truly no 3g or 4g service where you live?
How is it that Comcast can offer an order of magnitude more GB per month than its competitors for the same price?
an op-ed written by Pai and Acting FTC Chair Maureen Ohlhausen ignored the lack of competition in home Internet service, focusing only on the competitive wireless broadband market
Is he saying that I have "choice" because I can relocate my household if I want to change ISPs?
They're saying that you have "choice" because you can switch from Verizon DSL or Verizon fiber to at least one of AT&T cellular, Sprint cellular, or T-Mobile cellular.
What was the baseline cost of riding the city bus?
City buses in Fort Wayne, Indiana, charge 3 USD for an all-day pass. (Source: fwcitilink.com) Is this price abnormally low by the standards of the rest of anglophone North America?
You could also maybe recognize that computers are computers. They compute. Size isn't really the issue.
You're right. The issue is whether it's truly a personal computer, in that the person who owns it controls what computing is done. A home microwave oven has a computer in it, but it's not a personal computer in this sense. Neither is an iPhone or iPad in most cases, particularly when the device for loading user-written programs into an iPhone or iPad costs more than the iPhone or iPad itself.
A Canadian town will subsidise an American corporation to provide a public service.
Is it any different from agencies of governments outside the United States standardizing on the Windows operating system?
you could have run your own public taxi service instead and get some return on the tax money being spent.
Not if outsourcing the service is less expensive.
Prices in the USA for a plan similar to what you describe were about twice that last time I was in Walmart.
How well does Ohm's law let you predict whether newly discovered materials will be ohmic?
Moore's law has predicted future exponential growth of integrated circuit density fairly well since it was proposed over four decades ago.
How will officials show probable cause to said judge, as required by the Fourth Amendment?
HTTPS is an improvement but still leaves the hostname and response length visible to a passive eavesdropper, who can use that to determine which sites you visit and which apps you use.