I was under the impression that a computer file fixed in a tangible medium (such as the SSD of your mail server) was "written". At least that's the case in copyright law. Moreover, a document whose hash is encrypted with the private key on your payment card's chip is digitally "signed". Is there case law on the statute of frauds to the contrary?
If you're too stupid to look for it, or Google it, well, that's your problem.
How do you use Google Search without first setting up your first computing device? Stop what you're doing and wait for the public library to open? Buy a smartphone? Something else I didn't think of?
The idea is to put your rims on the wire, in line with it. [...] Two bikes, side by side, on the loop is twice as effective."
That works well in some parts of town but not on some of the more problematic dipoles that are designed to reject a semi in the adjacent lane. One 6 by 20 foot (1.8 by 6 m) rectangular dipole couldn't see a bicycle and a motorcycle with the wheels of one centered over the left long side of the rectangle and the wheels of the other centered over the right long side.
Better than anything is an extension cord, plugged into itself, and placed on the street exactly over the buried wire.
The same thing a motorcycle does? My motorcycle never triggers most traffic signals (especially the damn IR ones), so legally what you're supposed to do is make a right turn instead.
In theory, one could make a right turn, drive one block, make a U-turn at the next place a left turn is legal, drive one block, and then make another right turn. In practice, if the next signal set one block away is also demand-actuated and marked "LEFT ON ARROW ONLY", it will likewise fail to detect my vehicle waiting in the left turn lane if there isn't also a cage waiting in the same left turn lane.
Granted when this is a real problem is usually when there's nobody around because if other people are around, a car will usually pull up and trigger the light for me.
My experience agrees. The problem has occurred during times of day when there is little traffic in my direction, such as 9:20 AM for an intersection near a shopping center that opens at 10 AM weekdays. Once, it didn't even pick up a bicycle and motorcycle put together, parked on opposite sides of the crack in the asphalt where the induction loop was buried.
Other option I've done if there's significant traffic on the cross street and none on my street is I'll get off my bike and hit the cross walk.
The intersection to which I refer lacks even a crosswalk marking. Another intersection in the same city used to fail in a similar way, but the city recently put in a crosswalk to connect a city park to a trail under construction.
I can provide coordinates of the problematic intersection through email upon request.
Pressing the walk button works in intersections that have one. One intersection at the exit of a major shopping mall in my home town was particularly bad for years, with no walk button, no pedestrian signal set, and not even a marked zebra crossing.
people riding them on sidewalks and on the road ignoring traffic signals.
Because a scooter has less metal surface than a car, an induction loop in the approach to an intersection with a demand-actuated signal set might not pick it up. This has happened several times to me with my bicycle in my home town. When stuck at a red light for several minutes, what's the operator of a scooter supposed to do?
But we need to invent the time machine first, otherwise Kyle Reese will never make it back in time to be the father of John Conner!
Is this heading toward a Roseanne/Terminator crossover?
Some SF works have solved the space part of spacetime travel by requiring the vehicle to rest on the ground, thereby remaining coupled to the destination through gravity and friction. These include at least H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and Shane Carruth's Primer.
You can buy a serviceable used laptop on Craigslist for a under $100
For example, I bought a ThinkPad X61 tablet laptop with a Core 2 Duo CPU on eBay for $101 shipped. But for some, finding that $100 before a job may itself cause a problem.
However the thing is most employees already have their own devices
That's no help for people outside the "most", particularly someone seeking a job to earn the money with which to buy a desktop or laptop computer in the first place.
As I see it, one problem with the Federal Circuit handling all patent cases is that there's never a circuit split, which means less threat of the Supreme Court accepting a case to resolve an interpretation.
Online advertising no longer works like that. It is all programmatic.
By "programmatic" do you refer to it having become standard practice to run nonfree scripts on viewers' computers to perform large-scale surveillance of viewer's browsing history across multiple unrelated websites? If so, then perhaps online advertising needs to cease being programmatic in this way.
I couldn't find anything in Google's DFP (most popular ad serving tool) that says "don't show flashing animation".
Is there anything saying "report this ad for standards violations, such as inaccessibility to viewers with a seizure disorder"?
No one sells ads directly on their sites to advertisers, that is not a viable model because advertisers want to get their message out to a variety of sites instead of "sponsoring" one or more pages on a single site.
Publishers of newspapers and magazines never printed ads customized to each individual subscriber, and certainly not to readers who encounter a publication through a newsstand or public library. How did advertisers and publishers survive then?
if they know a user is potentially interested in going to St. Kitt's (because they searched for that island), they want to show that person St. Kitt's ads whether they are on a travel site or on a cooking site.
There will always be sleazy advertisers out there, looking to game the system.
And you as a publisher are responsible for allowing these sleazy advertisers onto your site via these exchanges, whether or not you have meaningful control of what these exchanges serve. In fact, the lack of meaningful control ideally ought to be a reason not to use a particular exchange.
I think shops require ID for returns because of cases where a thief steals both the merchandise and the receipt from the victim and attempts to return the product for a gift card. It's also why they hand you the receipt instead of putting it in the bag.
These two are ad characteristics that cannot be directly controlled by the publisher via the placement of code:
- autoplaying audio (other than preroll before relevant video)
<video autoplay muted>
- animated ads that include flashing elements
If the publisher can approve or veto creative before it appears on the site, the publisher can veto creative incorporating flashing. If the publisher cannot approve or veto creative before it appears on the site, the publisher can switch to a different ad network or exchange, switch to publisher-hosted ad delivery without any network or exchange, or not use video as a format.
As a publisher myself, I don't want to show such ads, but first, there is no option in a network that says "don't show animated ads with flashing elements"
You could drop animated ads altogether. If your network doesn't allow that, you could drop your network and sell your ad space through a form on your site. A sponsor interested in your site could upload creative for approval and purchase page views. Then you could approve or reject the creative. See for example how ads work on Daring Fireball.
Plus "Main content portion" is subjective, and some algorithm could whack you on that.
Acceptable Ads criteria define "primary content" in terms of how HTML5 expects the <main> element to be used. In this respect, Better Ads Standards are more lenient than Acceptable Ads criteria, which require inline ads to take up zero percent of primary content.
it seems easy to break that rule inadvertently, for example, with a page that has less content than normal.
Then the ad serving script needs to measure the body of each article before ads are inserted into that article.
What is scary here is that there is no appeal process
Any webmaster who successfully claims control of a site in Google Search Console can clean up ads on that site and submit a request to have that site reevaluated.
Why are you rebooting your TV so often? It will sit in standby forever, instantly ready to come on.
A TV unplugged from mains does not draw vampire power. Let's say you've used a Kill A Watt meter to determine that each of your devices draws 1 watt on standby. Over a year, each device draws 8.766 kWh, and at $0.114 per kWh, that's a dollar per device per year. Multiply that by all the devices you leave on standby, and consider how much you could save by switching off the outlet when the device is not in use.
The Better Ads Standards ban eight ad formats. Any publisher or adtech provider can avoid this ad blocker by not running ads in those formats. Compared to the analogous Acceptable Ads program that Eyeo runs, the Better Ads Standards are far more lenient (allowing inline ads between the start and end of an article) and do not require the publisher to pay to whitelist a site. The reason AdSense ads don't get blocked isn't that it's run by Google but that AdWords doesn't sell ad space in those formats to advertisers in the first place.
Sans ads and the marketing behind/. It would probably cost $40US a month to run.
It's more than that. SoylentNews is a news aggregator site with a similar concept (and codebase) to Slashdot. Its statement of finances for the first and second quarters of 2017 shows $270 per month for the server and backups and a hefty chunk of change for tax payments and tax compliance costs.
How much have you donated to Slashdot to ensure its financial ability to continue to publish what you wrote?
Full disclosure: I used to subscribe to Slashdot. I don't nowadays because its subscribe button has been broken for years:
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SoylentNews, by contrast, still has a working subscribe button (and working Unicode).
If Internet ads were banned, legal TV would fall squarely into the paywall category, as would erotic paysites. The U.S. has already started to see multichannel subscription IPTV services such as Sling and DirecTV Now. As for illegal TV, ISPs aren't allowed to mention that in advertising. MGM v. Grokster, 545 U.S. 913 (2005).
Whatever Ad-Blocker is installed by default will be the ad-blocker that all the websites that want to show Ads spend their efforts detecting and making workarounds for
The Mozilla Firefox web browser is installed by default on most GNU/Linux distributions and available for Windows, macOS, and Android. Private Browsing is installed by default (but not enabled by default) in Firefox. Private Browsing includes a "tracking protection" feature that causes Firefox not to connect to servers involved in large-scale surveillance of viewers' browsing habits across multiple websites to gather interest data and "retarget" viewers.
Sites could work around tracking protection by falling back to different ads that do not stalk the user, particularly ads hosted by the website operator such as those seen on Daring Fireball and Read the Docs. But they don't. Instead, sites using Google's Funding Choices, Admiral's Engage, and the like require users of Private Browsing to click "Disable protection for this site". They do this because the cost per thousand impressions (CPM) of interest-based advertising is three times the CPM from contextual advertising alone.
Let's say that displaying an anti-adblock notice is "the last time I'd visit such a website". In that case, good luck using the web after the majority of results for a given search query end up being from sites that you have vowed to no longer visit.
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The left lost
Tell that to Kevin McCarthy, who can't go on an anti-communist crusade like his namesake because his party lost the House of Representatives.
I was under the impression that a computer file fixed in a tangible medium (such as the SSD of your mail server) was "written". At least that's the case in copyright law. Moreover, a document whose hash is encrypted with the private key on your payment card's chip is digitally "signed". Is there case law on the statute of frauds to the contrary?
If you're too stupid to look for it, or Google it, well, that's your problem.
How do you use Google Search without first setting up your first computing device? Stop what you're doing and wait for the public library to open? Buy a smartphone? Something else I didn't think of?
From the linked document:
That works well in some parts of town but not on some of the more problematic dipoles that are designed to reject a semi in the adjacent lane. One 6 by 20 foot (1.8 by 6 m) rectangular dipole couldn't see a bicycle and a motorcycle with the wheels of one centered over the left long side of the rectangle and the wheels of the other centered over the right long side.
I'd never thought of that.
The same thing a motorcycle does? My motorcycle never triggers most traffic signals (especially the damn IR ones), so legally what you're supposed to do is make a right turn instead.
In theory, one could make a right turn, drive one block, make a U-turn at the next place a left turn is legal, drive one block, and then make another right turn. In practice, if the next signal set one block away is also demand-actuated and marked "LEFT ON ARROW ONLY", it will likewise fail to detect my vehicle waiting in the left turn lane if there isn't also a cage waiting in the same left turn lane.
Granted when this is a real problem is usually when there's nobody around because if other people are around, a car will usually pull up and trigger the light for me.
My experience agrees. The problem has occurred during times of day when there is little traffic in my direction, such as 9:20 AM for an intersection near a shopping center that opens at 10 AM weekdays. Once, it didn't even pick up a bicycle and motorcycle put together, parked on opposite sides of the crack in the asphalt where the induction loop was buried.
Other option I've done if there's significant traffic on the cross street and none on my street is I'll get off my bike and hit the cross walk.
The intersection to which I refer lacks even a crosswalk marking. Another intersection in the same city used to fail in a similar way, but the city recently put in a crosswalk to connect a city park to a trail under construction.
I can provide coordinates of the problematic intersection through email upon request.
Pressing the walk button works in intersections that have one. One intersection at the exit of a major shopping mall in my home town was particularly bad for years, with no walk button, no pedestrian signal set, and not even a marked zebra crossing.
people riding them on sidewalks and on the road ignoring traffic signals.
Because a scooter has less metal surface than a car, an induction loop in the approach to an intersection with a demand-actuated signal set might not pick it up. This has happened several times to me with my bicycle in my home town. When stuck at a red light for several minutes, what's the operator of a scooter supposed to do?
But we need to invent the time machine first, otherwise Kyle Reese will never make it back in time to be the father of John Conner!
Is this heading toward a Roseanne/Terminator crossover?
Some SF works have solved the space part of spacetime travel by requiring the vehicle to rest on the ground, thereby remaining coupled to the destination through gravity and friction. These include at least H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and Shane Carruth's Primer.
How many visual novels mention the "Choose Your Own Adventure" brand in their marketing materials or dialogue? I doubt many.
You can buy a serviceable used laptop on Craigslist for a under $100
For example, I bought a ThinkPad X61 tablet laptop with a Core 2 Duo CPU on eBay for $101 shipped. But for some, finding that $100 before a job may itself cause a problem.
However the thing is most employees already have their own devices
That's no help for people outside the "most", particularly someone seeking a job to earn the money with which to buy a desktop or laptop computer in the first place.
As I see it, one problem with the Federal Circuit handling all patent cases is that there's never a circuit split, which means less threat of the Supreme Court accepting a case to resolve an interpretation.
Online advertising no longer works like that. It is all programmatic.
By "programmatic" do you refer to it having become standard practice to run nonfree scripts on viewers' computers to perform large-scale surveillance of viewer's browsing history across multiple unrelated websites? If so, then perhaps online advertising needs to cease being programmatic in this way.
I couldn't find anything in Google's DFP (most popular ad serving tool) that says "don't show flashing animation".
Is there anything saying "report this ad for standards violations, such as inaccessibility to viewers with a seizure disorder"?
No one sells ads directly on their sites to advertisers, that is not a viable model because advertisers want to get their message out to a variety of sites instead of "sponsoring" one or more pages on a single site.
Publishers of newspapers and magazines never printed ads customized to each individual subscriber, and certainly not to readers who encounter a publication through a newsstand or public library. How did advertisers and publishers survive then?
if they know a user is potentially interested in going to St. Kitt's (because they searched for that island), they want to show that person St. Kitt's ads whether they are on a travel site or on a cooking site.
This is called "data leakage", allowing an advertiser to target high-value sites cheaply by advertising on low-value sites that the same viewer also visits. "Targeted Advertising Considered Harmful" by Don Marti and "WTF is data leakage?" by John McDermott describe problems with this race to the bottom.
There will always be sleazy advertisers out there, looking to game the system.
And you as a publisher are responsible for allowing these sleazy advertisers onto your site via these exchanges, whether or not you have meaningful control of what these exchanges serve. In fact, the lack of meaningful control ideally ought to be a reason not to use a particular exchange.
I think shops require ID for returns because of cases where a thief steals both the merchandise and the receipt from the victim and attempts to return the product for a gift card. It's also why they hand you the receipt instead of putting it in the bag.
Use fake ID to return things.
And risk getting imprisoned for a very long time.
There is. It's called carrying a dumbphone and a laptop running GNU/Linux, and running all your apps on the laptop.
These two are ad characteristics that cannot be directly controlled by the publisher via the placement of code:
- autoplaying audio (other than preroll before relevant video)
<video autoplay muted>
- animated ads that include flashing elements
If the publisher can approve or veto creative before it appears on the site, the publisher can veto creative incorporating flashing. If the publisher cannot approve or veto creative before it appears on the site, the publisher can switch to a different ad network or exchange, switch to publisher-hosted ad delivery without any network or exchange, or not use video as a format.
As a publisher myself, I don't want to show such ads, but first, there is no option in a network that says "don't show animated ads with flashing elements"
You could drop animated ads altogether. If your network doesn't allow that, you could drop your network and sell your ad space through a form on your site. A sponsor interested in your site could upload creative for approval and purchase page views. Then you could approve or reject the creative. See for example how ads work on Daring Fireball.
Plus "Main content portion" is subjective, and some algorithm could whack you on that.
Acceptable Ads criteria define "primary content" in terms of how HTML5 expects the <main> element to be used. In this respect, Better Ads Standards are more lenient than Acceptable Ads criteria, which require inline ads to take up zero percent of primary content.
it seems easy to break that rule inadvertently, for example, with a page that has less content than normal.
Then the ad serving script needs to measure the body of each article before ads are inserted into that article.
What is scary here is that there is no appeal process
Any webmaster who successfully claims control of a site in Google Search Console can clean up ads on that site and submit a request to have that site reevaluated.
Buy lots of TVs and return them when they don't work.
And risk getting banned from shops as a so-called "demon customer". (Source: "Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right")
Why are you rebooting your TV so often? It will sit in standby forever, instantly ready to come on.
A TV unplugged from mains does not draw vampire power. Let's say you've used a Kill A Watt meter to determine that each of your devices draws 1 watt on standby. Over a year, each device draws 8.766 kWh, and at $0.114 per kWh, that's a dollar per device per year. Multiply that by all the devices you leave on standby, and consider how much you could save by switching off the outlet when the device is not in use.
The Better Ads Standards ban eight ad formats. Any publisher or adtech provider can avoid this ad blocker by not running ads in those formats. Compared to the analogous Acceptable Ads program that Eyeo runs, the Better Ads Standards are far more lenient (allowing inline ads between the start and end of an article) and do not require the publisher to pay to whitelist a site. The reason AdSense ads don't get blocked isn't that it's run by Google but that AdWords doesn't sell ad space in those formats to advertisers in the first place.
Sans ads and the marketing behind /. It would probably cost $40US a month to run.
It's more than that. SoylentNews is a news aggregator site with a similar concept (and codebase) to Slashdot. Its statement of finances for the first and second quarters of 2017 shows $270 per month for the server and backups and a hefty chunk of change for tax payments and tax compliance costs.
How much have you donated to Slashdot to ensure its financial ability to continue to publish what you wrote?
Full disclosure: I used to subscribe to Slashdot. I don't nowadays because its subscribe button has been broken for years:
SoylentNews, by contrast, still has a working subscribe button (and working Unicode).
If Internet ads were banned, legal TV would fall squarely into the paywall category, as would erotic paysites. The U.S. has already started to see multichannel subscription IPTV services such as Sling and DirecTV Now. As for illegal TV, ISPs aren't allowed to mention that in advertising. MGM v. Grokster, 545 U.S. 913 (2005).
Whatever Ad-Blocker is installed by default will be the ad-blocker that all the websites that want to show Ads spend their efforts detecting and making workarounds for
The Mozilla Firefox web browser is installed by default on most GNU/Linux distributions and available for Windows, macOS, and Android. Private Browsing is installed by default (but not enabled by default) in Firefox. Private Browsing includes a "tracking protection" feature that causes Firefox not to connect to servers involved in large-scale surveillance of viewers' browsing habits across multiple websites to gather interest data and "retarget" viewers.
Sites could work around tracking protection by falling back to different ads that do not stalk the user, particularly ads hosted by the website operator such as those seen on Daring Fireball and Read the Docs. But they don't. Instead, sites using Google's Funding Choices, Admiral's Engage, and the like require users of Private Browsing to click "Disable protection for this site". They do this because the cost per thousand impressions (CPM) of interest-based advertising is three times the CPM from contextual advertising alone.
Let's say that displaying an anti-adblock notice is "the last time I'd visit such a website". In that case, good luck using the web after the majority of results for a given search query end up being from sites that you have vowed to no longer visit.