Who cares about advertisers on the faucets websites?
People who use faucets care because the lack of topic makes it take longer to build enough credit for a single page view.
An advertiser on a site with a topic can assume that its readers are interested in the topic of said site. Therefore, an advertiser is willing to pay more on a site whose topic is related to what the advertiser sells than it would on a completely topicless site, making a faucet's inventory less valuable in revenue per page view. This means faucet users have to view several pages to earn an amount of cryptocurrency with a value equal to what an advertiser on a site with a topic would pay for a single page view.
And watch the hit rate decline over time as it falls back to the CONNECT verb when more and more sites switch to all HTTPS all the time.
I mean, as long as the public images, scripts, style sheets and other resources are served over HTTP
Serving the HTML over HTTPS and public resources over cleartext HTTP causes browsers to refuse to load the resources at all because of rules against mixed content. Serving the HTML as well over cleartext HTTP results in demotion of your site in Google and (as of recent Firefox versions) scary warnings on your login page's password field. Serving only those resources needed for the login page over HTTPS and the rest of the site over cleartext HTTP, as Slashdot did until a few months ago, results in vulnerability to Firesheep, a tool for copying session cookies of others on your network.
cant set a wired connection as 'metered' even though many have just that
Such as a home LAN with a satellite upstream or the USB tethering of many smartphones, which appears to the PC as an Ethernet adapter. But there is a registry tweak to set the media cost of Ethernet in Windows 8 and 10. In case that document disappears, here's a summary:
1. In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\DefaultMediaCost, grant ownership and Full Control permission to the local Administrators group. 2. Change the Ethernet value from 1 (meaning unmetered) to 2 (metered).
I'm told that ads wouldn't be obtrusive if unobtrusive ads brought in enough revenue to continue operations. Advertisers are willing to pay far more for obtrusive ads, and switching from obtrusive ads to unobtrusive ads might cause your favorite site to bring in so little revenue that it has to stop responding to HTTP requests.
and asking nicely for people to turn off the blocker
The only ads that can be proven not to track viewers are ads hosted by a site itself. And those have a far lower revenue per thousand impressions for two reasons. First, most advertisers don't know that a particular site exists in order to bid up prices for the site's inventory of ad space. Second, those that do know that a site exists prefer to advertise through a network with analytics powerful enough to filter out click fraud.
[Limited comfortable text column width] is the reason for not using the entire screen for the window. I can put the rest of the screen to good use - outside of your app/page.
Good luck doing that on an iPad or on an Android tablet that isn't made by Samsung and hasn't got the Android 7 upgrade yet.
menus drop without being requested because mouse went over them - WAIT FOR A BLOODY CLICK!
This is because CSS supported:hover before it supported the sibling-of-labeled-checkbox hack as a means to make the menu behavior work even with script turned off.
How well does Numbers run complex macros, such as the validation macros in the spreadsheets that Amazon Seller Central encourages sellers to use? And what instead of Microsoft Access to run commercial off the shelf VBA apps?
As long as Apple keeps App Store submission exclusive to Xcode and Xcode in turn exclusive to macOS, I don't see "Microsoft giv[ing] Apple a kicking with it[s] [S]urface products" any time soon.
I have my programs (in python & C mostly) on a network drive and they compile and run the same on Linux and MacOS.
Only if the program either is command-line or uses the GNUstep toolkit, a partial reimplementation of the GUI API now known as Cocoa. Otherwise, the user has to install XQuartz to make graphical programs designed for GNU/Linux work on macOS. Or what am I missing?
However, we moved to the 16:9 format for most monitors which adds horizontal space, often at the expense of vertical space which is utterly useless for most things beyond watching movies filmed in a 16:9 format.
Then split it down the middle to get two 8:9 ratio windows. Each 960x1080 half has more vertical space than the old 1280x1024 monitors it replaced.
Studies that were done over 100 years ago found that the best line-length for human reading was around 4 inches at most. The extra width that modern screens provide don't give much benefit
The real problem is the "all maximized all the time" window management policy of smartphone-derived tablet operating systems, which didn't allow splitting the screen that way until very recently.
If you're commenting on a Slashdot story whose featured article is from one of those sites, other Slashdot users are likely to berate you for being uninformed on grounds of not having read the article.
if you put up a paywall or block adblockers, you lose my trust and my readership.
If the majority of an online publication's readers run an ad blocker, how would you recommend that it keep its servers on and connected to the Internet and a roof over its writers' heads? After ads and subscriptions, what is the third funding model?
Off hand I can remember an attack on GStreamer's support for Super NES audio. The interpreter for the Sony SPC700 had some serious bounds checking defects, allowing a program running on the emulated SPC700 to manipulate host memory.
an appliance [...] prevents anyone from programming aka becoming more productive [and] stops users reaching enlightenment and getting the computer to do what it's for - lots of repetitive tasks in an automated manner.
Which elicits a big "So?" from appliance fans.
The majority of the population do not read Slashdot. I imagine that most either A. use computing devices for entertainment rather than "becoming more productive" or B. prefer to outsource the programming to a specialist rather than "reaching enlightenment" themselves. For evidence of these, look at the popularity of iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. For evidence of preference of delegation to a specialist, look at the popularity of services such as Jiffy Lube rather than doing your own car maintenance.
What's better: a bunch of applications that you can run inside your web browser, or a bunch of applications that you can't run at all because their developer's computer uses a different operating system from your computer?
Without using a MITM proxy, how else is the operator of a home or organizational network supposed to cache public images, scripts, style sheets, and other resources, so that multiple devices on the network don't have to redundantly download the same resources over a slow and/or capped connection to the Internet?
All you have to do is limit your browsing (stay away from porn/downloads)
Is there a reason that erotic videos can't be made safe? And if you have a gaming PC, how do you obtain games other than through downloads?
For the last 10 years I've had a laptop that I've used solely for web browsing/anything we based... and a gaming PC that only connects to the internet for games
Or just abandon the PC platform entirely: do non-gaming on a tablet running a smartphone-derived operating system, possibly with a Bluetooth keyboard, and use a PlayStation 4 for gaming.
How will this remain practical once more sites follow the lead of WIRED and The Atlantic and start showing paywalls to ad blocker users? If you view one document on each of 20 different sites in a month, would you find it affordable to buy a $4 per month subscription to each of these 20 sites?
That and organizations with more than ten PCs running Windows 7. The last time I checked, the built-in AV on Windows 7 (Microsoft Security Essentials) was licensed for use only on up to ten PCs in an organization, after which the organization is expected to either A. buy the appropriate Windows Server license and the appropriate Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection license, or B. upgrade to Windows 8 or later where MSE was integrated into Windows Defender.
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Who cares about advertisers on the faucets websites?
People who use faucets care because the lack of topic makes it take longer to build enough credit for a single page view.
An advertiser on a site with a topic can assume that its readers are interested in the topic of said site. Therefore, an advertiser is willing to pay more on a site whose topic is related to what the advertiser sells than it would on a completely topicless site, making a faucet's inventory less valuable in revenue per page view. This means faucet users have to view several pages to earn an amount of cryptocurrency with a value equal to what an advertiser on a site with a topic would pay for a single page view.
By using a regular proxy?
And watch the hit rate decline over time as it falls back to the CONNECT verb when more and more sites switch to all HTTPS all the time.
I mean, as long as the public images, scripts, style sheets and other resources are served over HTTP
Serving the HTML over HTTPS and public resources over cleartext HTTP causes browsers to refuse to load the resources at all because of rules against mixed content. Serving the HTML as well over cleartext HTTP results in demotion of your site in Google and (as of recent Firefox versions) scary warnings on your login page's password field. Serving only those resources needed for the login page over HTTPS and the rest of the site over cleartext HTTP, as Slashdot did until a few months ago, results in vulnerability to Firesheep, a tool for copying session cookies of others on your network.
Let me rephrase: Not everybody has a nerd card to begin with.
cant set a wired connection as 'metered' even though many have just that
Such as a home LAN with a satellite upstream or the USB tethering of many smartphones, which appears to the PC as an Ethernet adapter. But there is a registry tweak to set the media cost of Ethernet in Windows 8 and 10. In case that document disappears, here's a summary:
1. In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\DefaultMediaCost, grant ownership and Full Control permission to the local Administrators group.
2. Change the Ethernet value from 1 (meaning unmetered) to 2 (metered).
Starting playlist: Retro Santana.
It is trivial to have a whitelist system that can be disabled for developers that want to program.
But it's not trivial to keep malware developers from social engineering naive end users into turning on developer mode.
Unobtrusive ads
I'm told that ads wouldn't be obtrusive if unobtrusive ads brought in enough revenue to continue operations. Advertisers are willing to pay far more for obtrusive ads, and switching from obtrusive ads to unobtrusive ads might cause your favorite site to bring in so little revenue that it has to stop responding to HTTP requests.
and asking nicely for people to turn off the blocker
This sort of "begging" is reported to have anemic results.
The ads shouldn't [...] track me.
The only ads that can be proven not to track viewers are ads hosted by a site itself. And those have a far lower revenue per thousand impressions for two reasons. First, most advertisers don't know that a particular site exists in order to bid up prices for the site's inventory of ad space. Second, those that do know that a site exists prefer to advertise through a network with analytics powerful enough to filter out click fraud.
[Limited comfortable text column width] is the reason for not using the entire screen for the window. I can put the rest of the screen to good use - outside of your app/page.
Good luck doing that on an iPad or on an Android tablet that isn't made by Samsung and hasn't got the Android 7 upgrade yet.
menus drop without being requested because mouse went over them - WAIT FOR A BLOODY CLICK!
This is because CSS supported :hover before it supported the sibling-of-labeled-checkbox hack as a means to make the menu behavior work even with script turned off.
How well does Numbers run complex macros, such as the validation macros in the spreadsheets that Amazon Seller Central encourages sellers to use? And what instead of Microsoft Access to run commercial off the shelf VBA apps?
When Chrome starts running Android Apps, Microsoft will be dead
Which OS will the majority of developers be using to develop these Android apps, particularly if they're not ports of iOS apps?
As long as Apple keeps App Store submission exclusive to Xcode and Xcode in turn exclusive to macOS, I don't see "Microsoft giv[ing] Apple a kicking with it[s] [S]urface products" any time soon.
I have my programs (in python & C mostly) on a network drive and they compile and run the same on Linux and MacOS.
Only if the program either is command-line or uses the GNUstep toolkit, a partial reimplementation of the GUI API now known as Cocoa. Otherwise, the user has to install XQuartz to make graphical programs designed for GNU/Linux work on macOS. Or what am I missing?
However, we moved to the 16:9 format for most monitors which adds horizontal space, often at the expense of vertical space which is utterly useless for most things beyond watching movies filmed in a 16:9 format.
Then split it down the middle to get two 8:9 ratio windows. Each 960x1080 half has more vertical space than the old 1280x1024 monitors it replaced.
Studies that were done over 100 years ago found that the best line-length for human reading was around 4 inches at most. The extra width that modern screens provide don't give much benefit
The real problem is the "all maximized all the time" window management policy of smartphone-derived tablet operating systems, which didn't allow splitting the screen that way until very recently.
If you're commenting on a Slashdot story whose featured article is from one of those sites, other Slashdot users are likely to berate you for being uninformed on grounds of not having read the article.
Use a script blocker instead of an ad blocker, and only whitelist the main news page.
Their answer to NoScript is to make everything past the abstract JavaScript-dependent.
if you put up a paywall or block adblockers, you lose my trust and my readership.
If the majority of an online publication's readers run an ad blocker, how would you recommend that it keep its servers on and connected to the Internet and a roof over its writers' heads? After ads and subscriptions, what is the third funding model?
Off hand I can remember an attack on GStreamer's support for Super NES audio. The interpreter for the Sony SPC700 had some serious bounds checking defects, allowing a program running on the emulated SPC700 to manipulate host memory.
Minor correction: There needs to be less than 3.6 seconds of notification audio per hour.
an appliance [...] prevents anyone from programming aka becoming more productive [and] stops users reaching enlightenment and getting the computer to do what it's for - lots of repetitive tasks in an automated manner.
Which elicits a big "So?" from appliance fans.
The majority of the population do not read Slashdot. I imagine that most either A. use computing devices for entertainment rather than "becoming more productive" or B. prefer to outsource the programming to a specialist rather than "reaching enlightenment" themselves. For evidence of these, look at the popularity of iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. For evidence of preference of delegation to a specialist, look at the popularity of services such as Jiffy Lube rather than doing your own car maintenance.
What's better: a bunch of applications that you can run inside your web browser, or a bunch of applications that you can't run at all because their developer's computer uses a different operating system from your computer?
Without using a MITM proxy, how else is the operator of a home or organizational network supposed to cache public images, scripts, style sheets, and other resources, so that multiple devices on the network don't have to redundantly download the same resources over a slow and/or capped connection to the Internet?
All you have to do is limit your browsing (stay away from porn/downloads)
Is there a reason that erotic videos can't be made safe? And if you have a gaming PC, how do you obtain games other than through downloads?
For the last 10 years I've had a laptop that I've used solely for web browsing/anything we based... and a gaming PC that only connects to the internet for games
Or just abandon the PC platform entirely: do non-gaming on a tablet running a smartphone-derived operating system, possibly with a Bluetooth keyboard, and use a PlayStation 4 for gaming.
always use an ad blocker
How will this remain practical once more sites follow the lead of WIRED and The Atlantic and start showing paywalls to ad blocker users? If you view one document on each of 20 different sites in a month, would you find it affordable to buy a $4 per month subscription to each of these 20 sites?
That and organizations with more than ten PCs running Windows 7. The last time I checked, the built-in AV on Windows 7 (Microsoft Security Essentials) was licensed for use only on up to ten PCs in an organization, after which the organization is expected to either A. buy the appropriate Windows Server license and the appropriate Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection license, or B. upgrade to Windows 8 or later where MSE was integrated into Windows Defender.