I don't see your 2 GB/mo plan. I see a 3 GB/mo plan for $40 per month (source).
because data caps are a total joke
The loophole described in the article you cite uses an HTTP proxy in a subpath of/speedtest. First, you need to pay for a VPS and bandwidth to run this proxy. Second, once T-Mobile plugs this loophole, I don't see how to use 50 GB per month because after the monthly data usage allowance expires, throughput decreases to 0.128 Mbps, and 0.128 Mbps used continuously for a month is only 41.4 GB. That's not even enough to download a purchased game whose disc version fills both layers of a BD-ROM.
I find it hard to believe people really don't have an internet connection on their mobile device.
T-Mobile pay-as-you-go users don't have an Internet connection except by A. buying a data pass for $10 that expires after 1 GB or 1 week, whichever comes first, or B. using a WLAN connected to the Internet through a separate carrier, such as home Internet or a library or restaurant hotspot.
39.5% cannot afford an internet connection on their mobile device
You wrote:
at least try to argue that everybody has internet access on a mobile device.
For one thing, 39.5% do not. In my personal case, adding a data plan would increase my T-Mobile bill from $3 per month to $50 per month. Both home Internet and cellular Internet are luxuries, of which I can afford one as of January 2017, and my usage pattern (60 GB per month) currently favors home Internet over cellular Internet.
Firefox 50 supports multiprocess for users with no extensions or select extensions, and Firefox 51 (currently in beta and in use on my PC) will add support for multiprocess with more extensions. To see if you're already using multiprocess, go to about:support and search the page for "Multiprocess". If it shows up as disabled, go to about:config and set browser.tabs.remote.autostart to true. If it shows up as blocked by add-ons, install Firefox Beta. If you were asking why it's not already enabled for more users, I'm guessing that Mozilla is making changes slowly and carefully in order not to break things and thereby leave people without a working web browser.
Fix the excessive memory usage. Reduce the CPU usage.
To fix these, go to about:config and set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true. It's turned off by default because it breaks some websites. These are mostly ad-supported sites that don't know how to fall back to advertisements that do not track the viewer from one site to another, such as WIRED, the INQUIRER, and The Atlantic.
From the summary: "The report shows that 57.8% of the world's population cannot afford broadband internet"
In the 2010s, Internet access has become a necessity to find and keep a job. But how is Internet access at home a necessity? I've found a bunch of people on Slashdot and elsewhere who claim that home Internet is a luxury, as opposed to (say) Internet access at the local public library or in a restaurant.
how does this work with the carriers. are they free to keep your phone off the air once they start doing OS checks ?
That depends on the terms under which each carrier leases spectrum from each national radio communications regulator. Some require carriers to serve subscribers who carry any device that has been certified to follow the relevant protocol and has not been stolen, such as licenses resulting from U.S. auction 73.
If your parents are dead-set on not subscribing to cellular phone service, they could buy a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer, subscribe to Internet access at home, and use that to make calls.
Personal assistants could easily use your own personal server.
Would this "personal server" be a device carried in the user's pocket? Or would it be a server application running on the user's home PC, which home ISP terms of service tend to forbid on pain of disconnection? Or would it be a leased virtual private server?
No. I couldn't seem to find a device running Firefox OS in stores in my part of the United States. I was under the impression that it was marketed mostly in developing countries.
For software on a proxy server, you can provide an offer of source through a normal method of delivering messages to users of that kind of proxy. For example, a Web proxy could use a landing page. When users initially start using the proxy, you can direct them to a page with the offer of source along with any other information you choose to provide.
The AGPL says you must make the offer to "all users". If you know that a certain user has already been shown the offer, for the current version of the software, you don't have to repeat it to that user again.
Widespread use of AGPL software would lead to even more pop-ups and interstitials offering to distribute source code for each covered component, which the user will see as an annoyance that he or she has to make go away to get to the work that he or she was trying to do. In addition, AGPL software has to track users to determine whether or not an offer to distribute source code was presented to each user. Though FSF recommends these pop-ups and interstitials, EFF appears to recommend against them.
This is the system that Barak Hussain Obama defended and did not fix for the last 8 years. We will have to see what the next administration brings.
Likewise President Bush for eight years. Neither of them did anything about it because neither of them could. U.S. copyright policy is in the hands of the legislative branch. The US Patent and Trademark Office is part of the Department of Commerce, but the Copyright Office is part of the Library of Congress. Blame the Republican senators and the Democratic senators. Better yet, blame the incumbent publishers that provide campaign contributions, super PAC contributions, and in-kind donations of coverage on their affiliated TV news outlets.
Link's not an elf; he's a Hylian. The Zelda universe has its own counterpart to wood elves, called Kokiri. Link in Ocarina of Time was raised by Kokiri.
But at least CBS and Paramount have decided to embrace fan creativity by publishing guidelines for what constitutes an acceptable fan work. Nintendo doesn't at all.
I had a job: maintaining my A minus grade point average in honors classes in high school. It paid not immediately in cash but instead years later in eligibility for a merit-based college scholarship. If you are trying to claim that every child ought to have two jobs, a first for scholarship eligibility and a second for cash, I fail to see how that's practical. Most nights, I was assigned too much homework to be able to complete first it and then a paper route before the subscribers expected to have their newspapers.
When I was 14 (or maybe 13) I had a paper route. Didn't need to ask my parents for permission, either.
Were you recommending sneaking out of the house, walking several blocks to the newspaper company, and putting in an application, in direct disobedience of my parents? It's been years, but I seem to remember that if I failed to let my parents know whenever I left the house, or if they vetoed it and I left anyway, I'd lose privileges once I returned home for having made them "worried sick" and "about to call the police". One such privilege was the privilege to connect my computer to their electric power and operate it on their land.
Just went and got it (actually, bought it off a classmate for $X a week until it was paid off).
With my (professionally diagnosed) social awkwardness and need to leave school immediately to catch the school bus home, I wouldn't have known how to find a classmate off whom to buy a paper route without disrupting the classroom. I wouldn't even have known that one can buy a route off someone else; in fact, I didn't know that until I read your comment.
And I'm sure that sidewalks needed to be shoveled in winter, so snow should have been an opportunity
I don't remember if this was the case when I was growing up, but nowadays, there's someone in our neighborhood who runs a snowblower on about four blocks' worth of sidewalk for free. It's hard to compete with free.
Pay for a domain, web hosting, and advertising. Obtain a TLS certificate for your domain through the Let's Encrypt button of your web host's control panel. Offer your application as a self-signed apk file for download through your website, along with instructions for users to enable Unknown sources or use adb install to add the application to a device.
Cable companies are not monopolies for multichannel pay television except on the north face of a mountain, where Dish Network and DirecTV signals do not reach.
For every subchannel that a U.S. broadcaster offers, the FCC requires the broadcaster to broadcast three hours of educational and informative (E/I) programming for children on that subchannel during hours when children are likely to be watching. This is why even a 24-hour weather radar subchannel will cut to some syndicated E/I show like Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures a few times a week. The cost of syndicating this programming encourages broadcasters to end unpopular subchannels.
Now find a lawfully made copy of the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea playable in the United States. This was the English language dub of Les mondes engloutis, and it aired on Nickelodeon in the mid-1980s.
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I use 50 GB per month on a 2 GB data plan
I don't see your 2 GB/mo plan. I see a 3 GB/mo plan for $40 per month (source).
because data caps are a total joke
The loophole described in the article you cite uses an HTTP proxy in a subpath of /speedtest. First, you need to pay for a VPS and bandwidth to run this proxy. Second, once T-Mobile plugs this loophole, I don't see how to use 50 GB per month because after the monthly data usage allowance expires, throughput decreases to 0.128 Mbps, and 0.128 Mbps used continuously for a month is only 41.4 GB. That's not even enough to download a purchased game whose disc version fills both layers of a BD-ROM.
I find it hard to believe people really don't have an internet connection on their mobile device.
T-Mobile pay-as-you-go users don't have an Internet connection except by A. buying a data pass for $10 that expires after 1 GB or 1 week, whichever comes first, or B. using a WLAN connected to the Internet through a separate carrier, such as home Internet or a library or restaurant hotspot.
From the summary:
You wrote:
For one thing, 39.5% do not. In my personal case, adding a data plan would increase my T-Mobile bill from $3 per month to $50 per month. Both home Internet and cellular Internet are luxuries, of which I can afford one as of January 2017, and my usage pattern (60 GB per month) currently favors home Internet over cellular Internet.
Get the goddamn multiprocess support working.
Firefox 50 supports multiprocess for users with no extensions or select extensions, and Firefox 51 (currently in beta and in use on my PC) will add support for multiprocess with more extensions. To see if you're already using multiprocess, go to about:support and search the page for "Multiprocess". If it shows up as disabled, go to about:config and set browser.tabs.remote.autostart to true. If it shows up as blocked by add-ons, install Firefox Beta. If you were asking why it's not already enabled for more users, I'm guessing that Mozilla is making changes slowly and carefully in order not to break things and thereby leave people without a working web browser.
Fix the excessive memory usage. Reduce the CPU usage.
To fix these, go to about:config and set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true. It's turned off by default because it breaks some websites. These are mostly ad-supported sites that don't know how to fall back to advertisements that do not track the viewer from one site to another, such as WIRED, the INQUIRER, and The Atlantic.
From the summary: "The report shows that 57.8% of the world's population cannot afford broadband internet"
In the 2010s, Internet access has become a necessity to find and keep a job. But how is Internet access at home a necessity? I've found a bunch of people on Slashdot and elsewhere who claim that home Internet is a luxury, as opposed to (say) Internet access at the local public library or in a restaurant.
how does this work with the carriers. are they free to keep your phone off the air once they start doing OS checks ?
That depends on the terms under which each carrier leases spectrum from each national radio communications regulator. Some require carriers to serve subscribers who carry any device that has been certified to follow the relevant protocol and has not been stolen, such as licenses resulting from U.S. auction 73.
If your parents are dead-set on not subscribing to cellular phone service, they could buy a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer, subscribe to Internet access at home, and use that to make calls.
What did people do before hotels started to offer included Internet access as a perk?
Personal assistants could easily use your own personal server.
Would this "personal server" be a device carried in the user's pocket? Or would it be a server application running on the user's home PC, which home ISP terms of service tend to forbid on pain of disconnection? Or would it be a leased virtual private server?
The time to protest was BEFORE the nominations, not after the elections.
They did protest before the primary elections, before the nomination, and before the general election. When else should they have protested?
Firefox OS?! Have you ever actually tried it?!
No. I couldn't seem to find a device running Firefox OS in stores in my part of the United States. I was under the impression that it was marketed mostly in developing countries.
From how to offer source to proxy server users, part of the GPL FAQ:
Widespread use of AGPL software would lead to even more pop-ups and interstitials offering to distribute source code for each covered component, which the user will see as an annoyance that he or she has to make go away to get to the work that he or she was trying to do. In addition, AGPL software has to track users to determine whether or not an offer to distribute source code was presented to each user. Though FSF recommends these pop-ups and interstitials, EFF appears to recommend against them.
This is the system that Barak Hussain Obama defended and did not fix for the last 8 years. We will have to see what the next administration brings.
Likewise President Bush for eight years. Neither of them did anything about it because neither of them could. U.S. copyright policy is in the hands of the legislative branch. The US Patent and Trademark Office is part of the Department of Commerce, but the Copyright Office is part of the Library of Congress. Blame the Republican senators and the Democratic senators. Better yet, blame the incumbent publishers that provide campaign contributions, super PAC contributions, and in-kind donations of coverage on their affiliated TV news outlets.
Link's not an elf; he's a Hylian. The Zelda universe has its own counterpart to wood elves, called Kokiri. Link in Ocarina of Time was raised by Kokiri.
But at least CBS and Paramount have decided to embrace fan creativity by publishing guidelines for what constitutes an acceptable fan work. Nintendo doesn't at all.
I had a job: maintaining my A minus grade point average in honors classes in high school. It paid not immediately in cash but instead years later in eligibility for a merit-based college scholarship. If you are trying to claim that every child ought to have two jobs, a first for scholarship eligibility and a second for cash, I fail to see how that's practical. Most nights, I was assigned too much homework to be able to complete first it and then a paper route before the subscribers expected to have their newspapers.
When I was 14 (or maybe 13) I had a paper route. Didn't need to ask my parents for permission, either.
Were you recommending sneaking out of the house, walking several blocks to the newspaper company, and putting in an application, in direct disobedience of my parents? It's been years, but I seem to remember that if I failed to let my parents know whenever I left the house, or if they vetoed it and I left anyway, I'd lose privileges once I returned home for having made them "worried sick" and "about to call the police". One such privilege was the privilege to connect my computer to their electric power and operate it on their land.
Just went and got it (actually, bought it off a classmate for $X a week until it was paid off).
With my (professionally diagnosed) social awkwardness and need to leave school immediately to catch the school bus home, I wouldn't have known how to find a classmate off whom to buy a paper route without disrupting the classroom. I wouldn't even have known that one can buy a route off someone else; in fact, I didn't know that until I read your comment.
And I'm sure that sidewalks needed to be shoveled in winter, so snow should have been an opportunity
I don't remember if this was the case when I was growing up, but nowadays, there's someone in our neighborhood who runs a snowblower on about four blocks' worth of sidewalk for free. It's hard to compete with free.
Let me make it more explicit:
Pay for a domain, web hosting, and advertising. Obtain a TLS certificate for your domain through the Let's Encrypt button of your web host's control panel. Offer your application as a self-signed apk file for download through your website, along with instructions for users to enable Unknown sources or use adb install to add the application to a device.
My father drove professionally, and my mother worked in a warehouse. I don't see how a minor could have helped with either of those.
My point is that "I grew up in circumstances that gave me a job opportunity; therefore all kids can and ought to find a job" isn't always valid.
Get thee to Unknown sources.
Cable companies are not monopolies for multichannel pay television except on the north face of a mountain, where Dish Network and DirecTV signals do not reach.
Commercials are why expanded basic cable, without extra movie, sports, or family packages, costs $50 per month.
E.g. you might have 8GB RAM, but an older dual core CPU from 2009, and even early quad cores may be a bit slow.
Ranbot claims a dual core CPU from 2009 can still game, though not on highest settings.
How much do the services of a sitter cost?
And that too is infringement, per the ruling in UMG Recordings v. MP3.com.
For every subchannel that a U.S. broadcaster offers, the FCC requires the broadcaster to broadcast three hours of educational and informative (E/I) programming for children on that subchannel during hours when children are likely to be watching. This is why even a 24-hour weather radar subchannel will cut to some syndicated E/I show like Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures a few times a week. The cost of syndicating this programming encourages broadcasters to end unpopular subchannels.
Now find a lawfully made copy of the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea playable in the United States. This was the English language dub of Les mondes engloutis, and it aired on Nickelodeon in the mid-1980s.