Even if iTunes purchases don't have DRM, one still has to install DRM to use it. Last time I checked, the iTunes client application was available only for macOS (hardware locked with "Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext"), Windows (Genuine Advantage anyone), and iOS. Or since when was iTunes made available for an operating system that doesn't itself require DRM?
Do kids not work summer jobs and part time through high school anymore?
They do not, for several reasons that I've been able to dig up.
State child labor laws severely limit what tasks children under 16 are allowed to perform for hire. In a restaurant, for example, Indiana forbids food preparation until 16, leaving server/cashier as the only available job for 14 and 15 year olds. Even then, many restaurants appear to have a policy of not hiring children under 16 even in that position because training new hires for more than one position lets an employee fill in for another employee who could not make it to work that day.
In the jobless recovery that followed the recession of 2008, many adults have settled for underemployment in near-minimum-wage jobs. Thus kids get crowded out.
Over the past decade, as a traffic safety measure, states have raised the license age and required 50-120 hours of verifiable supervised driving on a permit. Even those with a license don't drive because required liability insurance is unaffordable until age 25. Not all roads have bike lanes, and thunderstorms and snow aren't particularly conducive to reliance on cycling. And many near-minimum-wage jobs require to be willing to work late evenings or Sundays, during which no public transportation is available (source: fwcitilink.com). Thus kids can't commute to and from work.
Many students have found that when they try to fit a job and high school or college homework into the same day, their grades suffer.
I have cousins in one or more of each of the above situations. If you can describe good workarounds, I would appreciate them.
There's one way to emulate that in the current model:
Register domain.
Generate keypair on your server. The CSR, derived from the public key, acts as a fingerprint.
Upload CSR to CA owned by registrar.
Registrar-CA issues certificate.
Use HTTP Public Key Pinning to ensure only your registrar can issue certificates.
In theory, there's another way:
Register domain.
Generate keypair on your server.
Add a self-signed certificate to your domain using a DANE TLSA record.
Sign your domain with DNSSEC.
But as I understand it, the big problem with DNSSEC right now is that the root zone is signed with only a 1024-bit key, and for this reason, browser makers are dragging their feet on recognizing DANE.
The model you propose is called trust on first use (TOFU). TOFU is vulnerable to a man in the middle (MITM) on the first connection, but this can be worked around with the Perspectives add-on, which checks the server through multiple routes through the Internet to see if the certificate matches.
Desktop (and to a lesser extent) laptop processors use multiple pipelines to improve performance and limit stalls
ARM chips have multiple cores, each with its own pipeline. In fact, ARM processors using a "big.LITTLE" microarchitecture have sets of performance-optimized and power-optimized cores for use during different power management states. Are you referring to "superscalar", in which the instruction decoder reorders multiple instructions from one thread to run them in one cycle? Or are you referring to simultaneous multithreading (SMT), where two instruction decoders, one on each thread, feed into a single set of execute units? Intel Atom uses SMT to hide stalls, as do recent AMD microarchitectures where the two cores in a "module" have their own integer execute units but share FPU and other resources.
Android already counts how much data each native app already uses. This quota system would apply to web apps, which the OS can't tell apart because they all run within the web browser.
Where are the new features that people actually need? Like for example being able to watch a live video stream in a browser without being a web guru and relying in complex server infrastructure.
Have you even looked at the "video" tag? It is exactly that simple.
The HTML5 specification does not specify a particular streaming method. It is expected that HTTP 1.1 progressive streaming is at least supported. Adaptive/live streaming may be supported as a UA extension.
A Google search for HTTP 1.1 progressive streaming led to this page, which equates it with seeking in a prerecorded stream using HTTP range requests. But CptLoRes was referring to live streams, not prerecorded streams. The same page also states that not all non-Apple browsers support Apple's HTTP Live Streaming spec.
Assume for a moment that the average iOS user spends 20 times as much money online as the average Android user. If that's the case, then 14% of the users represent 14*20/(14*20+86)*100 = 77% of the money. I don't remember where I read this 20-to-1 figure, but it at least appears consistent with the IBM Commerce report.
Satellite's off-peak is typically the wee hours of the morning like 1 to 5 AM local time, when your devices are supposed to be waking from sleep and downloading operating system and application update packages.
I am around WiFi most of the time and can download music to listen to while driving.
And you pay a lot of money for that car insurance. My cousin doesn't drive because when he shopped for car insurance, he got quotes that by themselves are more expensive than a monthly bus pass, even without counting fuel and maintenance.
Point is that a lot of people ride the bus, and they expect to use that time productively.
If you work from home, get fiber, cable, or DSL. If you work from a seat on the city bus, as I often do, then download the builds before you leave home, and schedule video conferences for when you are home. If you are trying to use cellular to work from home in a rural area where fiber, cable, and DSL are unavailable, move.
it's impossible for the average person to gauge data usage.
In a comment to a post on the BlockAdblock blog, I suggested how to fix this at the level of the user agent. A browser can establish a 1 MB quota for each page view, pause the page's connection once the quota runs out, and give the user "Add 1 MB" and "Add 10 MB" buttons to resume downloading.
You can still do without cellular data altogether, instead relying on home Internet, Wi-Fi hotspots open to the public,* and application support for offline use. Then you can use a flip phone for calls, or (on GSM carriers) you can buy a voice-only SIM and activate it online before inserting it into your compatible smartphone.
* Availability varies by location and depends on applicable liability law *cough*Störerhaftung*cough*.
Satellite Internet uses peak and off-peak pricing. Buyers of cellular service, on the other hand, have shown that they prefer simplicity in the billing arrangement.
The games that aren't available are in the usual publisher rights hell, like NOLF
That or they were never ported to the PC in the first place. Even games that aren't first-party often get ported to multiple consoles, such as the PS2 and Xbox, PS3 and Xbox 360, or PS4 and Xbox One, with no PC version. This could be caused by a lack of resources, by greater infringement rates of the publisher's past PC releases compared to its past console releases, or by the game focusing on local multiplayer (though this last reason has started to diminish with Steam Link). Or do you consider lack of a PC version a subset of "publisher rights hell"?
I can't speak for the other anonymous contributor. But once I graduated from college in 2003 and had to buy my own software instead of relying on my institution's site license, I had already tasted the proverbial Kool-Aid of the free software movement, having replaced NeoPaint with GIMP as my primary paint program on Windows. So I didn't buy WinRAR in part because of the author's active refusal to document the RAR format. I guess I was spoiled by Phil Katz's full documentation of PKZIP's format (APPNOTE.TXT), which allowed Info-ZIP contributors to create a competing free tool. But the license of unRAR prohibits reverse engineering to create such documentation. So I skipped RAR and stuck to Zip. And by the time I needed something that could make solid archives with more than 32K per file (the window limit of DEFLATE as used in TGZ files), 7-Zip was ready.
For HDD, or for SSD? A single physical storage device may be internally organized as two or more independent block devices. For various reasons, this is more practical for flash memory than for spinning rust.
Unless you don't understand what the acronym RAID means.
It's supposed to mean "redundant array of independent drives" or the like. But with RAID 0 obviating the "redundant" part of the expansion, "array of independent drives" sounds like what's going on inside an SSD, with a controller in front of a bunch of NAND flash memories.
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Even if iTunes purchases don't have DRM, one still has to install DRM to use it. Last time I checked, the iTunes client application was available only for macOS (hardware locked with "Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext"), Windows (Genuine Advantage anyone), and iOS. Or since when was iTunes made available for an operating system that doesn't itself require DRM?
Do kids not work summer jobs and part time through high school anymore?
They do not, for several reasons that I've been able to dig up.
I have cousins in one or more of each of the above situations. If you can describe good workarounds, I would appreciate them.
There's one way to emulate that in the current model:
In theory, there's another way:
But as I understand it, the big problem with DNSSEC right now is that the root zone is signed with only a 1024-bit key, and for this reason, browser makers are dragging their feet on recognizing DANE.
The model you propose is called trust on first use (TOFU). TOFU is vulnerable to a man in the middle (MITM) on the first connection, but this can be worked around with the Perspectives add-on, which checks the server through multiple routes through the Internet to see if the certificate matches.
Desktop (and to a lesser extent) laptop processors use multiple pipelines to improve performance and limit stalls
ARM chips have multiple cores, each with its own pipeline. In fact, ARM processors using a "big.LITTLE" microarchitecture have sets of performance-optimized and power-optimized cores for use during different power management states. Are you referring to "superscalar", in which the instruction decoder reorders multiple instructions from one thread to run them in one cycle? Or are you referring to simultaneous multithreading (SMT), where two instruction decoders, one on each thread, feed into a single set of execute units? Intel Atom uses SMT to hide stalls, as do recent AMD microarchitectures where the two cores in a "module" have their own integer execute units but share FPU and other resources.
Android already counts how much data each native app already uses. This quota system would apply to web apps, which the OS can't tell apart because they all run within the web browser.
Where are the new features that people actually need? Like for example being able to watch a live video stream in a browser without being a web guru and relying in complex server infrastructure.
Have you even looked at the "video" tag? It is exactly that simple.
W3C's description of the <video> element states:
A Google search for HTTP 1.1 progressive streaming led to this page, which equates it with seeking in a prerecorded stream using HTTP range requests. But CptLoRes was referring to live streams, not prerecorded streams. The same page also states that not all non-Apple browsers support Apple's HTTP Live Streaming spec.
Pop-up blocking features in web browsers killed user-resizable pop-up windows.
Share of users, share of traffic, and share of revenue differ.
Safari has a 4.28% market share on the desktop
Among people willing to buy products and services from Internet businesses, the market share is probably bigger than 4.28%.
and a 14% share on mobile.
Among people willing to buy products and services from Internet businesses, the market share is probably bigger than 14%. Tim Stenovec of Tech Insider summarized a report from IBM Commerce stating that iPhone and iPad users outspent Android users over 3 to 1 on Black Friday 2015. The average iOS user also spends over 9 times as much on paid apps and IAPs than the average Android user.
Assume for a moment that the average iOS user spends 20 times as much money online as the average Android user. If that's the case, then 14% of the users represent 14*20/(14*20+86)*100 = 77% of the money. I don't remember where I read this 20-to-1 figure, but it at least appears consistent with the IBM Commerce report.
Do they say "sustained speed" in the ads? No. They say "fast".
Satellite's off-peak is typically the wee hours of the morning like 1 to 5 AM local time, when your devices are supposed to be waking from sleep and downloading operating system and application update packages.
I am around WiFi most of the time and can download music to listen to while driving.
And you pay a lot of money for that car insurance. My cousin doesn't drive because when he shopped for car insurance, he got quotes that by themselves are more expensive than a monthly bus pass, even without counting fuel and maintenance.
Point is that a lot of people ride the bus, and they expect to use that time productively.
If you work from home, get fiber, cable, or DSL. If you work from a seat on the city bus, as I often do, then download the builds before you leave home, and schedule video conferences for when you are home. If you are trying to use cellular to work from home in a rural area where fiber, cable, and DSL are unavailable, move.
it's impossible for the average person to gauge data usage.
In a comment to a post on the BlockAdblock blog, I suggested how to fix this at the level of the user agent. A browser can establish a 1 MB quota for each page view, pause the page's connection once the quota runs out, and give the user "Add 1 MB" and "Add 10 MB" buttons to resume downloading.
How do you recommend that people "Get a real internet connection" that is useful while, say, riding public transit to and from work?
You can still do without cellular data altogether, instead relying on home Internet, Wi-Fi hotspots open to the public,* and application support for offline use. Then you can use a flip phone for calls, or (on GSM carriers) you can buy a voice-only SIM and activate it online before inserting it into your compatible smartphone.
* Availability varies by location and depends on applicable liability law *cough*Störerhaftung*cough*.
Saying someone isn't "using" airtime on a cell tower is like saying someone isn't "using" time in a hotel room.
Oh bugger off, my wireless plan costs as much as my broadband comnection. It has more latency and less utility. So no, I'm not paying more for less.
Of course it has more utility. You can use it away from home, such as in an establishment without public Wi-Fi or on public transit.
But, I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
"There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's WimpyCard."
It's amusing to see how going into short-term debt for fast food has become the norm since the Popeye era.
Satellite Internet uses peak and off-peak pricing. Buyers of cellular service, on the other hand, have shown that they prefer simplicity in the billing arrangement.
The games that aren't available are in the usual publisher rights hell, like NOLF
That or they were never ported to the PC in the first place. Even games that aren't first-party often get ported to multiple consoles, such as the PS2 and Xbox, PS3 and Xbox 360, or PS4 and Xbox One, with no PC version. This could be caused by a lack of resources, by greater infringement rates of the publisher's past PC releases compared to its past console releases, or by the game focusing on local multiplayer (though this last reason has started to diminish with Steam Link). Or do you consider lack of a PC version a subset of "publisher rights hell"?
Not all industrialized countries recognize the same sort of statutory damage awards as the United States.
I can't speak for the other anonymous contributor. But once I graduated from college in 2003 and had to buy my own software instead of relying on my institution's site license, I had already tasted the proverbial Kool-Aid of the free software movement, having replaced NeoPaint with GIMP as my primary paint program on Windows. So I didn't buy WinRAR in part because of the author's active refusal to document the RAR format. I guess I was spoiled by Phil Katz's full documentation of PKZIP's format (APPNOTE.TXT), which allowed Info-ZIP contributors to create a competing free tool. But the license of unRAR prohibits reverse engineering to create such documentation. So I skipped RAR and stuck to Zip. And by the time I needed something that could make solid archives with more than 32K per file (the window limit of DEFLATE as used in TGZ files), 7-Zip was ready.
The Lenovo Yoga 900 is an ultralight 13" laptop. Which Purism, System76, or Tuxedo Computers laptop is as small and light as a Yoga 900?
RAID and a single drive doesn't make any sense.
For HDD, or for SSD? A single physical storage device may be internally organized as two or more independent block devices. For various reasons, this is more practical for flash memory than for spinning rust.
Unless you don't understand what the acronym RAID means.
It's supposed to mean "redundant array of independent drives" or the like. But with RAID 0 obviating the "redundant" part of the expansion, "array of independent drives" sounds like what's going on inside an SSD, with a controller in front of a bunch of NAND flash memories.