I can think of two ways to visit a website without DNS, and both have serious drawbacks.
Add the IP address and name to the hosts file
This breaks whenever the site's IP address changes. This file is traditionally editable only by root, and root access is often impractical to gain on any type of device other than a desktop or traditional laptop PC, especially a smartphone or a tablet computer running a smartphone operating system. (Finally, recommending the use of such a file summons him.)
Enter the IP address in the URL instead of the hostname
This also breaks whenever the site's IP address changes. In addition, it produces a certificate error, as certification authorities issue TLS certificates to operators of hostnames, not IP addresses. If you attempt to work around the certificate error by using legacy cleartext HTTP instead of HTTPS, you lose access to sensitive JavaScript features that browsers have begun to expose only to HTTPS sites, and a man in the middle can easily alter what you see. And either way, you can see only the first site on a given IP address, not other sites hosted on the same address using name-based virtual hosting.
Also, there's nothing preventing you from running your own DNS.
Other than border security intercepting all outbound connections or datagrams on port 53.
I accept that you don't follow people on Twitter. I was pointing out that you still follow people without doing so specifically on Twitter. If the people you follow off Twitter link you to garbage on Twitter, and you don't want to read that kind of garbage, then perhaps you could stop following them off Twitter.
So to rephrase Anonymous Coward: You might want to consider following less terrible people on and off Twitter.
I think 140 might have been to leave room in the SMS-to-Twitter gateway for authenticating your Tweet or for posting a Tweet containing characters outside GSM's 7-bit encoding.
Transformers: Age of Extinction is about the final days of the desktop OS "transformation", with Microsoft Windows permanently losing the desktop war to Linux.
If such a movie existed, Hasbro and Paramount would have to file the claim under trademark law, not copyright law.
Say company P or its representative sends numerous clearly false notices of claimed infringement to search engine G, and P has a website. Does the DMCA require G to keep P's website ranked highly in G's index?
If not, Google could just demote Paramount in search.
Of course it's unfair we can't watch Netflix or YouTube, but that isn't preventing us from participating in text discussions like this.
"I couldn't read the featured article because it was a video, and a request for a transcript went unanswered." That prevents people from participating.
Your T-Mobile version will not work on any of these CDMA2000 networks. In particular, it won't work in those parts of the United States where Verizon has a CDMA2000 signal and T-Mobile has 0 bars.
Would a corporation-free World Wide Web be carried on the present corporate Internet or over a parallel corporation-free Internet? If the latter, how will the non-corporate backers find the means to buy rights of way to lay wires from cities or to lease radio frequency spectrum from national radio regulators?
That doesn't include the cost of finding employment, the cost of obtaining the privilege of working in a less expensive country, the cost of finding somewhere to live, etc.
If "sovereignty of nations" were absolute, it would allow nations to abridge basic human rights, such as the right to get an education and participate in culture. So are you for absolute "sovereignty of nations" or for exceptions to that sovereignty when necessary to uphold human rights?
Isn't it a little disingenuous to call a tablet that's only capable of 1280x800 "HD"? The TV people get away with calling low-res 720p televisions "HD"
1280x720 is still higher than what came before it (704x360 NTSC, 704x480 anamorphic NTSC, 704x432 PAL, or 704x576 anamorphic PAL).
It's just that as technology marches on, the definition of "high" changes. It's like "HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS" above the cartridge slot on the 1989 Sega Genesis when its VDP was just 240p. The Genesis was higher definition than what came before it: two 320x224 pixel scrolling planes with 100% sprite coverage and 61 of 512 colors, as opposed to one 256x224 pixel scrolling plane with 25% sprite coverage and 25-31 of 52-64 colors on the NES or Master System. In fact, the Genesis had a 480i mode (320x448 pixels) that only Sonic 2 ever really used due to video memory concerns.
much the same way the USB people managed to pull the wool over people's eyes with their "Full Speed" vs "High Speed" nonsense
In USB 1, 12 Mbps was the full speed of the interface. High speed (480 Mbps theoretical, 280 Mbps usable) didn't come until USB 2.
but reality is most people know 1080p as "HD".
The marketing terms to distinguish the two are "basic HD" (720p-class) and "full HD" (1080p).
Almost anything filmed is at 24 fps or lower, so 1080i vs. 1080p doesn't really matter because the frame can be reconstructed from two fields. The only time I know of when interlacing causes an uncorrectable problem is during rapid action or pans in live sports.
In its opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft upholding the Bono Act, the Supreme Court recognized the possibility of "legislative misbehavior" to repeatedly extend the copyright term. So far there have been only two, in both cases to harmonize to the European standard of "life of grandchildren". The Copyright Act of 1976 and the interim extensions that preceded it were the first to adopt the "life of grandchildren" standard, and the Bono Act merely updated it for longer life expectancy. Unless there's a breakthrough in health care that dramatically extends the life of grandchildren, the copyright lobby will have to argue anew that a further extension past the life of grandchildren is not "legislative misbehavior".
You have to obey them when selling to U.S. customers, or on a platform run by a U.S. business, or when advertising on a U.S. forum such as Slashdot. And much of copyright is governed by international treaties. Or in which case was this sort of thing decided the other way in your country?
Fixable in theory by playing in portrait mode, the way one would on an 8-bit Game Boy or a Game Boy Advance SP. But in practice, see below.
it feels like you are playing with a Turbo Touch 360
I own a Turbo Touch for NES, and I can assure you that saying a flat sheet of glass is like a Turbo Touch is an insult to the Turbo Touch.
No D-pad edge
The Turbo Touch's touch area is recessed fairly deeply so that the thumb can stop near the edge.
No D-pad ridges
The surface inside the Turbo Touch's touch area has ridges on all eight directions so that the thumb can align itself straight or diagonal.
No raised buttons
The face buttons of a Turbo Touch are raised physical buttons, the same as every other controller from that era.
Slashdot Mirror
You don't need DNS to visit a website.
I can think of two ways to visit a website without DNS, and both have serious drawbacks.
Add the IP address and name to the hosts file This breaks whenever the site's IP address changes. This file is traditionally editable only by root, and root access is often impractical to gain on any type of device other than a desktop or traditional laptop PC, especially a smartphone or a tablet computer running a smartphone operating system. (Finally, recommending the use of such a file summons him.) Enter the IP address in the URL instead of the hostname This also breaks whenever the site's IP address changes. In addition, it produces a certificate error, as certification authorities issue TLS certificates to operators of hostnames, not IP addresses. If you attempt to work around the certificate error by using legacy cleartext HTTP instead of HTTPS, you lose access to sensitive JavaScript features that browsers have begun to expose only to HTTPS sites, and a man in the middle can easily alter what you see. And either way, you can see only the first site on a given IP address, not other sites hosted on the same address using name-based virtual hosting.Also, there's nothing preventing you from running your own DNS.
Other than border security intercepting all outbound connections or datagrams on port 53.
I accept that you don't follow people on Twitter. I was pointing out that you still follow people without doing so specifically on Twitter. If the people you follow off Twitter link you to garbage on Twitter, and you don't want to read that kind of garbage, then perhaps you could stop following them off Twitter.
So to rephrase Anonymous Coward: You might want to consider following less terrible people on and off Twitter.
I consume non-Twitter media
Nothing is being consumed.
use my non-existent Twitter account to follow better people
The word "follow" existed before Twitter. You view media published by particular people. Therefore, you follow those people.
I think 140 might have been to leave room in the SMS-to-Twitter gateway for authenticating your Tweet or for posting a Tweet containing characters outside GSM's 7-bit encoding.
You incorrectly assume that I follow anyone on Twitter. My exposure to it is pretty much exclusively what other people find good enough to link to
Then you are in fact following said "other people", even if said following is through a mechanism other than Twitter's follow button.
I can't count the number of Medium.com posts I have read which could be summed up in a couple of sentences
Medium.com should start Small.com and encourage users to create an abstract of each article. Then Small.com would just have the abstracts.
Transformers: Age of Extinction is about the final days of the desktop OS "transformation", with Microsoft Windows permanently losing the desktop war to Linux.
If such a movie existed, Hasbro and Paramount would have to file the claim under trademark law, not copyright law.
The legal term you're looking for is slander of title, which came up in SCO v. Novell.
Say company P or its representative sends numerous clearly false notices of claimed infringement to search engine G, and P has a website. Does the DMCA require G to keep P's website ranked highly in G's index?
If not, Google could just demote Paramount in search.
Of course it's unfair we can't watch Netflix or YouTube, but that isn't preventing us from participating in text discussions like this.
"I couldn't read the featured article because it was a video, and a request for a transcript went unanswered." That prevents people from participating.
Registration at aim.com was free for a long time (maybe it still is?) and I talk to a lot of people via AIM who were never AOL users
That's what I meant by a "free tier AOL account", because you can log in at AOL.com with your AIM credentials.
Last time I checked, AOL Instant Messenger needed a AOL account, at least one on the free tier. Or has everybody switched from AIM to Skype?
Your T-Mobile version will not work on any of these CDMA2000 networks. In particular, it won't work in those parts of the United States where Verizon has a CDMA2000 signal and T-Mobile has 0 bars.
Would a corporation-free World Wide Web be carried on the present corporate Internet or over a parallel corporation-free Internet? If the latter, how will the non-corporate backers find the means to buy rights of way to lay wires from cities or to lease radio frequency spectrum from national radio regulators?
That doesn't include the cost of finding employment, the cost of obtaining the privilege of working in a less expensive country, the cost of finding somewhere to live, etc.
Education is a basic human need, and Internet is (among other things) a tool for fulfilling that need.
Moving itself has a cost.
If "sovereignty of nations" were absolute, it would allow nations to abridge basic human rights, such as the right to get an education and participate in culture. So are you for absolute "sovereignty of nations" or for exceptions to that sovereignty when necessary to uphold human rights?
Isn't it a little disingenuous to call a tablet that's only capable of 1280x800 "HD"? The TV people get away with calling low-res 720p televisions "HD"
1280x720 is still higher than what came before it (704x360 NTSC, 704x480 anamorphic NTSC, 704x432 PAL, or 704x576 anamorphic PAL).
It's just that as technology marches on, the definition of "high" changes. It's like "HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS" above the cartridge slot on the 1989 Sega Genesis when its VDP was just 240p. The Genesis was higher definition than what came before it: two 320x224 pixel scrolling planes with 100% sprite coverage and 61 of 512 colors, as opposed to one 256x224 pixel scrolling plane with 25% sprite coverage and 25-31 of 52-64 colors on the NES or Master System. In fact, the Genesis had a 480i mode (320x448 pixels) that only Sonic 2 ever really used due to video memory concerns.
much the same way the USB people managed to pull the wool over people's eyes with their "Full Speed" vs "High Speed" nonsense
In USB 1, 12 Mbps was the full speed of the interface. High speed (480 Mbps theoretical, 280 Mbps usable) didn't come until USB 2.
but reality is most people know 1080p as "HD".
The marketing terms to distinguish the two are "basic HD" (720p-class) and "full HD" (1080p).
Almost anything filmed is at 24 fps or lower, so 1080i vs. 1080p doesn't really matter because the frame can be reconstructed from two fields. The only time I know of when interlacing causes an uncorrectable problem is during rapid action or pans in live sports.
In its opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft upholding the Bono Act, the Supreme Court recognized the possibility of "legislative misbehavior" to repeatedly extend the copyright term. So far there have been only two, in both cases to harmonize to the European standard of "life of grandchildren". The Copyright Act of 1976 and the interim extensions that preceded it were the first to adopt the "life of grandchildren" standard, and the Bono Act merely updated it for longer life expectancy. Unless there's a breakthrough in health care that dramatically extends the life of grandchildren, the copyright lobby will have to argue anew that a further extension past the life of grandchildren is not "legislative misbehavior".
Do I look like I give a fuck about US laws?
You have to obey them when selling to U.S. customers, or on a platform run by a U.S. business, or when advertising on a U.S. forum such as Slashdot. And much of copyright is governed by international treaties. Or in which case was this sort of thing decided the other way in your country?
The last time someone tried porting an Idthesda game to the browser, the result was a DMCA takedown.
there are free alternatives [to Super Mario Run] that are by no way any worse.
Fuck, if everything fails, just write one yourself
And run the risk of being sued for look-and-feel infringement.
So not only are your thumbs obscuring the view
Fixable in theory by playing in portrait mode, the way one would on an 8-bit Game Boy or a Game Boy Advance SP. But in practice, see below.
it feels like you are playing with a Turbo Touch 360
I own a Turbo Touch for NES, and I can assure you that saying a flat sheet of glass is like a Turbo Touch is an insult to the Turbo Touch.
No D-pad edge The Turbo Touch's touch area is recessed fairly deeply so that the thumb can stop near the edge. No D-pad ridges The surface inside the Turbo Touch's touch area has ridges on all eight directions so that the thumb can align itself straight or diagonal. No raised buttons The face buttons of a Turbo Touch are raised physical buttons, the same as every other controller from that era.