Those are the same link. And when viewed through Firefox Tracking Protection, with no specific ad-blocking extensions installed, the text of said hyperbolic article is as follows (screenshot):
Here’s The Thing With Ad Blockers
We get it: Ads aren’t what you’re here for. But ads help us keep the lights on. So, add us to your ad blocker’s whitelist or pay $1 per week for an ad-free version of WIRED. Either way, you are supporting our journalism. We’d really appreciate it.
From the page to which "whitelist" links:
In Firefox “Tracking Protection” may activate our adblock notice. It can be temporarily disabled for a browsing session by clicking the “shield” icon in the url bar if visible and following the instructions.
International travel is a luxury. To save money compared to what your carrier charges for international roaming, you could find Wi-Fi, or you could whip out your passport (for ID pursuant to applicable know-your-customer laws) and buy a burner SIM for each country to which you travel.
"Wavelet" is just a fancy name for quadrature mirror filters (QMF). The ATRAC codec in MiniDisc audio used QMF back in 1992, making it prior art for general QMF patents expiring before 2013. Or are there more specific patents for use of QMF in images?
It's a patent and litigation minefield.
Each mine has a seven-digit number attached to it. Which numbers apply to the use of wavelets in JPEG 2000?
It's read from disk and parsed every time you resolve anything. Linearly.
Hosts data, like all other data, is loaded from disk initially but read from RAM once cached (far faster)
KiloByte's point is that the OS's hosts lookup is O(n), while a purpose-built local DNS server that reads a hosts file can manage O(log(n)) using explicit cache data structures. The speedup when you resolve a site outside your top 50 can outweigh the slowdown for switching in and out of kernel mode. And it'd have the same security benefits as your hosts file, plus the ability to use wildcards.
You don't need to use google services to do Android development, you need to use their services if you want to develop against their optional libraries hosted ontop of android or if you want to publish into their play store
In practice, most users of Android phones and tablets in use in North America and Europe check Google Play Store first if not only. If your app is of use mostly to Fire tablet owners, you can publish in Amazon Appstore. If your app is for hardcore users of free software, you can publish in F-Droid. If your app's text is in Chinese, you can publish in Chinese stores. Otherwise, you do "want to publish into their play store".
macOS also has a hosts file. I haven't tried it in Wine, but I'm assuming it'll work because I don't think Delphi programs to manipulate text exercise any obscure Win32 behaviors.
Any video codec can in theory be turned into a still image codec by wrapping a new container around a keyframe's bitstream. JPEG is similar to MPEG-1/2, WebP is based on VP8, and BPG is based on HEVC.
Edge loads the ads. Chrome with Adblock loads the "disable your adblocker or sign up for a subscription" page. How can the cost of a subscription be converted to energy?
The HEVC patent pools (plural!) are probably what's blocking adoption of BPG, which is based on an HEVC I-frame. But which royalty-bearing patent sidelined JPEG 2000?
Then compile your own Chromium and Firefox. If they block that, then as a side effect, it'll also block use of Visual Studio to build and test Windows Store apps for Windows 10 and Windows Phone.
I don't have to use Google. In fact, I use DuckDuckGo instead. I pretty much have to use Windows for business reasons. You see the difference?
It depends on what industry you're in. In some industries, you can get away with Wine. In others, such as Android application development, you need to use at least some Google services.
Someone with a good monitor and good HD camcorder could record a telesync, which is a careful cam with line-dubbed audio. How is a telesync from an HD source not comparable to DVD quality?
Do not be confused by the existence of a blanket prohibition that has regulatory exemptions
This has fallen into a definition debate. By "regulated" I meant subject to such a blanket prohibition. We're agreeing, just using different words.
What in federal regulation of cable TV and Internet guarantees access to local rights of way for competing last mile providers?
It is the local franchise CONTRACT, which is federally prohibited from being exclusive.
If I wasn't clear, I was asking for a citation in USC or CFR that forbids a city from blocking a provider from, say, tearing up city-owned roads when it reasonably needs to.
That's the entire point of SecureBoot. A defense against root kits.
Then why isn't there a physical switch on the device to set it in a mode where the user can edit the list of operating systems that Secure Boot trusts?
Microsoft is not taking a feature away from you
Then what should the device be useful for once support runs out?
And the answer is not buying a phone (or tablet) without root access.
Netbooks had root access because they were capable of running desktop operating systems. Netbooks disappeared in 2012, around the time Surface came out. Coincidence?
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Why not go straight to the quoted Wired article with the hyperbolic title?
Those are the same link. And when viewed through Firefox Tracking Protection, with no specific ad-blocking extensions installed, the text of said hyperbolic article is as follows (screenshot):
From the page to which "whitelist" links:
See the editorial "An invitation to settle matters with @Forbes, @Wired and other publishers" by Doc Searls. Apparently the administrators of WIRED are too incompetent to switch to advertisements not based on tracking viewers' browsing habits.
International travel is a luxury. To save money compared to what your carrier charges for international roaming, you could find Wi-Fi, or you could whip out your passport (for ID pursuant to applicable know-your-customer laws) and buy a burner SIM for each country to which you travel.
It uses wavelet compression.
"Wavelet" is just a fancy name for quadrature mirror filters (QMF). The ATRAC codec in MiniDisc audio used QMF back in 1992, making it prior art for general QMF patents expiring before 2013. Or are there more specific patents for use of QMF in images?
It's a patent and litigation minefield.
Each mine has a seven-digit number attached to it. Which numbers apply to the use of wavelets in JPEG 2000?
It's read from disk and parsed every time you resolve anything. Linearly.
Hosts data, like all other data, is loaded from disk initially but read from RAM once cached (far faster)
KiloByte's point is that the OS's hosts lookup is O(n), while a purpose-built local DNS server that reads a hosts file can manage O(log(n)) using explicit cache data structures. The speedup when you resolve a site outside your top 50 can outweigh the slowdown for switching in and out of kernel mode. And it'd have the same security benefits as your hosts file, plus the ability to use wildcards.
You don't need to use google services to do Android development, you need to use their services if you want to develop against their optional libraries hosted ontop of android or if you want to publish into their play store
In practice, most users of Android phones and tablets in use in North America and Europe check Google Play Store first if not only. If your app is of use mostly to Fire tablet owners, you can publish in Amazon Appstore. If your app is for hardcore users of free software, you can publish in F-Droid. If your app's text is in Chinese, you can publish in Chinese stores. Otherwise, you do "want to publish into their play store".
Where's a good place to try things on a Mac without owning one?
macOS also has a hosts file. I haven't tried it in Wine, but I'm assuming it'll work because I don't think Delphi programs to manipulate text exercise any obscure Win32 behaviors.
The activity tracking is used to determine which SHIT to recommend that each visitor BUY.
Any video codec can in theory be turned into a still image codec by wrapping a new container around a keyframe's bitstream. JPEG is similar to MPEG-1/2, WebP is based on VP8, and BPG is based on HEVC.
Edge loads the ads. Chrome with Adblock loads the "disable your adblocker or sign up for a subscription" page. How can the cost of a subscription be converted to energy?
The HEVC patent pools (plural!) are probably what's blocking adoption of BPG, which is based on an HEVC I-frame. But which royalty-bearing patent sidelined JPEG 2000?
Then compile your own Chromium and Firefox. If they block that, then as a side effect, it'll also block use of Visual Studio to build and test Windows Store apps for Windows 10 and Windows Phone.
Chrome will automatically unload the contents of tabs you can't see in low memory conditions.
Which makes it harder to open things in tabs to read later while offline, as it'll often try to reload them from the Internet instead of cache.
I don't have to use Google. In fact, I use DuckDuckGo instead. I pretty much have to use Windows for business reasons. You see the difference?
It depends on what industry you're in. In some industries, you can get away with Wine. In others, such as Android application development, you need to use at least some Google services.
If the video publisher has chosen to require Protected Media Path, the recorder won't capture $#!+.
Someone with a good monitor and good HD camcorder could record a telesync, which is a careful cam with line-dubbed audio. How is a telesync from an HD source not comparable to DVD quality?
Do not be confused by the existence of a blanket prohibition that has regulatory exemptions
This has fallen into a definition debate. By "regulated" I meant subject to such a blanket prohibition. We're agreeing, just using different words.
What in federal regulation of cable TV and Internet guarantees access to local rights of way for competing last mile providers?
It is the local franchise CONTRACT, which is federally prohibited from being exclusive.
If I wasn't clear, I was asking for a citation in USC or CFR that forbids a city from blocking a provider from, say, tearing up city-owned roads when it reasonably needs to.
Sure they were ideal for a *very* small niche but for most people their workflow was better served by a tablet or an ultrabook.
When netbooks disappeared, Ultrabook laptops replaced them for thrice the price. Coincidence?
The cost of disposing of e-waste distracts the public from PURCHASING and CONSUMING.
Unity is meant as a game engine.
If a particular statute provides no private right of action, the DOJ can control the courts by refusing to even open a case.
Patching an exploit vector without giving the device's owner a way not to need the exploit vector is a bad thing.
That's the entire point of SecureBoot. A defense against root kits.
Then why isn't there a physical switch on the device to set it in a mode where the user can edit the list of operating systems that Secure Boot trusts?
Microsoft is not taking a feature away from you
Then what should the device be useful for once support runs out?
And the answer is not buying a phone (or tablet) without root access.
Netbooks had root access because they were capable of running desktop operating systems. Netbooks disappeared in 2012, around the time Surface came out. Coincidence?
Sneakernet was often cheaper than what AT&T was charging for a long distance call to a BBS in the next city.