All we need to know is how most people interpret a symbol
That's easier said than done. Sometimes just asking someone what a symbol or word means, if the symbol or word is offensive, is enough to trigger punishment for having used the offensive symbol or word. Concrete example: hearing discussion on the playground, not knowing what a "blow job" is, and asking your teacher.
Should be denied? Of course not, you are most welcome to launch an operating system UI that enables what you want.
Locked bootloaders and restricted device drivers make it <understatement>kind of hard</understatement> to install an operating system with a different UI on still-manufactured hardware.
On the other hand, are you implying that current operating system UI vendors should be forced to use a paradigm that they don't think their user base has the brains to use?
I don't demand this from operating system publishers as much as from device makers. Too many devices make it impractical to replace the operating system with a free one, and many of them don't have a free-software-friendly competitor in the same size class. I complain about Android because it's the closest thing to a 10" Linux laptop since conventional 10" laptops were discontinued at the end of 2012, for instance.
You test the binary blob against the requirements of the ABI. If the kernel crashes harden and protect the interface further.
At some point, you end up having to build all the overhead of a microkernel in order to "harden and protect the interface" against popular yet defective binary drivers that violate "the requirements of the ABI".
Systemd is the worst thing to have happened to Linux, and the best thing to have happened to the BSDs!
That'll be true so long as hardware makers play nice with the FreeBSD hardware support team.
I've posted maybe once or twice in the last 12 hours, if not longer, yet I kept get the fucking "You must wait a little bit before using this resource; please try again later." error message.
That's because Anonymous Coward has made a lot more posts than that in the past 12 hours. Have you considered making an account instead of posting as Anonymous Coward? Other things to try: Are you sharing an IP address with co-workers? Is your ISP applying carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to conserve scarce public IPv4 addresses?
The last time someone tried federated subscription, it was called Adult Check, run by a company called Cybernet. I guess the name meant "You're an adult; you can pay for nice things now." But one problem with Adult Check's business model was that as a payment processor, it was vulnerable to accusations of vicarious copyright infringement. When participating publishers included infringing copies of photographs from Perfect 10 magazine on their sites, the publisher of Perfect 10 successfully sued, and as far as I can tell, Adult Check shut down soon after.
How do you plan to shield your business from your participating publishers' infringement?
Weirdly enough, Google's Calendar and some other things are Iframed HTTPS but work whether embedded in an encrypted page or not. I would love to know how they do that.
An HTTPS frame inside an HTTP page always works. The reverse does not.
As if the vast multitudes have an attention span to be able to use multiple windows.
I seem to remember that the original Mac and the Apple IIGS shipped with a tutorial explaining the basics of overlapping windows. Is it that people are incapable of learning? Or that they haven't been given the time and means to learn? Or that they're being actively blocked from learning, as is the case on tablets running a smartphone OS?
With a full keyboard, you can do much more
The Transformer Book and Pixel C are tablets that ship with detachable keyboards, for example. Yet they have the same all maximized all the time policy.
but the learning curve is more than what people are ready to climb.
Even if it is the case that most people are unwilling to take the time to learn to use multiple windows, are you implying that multiple windows ought to be denied to people who can use them?
Your analogy fails when Netflix and Hulu are month-to-month for the price of a couple of Starbucks Chai-Latte-GMOFree-Organic-Vanilla-Salted-Caramel-instant-weight-gain-heart-attack-diabetes-in-a-cup.
$10 to rent one episode is still a little much, especially when the particular single episodes that you want to watch are spread out across Netflix, Hulu, and what have you, and there is little if any syndication among these sites.
Your analogy also fails that there/are/ ways to buy individual articles as e-books. As a matter of fact, paying by the article was pioneered by the scientific journals/three decades ago/.
And I imagine that most people are unwilling to pay $35 per article, which I've gathered is the going rate for articles in closed-access peer-reviewed journals, for things that aren't articles in peer-reviewed journals. They certainly won't pay that much for random news articles found through a search engine or social media; in fact, that's more expensive than a whole year of access to several paywalled sites. A more reasonable rate of 10 cents per page view is not possible using present payment methods because of per-transaction fees levied by the major credit card networks and the Chinese Bitcoin mining cartel.
What is syndication?
Something for which a culture has not yet developed.
Where is the micropayment system that was talked about/last century/ so I can pay a couple of cents for an article effortlessly?
I ask the same question. Credit card networks still charge merchants a "swipe fee" in the tens of US cents for even the smallest transactions. Bitcoin was originally promoted by some of its fans as a microtransaction method. But as it has grown more popular, the cartel controlling the majority of mining power has chosen to keep transactions scarce rather than allowing larger blocks, so that they can skim transaction fees that have risen even higher than those of major credit cards.
VPN is a tunnel; VPS is a server. With a VPS, you "A. have root on your web server". But for someone currently paying $5 to $8 per month for web hosting, which VPS providers in that price range are any good?
The fear that caused the FSF to draft the GPL was that a publisher could take a permissively licensed free program private, make improvements, and lock the improvements behind copyright. But if there were no copyright in computer programs, this fear is moot because people could lawfully share the results of reverse-engineering said proprietary improvements.
So was Facebook. For the first two and a half years of Facebook's existence, only people who could prove an affiliation with a participating university were eligible for a Facebook account. It was first tested at Harvard, then other Ivy League schools, followed by the grand opening to university students across North America in April 2004. I had already graduated in 2003 and lost access to my.edu e-mail address, making me ineligible for a Facebook account at the time. Only on September 26, 2006, did the field trial end.
The Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates are cross-signed by IdenTrust, an established CA. From which major web browser's default certificate store is IdenTrust missing?
Back in the day, you'd buy a separate SSL endpoint to handle the encryption
Also back in the day, you'd buy a separate IP address for each customer that wants to employ TLS. That became very expensive in the era of IPv4 address exhaustion. This requirement ended on April 8, 2014, when Windows XP reached the end of extended support. Internet Explorer for Windows XP had been the last major web browser not to support Server Name Indication, which makes name-based virtual hosting practical for HTTPS and other TLS-based protocols.
In other words: HTTPS is approximately identical to HTTP in terms of cost
There is another cost: mixed content blocking. A lot of sites rely on external resources not yet available through HTTPS, and web browsers block HTTP resources embedded in an HTTPS page. Sponsors are a big one; not until September 2013 did a major ad network become available through HTTPS.
It's not that a single site has only one article, but that one article is the only article that a particular user desires to view. Consider using a search engine to find ten different articles, but they're all on different sites, each of which requires the user to pay for a year's subscription. Or how many times do you think you'd Read The Featured Article linked from a Slashdot story if you had to buy a separate year's subscription for each domain?
a medium that allows more personalized groups and doesn't insist on a "one profile with a real name for one person that's shared with everyone" policy will ultimately be more desirable.
The "circles" feature of Google+ was designed specifically around this concept. Though it uses a real name, posts can be shared only with a specific circle of other users. Why didn't it take off?
There's no Dark Web as there's no Intellectual Property. These are scare terms not codified into science or law.
"Intellectual property" isn't well defined in the U.S. Code, to the best of my knowledge. This means a judge applying 47 USC 230(e)(2) may have to define it in case law.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or expand any law pertaining to intellectual property.
If copyright didn't apply to computer programs, and this applied to both Sony Computer Entertainment and the free software community, there would be no need for copyleft. Instead, people could just make and share commented disassemblies of proprietary software. This already happens underground.
If I have my password, I want to get into my account.
If someone else guesses your password, someone else wants to get into your account. If you reuse your password on another service, and someone else cracks said other service's password database, someone else wants to get into your account. How would you recommend to defend against these attacks other than through 2FA?
I don't think sports channels would be included in a $25/mo package.
Xfinity Digital Starter TV service and comparable "expanded basic cable" packages from other cable providers include some sports programming, such as ESPN, NBCSN, and the matches that TBS and TNT show. More expensive packages include more sports programming, but expanded basic still includes some. And with the bundle discounts, I imagine that adding Xfinity Digital Starter TV to your existing Xfinity Internet service is only $25/mo more.
Also is live politics really a thing?
Yes. C-SPAN hosts a call-in show every morning titled Washington Journal. And on legislative days, it leads straight into a live stream of the U.S. House of Representatives. C-SPAN2 shows the Senate floor, and C-SPAN3 usually shows some committee.
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All we need to know is how most people interpret a symbol
That's easier said than done. Sometimes just asking someone what a symbol or word means, if the symbol or word is offensive, is enough to trigger punishment for having used the offensive symbol or word. Concrete example: hearing discussion on the playground, not knowing what a "blow job" is, and asking your teacher.
The traditional solution to show different implementations of a single character is font markup.
Should be denied? Of course not, you are most welcome to launch an operating system UI that enables what you want.
Locked bootloaders and restricted device drivers make it <understatement>kind of hard</understatement> to install an operating system with a different UI on still-manufactured hardware.
On the other hand, are you implying that current operating system UI vendors should be forced to use a paradigm that they don't think their user base has the brains to use?
I don't demand this from operating system publishers as much as from device makers. Too many devices make it impractical to replace the operating system with a free one, and many of them don't have a free-software-friendly competitor in the same size class. I complain about Android because it's the closest thing to a 10" Linux laptop since conventional 10" laptops were discontinued at the end of 2012, for instance.
You test the binary blob against the requirements of the ABI. If the kernel crashes harden and protect the interface further.
At some point, you end up having to build all the overhead of a microkernel in order to "harden and protect the interface" against popular yet defective binary drivers that violate "the requirements of the ABI".
Systemd is the worst thing to have happened to Linux, and the best thing to have happened to the BSDs!
That'll be true so long as hardware makers play nice with the FreeBSD hardware support team.
I've posted maybe once or twice in the last 12 hours, if not longer, yet I kept get the fucking "You must wait a little bit before using this resource; please try again later." error message.
That's because Anonymous Coward has made a lot more posts than that in the past 12 hours. Have you considered making an account instead of posting as Anonymous Coward? Other things to try: Are you sharing an IP address with co-workers? Is your ISP applying carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to conserve scarce public IPv4 addresses?
How should kernel developers go about debugging a crash caused by a proprietary kernel module?
The last time someone tried federated subscription, it was called Adult Check, run by a company called Cybernet. I guess the name meant "You're an adult; you can pay for nice things now." But one problem with Adult Check's business model was that as a payment processor, it was vulnerable to accusations of vicarious copyright infringement. When participating publishers included infringing copies of photographs from Perfect 10 magazine on their sites, the publisher of Perfect 10 successfully sued, and as far as I can tell, Adult Check shut down soon after.
How do you plan to shield your business from your participating publishers' infringement?
Weirdly enough, Google's Calendar and some other things are Iframed HTTPS but work whether embedded in an encrypted page or not. I would love to know how they do that.
An HTTPS frame inside an HTTP page always works. The reverse does not.
As if the vast multitudes have an attention span to be able to use multiple windows.
I seem to remember that the original Mac and the Apple IIGS shipped with a tutorial explaining the basics of overlapping windows. Is it that people are incapable of learning? Or that they haven't been given the time and means to learn? Or that they're being actively blocked from learning, as is the case on tablets running a smartphone OS?
With a full keyboard, you can do much more
The Transformer Book and Pixel C are tablets that ship with detachable keyboards, for example. Yet they have the same all maximized all the time policy.
but the learning curve is more than what people are ready to climb.
Even if it is the case that most people are unwilling to take the time to learn to use multiple windows, are you implying that multiple windows ought to be denied to people who can use them?
Your analogy fails when Netflix and Hulu are month-to-month for the price of a couple of Starbucks Chai-Latte-GMOFree-Organic-Vanilla-Salted-Caramel-instant-weight-gain-heart-attack-diabetes-in-a-cup.
$10 to rent one episode is still a little much, especially when the particular single episodes that you want to watch are spread out across Netflix, Hulu, and what have you, and there is little if any syndication among these sites.
Your analogy also fails that there /are/ ways to buy individual articles as e-books. As a matter of fact, paying by the article was pioneered by the scientific journals /three decades ago/.
And I imagine that most people are unwilling to pay $35 per article, which I've gathered is the going rate for articles in closed-access peer-reviewed journals, for things that aren't articles in peer-reviewed journals. They certainly won't pay that much for random news articles found through a search engine or social media; in fact, that's more expensive than a whole year of access to several paywalled sites. A more reasonable rate of 10 cents per page view is not possible using present payment methods because of per-transaction fees levied by the major credit card networks and the Chinese Bitcoin mining cartel.
What is syndication?
Something for which a culture has not yet developed.
Where is the micropayment system that was talked about /last century/ so I can pay a couple of cents for an article effortlessly?
I ask the same question. Credit card networks still charge merchants a "swipe fee" in the tens of US cents for even the smallest transactions. Bitcoin was originally promoted by some of its fans as a microtransaction method. But as it has grown more popular, the cartel controlling the majority of mining power has chosen to keep transactions scarce rather than allowing larger blocks, so that they can skim transaction fees that have risen even higher than those of major credit cards.
VPN is a tunnel; VPS is a server. With a VPS, you "A. have root on your web server". But for someone currently paying $5 to $8 per month for web hosting, which VPS providers in that price range are any good?
Correct.
The fear that caused the FSF to draft the GPL was that a publisher could take a permissively licensed free program private, make improvements, and lock the improvements behind copyright. But if there were no copyright in computer programs, this fear is moot because people could lawfully share the results of reverse-engineering said proprietary improvements.
It was invite only.
So was Facebook. For the first two and a half years of Facebook's existence, only people who could prove an affiliation with a participating university were eligible for a Facebook account. It was first tested at Harvard, then other Ivy League schools, followed by the grand opening to university students across North America in April 2004. I had already graduated in 2003 and lost access to my .edu e-mail address, making me ineligible for a Facebook account at the time. Only on September 26, 2006, did the field trial end.
The Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates are cross-signed by IdenTrust, an established CA. From which major web browser's default certificate store is IdenTrust missing?
Back in the day, you'd buy a separate SSL endpoint to handle the encryption
Also back in the day, you'd buy a separate IP address for each customer that wants to employ TLS. That became very expensive in the era of IPv4 address exhaustion. This requirement ended on April 8, 2014, when Windows XP reached the end of extended support. Internet Explorer for Windows XP had been the last major web browser not to support Server Name Indication, which makes name-based virtual hosting practical for HTTPS and other TLS-based protocols.
In other words: HTTPS is approximately identical to HTTP in terms of cost
This is true so long as you either A. have root on your web server or B. have a means of automating installation of renewed certificates. Some shared hosting providers are so far behind on Let's Encrypt implementation that people have become passive-aggressive, making a Ruby script to automatically send an e-mail to the host's support department to get a renewed cert installed.
There is another cost: mixed content blocking. A lot of sites rely on external resources not yet available through HTTPS, and web browsers block HTTP resources embedded in an HTTPS page. Sponsors are a big one; not until September 2013 did a major ad network become available through HTTPS.
It's not that a single site has only one article, but that one article is the only article that a particular user desires to view. Consider using a search engine to find ten different articles, but they're all on different sites, each of which requires the user to pay for a year's subscription. Or how many times do you think you'd Read The Featured Article linked from a Slashdot story if you had to buy a separate year's subscription for each domain?
a medium that allows more personalized groups and doesn't insist on a "one profile with a real name for one person that's shared with everyone" policy will ultimately be more desirable.
The "circles" feature of Google+ was designed specifically around this concept. Though it uses a real name, posts can be shared only with a specific circle of other users. Why didn't it take off?
It causes people to reconsider the false equivalence inherent in playing the GPL card.
Outlook.com works from android phones.
Outlook.com has a $20/year paid tier that used to be called Hotmail Plus. And there are rumors of a forthcoming $48/year paid tier allowing a custom domain, comparable to Google's $60/year Google Apps for Work.
So yes, it is possible for a mail user to be Microsoft's or Google's customer.
There's no Dark Web as there's no Intellectual Property. These are scare terms not codified into science or law.
"Intellectual property" isn't well defined in the U.S. Code, to the best of my knowledge. This means a judge applying 47 USC 230(e)(2) may have to define it in case law.
If copyright didn't apply to computer programs, and this applied to both Sony Computer Entertainment and the free software community, there would be no need for copyleft. Instead, people could just make and share commented disassemblies of proprietary software. This already happens underground.
If I have my password, I want to get into my account.
If someone else guesses your password, someone else wants to get into your account. If you reuse your password on another service, and someone else cracks said other service's password database, someone else wants to get into your account. How would you recommend to defend against these attacks other than through 2FA?
I've been locked out of both Microsoft and Google accounts
Are you paying for the service?
Yes. Services that use a Microsoft account are included in the price of a Windows license.
Fine. Do subscriptions
Most people are unwilling to buy a year's subscription just to read one article. So how do you "Do subscriptions" without turning away users who arrive through citations in search, social media, or other aggregators?
or convince your users to whitelist you
Good luck with that when these sites insist on allowing cross-site interest-based advertising and proprietary JavaScript.
Users are quite happy to fork over money for subscriptions (hulu, netflix, amazon prime, etc) for content if it's at a decent price
Then let me draw an analogy: Paying for a year of Amazon Prime to watch one episode is likely not "at a decent price".
I don't think sports channels would be included in a $25/mo package.
Xfinity Digital Starter TV service and comparable "expanded basic cable" packages from other cable providers include some sports programming, such as ESPN, NBCSN, and the matches that TBS and TNT show. More expensive packages include more sports programming, but expanded basic still includes some. And with the bundle discounts, I imagine that adding Xfinity Digital Starter TV to your existing Xfinity Internet service is only $25/mo more.
Also is live politics really a thing?
Yes. C-SPAN hosts a call-in show every morning titled Washington Journal. And on legislative days, it leads straight into a live stream of the U.S. House of Representatives. C-SPAN2 shows the Senate floor, and C-SPAN3 usually shows some committee.