A lot of grocery stores license a background music feed to play over the speaker system when an announcement isn't being played. This might be a song from a Disney movie's soundtrack, such as "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio or "Let It Go" from Frozen. Or it might be a song by a Disney-backed recording artist such as Miley Cyrus or the Jonas Brothers. How do you avoid Disney in a grocery store?
"But at least I'm not buying it." Think again. The grocery store is paying for background music out of a fraction of your grocery bill.
Another situation: The FCC rules appear to allow U.S. cable companies to make certain services available only to those who have purchased its most basic TV tier. This usually doesn't include Disney's ESPN, which is usually in the second tier, but it does include the local affiliate of Disney's ABC. So if your Internet connection is faster than DSL, you're paying a cable company that's paying Disney.
It may not be tech, but Disney's acquisitions bolster its clout in the market. And with its history of copyright maximalist lobbying, a bigger Disney is certainly YRO.
No I can't. Say I successfully ignore a work, and then I end up getting an original idea and developing it into my own work. If the work turns out too similar in some way to some element of a Disney work, then Disney lawyers can argue that a reasonable person would have had access to its work.
As for Star Wars: That is the franchise that literally invented "marketing the hell out of it", so why complain now that Star Wars is used to marketing the hell out of it?
That depends on whether a Disney-controlled Lucasfilm would have immediately shut down the "Star Wars Kid" meme with DMCA complaints.
The Lego Group, a privately held Danish firm, already does business with the company, licensing products (including Star Wars) and placing shops at Disney’s theme parks. It would make an obvious target for the firm that has already bought up so many other pieces of your childhood.
The last original character that Disney created was Mickey Mouse.
Does this include the Terries and Fermies from the Uncle Scrooge comic books? Or do you file them under Mickey Mouse because of the link through Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck?
To discourage dust spam, the Bitcoin network currently requires the sender to include a "tip" of 0.0001 BTC for a miner who processes a transaction smaller than 0.01 BTC. At the current exchange rate, that transaction fee equals about 4.3 cents for any transaction smaller than $4.31, which is a lot less than what the credit card networks charge but still eats into the feasibility of a pay-per-page scheme. And how easy is it for a first-time Bitcoin user to find a trustworthy exchange and online wallet?
But without the volume of publishers who support themselves through advertising, how long will hosting providers have the economies of scale to stay in business?
The largest strongly-connected set of computer networks using IPv4 or IPv6. BBSes aren't Internet because they don't use Internet Protocol, though some (especially the big ones like AOL) offered e-mail gateways to other BBSes through the Internet.
There are a plenty of feelies that a cartoonist can sell, such as printed books, T-shirts, or stuffed toys of the characters. My cousin owns a few Garfield books, I own three Nodwick books and Cracked's The De-Textbook, and I've sent for a stuffed rabbit from Sarah's Scribbles. Even without feelies, there are plenty of electronic bonuses that a cartoonist can give to subscribers, such as the carrot of high DPI viewing, the carrot of formatting an entire month for binge reading on an e-reader, or the stick of putting free readers on a time delay. Even the TV series Sesame Street is moving to that, with a 9-month delay before new episodes hit PBS.
Turn off Java when browsing and you will not get any ads.
I haven't seen a Java applet in months, and I still get ads. ECMAScript and Java are unrelated. And there are plenty of web applications that are broken when ECMAScript is turned off because they rely so heavily on AJAX.
Hosts will block any host-domain name placed into them as blocked
Until you get a bad actor with 4.2 billion hostnames as subdomains.
advertisers rightfully don't trust webmasters on clickview counts
That's a good point. It'd be even better if you could cite some sources.
95++% of the time users will be using their favorites @ the TOP of hosts
But what about those other 5 percent?
I never intend to get to what's blocked SO if I have to parse hosts in RAM (fast in kernelmode) it's fast.
Crunching through 120 MB of data byte by byte (4 million entries times about 30 bytes per entry) for each resolution isn't exactly fast, no matter whether it's in kernel mode or in user mode. If kernels used a Bloom filter, it'd be different, as each query would hit only about 20 bytes at once.
Android & ADB's pull command can migrate hosts to a rooted phone
On the other hand, if a site says that they don't want me to access it with an ad blocking utility installed then I hit the back button. It's their property, it's their rules.
So what happens once eight of the top ten results from a typical query start blocking users of ad blocking utilities? You'd end up hitting the back button more often than actually reading anything. As I understand it, such behavior adopted by the majority of sites would make the Web less useful to you. Or what am I missing?
Slashdot's continued existence is a problem for your continued access to the Opportunist (166417) account.
The internet was here before commercial interest came.
Before the Internet was commercialized, it was available only in universities. Only students and faculty had access. Once the advertisement-driven Internet dries up, are you willing to go back for your master's or Ph.D. in order to continue using the Internet?
From which hosting provider? Does it allow Python, or is it just for static files? Does it offer HTTPS, either through Let's Encrypt or through bringing my own certificate? And how do you pay your writers?
In my experience, a lot of YouTube videos with unskippable preroll ads are videos containing non-free music. Would you prefer that videos whose uploader or copyright claimant demands unskippable ads be removed from YouTube entirely?
That just means more sites should be asking for money directly. I don't mind paying for content at all and I do donate/support/subscribe the few sites I care about.
Say sites suddenly switch from taking ads to "asking for money directly." Then you go to your favorite search engine and you see a credit card number field instead of a query field. OK, so you put in your credit card number, pay $20 for a year's subscription, and then do your search. Then every site in the results wants a separate $20 per year subscription because it costs the merchant 35 cents plus 3.5% for a credit card transaction. Micropayments still haven't been figured out.
What happens is that the page loads, with "Disable Advertising" at the top and the message inbox just below that. But as I'm reaching up to follow a link to the message in the inbox, two more boxes appear right above it: "Slashdot Top Deals / Pay What You Want: White Hat Hacker Bundle" and "Get the Slashdot Newsletters / Sign Up!" Only the first of these two boxes has an X to make it go away.
Earlier in your list of 16 things, you said hosts files protect against botnets using DNS-level load balancing, also called fast flux or round robin. That sounds reasonable.
But you also said it protects against botnets using a domain generation algorithm (DGA) and stop their communication with command and control. How does this happen efficiently, especially if command and control can generate one of several million domains?
You also said a hosts file protects against spam. How does that happen? Most of the mail routing that a DNS blacklist could block already happened between the message transfer agents (MTAs, aka "relays") that relay the mail and the message delivery agent (MDA) where your mail is stored for retrieval through IMAP. The only possible hit in your hosts file would be when your mail user agent (MUA, aka "mail client") looks up your MDA.
Furthermore, you said it "Works on anything webbound multiplatform." So how do you install a hosts file on Android, Apple iOS, Windows Phone, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, or Wii U? All these devices are known to have web browsers but no end-user write access to the hosts file.
1. Randomly chosen hostnames with wildcard DNS (e.g. 88ebaef2.adnetwork.example) 2. Ads hosted on same origin as the rest of the site 3. Slowdowns when hitting a blacklisted site as the connection to 0.0.0.0 times out rather than a NXDOMAIN 4. Slowdowns when hitting a site that isn't on the whitelist at the top of the hosts file nor the blacklist that follows it, while the kernel-mode hosts file parser laboriously re-parses the entire multi-million-line file for every resolution 5. Sites that only one user of a shared PC, not its administrator, wants to block 6. Automatically updating the files across a heterogeneous network including Windows (non-Pro), OS X, and GNU/Linux 7. Ads and tracking on Android 8. Ads and tracking on Windows Phone 8/Windows 10 Mobile 9. Ads and tracking on iOS 10. Ads and tracking on game consoles
One thing that can block most of these threats is running a DNS server on your LAN and running your blocklist on that.
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How well do solar panels and wind turbines provide power to read Slashdot on a calm night, especially when local zoning ordinances limit their size?
A lot of grocery stores license a background music feed to play over the speaker system when an announcement isn't being played. This might be a song from a Disney movie's soundtrack, such as "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio or "Let It Go" from Frozen. Or it might be a song by a Disney-backed recording artist such as Miley Cyrus or the Jonas Brothers. How do you avoid Disney in a grocery store?
"But at least I'm not buying it." Think again. The grocery store is paying for background music out of a fraction of your grocery bill.
Another situation: The FCC rules appear to allow U.S. cable companies to make certain services available only to those who have purchased its most basic TV tier. This usually doesn't include Disney's ESPN, which is usually in the second tier, but it does include the local affiliate of Disney's ABC. So if your Internet connection is faster than DSL, you're paying a cable company that's paying Disney.
It's a pun on TFA meaning both The Featured Article, a term used on Slashdot, and The Force Awakens, the title of the Star Wars film in theaters.
It may not be tech, but Disney's acquisitions bolster its clout in the market. And with its history of copyright maximalist lobbying, a bigger Disney is certainly YRO.
If you don't like it, you can ignore it.
No I can't. Say I successfully ignore a work, and then I end up getting an original idea and developing it into my own work. If the work turns out too similar in some way to some element of a Disney work, then Disney lawyers can argue that a reasonable person would have had access to its work.
As for Star Wars: That is the franchise that literally invented "marketing the hell out of it", so why complain now that Star Wars is used to marketing the hell out of it?
That depends on whether a Disney-controlled Lucasfilm would have immediately shut down the "Star Wars Kid" meme with DMCA complaints.
From the featured article:
That would certainly be a clash of corporate culture. The Walt Disney Company's history of banning fan works and lobbying for copyright maximalism wouldn't mesh so well with the criticism of copyright shown in the third act of the The LEGO Movie (huge spoilers).
The last original character that Disney created was Mickey Mouse.
Does this include the Terries and Fermies from the Uncle Scrooge comic books? Or do you file them under Mickey Mouse because of the link through Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck?
To discourage dust spam, the Bitcoin network currently requires the sender to include a "tip" of 0.0001 BTC for a miner who processes a transaction smaller than 0.01 BTC. At the current exchange rate, that transaction fee equals about 4.3 cents for any transaction smaller than $4.31, which is a lot less than what the credit card networks charge but still eats into the feasibility of a pay-per-page scheme. And how easy is it for a first-time Bitcoin user to find a trustworthy exchange and online wallet?
But without the volume of publishers who support themselves through advertising, how long will hosting providers have the economies of scale to stay in business?
If you want Slashdot with fixed Unicode, HTTPS, and no ads, you know where to find it.
Define internet?
The largest strongly-connected set of computer networks using IPv4 or IPv6. BBSes aren't Internet because they don't use Internet Protocol, though some (especially the big ones like AOL) offered e-mail gateways to other BBSes through the Internet.
There are a plenty of feelies that a cartoonist can sell, such as printed books, T-shirts, or stuffed toys of the characters. My cousin owns a few Garfield books, I own three Nodwick books and Cracked's The De-Textbook, and I've sent for a stuffed rabbit from Sarah's Scribbles. Even without feelies, there are plenty of electronic bonuses that a cartoonist can give to subscribers, such as the carrot of high DPI viewing, the carrot of formatting an entire month for binge reading on an e-reader, or the stick of putting free readers on a time delay. Even the TV series Sesame Street is moving to that, with a 9-month delay before new episodes hit PBS.
Turn off Java when browsing and you will not get any ads.
I haven't seen a Java applet in months, and I still get ads. ECMAScript and Java are unrelated. And there are plenty of web applications that are broken when ECMAScript is turned off because they rely so heavily on AJAX.
vs. DGA as long as you enter what they use blocked in hosts it works.
If there are 1000++ possibilities of what they're likely to use next, you have to add all 1000++ to hosts. That can add up.
Vs. SPAM [...] I personally go thru junkmails myself viewing their source to determine the payload site
So it blocks the payload, not the spam itself. Thanks for clarifying.
Hosts will block any host-domain name placed into them as blocked
Until you get a bad actor with 4.2 billion hostnames as subdomains.
advertisers rightfully don't trust webmasters on clickview counts
That's a good point. It'd be even better if you could cite some sources.
95++% of the time users will be using their favorites @ the TOP of hosts
But what about those other 5 percent?
I never intend to get to what's blocked SO if I have to parse hosts in RAM (fast in kernelmode) it's fast.
Crunching through 120 MB of data byte by byte (4 million entries times about 30 bytes per entry) for each resolution isn't exactly fast, no matter whether it's in kernel mode or in user mode. If kernels used a Bloom filter, it'd be different, as each query would hit only about 20 bytes at once.
Android & ADB's pull command can migrate hosts to a rooted phone
Which doesn't help if you won't or can't root.
On the other hand, if a site says that they don't want me to access it with an ad blocking utility installed then I hit the back button. It's their property, it's their rules.
So what happens once eight of the top ten results from a typical query start blocking users of ad blocking utilities? You'd end up hitting the back button more often than actually reading anything. As I understand it, such behavior adopted by the majority of sites would make the Web less useful to you. Or what am I missing?
Not my problem.
Slashdot's continued existence is a problem for your continued access to the Opportunist (166417) account.
The internet was here before commercial interest came.
Before the Internet was commercialized, it was available only in universities. Only students and faculty had access. Once the advertisement-driven Internet dries up, are you willing to go back for your master's or Ph.D. in order to continue using the Internet?
I pay $12/year for hosting
From which hosting provider? Does it allow Python, or is it just for static files? Does it offer HTTPS, either through Let's Encrypt or through bringing my own certificate? And how do you pay your writers?
In my experience, a lot of YouTube videos with unskippable preroll ads are videos containing non-free music. Would you prefer that videos whose uploader or copyright claimant demands unskippable ads be removed from YouTube entirely?
That just means more sites should be asking for money directly. I don't mind paying for content at all and I do donate/support/subscribe the few sites I care about.
Say sites suddenly switch from taking ads to "asking for money directly." Then you go to your favorite search engine and you see a credit card number field instead of a query field. OK, so you put in your credit card number, pay $20 for a year's subscription, and then do your search. Then every site in the results wants a separate $20 per year subscription because it costs the merchant 35 cents plus 3.5% for a credit card transaction. Micropayments still haven't been figured out.
What happens is that the page loads, with "Disable Advertising" at the top and the message inbox just below that. But as I'm reaching up to follow a link to the message in the inbox, two more boxes appear right above it: "Slashdot Top Deals / Pay What You Want: White Hat Hacker Bundle" and "Get the Slashdot Newsletters / Sign Up!" Only the first of these two boxes has an X to make it go away.
Then who funds the operation of the sites through which you 'inform yourself'?
If Facebook would die tomorrow, nobody would give a shit about it, people would simply move on to another site.
If not for ads, who would fund the operation of "another site"?
Earlier in your list of 16 things, you said hosts files protect against botnets using DNS-level load balancing, also called fast flux or round robin. That sounds reasonable.
But you also said it protects against botnets using a domain generation algorithm (DGA) and stop their communication with command and control. How does this happen efficiently, especially if command and control can generate one of several million domains?
You also said a hosts file protects against spam. How does that happen? Most of the mail routing that a DNS blacklist could block already happened between the message transfer agents (MTAs, aka "relays") that relay the mail and the message delivery agent (MDA) where your mail is stored for retrieval through IMAP. The only possible hit in your hosts file would be when your mail user agent (MUA, aka "mail client") looks up your MDA.
Furthermore, you said it "Works on anything webbound multiplatform." So how do you install a hosts file on Android, Apple iOS, Windows Phone, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, or Wii U? All these devices are known to have web browsers but no end-user write access to the hosts file.
use the MVP Hosts file.
Does a hosts file protect from any of these?
1. Randomly chosen hostnames with wildcard DNS (e.g. 88ebaef2.adnetwork.example)
2. Ads hosted on same origin as the rest of the site
3. Slowdowns when hitting a blacklisted site as the connection to 0.0.0.0 times out rather than a NXDOMAIN
4. Slowdowns when hitting a site that isn't on the whitelist at the top of the hosts file nor the blacklist that follows it, while the kernel-mode hosts file parser laboriously re-parses the entire multi-million-line file for every resolution
5. Sites that only one user of a shared PC, not its administrator, wants to block
6. Automatically updating the files across a heterogeneous network including Windows (non-Pro), OS X, and GNU/Linux
7. Ads and tracking on Android
8. Ads and tracking on Windows Phone 8/Windows 10 Mobile
9. Ads and tracking on iOS
10. Ads and tracking on game consoles
One thing that can block most of these threats is running a DNS server on your LAN and running your blocklist on that.