Antenna TV really only works if you really really REALLY don't care about the crap you're watching.
There are plenty of people in Slashdot's home country who care about the national championships of the country's major professional sport leagues: the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, and the World [sic] Series.
AIDE allows development of Android applications directly on an Android tablet with a USB, Bluetooth, or clip-on keyboard. After the discontinuation of netbooks, some people recommended pressing such a tablet into service as a substitute for a laptop.
I'd have thought that all the FOSSies are already in Linux
That's fine so long as you can find a PC that is compatible with GNU/Linux and meets your other requirements. This should be easy for desktops, but for laptops, I can think of four routes, all with problems:
Buy a laptop that ships with GNU/Linux
System76's offerings are relatively expensive compared to a low-end Windows PC, and at the moment, none are smaller than the 14" Lemur. It used to be easy to find small, affordable, GNU/Linux-compatible laptops before the category was discontinued at the end of 2012.
Buy a laptop that ships with Android
Android uses the same kernel as GNU/Linux. But Android uses a drastically different userland that has the "full screen calculator" problem, and is there a good alternative to the functionality of the build-essential package of Debian?
Buy a laptop that ships with Windows, wipe Windows, and install GNU/Linux
These are warranted for compatibility with Windows, not GNU/Linux. I've found several where basic things fail on Linux, such as X205TA and T100TA.
Buy a used laptop
These aren't even warranted at all.
As chihowa points out, you need root on your phone to use a hosts file. What percentage of Android users have root on their phones? As I understand it, the farthest a "typical" Android user will go is turn on the "Unknown sources" to install an APK file. But because of Android's security model, an APK file can't affect DNS resolution, despite the name, unless it's a full-on VPN client.
As more Internet users adopt NoScript, does this mean people are going to have to stop writing web apps and instead write six different native apps, one each for Windows desktop, Windows UWP, OS X, iOS, X11/Linux, and Android?
If a web application has a good reason to require JavaScript to function, what should it do to gain the trust of a NoScript user?
Offer source so people can run it locally.
What use is a local app that is unable to access the resources it requires due to the Same Origin Policy? Some of the resources are dynamically generated by the web app's server. Even ability to download static resources locally as well would fail because Chrome considers each file in the file: scheme to be a separate origin.
If you instead refer to storing all resources on a computer owned by the user, there are two things likely to happen. The first is unwillingness to share source code: "You can use the app on the public server without charge, or you can license a copy to run on your own private server for $9,999." The second is network effects. Consider a web application that allows users of a particular server to interact, but user accounts on your private server cannot interact with users on the public servers. So good luck getting the majority of users to use your private server instead of the public ones.
If you want more concrete examples, consider whether the publisher would be wiling to offer the source code for Google Maps or H&R Block At Home or Netflix or an HTML5 multiplayer game with greater-than-hobbyist production values. Or what would be the business model for funding the continued development of such an application as free software?
. If you just exported an image to JPEG with features that are unsupported by JPEG then those features will not be saved in the JPEG image and will be lost if you do not save to the application's native format.
Then it should at least tell me what features unsupported by JPEG (or, more commonly in my case, by PNG) have been changed since I opened the image.
You make a big deal that browser-level blocking extensions are "usermode slower & increases messagepassing". But if a browser extension blocks a request, the CPU doesn't need to make a context switch to kernel mode in the first place. And good luck with your hosts files once ad networks start randomizing their servers' hostnames for every hit using wildcard CNAME records. Finally, and most relevantly to the article, good luck changing the hosts file on mobile devices without root privileges.
Your suggested browser countermeasure: Have a server on a cheaper connection download the video. Server countermeasure: The server could show the article only if the page view, the ad framework script view, and the video view came from the same IP address. Possible browser countermeasure: Have a server on a cheaper connection download everything, run the scripts there, and forward them to the browser, as in Opera Mini. Server countermeasure: Block the IP addresses of known such servers. Video streaming services already do this for VPNs used to evade territorial exclusivity. Or use rapid DOM updates that are efficient when run locally but create an inefficient level of traffic when the DOM changes are passed back and forth over the wire. Or quiz the user on the content of the video ad.
A sort of positive outcome of the ADHD jobjumping done by Corporate world is that eventually [after more countries' wages improve] there won't be any more people to pull that stunt with. It is going to be interesting when the whole world is at one pay level. But will that happen before robots take over.
If anything, at least subsaharan Africa will likely lose its reputation as a den of poverty.
But some people aren't smart enough to distinguish between the real Koch brothers and other business owned by people named "Koch":
Perhaps the "Des Moines office supply firm" mentioned in the story you linked should rebrand as something like Pepsey Office Supplies to distance itself from Koch Industries.
Until you find an emulator developer who complains that the emulator in a Nintendo product "is incredibly inefficient, written in HLL code, developed by somebody whom knew nothing about emulation nor about ARM nor about Z80/8080 processors." (This refers to C, as early C compilers targeting this product generated inefficient code.) Also a reset mechanism in Nintendo DS hardware "allows the NDS7 debugger to capture accidental jumps to address 0, that appears to be a common problem with HLL-programmers, asm-coders know that (and why) they should not jump to 0."
Agreed. You can treat legal questions on SoylentNews, Slashdot, or Law Stack Exchange as "Before I walk into the lawyer's office, what should I know to make the most of the initial consultation?"
A boy of 18 years and one month old, having sex with a girl 17 years and 11 months old? Even though they've been a happy couple for past three years? Still illegal.
For one thing, it depends on the state. For another, I thought marriage was an absolute defense to statutory rape.
Only really two options for web sites, run ads to pay for the web site. Or charge end users for access and providing the site.
Or do 2 without locking visitors out. Structure your company as a non-profit public benefit corporation and rely on donations to keep the lights on. It's working for Wikipedia and SoylentNews.
If the screen reader correctly interprets JavaScript, probably not. The site Mother Effing Tool Confuser was designed to convince developers of accessibility checkers that modern screen readers actually execute JavaScript.
it appears that OS-level hosts file ad-blocking is already detected by the more sophisticated adblock detectors.
But how would such a detector reliably detect the difference between/etc/hosts and DNS blocking performed by an ISP in a country with mandatory censorware laws?
Oh wait, I can think of two ways. One is that/etc/hosts blocks only one hostname at a time, not randomly generated names in a domain. The other is DNS resolution time, as several queries of a multi-million-line APK-scale hosts file will take several seconds to complete, unless the operating system's resolver uses an efficient data structure (which none do as far as I know).
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Now I know why grown children stay in mom's basement longer: she'd "hate to be the one who got left behind".
It's just OTA sources that will go away -- unless you count cellular video streaming to your phone followed by Chromecasting to the monitor
I'll count that once advertisers pay for all the data that such streaming uses.
Antenna TV really only works if you really really REALLY don't care about the crap you're watching.
There are plenty of people in Slashdot's home country who care about the national championships of the country's major professional sport leagues: the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, and the World [sic] Series.
The future of television is on-demand and not scheduled programming
Good luck getting the sport leagues to play matches when you want to watch them.
You need a PC to develop for them...
AIDE allows development of Android applications directly on an Android tablet with a USB, Bluetooth, or clip-on keyboard. After the discontinuation of netbooks, some people recommended pressing such a tablet into service as a substitute for a laptop.
I'd have thought that all the FOSSies are already in Linux
That's fine so long as you can find a PC that is compatible with GNU/Linux and meets your other requirements. This should be easy for desktops, but for laptops, I can think of four routes, all with problems:
Buy a laptop that ships with GNU/Linux System76's offerings are relatively expensive compared to a low-end Windows PC, and at the moment, none are smaller than the 14" Lemur. It used to be easy to find small, affordable, GNU/Linux-compatible laptops before the category was discontinued at the end of 2012. Buy a laptop that ships with Android Android uses the same kernel as GNU/Linux. But Android uses a drastically different userland that has the "full screen calculator" problem, and is there a good alternative to the functionality of the build-essential package of Debian? Buy a laptop that ships with Windows, wipe Windows, and install GNU/Linux These are warranted for compatibility with Windows, not GNU/Linux. I've found several where basic things fail on Linux, such as X205TA and T100TA. Buy a used laptop These aren't even warranted at all.As chihowa points out, you need root on your phone to use a hosts file. What percentage of Android users have root on their phones? As I understand it, the farthest a "typical" Android user will go is turn on the "Unknown sources" to install an APK file. But because of Android's security model, an APK file can't affect DNS resolution, despite the name, unless it's a full-on VPN client.
As more Internet users adopt NoScript, does this mean people are going to have to stop writing web apps and instead write six different native apps, one each for Windows desktop, Windows UWP, OS X, iOS, X11/Linux, and Android?
If a web application has a good reason to require JavaScript to function, what should it do to gain the trust of a NoScript user?
Offer source so people can run it locally.
What use is a local app that is unable to access the resources it requires due to the Same Origin Policy? Some of the resources are dynamically generated by the web app's server. Even ability to download static resources locally as well would fail because Chrome considers each file in the file: scheme to be a separate origin.
If you instead refer to storing all resources on a computer owned by the user, there are two things likely to happen. The first is unwillingness to share source code: "You can use the app on the public server without charge, or you can license a copy to run on your own private server for $9,999." The second is network effects. Consider a web application that allows users of a particular server to interact, but user accounts on your private server cannot interact with users on the public servers. So good luck getting the majority of users to use your private server instead of the public ones.
If you want more concrete examples, consider whether the publisher would be wiling to offer the source code for Google Maps or H&R Block At Home or Netflix or an HTML5 multiplayer game with greater-than-hobbyist production values. Or what would be the business model for funding the continued development of such an application as free software?
. If you just exported an image to JPEG with features that are unsupported by JPEG then those features will not be saved in the JPEG image and will be lost if you do not save to the application's native format.
Then it should at least tell me what features unsupported by JPEG (or, more commonly in my case, by PNG) have been changed since I opened the image.
Still though-- NoScript works.
If a web application has a good reason to require JavaScript to function, what should it do to gain the trust of a NoScript user?
You make a big deal that browser-level blocking extensions are "usermode slower & increases messagepassing". But if a browser extension blocks a request, the CPU doesn't need to make a context switch to kernel mode in the first place. And good luck with your hosts files once ad networks start randomizing their servers' hostnames for every hit using wildcard CNAME records. Finally, and most relevantly to the article, good luck changing the hosts file on mobile devices without root privileges.
Your suggested browser countermeasure: Have a server on a cheaper connection download the video.
Server countermeasure: The server could show the article only if the page view, the ad framework script view, and the video view came from the same IP address.
Possible browser countermeasure: Have a server on a cheaper connection download everything, run the scripts there, and forward them to the browser, as in Opera Mini.
Server countermeasure: Block the IP addresses of known such servers. Video streaming services already do this for VPNs used to evade territorial exclusivity. Or use rapid DOM updates that are efficient when run locally but create an inefficient level of traffic when the DOM changes are passed back and forth over the wire. Or quiz the user on the content of the video ad.
A sort of positive outcome of the ADHD jobjumping done by Corporate world is that eventually [after more countries' wages improve] there won't be any more people to pull that stunt with. It is going to be interesting when the whole world is at one pay level. But will that happen before robots take over.
If anything, at least subsaharan Africa will likely lose its reputation as a den of poverty.
Then replace the hash function with one that always returns the correct answer.
Not if the hash is salted, such as including a unique ID in each copy of the video stream.
the thing is, the blockers have the advantage because the person who is doing the blocking has control over the machine.
And the server has control over what it requires before it will provide the key to decrypt an article past the first paragraph.
But some people aren't smart enough to distinguish between the real Koch brothers and other business owned by people named "Koch":
Perhaps the "Des Moines office supply firm" mentioned in the story you linked should rebrand as something like Pepsey Office Supplies to distance itself from Koch Industries.
Until you find an emulator developer who complains that the emulator in a Nintendo product "is incredibly inefficient, written in HLL code, developed by somebody whom knew nothing about emulation nor about ARM nor about Z80/8080 processors." (This refers to C, as early C compilers targeting this product generated inefficient code.) Also a reset mechanism in Nintendo DS hardware "allows the NDS7 debugger to capture accidental jumps to address 0, that appears to be a common problem with HLL-programmers, asm-coders know that (and why) they should not jump to 0."
This works fine until ad frameworks start hashing the downloaded video.
Agreed. You can treat legal questions on SoylentNews, Slashdot, or Law Stack Exchange as "Before I walk into the lawyer's office, what should I know to make the most of the initial consultation?"
A boy of 18 years and one month old, having sex with a girl 17 years and 11 months old? Even though they've been a happy couple for past three years? Still illegal.
For one thing, it depends on the state. For another, I thought marriage was an absolute defense to statutory rape.
Only really two options for web sites, run ads to pay for the web site. Or charge end users for access and providing the site.
Or do 2 without locking visitors out. Structure your company as a non-profit public benefit corporation and rely on donations to keep the lights on. It's working for Wikipedia and SoylentNews.
I thought creating a Gmail account also required a phone number, as shown in this screenshot.
Does the ad-block also block screen readers?
If the screen reader correctly interprets JavaScript, probably not. The site Mother Effing Tool Confuser was designed to convince developers of accessibility checkers that modern screen readers actually execute JavaScript.
it appears that OS-level hosts file ad-blocking is already detected by the more sophisticated adblock detectors.
But how would such a detector reliably detect the difference between /etc/hosts and DNS blocking performed by an ISP in a country with mandatory censorware laws?
Oh wait, I can think of two ways. One is that /etc/hosts blocks only one hostname at a time, not randomly generated names in a domain. The other is DNS resolution time, as several queries of a multi-million-line APK-scale hosts file will take several seconds to complete, unless the operating system's resolver uses an efficient data structure (which none do as far as I know).
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