Imagine that you wanted a way to measure wireless signal strength as you deployed your first wireless network in 1997. You'd need to buy special equipment where today, you just download an app.
Since when does iOS have a public API to determine signal strength? Last time I checked, it didn't, and Apple's App Store forbids use of non-public APIs. This is why WiFi-Where was removed. iPhone and iPad users end up needing to buy "special equipment" in the form of an Android phone because unlike iOS, Android has public Wi-Fi APIs.
But I'd have just pointed at pants. Those are ubiquitous too. How many people do you know that could make a pair? Or even repair them? Hem them? Replace a button?
Then I guess I must be in a minority. I've replaced buttons on store-bought clothes. I've even made my own pants, but they have a drawstring closure instead of a button closure because I haven't learned buttonholes yet. And before I learned pants, I was making ankle-length shirts to wear.
Well... Mario Maker launched last week.... I'd say the number of average people designing game levels has quite possibly spiked to an all time high.;)
For one thing, this is Nintendo catching up to where Sony was years ago with LittleBigPlanet. For another, around the launch of Super Mario Maker, Nintendo went on a DMCA takedown streak on YouTube, handing out copyright strikes to uploaders of TAS and Kaizo videos.
Then form "an incorporated business with the 'proper insurance'". As another Slashdot regular often reminds me, you either are or aren't willing to do what it takes.
When there are competing providers dedicated only to Internet
If by "competing providers" you mean the CLEC, AT&T just bought traditional multichannel pay TV system operator DirecTV, and Verizon and Frontier (the FiOS companies) have been offering traditional multichannel pay TV over their fiber.
If you mean something other than the local CLEC, how would such "competing providers" procure the right-of-way from U.S. cities?
You got caught by the policy of "some music publishers and record labels in some countries".
Whether a use is a fair use is for a judge to decide. I'd recommend getting a lawyer before making a high-profile fair use of a substantial snippet of non-free music, especially if the snippet is added in post.
YouTube Content ID's "monetize" setting does exactly as you suggest: identify the artist and title of the recording and offer links to stores selling a legit download. However, some music publishers and record labels in some countries choose to either use YouTube Content ID's block setting instead of its "monetize" setting or send notices of claimed infringement pursuant to OCILLA. In this case, Prince and Universal did the latter. And video game reviewers on YouTube have tended to get up in arms even over "monetize" settings applied to a game's soundtrack, as Content ID's "monetize" overrides Partner Program's "monetize".
The instructions on the last page link to this gist that states that you still need to compile your own GRUB to boot, compile your own kernel to get the keyboard working, and buy and connect a supported USB NIC in order to install Git and the driver for the built-in WLAN adapter.
the act of a self service password reset should instantly nuke the old
I disagree. The old password ought to get nuked when the new one is pasted in twice from your password manager. Otherwise, an attacker can DOS your account by requesting a reset every hour.
This is often made user-friendly by showing "Login with Google", etc. for all of the major OpenID providers.
In the era of classic OpenID, the relying party could just provide a field to paste in the user's identifier, and then the login form would take to the provider's site to complete authentication. It was envisioned that users would use the browser's autofill feature to populate the identifier field. But in the era of OpenID Connect, only providers that support Dynamic Client Registration (dyn-reg) support the paste-an-identifier flow, and none of the major providers have chosen to implement dyn-reg. So each relying party needs to sign a contract with each provider to obtain an OAuth client key, which is an O(n^2) problem. So before going live, a site operator needs to sign up with each of "the major OpenID providers". How can a site operator tell what are "the major OpenID providers" at any given time, other than Google?
If your smartphone app has support for typing in a password on the phone keyboard, something has gone horribly wrong. Once authenticated, the app should just store a certificate internally. To authenticate, use a login on a computer
A mobile phone is a computer. If you meant specifically a desktop computer, not everybody who owns a mobile phone also owns a desktop computer, such as one of my former co-workers. Nor does everybody who owns a desktop computer also own a mobile phone with an active subscription to unlimited SMS. In countries where both the sender and receiver of a text message are billed, such as the United States, this can cause users to run up big cell bills when logging in with an OpenID Connect provider that uses two-factor authentication.
or an e-mail
I'm not understanding what you mean by this.
or support using the account the phone is logged in with (e.g. a Google account; I assume iOS has a similar login feature).
The user still has to put in the password for the Google account when logging into the Google account.
Even SHA256 ten times in a row has problems when used to derive a key from a password. The key isn't which hashing function you use as much as using it a couple thousand times.
Do you know of any PC gamers that play same screen multiplayer on their PC?
That can be taken either of two ways. Do I know of people with a PC connected to a TV? Yes, and I imagine that a substantial percentage of them game.
The other way is an implicit assumption that my personal friends and relatives form sample large enough to be valid. Do I personally have any friends or relatives who play same-screen multiplayer games on a PC? No. But I do have a cousin who routinely connects a PC to the living room TV to watch Netflix. Nor do I have any friends or relatives who own a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation Vita. I haven't even seen a Vita on the city bus. Even if Slashdot is a biased sample, it's still a much larger sample than my personal monkeysphere.
Write a game by yourself or with others that is good enough.
I am currently doing just this for a different, non-PlayStation platform. The one problem is that I'm unsure quite what you mean by "good enough".
so what are you waiting for?
I am waiting for my present paid video game project with another company on a non-PlayStation platform to be completed.
The new laptops that I have considered this year (ASUS Transformer Book, Acer Aspire Switch) in the size range that I am considering (10") suspend correctly in Windows but have reports of epic failure in Ubuntu.
That's what I did last time, and that's what I'm trying to do this time. It's just that I'm having a heck of a time finding a new 10" laptop, convertible laptop, or detachable laptop that is compatible with Linux. The ASUS Transformer Book sure isn't.
That being said... If you're downloading stuff you shouldn't be, why are you complaining?
I know to avoid The Pirate Bay and similar sites that flagrantly disregard copyright. But not all sites are quite as obviously infringing as those, and I don't see how a non-lawyer can precisely determine what he should and shouldn't be downloading. When people purchased a download of the song "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams from Amazon, Google, or iTunes, how could they know they were downloading a song that turned out to be infringing (Gaye v. Thicke)? And how can someone downloading a copy of Emacs tell whether the M-x tetris function in Emacs infringes the copyright in Tetris? And is Nintendo planning to go after users of RomHacking.net, which contains a commentary on the program of Super Mario Bros.?
Or in practice, does an end user have little to worry about when visiting sites that aren't bright-line infringers?
What other "operating system businesses"?
I was primarily referring to Canonical Ltd., which maintains the Ubuntu operating system.
Later on you refer to binary incompatibility for proprietary applications among different distributions of X11/Linux. This is something that Valve has been trying to solve with Steam Runtime.
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Imagine that you wanted a way to measure wireless signal strength as you deployed your first wireless network in 1997. You'd need to buy special equipment where today, you just download an app.
Since when does iOS have a public API to determine signal strength? Last time I checked, it didn't, and Apple's App Store forbids use of non-public APIs. This is why WiFi-Where was removed. iPhone and iPad users end up needing to buy "special equipment" in the form of an Android phone because unlike iOS, Android has public Wi-Fi APIs.
Shit, everyone has a browser that supports JavaScript and everyone could start programming TODAY with zero entry cost, if they wanted to.
Does Safari for iPad support user-entered JavaScript, or just JavaScript downloaded from an external web server?
Yet not everyone becomes a writer
Not everyone becomes a published writer, but a knowledge worker needs to write in order to communicate with co-workers.
But I'd have just pointed at pants. Those are ubiquitous too. How many people do you know that could make a pair? Or even repair them? Hem them? Replace a button?
Then I guess I must be in a minority. I've replaced buttons on store-bought clothes. I've even made my own pants, but they have a drawstring closure instead of a button closure because I haven't learned buttonholes yet. And before I learned pants, I was making ankle-length shirts to wear.
Well... Mario Maker launched last week.... I'd say the number of average people designing game levels has quite possibly spiked to an all time high. ;)
For one thing, this is Nintendo catching up to where Sony was years ago with LittleBigPlanet. For another, around the launch of Super Mario Maker, Nintendo went on a DMCA takedown streak on YouTube, handing out copyright strikes to uploaders of TAS and Kaizo videos.
Perhaps AC meant "Teach the Odiya speakers English and Hindi first so they can interact with the majority".
Then form "an incorporated business with the 'proper insurance'". As another Slashdot regular often reminds me, you either are or aren't willing to do what it takes.
When there are competing providers dedicated only to Internet
If by "competing providers" you mean the CLEC, AT&T just bought traditional multichannel pay TV system operator DirecTV, and Verizon and Frontier (the FiOS companies) have been offering traditional multichannel pay TV over their fiber.
If you mean something other than the local CLEC, how would such "competing providers" procure the right-of-way from U.S. cities?
You got caught by the policy of "some music publishers and record labels in some countries".
Whether a use is a fair use is for a judge to decide. I'd recommend getting a lawyer before making a high-profile fair use of a substantial snippet of non-free music, especially if the snippet is added in post.
YouTube Content ID's "monetize" setting does exactly as you suggest: identify the artist and title of the recording and offer links to stores selling a legit download. However, some music publishers and record labels in some countries choose to either use YouTube Content ID's block setting instead of its "monetize" setting or send notices of claimed infringement pursuant to OCILLA. In this case, Prince and Universal did the latter. And video game reviewers on YouTube have tended to get up in arms even over "monetize" settings applied to a game's soundtrack, as Content ID's "monetize" overrides Partner Program's "monetize".
If you can't reliably play video, your customers will leave.
Not if you have the exclusive license to highly demanded videos.
How is that practical if the spouse works on the other side of town?
The instructions on the last page link to this gist that states that you still need to compile your own GRUB to boot, compile your own kernel to get the keyboard working, and buy and connect a supported USB NIC in order to install Git and the driver for the built-in WLAN adapter.
the act of a self service password reset should instantly nuke the old
I disagree. The old password ought to get nuked when the new one is pasted in twice from your password manager. Otherwise, an attacker can DOS your account by requesting a reset every hour.
This is often made user-friendly by showing "Login with Google", etc. for all of the major OpenID providers.
In the era of classic OpenID, the relying party could just provide a field to paste in the user's identifier, and then the login form would take to the provider's site to complete authentication. It was envisioned that users would use the browser's autofill feature to populate the identifier field. But in the era of OpenID Connect, only providers that support Dynamic Client Registration (dyn-reg) support the paste-an-identifier flow, and none of the major providers have chosen to implement dyn-reg. So each relying party needs to sign a contract with each provider to obtain an OAuth client key, which is an O(n^2) problem. So before going live, a site operator needs to sign up with each of "the major OpenID providers". How can a site operator tell what are "the major OpenID providers" at any given time, other than Google?
If your smartphone app has support for typing in a password on the phone keyboard, something has gone horribly wrong. Once authenticated, the app should just store a certificate internally. To authenticate, use a login on a computer
A mobile phone is a computer. If you meant specifically a desktop computer, not everybody who owns a mobile phone also owns a desktop computer, such as one of my former co-workers. Nor does everybody who owns a desktop computer also own a mobile phone with an active subscription to unlimited SMS. In countries where both the sender and receiver of a text message are billed, such as the United States, this can cause users to run up big cell bills when logging in with an OpenID Connect provider that uses two-factor authentication.
or an e-mail
I'm not understanding what you mean by this.
or support using the account the phone is logged in with (e.g. a Google account; I assume iOS has a similar login feature).
The user still has to put in the password for the Google account when logging into the Google account.
Even SHA256 ten times in a row has problems when used to derive a key from a password. The key isn't which hashing function you use as much as using it a couple thousand times.
You may want to say I will use a Text Messages to a phone, this is also insecure. However it may work for low value websites.
A site would have to be pretty high value in order to require the user to subscribe to cellular service just to use the site.
I'd guess that it takes more KE or momentum to knock down someone braced for the impact than to make an unprepared suspect lose his balance.
Common Knowlege
As they say on Wikipedia: [citation needed]
Do you know of any PC gamers that play same screen multiplayer on their PC?
That can be taken either of two ways. Do I know of people with a PC connected to a TV? Yes, and I imagine that a substantial percentage of them game.
The other way is an implicit assumption that my personal friends and relatives form sample large enough to be valid. Do I personally have any friends or relatives who play same-screen multiplayer games on a PC? No. But I do have a cousin who routinely connects a PC to the living room TV to watch Netflix. Nor do I have any friends or relatives who own a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation Vita. I haven't even seen a Vita on the city bus. Even if Slashdot is a biased sample, it's still a much larger sample than my personal monkeysphere.
Write a game by yourself or with others that is good enough.
I am currently doing just this for a different, non-PlayStation platform. The one problem is that I'm unsure quite what you mean by "good enough".
so what are you waiting for?
I am waiting for my present paid video game project with another company on a non-PlayStation platform to be completed.
The new laptops that I have considered this year (ASUS Transformer Book, Acer Aspire Switch) in the size range that I am considering (10") suspend correctly in Windows but have reports of epic failure in Ubuntu.
So I'll ask about another make of PC in the same form factor class (10" detachables). Reports show that an Acer Aspire Switch is no better.
buy hardware compatible with Linux
That's what I did last time, and that's what I'm trying to do this time. It's just that I'm having a heck of a time finding a new 10" laptop, convertible laptop, or detachable laptop that is compatible with Linux. The ASUS Transformer Book sure isn't.
There is no price too high for knowledge.
Sure, when you're spending Other People's Money. But would you be willing to contribute 100% of your income to a new collider?
But can Opera and Firefox do foreach (all open tabs) { save the page in this tab; }?
That being said... If you're downloading stuff you shouldn't be, why are you complaining?
I know to avoid The Pirate Bay and similar sites that flagrantly disregard copyright. But not all sites are quite as obviously infringing as those, and I don't see how a non-lawyer can precisely determine what he should and shouldn't be downloading. When people purchased a download of the song "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams from Amazon, Google, or iTunes, how could they know they were downloading a song that turned out to be infringing (Gaye v. Thicke)? And how can someone downloading a copy of Emacs tell whether the M-x tetris function in Emacs infringes the copyright in Tetris ? And is Nintendo planning to go after users of RomHacking.net, which contains a commentary on the program of Super Mario Bros. ?
Or in practice, does an end user have little to worry about when visiting sites that aren't bright-line infringers?
What other "operating system businesses"?
I was primarily referring to Canonical Ltd., which maintains the Ubuntu operating system.
Later on you refer to binary incompatibility for proprietary applications among different distributions of X11/Linux. This is something that Valve has been trying to solve with Steam Runtime.
From the linked page: "Limited time offer, not valid in Indiana." I live in Indiana.