There are a few lines you can add to the hosts file on your PC or your DNS proxy to block AdSense and DoubleClick networks. You don't have to go full APK unless you want to. Start with these two and see what else you can pull in from your browser's debugger.
If access to your mic and camera are *actually* required (e.g. tech support, online chat etc.) you should have to authorise this access each time and the access should be granted for the current page only.
If the user has to re-allow the microphone, re-allow the camera, and re-allow location whenever the user navigates to a different part of a web application, with no way to "always allow" other than by applying a patch to the browser's source code and recompiling the entire browser from source, the user will likely consider it worse than Windows Vista UAC.
Are you so stupid that you don't know what you need?
You might be surprised at how many people are that stupid. Henry Ford sold his Model T automobile to people who thought they needed a faster horse.
Do you need help when deciding what food/clothes/housing/car you buy?
Some people do. In some categories, U.S. consumers can rely on Consumer Reports, a product comparison magazine and website funded by subscribers that takes no advertising. But a lot of things are so hyper-local that a nationwide magazine such as CR can't cover them adequately, such as restaurants and housing. And even then, CR somehow needs to learn that a particular product exists and is available to the public, even though it refuses to take product samples.
That's like saying Comcast could potentially look all my neighbors into contracts. Except that it is a fact that they haven't and can't.
That's because phone companies offering DSL or fiber are more likely to use a contract with an ETF. Look at it this way: If Comcast wants to expand its Xfinity subscriber base in a particular area, and a lot of Internet users in that area are already locked into contracts with the phone company and the satellite TV company, it'll have a hard time selling Xfinity subscriptions unless it can afford to buy out the ETFs of the competitor's subscribers. Now replace "Comcast" brands with ViaSat, its competitor with Gogo, and "Internet users" with airlines.
If I wonder why calls to repeal US Medicaid entirely were not more widespread, even prior to the ACA. Perhaps the answer is that some level of government services, such as guaranteed health insurance, reduces the rate of violent crime to obtain those services by force. (Citation: the film John Q.)
Aside from the cost of gas and sales tax probably eating your savings on shipping
Gas perhaps, unless it's a trip you already made for another reason. Sales tax no, unless you're ordering from a dealer that has no nexus in your state and committing tax evasion in the use tax field of your tax return.
Besides which, if you planned your deployment thoroughly, instead of buying it piecemeal, you'd probably be over the $35 threshold anyway.
Increased health insurance premiums also cause problems for others, especially if a nationwide health care law forbids insurers to deny coverage for preexisting emphysema or preexisting nicotine dependence, and especially if the law includes a subsidy for people with an income in or near poverty to buy insurance.
Ummm... Don't buy stuff that doesn't do standards?
So what do you buy if zero of the brands in the store near you do standards? Wait until you have $35 of other stuff and then wait another week or two for Super Saver Shipping?
it is his problem regardless of if he even owns a dog. In which case, why limit the tax to dog owners?
Tax the people who cause the problem for others in order to encourage them to stop causing the problem for others. It's the same reason tobacco is taxed, as cigar and cigarette smoke causes medical problems for others. It's also the same reason motor fuel is taxed, as tailpipe emissions cause medical problems for cyclists and EV drivers, and road wear causes unevenness problems for cyclists and EV drivers.
As other users have asked me in comments to other Slashdot stories about Android: Why did you buy an Android device without checking first that its bootloader could be unlocked?
One thing Michigan has going for it is the 10 cent deposit on carbonated beverage containers
According to an otherwise pro-deposit bottle bill FAQ, deposit laws like this require people to return empty containers in the same state in which the beverage was purchased. This discriminates against people in a state temporarily, who may buy a beverage in one state, drive across state lines, and finish consuming it in a different state.
Everything is one person's opinion until it's tested in a court of law. The article I linked states that such a case has been decided for board games, but not for video games.
Look, the only company that really doesn't care for streaming is Nintendo, goes to show just how stuck in the past they are.
Streaming is built right in to the PS4 and Xbox One.
From the manual: "For some games, there might be scenes in which video cannot be recorded. The maximum 15 minutes of gameplay that are saved as a video clip do not include scenes in which video cannot be recorded. An icon is displayed in the upper left corner of the screen at the start and end of these scenes." This Ars Technica article agrees. Is a licensee allowed to designate the entire game as such a scene? Apparently so, according to this Polygon article and this reddit post.
But in order to get Minecraft or Cave Story or any of the other solo success stories onto game consoles everywhere, the team had to become a lot more than just Markus Persson or Daisuke Amaya.
I was stating my interpretation of the featured article.
Based on the fact that not all airlines use Gogo
An airline that has already deployed a particular provider's service is a "client", not a "potential client". This means a "potential client" for ViaSat is an airline that 1. isn't already a ViaSat client and 2. isn't already in an exclusive contract with Gogo.
A single frame is far more likely to favor the alleged infringer under the "amount and substantiality" factor of fair use than a playthrough of an entire level or, worse yet, a whole game.
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Thanks. Sigged till at least Patriot Day.
Unlike most people, I really don't mind ads.
You may have missed the recent story about malvertising.
There are a few lines you can add to the hosts file on your PC or your DNS proxy to block AdSense and DoubleClick networks. You don't have to go full APK unless you want to. Start with these two and see what else you can pull in from your browser's debugger.
there is no euvertising. Advertisements are spam, thus malware
Would you prefer to have to buy a separate $20 per year subscription for each domain that you visit? Or what third option am I missing?
If you can't afford to host a site without spamming me with ads and putting me at risk of infection, you shouldn't be hosting a site.
What would be better? A Wikipedia-style pledge drive for a fourth of the year?
How do you not-click an ad that takes up the entire screen with a transparent hotspot?
Ctrl+W. (Source)
WWF is a horrible app.
Yeah, but where else can I watch panda wrestling?
If access to your mic and camera are *actually* required (e.g. tech support, online chat etc.) you should have to authorise this access each time and the access should be granted for the current page only.
If the user has to re-allow the microphone, re-allow the camera, and re-allow location whenever the user navigates to a different part of a web application, with no way to "always allow" other than by applying a patch to the browser's source code and recompiling the entire browser from source, the user will likely consider it worse than Windows Vista UAC.
There are other ways to finance content
What might these be, other than ads and paywalls? Once I know what other ways you're thinking of, I can analyze their suitability for different
and if you do not qualify, maybe your content was not valuable in the first place.
Valuable to readers != valuable to those with money up front.
Are you so stupid that you don't know what you need?
You might be surprised at how many people are that stupid. Henry Ford sold his Model T automobile to people who thought they needed a faster horse.
Do you need help when deciding what food/clothes/housing/car you buy?
Some people do. In some categories, U.S. consumers can rely on Consumer Reports, a product comparison magazine and website funded by subscribers that takes no advertising. But a lot of things are so hyper-local that a nationwide magazine such as CR can't cover them adequately, such as restaurants and housing. And even then, CR somehow needs to learn that a particular product exists and is available to the public, even though it refuses to take product samples.
That's like saying Comcast could potentially look all my neighbors into contracts. Except that it is a fact that they haven't and can't.
That's because phone companies offering DSL or fiber are more likely to use a contract with an ETF. Look at it this way: If Comcast wants to expand its Xfinity subscriber base in a particular area, and a lot of Internet users in that area are already locked into contracts with the phone company and the satellite TV company, it'll have a hard time selling Xfinity subscriptions unless it can afford to buy out the ETFs of the competitor's subscribers. Now replace "Comcast" brands with ViaSat, its competitor with Gogo, and "Internet users" with airlines.
If I wonder why calls to repeal US Medicaid entirely were not more widespread, even prior to the ACA. Perhaps the answer is that some level of government services, such as guaranteed health insurance, reduces the rate of violent crime to obtain those services by force. (Citation: the film John Q.)
Aside from the cost of gas and sales tax probably eating your savings on shipping
Gas perhaps, unless it's a trip you already made for another reason. Sales tax no, unless you're ordering from a dealer that has no nexus in your state and committing tax evasion in the use tax field of your tax return.
Besides which, if you planned your deployment thoroughly, instead of buying it piecemeal, you'd probably be over the $35 threshold anyway.
"Planning? In my home?" It's less likely than you think.
A lot of this has to do with carrier certification
Why would an individual carrier, not the governing body of GSM, UMTS, and LTE, need to certify individual phones?
for the combinations of components, which go up by a power of two for each ne possible module you can plug in.
And why would they have to certify anything but the radio module?
Increased health insurance premiums also cause problems for others, especially if a nationwide health care law forbids insurers to deny coverage for preexisting emphysema or preexisting nicotine dependence, and especially if the law includes a subsidy for people with an income in or near poverty to buy insurance.
Ummm... Don't buy stuff that doesn't do standards?
So what do you buy if zero of the brands in the store near you do standards? Wait until you have $35 of other stuff and then wait another week or two for Super Saver Shipping?
Now imagine being a developer if every company decided to make their own OS instead of using Android.
It already exists, and it's called video games on the TV.
it is his problem regardless of if he even owns a dog. In which case, why limit the tax to dog owners?
Tax the people who cause the problem for others in order to encourage them to stop causing the problem for others. It's the same reason tobacco is taxed, as cigar and cigarette smoke causes medical problems for others. It's also the same reason motor fuel is taxed, as tailpipe emissions cause medical problems for cyclists and EV drivers, and road wear causes unevenness problems for cyclists and EV drivers.
Finally.. in order to get that nice, on-device IDE.. they would only have to NOT ban compilers from their store!
There are on-device IDEs for interpreted languages for iPad. Last time I checked they were called "Codea" and "Pythonista".
As other users have asked me in comments to other Slashdot stories about Android: Why did you buy an Android device without checking first that its bootloader could be unlocked?
One thing Michigan has going for it is the 10 cent deposit on carbonated beverage containers
According to an otherwise pro-deposit bottle bill FAQ, deposit laws like this require people to return empty containers in the same state in which the beverage was purchased. This discriminates against people in a state temporarily, who may buy a beverage in one state, drive across state lines, and finish consuming it in a different state.
Thats "one" persons opinion
Everything is one person's opinion until it's tested in a court of law. The article I linked states that such a case has been decided for board games, but not for video games.
Look, the only company that really doesn't care for streaming is Nintendo, goes to show just how stuck in the past they are.
From the article I linked: "Capcom can make you get a license for the 'public performance' of the game. In fact, that is exactly what Capcom does with for-profit tournaments" with games in the Street Fighter series. Blizzard likewise has tried to use copyright to give one Korean TV network exclusive rights to StarCraft II . Sega at one time did a massive takedown of its Shining RPG series on YouTube.
Streaming is built right in to the PS4 and Xbox One.
From the manual: "For some games, there might be scenes in which video cannot be recorded. The maximum 15 minutes of gameplay that are saved as a video clip do not include scenes in which video cannot be recorded. An icon is displayed in the upper left corner of the screen at the start and end of these scenes." This Ars Technica article agrees. Is a licensee allowed to designate the entire game as such a scene? Apparently so, according to this Polygon article and this reddit post.
But in order to get Minecraft or Cave Story or any of the other solo success stories onto game consoles everywhere, the team had to become a lot more than just Markus Persson or Daisuke Amaya.
"All"? Did you look that up
I was stating my interpretation of the featured article.
Based on the fact that not all airlines use Gogo
An airline that has already deployed a particular provider's service is a "client", not a "potential client". This means a "potential client" for ViaSat is an airline that 1. isn't already a ViaSat client and 2. isn't already in an exclusive contract with Gogo.
A single frame is far more likely to favor the alleged infringer under the "amount and substantiality" factor of fair use than a playthrough of an entire level or, worse yet, a whole game.