Where is Cracked spouting RF alarmism? I thought that even for an infotainment site, Cracked was better than that. So let's first get on the same page as to which article we're looking at.
In some cases, the marginal money through completing a task using fewer hours of labor or gaining a greater advantage in an esport makes up for the marginal use of electric power.
If I want to write a simple application that runs on all platforms I shouldn't have to produce and distribute a binary for each one
Why not? Personally, I agree with you, but a lot of other Slashdot users claim to have had no problem with developing an application using Qt and "produc[ing] and distribut[ing] a binary for each one".
When people watched video on the Internet prior to YouTube, how did viewers discover other videos related to the video they are watching or related to other videos that they recently watched?
A perpetual patent on an invention would exceed the power of Congress under the Constitution. Faking a perpetual patent through successive extensions not intended to harmonize the term with that of a major trading partner could constitute what the Supreme Court referred to as "legislative misbehavior" when upholding the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.
Not only that, but the reason they're effectively a monopoly is because of patents-- which is already a form of government regulation.
Patent law isn't the only regulation that boosts drug prices, nor is it necessarily even the strongest among them. Drugs like pyrimethamine and epinephine have seen drastic price increases in the United States market decades after the patent had expired.
[Treating withdrawal after banning a substance is] a better question.
So in this analogy:
- User-uploaded content platforms are like heroin - Starting your own website is like quitting heroin - Loss of a recommendation engine is like withdrawal
Then how would you get documents or videos on your own website recommended to people? AdWords?
I still don't know the answer to that one (nor do I care).
If you want to get your own content viewed, then you probably ought to care.
People should (but won't) learn to use the Internet as it was intended.
With respect to recommendation of documents related to the document being viewed and to other documents that the user recently viewed, on the same or other sites, how was that intended to work?
Never buy licensed digital content like this, not from Apple, Sony, Vudu, Amazon or any of the others. It is NOT the same as buying a blu-ray. The same goes for music, games, etc.
I'm told it's far more expensive per title and per copy for a smaller studio producing a low-budget and/or niche work to make the work available on disc compared to download. For example, only a Blu-ray Disc that is stamped and licensed by AACS can have BDMV features, such as menus and multiple languages (source; source). BD player manufacturers do this to protect AACS licensee movie studios from infringers. Age ratings tend to be more expensive for disc games than for downloadable games. And with many new desktop and laptop PCs not including optical drives anymore, there isn't much of an option for even a DRM-free release of a PC game. What practical ways are there for a smaller studio to mitigate these costs?
Even dynamic DNS won't help when your ISP doesn't provide a globally routable IP address for your home at all. An ISP using CGNAT routes the outgoing connections of dozens of subscribers through the same global IP address and blocks incoming TCP connections. And Bert64 reports that some countries have so few IPv4 addresses that all home ISPs use CGNAT.
Then let me rephrase the question to which you compared mine: "How are people going to get their withdrawal syndrome treated if heroin is made illegal?"
If YouTube ceased to exist, publishers would instead publish video through their own sites. Through what means would these videos get recommended to viewers?
"Low carbon fuel source" appears to be a CO2 cap-and-trade program specific to motor vehicle fuel (source: Wikipedia). "Cleaner-burning fuel" comprises refining methods and additives to reduce sulfur, alkenes, benzene and other aromatic hydrocarbons, and other exhaust components that contribute to smog.
As for 50 hours of supervised driving, in Indiana it appears to have zero cost if you know anyone with a license over 25. Having spent a little time in Indiana, I know it's a rarity to find someone without a license there, so that is not a tall bar to leap over. Well, I guess you could have a total jerk for a friend who charges you for you to drive him places.
Then the question becomes how to find local friends in the first place, as online friends are not useful for this purpose. What are the most effective ways for someone with a diagnosed social interaction disorder (Asperger's/HFA) who does not or cannot drink alcohol to do so?
the trend was to move all new big budget games into locked down games
Your issue is with specific publishers of big-budget games. Had Valve not introduced Steam digital restrictions management, there would be more disc-based DRM and game installers that install DRM-related rootkits. There would also be even more publisher-specific online DRM platforms for PC games than there are today: Blizzard's Battle.net, EA's Origin, Ubisoft's Uplay, and Microsoft's Microsoft Store (formerly Windows Marketplace).
But a PC user has the choice to abstain from these abusive publishers' output and choose smaller-budget games instead. Console gamers lack this choice because console operating systems lack a way to install a program with no online or offline DRM. Both disc games and downloadable games on consoles have offline DRM. This goes all the way back to code signing on the Atari 7800 ProSystem and the MCUs in the Control Deck and Game Pak on the Nintendo Entertainment System that run a synchronized RNG. Thus a smaller-budget game might get released on consoles later if ever.
Is this ownCloud instance on your premises, in a VPS at a datacenter, in a leased dedicated server at a datacenter, or in your own dedicated server that you colocate in a datacenter? If on your premises, then you may have to pay extra per month for a dedicated IP address that isn't behind carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT), and it doesn't solve offsite backup. If in a datacenter, you still need to trust the datacenter operator and guard your infrastructure against getting snooped, hacked, etc.
If it's already properly cited, how is it not verifiable?
If an article cites significant coverage of a subject in three different reliable third-party sources, then the subject is presumed notable, and deletion was unwarranted. Request undeletion at Deletion review.
I'm just curious as to when a restaurant edition was added to $random_office_building, but not curious enough to hunt down the permits filed for the modifications or the article in the neighborhood-level newspaper from the 1980s. Someone else did, put the info up, and poof, whole building deleted, "not notable"
Coverage must also be nontrivial to establish notability. Wikipedia's general notability guideline states that a mention must be more than in passing. In addition, building permits are primary sources and thus not as strong for establishing notability as secondary sources. But even if something doesn't merit its own article, it may merit a mention in an article about a related notable subject.
A USB hard drive stored at home/office doesn't help when you need to share the files with a device with no USB A port or view them while you are away from your hard drive, or if a disaster hits your home/office and renders your hard drive unreadable. What form of offsite backup compatible with both PCs and pocket-sized tablets is superior to things like OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive?
I just have to make sure that people don't post copyrighted stuff on it, just like I do now on my own website.
What steps would you take to ensure that? I guess you could paywall the service and use the revenue to hire someone to review each post for copyright infringement before it becomes visible to the public. Is that practical? How would the reviewer even be familiar with all copyrighted works in existence? Or what other practical means of prior review did you have in mind?
If publishing a printed periodical is so costly, then how do nonprofit publishers that accept no ads stay in business? Such an organization publishes Consumer Reports, a monthly magazine that reviews products marketed to individual home users.
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In single-payer, who's the gatekeeper to the GP/PCP?
I swear user interfaces peaked 8 to 10 years ago and have gotten worse ever since.
That sort of coincides with the rise in use of fingers on a 4 inch screen at the expense of a mouse and a 19+ inch screen.
Where is Cracked spouting RF alarmism? I thought that even for an infotainment site, Cracked was better than that. So let's first get on the same page as to which article we're looking at.
(searches the web for site:cracked.com cell phone radiation)
Are you referring to "5 Terrifying Realities Of My Job As A Cell Tower Climber" by Ryan Menezes? It mentions RF burn, falling, beehives and bird nests, urination, and dropped tools.
In some cases, the marginal money through completing a task using fewer hours of labor or gaining a greater advantage in an esport makes up for the marginal use of electric power.
If I want to write a simple application that runs on all platforms I shouldn't have to produce and distribute a binary for each one
Why not? Personally, I agree with you, but a lot of other Slashdot users claim to have had no problem with developing an application using Qt and "produc[ing] and distribut[ing] a binary for each one".
When people watched video on the Internet prior to YouTube, how did viewers discover other videos related to the video they are watching or related to other videos that they recently watched?
arcade games aren't buyable
A JAMMA cabinet and game PCB are more buyable than free-to-play phone games, which are the biggest abusers of microtransactions in my experience.
So no, modern AAA gaming is basically theft and fraud on an unprecedented scale.
And my point remains that one can boycott abusive AAA game publishers without boycotting video games.
A perpetual patent on an invention would exceed the power of Congress under the Constitution. Faking a perpetual patent through successive extensions not intended to harmonize the term with that of a major trading partner could constitute what the Supreme Court referred to as "legislative misbehavior" when upholding the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.
Not only that, but the reason they're effectively a monopoly is because of patents-- which is already a form of government regulation.
Patent law isn't the only regulation that boosts drug prices, nor is it necessarily even the strongest among them. Drugs like pyrimethamine and epinephine have seen drastic price increases in the United States market decades after the patent had expired.
[Treating withdrawal after banning a substance is] a better question.
So in this analogy:
- User-uploaded content platforms are like heroin
- Starting your own website is like quitting heroin
- Loss of a recommendation engine is like withdrawal
Then how would you get documents or videos on your own website recommended to people? AdWords?
I still don't know the answer to that one (nor do I care).
If you want to get your own content viewed, then you probably ought to care.
People should (but won't) learn to use the Internet as it was intended.
With respect to recommendation of documents related to the document being viewed and to other documents that the user recently viewed, on the same or other sites, how was that intended to work?
Before online digital restrictions management, publishers still sold games piecemeal as "expansions". Arcade games ran entirely on microtransactions.
Never buy licensed digital content like this, not from Apple, Sony, Vudu, Amazon or any of the others. It is NOT the same as buying a blu-ray. The same goes for music, games, etc.
I'm told it's far more expensive per title and per copy for a smaller studio producing a low-budget and/or niche work to make the work available on disc compared to download. For example, only a Blu-ray Disc that is stamped and licensed by AACS can have BDMV features, such as menus and multiple languages (source; source). BD player manufacturers do this to protect AACS licensee movie studios from infringers. Age ratings tend to be more expensive for disc games than for downloadable games. And with many new desktop and laptop PCs not including optical drives anymore, there isn't much of an option for even a DRM-free release of a PC game. What practical ways are there for a smaller studio to mitigate these costs?
the static IP being replaced by dynamic DNS
Even dynamic DNS won't help when your ISP doesn't provide a globally routable IP address for your home at all. An ISP using CGNAT routes the outgoing connections of dozens of subscribers through the same global IP address and blocks incoming TCP connections. And Bert64 reports that some countries have so few IPv4 addresses that all home ISPs use CGNAT.
If you can find others who would contribute to a wiki about companies and the buildings they operate in, you could always start one on Miraheze.
Then let me rephrase the question to which you compared mine: "How are people going to get their withdrawal syndrome treated if heroin is made illegal?"
Let me rephrase:
If YouTube ceased to exist, publishers would instead publish video through their own sites. Through what means would these videos get recommended to viewers?
"Low carbon fuel source" appears to be a CO2 cap-and-trade program specific to motor vehicle fuel (source: Wikipedia). "Cleaner-burning fuel" comprises refining methods and additives to reduce sulfur, alkenes, benzene and other aromatic hydrocarbons, and other exhaust components that contribute to smog.
As for 50 hours of supervised driving, in Indiana it appears to have zero cost if you know anyone with a license over 25. Having spent a little time in Indiana, I know it's a rarity to find someone without a license there, so that is not a tall bar to leap over. Well, I guess you could have a total jerk for a friend who charges you for you to drive him places.
Then the question becomes how to find local friends in the first place, as online friends are not useful for this purpose. What are the most effective ways for someone with a diagnosed social interaction disorder (Asperger's/HFA) who does not or cannot drink alcohol to do so?
the trend was to move all new big budget games into locked down games
Your issue is with specific publishers of big-budget games. Had Valve not introduced Steam digital restrictions management, there would be more disc-based DRM and game installers that install DRM-related rootkits. There would also be even more publisher-specific online DRM platforms for PC games than there are today: Blizzard's Battle.net, EA's Origin, Ubisoft's Uplay, and Microsoft's Microsoft Store (formerly Windows Marketplace).
But a PC user has the choice to abstain from these abusive publishers' output and choose smaller-budget games instead. Console gamers lack this choice because console operating systems lack a way to install a program with no online or offline DRM. Both disc games and downloadable games on consoles have offline DRM. This goes all the way back to code signing on the Atari 7800 ProSystem and the MCUs in the Control Deck and Game Pak on the Nintendo Entertainment System that run a synchronized RNG. Thus a smaller-budget game might get released on consoles later if ever.
Is this ownCloud instance on your premises, in a VPS at a datacenter, in a leased dedicated server at a datacenter, or in your own dedicated server that you colocate in a datacenter? If on your premises, then you may have to pay extra per month for a dedicated IP address that isn't behind carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT), and it doesn't solve offsite backup. If in a datacenter, you still need to trust the datacenter operator and guard your infrastructure against getting snooped, hacked, etc.
If it's already properly cited, how is it not verifiable?
If an article cites significant coverage of a subject in three different reliable third-party sources, then the subject is presumed notable, and deletion was unwarranted. Request undeletion at Deletion review.
I'm just curious as to when a restaurant edition was added to $random_office_building, but not curious enough to hunt down the permits filed for the modifications or the article in the neighborhood-level newspaper from the 1980s. Someone else did, put the info up, and poof, whole building deleted, "not notable"
Coverage must also be nontrivial to establish notability. Wikipedia's general notability guideline states that a mention must be more than in passing. In addition, building permits are primary sources and thus not as strong for establishing notability as secondary sources. But even if something doesn't merit its own article, it may merit a mention in an article about a related notable subject.
A USB hard drive stored at home/office doesn't help when you need to share the files with a device with no USB A port or view them while you are away from your hard drive, or if a disaster hits your home/office and renders your hard drive unreadable. What form of offsite backup compatible with both PCs and pocket-sized tablets is superior to things like OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive?
This law just says that you'll have to monitor the content, just like Facebook is going to have to do.
How will a smaller entity without the scale of Facebook or YouTube afford to perform such monitoring?
I just have to make sure that people don't post copyrighted stuff on it, just like I do now on my own website.
What steps would you take to ensure that? I guess you could paywall the service and use the revenue to hire someone to review each post for copyright infringement before it becomes visible to the public. Is that practical? How would the reviewer even be familiar with all copyrighted works in existence? Or what other practical means of prior review did you have in mind?
If publishing a printed periodical is so costly, then how do nonprofit publishers that accept no ads stay in business? Such an organization publishes Consumer Reports, a monthly magazine that reviews products marketed to individual home users.