What distro do you currently have loaded on your 32-bit 10 year old MacBook? Lets find out exactly when you are going to lose support. I would be shocked if whatever distro you are using will have no updates for you before your machine is totally dead and you are using a newer box.
You are on record with stuff like "Trump doesn't have the numbers to win the election, especially if he's getting less than 50% of the Republican vote", then later (once he started getting more than 50% of the Republican vote), "Trump will have less than 51% of the delegates to win the nomination outright" and "the only reason he's winning more than 50% of the vote... is that his his opponents are dropping out. He has yet to win an election by landslide."
Since then, of course, he's won elections by a landslide, and has way more than 51% of the delegates.
So previously, you had some set of reasons why Trump couldn't win. Then, when those were no longer true, you picked a different set of reasons why Trump couldn't win.
I don't know who will win. But I know that you aren't applying any kind of constant standard to this- you chose your conclusion and now are selectively remembering things that back that conclusion.
The GTX 1080 is nvidia's top of the line card. It's at 9 TFLOPS. It's out today- not in months, when something better will be available. And of course, you can link up two cards together, if you wanna go full retard.
Anyway, obviously a lot more power in a console is nice. But I suspect there's a lot of marketing spin here, and the slashdot summary also helpfully points out that by 2017 the state of PC cards will be better.
I think you are comparing apples to oranges. The NSA has a charter that includes expertise in this field. That's very different from having license to engage in computer drama in the course of discharging duties, as state governments would have.
I mean, this shouldn't be overly surprising. If it is a gold rush, the money is in making shovels. The same is mostly true even if it is a scam gold rush...
Because no one has banned it yet. But honestly, I have no idea. My guess is that it is mostly rich people, and they are few in numbers. There's also the "sense of inevitability" that they have pressed hard for with articles and such.
And it is true- eventually this sort of thing will be something that will be everywhere and it will be good.
But lets go over some situations that will probably occur on this long journey: 1- People will probably find that there's some situations in which a self driving car will react amusingly. They'll then create these situations for self driving cars around them. Some accidents will probably result from this, and while I would suspect the offenders will be arrested most of the time, who knows. 2- The self driving feature will do something dumb, and the person will be injured. If the only person injured is the driver and passengers, there's the sense of "you pressed the button to turn on the autodrive, you takes your chances". But let one of these things drive into some kid wearing an outfit that is low contrast, especially in some condition that makes it hard for the sensors to figure out what is going on, and I think you see where this is going. 3- The manufacturers of the self driving cars will eventually have to lobby the federal government to enforce whole new standards for ALL streets. Its the only way to be safe, after all. If they don't do this, then there will be classes of roads that the autodrive can't work on, and that would make for bad marketing.
It is truly surprising that we have laws against texting or calling while driving (in some cases), or drinking while driving. All of these are vastly VASTLY less dangerous than allowing the *current* Tesla autodrive to drive the car essentially unattended.
Anyway, probably what will happen is this- Tesla will continue to improve their autodrive, and will continue to be shielded by handing liability to the driver. Eventually there will be enough data (do you want to be their data? ehhh?) to improve it substantially, and others working in the field will also continue to do this. Long term, this will be safe. No idea what long term is here though.
The answer to your question REALLY is- it is NOT legal. Not to allow the car to drive itself without your hands on the wheel. But it is still surprising that a system that encourages this every way it can is totes fine.
The CDC leaders are on the record with quotes like "We’re going to systematically build a case that owning firearms causes deaths.". These weren't studies, these were cherry-picked propaganda. They had decided on the conclusion, and the only challenge was building the case. They then went on to fund ludicrous studies that confused cause with effect (critics point out that the same methods would show that hospitals cause death, and therefore it is safer to never go to a hospital), cherry picked samples, etc. Basically what any good advocate would do while attempting to affect social change and giving not one fucking hoot for reality. Additionally and more importantly why the fuck should the *center for disease control* be funding gun studies? Shouldn't congress make them spend their money on fucking fighting disease, instead of our constitution?
> Humans can improve themselves as well, yet here we are.
Humans are optimized for similar purposes to other animals. Our brains didn't do that optimizing either, making it ludicrously complex to make changes. A computer starts without these, which obviously has massive downsides, but very interesting potential.
(1) is even more relevant for SSDs. (2) is of course the best advice, but many avoid crypto because it can make it hard to recover files even knowing the password, and it can be hard to find a good crypto solution that works on boot if you still use Windows. (3) is the most relevant for this particular article, and sort of shows why this discussion is unlikely to help many people- no one contributing to this discussion will ever sell a hard drive of theirs.
The best secure deletion method appears to be a claw hammer, some goggles, and a few spare minutes. But I'm puzzled that ANYONE would sell a used hard drive. Your data could be there, and the drive could fail shortly after transfer, leaving the purchaser or giftee pretty well stuck.
> two Boolean flag vars in the Registry > drill down to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows] > not present then use the editor to create new key names > add a dword named DisableGWX under GWX and set it to 1 (true) > That's it.
Oh, that's it? Well, I see why people use windows. You only have to use a proprietary binary editing tool, move to an address with a hugely named space, instantiate and name correctly a 32 bit binary number, set it to the correct value, and do it all again.
Super easy! I mean, in Linux, you sometimes have to type a thing on a command line. Whoa, nerdy-mcnerd face! I'm much more comfortable with fucking Gate's dword editor.
> and then assume that there is a comparable property in reality
Well, if you are arguing that its an object with a volume curved around a fourth dimension, then it is a natural objection.
Look, right now, a line from the Earth through the Sun will roughly point at the constellation Gemini. That means that the mass of Gemini and the mass of the sun are, at all points today, on the same side of us. Six months from now, that won't be the case- Gemini will be on one side, and the Sun on the other. That means you could define a point in the universe (or several) from which ALL the mass would be on one side (within a hemisphere), or a point from which mass is roughly equal on all sides (center of mass)- unless the universe is curved, wraps around, etc. That could all the be the case, but I'm pretty sure we see no evidence of that. Am I incorrect?
I don't believe it. The study doesn't call out this statement (what, do they all point to the best stone crabs?), and the line, if quoted correctly, might mean something entirely different (such as the shape being consistently pear-like, or that it maintains a shape relative to something entirely unremarkable). Finding that a bunch of Radium atoms point to to a specific star would be pretty amazing, and look for a kooky youtube about it soon!...but I doubt it really says anything of the sort. If you speak Physic any better than me (likely!), just go grab the study from any hub of sci, especially a.bz one...
Right, but I know where the center of a balloon is. And if I'm a two-dimensional creature on the surface, I can make three marks, then move in a direction, and eventually notice that I see them from another direction, and then estimate the distance.
If the argument is that the universe is the three dimensional equivalent of the balloon (or N dimensional, or whatever), then we'd expect there to be a way to gauge this, by basically looking out and seeing if we can see a really distant anything from one side in one direction, and another side in another direction. Given enough time and a strong enough telescope, we could even look at our own butts this way. But we see neither our own butts, nor both sides of crazy distant things. If the universe isn't wrapped around like a pacman game, we probably can discuss the idea of a center by asking "where is the center of density of this thing", if you were to measure it from an outside (the existence of "outside" likely not being relevant). There exists some point where there is roughly the same amount of stuff in every direction, and there exists many points where all or almost all of the mass is mostly in one specific direction.
The one thing I can say about astronomy versus astrology is that one of them has changed a whole bunch in my lifetime, and has predicted nothing ever, being updated with literally every new instrument or experiment ever invented. Astrology has at least predicted some shit entirely by accident, I assume...
Good fucking grief. Passive voice, "there are concerns". If there's a backdoor in systemd, that would be massively huge news. I get that you don't like it, and I agree that it is spooky that it is getting pushed into pretty much every place, but that doesn't justify a massive claim like this at all.
Rhel 7 uses systemd. Industry and military use the living shit out of Rhel 7. If systemd had a backdoor, tons of industry and government computers would be compromisable instantly. Keep in mind, this is for a theoretical backdoor, somehow hidden in plain site, and used on serious and sensitive machines all throughout US infrastructure.
The Court cannot take judicial notice that a computer having storage greater than 18 kilobytes has today any reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of the security of people in their houses, papers, and effects, and therefore cannot say that the Fourth Amendment guarantees to the citizen the right to keep and bear such a device.
Well, if your modem was ten times faster than your broadband, this would be an adequate comparison. Good headphones range from hundreds to thousands of dollars, and blow the hell out of USB ones.
Oof, that guy is over a grand. Top of the line iphone is nowhere close to that. I'm not at all surprised it is a better listening experience though. I have some pretty sweet headphones too, and while I don't always listen to them on the iphone, I assuredly do sometimes. It is certainly silly to entertain the idea of either a stupid dongle to add to my list of random gadgets, or a whole different headphone JUST for the fucking phone.
Mind telling me a bit about the Cowon? Can I maintain all files in it in Linux? Exchange the battery / buy a second battery? Does it have wifi or any other thing like that?
It's a catch-22 though, and video game reviewers have the same issue.
If you get a review copy, you don't just get it FREE- you get it EARLY. That means you can write a story before someone who has to wait for the product to ship. Since most of the hype occurs before the launch (obviously- if you are super into product X and it is out, you go and buy it and are happy), this means that most of the readers about product X will want to read about it before it launches, be it a video game or a video card.
This gives the companies a lot more power over the "journalist" (if you can call a product reviewer that at all, lol) than you might see elsewhere.
Real reviews are done by places like Consumer Reports. They do blind purchases, don't accept advertisements, and they do their reviews based on objective things decided ahead of time. This isn't nearly as glamorous as luxury items like games, video cards, etc.
> What this means is that millions of WoW players do not interact in the same world
They absolutely do. I can send you a tell from any server. I can invite you to party from any other server, and then you will phase into my server immediately. The only exception? If I'm a lower level than you by a lot, then I will instead phase onto your server (no matter who did the invite: prevented from people making world hopping alts- otherwise the group lead determines which server everyone zones into).
So even though we started on different servers, you can immediately phase to mine. Once grouped, we can queue dungeons together, queue rated battlegrounds (and I think arena now), or regular battlegrounds, or just run around to gank horde together. You can mine mines and pick herbs on my server. What I can't do is invite you to my guild, and that restriction is in place solely to keep guilds relevant- there's no technical problem behind that.
You can send a tell to ANY player. You can be invited by ANY player. You can go to ANY server in this way. No, not everyone is dumped into the same instance of Goldshire at log in- that's obviously not possible, nor would it be useful.
Furthermore, servers that are related to each other have merged zones. Meaning that as you walk from Stormwind to Elwynn, you will go from a zone shared by only one (or a few) servers, to a zone shared by MANY. It will be filled with other players who have done the same. Each zone is built this way to ensure that no server has sections of it that are a vacant lot: if a bunch of people across all servers fill up, say, Loch Modan, then it will gradually decouple them until such time as the number present is appropriate again. It's all dynamic, very fluid, and way way way beyond the tech that any other MMO has on this front right now (though some are pretty close).
The stuff you said was partly true in like 2012, and mostly true in like 2010. But it's been years since then man, that's outdated lies now!
Here's an example of this in action, from when I played a couple years ago: there was a world boss that spawns reasonably often. When it does, anyone on that server can make a raid, and post a thing in oqueue (an addon that helps you coordinate). Immedatiately, everyone else who was waiting for that boss can be invited. So in this example, you would see a boss you needed a raid to take down, press a button, and quickly fill a raid with people who are explicitly interested in that boss. Upon taking the invite, they phase into your server, but they do so wherever the heck they are at in the world- so if they were flying over the ocean, they'd still be flying over that ocean, but now on your server, not theirs. Presumably, you get a warlock out there, and then you open a portal and say "push 1 for summon!" and the raid fills with "1". You summon your raid, you kill the world boss.
Now, is it good that an MMO operates like this? I'm of two minds on it. It has some downsides. But from a technical perspective, this is pretty fucking marvelous.
And you sure couldn't handle that many players, interacting in that way, on a private server. There's really just one world of warcraft, man, with everybody on it, and you can visit any piece of it if you have a mind to do so.
I hate and despise advertisements and everything about them. I block ads everywhere, and I try hard to avoid subscription services that have advertisements.
If Netflix added advertisements, I'd drop both the subscriptions I pay for (myself and a family member) immediately, and I'd never look back. Netflix is set up as the place you can go to pay with dollars instead of evil ass advertisements. If they lose that, fuck'em.
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I'm sad you didn't get more Funny mods for Laptop of Theseus lol
What distro do you currently have loaded on your 32-bit 10 year old MacBook? Lets find out exactly when you are going to lose support. I would be shocked if whatever distro you are using will have no updates for you before your machine is totally dead and you are using a newer box.
You are on record with stuff like "Trump doesn't have the numbers to win the election, especially if he's getting less than 50% of the Republican vote", then later (once he started getting more than 50% of the Republican vote), "Trump will have less than 51% of the delegates to win the nomination outright" and "the only reason he's winning more than 50% of the vote... is that his his opponents are dropping out. He has yet to win an election by landslide."
Since then, of course, he's won elections by a landslide, and has way more than 51% of the delegates.
So previously, you had some set of reasons why Trump couldn't win. Then, when those were no longer true, you picked a different set of reasons why Trump couldn't win.
I don't know who will win. But I know that you aren't applying any kind of constant standard to this- you chose your conclusion and now are selectively remembering things that back that conclusion.
The GTX 1080 is nvidia's top of the line card. It's at 9 TFLOPS. It's out today- not in months, when something better will be available. And of course, you can link up two cards together, if you wanna go full retard.
Anyway, obviously a lot more power in a console is nice. But I suspect there's a lot of marketing spin here, and the slashdot summary also helpfully points out that by 2017 the state of PC cards will be better.
I think you are comparing apples to oranges. The NSA has a charter that includes expertise in this field. That's very different from having license to engage in computer drama in the course of discharging duties, as state governments would have.
I mean, this shouldn't be overly surprising. If it is a gold rush, the money is in making shovels. The same is mostly true even if it is a scam gold rush...
> How is this autopilot legal?
Because no one has banned it yet. But honestly, I have no idea. My guess is that it is mostly rich people, and they are few in numbers. There's also the "sense of inevitability" that they have pressed hard for with articles and such.
And it is true- eventually this sort of thing will be something that will be everywhere and it will be good.
But lets go over some situations that will probably occur on this long journey:
1- People will probably find that there's some situations in which a self driving car will react amusingly. They'll then create these situations for self driving cars around them. Some accidents will probably result from this, and while I would suspect the offenders will be arrested most of the time, who knows.
2- The self driving feature will do something dumb, and the person will be injured. If the only person injured is the driver and passengers, there's the sense of "you pressed the button to turn on the autodrive, you takes your chances". But let one of these things drive into some kid wearing an outfit that is low contrast, especially in some condition that makes it hard for the sensors to figure out what is going on, and I think you see where this is going.
3- The manufacturers of the self driving cars will eventually have to lobby the federal government to enforce whole new standards for ALL streets. Its the only way to be safe, after all. If they don't do this, then there will be classes of roads that the autodrive can't work on, and that would make for bad marketing.
It is truly surprising that we have laws against texting or calling while driving (in some cases), or drinking while driving. All of these are vastly VASTLY less dangerous than allowing the *current* Tesla autodrive to drive the car essentially unattended.
Anyway, probably what will happen is this- Tesla will continue to improve their autodrive, and will continue to be shielded by handing liability to the driver. Eventually there will be enough data (do you want to be their data? ehhh?) to improve it substantially, and others working in the field will also continue to do this. Long term, this will be safe. No idea what long term is here though.
The answer to your question REALLY is- it is NOT legal. Not to allow the car to drive itself without your hands on the wheel. But it is still surprising that a system that encourages this every way it can is totes fine.
The CDC leaders are on the record with quotes like "We’re going to systematically build a case that owning firearms causes deaths.". These weren't studies, these were cherry-picked propaganda. They had decided on the conclusion, and the only challenge was building the case. They then went on to fund ludicrous studies that confused cause with effect (critics point out that the same methods would show that hospitals cause death, and therefore it is safer to never go to a hospital), cherry picked samples, etc. Basically what any good advocate would do while attempting to affect social change and giving not one fucking hoot for reality. Additionally and more importantly why the fuck should the *center for disease control* be funding gun studies? Shouldn't congress make them spend their money on fucking fighting disease, instead of our constitution?
> Humans can improve themselves as well, yet here we are.
Humans are optimized for similar purposes to other animals. Our brains didn't do that optimizing either, making it ludicrously complex to make changes. A computer starts without these, which obviously has massive downsides, but very interesting potential.
(1) is even more relevant for SSDs.
(2) is of course the best advice, but many avoid crypto because it can make it hard to recover files even knowing the password, and it can be hard to find a good crypto solution that works on boot if you still use Windows.
(3) is the most relevant for this particular article, and sort of shows why this discussion is unlikely to help many people- no one contributing to this discussion will ever sell a hard drive of theirs.
The best secure deletion method appears to be a claw hammer, some goggles, and a few spare minutes. But I'm puzzled that ANYONE would sell a used hard drive. Your data could be there, and the drive could fail shortly after transfer, leaving the purchaser or giftee pretty well stuck.
Be sure to specify her number as a signed DWORD value on architecture with two byte words, or OP might get confused.
> two Boolean flag vars in the Registry
> drill down to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows]
> not present then use the editor to create new key names
> add a dword named DisableGWX under GWX and set it to 1 (true)
> That's it.
Oh, that's it? Well, I see why people use windows. You only have to use a proprietary binary editing tool, move to an address with a hugely named space, instantiate and name correctly a 32 bit binary number, set it to the correct value, and do it all again.
Super easy! I mean, in Linux, you sometimes have to type a thing on a command line. Whoa, nerdy-mcnerd face! I'm much more comfortable with fucking Gate's dword editor.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmas...
No, you need to remove kbs and services.
Yea, you should obviously have to say the magic dword if you want your OS to not be completely replaced while you sleep.
Linux now, man. It's time.
> and then assume that there is a comparable property in reality
Well, if you are arguing that its an object with a volume curved around a fourth dimension, then it is a natural objection.
Look, right now, a line from the Earth through the Sun will roughly point at the constellation Gemini. That means that the mass of Gemini and the mass of the sun are, at all points today, on the same side of us. Six months from now, that won't be the case- Gemini will be on one side, and the Sun on the other. That means you could define a point in the universe (or several) from which ALL the mass would be on one side (within a hemisphere), or a point from which mass is roughly equal on all sides (center of mass)- unless the universe is curved, wraps around, etc. That could all the be the case, but I'm pretty sure we see no evidence of that. Am I incorrect?
I don't believe it. The study doesn't call out this statement (what, do they all point to the best stone crabs?), and the line, if quoted correctly, might mean something entirely different (such as the shape being consistently pear-like, or that it maintains a shape relative to something entirely unremarkable). Finding that a bunch of Radium atoms point to to a specific star would be pretty amazing, and look for a kooky youtube about it soon! ...but I doubt it really says anything of the sort. If you speak Physic any better than me (likely!), just go grab the study from any hub of sci, especially a .bz one...
Right, but I know where the center of a balloon is. And if I'm a two-dimensional creature on the surface, I can make three marks, then move in a direction, and eventually notice that I see them from another direction, and then estimate the distance.
If the argument is that the universe is the three dimensional equivalent of the balloon (or N dimensional, or whatever), then we'd expect there to be a way to gauge this, by basically looking out and seeing if we can see a really distant anything from one side in one direction, and another side in another direction. Given enough time and a strong enough telescope, we could even look at our own butts this way. But we see neither our own butts, nor both sides of crazy distant things. If the universe isn't wrapped around like a pacman game, we probably can discuss the idea of a center by asking "where is the center of density of this thing", if you were to measure it from an outside (the existence of "outside" likely not being relevant). There exists some point where there is roughly the same amount of stuff in every direction, and there exists many points where all or almost all of the mass is mostly in one specific direction.
The one thing I can say about astronomy versus astrology is that one of them has changed a whole bunch in my lifetime, and has predicted nothing ever, being updated with literally every new instrument or experiment ever invented. Astrology has at least predicted some shit entirely by accident, I assume...
Good fucking grief. Passive voice, "there are concerns". If there's a backdoor in systemd, that would be massively huge news. I get that you don't like it, and I agree that it is spooky that it is getting pushed into pretty much every place, but that doesn't justify a massive claim like this at all.
Rhel 7 uses systemd. Industry and military use the living shit out of Rhel 7. If systemd had a backdoor, tons of industry and government computers would be compromisable instantly. Keep in mind, this is for a theoretical backdoor, somehow hidden in plain site, and used on serious and sensitive machines all throughout US infrastructure.
That seems unlikely, right?
The Court cannot take judicial notice that a computer having storage greater than 18 kilobytes has today any reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of the security of people in their houses, papers, and effects, and therefore cannot say that the Fourth Amendment guarantees to the citizen the right to keep and bear such a device.
Gun ownership is a natural right.
Well, if your modem was ten times faster than your broadband, this would be an adequate comparison. Good headphones range from hundreds to thousands of dollars, and blow the hell out of USB ones.
Oof, that guy is over a grand. Top of the line iphone is nowhere close to that. I'm not at all surprised it is a better listening experience though. I have some pretty sweet headphones too, and while I don't always listen to them on the iphone, I assuredly do sometimes. It is certainly silly to entertain the idea of either a stupid dongle to add to my list of random gadgets, or a whole different headphone JUST for the fucking phone.
Mind telling me a bit about the Cowon? Can I maintain all files in it in Linux? Exchange the battery / buy a second battery? Does it have wifi or any other thing like that?
It's a catch-22 though, and video game reviewers have the same issue.
If you get a review copy, you don't just get it FREE- you get it EARLY. That means you can write a story before someone who has to wait for the product to ship. Since most of the hype occurs before the launch (obviously- if you are super into product X and it is out, you go and buy it and are happy), this means that most of the readers about product X will want to read about it before it launches, be it a video game or a video card.
This gives the companies a lot more power over the "journalist" (if you can call a product reviewer that at all, lol) than you might see elsewhere.
Real reviews are done by places like Consumer Reports. They do blind purchases, don't accept advertisements, and they do their reviews based on objective things decided ahead of time. This isn't nearly as glamorous as luxury items like games, video cards, etc.
> WoW is divided into shards.
This is technically true, but read on!
> What this means is that millions of WoW players do not interact in the same world
They absolutely do. I can send you a tell from any server. I can invite you to party from any other server, and then you will phase into my server immediately. The only exception? If I'm a lower level than you by a lot, then I will instead phase onto your server (no matter who did the invite: prevented from people making world hopping alts- otherwise the group lead determines which server everyone zones into).
So even though we started on different servers, you can immediately phase to mine. Once grouped, we can queue dungeons together, queue rated battlegrounds (and I think arena now), or regular battlegrounds, or just run around to gank horde together. You can mine mines and pick herbs on my server. What I can't do is invite you to my guild, and that restriction is in place solely to keep guilds relevant- there's no technical problem behind that.
You can send a tell to ANY player. You can be invited by ANY player. You can go to ANY server in this way. No, not everyone is dumped into the same instance of Goldshire at log in- that's obviously not possible, nor would it be useful.
Furthermore, servers that are related to each other have merged zones. Meaning that as you walk from Stormwind to Elwynn, you will go from a zone shared by only one (or a few) servers, to a zone shared by MANY. It will be filled with other players who have done the same. Each zone is built this way to ensure that no server has sections of it that are a vacant lot: if a bunch of people across all servers fill up, say, Loch Modan, then it will gradually decouple them until such time as the number present is appropriate again. It's all dynamic, very fluid, and way way way beyond the tech that any other MMO has on this front right now (though some are pretty close).
The stuff you said was partly true in like 2012, and mostly true in like 2010. But it's been years since then man, that's outdated lies now!
Here's an example of this in action, from when I played a couple years ago: there was a world boss that spawns reasonably often. When it does, anyone on that server can make a raid, and post a thing in oqueue (an addon that helps you coordinate). Immedatiately, everyone else who was waiting for that boss can be invited. So in this example, you would see a boss you needed a raid to take down, press a button, and quickly fill a raid with people who are explicitly interested in that boss. Upon taking the invite, they phase into your server, but they do so wherever the heck they are at in the world- so if they were flying over the ocean, they'd still be flying over that ocean, but now on your server, not theirs. Presumably, you get a warlock out there, and then you open a portal and say "push 1 for summon!" and the raid fills with "1". You summon your raid, you kill the world boss.
Now, is it good that an MMO operates like this? I'm of two minds on it. It has some downsides. But from a technical perspective, this is pretty fucking marvelous.
And you sure couldn't handle that many players, interacting in that way, on a private server. There's really just one world of warcraft, man, with everybody on it, and you can visit any piece of it if you have a mind to do so.
I hate and despise advertisements and everything about them. I block ads everywhere, and I try hard to avoid subscription services that have advertisements.
If Netflix added advertisements, I'd drop both the subscriptions I pay for (myself and a family member) immediately, and I'd never look back. Netflix is set up as the place you can go to pay with dollars instead of evil ass advertisements. If they lose that, fuck'em.