but there are no "packages" I have to choose and I can do what I want with my bandwidth
If you want to accept incoming connections, you may need the "dedicated IP address" package. IPv4 address exhaustion has forced some ISPs to put customers on reserved nonroutable addresses (usually 100.64/10 or 10/8) behind carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) unless they pay extra for a static IP. Even in areas not quite as IP-poor, you may still need the "business class" package so that your ISP doesn't kickban you for running a server on a residential line.
And if you don't buy the "local channels" package, you can't subscribe to HBO Go. Some cable systems even require subscribers to buy the entire "expanded basic cable" package before becoming eligible for HBO.
movies and TV have steadily increased their product placement ads over the past decade. I'd say Netflix's content has plenty of product placement - it's just not under Netflix's control because it was there before Netflix even got the content.
Case in point: the Transformers films and DC/Marvel superhero films exist to sell toys. As Yogurt pointed out in Spaceballs, it's all about the merchandising.
Let the website 'think' it ran the script/video of whatever ad (maybe even in its own minimized, muted, ignored window)
Consider, for example, if the client were to compute a hash of the downloaded ad video (or even of decoded frames from the ad) and send it to the server in order to acknowledge that the client has received the ad. Then you'd have to download and run the whole thing. It'd be an "ad blocker blocker blocker" as I described above, still eating into your cap. Ultimately, the ISPs that set these caps are the ad blocker blocker blocker blocker, as described in the featured article. In case you're confused by the terminology I'm using:
You've never needed a degree to do anything. You can learn anything on your own in time.
Not necessarily. Several regulated industries, such as law and health care, require a degree as a condition of a license to practice. Other fields, such as development of software in industries where closed platforms are the norm, require some employer to take a chance on you first. And a lot of times, a relevant degree is the only way to convince an employer to take a chance on you.
Having your own successful projects, some interesting employer history, or a degree are the only ways they can tell really.
In a regulated industry, there's not much of a lawful way for "your own successful projects" to happen before you get hired.
It's called an adblocker.
"You appear to be using an ad blocker. To continue, please whitelist this site. Here are the whitelist instructions for the major ad blockers. To view this article without ads, please subscribe." What do you plan to do once this behavior becomes common? If you say "ad blocker blocker blocker", that has been tried, and it uses as much of your battery and monthly data quota as just displaying the ad.
So how should smaller producers of shows go about negotiating with Comcast to get their shows added to cap-free in-house streaming?
Spell check changed Comcast to Combat. Telling?
See, this is why I entitled the post "amateur hour". $99 is not an unreasonable spend to evaluate a business idea
The disenfranchisement of hobbyists, the assumption that everything must be a "business idea", is part of the problem. Would you still be calling it cheap if it were $5000 plus a lease on a dedicated office, as it has been for several other platforms?
The device has power constraints, resolution constraints, memory constraints, storage constraints, but somehow business constraints are unmanageable?
I imagine that Slashdot users tend to be attracted to technical puzzles. Fewer of us are attracted to business puzzles, especially because of their frequent connection to the birth lottery (that is, inherited wealth) and the spoils of past anticompetitive behavior.
you must realize that they have fairly good reasons to forbid porn, excessive violence (which *allows* games like GTA), and WiFi hacking tools
The term "hacking" ascribes unwarranted malicious intent to the developers of MozStumbler. How should the developers of applications like MozStumbler "really try[] hard to work around the restrictions" in your opinion?
I don't see how a radio station in the United States can steam over the Internet using exclusively free software. Apple iOS devices play only MPEG codecs subject to royalty-bearing patents, not any free lossy codecs. And HD Radio in the United States uses an iBiquity codec parts of which are patented and parts of which are trade secrets.
Spell check turned iBiquity into Iniquity. Telling?
And the best thing I've seen so far to replace startup scripts is Sun's SMF [...] Dont copy the guys who invented NFS or ZFS or stuff like that
I was under the impression that it was unwise to copy Oracle because of copyright issues.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.