Are you sure the major version of the kernel wasn't increased to allow breaking changes to the device driver ABI? That's what changed from XP (NT 5.1) to Vista (NT 6) and what didn't change from Vista to 8.1 (both NT 6.x).

If by FB you mean Facebook, I don't even have an account there. I was referring to Wikia.

Hosts alone does not a security policy make. Putting an ad blocker or plugin click-to-play on top of hosts helps especially when the ad server runs on the same hostname as the main server or when the ad servers have a large variety of subdomain names.

Then how should one determine whether a particular work is worthwhile before looking at it? Would you prefer paywalls, which require the reader to buy before he tries?

And for users who pays $10 per GB for Internet access, video ads on pages other than video description pages cost the user money.

I use a click-to-play plug-in, not an ad blocker per se. This is because I'm willing to give them ad revenue, so long as the ads are static (text or PNG/JPEG), as opposed to ads that are animated in a CPU-hogging and data-quota-consuming manner (Flash, video, or Flash video). Yet a lot of sites don't get the hint, and they continue to serve what I see as a white box with a Flash Player logo inside instead of noticing that the Flash ad isn't playing and replacing it with a static ad. Am I still a freeloader?

Community Antenna TeleVision uses a community antenna. Aereo used an individual antenna leased to each subscriber. That was supposed to have been the difference.

I don't see how that can be made to work for most people without something drastic like joining the Amish. For "no cable", how would people living outside the range of fiber or fast DSL get broadband Internet without cable? For "no music", how can you do your shopping if part of what you pay for the products that the store sells goes toward licensing the background music played over the speakers in the store's ceiling? And if even if you choose to write your own music instead, what can you do to make sure that you didn't accidentally copy something created in the past 95 years?

Even when the USA exports its special interest-written policies to the rest of the world through trade agreements?

I'm not sure we should be glorifying someone who claims that the existence of free software destroys the market.

So what should people do if they live in an area whose broadband monopoly charges less for Internet and basic TV than for Internet alone?

Nintendo DS is a handheld video game system using software stored on proprietary Game Cards. These links might help (sound warning): DS Irae | White Lite

But is it affiliated with or endorsed by EA Digital Illusions CE? I just checked and was surprised that DICE never developed a DS or 3DS game.

One of which is a secret level. The canon ending of each episode is ExM8 if I remember correctly.

One of which duplicates the shareware episode. The app would ship with E1, and the "Ultimate Doom" expansion pack would contain E2, E3, and E4.

In-app purchases can be used to approximate the old shareware system very closely. Provide the app for free, then unlock the rest of the features (or episodes past the first) with one or two IAPs. For example, Idthesda could put out an app called Doom that contains an 8-level episode "Knee-Deep in the Dead". Then an IAP called "Ultimate Doom" would include 8-level episodes "The Shores of Hell", "Inferno", and "Thy Flesh Consumed", and an IAP called "Doom II" would unlock another 32-level episode. The only difference is that Apple's App Store Review Guidelines doesn't allow "use past 30 days" to be an IAP; only noninteractive content can be provided on a rental basis.