Comment Work visa (Score 0) 324
I have a choice where I live and work. I chose the US
A lot of other people don't have that choice due at least in part to immigration laws.
I have a choice where I live and work. I chose the US
A lot of other people don't have that choice due at least in part to immigration laws.
Since I have no actual desire to consume their content
Until you hit a site that has Adblockblock. I've noticed that a lot of sites are doing this nowadays for videos and even for text beyond the first couple paragraphs.
Then how should individuals recover the $120/yr for a VPS?
What would you define as "effective controls"? And for how many years is a well-known ad network going to be able to keep a spotless record? Which if any existing network qualifies?
Why should a blog have ads on it?
To pay for the VPS that hosts the blog.
Until September 2013, no major ad network supported HTTPS at all. That is when AdSense added HTTPS support. But for people who wish to avoid AdSense, which other ad networks have HTTPS now? Besides, it's still possible to serve a Flash Player exploit over HTTPS.
What makes an ad agency reliable to you?
And what solutions do you recommend for individual blog authors to implement "host your own ads"?
Nintendo corp takes down Youtube videos with graphic stills from games.
All I heard was that Nintendo was using Content ID to claim videos of its games' cut scenes. When did this start?
JavaScript lets you run web applications on any platform that supports JavaScript. If developers are forced to make the applications native instead, they are likely to make the applications exclusive to a particular computing platform, which is not necessarily the platform that you happen to run. Does JavaScript use more energy than it costs to manufacture and run three different computers, each for an exclusive app?
Besides, a lot of these "managed" environments provide type safety guarantees. Preventing your data from being lost or disclosed due to a defect in a program can be worth more than the marginal cost of a managed environment.
Grow your own food. The food savings really adds up
Anonymous Coward wrote:
[Patent FUD] encourages the use of older higher-bandwidth codecs which encourages provision of higher bandwidth internet connections.
Textbook broken window fallacy.
We need a deaf blind QA tester core if they can not easily use the site it's broken.
How would a site tell 100 deafblind testers behind the same NAT from a bot?
Thats why the VA cannot figure out how to use a computer
Since when? The US Department of Veterans' Affairs was among the first to adopt an electronic health record system. In the late 1970s, it began to develop the MUMPS-powered VistA system now used by nearly half of all U.S. hospitals with electronic health records. And VistA is free software.
There is no red envelope or similiar notifications button, to see replies at a glance
Click the word "Slashdot" at the top left of each page to go to the home page, and your replies should be just below your username in a box at the top of the right column.
No way to even find old comments that slip off the relatively short comment list
I get a "Load More Comments" button at the bottom.
I can think of roughly 1.25 billion people who don't find "Indian" racist.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
