For example, if I decide to boycott my cell provider, I can either forsake cellular service altogether
People survived before cellular service was avoidable, but that's becoming more difficult with pay phones disappearing. I limit my exposure to cellular evil by buying a $100 per year voice-only plan and using it only for occasional calls to arrange rides and the like.
When the Journal system debutted here it sort of provided that, but besides technolust there was very little eyeball traffic.
To get more eyeballs on my journal, I tend to advertise journal entries in my signature while they're active.
Stuff like reddit comes to mind, but it's too mainstream and joke-ish. Others have stringent rules where everything must be on topic
The stringent rules are all that those forums have to keep them from becoming "too mainstream and joke-ish".
Press Alt and your previously hidden menu bar magically appears as if out of thin air!
I just tried that in Firefox 23 in Xubuntu. The Alt key by itself doesn't make a menu appear.
There are other ways to stream local content which still work fine, like tab casting from Chrome.
I want to tab cast on my Nexus 7. Does tab casting work in Google Chrome for Android yet?
The fix is to run the thing in the environment it's been developed for.
This requires acquiring a lot of Windows licenses.
Personally I'd like to see a windows platform version of wine for all the old stuff that won't run on win7 but will run on wine
Wine under Cygwin has been attempted, but I don't know whether it's supported. You could try running Wine under Xubuntu or a similarly light GNU/Linux operating system in a VM.
The keyboard shortcut is spelt out in full right there in the "Recently Closed Tabs" submenu
That keyboard shortcut is displayed two submenus deep. To get to it, one would have to click the Firefox menu and then do two non-obvious things.
The first non-obvious step is to know that submenus can be opened through hovering. In an application using a more or less standard menu bar, clicking the title of a submenu does nothing. Some users traverse submenus by clicking, especially users brought up on touch-controlled mobile devices that don't even have a hover action or people using desktop applications on a touch screen laptop or all-in-one desktop PC. But in Firefox, clicking the title of a submenu of the top-level Firefox menu opens that submenu's primary item.
The second non-obvious step is to know that Ctrl+Shift+T is inside Recently Closed Tabs, and Recently Closed Tabs is inside History. Finding something buried in a second menu is something one does when exploring an application in depth, not when in a hurry to complete a particular task. A lot of users never explore their web browsers in depth because they are effectively in a hurry every time they're using the web: they just want to get back to the web site or web application that they were using. Besides, I don't know if Recently Closed Tabs even shows an option whose shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+T if no tabs have been closed this session.
Google never said you could stream local content
Say my brother is in a band. How should I play this band's music? Besides, Google never explicitly said that users of Android phones could do specific things with the phones that apps eventually enabled.
All they've done is change an undocumented, unsupported API
And replaced it with which documented, supported API? If none, then the fact that Google has taken explicit effort to ensure that the answer is none reveals something about Google's plans for this device that would make a lot of people have skipped buying the device.
While content owners have a right to determine who has access to their content, choosing where in my home is a step too far.
Then instead of major well-known commercial video providers, subscribe to video providers that don't exercise this right that you claim is a step too far.
Some ISPs have made deals with major services like Netflix where traffic to their servers is not counted against quota, in exchange for the service paying a shedload of cash.
These types of deals are one reason for the concern over net neutrality
Are you sure it's a shedload? A wired ISP that isn't big enough for tier 1 status pays for traffic in and out of the ISP on a 95th percentile basis, and it has to somehow pass this cost on to its subscribers. To be competitive, ISPs have to find creative ways to defray this transit cost. One of these is uncapped early mornings, which encourages moving bulk downloads away from peak hours to reduce the 95th percentile usage. Another is offering discounted colo in the ISP's datacenter to delivery networks that serve the ISP's customers. Or do these ISPs inflate prices for colo because the services compete with video on demand services of the ISP's pay-TV partner?
My wife works from home as a Medical Recruiter, should she get all pissy with I.T. because her laptop has to comply with HIPAA regulations?
That depends on the answer to the following: What in HIPAA forbids the IT department to review and deploy Classic Shell or Start8?
the waste of having 2 gigs for a DNS server
You wouldn't need 2 GB. There are plenty of small GNU/Linux distributions and smaller BusyBox/Linux distributions into which you can install a DNS server.
But how is having a windows account different from your iTunes or Google or Yahoo or Facebook or Slashdot, or countless other social services
Because you might want house guests to be able to log on to the family PC's guest account without being able to read your Hotmail.
I.T. people cant and dont use random weirdo programs from no-name companies.
You mean like Firefox? What makes Mozilla Corp less of a "no-name" developer than Ivo Beltchev?
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