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You can still block ads by recognizing them at the pixel level. Same for copying text. Advantage: you can also select text in images, and block ads that are images.
Lol, sure mate. if pixel.isAd { pixel.color = black } Or maybe you thought about using some *waves hands* machine learning™?
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Lol, sure mate. if pixel.isAd { pixel.color = black } Or maybe you thought about using some *waves hands* machine learning™?
Not like that. I meant OCR, which uses pixels as input (as opposed to html).
Sorry, but this idea is just dumb.
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Not like that. I meant OCR, which uses pixels as input (as opposed to html).
Yeah cool, so you would only be able to select text that's visible? How would you copy the contents of an article spanning multiple screens? Sorry, but this idea is just dumb.
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A fairly simple approach for all is to up the price based on contention. Regularly auction out the lease f.ex Allowing “ownership” of such resources just leads to rent-seeking.
But then you make it easier for corporations and wealthy individuals to "steal" active names from hobbyists. I own .com and have used it for over a decade to run my personal site, resume and personal services. There's a more publicly known and wealthy individual who shares my name and has expressed interest in it with an offer of like $100, which I declined. Why should he have more right to it, or my renewal costs go…
I do think the solution to that lies elsewhere though. It’s a more general issue about wealth and power.
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Yeah cool, so you would only be able to select text that's visible? How would you copy the contents of an article spanning multiple screens? Sorry, but this idea is just dumb.
You hit Ctrl+A, and the browser uses off-screen buffers to analyze the entire text.
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But then you make it easier for corporations and wealthy individuals to "steal" active names from hobbyists. I own .com and have used it for over a decade to run my personal site, resume and personal services. There's a more publicly known and wealthy individual who shares my name and has expressed interest in it with an offer of like $100, which I declined. Why should he have more right to it, or my renewal costs go…
Presumably those willing to pay more have found a more valuable use of the resource. In theory at least. In practice I think you are correct in it being a problem. I do think the solution to that lies elsewhere though. It’s a more general issue about wealth and power.
Why is that a reason why it would be preferable to reassign it to him? I don't think the domain name system exists to maximise economic activity, nor should it.
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Java might have been that, if HTML and all the other web tech had never happened and Mosaic, Netscape Navigator, etc. had started out as Java sandboxes.
If Java has obviously not outcompeted HTML, one should reflect, in which way HTML is obviously better in things that matter compared to a code sandbox.
But existing and becoming entrenched as a worldwide standard many years in advance is a huge advantage for HTML over Java that isn't relevant to considerations of redesigning the Internet.
So that would be a very big reason Java "lost" a major part of the battle it never showed up to. Very difficult bar to replace a platform so pervasive as HTML after the fact.
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Technically there's no reason that there couldn't be an automatic PKI over the entire IP space, in which routers and ISPs are CAs. It never happened because the IP world sees crypto as an app-layer problem, but it doesn't have to be that way. The protocols could be encrypted by default - all that's needed are protocols to let a device communicate to the router what its chosen public key is, and for that to communicat…
That's sort of how Resource Public Key Infrastructure works for bgp. The big question is - do you trust your isp for that. Of potential attackers who can eavesdrop on my connection, isp (or someone at isp or gov giving isp a warrant) seems pretty high on the list.
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so the modem was just connected to a switch?
The router on the OP's network was probably just being a router. No fancy NAT junk, and probably no ACLs / fireballing. It was pretty common to have something like a T1 circuit, a CSU/DSU that connected to the T1 and presented a serial connection, and a PPP or SDLC connection to your upstream ISP over that serial connection. The router's Ethernet interface is connected to your switch (or hub) and all the hosts have I…
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Presumably those willing to pay more have found a more valuable use of the resource. In theory at least. In practice I think you are correct in it being a problem. I do think the solution to that lies elsewhere though. It’s a more general issue about wealth and power.
Sure, the famous person who shares my name might generate more economic activity from use of the domain name than I will. Why is that a reason why it would be preferable to reassign it to him? I don't think the domain name system exists to maximise economic activity, nor should it.
- market economies optimise allocation of scare resources for maximum utility - domain names are a scarce resource - we want to maximise the utility of domain names
Not saying I’m convinced all of that is true, bto answer the why.