To be fair, I suspect the average adult in real life probably only remembers, and uses, 5th grade math.

Cheaper than a kid!

Depends on what you are using it for.

“The general fair use definition is that fair use is any use of a work that is not done in an effort to profit from the copyrighted work.”

Source

If you don’t own it when paying for it then you aren’t stealing it when pirating it.

This is the askscience community, what do you expect? :)

Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.

Thermal imaging will definitely help spot those dirty walkers so I won’t miss as many. Those bastards can blend in sometimes and some of them are deceptively quick. The little ones especially are tough to take out. Of course, sometimes those guys just run right in front of you which are easy points but it takes the sport out of it.

Anyway, it’s about time someone put the right tools in the hands of us hunters. I can’t wait to have an evening cruise with my lights off and really get a good stalk on, you know?

I don’t believe that ad blockers modify the user agent, so if you can modify the user agent of FF to emulate Chrome and solve the issue, then that means Chrome users that use ad blockers don’t have to deal with the delay and therefore their claim that they aren’t punishing FF users his utter horse shit.

Sure. When I go to “opensubtitles.org” I get redirected to the login page. Here’s the screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/bhGTeC1

Edit: After I login, it works as you described, by the way. It’s not really a big deal; I was just surprised that it started happening since I hadn’t seen any mention of that change anywhere. I’m even more surprised that it isn’t happening to everyone.

…okay? I was just making an observation.

Really? Every time I visit, it asks me to sign in. Maybe it’s by region or something?

You used to be able to download without signing up.

Edit: Apparently not everyone is being asked to login like me now. I’m not sure if it’s a regional thing or maybe my VPN is triggering something?

encode ads as part of the video file

I suspect that an AI could be trained to be able to recognize ads, or at least the most annoying, ads.

Also, a community driven project, like SponsorBlock, where users identify ads to build up a database could be created.

These are just a couple of ideas to defeat embedded ads, and I’m not a genius programmer by any means. This is just another front in a war that has been going on since at least the 90’s and as long as blocking ads is less annoying than watching them, we’re winning.

I suspect that they meant a source that indicates that this is a path of research that is currently being pursued and likely not due to skepticism, but rather interest. I can understand, because I didn’t know it was something that people were actually researching; I mean, I first heard of the idea in a sci-fi novel!

Personally, I like to try to give people the benefit of the doubt, so I’m going to assume that maybe you were/are just having a bad day and didn’t mean to be rude. I hope that the rest of your day was/is better!

But what am I going to do while I’m pooping!? Read the news!?

And not even giving them a cut of the profits or helping them in any tangible way? Sure, sure, nothing wrong with that. If they didn’t want to be filmed, they should have stayed home…oh, right.

Sometimes I think that instead of antacid’s, I’m taking crazy pills.

I guess I missed the bit where the company was a bullshit one…because it’s not. Also, the two were romantically linked because they watched a Virgin Galactic launch together. Imply that I’m a bootlicker all you want, but that’s a pretty tenuous “romantic” link. Regardless of whether or not he’s banging her, it isn’t fraud. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Criticizing billionaires for dumb non-stories just waters down the real reasons we should be critical of them and makes us look like fools; like PETA criticizing Obama for killing a fly.

Just curious, how is it fraudulent? Who’s being defrauded? Did I miss something?

Thanks. I can almost taste the eye rolls.

I think it needs more finger guns.

I think that they’re making perfect the enemy of good…and they can because people keep throwing money at them. Most dev teams don’t have that luxury.