they can target all the ads they want, they are going to be ignored
It sure seems that way, but companies are spending a shitload of $$ betting that we're paying attention. You might not click the ad; you might think it scrolled by without registering; but they're betting big that they got in your head just a little.
Lotteries are held at predetermined intervals... Loot boxes are opened immediately, and allow the person playing to buy another...
Here in New Mexico, scratchers are a popular way to play the state lottery. When you buy one, you can scratch it immediately to see how much you've won. Not exactly the same as a traditional lottery drawing, but gambling under the same program.
Is this something you worry about? I don't see this in our future. A LinkedIn account might have helped me find a job, but I found a good job without one. I'm friends with a few past coworkers and bosses on Facebook, but nobody at my current position. I just checked to see if my current employer has a FB presence; we don't.
you will still be free to starve
There's always crime. Roving mobs of the FB-less. Organized crime might be out; they might want you to 'Like' the gang.
"Force" is still a funny word. Your boss didn't force you to use Facebook. You traded privacy for employment.
My boss admitted to me that she did some cyber-stalking on me when considering me for employment. She didn't mention Facebook, but I'm sure she saw what was public. I'm not dumb enough to make public anything that's going to cripple me. The worst I had to answer for were some negative comments I made about Outlook in an entry for Ed Skoudis's old 'Crack the Hacker' challenge. IIRC I won a signed book and a PDA for that entry, but I had to promise my boss not to gripe about using Outlook.
Plenty of examples where individuals use knives, cars, explosives, poison, strangulation, pushing someone over a cliff... The effectiveness of the tool used is meaningless.
Meaningless? You think we would have had the same headline if she'd gone into YouTube and started strangling people?
If guns didn't exist she would have used something else.
You sound very convinced of that. I'm not. How do you know what she would have done without a gun? The gun didn't cause her to become violent, but it made it easier. And the "something else" she might have used would likely have been less effective than a pistol.
The problem is players like Amazon abusing this service. They're literally treating the USPS as their "Delivery Boy". As if the USPS had nothing better to do than spend all day making deliveries.
This guy obviously has some self-destructive tendencies, as evidenced by the behavior that landed him where he is now. With some people, it's not that they don't know the consequences, it's that they've got their wires crossed and opt to self-destruct. Drug addicts opt for a quick high in the face of obvious self-destruction too. After a while, even the high goes away and only the hard-to-break habit of destroying yourself remains.
He wasn't after the high; he was just clinging to a familiar method of self-destruction.
Cars are dangerous whether they have autopilot or not. The only way to guarantee safety is to keep all cars off public roads. They kill more people than guns.
Saying that cars are "more dangerous" than guns misrepresents the situation.
Thanks for the sense of scope. I only have 3 stations I use regularly ("80's Pop" as my morning alarm, "Rock and/or Roll" which is my main, and "Metal" for when it's time for metal.) Marley's singing "Could You Be Loved" right now. I have maybe a half-dozen more that haven't been played in months. "Rock and/or Roll" has the most reviews by far with 250. It'll take some dedication to get to 10,000.
I've just gotten hooked on...new albums...urge to churn through as much of it as I can.
Different needs. Lately I've been hooked on live Dead. It's been some time since the Dead recorded. I've got about 270 hours of my favorite music on mp3. Very little of that is newer than Y2K and most of it's pre-1980. I hear some new stuff over satellite during my 30 min/weekday commute or tooling around town, but not much grabs my interest. The covers are killing me. I've recently heard covers of "Behind Blue Eyes," "Money," and "Zombie" that are just terrible. Seether's "Careless Whisper" and Disturbed's "Land of Confusion" were OK, but why in the hell would you fuck with "Money"??
Does Pandora even allow you to choose what you listen to?...I remember you couldn't select songs and you could only skip tracks a certain number of times per hour.
You can certainly tune your different stations by Liking/Disliking songs or picking artists. The station I listen to most started with Pick Floyd, the Grateful Dead, and R.E.M. and has changed shape quite a bit with 206 likes & 44 dislikes. It knows me very well at this point. Significant Floyd & Dead, lotsa classic rock, and just the right amount of metal. "Dogs" is on right now and that's just super.
On Pandora's free tier, you can't select songs, have limited skips, and hear ads. On the $5 tier, like I'm on, you get unlimited skips, no ads, but still can't select a specific song unless you're replaying something recent. On the $10 tier you can pick specific songs. I don't know how extensive their library is.
FM's not nearly as bad as Spock describes here in Albuquerque, and I can't imagine Clear Channel stations differ THAT much from region to region. I'm used to maybe 3 songs, followed by changing the station to avoid ads. Worst case, ad breaks aren't more than about 3 minutes per 3 songs.
I have a ~270 hour mp3 collection that handles listening to my favorite albums. I spend probably as much time listening to albums at home as I do listening to satellite in my car. I listen to much more Pandora than I do either of those. I do notice that a lot of Pandora gets familiar, but lately it's been surprising me with some fun, live Grateful Dead. Maybe their library will eventually get too familiar, but I'm not there yet.
My $5 Pandora subscription streams commercial-free with as many skips as I want. For $10, I could pick specific songs. It's well worth the $5; I don't understand the comparison with Netflix. It's lower bandwidth, sure, but I spend a LOT bigger part of the day streaming music than I do watching Netflix. So, $/GB, music's much more expensive. $/hour, for me, music's much cheaper.
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they can target all the ads they want, they are going to be ignored
It sure seems that way, but companies are spending a shitload of $$ betting that we're paying attention. You might not click the ad; you might think it scrolled by without registering; but they're betting big that they got in your head just a little.
no ability to navigate stairs or open doors, then that has been done before
Daleks don't need stairs; they level the building.
Who the fuck talked about getting any governments involved?
TFA? When you start talking about breaking the law, you start talking about government enforcing the law.
Lotteries are held at predetermined intervals... Loot boxes are opened immediately, and allow the person playing to buy another...
Here in New Mexico, scratchers are a popular way to play the state lottery. When you buy one, you can scratch it immediately to see how much you've won. Not exactly the same as a traditional lottery drawing, but gambling under the same program.
once all jobs require a Facebook account
Is this something you worry about? I don't see this in our future. A LinkedIn account might have helped me find a job, but I found a good job without one. I'm friends with a few past coworkers and bosses on Facebook, but nobody at my current position. I just checked to see if my current employer has a FB presence; we don't.
you will still be free to starve
There's always crime. Roving mobs of the FB-less. Organized crime might be out; they might want you to 'Like' the gang.
"Force" is still a funny word. Your boss didn't force you to use Facebook. You traded privacy for employment.
My boss admitted to me that she did some cyber-stalking on me when considering me for employment. She didn't mention Facebook, but I'm sure she saw what was public. I'm not dumb enough to make public anything that's going to cripple me. The worst I had to answer for were some negative comments I made about Outlook in an entry for Ed Skoudis's old 'Crack the Hacker' challenge. IIRC I won a signed book and a PDA for that entry, but I had to promise my boss not to gripe about using Outlook.
Nobody forces you to use Facebook.
"Force" is a funny word, but a lot of people with Facebook profiles never asked for them. Facebook has unwilling users.
Nobody forces you to put every intimate detail about your personal life on Facebook.
Again, "force" is a funny word. But not everything Facebook collects is consciously volunteered.
How much do you pay to use Facebook?
Just my soul. Market value on souls these days is pretty poor anyway. Used to be you trade one for a chance at a golden fiddle.
Plenty of examples where individuals use knives, cars, explosives, poison, strangulation, pushing someone over a cliff... The effectiveness of the tool used is meaningless.
Meaningless? You think we would have had the same headline if she'd gone into YouTube and started strangling people?
If guns didn't exist she would have used something else.
You sound very convinced of that. I'm not. How do you know what she would have done without a gun? The gun didn't cause her to become violent, but it made it easier. And the "something else" she might have used would likely have been less effective than a pistol.
The problem is players like Amazon abusing this service. They're literally treating the USPS as their "Delivery Boy". As if the USPS had nothing better to do than spend all day making deliveries.
...each season got progressively of a lower quality.
Watch it backwards. That's what I'm doing with The Office. It really picks up when they introduce Michael and then keeps getting progressively better.
This guy obviously has some self-destructive tendencies, as evidenced by the behavior that landed him where he is now. With some people, it's not that they don't know the consequences, it's that they've got their wires crossed and opt to self-destruct. Drug addicts opt for a quick high in the face of obvious self-destruction too. After a while, even the high goes away and only the hard-to-break habit of destroying yourself remains.
He wasn't after the high; he was just clinging to a familiar method of self-destruction.
sorting out what political pundits
That's a terrific idea! I can just mute the voices of people I disagree with! One more brick on my echo chamber.
Their cut was already enough for them to build it into the interface. Now it will be noticeably more.
It would have been better for me to say:
Cars are dangerous whether they have autopilot or not. The only way to guarantee safety is to keep all cars off public roads. They kill more people than guns.
Saying that cars are "more dangerous" than guns misrepresents the situation.
...in the age of ransomware, who trusts running a content viewer?
Like Acrobat? I receive the occasional PDF and even include "New Features.pdf" with my software distribution.
...the technology isn't mature enough to use on public roads yet.
You mean cars? Those things are more dangerous than guns.
Thanks for the sense of scope. I only have 3 stations I use regularly ("80's Pop" as my morning alarm, "Rock and/or Roll" which is my main, and "Metal" for when it's time for metal.) Marley's singing "Could You Be Loved" right now. I have maybe a half-dozen more that haven't been played in months. "Rock and/or Roll" has the most reviews by far with 250. It'll take some dedication to get to 10,000.
I've just gotten hooked on...new albums...urge to churn through as much of it as I can.
Different needs. Lately I've been hooked on live Dead. It's been some time since the Dead recorded. I've got about 270 hours of my favorite music on mp3. Very little of that is newer than Y2K and most of it's pre-1980. I hear some new stuff over satellite during my 30 min/weekday commute or tooling around town, but not much grabs my interest. The covers are killing me. I've recently heard covers of "Behind Blue Eyes," "Money," and "Zombie" that are just terrible. Seether's "Careless Whisper" and Disturbed's "Land of Confusion" were OK, but why in the hell would you fuck with "Money"??
Does Pandora even allow you to choose what you listen to? ...I remember you couldn't select songs and you could only skip tracks a certain number of times per hour.
You can certainly tune your different stations by Liking/Disliking songs or picking artists. The station I listen to most started with Pick Floyd, the Grateful Dead, and R.E.M. and has changed shape quite a bit with 206 likes & 44 dislikes. It knows me very well at this point. Significant Floyd & Dead, lotsa classic rock, and just the right amount of metal. "Dogs" is on right now and that's just super.
On Pandora's free tier, you can't select songs, have limited skips, and hear ads. On the $5 tier, like I'm on, you get unlimited skips, no ads, but still can't select a specific song unless you're replaying something recent. On the $10 tier you can pick specific songs. I don't know how extensive their library is.
Until you sign up, you are an unwitting, unwilling user.
FM's not nearly as bad as Spock describes here in Albuquerque, and I can't imagine Clear Channel stations differ THAT much from region to region. I'm used to maybe 3 songs, followed by changing the station to avoid ads. Worst case, ad breaks aren't more than about 3 minutes per 3 songs.
This would all be much simpler if we'd just legalize & regulate prostitution already.
I have a ~270 hour mp3 collection that handles listening to my favorite albums. I spend probably as much time listening to albums at home as I do listening to satellite in my car. I listen to much more Pandora than I do either of those. I do notice that a lot of Pandora gets familiar, but lately it's been surprising me with some fun, live Grateful Dead. Maybe their library will eventually get too familiar, but I'm not there yet.
nobody offers less than $10/mo so it's hard to find a decent alternative
Why no love for Pandora? For $5/month I get unlimited skips and no commercials. I love it.
My $5 Pandora subscription streams commercial-free with as many skips as I want. For $10, I could pick specific songs. It's well worth the $5; I don't understand the comparison with Netflix. It's lower bandwidth, sure, but I spend a LOT bigger part of the day streaming music than I do watching Netflix. So, $/GB, music's much more expensive. $/hour, for me, music's much cheaper.