They are throttling all video. So perfectly compliant with NN.
Get off your pulpits.
That's debatable... At the very least it probably would have been cause for a lawsuit; and Charter might not have risked a potentially expensive legal defence for this.
It's a cyclical problem. Mass Transit sucks because few people take it (other than the poor).
I don’t think that’s universally true. If I’m moving around in Seattle, I’m generally on transit - and the vast majority of other riders, whether on a bus or in a train, are middle class folks and young people. But there is the occasional poor person, or Hispanic person, or Muslim person...
Having talked to various people about taking transit, I have come to the opinion that many people’s objection to public transit boils down to being afraid they might have to sit next to someone who doesn’t look like themselves.
It's not universally true; but it is generally true. Seattle is a much larger city than most in the US, and granted larger cities have better public transit. I love the public transit systems in DC and New York- Seattle is also a much wealthier city than most. Go to average-town USA and the only people on public transit are impoverished, and whereas they are probably perfectly safe- they look a little scary to your average middle class suburbanite.
If you live in NYC or Europe where there are buses, trams, trains, trolleys, Puppeteer teleport pads, and plenty of other public transportation mode, then ride-sharing makes sense. However, US cities refuse to do proper policing and rather blow their wad on new sports stadiums than basic protection (it is common for non emergency calls to take 8-12 hours before they are bothered with.) So, Americans are forced into the suburbs if they value the safety of their family, and so their kids don't step outside to see a wino passed out on their doorstep, or get impaled on a syringe from some crackheads the night before.
With everyone going to work at the same time, ride-sharing an autonomous car isn't really feasible. Especially with employers demanding everyone do the 8-5 junket daily.
Instead, what needs to be done is actual police protection in cities, incentive for work at home days, and getting employers to allow for earlier/later shifts.
It's a cyclical problem. Mass Transit sucks because few people take it (other than the poor). Few people use it because it sucks. To get people using mass transit you have to make it fast, reliable and safe- to justify doing that you have to get people to use it; but people won't use it because it isn't fast, reliable and safe in most places.
Which means New York? That's about the only US city that qualifies. Taking 3 buses and spending 2.5 hours to get across town doesn't.
Depends how far out you are. A large part of New York City is covered by a fairly efficient subway that is much quicker than that if you don't mind walking a couple blocks. Some parts of the city, you'll get around faster by subway than car. If you're in an area you have to take the bus though- that sucks and those are slow and an inefficient use of your time.
I was slightly right of centre when I lived in the UK. Moving to the US I realized I was centrist here. (I think the UK itself has moved to the right quite a bit in this same period of time too- I think UK's centre is a lot closer to the US's now- but the difference is you don't have as many people far off centre over there. Most people in the UK are fairly centred as opposed to one end of the spectrum or the other here).
It's hard to measure because it really depends on the topic to me- but in general I average in the middle (some-things I'm on the right, some-things I'm on the left). My typical voting at the polls at a major election usually includes one or two votes for democrats, one or two votes for republicans and the rest going to independents and 3rd party candidates.
I absolutely despise Trump though. If he becomes the new norm for Republicans then I suspect I won't be voting Republican much in the future.
That's scandalous... that's why I only use an Amazon Firestick and control it with my Amazon Alexa. This way I can't be tracked. Nothing I do will be uploaded!
I'll make a post to Facebook recommending all my followers there to do the same.
I'll agree with you on Fox. As for the others, including the BBC (which I also enjoy watching), you're viewing them through your liberal rose colored glasses...they're clearly not impartial. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"Pew has basically taken the average viewer/consumer of all of these media outlets and plotted them on a continuum, trying to ascertain which outlets are favored by which side of the political spectrum."
That's measuring audience (who watches) not how biased the media is. Those are two different things. I'm also not a "liberal", I'm a centrist, so no "liberal rose colored glasses" for me.
Video editing and compositing is fantastic these days. All one needs is a database of make/model/year/color vehicles with videos of egregious driving and some Deep Fakes processing. Let's see how well the Sox do in the Series when their pitcher is pinched on a DUI.
In the UK?
Finally, the term "world series" finally makes sense.
ve shud all be at de mercy of de state. Everyone should all be guilty of something because that way we can be locked up when it is politically convenient.
Making EVERYONE a criminal so that ANYONE can be "legitimately" charaged at anytime is what the communist dictatorships do (did). If rules/regulation make 100% of the population in violation of the law then those laws are not for public safety but to protect the government. That's not a road I want to drive down.
but we are back to the same old cable tv crap. Subscribe to 5 services to get what we want. The main difference is that it is over IP, on demand and the company names have changed a bit. Not that I expected that it would turn out otherwise.
And you're paying for internet what you used to pay to get cable TV and internet before you cut the cord.
F**k that noise, regional separation is bad enough, we don't want Netflix to turn into another "channel" provider.
Too late. It has been heading that way for a long time. There is less and less content from outside providers on Netflix every year and more and more "Netflix made stuff".
You are lucky in the US, you actually have the option to stream most stuff. Outside the US a lot of titles are simply unavailable.
Grass. Otherside. Greener.
A lot of titles aren't available in the US until a year after Europe and the rest of the world get it. If the title is put out by an American network we have to wait a year whilst Europe gets it immediately... or like in the case of the new Star Trek- the rest of the world gets it but the US has to go without indefinitely.
It's too difficult to cancel services. Anything that makes it easier is good.
Yes... all too many times, the only way to cancel a service is be on hold for an hour- and then listen to a "retain the customer" sales pitch for 10 minutes- tell them no, I'm not interested a dozen times- wait another 30 minutes to be transferred to the real person who can cancel the service... etc. - and you can't just hang up on them because you NEED them to cancel the service.
Companies know what they're doing when they make it nearly impossible to cancel.
I'm not in the UK, but I'm all for ratting out drivers who have no concern for my or my family's safety.
If I had access to such a facility, I don't believe I would be bothered to submit footage of everyday misdemeanours that all drivers make, but blatant reckless and life endangering driving should be reported and I'd be happy to assist in that.
I have mixed opinions on this.
Yeah, sure, there have been times I wish a cop had been around to witness someone doing something egregiously bad. However, everyone has done something stupid whilst driving at some point. Everyone has done something illegal, either on purpose or by accident.
Never misread a sign? Gone the wrong way down a one way street - or driven at 70mph in a 60mph zone?
I guarantee what is going to happen here is every Spurs fan is going to start trying to catch Arsenal football players making a mistake whilst driving. United fans are going to try to catch and force Liverpool players into making mistakes. People are going to target their rivals, enemies, and people they don't like... and people will get caught making silly mistakes.
There were some good stories about the Doctor and the Time Lords back in the classic era.
The problem is that the new era keeps hinting at interesting stories about the Time War and what happened to that race, but then never delivers. I guess they are trying to keep the Doctor mysterious but eventually you get fed up of being teased.
The show jumped the shark when it became all about Clara. Especially the episode where Matt Smith spent a thousand years at the Christmas planet? What the fuck?
I liked Clara in the beginning but he saccharine tones and voice really grated on me by the end. I was glad to be rid of her. There again, that Scottish guy was annoying. Electric guitar, sonic sunglasses... how do you make doctor who annoying by trying to make him "cool" to youngsters- and not even understanding what youngster even think is cool these days. Capaldi the worst doctor.
I live in the US and rely on BBC to give me impartial news IN the US. In the US you have the choice of Fox, ABC, and CBS which all have deliberate right wing bias- or PBS, CNN, and NBC which all have deliberate left wing bias.
It's nice to have news which isn't (deliberately) biased. BBC world service is the only way to get unbiased news about the US from within the US.
I suspect the worry is; if whoever leaked it had access to that 53 seconds- what else did they have access to- and could they leak whole shows in the future. This is plugging the small hole in the dam before it becomes a massive hole.
All android apps can REQUEST the permission to record your screen. Hell, there's good reason for it in some cases: See "CalcyIV" for Pokemon Go (which reads the pokemon's stats and provides more detailed info), or even Google's own Now / Assistant which screenshots and gives information about what you're looking at.
Unless it's preinstalled on your phone (and even if it is, it might still need to request it), there's going to be this huge "[APP] requests to record everything on your screen" prompt. Then, every time it records your screen, an icon appears in your status bar by the Wifi/3G/clock and I believe a notification appears.
In Oreo, you're probably going to be reminded at least once that the app recently used it. It just notiffied me that Soundhound used my mic the other day, and that was with me actively using the app.
Additionally, apps can block (https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/133022/disable-screenshot-security) screenshot/casts.
You literally have to ignore 3-4 warnings / notifications *AND* your banking apps / password requests have to be programmed badly (it's literally one line of code) for your information to be recorded.
I've never once been asked by an app to record my screen. Nor have I ever seen any icon that looks like a "recording screen" icon. I hope that means I just don't have anything installed that records... but I'm not convinced.
1) The algorithms they train are so good, they can predict what you're going to desire and place an ad for it before you know it yourself.
For some bizarre reason I keep getting ads for women's clothing. Does this mean I'm going to desire a sex change in the future? Google knows it now- but I haven't figured it out for myself yet.
That seems worse than whatever stupid shit I might say near my phone.
Indeed! So, if I chose the "show password" to make sure I'm writing it correct- it can screenshot my password and send it to a third party? If I open PayPal it can screenshot what I've spent and send it to a third party?
Are these apps only screenshotting within themselves- or potentially everything you do. This could be extremely serious.
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They are throttling all video. So perfectly compliant with NN.
Get off your pulpits.
That's debatable... At the very least it probably would have been cause for a lawsuit; and Charter might not have risked a potentially expensive legal defence for this.
It's a cyclical problem. Mass Transit sucks because few people take it (other than the poor).
I don’t think that’s universally true. If I’m moving around in Seattle, I’m generally on transit - and the vast majority of other riders, whether on a bus or in a train, are middle class folks and young people. But there is the occasional poor person, or Hispanic person, or Muslim person...
Having talked to various people about taking transit, I have come to the opinion that many people’s objection to public transit boils down to being afraid they might have to sit next to someone who doesn’t look like themselves.
It's not universally true; but it is generally true. Seattle is a much larger city than most in the US, and granted larger cities have better public transit. I love the public transit systems in DC and New York- Seattle is also a much wealthier city than most. Go to average-town USA and the only people on public transit are impoverished, and whereas they are probably perfectly safe- they look a little scary to your average middle class suburbanite.
Car sharing is perfect for those who .... ...like getting chewing gum on their butts.
That entirely depends on how the chewing gum got on my butt.
If you live in NYC or Europe where there are buses, trams, trains, trolleys, Puppeteer teleport pads, and plenty of other public transportation mode, then ride-sharing makes sense. However, US cities refuse to do proper policing and rather blow their wad on new sports stadiums than basic protection (it is common for non emergency calls to take 8-12 hours before they are bothered with.) So, Americans are forced into the suburbs if they value the safety of their family, and so their kids don't step outside to see a wino passed out on their doorstep, or get impaled on a syringe from some crackheads the night before.
With everyone going to work at the same time, ride-sharing an autonomous car isn't really feasible. Especially with employers demanding everyone do the 8-5 junket daily.
Instead, what needs to be done is actual police protection in cities, incentive for work at home days, and getting employers to allow for earlier/later shifts.
It's a cyclical problem. Mass Transit sucks because few people take it (other than the poor). Few people use it because it sucks. To get people using mass transit you have to make it fast, reliable and safe- to justify doing that you have to get people to use it; but people won't use it because it isn't fast, reliable and safe in most places.
Which means New York? That's about the only US city that qualifies. Taking 3 buses and spending 2.5 hours to get across town doesn't.
Depends how far out you are. A large part of New York City is covered by a fairly efficient subway that is much quicker than that if you don't mind walking a couple blocks. Some parts of the city, you'll get around faster by subway than car. If you're in an area you have to take the bus though- that sucks and those are slow and an inefficient use of your time.
I was slightly right of centre when I lived in the UK. Moving to the US I realized I was centrist here. (I think the UK itself has moved to the right quite a bit in this same period of time too- I think UK's centre is a lot closer to the US's now- but the difference is you don't have as many people far off centre over there. Most people in the UK are fairly centred as opposed to one end of the spectrum or the other here).
It's hard to measure because it really depends on the topic to me- but in general I average in the middle (some-things I'm on the right, some-things I'm on the left). My typical voting at the polls at a major election usually includes one or two votes for democrats, one or two votes for republicans and the rest going to independents and 3rd party candidates.
I absolutely despise Trump though. If he becomes the new norm for Republicans then I suspect I won't be voting Republican much in the future.
Smart TVs tracking you and invading your privacy!
That's scandalous... that's why I only use an Amazon Firestick and control it with my Amazon Alexa. This way I can't be tracked. Nothing I do will be uploaded!
I'll make a post to Facebook recommending all my followers there to do the same.
I'll agree with you on Fox. As for the others, including the BBC (which I also enjoy watching), you're viewing them through your liberal rose colored glasses...they're clearly not impartial.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"Pew has basically taken the average viewer/consumer of all of these media outlets and plotted them on a continuum, trying to ascertain which outlets are favored by which side of the political spectrum."
That's measuring audience (who watches) not how biased the media is. Those are two different things. I'm also not a "liberal", I'm a centrist, so no "liberal rose colored glasses" for me.
Video editing and compositing is fantastic these days. All one needs is a database of make/model/year/color vehicles with videos of egregious driving and some Deep Fakes processing. Let's see how well the Sox do in the Series when their pitcher is pinched on a DUI.
In the UK?
Finally, the term "world series" finally makes sense.
Da! Comrade!
ve shud all be at de mercy of de state. Everyone should all be guilty of something because that way we can be locked up when it is politically convenient.
Making EVERYONE a criminal so that ANYONE can be "legitimately" charaged at anytime is what the communist dictatorships do (did). If rules/regulation make 100% of the population in violation of the law then those laws are not for public safety but to protect the government. That's not a road I want to drive down.
But have they tried covfefe?
Yes I have, despite the negative press.
Yes. And every stupid thing does not result in a fine. Have you never been given a warning?
By a police officer? No. I'm a foreigner and a man. If I get pulled over I get a ticket.
but we are back to the same old cable tv crap. Subscribe to 5 services to get what we want. The main difference is that it is over IP, on demand and the company names have changed a bit.
Not that I expected that it would turn out otherwise.
And you're paying for internet what you used to pay to get cable TV and internet before you cut the cord.
F**k that noise, regional separation is bad enough, we don't want Netflix to turn into another "channel" provider.
Too late. It has been heading that way for a long time. There is less and less content from outside providers on Netflix every year and more and more "Netflix made stuff".
the $0 plan is getting more enticing. Honestly, if it weren't for the Mrs. I would cancel Netflix and just stick with Prime/Hulu.
Netflix is losing content left and right and charging more every year or so.
You are lucky in the US, you actually have the option to stream most stuff. Outside the US a lot of titles are simply unavailable.
Grass. Otherside. Greener.
A lot of titles aren't available in the US until a year after Europe and the rest of the world get it. If the title is put out by an American network we have to wait a year whilst Europe gets it immediately... or like in the case of the new Star Trek- the rest of the world gets it but the US has to go without indefinitely.
It's too difficult to cancel services. Anything that makes it easier is good.
Yes... all too many times, the only way to cancel a service is be on hold for an hour- and then listen to a "retain the customer" sales pitch for 10 minutes- tell them no, I'm not interested a dozen times- wait another 30 minutes to be transferred to the real person who can cancel the service... etc. - and you can't just hang up on them because you NEED them to cancel the service.
Companies know what they're doing when they make it nearly impossible to cancel.
I'm not in the UK, but I'm all for ratting out drivers who have no concern for my or my family's safety.
If I had access to such a facility, I don't believe I would be bothered to submit footage of everyday misdemeanours that all drivers make, but blatant reckless and life endangering driving should be reported and I'd be happy to assist in that.
I have mixed opinions on this.
Yeah, sure, there have been times I wish a cop had been around to witness someone doing something egregiously bad. However, everyone has done something stupid whilst driving at some point. Everyone has done something illegal, either on purpose or by accident.
Never misread a sign? Gone the wrong way down a one way street - or driven at 70mph in a 60mph zone?
I guarantee what is going to happen here is every Spurs fan is going to start trying to catch Arsenal football players making a mistake whilst driving. United fans are going to try to catch and force Liverpool players into making mistakes. People are going to target their rivals, enemies, and people they don't like... and people will get caught making silly mistakes.
There were some good stories about the Doctor and the Time Lords back in the classic era.
The problem is that the new era keeps hinting at interesting stories about the Time War and what happened to that race, but then never delivers. I guess they are trying to keep the Doctor mysterious but eventually you get fed up of being teased.
They've covered what happened a few times now.
The show jumped the shark when it became all about Clara. Especially the episode where Matt Smith spent a thousand years at the Christmas planet? What the fuck?
I liked Clara in the beginning but he saccharine tones and voice really grated on me by the end. I was glad to be rid of her. There again, that Scottish guy was annoying. Electric guitar, sonic sunglasses... how do you make doctor who annoying by trying to make him "cool" to youngsters- and not even understanding what youngster even think is cool these days. Capaldi the worst doctor.
I live in the US and rely on BBC to give me impartial news IN the US. In the US you have the choice of Fox, ABC, and CBS which all have deliberate right wing bias- or PBS, CNN, and NBC which all have deliberate left wing bias.
It's nice to have news which isn't (deliberately) biased. BBC world service is the only way to get unbiased news about the US from within the US.
I suspect the worry is; if whoever leaked it had access to that 53 seconds- what else did they have access to- and could they leak whole shows in the future. This is plugging the small hole in the dam before it becomes a massive hole.
Stupid post is stupid.
All android apps can REQUEST the permission to record your screen. Hell, there's good reason for it in some cases: See "CalcyIV" for Pokemon Go (which reads the pokemon's stats and provides more detailed info), or even Google's own Now / Assistant which screenshots and gives information about what you're looking at.
Unless it's preinstalled on your phone (and even if it is, it might still need to request it), there's going to be this huge "[APP] requests to record everything on your screen" prompt. Then, every time it records your screen, an icon appears in your status bar by the Wifi/3G/clock and I believe a notification appears.
In Oreo, you're probably going to be reminded at least once that the app recently used it. It just notiffied me that Soundhound used my mic the other day, and that was with me actively using the app.
Additionally, apps can block (https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/133022/disable-screenshot-security) screenshot/casts.
You literally have to ignore 3-4 warnings / notifications *AND* your banking apps / password requests have to be programmed badly (it's literally one line of code) for your information to be recorded.
I've never once been asked by an app to record my screen. Nor have I ever seen any icon that looks like a "recording screen" icon. I hope that means I just don't have anything installed that records... but I'm not convinced.
1) The algorithms they train are so good, they can predict what you're going to desire and place an ad for it before you know it yourself.
For some bizarre reason I keep getting ads for women's clothing. Does this mean I'm going to desire a sex change in the future? Google knows it now- but I haven't figured it out for myself yet.
That seems worse than whatever stupid shit I might say near my phone.
Indeed! So, if I chose the "show password" to make sure I'm writing it correct- it can screenshot my password and send it to a third party? If I open PayPal it can screenshot what I've spent and send it to a third party?
Are these apps only screenshotting within themselves- or potentially everything you do. This could be extremely serious.