I went with my brother years ago. He wanted the "32oz bottomless cup of cola" for $1 more --- and managed to finish it before the previews were over. He ran out for his free refill - sat down and slowly drank it as the movie began.
He then missed most of the second half because he kept leaving to pee.
Lots of violations to that list: Cola in the Dark vs Focus. Plus I was disrupted and had to fill in plot details later.
Given (assume for argument) that there is no proxy setup by ISPs --- what is the functional difference (related to privacy) between VPN & HTTPS? HTTP I get - but with DNSSec and SSL what information can be gleaned from HTTPS?
Yes - I know what a VPN is - use them everyday. But what I don't understand is....what info of value is leaked from HTTPS ? Simply DNS lookups? They can't see inside the stream. OR--- is the concern that a lot of sites & apps are still using HTTP such that there's enough value to be gathered?
My company uses a web proxy and require MiM certificates installed - allowing them to monitor everything. Plus- DNS doesn't work (nslookup www.google.com returns nothing)... however typing https://www.google.com/ works and the certificate is NOT Google. Seems that Chrome was changed recently so you can't see who the issuer is anymore.
Fair point - I think it does matter though when carrier negotiations come up. The Cable company will claim that X million people watch (look at our subscriber data) and the Networks will claim Y actually watch.
Of course now that Xfinity can track what people actually watch they have the data. Of course in my house - my daughter presses the On button for the "box" to see the blue ring light up. So whatever channel is on is reported as watched for "24 hours" until I feel like turning it off.
She's a great MTBF tester... loves pressing the button on...off..on...off..on.
Dear NBC/CBS/Fox/ABC et al - we aren't channel surfing on a Friday night, although we do watch some of your shows....via your apps on our AppleTV rather than using, say, a DVR (which we don't have). Comcast makes us buy TV service in order to have the higher speed internet (in my area that is speeds higher than 15mb/s)
So yes - we pay for it. But only to get to 50mb/s service (although that was recently upgraded to 100mb/s a few months ago).
I purchased the cheapest bundle to get high speed as both my wife and I work from home occasionally -- and the real reason is that we stream netflix on our iPads separately at night:-) Also - I can receive OTA which we used to do until realizing we needed more than 25mb/s service.
We spend most of our time watching Netflix and a bit of Amazon Prime. I pulled the power cord from the oversized Xfinity device so that my baby daughter wouldn't burn her hand on it.
While I've been tempted to watch the "free" bundled HBO I find the menu system on Xfinity to be tiresomely complex and slow. I just want to see the channels I subscribe to - not the other 960 that I don't. My Pavlovian response has developed "if the channel takes more than 2 seconds to appear - it isn't part of my subscription"
I'm not sure it can be blamed on "easy credit" - it would be the same force that allows home prices to accelerate. But I agree that there is a lot going on at schools these days to pull in people who spend money. My alma mater has been building giant new "student centers" and condo-like dorms (which I believe are rented at full rate). Someday these giant buildings may become hulking run down castles.
My father paid ~$2,200 / year at the same University in the 1970's. I paid $10k in 80/90's. And the current rates are $32k for in-state and $48k for out-of-state. About a 300% increase in each ~20 year span. I was able to pay for college with a part-time job over those 4, or 5 years;-)
I do believe that the extrapolation is a fair warning - but prices are set based upon what people can pay. For $500k to be true - our salaries will need to grow faster than the current 3%.
I hadn't heard of this "contest" prior to the publication of the article on Ars. But it is a really cool art installation. I also read the paper by the previous winners.
This seems like my kind of puzzle. I don't have the skills to work for the NSA -- This artist wanted to create a puzzle that was hard while still allowing anyone a chance to crack it. Observing, building frequency tables, pattern matching, and lots and lots of figuring things out. Even though the current one has been solved I might give it a try before they take it down. It looks fun - a neat puzzle to solve in spare cycles.
Read the article and follow the link to the Live "Video Feed" of the building. (I put video feed in quotes... kind of like "wiretapping" - meaning it isn't really a video feed but it is...isn't).
Sort of - yes. Not physical flags. But rotating disks "waving" out a message. Check out the article and the corresponding website that contains a live feed - it's pretty cool.
It meets this definition of a semaphore: "system of conveying information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting shutters, also known as blades or paddles"
I can that being true - but think it is engineered by the lawyers to make money. They smell something - get somebody to toss up a complaint - and turn it into a class action.
I've even seen late night ads "Have you or someone you know been harmed by product XYZ - if so call our toll free number 1-800-make-us-rich" They are fishing for customers.
I remember years ago being involved in a class action with VW. It was "possible" for the sunroof to leak if I didn't clean out the drain lines --- which wasn't documented in the owners manual/service guide. Somebody actually had this problem and got wet. Lawyers were paid (big) millions of dollars and the rest of us received a New Page to place in our service guide --- plus a coupon for $50 off a future purchase. Not cash...a coupon. Not even a "free sunroof service" $50 bucks off. Geez - I get offers from VW in the mail all the time "Get your car serviced with us --- 10% off your next oil change or 20% off next service cycle" (which usually costs $200)
They come every other month -- for free. No class action required.
Aside from not having "good" content on Netflix/Amazon/iTunes etc (aka be an appealing product) --- watching Pirated content fills the "Now" and "Cheap"
I know multiple people who watch pirated content -- and Own a copy too -- only because the mechanism to watch said content is easier via the pirate tools. One person wants to watch on his phone when traveling (or some mobile device for the kids in the backseat) - but the copy he purchased on iTunes/Amazon can't be loaded onto said device. But the device will play other formats that can be downloaded off the web.
And then there are those who are too cheap to pay $10 a month for the streaming services (or sum of iTunes purchases / 12 months). Free is always a good price - plus you can watch movies that aren't available on the streaming services.
While correct - there is a nuance to the "nobody can stop him." Congress can - via impeachment proceedings. If he starts disclosing "real" Classified information to the point that Congress feels he's a danger to the country - then Congress has a tool to "stop" him. There are also smaller hammers such as Censure.
The President is not the all powerful ruler that some think he is -- rather one branch of government balanced by the others.
Wikipedia has this wonderful quote in the Impeachment article: "Benjamin Franklin noted that, historically, the removal of "obnoxious" chief executives had been accomplished by assassination. Franklin suggested that a proceduralized mechanism for removal—impeachment—would be preferable"
It occurs to me that this Leak could be used as the argument for why placing a backdoor into encryption is a bad idea. At some point in time - somebody will figure it out and leak it to the world.
The idea that the government is going to be trusted with these BIG secrets and they won't get out is preposterous. See see -- don't look over there!! Ignore the man behind the curtain.
The CIA must have been thinking "how do we infiltrate every device on the planet? This onsie-twosie thing is too slow" Oh - let's leak a bunch of stuff to Wikileaks and include in it some malware. Everyone will be so distracted by the "trove of secret data" and trying it out to see what it does that they won't notice our super-secret malware getting installed.
Now whether they want everyone - or just the other "government entities" - or this PITA Assange himself - who knows.
The linked article is almost as long as the/. post above. I'd vote down the story as "not the best" Seriously -- several build up paragraphs of text with a final conclusion of "passive scrolling" followed by a button "show less" --- this article can't be much less. it needs a "show more"
Suggests to me it is click spam that made it though/. filters. SEO bait.
I don't think it would matter where it was posted. True - FB has a license with you so that they can distribute your content for viewing on FB. But that isn't what ABC et al was using.
Even if ABC had found the video elsewhere on the web -- reporting a story and using clips to convey the story is allowed under copyright. They were not making the WHOLE video available (I assume). A judge would look at how MUCH of the video was re-used to make a fair determination - but previous cases have determined that short-clips are fine. Or Parody - you can do all the parody you want!!
But your point about digital copies causing you loss of control are correct. It may not be legal - but you can't control it after it is published.
Now, if only (!) there was a technology that would allow the content owner to control how their digital content was used. Dare I say it... DRM ?!:-D
Oh no - The horror, the horror. Oh wait...this turns out to be a non-story.
One cannot rebroadcast the "whole" movie without permission - but one can show limited clips. Just like Movie Reviewers do. They are allowed to show clips that represent the review points that they are making. All under fair-use.
Now we'll start seeing more Youtube videos that say "I don't own the video but posted the complete copy here and it is owned by the owner - this statement makes is fair use" Yeah - no.
Yup - this happened to a local tavern that was also known for producing some of the best beer in the area. The owner sold the building to a real-estate investor and leased his own property back - using the money to pay down debt.
Said investor jacked up his rent (up to "fair market value") - forcing the business to close. They then split the two entities and sold the beer to a bigger brewery.
Well, I don't know. But Americans say they can dig a hole to China. So I guess I should have worded it as "hole appears in America" --- but I know that digging through the USA won't get you to China (unless you go very sideways).
Or it appears in DC and swallows up everything - setting fire to the President's lying pants:-P (liar liar pants on fire)
I agree - I think this rise in popularity is what allowed Gimlet Media to get running & look good to investors. Plus the spin offs (like Serial from TAL...and is now its own "thing" like Gimlet) This podcast "craze" can been seen in a few ways - Dangerous narrow-focus on "media I like" (akin to the web portal dangers predicted years ago) and Enriching myself through learning & entertainment. It is a "new" stream of "radio" content - a shift like how Netflix & Amazon has replaced cable TV in our house. Other than Live News I rarely turn on the radio. Even music is streamed or mp3 (ad free world - gotta love it).
I've been listening for about 8 years now - I used to treat it as a "DVR" for radio and listen when I missed a show But that quickly became "listen on demand according to my schedule" -- like Netflix. My car (2008) has an iPod connector so I would load up and go, either the morning commute or Sunday drive. Now that I have kids my morning commute is the music of Rock'in Ron the Friendly Pirate.
Since I started podcast listening through NPR a few shows have stayed with me. But my media playing time has to compete with other stuff these days - such as Netflix, reading books, and playing with the kids (which is my personal top priority). To this end I no longer listen to Every Single Episode like I used to. Even my list of podcasts has gotten shorter.
DotNetRocks (used to listen to them all - now just the ones I have time & interest) RunAs Radio (again - used to listen to them all) This American Life (skip the reruns) Reply All RadioLab (skip the reruns) Startup Podcast Serial 99% Invisible
As time permits & a single episode looks interesting/helpful: Planet Money, Freakonomics, Marketplace Money
Used to listen: (all good - just lacking time) Bill Burr Monday Morning podcast Lake Wobegon Wait Wait...don't tell me Whad'ya Know (not much..you?! - sorry couldn't help it - used to listen to the full 2 hour on the radio years ago)
Slashdot Mirror
Good'ol Les - used to mark his virtual office using masking tape. But electroshock -- oh what an idea.
For you younger folk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I went with my brother years ago. He wanted the "32oz bottomless cup of cola" for $1 more --- and managed to finish it before the previews were over. He ran out for his free refill - sat down and slowly drank it as the movie began.
He then missed most of the second half because he kept leaving to pee.
Lots of violations to that list: Cola in the Dark vs Focus. Plus I was disrupted and had to fill in plot details later.
and the body will die.
Visionaries are never taken seriously the first time.
oh yeah - it works better when the HTML is escaped. >_<
darn it.
Hasn't this been done? >_
I seem to remember years ago somebody building a smell "printer" -- Smell-o-vision or something like that.
Given (assume for argument) that there is no proxy setup by ISPs --- what is the functional difference (related to privacy) between VPN & HTTPS? HTTP I get - but with DNSSec and SSL what information can be gleaned from HTTPS?
Yes - I know what a VPN is - use them everyday. But what I don't understand is....what info of value is leaked from HTTPS ? Simply DNS lookups? They can't see inside the stream. OR--- is the concern that a lot of sites & apps are still using HTTP such that there's enough value to be gathered?
My company uses a web proxy and require MiM certificates installed - allowing them to monitor everything. Plus- DNS doesn't work (nslookup www.google.com returns nothing)... however typing https://www.google.com/ works and the certificate is NOT Google. Seems that Chrome was changed recently so you can't see who the issuer is anymore.
Fair point - I think it does matter though when carrier negotiations come up. The Cable company will claim that X million people watch (look at our subscriber data) and the Networks will claim Y actually watch.
Of course now that Xfinity can track what people actually watch they have the data. Of course in my house - my daughter presses the On button for the "box" to see the blue ring light up. So whatever channel is on is reported as watched for "24 hours" until I feel like turning it off.
She's a great MTBF tester... loves pressing the button on...off..on...off..on.
Dear NBC/CBS/Fox/ABC et al - we aren't channel surfing on a Friday night, although we do watch some of your shows....via your apps on our AppleTV rather than using, say, a DVR (which we don't have). Comcast makes us buy TV service in order to have the higher speed internet (in my area that is speeds higher than 15mb/s)
So yes - we pay for it. But only to get to 50mb/s service (although that was recently upgraded to 100mb/s a few months ago).
I purchased the cheapest bundle to get high speed as both my wife and I work from home occasionally -- and the real reason is that we stream netflix on our iPads separately at night :-) Also - I can receive OTA which we used to do until realizing we needed more than 25mb/s service.
We spend most of our time watching Netflix and a bit of Amazon Prime. I pulled the power cord from the oversized Xfinity device so that my baby daughter wouldn't burn her hand on it.
While I've been tempted to watch the "free" bundled HBO I find the menu system on Xfinity to be tiresomely complex and slow. I just want to see the channels I subscribe to - not the other 960 that I don't. My Pavlovian response has developed "if the channel takes more than 2 seconds to appear - it isn't part of my subscription"
I'm not sure it can be blamed on "easy credit" - it would be the same force that allows home prices to accelerate. But I agree that there is a lot going on at schools these days to pull in people who spend money. My alma mater has been building giant new "student centers" and condo-like dorms (which I believe are rented at full rate). Someday these giant buildings may become hulking run down castles.
My father paid ~$2,200 / year at the same University in the 1970's. I paid $10k in 80/90's. And the current rates are $32k for in-state and $48k for out-of-state. About a 300% increase in each ~20 year span. I was able to pay for college with a part-time job over those 4, or 5 years ;-)
I do believe that the extrapolation is a fair warning - but prices are set based upon what people can pay. For $500k to be true - our salaries will need to grow faster than the current 3%.
I hadn't heard of this "contest" prior to the publication of the article on Ars. But it is a really cool art installation. I also read the paper by the previous winners.
This seems like my kind of puzzle. I don't have the skills to work for the NSA -- This artist wanted to create a puzzle that was hard while still allowing anyone a chance to crack it. Observing, building frequency tables, pattern matching, and lots and lots of figuring things out. Even though the current one has been solved I might give it a try before they take it down. It looks fun - a neat puzzle to solve in spare cycles.
Read the article and follow the link to the Live "Video Feed" of the building. (I put video feed in quotes... kind of like "wiretapping" - meaning it isn't really a video feed but it is...isn't).
Sort of - yes. Not physical flags. But rotating disks "waving" out a message. Check out the article and the corresponding website that contains a live feed - it's pretty cool.
It meets this definition of a semaphore: "system of conveying information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting shutters, also known as blades or paddles"
I can that being true - but think it is engineered by the lawyers to make money. They smell something - get somebody to toss up a complaint - and turn it into a class action.
I've even seen late night ads "Have you or someone you know been harmed by product XYZ - if so call our toll free number 1-800-make-us-rich" They are fishing for customers.
I remember years ago being involved in a class action with VW. It was "possible" for the sunroof to leak if I didn't clean out the drain lines --- which wasn't documented in the owners manual/service guide. Somebody actually had this problem and got wet. Lawyers were paid (big) millions of dollars and the rest of us received a New Page to place in our service guide --- plus a coupon for $50 off a future purchase. Not cash...a coupon. Not even a "free sunroof service" $50 bucks off. Geez - I get offers from VW in the mail all the time "Get your car serviced with us --- 10% off your next oil change or 20% off next service cycle" (which usually costs $200)
They come every other month -- for free. No class action required.
Aside from not having "good" content on Netflix/Amazon/iTunes etc (aka be an appealing product) --- watching Pirated content fills the "Now" and "Cheap"
I know multiple people who watch pirated content -- and Own a copy too -- only because the mechanism to watch said content is easier via the pirate tools. One person wants to watch on his phone when traveling (or some mobile device for the kids in the backseat) - but the copy he purchased on iTunes/Amazon can't be loaded onto said device. But the device will play other formats that can be downloaded off the web.
And then there are those who are too cheap to pay $10 a month for the streaming services (or sum of iTunes purchases / 12 months). Free is always a good price - plus you can watch movies that aren't available on the streaming services.
While correct - there is a nuance to the "nobody can stop him." Congress can - via impeachment proceedings. If he starts disclosing "real" Classified information to the point that Congress feels he's a danger to the country - then Congress has a tool to "stop" him. There are also smaller hammers such as Censure.
The President is not the all powerful ruler that some think he is -- rather one branch of government balanced by the others.
Wikipedia has this wonderful quote in the Impeachment article: "Benjamin Franklin noted that, historically, the removal of "obnoxious" chief executives had been accomplished by assassination. Franklin suggested that a proceduralized mechanism for removal—impeachment—would be preferable"
In an effort to increase revenues and promote tourism on Mars - NASA will open Potato City amusement park.
For those who don't have children or haven't watched Peppa Pig....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It occurs to me that this Leak could be used as the argument for why placing a backdoor into encryption is a bad idea. At some point in time - somebody will figure it out and leak it to the world.
The idea that the government is going to be trusted with these BIG secrets and they won't get out is preposterous. See see -- don't look over there!! Ignore the man behind the curtain.
The CIA must have been thinking "how do we infiltrate every device on the planet? This onsie-twosie thing is too slow" Oh - let's leak a bunch of stuff to Wikileaks and include in it some malware. Everyone will be so distracted by the "trove of secret data" and trying it out to see what it does that they won't notice our super-secret malware getting installed.
Now whether they want everyone - or just the other "government entities" - or this PITA Assange himself - who knows.
I for one won't be diving into this leak.
The linked article is almost as long as the /. post above. I'd vote down the story as "not the best" Seriously -- several build up paragraphs of text with a final conclusion of "passive scrolling" followed by a button "show less" --- this article can't be much less. it needs a "show more"
Suggests to me it is click spam that made it though /. filters. SEO bait.
I don't think it would matter where it was posted. True - FB has a license with you so that they can distribute your content for viewing on FB. But that isn't what ABC et al was using.
Even if ABC had found the video elsewhere on the web -- reporting a story and using clips to convey the story is allowed under copyright. They were not making the WHOLE video available (I assume). A judge would look at how MUCH of the video was re-used to make a fair determination - but previous cases have determined that short-clips are fine. Or Parody - you can do all the parody you want!!
But your point about digital copies causing you loss of control are correct. It may not be legal - but you can't control it after it is published.
Now, if only (!) there was a technology that would allow the content owner to control how their digital content was used. Dare I say it... DRM ?! :-D
Oh no - The horror, the horror. Oh wait ...this turns out to be a non-story.
One cannot rebroadcast the "whole" movie without permission - but one can show limited clips. Just like Movie Reviewers do. They are allowed to show clips that represent the review points that they are making. All under fair-use.
Now we'll start seeing more Youtube videos that say "I don't own the video but posted the complete copy here and it is owned by the owner - this statement makes is fair use" Yeah - no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yup - this happened to a local tavern that was also known for producing some of the best beer in the area. The owner sold the building to a real-estate investor and leased his own property back - using the money to pay down debt.
Said investor jacked up his rent (up to "fair market value") - forcing the business to close. They then split the two entities and sold the beer to a bigger brewery.
Sad & quick end to a family business.
Well, I don't know. But Americans say they can dig a hole to China. So I guess I should have worded it as "hole appears in America" --- but I know that digging through the USA won't get you to China (unless you go very sideways).
Or it appears in DC and swallows up everything - setting fire to the President's lying pants :-P (liar liar pants on fire)
Giant fire that can't be put out bores hole through earth to Pacific ocean. China fills with water.
Yawn. Rich guy seduced by his own money & power. So what - lots of companies burn out this way.
I learned nothing. Well - okay, maybe something: go to work for these people and collect their money.
I agree - I think this rise in popularity is what allowed Gimlet Media to get running & look good to investors. Plus the spin offs (like Serial from TAL...and is now its own "thing" like Gimlet) This podcast "craze" can been seen in a few ways - Dangerous narrow-focus on "media I like" (akin to the web portal dangers predicted years ago) and Enriching myself through learning & entertainment. It is a "new" stream of "radio" content - a shift like how Netflix & Amazon has replaced cable TV in our house. Other than Live News I rarely turn on the radio. Even music is streamed or mp3 (ad free world - gotta love it).
I've been listening for about 8 years now - I used to treat it as a "DVR" for radio and listen when I missed a show But that quickly became "listen on demand according to my schedule" -- like Netflix. My car (2008) has an iPod connector so I would load up and go, either the morning commute or Sunday drive. Now that I have kids my morning commute is the music of Rock'in Ron the Friendly Pirate.
Since I started podcast listening through NPR a few shows have stayed with me. But my media playing time has to compete with other stuff these days - such as Netflix, reading books, and playing with the kids (which is my personal top priority). To this end I no longer listen to Every Single Episode like I used to. Even my list of podcasts has gotten shorter.
DotNetRocks (used to listen to them all - now just the ones I have time & interest)
RunAs Radio (again - used to listen to them all)
This American Life (skip the reruns)
Reply All
RadioLab (skip the reruns)
Startup Podcast
Serial
99% Invisible
As time permits & a single episode looks interesting/helpful:
Planet Money, Freakonomics, Marketplace Money
Used to listen: (all good - just lacking time)
Bill Burr Monday Morning podcast
Lake Wobegon
Wait Wait...don't tell me
Whad'ya Know (not much..you?! - sorry couldn't help it - used to listen to the full 2 hour on the radio years ago)