Regardless of where they come from, the commercials drastically lower the value.... to the tune of about 50%
Offer me commercial free packages, or subsidize MY BILL off of the ad revenue. but don't try to sell me commercials with media breaks and complain when I find a better to way to consume the media.
To put it another way, if I'm paying for access to your network, and you turn around and rent my eyeballs to 3rd parties for 50% of the time I'm using it, don't get all bent when I stop paying for half a product.
We are no longer a captive audience. Change or die. Nobody has any sympathy for old broken business models.
A $50.00 cable package includes a ton of additional commercials. At this point it looks pretty close to 50:50 media/interruptions. I suppose all the sponsor breaks might be useful if your in the market for fast-food, trial lawyers and medication (with miles of scary side effects)
Honestly, I would consider buying back into a cable sub if they did away with all of the commercials. As it stands, cable subs are inferior products at half the asking rate on account of the commercials alone. No wonder everybody pirates like crazy.
We are talking about an app spying on you for marketing purposes because it is installed on the operating system that the biggest advertising giant on the planet developed and "gave away"?
Everything on android is harvesting data. In scary huge amounts. I imagine Apple does the same and just shares it less. It's exclusive, right?
When I'm forced to carry a smartphone, I get what apps I need from f-droid. I't may be a false sense of security, but I do prefer seeing "This app requires no special permissions" over "This app must access everything"
The only social media I use on a smartphone is google-centric stuff. The way I see it, it's their OS, they are collecting anyway, I might as well get something out of it, and so many are using gmail that even if I don't use it, they are reading my messages by proxy regardless.
Worried about fb collecting on a smartphone? Can you see the forest through the trees?
Every time I hear about law enforcement wanting anything to do with mobile phones it reminds me how much they put into recovering stolen devices in the first place.... exactly zero.
Recognizing snoring seems like some perfect entry level tasking for phones and "assistants" There is quite a bit of valuable data to be gleaned from doing so.
Watch tv before you sleep? What channel? (Demographics info) What time do you usually go down? (Scheduling/location) Are there more than one of you? (Relationship status) Breathing patterns and snoring (Health status) Presence of animals (Pet info)
Each of these points is worth something to somebody, and that's just the top of the head stuff. It's also all pretty repetitive noises sampled every night, so simple for automated detection and such, so no real reason not to do something like this.
A few years from now, the shocking amount of data these things collect, correlate, corroborate, and index on everybody (not just the owner) is going to come out. It will barley even register on the outrage scale, there will be some congressional hearings, the big data merchants will answer some questions delivered in a stern voice, and nothing will change.
tl;dr=There's no money in NOT listening to you sleep.
We are taking ALL OF THE DATA. Like in the deal.... the deal you agreed to by breathing and blinking twice while your eyes glazed over at the EULA.
In the spirit of full disclosure, we feel we should also make you aware that we'll be rebooting your computer whenever its good for us, and you can trust that we will reset any user changed settings back to whatever we feel is best at that time when we do so.
While we're at it, we are going to go ahead and remove a few features here and there, so that we can sell them back to you when you finally realize that you do indeed need them after all. But don't worry though, we will go ahead and leave the shell services and support files there so they can slowly but surely bog your system down to the point that you can only reset the system back to default and start the whole system over again.
P.S. Thanks for all of that bandwidth we just used downloading that giant update that removes more features than it adds. Your welcome.
Signed,
Your friends at Microsoft, the NSA, and h1b1 "employees" everywhere.
In today's world of $20 smartphones and $50 android tablets, lets indoctrinate our children into the chromebook's cloudbased world of for profit data mining, lack user control, and corporate ownership of personal data! Gotta spend this budget on something!
BONUS! This puts a state/Alphabet controlled computer system in every family home in America, and BONUS! makes the sucker parents accept responsibility for the hardware, and BONUS! they have no control over the hardware they are responsible for! and BONUS! Look! the chromebook is now outselling all of the "not issued to every k-12 student in the country" tablets and computers! What a great product!!!!
Do no evil my ass.
I said we didn't need it, we have all the computers we need already.... and my child was excluded from group discussions on the device while in class until I gave them the protection money and banned the fucking MAC.
Such bullshit. There is no reason the students can't use the library, the computer lab, a mobile phone, or their own personal computer to log into the damn cloud-based learning tool. If they really have no access to any of those devices... GIVE THEM A COMPUTER TO KEEP.
Seriously education system, how many students honestly don't have access to a smartphone, personal computer, or a public library? I'm guessing maybe 1 in 10? Give em a damn computer to keep, and you can virtue signal all over the damn place over it. Schools love that shit. Put it in your stupid newsletter, right next to story about why you should tear-down historic statues, and rename fucking holidays.
This chromebook thing really grinds my gears. In my day, it was all Macintosh and Windows in school.... Now every business in the world is addicted to Apple/Microsoft and paying through the damn nose for it. How come they didn't stick with Apple and Windows for education? Maybe ask a history teacher- What happens when you forget what happened last time?
This was a concert? The 'goers already had phones out taking video. I bet there will be hundreds of shaky videos of this event surfacing in the next few hours. Some Quite graphic.
This ones going to be viewed from every angle for months.
I'll happily rent a plot of land to a telecom outfit. I hear the deals they offer are pretty sweet. I'm pretty uninformed, but judging by the folks I've spoken to who have done just that, I don't think availability of land is the issue.
Once Amazon second-hand, or Amazon-thrift, or whatever they eventually choose to call it hit the net, it's over for retail.
I shop in pawn-shops, thrift-stores and craigslist more than ANYTHING else. It's not that I'm broke, I'm just not paying 3x prices for the new plastic smell.
Pawn-shop guys are friendly in a no-bullshit kind of way. No fake smiles, you can actually talk down the prices, most of the time they own the joint, and they don't work on commission. Craigslist usually means a 5 dollar cup of coffee but is worth it most f the time, I've yet to get burned, and you can't beat the price of cloths at a thrift store. I'm wearing a $250.00 leather jacket I picked up for 20 bucks.. I don't care if somebody died in it.
My prime membership pays for itself every Christmas though. Usually with a single gift+free gift wrapping for the girls... they love that shit. Prime has products with free shipping for cheaper than the manufacturer charges +shipping. We actually use the prime video with the firestick too, so that's a plus.
Retail is doomed.
Last time I was at wal-mart was to buy my son a prepaid game card. The cops wrestled a spun out junkie to the ground right in front of the entryway on our way in, and some asshole rear ended my pickup while parked in the parking lot.
The tech will feature both the $30 controller, as well as the $30 million control panel. There will be plenty spares for both, but more of the controller, as it's cheaper, smaller, and easily replaceable at nearly any port in the western world.
I've used more than one piece of military tech that featured a 360 controller as an interface, and have been responsible for it's continued use in theater. It's actually a pretty great idea from a military point of view. Consider maybe one or two guys are fully trained on the ZYX control panel and can effectively use the ZYX system. Damn near the whole of the lower enlisted already understands how a video-game controller works, so the odds of the ZYX system going down on account of a manpower issue issue are very small. Many are also already accustomed to operating a video game controller for long hours with no sleep and all the coffee you can drink.
JUST listen to the pretend things the kids say. While they put pretend bullets in each other. While they crash cars into each other. While they run pretend bankjobs, pretend kidnap each other, pretend knife, shank, and teabag, and sometimes even kill pretend nazis.. We laugh when we pretend beat the money out of the hookers, and pretend murder whole races.
It's pretend shit talk. Just like the rest of the clowns on the internet. None of it is real. It's the fucking INTERNET. That's why the 400lb man in his moms basement pretending to be a 12 year old girl is the joke.
Have some fucking perspective ya wimps. THIS IS NORMAL BEHAVIOR WHILE GAMING.
Don't like it? - Stop paying for the privilege!
To put it another way...
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!" -Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
I doubt a western nation would burn such hot shit abilities to screw with a couple diplomats unless there's a bit of Tom Clancy style shit going on in the background.
And who else was checked into the hotel at the time? I bet there's a pretty limited range.. any remote device would have been found already. Search the housekeepers.
Everybody has violated the terms of service. That's the point. They are ALL one sided.
This one would start something like-
"By attempting to use our service from outside of our service area, you agree to......" and "By using your handset to send or receive digital communications and/or data connections, you agree to......." and don't forget "You agree to private arbitration of any dispute, for any reason, under a arbiter of our choosing"
I've often considered writing up my own personal terms of service, and using it against these faceless corps that roll right over everybody with their own. Some would balk, but most of them pay their representatives so little that they are not mentally there anyway and are not going to look over anything I present.
If my $PHYSICALACTION counts as agreeing to an agreement, then their $PHYSICALACTION should count in the same light.
"By tracking my activities and the services I use online, you agree to........" and "By accepting legal tender from me in return for your service, you agree to...." and "This agreement supersedes all other agreements made in my name, including agreements specifically stating they they also supersede agreements"
This beach was state sponsored. Over the next few weeks, American identities will be stolen en-mass, prompting nationwide credit-freeze. Consumers lose trust in the American system of credit/debt as the fraudulently borrowed moneys and goods leave the country before the freeze. People demand companies are punished, and place blame on the money lenders and banks.
People go back to spending only what they've earned. Retail feels the pinch first. Many go under in the first months. Prices rise, as available supply of goods diminishes (no longer produced on a credit-line, volume drops)
When the money stops moving around, the financial sector of the US economy withers and dies within weeks.
The 1% panic. Crisis follows.
I imagine this is what 21st century warfare looks like.
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Regardless of where they come from, the commercials drastically lower the value.... to the tune of about 50%
Offer me commercial free packages, or subsidize MY BILL off of the ad revenue. but don't try to sell me commercials with media breaks and complain when I find a better to way to consume the media.
To put it another way, if I'm paying for access to your network, and you turn around and rent my eyeballs to 3rd parties for 50% of the time I'm using it, don't get all bent when I stop paying for half a product.
We are no longer a captive audience. Change or die. Nobody has any sympathy for old broken business models.
A $50.00 cable package includes a ton of additional commercials. At this point it looks pretty close to 50:50 media/interruptions. I suppose all the sponsor breaks might be useful if your in the market for fast-food, trial lawyers and medication (with miles of scary side effects)
Honestly, I would consider buying back into a cable sub if they did away with all of the commercials. As it stands, cable subs are inferior products at half the asking rate on account of the commercials alone. No wonder everybody pirates like crazy.
I'd rather read a book.
We are talking about an app spying on you for marketing purposes because it is installed on the operating system that the biggest advertising giant on the planet developed and "gave away"?
Everything on android is harvesting data. In scary huge amounts. I imagine Apple does the same and just shares it less. It's exclusive, right?
When I'm forced to carry a smartphone, I get what apps I need from f-droid. I't may be a false sense of security, but I do prefer seeing "This app requires no special permissions" over "This app must access everything"
The only social media I use on a smartphone is google-centric stuff. The way I see it, it's their OS, they are collecting anyway, I might as well get something out of it, and so many are using gmail that even if I don't use it, they are reading my messages by proxy regardless.
Worried about fb collecting on a smartphone? Can you see the forest through the trees?
Tech is supposed to be sexy. You're doing it wrong.
Every time I hear about law enforcement wanting anything to do with mobile phones it reminds me how much they put into recovering stolen devices in the first place.... exactly zero.
Priorities right?
But your not fooling everyone.
Security is now a buzzword.
Escape is simple. Don't use a mobile phone.
You can get along just fine without it. Remember what it was like to enjoy things with all of your attention?
You too can really be *done* with work at 5pm, just like your boss.
Privacy is still a thing, you just have to want it.
Recognizing snoring seems like some perfect entry level tasking for phones and "assistants" There is quite a bit of valuable data to be gleaned from doing so.
Watch tv before you sleep? What channel? (Demographics info)
What time do you usually go down? (Scheduling/location)
Are there more than one of you? (Relationship status)
Breathing patterns and snoring (Health status)
Presence of animals (Pet info)
Each of these points is worth something to somebody, and that's just the top of the head stuff. It's also all pretty repetitive noises sampled every night, so simple for automated detection and such, so no real reason not to do something like this.
A few years from now, the shocking amount of data these things collect, correlate, corroborate, and index on everybody (not just the owner) is going to come out. It will barley even register on the outrage scale, there will be some congressional hearings, the big data merchants will answer some questions delivered in a stern voice, and nothing will change.
tl;dr=There's no money in NOT listening to you sleep.
We are taking ALL OF THE DATA. Like in the deal.... the deal you agreed to by breathing and blinking twice while your eyes glazed over at the EULA.
In the spirit of full disclosure, we feel we should also make you aware that we'll be rebooting your computer whenever its good for us, and you can trust that we will reset any user changed settings back to whatever we feel is best at that time when we do so.
While we're at it, we are going to go ahead and remove a few features here and there, so that we can sell them back to you when you finally realize that you do indeed need them after all. But don't worry though, we will go ahead and leave the shell services and support files there so they can slowly but surely bog your system down to the point that you can only reset the system back to default and start the whole system over again.
P.S. Thanks for all of that bandwidth we just used downloading that giant update that removes more features than it adds. Your welcome.
Signed,
Your friends at Microsoft, the NSA, and h1b1 "employees" everywhere.
Here's Mine.
In today's world of $20 smartphones and $50 android tablets, lets indoctrinate our children into the chromebook's cloudbased world of for profit data mining, lack user control, and corporate ownership of personal data! Gotta spend this budget on something!
BONUS! This puts a state/Alphabet controlled computer system in every family home in America, and
BONUS! makes the sucker parents accept responsibility for the hardware, and
BONUS! they have no control over the hardware they are responsible for! and
BONUS! Look! the chromebook is now outselling all of the "not issued to every k-12 student in the country" tablets and computers! What a great product!!!!
Do no evil my ass.
I said we didn't need it, we have all the computers we need already.... and my child was excluded from group discussions on the device while in class until I gave them the protection money and banned the fucking MAC.
Such bullshit. There is no reason the students can't use the library, the computer lab, a mobile phone, or their own personal computer to log into the damn cloud-based learning tool. If they really have no access to any of those devices... GIVE THEM A COMPUTER TO KEEP.
Seriously education system, how many students honestly don't have access to a smartphone, personal computer, or a public library? I'm guessing maybe 1 in 10? Give em a damn computer to keep, and you can virtue signal all over the damn place over it. Schools love that shit. Put it in your stupid newsletter, right next to story about why you should tear-down historic statues, and rename fucking holidays.
This chromebook thing really grinds my gears. In my day, it was all Macintosh and Windows in school.... Now every business in the world is addicted to Apple/Microsoft and paying through the damn nose for it. How come they didn't stick with Apple and Windows for education? Maybe ask a history teacher- What happens when you forget what happened last time?
How dare the plebs attempt to actually LEARN something.
This should be spun as a tragedy.
This was a concert? The 'goers already had phones out taking video. I bet there will be hundreds of shaky videos of this event surfacing in the next few hours. Some Quite graphic.
This ones going to be viewed from every angle for months.
they don't even know such a possibility exists.
Bullshit.
I'll happily rent a plot of land to a telecom outfit. I hear the deals they offer are pretty sweet. I'm pretty uninformed, but judging by the folks I've spoken to who have done just that, I don't think availability of land is the issue.
Once Amazon second-hand, or Amazon-thrift, or whatever they eventually choose to call it hit the net, it's over for retail.
I shop in pawn-shops, thrift-stores and craigslist more than ANYTHING else. It's not that I'm broke, I'm just not paying 3x prices for the new plastic smell.
Pawn-shop guys are friendly in a no-bullshit kind of way. No fake smiles, you can actually talk down the prices, most of the time they own the joint, and they don't work on commission. Craigslist usually means a 5 dollar cup of coffee but is worth it most f the time, I've yet to get burned, and you can't beat the price of cloths at a thrift store. I'm wearing a $250.00 leather jacket I picked up for 20 bucks.. I don't care if somebody died in it.
My prime membership pays for itself every Christmas though. Usually with a single gift+free gift wrapping for the girls... they love that shit. Prime has products with free shipping for cheaper than the manufacturer charges +shipping. We actually use the prime video with the firestick too, so that's a plus.
Retail is doomed.
Last time I was at wal-mart was to buy my son a prepaid game card. The cops wrestled a spun out junkie to the ground right in front of the entryway on our way in, and some asshole rear ended my pickup while parked in the parking lot.
PE is a bought title. Your peers and co-workers suffer your input because you're the paid-for scapegoat.
Why do you think dildo sales are breaking records in blue states?
*Citation needed*
The tech will feature both the $30 controller, as well as the $30 million control panel. There will be plenty spares for both, but more of the controller, as it's cheaper, smaller, and easily replaceable at nearly any port in the western world.
I've used more than one piece of military tech that featured a 360 controller as an interface, and have been responsible for it's continued use in theater. It's actually a pretty great idea from a military point of view. Consider maybe one or two guys are fully trained on the ZYX control panel and can effectively use the ZYX system. Damn near the whole of the lower enlisted already understands how a video-game controller works, so the odds of the ZYX system going down on account of a manpower issue issue are very small. Many are also already accustomed to operating a video game controller for long hours with no sleep and all the coffee you can drink.
Source: I was there, man.
Is easy. It's liberating, it's cheaper, and it's safer. You only THINK you can't go without a smartphone.
Personal computers, on the other hand.....
RE_FUCKING_LAX
JUST listen to the pretend things the kids say. While they put pretend bullets in each other. While they crash cars into each other. While they run pretend bankjobs, pretend kidnap each other, pretend knife, shank, and teabag, and sometimes even kill pretend nazis.. We laugh when we pretend beat the money out of the hookers, and pretend murder whole races.
It's pretend shit talk. Just like the rest of the clowns on the internet. None of it is real. It's the fucking INTERNET. That's why the 400lb man in his moms basement pretending to be a 12 year old girl is the joke.
Have some fucking perspective ya wimps. THIS IS NORMAL BEHAVIOR WHILE GAMING.
Don't like it? - Stop paying for the privilege!
To put it another way...
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!" -Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
But somebody has really showed their hand.
What neato tech!
I doubt a western nation would burn such hot shit abilities to screw with a couple diplomats unless there's a bit of Tom Clancy style shit going on in the background.
And who else was checked into the hotel at the time? I bet there's a pretty limited range.. any remote device would have been found already. Search the housekeepers.
Those consumers are free to negotiate such a service contract
You don't really buy that line do you?
Negotiate == Pay wireless carriers asking price or go without.
Everybody has violated the terms of service. That's the point. They are ALL one sided.
This one would start something like-
"By attempting to use our service from outside of our service area, you agree to......"
and
"By using your handset to send or receive digital communications and/or data connections, you agree to......."
and don't forget
"You agree to private arbitration of any dispute, for any reason, under a arbiter of our choosing"
I've often considered writing up my own personal terms of service, and using it against these faceless corps that roll right over everybody with their own. Some would balk, but most of them pay their representatives so little that they are not mentally there anyway and are not going to look over anything I present.
If my $PHYSICALACTION counts as agreeing to an agreement, then their $PHYSICALACTION should count in the same light.
"By tracking my activities and the services I use online, you agree to........"
and
"By accepting legal tender from me in return for your service, you agree to...."
and
"This agreement supersedes all other agreements made in my name, including agreements specifically stating they they also supersede agreements"
Well that was close!
Tinfoil hattery:
This beach was state sponsored. Over the next few weeks, American identities will be stolen en-mass, prompting nationwide credit-freeze. Consumers lose trust in the American system of credit/debt as the fraudulently borrowed moneys and goods leave the country before the freeze. People demand companies are punished, and place blame on the money lenders and banks.
People go back to spending only what they've earned. Retail feels the pinch first. Many go under in the first months. Prices rise, as available supply of goods diminishes (no longer produced on a credit-line, volume drops)
When the money stops moving around, the financial sector of the US economy withers and dies within weeks.
The 1% panic. Crisis follows.
I imagine this is what 21st century warfare looks like.