Given the current state of journalism, if a mail, forged or not, makes noise, makes people angry or afraid or sad, thus making their brain more receptive towards advertising, the content will be published and deontology be damned.
"Your" advice has already been put in practice by lots of people for many years now. TVs are selling brain availability to announcers. Like for facebook, the viewer is the product. To escape advertising, many people have simply cut themselves from TV (as well as "people" crap etc) Recently, TV has been in decline (I'm not sure if it covers my area, or the whole world) as the "younger" generation increasingly sees no interest in a non-interactive media.
Why, thank you. But your conclusions are a bit hasty. You are presuming both to know the media companies that are pushing this, and that the movies I like are made by them.
Instead of paying a fee for a global heap of crap, I only pay for the few select ones that are worth it. So you could say now I only support the select few good quality products, which is largely deserved.
As an European, when my VPN finally failed a few months ago, I simply cancelled Netflix.
Since then, I've spent the same level of money I used to pour into Netflix + VPN to buy Blu-Rays of recent good movies (a pretty rare occurrence per year, given the abysmal quality of movies). On the whole, I'm pretty happy with the change.
As for TV series, it's not like if there were many "The Shield", "Breaking bad" or other gems of that level around, so I expect the investment to be pretty low.
In the end it's a win, so I don't plan to go back, ever.
There is no real french equivalent of "I see what you did there". (a.k.a. : saying in one expression you a witty remark) Perhaps one could say "joli" (nice), or "bien dit" (well said) maybe with a smiley next to it... but it does not feel natural and they do not require more than 7 bits per character. Most french-speaking kids would probably end up using the english expression without a clue of how to write it nor its exact meaning.
I've stopped watching TV about 22 years ago. When you have books and video-games,... who needs biased, or simply wrong "news", sports, bad shows and heaps of advertising ? Besides, even DVDs and BluRays are cheaper than before, for the few select TV shows that are worth it (Breaking Bad,...)
First, Mars, then Proxima Centauri (I heard the weather is nice there, at this time of year)...or wherever. Somewhere in between, if time allows, I'm sure a lot of people are interested to see a working Hyperloop.
By the way. How comes it's "March" for the month, but "Mars" for the planet and the god ?
This is an appreciated move, that will benefit everyone in the end. Other Co-Dec developers will improve their work on the sample, and content providers will benefit from the resulting improved quality and/or spared bandwidth. And of course, at the end of the chain, consumers will enjoy the improvements.
Too bad they were so efficient with their VPN ban.
Ha ha ha ha ha. People hate advertising. Ad blockers allow people to endure some services. Without them, the choice between being harassed or not using the service seems trivial.
Bar a couple of exceptions, any service that asked me to disable my adblocker just got me closing the page and looking for the next choice.
It basically means "a normal user", and up to a minute ago I didn't realise it was a French expression (Utilisateur Lambda), or so it seems. An accurate definition would be "a person who uses a system like the majority of its users without looking for advanced features". It was first learned by yours truly trough an english native speaker, hence the confusion.
I just heard about a couple of friends who got rid of W10 by replacing it by a "Linux" (That's all I got for the OS name). The husband is a bit above the average computer level of a lambda guy in his 30ies. The wife's skills are around "reading mail, using word and surfing the web". Both are happy with the new OS.
Also, this week-end I noticed that a couple of older (60+?) acquaintances started using an Apple computer.
Up to now, only some the geeks around me were kicking W10 out for an alternative.
I find the fact that at least some "normal" people are also moving away both surprising and heartwarming.
I'm in the process of reinstalling my main computer with 7 (professionnal). I would put a Linux on it if it were not for video games I still plan to start some day. (manjaro-openrc : I'd rather not be plagued by systemd) As soon as a wine/kvm can properly run games, I'll keep only a windows as a virtual machine just for Steam, GoG (and even Origin, as I was foolish enough to buy a handful on that shop). The last change on the Windows 10 pro was the proverbial last straw. It's borderline criminal.
Linux is 'only' a kernel. There are also the BSDs and Hurd (which is suprisingly functional, it runs at least one of the available nameserver daemons fine).
You have to trust the distribution and for that you have to look at what it's made of.
Just imagine that some distributions were packaging some tentacular piece of software (and buggy, of course, as free-of-bug is next to impossible in any complex system). It would be very convenient and relatively easy to hide something smelly there.
Thankfully a good deal of Linux distributions are following the tenants "do one thing and do it well", which helps keeping them safe.
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I thought everybody know emails can be forged.
Given the current state of journalism, if a mail, forged or not, makes noise, makes people angry or afraid or sad, thus making their brain more receptive towards advertising, the content will be published and deontology be damned.
It looks like we are zeroing on making the current standards useless ...
It looks like the best choice is to get non-targeted ads that will be dropped by the various ad-blockers.
Thanks genius. ... wait.
Oh
Sure,
I'm happy to have encouraged, among other similar movies, "Falling Sky Entertainment" for "The Man from Earth".
"Your" advice has already been put in practice by lots of people for many years now.
TVs are selling brain availability to announcers. Like for facebook, the viewer is the product.
To escape advertising, many people have simply cut themselves from TV (as well as "people" crap etc)
Recently, TV has been in decline (I'm not sure if it covers my area, or the whole world) as the "younger" generation increasingly sees no interest in a non-interactive media.
Why, thank you. But your conclusions are a bit hasty. You are presuming both to know the media companies that are pushing this, and that the movies I like are made by them.
Instead of paying a fee for a global heap of crap, I only pay for the few select ones that are worth it.
So you could say now I only support the select few good quality products, which is largely deserved.
As an European, when my VPN finally failed a few months ago, I simply cancelled Netflix.
Since then, I've spent the same level of money I used to pour into Netflix + VPN to buy Blu-Rays of recent good movies (a pretty rare occurrence per year, given the abysmal quality of movies). On the whole, I'm pretty happy with the change.
As for TV series, it's not like if there were many "The Shield", "Breaking bad" or other gems of that level around, so I expect the investment to be pretty low.
In the end it's a win, so I don't plan to go back, ever.
So, thanks Netflix for making me realise this.
There is no real french equivalent of "I see what you did there". (a.k.a. : saying in one expression you a witty remark) ... but it does not feel natural and they do not require more than 7 bits per character.
Perhaps one could say "joli" (nice), or "bien dit" (well said) maybe with a smiley next to it
Most french-speaking kids would probably end up using the english expression without a clue of how to write it nor its exact meaning.
I've stopped watching TV about 22 years ago. ... who needs biased, or simply wrong "news", sports, bad shows and heaps of advertising ? ...)
When you have books and video-games,
Besides, even DVDs and BluRays are cheaper than before, for the few select TV shows that are worth it (Breaking Bad,
Tell me about it.
Thanks ^_^
Why ? It will be hugely different from version 9 (or so).
First, Mars, then Proxima Centauri (I heard the weather is nice there, at this time of year) ...or wherever.
Somewhere in between, if time allows, I'm sure a lot of people are interested to see a working Hyperloop.
By the way. How comes it's "March" for the month, but "Mars" for the planet and the god ?
This is an appreciated move, that will benefit everyone in the end.
Other Co-Dec developers will improve their work on the sample, and content providers will benefit from the resulting improved quality and/or spared bandwidth.
And of course, at the end of the chain, consumers will enjoy the improvements.
Too bad they were so efficient with their VPN ban.
I was thinking of a "real" firewall at the exit point, and on a private user point of view : the modem.
Exaclty.
I wonder if someone has all the IPs used for updates, so it can be block without a fault at the firewall (not the "firewall" in windows)
I've heard this as one of the explanations for the Fermi paradox for years.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
People hate advertising.
Ad blockers allow people to endure some services. Without them, the choice between being harassed or not using the service seems trivial.
Bar a couple of exceptions, any service that asked me to disable my adblocker just got me closing the page and looking for the next choice.
It basically means "a normal user", and up to a minute ago I didn't realise it was a French expression (Utilisateur Lambda), or so it seems.
An accurate definition would be "a person who uses a system like the majority of its users without looking for advanced features".
It was first learned by yours truly trough an english native speaker, hence the confusion.
I just heard about a couple of friends who got rid of W10 by replacing it by a "Linux" (That's all I got for the OS name).
The husband is a bit above the average computer level of a lambda guy in his 30ies.
The wife's skills are around "reading mail, using word and surfing the web".
Both are happy with the new OS.
Also, this week-end I noticed that a couple of older (60+?) acquaintances started using an Apple computer.
Up to now, only some the geeks around me were kicking W10 out for an alternative.
I find the fact that at least some "normal" people are also moving away both surprising and heartwarming.
I'm in the process of reinstalling my main computer with 7 (professionnal).
I would put a Linux on it if it were not for video games I still plan to start some day. (manjaro-openrc : I'd rather not be plagued by systemd)
As soon as a wine/kvm can properly run games, I'll keep only a windows as a virtual machine just for Steam, GoG (and even Origin, as I was foolish enough to buy a handful on that shop).
The last change on the Windows 10 pro was the proverbial last straw. It's borderline criminal.
That's exacly the plan.
Linux is 'only' a kernel. There are also the BSDs and Hurd (which is suprisingly functional, it runs at least one of the available nameserver daemons fine).
You have to trust the distribution and for that you have to look at what it's made of.
Just imagine that some distributions were packaging some tentacular piece of software (and buggy, of course, as free-of-bug is next to impossible in any complex system). It would be very convenient and relatively easy to hide something smelly there.
Thankfully a good deal of Linux distributions are following the tenants "do one thing and do it well", which helps keeping them safe.
Thanks for the warning.
Don't ask yourself if you are paranoid.
Ask yourself if you are paranoid enough.
no