> me? in north america? i would absolutely love a mandatory period > between theatrical premiere and 'home video' (or streaming or television)...
This gives me an idea for saving newspapers. Howsabout a mandatory 6 month period between news being printed in a newspaper, versus being broadcast on radio and/or TV or on a webpage [/sarc]
> 'dollar theaters' used to be a thing, used to be very popular. then early-release > dvds and ondemand, piracy and streaming killed the entire segment of that industry.
Horse and buggy used to be very popular. Then Henry Ford's new-fangled invention killed that industry. What's also killing movie theatres is Hollywood greed. For the first few weeks after a release, Hollywood studios now want around 95% of all ticket revenues. Raising ticket prices doesn't help, because the "Hollywood Tax" eats it all up anyways. The only way movie theatres can survive is by...
* exorbitant markups on popcorn/candycocacola/etc. *selling a half-hour of ads before the movie begins.
Discoveries and detailed analysis of recent dinosaur fossils indicate that they were covered with feathers long before flight evolved. And they are now believed to have been warm-blooded. this is confirmed by CT scans of well-preserved fossils (e.g. 600 pound herbivore) showing a 4-chambered heart with *ONE* aorta http://contenidopatrocinado.cn... This is a physiological sign of a warm blooded animal.
So dinosaurs had feathers and were warm blooded. Birds have feathers and are warm blooded. Birds are one group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid. This was probably due to small size and being able to scavenge scarce food right after the impact.
> The major scandal that broke is that Facebook (willingly) > supported a rightwing data mining company, and yet all the > conservative snowflakes can whine about is how oppressed they are.
Carol Davidsen, Obama's digital campaign manager for 2012, about this at a TED TALK in 2015. The interesting part begins at 19 minutes into the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In her own words... === > but we were actually able to ingest the entire social network, social network > of the US that's on Facebook, which is most people. Where this gets > complicated is... that freaked Facebook out... right? So they cut off the > feature. Well the Republicans never built an app to do that. So the data is > out there. You can't take it back... right? The Democrats have this > information, so when they look at a voter file ansd someone comes to them, > they can immediately be like "Oh, here are all the other people they know. And > here are people they can help us persuade, because they're really good friends > with this person".
> The Republicans do not have that information and will not get that > information... right? I'm a democrat, so maybe I could argue that's a great > thing. But really, it's not, in the overall process...right? Like that wasn't > thought all the way through and now there's a disadvantage of information that > to me seems unfair. But I'm not Facebook, so this is the reality. ===
Until the March 2019, 2019 Brexit date, the UK is still part of the EU http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol... EU privacy laws/regulations are much tougher than US. I could easily see charges being laid in the UK over the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. If I were Mark Zuckerberg, I'd avoid setting foot anywhere in the EU. For that matter, I'd probably stay inside the US until things blow over.
> The media and government might well have had a problem if the > Democrats had done the same thing. But they didn't, so they didn't.
Carol Davidsen, Obama's digital campaign manager for 2012 disagrees with you. She spoke about this at a TED TALK in 2015. The interesting part begins at 19 minutes into the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In her own words... === but we were actually able to ingest the entire social network, social network of the US that's on Facebook, which is most people. Where this gets complicated is... that freaked Facebook out... right? So they cut off the feature. Well the Republicans never built an app to do that. So the data is out there. You can't take it back... right? The Democrats have this information, so when they look at a voter file ansd someone comes to them, they can immediately be like "Oh, here are all the other people they know. And here are people they can help us persuade, because they're really good friends with this person".
The Republicans do not have that information and will not get that information... right? I'm a democrat, so maybe I could argue that's a great thing. But really, it's not, in the overall process...right? Like that wasn't thought all the way through and now there's a disadvantage of information that to me seems unfair. But I'm not Facebook, so this is the reality. ===
> No one should ever use their real name on a social media account. Nor should > they allow access to contacts, and other invasive permissions or give a social > media company their phone number. Even better is not to sign up in the first place.
Most smartphones come with facebook built-in to the carrier-bloat, and many of them cannot be rooted/reflashed. The Facebook app will be scraping your contacts list and various metadata *EVEN IF YOU NEVER SIGNED UP*.
Carol Davidsen, Obama's capaign media director, at a 2015 TED TALK! (YES!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... about what the Democrats did in 2012. They pulled in the entire Facebook social network for the USA into their database.
The juiciest part is at 19 minutes into the talk. If you don't want to wade through the first 19 minutes, click on the following link that jumps directly to minute 19 of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... She mentions that Facebook gave the Democrats special treatment "because they were on our side".
>I don't know who the singer is, but I have in my mind > the chorus, "I sold mah soul to the Company Store".
Actually, it's "I owe my soul to the company store". A popular version of "Sixteen Tons" was done by Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1955, hitting #1 on the Billboard charts https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The original was written and sung by Merle Travis in 1946.
Susan Mauldin (BA and MFA in "Music Composition") was the CSO (Chief Security Officer) at Equifax
For bonus points,
* Melinda Gates (Yes, Bill's wife) came up with Microsoft Bob
* Julie Larson-Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... > Julie Larson-Green (born 1962) was the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of the Office > Experience Organization at Microsoft,[1] where she worked 1993 through 2017.[2] > Larson-Green notably managed the implementation of ribbons in Microsoft Office 2007
> Target in Canada didn't fail because of competition. It failed because it > didn't secure it's supply chain and didn't have the products people wanted.
Let's start at the beginning... * Walmart buys bunch of Woolworth/Woolco stores in Canada http://articles.latimes.com/19... * ***KEEPS STORES OPEN*** * this maintains the supply chain and customer base * renovates a store one section at a time, keeping 3/4 of the individual store open at all times * when the "rolling renovation" of the store was finished, a sign company came out, and replaced the "Woolco" sign with a "Walmart", and the store never skipped a beat in the process
* Target buys a bunch of Zellers leases * ***THE IDIOTS SHUT DOWN ALL THE STORES FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR*** * chase away former customers, who now get used to shopping elsewhere * former suppliers either go out of business, or find business customers elsewhere * after an entire year of gutting the old stores, they re-open * now they have to beg all the former customers to come back (didn't work) * and they try to ramp up supply chain for an entire store chain all at once (didn't work)
If you ever want to write a "How *NOT* to expand into another country" book, Target is the obvious case study.
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. Federal prosecutors later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.
He hanged himself while under federal indictment for his alleged computer crimes. Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison. Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself.
> But they con't track my location, calls, emails, and > other personal stuff that could only come from me.
Tell me about your smartphone. Have you rooted it and removed the default Facebook app? If not, it's still digging its tentacles into everything you say/do on the phone. The paraphrase a certain meme... only crAPPy crAPPs can crAPP on your privacy.
> Conspiring with the Russians to overthrow the government > of the USA (hacking the election) appears to meet the > narrow legal definition of Treason, under American law.
> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against > them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
The US is not at war with Russia. Even at the height of the "Cold War", the Rosenbergs were executed for *ESPIONAGE*, not "treason", for handing over US nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
> If Texture is really providing the full content - the same as with a direct subscription - > then I'm mystified. Why don't these publishers offer their subscriptions for > $1/month or so? I'd snap up several of those in a flash. Why would they be > satisfied with possibly substantially less delivered via a service like Texture?
That $1/month/customer would be gross revenue, not net revenue. Try putting up the necessary web servers to handle thousands of paying customers browsing your site. Bandwidth ain't free, and neither are Oracle or SAP CRM applications to keep track of paying customers. Even if you go open source (MariaDB/PostgresSQL) you still need IT staff. And you get a small amount of money for *EVERY* Texture subscriber, even those who don't read your mag. How many of them would subscribe to your online mag directly?
This is similar to pay-TV channels forced onto basic cable. ESPN and BET (Black Entertainment Television) prefer to get a per subscriber fee, rather than handle their own billing. And non-sportsfans wouldn't subcribe to a discretionary ESPN, and most white people wouldn't subscribe to a discretionary BET. Many pay-TV channels would die in a true discretionary a-la-carte model. Think of Texture as the "200-channel-universe" cable bundle of the magazine world.
> And to assume that the cartel in Mexico doesn't have the technical know > how and skill to do this themselves, that they require an American > company in the US to do this for them? Are we to assume the cartel is that > dumb? Disabling the cameras, microphones, gps and installing encryption > software on your phone is not difficult to do. The fact that they setup > their own facilities to pack their product, we are to assume they can't > start their own small facility to secure their phones for their own people?
Android is open source. How difficult is it to do a build after removing the drivers for cameras, microphones, and gps?
> But a la carte wouldn't actually save you money, really. Not in most cases.
Yes, duplicating the entire 500-channel-universe costs more. But if you just want a few channels, it will cost less.
> Most of the channels you get with the basic package are basically > free for the cable company to offer because the channel is ad supported.
In the USA locals demand, and get, "retransmission payments". Not to mention ESPN +ESPNU+ESPN360 is rammed onto basic and costs the cableco a combined $9/month.
> If Vermont asks really nicely, maybe someone can let them join the Atlantic club.
Well, the NHL has Toronto, Ottawa, and Detroit in the "Atlantic Division". https://www.nhl.com/standings/... Mind you, the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence river do drain into the Atlantic Ocean.
> DST is the invention of Nazi Germany where the hope was that they would > save resources by making people get up earlier and have fuller use of daylight.
Obviously didn't do too well in history in school. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary introduced DST (Sommerzeit)) on April 30, 1916. The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National-Socialist German Workers Party) arose after WWI.
BTW, one of the biggest propaganda coups ever by the MSM, was conflating a socialist workers party (and its atrocities) with right-wingers in the public mind. The Nazis were socialists, and nationalized banks, etc.
> Basically everyone should be telling those lazy fuckers to get out of their office and > onto the streets and do real detecting, real investigation because as soon as the > bads guys stop carrying phones when they do their planning, the FBI will be so out of > practice, they wont be able to do anything but cry about how they need to spy on everyone.
That was one reason it took the USA so long to track down Osama bin Laden. He stopped using cellphones, and did communications via human couriers.
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> me? in north america? i would absolutely love a mandatory period
> between theatrical premiere and 'home video' (or streaming or television)...
This gives me an idea for saving newspapers. Howsabout a mandatory 6 month period between news being printed in a newspaper, versus being broadcast on radio and/or TV or on a webpage [/sarc]
> 'dollar theaters' used to be a thing, used to be very popular. then early-release
> dvds and ondemand, piracy and streaming killed the entire segment of that industry.
Horse and buggy used to be very popular. Then Henry Ford's new-fangled invention killed that industry. What's also killing movie theatres is Hollywood greed. For the first few weeks after a release, Hollywood studios now want around 95% of all ticket revenues. Raising ticket prices doesn't help, because the "Hollywood Tax" eats it all up anyways. The only way movie theatres can survive is by...
* exorbitant markups on popcorn/candycocacola/etc.
*selling a half-hour of ads before the movie begins.
N/T
This includes 1.5 tonne monstrosities like Yutyrannus Huali, (related to Tyranosaurous Rex) https://news.nationalgeographi...
Discoveries and detailed analysis of recent dinosaur fossils indicate that they were covered with feathers long before flight evolved. And they are now believed to have been warm-blooded. this is confirmed by CT scans of well-preserved fossils (e.g. 600 pound herbivore) showing a 4-chambered heart with *ONE* aorta http://contenidopatrocinado.cn... This is a physiological sign of a warm blooded animal.
So dinosaurs had feathers and were warm blooded. Birds have feathers and are warm blooded. Birds are one group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid. This was probably due to small size and being able to scavenge scarce food right after the impact.
> The major scandal that broke is that Facebook (willingly)
> supported a rightwing data mining company, and yet all the
> conservative snowflakes can whine about is how oppressed they are.
Carol Davidsen, Obama's digital campaign manager for 2012, about this at a TED TALK in 2015. The interesting part begins at 19 minutes into the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In her own words...
===
> but we were actually able to ingest the entire social network, social network
> of the US that's on Facebook, which is most people. Where this gets
> complicated is... that freaked Facebook out... right? So they cut off the
> feature. Well the Republicans never built an app to do that. So the data is
> out there. You can't take it back... right? The Democrats have this
> information, so when they look at a voter file ansd someone comes to them,
> they can immediately be like "Oh, here are all the other people they know. And
> here are people they can help us persuade, because they're really good friends
> with this person".
> The Republicans do not have that information and will not get that
> information... right? I'm a democrat, so maybe I could argue that's a great
> thing. But really, it's not, in the overall process...right? Like that wasn't
> thought all the way through and now there's a disadvantage of information that
> to me seems unfair. But I'm not Facebook, so this is the reality.
===
> What is an "SNS"?
I'd guess it's a typo for "SSN", i.e. Social Security Number.
Google Home Can Now Control Your Bluetooth Speakers
s/r Bluetooth Speakers//
Google Home Can Now Control You
> Apparently it isn't the units under test, it appears to be new phones in boxes
Wrap the new phones in aluminum foil, FFS.
Until the March 2019, 2019 Brexit date, the UK is still part of the EU http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol... EU privacy laws/regulations are much tougher than US. I could easily see charges being laid in the UK over the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. If I were Mark Zuckerberg, I'd avoid setting foot anywhere in the EU. For that matter, I'd probably stay inside the US until things blow over.
> Doesn't the Real APK require that you do everything with hosts files?
Only APKy appy APK app can APK apps!
> So... Netflix has been canned from the festival?
Cannes cans Netflix?
> The media and government might well have had a problem if the
> Democrats had done the same thing. But they didn't, so they didn't.
Carol Davidsen, Obama's digital campaign manager for 2012 disagrees with you. She spoke about this at a TED TALK in 2015. The interesting part begins at 19 minutes into the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In her own words...
===
but we were actually able to ingest the entire social network, social network of the US that's on Facebook, which is most people. Where this gets complicated is... that freaked Facebook out... right? So they cut off the feature. Well the Republicans never built an app to do that. So the data is out there. You can't take it back... right? The Democrats have this information, so when they look at a voter file ansd someone comes to them, they can immediately be like "Oh, here are all the other people they know. And here are people they can help us persuade, because they're really good friends with this person".
The Republicans do not have that information and will not get that information... right? I'm a democrat, so maybe I could argue that's a great thing. But really, it's not, in the overall process...right? Like that wasn't thought all the way through and now there's a disadvantage of information that to me seems unfair. But I'm not Facebook, so this is the reality.
===
> No one should ever use their real name on a social media account. Nor should
> they allow access to contacts, and other invasive permissions or give a social
> media company their phone number. Even better is not to sign up in the first place.
Most smartphones come with facebook built-in to the carrier-bloat, and many of them cannot be rooted/reflashed. The Facebook app will be scraping your contacts list and various metadata *EVEN IF YOU NEVER SIGNED UP*.
Carol Davidsen, Obama's capaign media director, at a 2015 TED TALK! (YES!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... about what the Democrats did in 2012. They pulled in the entire Facebook social network for the USA into their database.
The juiciest part is at 19 minutes into the talk. If you don't want to wade through the first 19 minutes, click on the following link that jumps directly to minute 19 of the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... She mentions that Facebook gave the Democrats special treatment "because they were on our side".
>I don't know who the singer is, but I have in my mind
> the chorus, "I sold mah soul to the Company Store".
Actually, it's "I owe my soul to the company store". A popular version of "Sixteen Tons" was done by Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1955, hitting #1 on the Billboard charts https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The original was written and sung by Merle Travis in 1946.
Marissa Mayer ran Yahoo into the ground.
Meg Whitman ran HP into the ground.
Susan Mauldin (BA and MFA in "Music Composition") was the CSO (Chief Security Officer) at Equifax
For bonus points,
* Melinda Gates (Yes, Bill's wife) came up with Microsoft Bob
* Julie Larson-Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> Julie Larson-Green (born 1962) was the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of the Office
> Experience Organization at Microsoft,[1] where she worked 1993 through 2017.[2]
> Larson-Green notably managed the implementation of ribbons in Microsoft Office 2007
> Target in Canada didn't fail because of competition. It failed because it
> didn't secure it's supply chain and didn't have the products people wanted.
Let's start at the beginning...
* Walmart buys bunch of Woolworth/Woolco stores in Canada http://articles.latimes.com/19...
* ***KEEPS STORES OPEN***
* this maintains the supply chain and customer base
* renovates a store one section at a time, keeping 3/4 of the individual store open at all times
* when the "rolling renovation" of the store was finished, a sign company came out, and replaced the "Woolco" sign with a "Walmart", and the store never skipped a beat in the process
* Target buys a bunch of Zellers leases
* ***THE IDIOTS SHUT DOWN ALL THE STORES FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR***
* chase away former customers, who now get used to shopping elsewhere
* former suppliers either go out of business, or find business customers elsewhere
* after an entire year of gutting the old stores, they re-open
* now they have to beg all the former customers to come back (didn't work)
* and they try to ramp up supply chain for an entire store chain all at once (didn't work)
If you ever want to write a "How *NOT* to expand into another country" book, Target is the obvious case study.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. Federal prosecutors later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.
He hanged himself while under federal indictment for his alleged computer crimes. Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison. Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself.
> Some of us don't use Facebook.
Me neither, but...
> But they con't track my location, calls, emails, and
> other personal stuff that could only come from me.
Tell me about your smartphone. Have you rooted it and removed the default Facebook app? If not, it's still digging its tentacles into everything you say/do on the phone. The paraphrase a certain meme... only crAPPy crAPPs can crAPP on your privacy.
> Conspiring with the Russians to overthrow the government
> of the USA (hacking the election) appears to meet the
> narrow legal definition of Treason, under American law.
Wrong wrong wrong. Please RTFC (C == Constitution) https://www.law.cornell.edu/co... Article 3; section 3
> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against
> them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
The US is not at war with Russia. Even at the height of the "Cold War", the Rosenbergs were executed for *ESPIONAGE*, not "treason", for handing over US nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
> If Texture is really providing the full content - the same as with a direct subscription -
> then I'm mystified. Why don't these publishers offer their subscriptions for
> $1/month or so? I'd snap up several of those in a flash. Why would they be
> satisfied with possibly substantially less delivered via a service like Texture?
That $1/month/customer would be gross revenue, not net revenue. Try putting up the necessary web servers to handle thousands of paying customers browsing your site. Bandwidth ain't free, and neither are Oracle or SAP CRM applications to keep track of paying customers. Even if you go open source (MariaDB/PostgresSQL) you still need IT staff. And you get a small amount of money for *EVERY* Texture subscriber, even those who don't read your mag. How many of them would subscribe to your online mag directly?
This is similar to pay-TV channels forced onto basic cable. ESPN and BET (Black Entertainment Television) prefer to get a per subscriber fee, rather than handle their own billing. And non-sportsfans wouldn't subcribe to a discretionary ESPN, and most white people wouldn't subscribe to a discretionary BET. Many pay-TV channels would die in a true discretionary a-la-carte model. Think of Texture as the "200-channel-universe" cable bundle of the magazine world.
> And to assume that the cartel in Mexico doesn't have the technical know
> how and skill to do this themselves, that they require an American
> company in the US to do this for them? Are we to assume the cartel is that
> dumb? Disabling the cameras, microphones, gps and installing encryption
> software on your phone is not difficult to do. The fact that they setup
> their own facilities to pack their product, we are to assume they can't
> start their own small facility to secure their phones for their own people?
Android is open source. How difficult is it to do a build after removing the drivers for cameras, microphones, and gps?
> But a la carte wouldn't actually save you money, really. Not in most cases.
Yes, duplicating the entire 500-channel-universe costs more. But if you just want a few channels, it will cost less.
> Most of the channels you get with the basic package are basically
> free for the cable company to offer because the channel is ad supported.
In the USA locals demand, and get, "retransmission payments". Not to mention ESPN +ESPNU+ESPN360 is rammed onto basic and costs the cableco a combined $9/month.
> If Vermont asks really nicely, maybe someone can let them join the Atlantic club.
Well, the NHL has Toronto, Ottawa, and Detroit in the "Atlantic Division". https://www.nhl.com/standings/... Mind you, the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence river do drain into the Atlantic Ocean.
> DST is the invention of Nazi Germany where the hope was that they would
> save resources by making people get up earlier and have fuller use of daylight.
Obviously didn't do too well in history in school. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary introduced DST (Sommerzeit)) on April 30, 1916. The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National-Socialist German Workers Party) arose after WWI.
BTW, one of the biggest propaganda coups ever by the MSM, was conflating a socialist workers party (and its atrocities) with right-wingers in the public mind. The Nazis were socialists, and nationalized banks, etc.
> Basically everyone should be telling those lazy fuckers to get out of their office and
> onto the streets and do real detecting, real investigation because as soon as the
> bads guys stop carrying phones when they do their planning, the FBI will be so out of
> practice, they wont be able to do anything but cry about how they need to spy on everyone.
That was one reason it took the USA so long to track down Osama bin Laden. He stopped using cellphones, and did communications via human couriers.