Hell yeh! The pilot for free (first hit is always free), then 1 / episode to download it over bittorrent from there. I'd pay that in a second. If an episode is crap, so what, it cost 1 and next weeks is almost certainly going to be better. No ads (I don't buy their crap anyway, stop wasting my life with your crap 30 second product spots) and DRM that allows me to watch it as much as I want. Keep the producers churning out stuff that sells, and canning anything that flops.
Really, is this any surprise? They trot out the same rubbish shows year after year, or re-do old rubbish shows with new actors but the same old tired concepts and they wonder why people are turning out.
It's simple enough. Interactivity. In a game I am in control of the action and the main character and I decide their fate; for good or for ill. On TV it's just the same old shit every fucking week...night after night, new actors same plot...christ, it's toilet and it's time it stopped. Is it any wonder we turn to kick-ass games instead of re-runs of Frasier?
Actually, you don't even need to remove the tuner. They can't legally force you to potentially destroy equipment you have purchased. I own a TV and don't pay a TV license since I don't watch broadcast signals. All I had to do was ring up the licensing place and explain I had a TV to watch my DVD collection but I didn't watch broadcasts.
They reserved the right to come and inspect at some time and I said they could inspect all they like. A guy came around, saw I had a TV, signed his form and left. They haven't been back in the 3 years since.
I've noticed that theire release schedule is generally to wait until at least three disclosures need to be made. They then make those disclosures on the next available wednesday. Just check your security notifications if you want proof of this.
The easy solution to this is to run apt-get as a cron job that automatically keeps Joe Sixpack's machine up to date. Expert users could disable it and the general public could just enjoy it's benefits without ever knowing it was there.
I mentioned this before but it bears repeating. The travel documents would be GPG encrypted so not even PlanetWide admins would be able to view their contents. The only security flaw there is the storage of the private key which is typically only protected with triple-des, but even that would take government level computing to break.
Not really going to help me if I'm overseas though is it? e.g. a friend went to Thailand for a year and while he ws there his gun licence expired, his drivers licence expired, and all sorts of important stuff never got taken care of.
You did miss something. PlanetWide is in Australia and I live in Britain. The guy who is launching it is an old friend from school, which is how I know what he has been doing but I'm not travelling right now so I don't need the service.
Yes, at my leisure and by my choice, and without advertising. I love movies so I go to the cinema to see all the better releases, and hire a lot of films to see on DVD. What I don't like about tv are:
7-9 is the only time anything decent shows
Advertising is 25% of the content.
Most TV sitcoms and series are boring and a waste of time
Once you are comfortably seated for an hour watching your favorite show it is too easy to stay there till bedtime.
You have to pay for it in the UK and the 5 shitty channels aren't worth the 110 a year they want.
Cable is massively repetitive, and after a year of it I had seen everything they had on offer 2-3 times
My high school physics teacher once commented on
how many arts and crafts people (nearly everybody)
used to do to express creativity because there
were no tv's to occupy their leisure time.
So much entertainment we view/hear is canned now. I lament the loss of creativity in this world and the homogenisation of culture and entertainment. Whatever happened to families singing around the piano? That's a huge loss to our world and TV is much to blame.
It's funny, but the ads and products look somehow more sinister now than they did before
I've noticed this effect too. It was only after stopping regular reading of magazines for instance that I realised that most of it was Ads (over 50%) and almost all the rest was "reviews" to incite you to buy more products. Whatever happened to acutal content that helped you learn or improve yourself?
You could, but I believe that PlanetWide was intending to GPG encrypt the documents for you to prevent tham being compromised in the case of a break-in. Would you really want your *real* passport scan being protected by Microsoft Passport (Hotmail) which is famous for it's embarrassing break-ins and lack of security.
In the UK, and especially in London, many of us live in flats that have a shared mailslot, and that is how much of my mail was stolen and used to commit credit card fraud - along with 4 of my neighboors. You may be safe enough in a private house, but not if you share a front door.
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Face it, the always-on-the-go world traveler who just might (but I think it unlikely) get anything out of this has other means to deal with it: a personal assistant, express shipments that can catch up to the next hotel he will be at, faxes for some documents, he doesn't need an outside company poking through his business
Lot's of different sorts of people travel a lot and I suspect only a fraction of them could afford a full-time personal assistant - and they are going to be travelling with them so how exactly are they going to be picking up the mail?
This service is for joe schmuck. It provides a convenient way to get your mail both quickly and in physical form slightly later. Most mail that needs a physical response will give you a month or so to do this...and how will you even know if your bill took one week longer to arrive at your door?
As for mail getting "lost" by an outside company, how much do you think get's "lost" by Royal Mail or whatever your mail service is. My personal guess is about 10% based on mail that I was expecting but which never arrived. Couriers are just as bad as our local mail too so this is no solution. And for the record, unless you work for the mail system ALL your mail is handled by an outside company.
How is this different from the sysadmins at thousands of companies who already have access to all your personal details, mailing address, credit card details, etc? What about password files in databases with hundreds of thousands of passwords and peoples mother's maiden name. With that info you can access someones bank details over the phone and possibly even transfer money. Every day all your personal information is out there in someones hands.
That's absolutely useless if you are planning on spending 6 months overseas. The service is targetted at travellers who don't know where they will be at any given time. It's perfect for Australians/NZ/South Africans who are all massive travllers. It's not so great for those pizza guzzling shut-ins who read SlashDot.
If you finished reading the site you would have found out that they will bag the mail and send it on to whatever address you request. This is important for documents that require signing and is a prime reason to use the service.
I'm a WebFlix subscriber and I know of at least three discs that have been stolen on the way to me in the last six months. Worse still, my mail has been stolen from downstairs several times and used for identity theft. Any loser can press a buzzer, walk into your lobby and grab the mail but it takes much more skill to hack a decently secured server.
I know the guys/girls who are doing this and he's a maverick on the security front so I'd trust his servers any day over snail mail.
The other services are bloody handy for travellers too. They can keep scans of your travel documents available should the worst happen. That's gotta be worth the price of admission.
Now why would a dumb comment like this be considered insightful. Of course the service is available across SSL. Did you even check or were you too busy gunning for first post?
You mean you read that article over three years ago....check it's publication date. It is a pretty witty piece, but seriously man, try "weaning off the glass teat" it's not as bad as you might imagine. I use the money I saved from not having cable TV to subscribe to NetFlix instead. Now I just watch what I want, when I want and don't have to see "The Women in Red" for the hundredth time this year (thanks Paramount channel).
Advertising is so amazingly prevelant in our society that there is literally no place I can go except for my own home where I am free from it. This is of course only true if I don't read a magazine (rare now...too many ads), watch TV (cut it off years ago in protest to it's crapness), or listen to the radio (inane shithead DJ's with their mirthless banter and constant commercials...where was the music?).
I now get my news from The Times/The Guardian or online. With pop-up suppression and a caching DNS server that returns 127.0.0.1 for 10,000 of the worst banner sites I am finally able to enjoy some content with only a modicum of advertising.
If you don't like the ads turns off the bloody TV. Play with your kids, talk to your wife, hang out with your mates...just get out there and have a life (even a virtual one on SlashDot is better than passive TV).
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Doubtless it will be whoever it is that sells Moutain Dew..."now how about a refreshing jew" ;-)
Hell yeh! The pilot for free (first hit is always free), then 1 / episode to download it over bittorrent from there. I'd pay that in a second. If an episode is crap, so what, it cost 1 and next weeks is almost certainly going to be better. No ads (I don't buy their crap anyway, stop wasting my life with your crap 30 second product spots) and DRM that allows me to watch it as much as I want. Keep the producers churning out stuff that sells, and canning anything that flops.
It's simple enough. Interactivity. In a game I am in control of the action and the main character and I decide their fate; for good or for ill. On TV it's just the same old shit every fucking week...night after night, new actors same plot...christ, it's toilet and it's time it stopped. Is it any wonder we turn to kick-ass games instead of re-runs of Frasier?
They reserved the right to come and inspect at some time and I said they could inspect all they like. A guy came around, saw I had a TV, signed his form and left. They haven't been back in the 3 years since.
I've noticed that theire release schedule is generally to wait until at least three disclosures need to be made. They then make those disclosures on the next available wednesday. Just check your security notifications if you want proof of this.
The easy solution to this is to run apt-get as a cron job that automatically keeps Joe Sixpack's machine up to date. Expert users could disable it and the general public could just enjoy it's benefits without ever knowing it was there.
Try Postfix the mail server. It's pretty damn secure out of the box and hardly ever needs a patch.
Perhaps you could name some of these self replicating root kits to give your statements some degree of validity?
I mentioned this before but it bears repeating. The travel documents would be GPG encrypted so not even PlanetWide admins would be able to view their contents. The only security flaw there is the storage of the private key which is typically only protected with triple-des, but even that would take government level computing to break.
They would indeed. I wouldn't generally be hiring movies like that while travelling however, and that is the target audience for PlanetWide.
Not really going to help me if I'm overseas though is it? e.g. a friend went to Thailand for a year and while he ws there his gun licence expired, his drivers licence expired, and all sorts of important stuff never got taken care of.
You did miss something. PlanetWide is in Australia and I live in Britain. The guy who is launching it is an old friend from school, which is how I know what he has been doing but I'm not travelling right now so I don't need the service.
Yes, at my leisure and by my choice, and without advertising. I love movies so I go to the cinema to see all the better releases, and hire a lot of films to see on DVD. What I don't like about tv are:
7-9 is the only time anything decent shows
Advertising is 25% of the content.
Most TV sitcoms and series are boring and a waste of time
Once you are comfortably seated for an hour watching your favorite show it is too easy to stay there till bedtime.
You have to pay for it in the UK and the 5 shitty channels aren't worth the 110 a year they want.
Cable is massively repetitive, and after a year of it I had seen everything they had on offer 2-3 times
My high school physics teacher once commented on how many arts and crafts people (nearly everybody) used to do to express creativity because there were no tv's to occupy their leisure time.
So much entertainment we view/hear is canned now. I lament the loss of creativity in this world and the homogenisation of culture and entertainment. Whatever happened to families singing around the piano? That's a huge loss to our world and TV is much to blame.
It's funny, but the ads and products look somehow more sinister now than they did before
I've noticed this effect too. It was only after stopping regular reading of magazines for instance that I realised that most of it was Ads (over 50%) and almost all the rest was "reviews" to incite you to buy more products. Whatever happened to acutal content that helped you learn or improve yourself?
You could, but I believe that PlanetWide was intending to GPG encrypt the documents for you to prevent tham being compromised in the case of a break-in. Would you really want your *real* passport scan being protected by Microsoft Passport (Hotmail) which is famous for it's embarrassing break-ins and lack of security.
In the UK, and especially in London, many of us live in flats that have a shared mailslot, and that is how much of my mail was stolen and used to commit credit card fraud - along with 4 of my neighboors. You may be safe enough in a private house, but not if you share a front door.
Lot's of different sorts of people travel a lot and I suspect only a fraction of them could afford a full-time personal assistant - and they are going to be travelling with them so how exactly are they going to be picking up the mail?
This service is for joe schmuck. It provides a convenient way to get your mail both quickly and in physical form slightly later. Most mail that needs a physical response will give you a month or so to do this...and how will you even know if your bill took one week longer to arrive at your door?
As for mail getting "lost" by an outside company, how much do you think get's "lost" by Royal Mail or whatever your mail service is. My personal guess is about 10% based on mail that I was expecting but which never arrived. Couriers are just as bad as our local mail too so this is no solution. And for the record, unless you work for the mail system ALL your mail is handled by an outside company.
How is this different from the sysadmins at thousands of companies who already have access to all your personal details, mailing address, credit card details, etc? What about password files in databases with hundreds of thousands of passwords and peoples mother's maiden name. With that info you can access someones bank details over the phone and possibly even transfer money. Every day all your personal information is out there in someones hands.
That's absolutely useless if you are planning on spending 6 months overseas. The service is targetted at travellers who don't know where they will be at any given time. It's perfect for Australians/NZ/South Africans who are all massive travllers. It's not so great for those pizza guzzling shut-ins who read SlashDot.
If you finished reading the site you would have found out that they will bag the mail and send it on to whatever address you request. This is important for documents that require signing and is a prime reason to use the service.
I know the guys/girls who are doing this and he's a maverick on the security front so I'd trust his servers any day over snail mail.
The other services are bloody handy for travellers too. They can keep scans of your travel documents available should the worst happen. That's gotta be worth the price of admission.
Now why would a dumb comment like this be considered insightful. Of course the service is available across SSL. Did you even check or were you too busy gunning for first post?
You mean you read that article over three years ago....check it's publication date. It is a pretty witty piece, but seriously man, try "weaning off the glass teat" it's not as bad as you might imagine. I use the money I saved from not having cable TV to subscribe to NetFlix instead. Now I just watch what I want, when I want and don't have to see "The Women in Red" for the hundredth time this year (thanks Paramount channel).
Go to this site ssmedia and enjoy their list of 11,527 prime offenders.
I now get my news from The Times/The Guardian or online. With pop-up suppression and a caching DNS server that returns 127.0.0.1 for 10,000 of the worst banner sites I am finally able to enjoy some content with only a modicum of advertising.
If you don't like the ads turns off the bloody TV. Play with your kids, talk to your wife, hang out with your mates...just get out there and have a life (even a virtual one on SlashDot is better than passive TV).
Cool move. I've also opted out of TV (3 years) and radio (10 years) due to them both sucking big time. I have so much more time these days :-)