One thing that people aren't really talking about with this story but which I find really interesting, is they are going to accept all sorts of commentary tracks, not just riff-style comedy. This opens up lots of possibilities; self-styled film aficionados and fansite crews can do "standard" commentary tracks for their favorites, people can record alternative scripts to existing films in the vein of "What's Up Tiger Lily" or "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist," and more. Pretty much any new content based on putting new sound onto an existing video can be put out there.
Create a PAL version so our friends abroad can watch your iRiff. Using Audacity, (see above), go to Effects->Change Tempo and enter 4.271% Save this as your PAL version.
Yeah, well, problem is they are subsidizing the retail value of the OS with hardware. You get OS X for $129 because they are more interested in selling hardware. Take that away and they become another MS and the cost of the OS jumps. It also becomes big bloated mess like Windows (and Linux, sorry) because they have to support unlimited permutations of hardware.
If indeed they are well subsidizing the retail value of the OS with hardware, it still shouldn't be anyone else's problem but theirs. It's their job to adapt their business model to the open market, it is not the market's job to adapt to their business model.
Of course they shouldn't have to support anyone's hardware but their own. However, if I build a completely original box in my garage which can run OSX, and I sell and support it, why should Apple be allowed to shut me down?
Same here. Some of my dearest friendships started on Usenet groups, and many of my major life decisions through my teens and 20s were assisted or at least affected by the communities built therein. At the risk of diving head-first into "get off my lawn" territory, Usenet was my online social network long before there were any websites using that description.
The level of free-content zealotry that has infected the Wikimedia Foundation has done nothing but drive contributors away and remove useful content from their projects. They're a bunch of idiots shooting themselves in the foot.
Youtube's business model (such as it is) revolves around keeping you coming back to their site to watch the videos, and view the associated ads while letting them track what you're watching. They are most certainly not eager to help you make them less money y letting you easily download. You may as well ask why your local cinema doesn't give you a copy of the DVD with your movie ticket.
One thing I love about reading old Usenet posts is how innocent and safe it all seemed before the Internet boom of the 1990s. People often had their full names and even phone numbers in their sigs. You could sign into a worldwide network and still be trading messages in your own little clique of a dozen or so people who shared an interest.
Then Eternal Spetember happened, and chased most of the decent discussion to quieter and more moderated email lists and web forums.
Usenet's current status as a haven for spam and pirated binar^H^H^H NOTHING ELSE is a far cry from what it used to mean to a lot of people.
Are we all supposed to base our decisions on what some genius who can't even respond to a question properly thinks?
Ummm... no? No, wait, yes! No meaning yes! Damn it... er, pass?
Of course there is a higher chance of people making prank calls after watching this - they now have an audience. The challenge is there to get the most views, by making the most funny and ridiculous call, with which they can brag to their friends about.
I still have to disagree on this. My point is these people have always had an audience. The fact that the audience is now on Youtube doesn't mean there was no audience before, and the motivations for people like that haven't changed much over the years. Youtube is not some magic new thing that causes pranks, it's just one of the current methods of distribution, and it will be until something else comes along to replace it someday.
Most people have better things to do than answer prank calls, that is not why it is bad to call emergency operators. It is because you are taking away resources from a service which could save someones life.
) The fact that it is technically doable doesn't mean that folks will work around the caller id. The majority of folks do stuff like this on a spur of the moment impulse. Most of them aren't thinking far enough ahead to try this.
I do wonder whether it's actually the majority, but at any rate those people will be found and punished for this particular crime, while others won't.
I could be wrong on this, but I believe the police (in the US anyhow) won't be spoofed. I believe there is another protocol in place where they can actually record where you are calling from.
It's quite possible to spoof 911, from complex technical workarounds I won't go into to simply beige-boxing someone else's line. I don't endorse such actions or course, but that doesn't make it any less technically possible.
People have no respect for anyone any more, themselves included. If they want them to stop they should hit them where it hurts, in their wallet. Even a small $50 fine for a non-emergency 999/911 call would be enough to deter pranksters.
I agree that 999/911/etc. pranksters deserve some sort of punishment, but the fact of the matter is it's easy enough to avoid having such calls traced back to you that anyone can do it with little to no hassle. With a little Googling and effort anyone can spoof their phone number, or even simply use a public phone that doesn't have a camera pointed at it.
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Of the four water bears to survive the radiation in space, one is now invisible, one is really stretchy, one is on fire, and one is made of rocks.
I would think it highly likely that there are certain objects in space that the United States Strategic Command would prefer not to talk about.
A simple long skirt or coat would also do a good job of keeping your gait out of your shadow.
Once again, I'm forced to live with that old Rufus over my head.
I'm flattered and everything, but I'm not sure I really lead the sort of life that's all that worth making an MMO about.
Ever since seeng this I don't trust that one character, Patch.
One thing that people aren't really talking about with this story but which I find really interesting, is they are going to accept all sorts of commentary tracks, not just riff-style comedy. This opens up lots of possibilities; self-styled film aficionados and fansite crews can do "standard" commentary tracks for their favorites, people can record alternative scripts to existing films in the vein of "What's Up Tiger Lily" or "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist," and more. Pretty much any new content based on putting new sound onto an existing video can be put out there.
Create a PAL version so our friends abroad can watch your iRiff. Using Audacity, (see above), go to Effects->Change Tempo and enter 4.271% Save this as your PAL version.
Just to head off the "who was first" pissing contests, Rifftrax started in early 2006, while Cinematic Titanic started in late 2007.
Get off my lawn!
Just as synthesizers were the end of "real" musicians, photography was the end of "real" paintings, etc.
Yeah, well, problem is they are subsidizing the retail value of the OS with hardware. You get OS X for $129 because they are more interested in selling hardware. Take that away and they become another MS and the cost of the OS jumps. It also becomes big bloated mess like Windows (and Linux, sorry) because they have to support unlimited permutations of hardware.
If indeed they are well subsidizing the retail value of the OS with hardware, it still shouldn't be anyone else's problem but theirs. It's their job to adapt their business model to the open market, it is not the market's job to adapt to their business model.
Of course they shouldn't have to support anyone's hardware but their own. However, if I build a completely original box in my garage which can run OSX, and I sell and support it, why should Apple be allowed to shut me down?
Unlike rats, you can't eat a robot.
Maybe you can't.
Soon this guy will be able to get rid of that Delco air filter on his face.
...you should see his espresso machine.
I'm also a bit curious about the "harmless nitrates" that will be washed into the ground every time it rains.
Wake me when the Thunderdome is an Olympic sport.
Same here. Some of my dearest friendships started on Usenet groups, and many of my major life decisions through my teens and 20s were assisted or at least affected by the communities built therein. At the risk of diving head-first into "get off my lawn" territory, Usenet was my online social network long before there were any websites using that description.
The level of free-content zealotry that has infected the Wikimedia Foundation has done nothing but drive contributors away and remove useful content from their projects. They're a bunch of idiots shooting themselves in the foot.
How is "free-content zealotry" in an organization which exists solely for the purpose of developing free libraries of free content a bad thing?
Youtube's business model (such as it is) revolves around keeping you coming back to their site to watch the videos, and view the associated ads while letting them track what you're watching. They are most certainly not eager to help you make them less money y letting you easily download. You may as well ask why your local cinema doesn't give you a copy of the DVD with your movie ticket.
One thing I love about reading old Usenet posts is how innocent and safe it all seemed before the Internet boom of the 1990s. People often had their full names and even phone numbers in their sigs. You could sign into a worldwide network and still be trading messages in your own little clique of a dozen or so people who shared an interest.
Then Eternal Spetember happened, and chased most of the decent discussion to quieter and more moderated email lists and web forums.
Usenet's current status as a haven for spam and pirated binar^H^H^H NOTHING ELSE is a far cry from what it used to mean to a lot of people.
Are we all supposed to base our decisions on what some genius who can't even respond to a question properly thinks?
Ummm... no? No, wait, yes! No meaning yes! Damn it... er, pass?
Of course there is a higher chance of people making prank calls after watching this - they now have an audience. The challenge is there to get the most views, by making the most funny and ridiculous call, with which they can brag to their friends about.
I still have to disagree on this. My point is these people have always had an audience. The fact that the audience is now on Youtube doesn't mean there was no audience before, and the motivations for people like that haven't changed much over the years. Youtube is not some magic new thing that causes pranks, it's just one of the current methods of distribution, and it will be until something else comes along to replace it someday.
Most people have better things to do than answer prank calls, that is not why it is bad to call emergency operators. It is because you are taking away resources from a service which could save someones life.
Well said.
A beige box doesn't spoof anything.
It "spoofs" the party responsible for the call.
) The fact that it is technically doable doesn't mean that folks will work around the caller id. The majority of folks do stuff like this on a spur of the moment impulse. Most of them aren't thinking far enough ahead to try this.
I do wonder whether it's actually the majority, but at any rate those people will be found and punished for this particular crime, while others won't.
I could be wrong on this, but I believe the police (in the US anyhow) won't be spoofed. I believe there is another protocol in place where they can actually record where you are calling from.
It's quite possible to spoof 911, from complex technical workarounds I won't go into to simply beige-boxing someone else's line. I don't endorse such actions or course, but that doesn't make it any less technically possible.
People have no respect for anyone any more, themselves included. If they want them to stop they should hit them where it hurts, in their wallet. Even a small $50 fine for a non-emergency 999/911 call would be enough to deter pranksters.
I agree that 999/911/etc. pranksters deserve some sort of punishment, but the fact of the matter is it's easy enough to avoid having such calls traced back to you that anyone can do it with little to no hassle. With a little Googling and effort anyone can spoof their phone number, or even simply use a public phone that doesn't have a camera pointed at it.