We're not the target audience. Average home users probably aren't reading/., but they just might be BBC readers. Good "welcome to the real Internet" articles need to get out into the mainstream more, and I don't mean the standard "OMG INTERNETS BE AFARIAD OF PRON AND PEDOS AND ID THIEVES AND VIRUSESES IT GOING TO KILL YOU ALLS" that modern "news" seems to favor.
Why would this be a problem to anyone other than people involved with the Nielsen Media Research firm? Their business model worked for ages, but it's becoming less and less relevant due to the technological environment.
Piracy aside, producers have a pretty good idea how many DVDs they're selling, how many people are hitting up their authorized web streams, and how many digital video purchases are being made over iTunes and whatnot.
I just don't think we are going to be living in an age where the content providers have to pay Nielsen to sell their own statistics back to them for much longer.
Insert the standard grumbling about government mismanagement and IT provided by the lowest bidder, but this is really extra sad. If people like me can keep bots off our grandmothers' computers for the low, low price of a smile, a hug, and some melted sweets which date back to the Carter administration, why can't the people who built the damn Internet manage?
I think I saw the term used by phishers themselves on the cheezy "underground" sites or BBSes they had in the early 1990s, while I've only seen the mass media use it in the past five years or so.
The term was originally coined back in the AOL days because the scammer was "fishing" for victims, casting out a ton of bait (as in fake msgs/emails/IMs) and hoping someone bit. The "ph" came about as the replacement for the "f" under standard l337-speak rules.
How about a gunshot to the head from the crackhead who wants your wallet? Would that change your decision?
Excellent question, AC.
I'm drifting off topic a bit, but your average mugger isn't a murderer, they just want to rob you and split. Any weapons are for intimidation, to force you into quickly giving up what's in your pockets. At worst you just lose your cash and cards, but even the most savvy mugger won't have much of a shot at your 401K or your kids' college funds. At best, you can possibly defend yourself, or get away. So, I feel you generally have more of a fighting chance in an encounter with a violent criminal on the street than you do against a board of directors pushing a few buttons in an illegal manner.
Jail is supposedly for the rehabilitation of criminals too violent to be safe in society.
That's not the only reason for jail. Violent crime isn't the only crime. It could even be argued that it's not the most dangerous or damaging type of crime. Enron didn't throw a single punch, but thousands of people are still recovering today from losing their life savings to the company's criminal actions.
Frankly, if I had to choose between being punched in the face by a crackhead who wants my wallet, or watching a few thousand people lose everything they had to corporate crime, I'll take the punch. Both scenarios can be traced to the actions of one or two people deciding to do something naughty. Which is "worse?"
Manuel the drug dealer screws up the lives of a few people on his route, people who made the choice to get involved with his drugs in the first place. Patricia the ex-Chairman had the opportunity to screw up the thousands of lives involved with her megacorp, people who just want to get a day's work done and didn't sign up for the "let's screw with people's personal lives" game she seems to have been playing.
Stewart sounds like a cynical libertarian to me, not a liberal. He'll readily decry the democrats when they go against his own idea of right and wrong, or when they act spineless, or when they suck up to the neo-cons. He'd fit right in on/., which may explain his popularity here.
It's worth noting that when people talk about "John Stewart's" political bent on the show, they're really talking about the general consensus of the show's staff of comedy writers which includes Stewart, not just the man himself. It's obviously not as far off as Colbert the man versus Colbert the character, but there's a distinction nonetheless.
"Now, I know this is hard for you to talk about, so I brought this to help.. Show me on the doll where the bad user interface failed to make available options navigable."
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Last time I spent that much on a keyboard, it was the 1980s and there was a VIC-20 built into it.
We're not the target audience. Average home users probably aren't reading /., but they just might be BBC readers. Good "welcome to the real Internet" articles need to get out into the mainstream more, and I don't mean the standard "OMG INTERNETS BE AFARIAD OF PRON AND PEDOS AND ID THIEVES AND VIRUSESES IT GOING TO KILL YOU ALLS" that modern "news" seems to favor.
Sigh. Back to the drawing board...
Why would this be a problem to anyone other than people involved with the Nielsen Media Research firm? Their business model worked for ages, but it's becoming less and less relevant due to the technological environment.
Piracy aside, producers have a pretty good idea how many DVDs they're selling, how many people are hitting up their authorized web streams, and how many digital video purchases are being made over iTunes and whatnot.
I just don't think we are going to be living in an age where the content providers have to pay Nielsen to sell their own statistics back to them for much longer.
I have perfected the perfect movie recommendation mechanism. It's called a "friend."
I hold a patent on the idea, and I've copyrighted the statement "hey, I saw this movie you'd like."
Lol. Goo in my first language means "shit". So how would you like to view shittube?
I already have a television, thanks.
"Morning, Sam."
"Morning, Ralph."
They plan to call it "GooTube."
You don't want to know what the new logo looks like.
..think of the adults!!
It also helps you actually want to get into the modern IT industry at all.
Insert the standard grumbling about government mismanagement and IT provided by the lowest bidder, but this is really extra sad. If people like me can keep bots off our grandmothers' computers for the low, low price of a smile, a hug, and some melted sweets which date back to the Carter administration, why can't the people who built the damn Internet manage?
I think I saw the term used by phishers themselves on the cheezy "underground" sites or BBSes they had in the early 1990s, while I've only seen the mass media use it in the past five years or so.
This is why progress sucks. With everything on MPEG and no more tapes, what will the h4x0r3d robot claws fight over?
The term was originally coined back in the AOL days because the scammer was "fishing" for victims, casting out a ton of bait (as in fake msgs/emails/IMs) and hoping someone bit. The "ph" came about as the replacement for the "f" under standard l337-speak rules.
I'm drifting off topic a bit, but your average mugger isn't a murderer, they just want to rob you and split. Any weapons are for intimidation, to force you into quickly giving up what's in your pockets. At worst you just lose your cash and cards, but even the most savvy mugger won't have much of a shot at your 401K or your kids' college funds. At best, you can possibly defend yourself, or get away. So, I feel you generally have more of a fighting chance in an encounter with a violent criminal on the street than you do against a board of directors pushing a few buttons in an illegal manner.
Frankly, if I had to choose between being punched in the face by a crackhead who wants my wallet, or watching a few thousand people lose everything they had to corporate crime, I'll take the punch. Both scenarios can be traced to the actions of one or two people deciding to do something naughty. Which is "worse?"
Manuel the drug dealer screws up the lives of a few people on his route, people who made the choice to get involved with his drugs in the first place. Patricia the ex-Chairman had the opportunity to screw up the thousands of lives involved with her megacorp, people who just want to get a day's work done and didn't sign up for the "let's screw with people's personal lives" game she seems to have been playing.
"Now, I know this is hard for you to talk about, so I brought this to help..
Show me on the doll where the bad user interface failed to make available options navigable."
http://cybercitizens.net/
Throw MSN into it as well next time. The brain-explody will reach much further and stain more carpet.
What do you plan to do for a living after BubbleBurst 2.0?
"Listen! ....You smell something?"