When we created the Internet (ARPA) we had local DNS files, and would only download fresh copies of other DNS when we needed them, or on a periodic basis.
Maybe we should go back to that, and cut off entire countries when they DNS attack us?
I have a feeling you fail to realize most people have no idea what a content stream is or how IMDB rates content.
The reason for being in the IMDB top 250 is awards. Awards tend to go to countries with high film subsidies that are shown in film festivals worldwide.
Both countries require both film subsidies and content is required to be at a high level of locally qualified films (director, location, key actors, film processing) all of which increases the likelihood of a film getting the awards that would place it in the IMDB top 250.
But, hey, let's all argue things only film industry people tend to know, or readers of Variety, and forget that this is slashdot not IMDB, and has a different audience.
As anyone who is a citizen of either Canada or Brazil (which would include myself and one of my colleagues) could tell you, the main reason is that both Canada and Brazil have major film subsidies and content requirements for any broadcaster of any type, and both countries produce many award winning films.
Netflix has no choice in the matter. They are required to provide a certain level of movies from the host country to be able to operate there. The fact that these countries subsidize their film industries and produce high quality award winning films is a direct result of this.
Regulation is good. Lack of regulation leads to the really bad choices on Netflix in the USA, for example.
Also remember that if China and India start consuming at the rate that the median American does, global warming and climate change will go through the roof.
Seriously, if it was possible to effectively translate the sounds made by a keyboard, then the computers used to record Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret data would all have to be located in windowless rooms where you could not capture said sounds.
That's funny.
As if some of us on here worked in such windowless rooms back in the 70s and 80s....
No, this is not raising taxes. This is ending the sweetheart deal of tax preferences your comrades in the Communist Party of America slipped in allowing Party Elites to pay a lower rate.
we're not just serfs, we've got five data collection centers actively spying on our own people, with no check of any kind on their illegal and unconstitutional activities
I'm sure the day is coming when big brother will require a sample of everyone's DNA, so they can keep complete copies of everyone in digital format. Then you will taken "offline" and powered up in a Virtual Machine. They could call it 'Second Life' or something appealing like that...
We already have your DNA.
No, seriously, you have no idea how easy it is.
Been to the doctor ever?
Now, the question is, is it part of an international database without privacy protocols?
The problem is not so much state governments spying on their own people, which this addresses, but them having other states spy on their citizens and then "sharing" the information as "metadata" and treating assumptions as if they were facts, without being subject to critique.
Seriously, "never ever going to work in tech", give me a break.
The point of a college degree is to teach you how to learn, and to have basic skills in a field.
You don't get rid of MDs just because they aren't "up to the latest tech", they take a few CMEs and go do a slightly different version of being a doctor.
Same with Nurses.
Same with Biologists.
Same with Computer Scientists.
The problem is the employers being too lazy to train people, and using it as an excuse to outsource.
One of the problems with things like Apple Watch and other apps is that, in scientific studies, we find the existence of specific goals actually decreases exercise.
People will only do as much as they need to achieve the goal.
That said, Pokemon Go (of which I am level 23 Valiant) has a non-goal measurement. You hatch 2k 5k 10k eggs by walking distances, getting lesser amounts if you take transit ("going too fast" counts less), harvesting Poke Stops and catching wild and placed Pokemon.
I've noticed a big uptick in people hanging out at the waterfront parks to catch Pokemon, for example (it takes 400 Magikarp to evolve to a Gyardos). Or you can get Poke candy by adding a buddy (similar to the egg thing, the type of Poke buddy attracts the correct type of candy and also increases your chance of wild Pokemon of the type your buddy is).
So, the lack of a specific goal structure does obviate the usual decrease in exercise, as you are rewarded for activity but not too closely tied to specific goals.
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When we created the Internet (ARPA) we had local DNS files, and would only download fresh copies of other DNS when we needed them, or on a periodic basis.
Maybe we should go back to that, and cut off entire countries when they DNS attack us?
It would be illegal to spy on Americans in their own country, therefore such data can't exist.
Qui custode custodi?
I have a feeling you fail to realize most people have no idea what a content stream is or how IMDB rates content.
The reason for being in the IMDB top 250 is awards. Awards tend to go to countries with high film subsidies that are shown in film festivals worldwide.
Both countries require both film subsidies and content is required to be at a high level of locally qualified films (director, location, key actors, film processing) all of which increases the likelihood of a film getting the awards that would place it in the IMDB top 250.
But, hey, let's all argue things only film industry people tend to know, or readers of Variety, and forget that this is slashdot not IMDB, and has a different audience.
As anyone who is a citizen of either Canada or Brazil (which would include myself and one of my colleagues) could tell you, the main reason is that both Canada and Brazil have major film subsidies and content requirements for any broadcaster of any type, and both countries produce many award winning films.
Netflix has no choice in the matter. They are required to provide a certain level of movies from the host country to be able to operate there. The fact that these countries subsidize their film industries and produce high quality award winning films is a direct result of this.
Regulation is good. Lack of regulation leads to the really bad choices on Netflix in the USA, for example.
Also remember that if China and India start consuming at the rate that the median American does, global warming and climate change will go through the roof.
You used the word "if" incorrectly.
You meant "when".
Really. this article says it's 3.2 million debit cards. That adds up to a lot of iOS purchases at the same time as this spike.
Coincidence?
A record number of Indian debit cards were stolen and used in China and the US.
How many of these stolen Indian ATM purchases were in the iOS Apple store?
There's your missing money, and your bump.
You know, Deimos is nice this time of the Martian year
Seriously, if it was possible to effectively translate the sounds made by a keyboard, then the computers used to record Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret data would all have to be located in windowless rooms where you could not capture said sounds.
That's funny.
As if some of us on here worked in such windowless rooms back in the 70s and 80s ....
(grin)
So don't believe their fake arguments about regulatory costs.
It costs much much less in places with a lot more regulation.
Of course, those places don't overpay the top execs ....
That's the databases they tell you civilians about.
The other ones they lie to you, and say they don't exist.
But they do.
It's just another middle man trying to leech off my hard earned socialist investment dollars
No, this is not raising taxes. This is ending the sweetheart deal of tax preferences your comrades in the Communist Party of America slipped in allowing Party Elites to pay a lower rate.
Comrade.
There, fixed it for you.
No carried interest lower rate.
No exemption from SS income for any reason.
Problem solved.
No non-contribution for contractors.
Fixed.
No overseas tax exemptions for corporations.
Fully funded.
Capiche?
nope
we're not just serfs, we've got five data collection centers actively spying on our own people, with no check of any kind on their illegal and unconstitutional activities
we make serfs look good
Is it searchable?
I'm sure Google is working on that...
All the stuff posted on Google - or Chrome - is.
All of it.
Including your "private" emails. All of them. Any gmail is included.
I'm sure the day is coming when big brother will require a sample of everyone's DNA, so they can keep complete copies of everyone in digital format. Then you will taken "offline" and powered up in a Virtual Machine. They could call it 'Second Life' or something appealing like that...
We already have your DNA.
No, seriously, you have no idea how easy it is.
Been to the doctor ever?
Now, the question is, is it part of an international database without privacy protocols?
Is it searchable?
Is it identifiable?
Luckily for you, it isn't.
Usually.
No we are all just 1's and 0's, blowing like dust in the wind
I'm bootstrapped DNA GCAT sequences combining infinitely in response to environmental conditions, actually.
The problem is not so much state governments spying on their own people, which this addresses, but them having other states spy on their citizens and then "sharing" the information as "metadata" and treating assumptions as if they were facts, without being subject to critique.
You're all serfs.
Wait.
No.
Serfs have rights.
Besides, we already have military fusion reactors, so it's not like we need risky nasty fission any more.
Thanks to the UW and other teams that developed them!
Seriously, "never ever going to work in tech", give me a break.
The point of a college degree is to teach you how to learn, and to have basic skills in a field.
You don't get rid of MDs just because they aren't "up to the latest tech", they take a few CMEs and go do a slightly different version of being a doctor.
Same with Nurses.
Same with Biologists.
Same with Computer Scientists.
The problem is the employers being too lazy to train people, and using it as an excuse to outsource.
"Unaware" - more likely they are aware but are not permitted to talk to anyone about it.
Just like we respect Saudi Arabia's "laws".
One of the problems with things like Apple Watch and other apps is that, in scientific studies, we find the existence of specific goals actually decreases exercise.
People will only do as much as they need to achieve the goal.
That said, Pokemon Go (of which I am level 23 Valiant) has a non-goal measurement. You hatch 2k 5k 10k eggs by walking distances, getting lesser amounts if you take transit ("going too fast" counts less), harvesting Poke Stops and catching wild and placed Pokemon.
I've noticed a big uptick in people hanging out at the waterfront parks to catch Pokemon, for example (it takes 400 Magikarp to evolve to a Gyardos). Or you can get Poke candy by adding a buddy (similar to the egg thing, the type of Poke buddy attracts the correct type of candy and also increases your chance of wild Pokemon of the type your buddy is).
So, the lack of a specific goal structure does obviate the usual decrease in exercise, as you are rewarded for activity but not too closely tied to specific goals.
The news report said a car. I'm thinking it was named Christine.