We already do it for news, now TV shows?
What's next, paying $10 to sit in front of a movie I had to help write?
You just gave some craptacular money-grubbing movie exec an idea... We know they couldn't figure that out on their own since it requires creativity. #FAIL
I represent a music artist on YouTube. Her OWN stuff was flagged. She wrote it. She produced it. She paid for all of it.
Universal Music Group decided it was a good idea to flag it because she was once represented by them. She has produced 2 albums since she left their awesome [read as not-awesome] marketing company and this was content from that. Since her name appeared in the filename and content data uploaded with the video we assume that the file hit a blacklist of names provided to YT's filters. Any item we have uploaded since then has not hit the filter from what we've seen though.
We followed the dispute process and haven't been contacted since. That was almost a year ago. They're either really slow or saw that it was incorrect and didn't take it any further. It's still listed in our back-end as potentially having a content dispute though so Hooray for being friggin' broken.
I guess I'm in the minority... 1&1 screwed me on a cancellation. I printed the confirmation but they "didn't have it in their system." I found out only after getting a call from their collections atty. I sent him the paperwork I printed. They retorted with a "we don't have it in our system so you must have fabricated it" sort of response. So of course I was pissed. I refused to pay and there is a $30 account charge just sitting on my credit report that they illegally renew every 8-9 months as they sell the debt to someone else...
Calling bullshit on a customer is one thing but if I have proof and you tell me I fabricated it in some way, that's shit business practice.
And as for the parent who works for the financial institution, you're right that many banks will refund it when they can see an obvious error. I have heard horror stories of guys who worked for me that if they "occasionally" overdrafted their accounts and were erroneously overcharged for items and then the bank would refuse the refund of the fees because of "previous history." In cases like that, EA should refund the fees being that it was their error that generated the fees.
I'm just glad someone noticed that creating jobs was good for the economy. Now, if the people that make decisions up the ladder could figure that out we would all be better off.
I'm glad to hear that something is happening. After hearing about the budget cuts from the government for the space program, I was worried about where we were headed in Science and Technology. Kudos to NASA for putting something progressive together.
While I don't wholeheartedly disagree with your summation of the aforementioned post, when posting a flame, at least take your own advice -- namely your first point.
Worried about updates? Shouldn't you be more worried about.. I dunno, Norton running? Although it could be a cure -- you wouldn't have enough resources available to "run" the disease...
I was perusing back through topics I had posted to and saw that I missed a comment -- this one. I figure a response is in order.
While internet to individual houses may be low, what do you want to be that most (all?) of the public libraries have internet? You know, those buildings containing these things called 'books', where most people went in the 90's to look up things on the internet. While this may seem quite archaic to you, there are many areas and people in the country that still use this method.
I'm truly not sure what relevance your post has to mine but I'll try and comment accordingly.
You implied that maybe all of the libraries in the country have Internet access, think again. I have personally been to 2 towns in the Midwest this year that did not have Internet in their locations due to proximity to xDSL or other technologies... or in one case, "No one asks for it." The NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) did a study of where people use the Internet and about 8.2% of people use it at a public library (Sourced: Here) And to clarify and make it pertinent to your comment about "most people in the 90s", the source is from the 90s. Those are real numbers.
Please do not insult my intelligence. I would quote one of those things "you call books" here on Slashdot but why reference something here that is impossible for those partaking to refrerence quickly. You know, the whole idea behind the "intarweb". Let me know how those forums are at the book dungeon.
You're absolutely right. IANAL but I can think of no precedence where this would ever be appropriate.
Secondly, regardless of the fees that they charge for people to get copies of things in WV, I can't see how they'll lose that much money. West Virginia is in the bottom five of internet access speed availability in the United States (Sourced here. I don't think that many of the people in WV will do online retrieval of public records.
Down in Florida we have the Sunshine laws and we have about anything you want online.
I heard the exact same thing you did. In fact, when I load it in and listen to it in Acid Music Studio, I would imagine I could probably sample the right parts from the original and match them up perfectly throughout the whole song...
Right, right. And it is by design for good reason. I guess one of the main points to label this as a "pro" and not a "con" was that in the scenario you're mentioning where a transition of information must occur, rather than having agents from say the FBI have to dig through tens of thousands of paper records to find what they need on a subject very quickly, the CIA could essentially "open" an area as part of the hand-off so that the FBI could then get the wealth of data the CIA had already collected. Seems logical to me.
As far as combining the departments, I gathered FTA and the Wiki on it this doesn't seem like it being the intent. It's an information repository. I don't think you're going to see a "Director of the World Intelligence Cult" forming anytime soon.
Does this clarify a little at what I was getting at and maybe make more sense now? IANAE either but it just seems like a logical solution to a problem the IC has faced over half a century...
Do you think some of that would really be an issue. You could probably add a rating system or something for "more trusted" sources to have a higher priority on an update.
You have to admit that this is a good move for the intelligence community as a whole. ANY way for them to share a COMMON source of information is productive. Wasn't one of the main problems suspected behind the 9/11 committee's findings that there WASN'T enough communication and interoperability between branches of the intelligence sects?
I can definitely vouch for the relative validity of this article. I don't get spam at the levels some people have mentioned here but I tend to get about 1000 a month. I have noticed that since about mid-August that trend has been increasing. The last 2 1/2 months have seen a 15-17% increase and am noticing that more and more is getting through Spamhaus' Blacklist.
And now, for your viewing pleasure, a small sampling of what I got in the mail today!
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Wow. He wrote, "Kip Hawley is an idiot." You don't say? Hmm. He made no threatening mention there. He didn't say, "I'm going to kill that idiot, Kip Hawley." He called him an idiot. That's a matter of opinion. Last I checked, you can't be charged for having an opinion that someone is an idiot. It does no harm and he made no threats; IANAL but this would never hold up in court, period. This guy was blatantly harrassed for having an opinion and that is wrong.
Sounds like some bully that never amounted to anything after high school got a government job with the TSA and wanted to bully someone again.
I love fast paced commercials with some dance-ish music playing and then it gets silent for a second to display the Intel logo with the 4-tone brand ID and then the dance-ish music comes back. Hilarious.
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"America's Funniest Home Videos, hosted by America's stupidest comedian...:-P"
You're kidding, right? Bob Saget's stuff is NOTHING like Full House or AFHV. He didn't even write the stuff on AFHV. That was the producers idiocracy trying to keep it a "family show". I've seen Saget live on a few occasions and he's funny. Go to YouTube and look up "Opie and Anthony"... There is some recent stuff with him in it. It's great!
- Sing "I did it my way" while orbiting the equator ($15m)
Paying $2.84m in royalties to the RIAA for a "Public Performance" as you could possibly be broadcasting to a world audience since you're "above the earth" and all.
Geez, you didn't include the RIAA?! Here's a $100 fine.
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We already do it for news, now TV shows? What's next, paying $10 to sit in front of a movie I had to help write?
You just gave some craptacular money-grubbing movie exec an idea... We know they couldn't figure that out on their own since it requires creativity. #FAIL
Xserv
I represent a music artist on YouTube. Her OWN stuff was flagged. She wrote it. She produced it. She paid for all of it.
Universal Music Group decided it was a good idea to flag it because she was once represented by them. She has produced 2 albums since she left their awesome [read as not-awesome] marketing company and this was content from that. Since her name appeared in the filename and content data uploaded with the video we assume that the file hit a blacklist of names provided to YT's filters. Any item we have uploaded since then has not hit the filter from what we've seen though.
We followed the dispute process and haven't been contacted since. That was almost a year ago. They're either really slow or saw that it was incorrect and didn't take it any further. It's still listed in our back-end as potentially having a content dispute though so Hooray for being friggin' broken.
I guess I'm in the minority... 1&1 screwed me on a cancellation. I printed the confirmation but they "didn't have it in their system." I found out only after getting a call from their collections atty. I sent him the paperwork I printed. They retorted with a "we don't have it in our system so you must have fabricated it" sort of response. So of course I was pissed. I refused to pay and there is a $30 account charge just sitting on my credit report that they illegally renew every 8-9 months as they sell the debt to someone else...
Calling bullshit on a customer is one thing but if I have proof and you tell me I fabricated it in some way, that's shit business practice.
And as for the parent who works for the financial institution, you're right that many banks will refund it when they can see an obvious error. I have heard horror stories of guys who worked for me that if they "occasionally" overdrafted their accounts and were erroneously overcharged for items and then the bank would refuse the refund of the fees because of "previous history." In cases like that, EA should refund the fees being that it was their error that generated the fees.
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/facepalm....
Did you just put a disclaimer with a footnote on your anonymous message?
That post is full of FAIL.
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I'm just glad someone noticed that creating jobs was good for the economy. Now, if the people that make decisions up the ladder could figure that out we would all be better off.
- xserv
I'm glad to hear that something is happening. After hearing about the budget cuts from the government for the space program, I was worried about where we were headed in Science and Technology. Kudos to NASA for putting something progressive together.
- xserv
"...I'm sad that someone choose to marry you..."
While I don't wholeheartedly disagree with your summation of the aforementioned post, when posting a flame, at least take your own advice -- namely your first point.
In the spirit of blaming Apple for Palm's misbehavior with their iTunes stunt please respond here with how this is also Apples fault.
I'll give it a shot: There's an app for that!"
I digress.
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All your phone are belong to us.
No?
#fail
Worried about updates? Shouldn't you be more worried about.. I dunno, Norton running? Although it could be a cure -- you wouldn't have enough resources available to "run" the disease...
You implied that maybe all of the libraries in the country have Internet access, think again. I have personally been to 2 towns in the Midwest this year that did not have Internet in their locations due to proximity to xDSL or other technologies... or in one case, "No one asks for it." The NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) did a study of where people use the Internet and about 8.2% of people use it at a public library (Sourced: Here) And to clarify and make it pertinent to your comment about "most people in the 90s", the source is from the 90s. Those are real numbers.
Please do not insult my intelligence. I would quote one of those things "you call books" here on Slashdot but why reference something here that is impossible for those partaking to refrerence quickly. You know, the whole idea behind the "intarweb". Let me know how those forums are at the book dungeon.
Xserv
You're absolutely right. IANAL but I can think of no precedence where this would ever be appropriate.
Secondly, regardless of the fees that they charge for people to get copies of things in WV, I can't see how they'll lose that much money. West Virginia is in the bottom five of internet access speed availability in the United States (Sourced here. I don't think that many of the people in WV will do online retrieval of public records.
Down in Florida we have the Sunshine laws and we have about anything you want online.
Xserv
Holy Crap! Call the Daily Planet... Get the news train running on this one, Mr. Kent!
What's the REAL period REAL people would have to wait before this could be even remotely used with a human? 5-10 years PLUS FDA appoval??
Obviously, much more testing would need to be done but anything to battle cancer is a good start.
Xserv
I heard the exact same thing you did. In fact, when I load it in and listen to it in Acid Music Studio, I would imagine I could probably sample the right parts from the original and match them up perfectly throughout the whole song...
Crazy stuff...
Xserv
Right, right. And it is by design for good reason. I guess one of the main points to label this as a "pro" and not a "con" was that in the scenario you're mentioning where a transition of information must occur, rather than having agents from say the FBI have to dig through tens of thousands of paper records to find what they need on a subject very quickly, the CIA could essentially "open" an area as part of the hand-off so that the FBI could then get the wealth of data the CIA had already collected. Seems logical to me.
As far as combining the departments, I gathered FTA and the Wiki on it this doesn't seem like it being the intent. It's an information repository. I don't think you're going to see a "Director of the World Intelligence Cult" forming anytime soon.
Does this clarify a little at what I was getting at and maybe make more sense now? IANAE either but it just seems like a logical solution to a problem the IC has faced over half a century...
Xserv
You make a good point. Touche'
Xserv
Do you think some of that would really be an issue. You could probably add a rating system or something for "more trusted" sources to have a higher priority on an update.
You have to admit that this is a good move for the intelligence community as a whole. ANY way for them to share a COMMON source of information is productive. Wasn't one of the main problems suspected behind the 9/11 committee's findings that there WASN'T enough communication and interoperability between branches of the intelligence sects?
Just a thought...
Xserv
And now, for your viewing pleasure, a small sampling of what I got in the mail today!
And the second: As you can see, I love spam...
Xserv
Wow. He wrote, "Kip Hawley is an idiot." You don't say? Hmm. He made no threatening mention there. He didn't say, "I'm going to kill that idiot, Kip Hawley." He called him an idiot. That's a matter of opinion. Last I checked, you can't be charged for having an opinion that someone is an idiot. It does no harm and he made no threats; IANAL but this would never hold up in court, period. This guy was blatantly harrassed for having an opinion and that is wrong.
Sounds like some bully that never amounted to anything after high school got a government job with the TSA and wanted to bully someone again.
Xserv
Who do they think they are? Intel?
I love fast paced commercials with some dance-ish music playing and then it gets silent for a second to display the Intel logo with the 4-tone brand ID and then the dance-ish music comes back. Hilarious.
Xserv
You're kidding, right? Bob Saget's stuff is NOTHING like Full House or AFHV. He didn't even write the stuff on AFHV. That was the producers idiocracy trying to keep it a "family show". I've seen Saget live on a few occasions and he's funny. Go to YouTube and look up "Opie and Anthony"... There is some recent stuff with him in it. It's great!
Xserv
Blasphemy!! We're in the digital age! heh.
Exactly. What makes them think we'll understand any of that? We're nerds. Basketball? Hmm. How about pong?
Xserv
Paying $2.84m in royalties to the RIAA for a "Public Performance" as you could possibly be broadcasting to a world audience since you're "above the earth" and all.
Geez, you didn't include the RIAA?! Here's a $100 fine.
Xserv