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This means the watching of pornographic videos generates as much CO2 per year as is emitted by countries such as Belgium, Bangladesh and Nigeria.
And so the ecologically responsible solution would be... getting rid of those three countries?
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Now where’s that blakeyrant about how all those regulations are just a blatant ploy by the EU to rip off US corporations...
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@Applied-Mediocrity I don't know about ecologically responsible, specifically, but nobody can say eliminating B*****m isn't the right thing to do for a number of very good reasons.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
nobody can say eliminating B*****m isn't the right thing to do for a number of very good reasons
It would reduce the amount of porn.
But the Germans would probably compensate, and it'd be weirder…
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Depictions of smoking in a fictional setting? 'Fraid, sir, that just wouldn't be proper.
Shotgun in the face, chainsaw in your lungs? Don't mind if I do.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
No mention whether it was spacecake:
Wait, a Moana cake for a 25 year old?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/loud-fart-gives-away-suspect-s-hiding-spot-leads-to-arrest
Parp!
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I'm pretty sure that regex problems have gobbled up more developer hours than any other problem at this stage.
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@DogsB They had one problem, then they used Regex...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
.(?:.=.*)
They'd have been OK if they were using the right RE engine, but PCRE (and anything else that uses a stack-based model) gets very unhappy with that sequence as it just can't quite decide when to enter the sub-expression. It doesn't matter too much if its first guess gets it right, but when it hits a string with no
=
in it, it takes a lot of effort to decide that it truly doesn't match. Automata-theoretic engines don't have this flaw… but instead can take a very long time to compile other REs such as those with large counts (you can't seem to get all good things at once).Fun that this stuff (definitely esoteric knowledge!) caused a major failure.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
I predict he'll be unable to sign up to any online services, and will eventually go on a murderous rampage after a colleague says 'OK, Google' at him one too many times.
I can just see the nickname... "Yo, Goo - let's go!"
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I wonder how many people here have enough s to remember seeing the original.
I remember sitting in our family room watching it on the old console Heathkit TV that Dad built. One of those few times we were allowed to watch TV on a school night.
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Piracy is a bugbear of mine. A) it's a ridiculous name for stealing. B) the justifications for it are ridiculous. Pirates for the most part are lazy and just like free shit. That's basically all there is to it. C) it's another problem where I'm convinced the solutions proposed cause more problems, inconvenience and probably cost as much as the money they're attempting to save. This last one is a small rant for another time.
This article makes the case that about an average of 7 million people watching pirate streams is about a potential of one million dollars a game in sponsorship if someone could monetize it. I've a better idea. How about those freeloaders paid the subscription fees. My nowtv sports subscription is about £30 a month. That's a potential 210 million a month that these companies are losing in subscription fees alone.
These people and their justifications are retarded.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
My nowtv sports subscription is about £30 a month.
Thanks for reminding me why I don't subscribe to sports.
Or watch TV, I suppose.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
My nowtv sports subscription is about £30 a month.
Thanks for reminding me why I don't subscribe to sports.
Or watch TV, I suppose.
Considering how much sport I watch when the football and ice hockey season starts it's actually quite cheap for me. The ice hockey is an extra 15 a month but it comes to less than a pound an hour combined which is pretty good bang per buck. My reading habit costs more.
*edit I can also cancel the subscriptions on the months that they're not on.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This article makes the case that about an average of 7 million people watching pirate streams is about a potential of one million dollars a game in sponsorship if someone could monetize it. I've a better idea. How about those freeloaders paid the subscription fees. My nowtv sports subscription is about £30 a month. That's a potential 210 million a month that these companies are losing in subscription fees alone.
Except that not all the freeloaders would switch and the value to sponsors would go down sharply, reducing income from that side of the business.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
My reading habit costs more.
I'm a dirty dirty freeloader in that regard too.
Filed under: So many millions of words...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This article makes the case that about an average of 7 million people watching pirate streams is about a potential of one million dollars a game in sponsorship if someone could monetize it. I've a better idea. How about those freeloaders paid the subscription fees. My nowtv sports subscription is about £30 a month. That's a potential 210 million a month that these companies are losing in subscription fees alone.
Except that not all the freeloaders would switch and the value to sponsors would go down sharply, reducing income from that side of the business.
That side of the business probably isn't making money off them anyway. I find it unlikely that that sky is leveraging potential pirate viewership when negotiating sponsorship contracts. There isn't enough hard data on it. Although I suspect there's more than 1 million a game at stake with a captive audience of 7 million.
This brings me to D) Most of the data and conclusions drawn from it are probably an ass pull. One download is not a lost sale. More variety in people's media consumption isn't doing much to fill venues.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I find it unlikely that that sky is leveraging potential pirate viewership when negotiating sponsorship contracts.
True, but they're trying to get as much from sponsorship and advertising as possible, and the willingness of the counterparties in that to pay will go down if there's a more effective system of controls over viewing of games. There's also the problem that those controls may end up annoying existing legitimate consumers to the point where they decide to stop purchasing. In many ways, what you're probably looking at is a system that's actually at a maximum (though possibly a local one) and some people who are bitching about all the “potential” that they're missing out on despite that not actually being practically realisable; 'tis a common refrain and usually marks businesses that are overvaluing their product with relation to the market as a whole.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
There's also the problem that those controls may end up annoying existing legitimate consumers to the point where they decide to stop purchasing
May? Do! At least for me. I refuse to pay for a service that won't show me content when using a vpn. I'll switch back to UK locations but when they block the ip addresses from my provider I cancel the subscription. Bye bye Netflix. I would say bye bye to Amazon but I get it free with prime and they haven't banned all the ip addresses yet.
I also refuse to use services that demand I stop using my adblocker. I'm paying a subscription. bollox your potentially compromised ad network. I'll suffer your ads in the video, even preroll ads, but not in the browser.
Another thing that has caused me to burn bridges is device limits and dodgy concurrent stream detection. Sky Go use to be terrible for this. I have about 6 devices depending on where I am. They decided that you can only use four. Nevermind that I would only be using one at a time. BT doesn't have device limits but its concurrent stream detection was awful. I use to be able to break it by jumping across channels too quickly. Canceled the subscription the third time it happened and the response from technical support was wait twenty minutes and the system would right itself. It was a live game.
Sky appear to have righted the boat with nowtv but if there is an interesting game on in Champions League land and it isn't aired at a pub I just pirate it. I will thrown money at these services but only if they don't make me jump through ridiculous hoops. I can't vouch for the rest of the pirates but for me they're not competing with free. You're competing with my laziness.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I refuse to pay for a service that won't show me content when using a vpn. I'll switch back to UK locations but when they block the ip addresses from my provider I cancel the subscription. Bye bye Netflix. I would say bye bye to Amazon but I get it free with prime and they haven't banned all the ip addresses yet.
Why is it important to use a video streaming service over a VPN within the same country? What benefit exists there? You're not hiding what you're watching from them.
Outside of the same country (e.g. watching Netflix US in the UK) it's often a licensing problem and they have a responsibilty to prevent it.
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@loopback0
You have to use a (authenticated, attributable, single provider) VPN service to keep your ISP from knowing and tracking what you view with your (dynamic, minimally logged) IP address.Wouldn’t want the gubmint to know what you do (watch porn) with your internet time.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
overvaluing their product
That applies to everything related to sports. For most of it, free would be overvaluing it.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
overvaluing their product
That applies to everything related to sports. For most of it, free would be overvaluing it.
I’ve heard of people watching Super Bowl just for the ads. Considering how much I hate ads, that speaks volumes.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I refuse to pay for a service that won't show me content when using a vpn. I'll switch back to UK locations but when they block the ip addresses from my provider I cancel the subscription. Bye bye Netflix. I would say bye bye to Amazon but I get it free with prime and they haven't banned all the ip addresses yet.
Why is it important to use a video streaming service over a VPN within the same country? What benefit exists there? You're not hiding what you're watching from them.
Outside of the same country (e.g. watching Netflix US in the UK) it's often a licensing problem and they have a responsibilty to prevent it.
I'm too lazy to turn it off most of the time. It's on the router so it's quite a task. My porn habit would be exposed then.
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@loopback0
You have to use a (authenticated, attributable, single provider) VPN service to keep your ISP from knowing and tracking what you view with your (dynamic, minimally logged) IP address.Wouldn’t want the gubmint to know what you do (watch porn) with your internet time.
I live in the UK where it will actually be required to have a license to watch porn soon.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
My reading habit costs more.
I'm a dirty dirty freeloader in that regard too.
Yup. I love my library and Kindle...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Another thing that has caused me to burn bridges is device limits
My previous employer did that. But only 2 devices. So I created another account and shared the data between the 2. (As an employee, I could have upgraded to premium for free - but I tend to keep personal / business stuff as separate as possible)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
This means the watching of pornographic videos generates as much CO2 per year as is emitted by countries such as Belgium, Bangladesh and Nigeria.
And so the ecologically responsible solution would be... getting rid of those three countries?
How much of the porn got consumed in those countries? Nevermind produced? Bollywood is ... big.
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Frech military is warming up the idea of SuicideBoards again.
Edit:
P.S.:
The reason I call them "suicide boards" is that, without enclosing the pilot, they're limited to <200kmph and un-armored. In battle they'd also have to fly so low (to avoid missiles) that there's no chance of a parachute-save if the board gets damaged.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm too lazy to turn it off most of the time. It's on the router so it's quite a task. My porn habit would be exposed then.
I did wonder if it was
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Piracy is a bugbear of mine. A) it's a ridiculous name for stealing. B) the justifications for it are ridiculous. Pirates for the most part are lazy and just like free shit. That's basically all there is to it. C) it's another problem where I'm convinced the solutions proposed cause more problems, inconvenience and probably cost as much as the money they're attempting to save. This last one is a small rant for another time.
There was a lovely flamewar over yonder if you're bored.
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@acrow I saw that in the news and was bewildered that the Green Goblin apparently works for the French military now.
Edit: at least their planes didn’t mess up the flag this year.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Frech military is warming up the idea of SuicideBoards again.
At the moment it does seem of limited military interest, but I still find it impressive by itself, and any army would probably be stupid to not investigate that (especially since its cost is likely in the rounding error of any military vehicle i.e. plane or tank...).
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@JBert A French village (that I happen to know very well) has put up this sign at the entrance:
Caution French Village
You enter here at your own risk
Here we have church bells that ring regularly
Cocks who sing very early
Herds who live close by
Some even wear bells around their necks
Farmers who work to give you something to eat
If you can't bear this, you are not in the right place
However, we have good traditional products, talented craftsmen who are happy to share with you their knowledge and products.Mocking city-dwellers who complain that life in the countryside comes with some sources of disturbance is becoming a fad here...
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@remi like the USA'ians who move next to an airport and then complain about the noise. Or, actually, I've heard exactly the same complaints from people who move to rural areas that border suburbs.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Piracy is a bugbear of mine. A) it's a ridiculous name for stealing. B) the justifications for it are ridiculous. Pirates for the most part are lazy and just like free shit. That's basically all there is to it. C) it's another problem where I'm convinced the solutions proposed cause more problems, inconvenience and probably cost as much as the money they're attempting to save. This last one is a small rant for another time.
This article makes the case that about an average of 7 million people watching pirate streams is about a potential of one million dollars a game in sponsorship if someone could monetize it. I've a better idea. How about those freeloaders paid the subscription fees. My nowtv sports subscription is about £30 a month. That's a potential 210 million a month that these companies are losing in subscription fees alone.
These people and their justifications are retarded.
£30 per month seems like a ridiculously high price to me, so I could see why someone wouldn't want to pay it.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Sky appear to have righted the boat with nowtv but if there is an interesting game on in Champions League land and it isn't aired at a pub I just pirate it. I will thrown money at these services but only if they don't make me jump through ridiculous hoops. I can't vouch for the rest of the pirates but for me they're not competing with free. You're competing with my laziness.
As a complete ass-pull I suspect many people are in a similar situation. Like, you could subscribe to Netflix, Amazon Video, Crave, HBO GO, Hulu, whoops some of those are geoblocked, and Netflix lost its rights to stream whatever, and...
Or you could just f the whole thing and download it for free, and like magic you don't need to worry about any of that crap anymore.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Frech military is warming up the idea of SuicideBoards again.
At the moment it does seem of limited military interest, but I still find it impressive by itself, and any army would probably be stupid to not investigate that (especially since its cost is likely in the rounding error of any military vehicle i.e. plane or tank...).
The Smithsonian Air and Space museum has a similar thing that the US Army was playing with back in the 1950s., although it's actually a bit larger:
They basically abandoned it because they realized it mostly made the guy flying on it an easy target to shoot at. It looks like a lot of fun, though.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@remi like the USA'ians who move next to an airport and then complain about the noise. Or, actually, I've heard exactly the same complaints from people who move to rural areas that border suburbs.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Piracy is a bugbear of mine. A) it's a ridiculous name for stealing. B) the justifications for it are ridiculous. Pirates for the most part are lazy and just like free shit. That's basically all there is to it. C) it's another problem where I'm convinced the solutions proposed cause more problems, inconvenience and probably cost as much as the money they're attempting to save. This last one is a small rant for another time.
This article makes the case that about an average of 7 million people watching pirate streams is about a potential of one million dollars a game in sponsorship if someone could monetize it. I've a better idea. How about those freeloaders paid the subscription fees. My nowtv sports subscription is about £30 a month. That's a potential 210 million a month that these companies are losing in subscription fees alone.
These people and their justifications are retarded.
£30 per month seems like a ridiculously high price to me, so I could see why someone wouldn't want to pay it.
We're in one man's turd is another man's gold territory. I find their football coverage to be the best there is out there and I watch so much of it (>40 hours a month with friends and family) it's actually a good deal for me.
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Sky appear to have righted the boat with nowtv but if there is an interesting game on in Champions League land and it isn't aired at a pub I just pirate it. I will thrown money at these services but only if they don't make me jump through ridiculous hoops. I can't vouch for the rest of the pirates but for me they're not competing with free. You're competing with my laziness.
As a complete ass-pull I suspect many people are in a similar situation. Like, you could subscribe to Netflix, Amazon Video, Crave, HBO GO, Hulu, whoops some of those are geoblocked, and Netflix lost its rights to stream whatever, and...
Or you could just f the whole thing and download it for free, and like magic you don't need to worry about any of that crap anymore.
I don't have an article to point at for this one but I've actually heard it on a couple of podcasts. Now that the video services have spintered the way they have piracy is actually on the increase again. Most of these figures are probably an ass pull but from my own experience, where I don't even like multiple game launchers despite them driving prices down a bit (steam, gog, epic), I think there might be some merit to this one.
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"Light-to-moderate" alcohol consumption can help reduce your risk of Alzheimer's disease
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Doing-these-five-things-could-decrease-your-risk-14094544.php
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
You're safe from Alzheimer's disease, you'll die from liver cirrhosis way before
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I don't have an article to point at for this one but I've actually heard it on a couple of podcasts. Now that the video services have spintered the way they have piracy is actually on the increase again.
Yeah, of course. Video services used to be a cheap alternative to paying £50+ or whatever for satellite or cable, because you could drop to the free-to-air and still get most of what you wanted. Now everything is split across several and you could end up paying the £50+ again just to multiple services instead of one.
I'm sure eventually there will some sort of aggregated streaming service you can pay a single payment to and get access to the content from other providers, and the old thing will be the new thing again.
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Apple is innovating again
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They lowered the price.
It's not as fast (although it's still faster than a lot of SSDs) but it's also less expensive so what's the problem?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
It's not as fast
read speeds were 35% slower.
You pay a premium for Apple hardware because it's superior hardware