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Hey Kids,
I did have comment moderation on.
I don't recall activating it but it was there.

Now it's not.
All your previous comments should be online.

I'm a jackass.

Thanks!

Choke! Choke! Choke!

I read an article about video choking the Internet. One quote caught my attention and therefore my rage as well.

"But if the customer starts watching internet TV like the average household watches regular TV, 8 hours a day, BellSouth's cost would go up to $112 a month, according to Kafka."

Few things about this one:
1. That's far too many hours to watch TV. For any household.
2. What is this stat based on? Four person family? Shut-ins? TV store front windows?
3. Does that number include advertising?
4. Seriously, that's too much TV. It's an entire work-day of TV.

If it includes advertising, then they can reduce the proposed cost-per-hour of the pipleline as traditional models will have advertising pay for itself. If I'm watching streaming online content at "tv quality" resolution at hours at a time, it's also likely being piped in from the major studios.

Therefore, it's harder to pin this on stealing and piracy.

YouTube has a time-segment restriction. I imagine Google Video does too.
Higher resolution streams only come from the studios and networks. Everything else is either crunched into Flash, Quicktime, RealPlayer or Windows Media. Failing those, it's downloaded as a single file and thereby not streaming. But that's just nit-picking.

If someone is watching 8 hours of streaming content in Hi-res; they're idiots.
Use the device that's best suited for that: the TV itself.

How can we get the benefit of streaming online content, the user-based control that seems to draw people from traditional means? Unlock the TiVo or PVR. Start from there. The reasons people are jumping ship from a closed, mysterious cable box to their home PC are control, commercial-free, and content.

That and I can watch the entire first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica for free.

We Wanna Hear Ya Squeal Like A Pig!

Here's a fine example of excellent police work

Its' where the authorities have setup a web site comprised of photos of people tokin' up on 4/20 at some University campus in Colorado. The idea is to send in information on the people on the site and effectively snitch on the person.

The local student body have a going ritual in which I suppose they all gather in this park and publicly smoke marijuana on 4/20. So being tight-ass about it the police takes peoples' photos and paste up this Johns Page.

That's lazy police work.

And the fact is they only have a photo of them doing it.
They didn't take names and numbers when they were there.

The people who snitch? That's weak. So freakin' weak.
It's pot. It's not a murder. It's not assault. It's not rape. It's a smoke.

Girls Gone Wild has more offenses and crimes on record than these photos.

This is what happens to the fat kids in high school who were never invited to the cool parties. They grow up with a huge chip on their shoulder that comes in the form of pissing into EVERYONE's pool. Add in a little steroid rage and a weekend of weapons training and you have society's protector. Some suited po-po with a digital Fujifilm and both an afternoon and a buzz to kill.

This embarrasses people who do real police work.
Like beating up hobos and speeding through school-zones.


I'm done here.