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Same. Almost 24 hours ago and this is the first I've heard about the breach.

Also, the fact that you can see your user passwords in the panel has always irked me, and that has gone unchanged even after past breaches. I have been quite happy with their service, but maybe this my queue to leave... :(

EDIT: To their credit, I see this when logging in to the panel: "Due to some unauthorized activity we detected within one of our databases, we have forced a reset of all FTP/SFTP and shell passwords as a precaution."
Thank you so much for the pointer! I've installed it, and I imagine I'll be using it quite a bit in the coming weeks at $work.
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I agree that Hollywood is in decline because is failing to change and innovate. Creativity has always been sold by record labels and movie studios and technically this looks an increasingly irrelevant role. Production, distribution and marketing of content can all be handled by the web, not monolithic entertainment companies.

The challenge is to create applications that remove that middle layer and keep things open for the creators of content. To date the pattern is repeating itself. App Stores and streaming services are take huge cuts from creators of content. Proprietary formats are prevalent everywhere, designed to protect marketplaces that exploit the creators of content.

Please prove me wrong but I'm currently watching a terrible show where Hollywood is morphing into VC-backed entrepreneurs and big Internet companies. They are no better.
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>You mean like sports stars?

Sports is probably the closest thing we have to a true meritocracy. If you're an incredibly talented baseball player you'll have statistics to back it up.

Because of this I'd wager that almost all the top tier baseball players are currently engaged by major league teams.

However, acting is more subjective. It's much harder to objectively demonstrate that you are a top tier actor, so there are likely many top tier actors available for hire who aren't making millions.
> Except bandwidth costs money. Was MegaUpload really able to recoup the bandwidth costs of a full-length movie with ads?

I think you're overestimating the cost of bandwidth.

Let's say a full length movie is 4 GB. I can get a server with 30 TB of monthly data transfer for $40 a month. That's 75 cents a terabyte, or 0.3 cents per full length movie. That's not outrageous.

Given the scale of MegaUpload's operation, they would probably be paying considerably less for their bandwidth.
You missed the point. File sharing sites don't create content, they exploit Hollywood's archaic and stubborn method of distributing content.
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Ok, allow me to clarify my position: I agree with notion that there are more important problems to work on than many we see startups pursuing.

If you had to pick a primary point being conveyed by the column, would you pick A) there are many important problems that startups could be working on or B) the 100th Facebook engineer made a more meaningful impact on the world than some popular startup founders? I chose option A.

Regardless, you seem content to argue with me because I choose to acknowledge his point. I don't care who he is, what he's worked on, or what other credentials he has - I agree with his core message, that we should choose to work on bigger ideas that change the world, not meaningless ones.

As an aside, I do think it can be necessary to go with smaller ideas in order to cash out and pursue greater ones. Case in point: Elon Musk; while PayPal wasn't necessarily a small thing, it pales in comparison to his current endeavors, which I believe will have a long-lasting impact on the world.
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no need for the drama. realtime simply implies there is known, hard maximum time it will take for certain in-scope operations to take place, so you can design around that. a realtime os will often be slower overall than the non-realtime os on the same gear. the bottom line is about predictable, knowable behaviour.

challenger blew up because of a fuel leak, not the lack ofi an rtos.
Not risky, it's just that back in 2002 there were less people watching videos online, many people still had dialup.
Golly. We're sooo close to getting a rough, web-playable demo of what you're looking for it hurts - a better way to entertain people (with a gamery blend of TV and interaction).

It's been a painful slog, though - trying to create rich content's been both more expensive and more daunting then most web-centric MVPs.

Is there anyone else already actively working in this space? I'd love to find more folks to network and bounce ideas off of. (And I'd like to hear how you're dealing with the cost of content production. :P)
You’re an ass.

Pardon the bluntness of that statement but I’m home right now because this pissed me off so much. So my tone is less measured. Have you even contemplated all the things the industry you’re trying to “kill” does?

Make note of something: Hollywood is one of the most unionized workforces in the United States. This isn’t a story of rich studio heads taking advantage of people. Actors, Writers, Stage Hands, Directors, and just about everyone else in Hollywood is in a union of some kind and there’s a reason for that.

Creativity is random and creative people can’t count on steady work. So they need equitable pay to survive.

There’s an organization called Chanel 101 in LA. It’s basically a bunch of creative people showing their work (they put the stuff online if you want to google it). What the great majority of these people have in common is they work in the industry. Not as actors or writers but as stagehands, clerks and other low level positions. They are the people fighting their way up through the system and the system is designed to support them while they do.
The system you’re trying to kill is what keeps those people alive. What puts food on their table so they can keep working towards their dreams. Because they aren’t programmers. They can’t go out and get an $85,000 a year day job that allows them to live comfortably while they tinker on a startup in their spare time.

The studio system, as obnoxious as it is, exists for a reason. It’s an equilibrium that’s developed over decades of creating media. Every few years you’ll see a famous actor form their own studio yet those studios always end up playing by the same rules as the existing studios. Because it’s still roughly the most equitable system available (and if you don’t believe that you should feel free to try and start your own studio)

Yes, the media industry can help to create stupid laws. I don’t deny that. But it isn’t because they’re evil or mean. For the most part it’s because these companies are run by 60 year old men who don’t understand the nuances of technology. But their intentions are good. Their intention is to keep money on the table of all those creative people. To keep paying residuals to actors who might not find work for years at a time. To keep funding movies where there’s no guarantee of profit and keep all those stagehands, clerks, and so on employed.

It is quite frankly unconscionable for a millionaire to lead a bunch of people who can make over $100,000 a year in an effort to kill off the industry that’s paying all the folks who make less than $30,000.

(Let the down votes commence)
My first thought was "this is going to be a spin on dumping another cool product."

It's better than that, however. There are a lot of these cool apps from Google that are/were obviously 20% projects but which really showcase Android. "Listen" was one of my favorites for a long time. I wish they would open source that. This is a great solution to deal with something that is a nice showcase product but which is not a core competency / business driver and probably should be sidelined in some regard.

Google: please open source the other stagnant, cool apps you have in your product stable. Think of it as releasing the horses back into the wild.

Free range your unhealthy apps, big G. Let the apps run away like wild horses over the hills. /bukowski
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This will be so interesting to watch. If MU can pull this case to their site the MPAA wont be able to go after another site without changing the law in the US.

MU can afford the best lawyers in the country they have money and are able to compete on this level. In the last cases mostly kids got sued but not this time. And to be honest i cant believe kim and co were not prepared for this they know what kind of business they are running.

Definitely worth to watch how this goes down a lot will change in every direction based on the outcome.

edit: Robert Bennett going to defend them.
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/01/robert-bennett-to-repre...
I think killing Hollywood shouldn't be about killing movies and tv shows. It should be about killing the large content providers who is pushing SOPA/PIPA by spending astronomical amount of money on lobbyist. We need to find a way to bring the cost of production and distribution down to a point where creative contributors like directors, actors, and screen writers have more control and majority piece of the pie. Similar to how cost of starting a technology company came down in recent years and founders control and own more. We also need a Y-combinator for movies and tv shows.
He wants to kill Hollywood, not artists. Personally, I believe that the best way to do that would be to help the artists break free of the middlemen by giving them a better deal and helping them engage with their audiences.

Ideally, it would make art an industry where more people make $100k instead of $30k.
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Every single engineering and science class I took at Caltech was a math class. If you don't like math, you're going to switch to something else.

Math is what separates engineers from mechanics. You can put together a tractor that works without knowing math, but not an airplane or a rocket. Nor will your tractor be anywhere near as good as it could be.
The difference is in the level of the bare minimum. Engineering and science have objective, right-or-wrong answers. At the end of the test, either you got the right answer, or you didn't. This imposes a certain minimum level of rigor that, in my experience, is wholly missing from the liberal arts.

Yes, if taught well, the liberal arts can be as rigorous as mathematics. But teaching, say, English, well is whole lot harder than teaching mathematics well. There's just a lot more subtlety that has to be communicated. This means that in practice, there are proportionally fewer good Liberal Arts teachers than there are good math teachers. The quality and rigor of undergraduate liberal arts suffers as a result.
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Movies like Primer are a great rarity. There are many, many, low-budget movies out there; very few of them are created by bona fide visionaries.
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I am sort of surprised that pg chose movies rather than music. Movies are hard. You need a lot of things to make a movie. I liked Avatar. You can't do that kind of thing on the cheap. Actors, sites, makeup, lighting, special effects, etc. For music, you need the band, which are essentially founders from an equity standpoint, and own their own instruments already since they know how to play them. You need like $1000 of recording gear and some dude to hit the "record" button.

Eventually movies will be democratized, but killing the RIAA/iTunes cabal seems like the obvious first step.
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No. Rupert Murdoch's intentions are not good. And how ludicrous to make studio bosses into people concerned about the little guy.
I read "mean" in the older sense of "low, sordid, base, penurious" rather than the modern sense of "not nice" - because I agree that when you use the modern sense of the word it comes across as schoolyard whining. But with the interpretation I offered, I think it's merely an accurate description of their motivations.
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I know that's not what you wrote... because you said that the system was rigged. However, there is another (more likely) explanation - that the Federal prosecutors only bring cases to trial that they are likely to win. Out of the pool of possible cases that they could bring to trial, they only bring a fraction of those to trial. But the ones that they do bring are the ones that they feel they are more likely to win.

The reason that they can win or settle so many of their cases isn't their extra resources (which can be vast). It's that they are selective in the cases they choose. This ends up being self-reinforcing too - the more cases that they settle, the more the reputation that they have a strong case, which increases the likelihood that the next case will settle.

Their extra resources come into play when evaluating a single case, but when looking at the population of possible cases, it is their selectivity that skews the percentages in their favor.
Can we kill the music business too?
This is definitely the appropriate response, and I've found Apple very reasonable in these situations if you are able to prove copyright.
I've long suspected that talent in anything amounts to about 1% of your success, and the other 99% is hard work.

Note that things like athletic events are designed to discriminate the tiniest of differences from one althlete to the next.
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Tangentially related: Apple's general theme seems to be that's it okay for iPhone apps to be portrait-only or landscape-only, but iPad apps had better support all four possible orientations (portrait, portrait upside down, landscape left, landscape right) unless you have a really good reason not to. It is not uncommon for Apple to reject an iPad app from the store for not supporting all orientations.
>"The officials swore at him, treated him like he was on death row."

Presumably since they interviewed him, this is his account of the story, not an American slanted version.
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Of all Google's shutdowns, this was the only one that make me scream out loud. I am gutted.

Picnik was a minimum viable photoshop. The resizing options were so useful and it was really simple.

This is just sad.

I am speaking as a selfish user though.

Are there other good options out there?
lets be clear though... we are talking about google's users, its product, not its payingclients, right?
people who are using spmething for free dont have much to complain about from a legal standpoint...... thoug fair enough to ket google know when they have gone too far and migrate elsewhere. google needs users to deliver to its clients..........
I do not think everything needs to be automated. Rather, we just need to reach a certain level of efficiency: as soon as one person can produce enough of something for, say, several thousand--something completely reasonable with today's technology--you start reaching the point where you do not need everybody working.

Just because your power plant employs some people--and it probably really is just a handful--does not mean everybody has to work. The same is true for agriculture; one farmer is already extremely effective, and with the advent of cheap robotics[1] they are poised to become more efficient yet.

[1]: Something like: http://www.harvestai.com/

"Whom to pay" is a loaded question--we have already reached, or are rapidly reaching, a point where society can exist happily without everybody pitching in. Why should anybody's saying their creation powers things actually matter?

Of course, my argument isn't really about getting rid of payment or even the capitalistic system. Rather, it is about extending a recent trend: the increasing minimum standard of living. In a perfect world, you would be able to subsist comfortably without working. Of course, there are plenty of other ways to motivate people: status, luxury items...etc.

So, given increases in efficiency and different sources of motivation, I do not see why a capitalist society with plenty of people not working is impossible. Now, I doubt transitioning there would be easy: too many people are emotionally set against freeloaders. If we actually needed everybody to work, this would be great; however, as technology progresses and this is needed less and less, it stops being great.

Of course, there is one glaring whole in my argument (or, at least, one I'm pointing out): we may not be at the requisite level of efficiency yet. However, if recent trends continue, I thin we will reach it some time soon even if we are not there yet. And when we do--and well after--the cultural aversion to "freeloading" will persist even though it is less and less needed. Which is unfortunate.
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One could have made the same argument against someone who wanted to abolish serfdom.
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Suspend related problems. There's a thread of similar issues at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=110459

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Don't you think that is a bit extreme?
Don't forget that this was the era when Fox also cancelled Family Guy and Futurama. Both of these series were able to be resurrected due to their DVD sales and syndication numbers. Fox made a lot of mistakes during that time, but were just learning about the secondary sales potential for their shows. I'd like to think that a similar set of shows would be able to stick around longer now. Those shows were able to be resurrected easily because they are animated. Firefly, not so much. But another show (Arrested Development) cancelled by Fox in that era is getting resurrected by Netflix, which while not straight to consumer is more direct than through the studios.

Also, Joss Whedon (and the rest of Hollywood) I think learned a lot about distributing directly to the consumer with Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog. I think that this grand experiment was a good template for future direct-to-consumer productions.

Unfortunately, you still have to deal with the problems of initially funding large movies. I can imagine a system where instead of having dedicated studios, you have smaller one-off production companies. These companies would then be funded VC style by funds that seek to mitigate their risk by diversifying their pool of movies. You could fund a few flops, so long as every now and again an Avatar comes along.
HFCS is probably fine, in the sense that if you took something that was otherwise not bad for you and replaced whatever provides its sweetness with an HFCS of the same level of sweetness, it would not make the thing bad.

The main reason that it is generally a good idea to avoid HFCS is that it is generally NOT found replacing other sweeteners in things that are good for you. It is generally found in things that are not good for you regardless of how they are sweetened.

We know an impressive amount about how human nutrition works--but there is much more that we don't know. When some giant food company decides to make something by taking ingredients, breaking them down, and putting them together in some new engineered food there are two risks. (1) Being good for you may not have been high on the design requirements. Shelf life, consistency, ease of manufacture, cost, and marketing concerns could all be higher on the list. (2) Even if being good for you was a high priority, they might not actually achieve that due to our incomplete knowledge of human nutrition.

When you see HFCS on the label, you know there is a really good chance you are dealing with an engineered food.

In other words, HFCS is not bad--it just keeps bad company.
What I understood from PG's definition of Hollywood is "the old way of doing the music and entertainment business"

If Ben understands that, I guess his post would be entirely different.
Same argument can be put in favor of any obsolete industry. "We need this industry/office because otherwise those people will have nothing to do and no means of providing for their families."

Why don't they get some currently useful job instead of wasting society's resources? Even giving them all unemployment benefits might be cheaper than keeping up costly dying industry.
It actually has just a little more fructose than it does glucose "honey is mainly fructose (about 38.5%) and glucose (about 31.0%)"

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>I think most of us (unfortunately) are still going to want to watch movies like Transformers 3 at a $200 million budget than a $1million dollar indie flick.

At some point special effects are going to peak and the 1 million dollar indie flick will look exactly like the 200 million dollar one.

There will still be other differences, but technology is going to go a long way towards leveling the playing field.
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