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Why Over The Top Messaging Is Mobile's Newest Monetization Platform
Text messaging. Remember that? Of course you do. You probably text people on a regular basis. Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have benefited from this asynchronous form of short messaging for years and have collected hefty revenues from it as well. In fact, Portio Research estimates SMS revenues will top $150 Billion this year alone. But MNOs aren't they only ones benefiting. Texting has led to all types of uses beyond just communicating with another person; it has led to branded campaigns, voting and of course spam.

However, as MNOs start to enter the third phase of the sigmoid or S-curve growth model as service providers, SMS in many markets is starting to enter the detrimental "substitution" stage of decline where users are finding new, better and cheaper alternatives to SMS, namely Over The Top (OTT) messaging providers such as Whatsapp, Kik, Snapchat and even Facebook Messenger along with a seemingly endless array of other OTT apps. According to McKinsey, users in South Korea and The Netherlands have already tipped away from SMS where the move to OTT messaging apps is having a material impact on the MNOs SMS volumes and revenues. Essentially, people are texting so much less that it is impacting the MNOs' business.
Unfortunately network reliability is also an issue in the SF zone. Apparently they replaced some routers 2 weeks ago, but that hasn't solved the issues entirely. Over the past 2 weeks I've had easily over 30 minutes of downtime. During this downtime no pings / web requests can connect, nor can any SSH connections, so I'm fairly confident it's a loss of connectivity on their end.

Regardless, I'm still happy with the service and the pricing, and will continue to use them in the hopes of the network issues improving.
I have a dream...

...of a cloud where I could float freely without having to worry about privacy, security or any potential threat. Then I could let my mind flow freely on the cloud and connect with other souls.
Fair enough -- I did miss that comment about indirect civil disobedience. I don't really have a perspective on that, because I can't think of any examples of it, but it seems like a stretch to apply that specific label; thereby diluting (in my mind) the meaning of the term Civil Disobedience. If we add the qualifier of "indirect", then it seems that the scope becomes unnecessarily large. But I think I would need more examples of this to that aren't similar to whistleblowing to understand why we need to introduce the term "direct civil disobedience" where "civil disobedience" seems to suit fine. You give a concrete example for "direct" civil disobedience, but not one for "indirect".

Why don't we like "whistleblowing"? It seems that this exactly describes what he did. Is there a connotation associated with whistleblowing that I'm not aware of? I thought whistleblowing was considered an admirable thing in and of itself. I mean, you have to acknowledge that what he did was _at least_ whistleblowing, even if it was more than "just" whistleblowing.
Not Fox "News" I hope ;-)
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I'm not familiar with this. How does it work? Chrome doesn't send my browser history to Google, does it?
MinimaLT[1] is another interesting protocol with similar goals. From the abstract:

"Minimal Latency Tunneling (MinimaLT) is a new network protocol that provides ubiquitous encryption for maximal confidentiality, including protecting packet headers. MinimaLT provides server and user authentication, extensive Denial-of-Service protections, and IP mobility while approaching perfect forward secrecy."

[1]: http://cr.yp.to/tcpip.html
but google will just customize stuff for that proxy... how is that better for results quality?
Was talking about the flat UI (Holo in this case) -- which is half of that blue and even less, and was not exactly received with cheers and shouts when it was released.
'We are also very much focused on what is in the best interest of the entrepreneur. You might ask "how can taking $2mm for 20% be better than taking $5mm for 20%?" and you'd be right asking that question. The answer is you can get the other $3mm later at an even higher price. That has been the history of many of our investments.'

Can someone explain to me how this makes sense. I'm still going to have to give away x percent of the company to raise another $3mm. What am I missing here?
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> You're saying that you're not arguing about semantics, but that's the entire content of your argument.

> That said, let me talk to the heart of your argument

So first, those statements are clearly in conflict.

Second, I purposefully haven't been arguing from first principles about the general question of whether his actions were justified. That's just way, way beyond the scope of this thread.

I have consistently only been discussing whether practitioners of civil disobedience would find his actions justified (modulo my one interjection that starts "Personally,..."). That doesn't make my argument about semantics, it means I am only discussing what how the arguments of those thinkers would be applied to this situation. Saying "but it's not civil disobedience" does not avoid the charge, according to those arguments, that the acts were unjustified.
Cap'n Proto doesn't allow you to transmit arbitrary native structs. It still has a defined message format, with pointers that can be (and are) validated by the receiver. It's just that the format is one that happens to be very convenient for typical CPUs to access, in particular without the need for any copying or decoding.

In practice, the current implementation hasn't undergone security review yet, so I wouldn't recommend using it on data you don't trust. But it's intended to be secure, and will be by version 1.0.
I don't know if always is quite true, but they've been pretty solid for the last three years or so, definitely :)
Yes. I did read it – and I stand by what I said. I find it hugely disingenuous and/or self-absorbed that only now that the shoe is on the other foot, Mr. Parker changes his tune... only after getting rich by exploiting things not so distant from that which he wants to curtail now.

Edit: The additional quote does nothing to change my point. He doesn't dispute what I said about him profiting from his actions – but he still wants personal sympathy.

I agree with his larger point, privacy matters, but I find this messenger to be distinctly self-serving in all of his actions.
I think we should just all start calling these extensions either something like "Digital Restriction Extensions" (DRE for short) or just plain and simply "DRM Extensions". If misleading garbage like "Premium Media Extensions" were left to the likes of Netflix press releases, reporting on the subject would be much more truthful.
This is what businesses do, they copy. Hopefully they improve something, but otherwise the end result is the more competitors, the lower the profit - the more competitive and therefore the more benefit to the end user. No matter what industry you're in, service you're offering - people will copy it / do it themselves. It's really an innovator's dilemma (not referencing the book). Once you innovate and find a better way, the optimal best way - that is how others will do it. The power big giants have is copying to stay competitive (rich get richer..), and really they must to stay alive and relevant - even if it ends up being a zero sum game. Facebook does the same thing, Google does the same - though they produce actual innovation themselves, meanwhile I'm not sure what Facebook has uniquely created, even their beginnings were a copy so it's in their DNA. MasterCard will likely leverage their brand name and try to get long-term partners of theirs using their service and not Stripe or others. They validated your market though, so focus on growth, and perhaps a MasterCard competitor will want to try to buy you at a premium -- assuming that's what you want.
Interesting that they aim to have a single resolution-independent logo ("This tied into another goal of having the image hold up with greater clarity at smaller sizes" and "with high resolution displays in mind"), while traditionally, advice was to tweak icons to their display size and resolution. For example, https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/ipad/#documentation/... says "redraw art as you scale down" and "do not use the standard-resolution 32x32 icon as the 16x16@2 icon". Similarly, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa51... says "Simply scaling down from the 256x256 size does not work" and "As an icon gets smaller, transparency and some special details found in larger sizes should be sacrificed in order to simplify and get the point across."

This isn't purely by technological choice ("we want a svg logo"), as one can somewhat build a svg where the level of detail varies depending on display size (http://timkadlec.com/2013/04/media-queries-within-svg/).

So it's either a deliberate "it's better that way" choice, or a "better one really good logo than a couple of less good ones", or they weren't aware of media queries, or they don't think them supported well enough.
Am I alone in thinking that the 2005–09 logo is clearly the strongest image? I'd like to see the results of a poll. Designers can talk their way into all sorts of things; a bit of objective measurement of opinion would be interesting.
> Why should the extravagance of their wedding be cause for anyone to criticize them

Because self will, opinion and free speech are VASTLY more important and sacred then someone's feelings. The internet is the MOST public medium imaginable. When talking in public expect the public to respond.
Man, I always thought the FF logo was a good example of a complex logo that worked really well. The new one is a little too simple.
Bin Laden's overall strategy against much larger enemies such as the Soviet Union and United States was to lure them into a long war of attrition in Muslim countries, attracting large numbers of jihadists who would never surrender. He believed this would lead to economic collapse of the enemy nations. Al-Qaeda manuals clearly express this strategy. In a 2004 tape broadcast by al-Jazeera, bin Laden spoke of "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy". [1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#Beliefs_and_ide...
It's still a pretty wild stretch of the term. By that notion, trespassing through an unlocked door would make me a locksmith.
Please don't be so dismissive. Rich people tend to have it better than others. But that doesn't mean they don't in some ways have it worse, it doesn't mean they don't deserve sympathy for those things, and it doesn't mean that we shouldn't talk about those things.
Yeah but at that point people might actually start to care, which would be the worst of all for them.
Someone has an idea to find what camera he used? I tried to find it on flickr and google.image but there is nothing. I really like how it captured the colors and the light.
provided you don't have a lot of fraud/chargebacks.

A large chunk of the costs associated with taking payments is fraud. (see founders at work - Paypal[1]) So assuming you don't have a lot of fraud is wishful thinking at best.

[1] - http://jesse.la/lessons-from-founders-at-work-stories-of-sta...
I'm not suggesting that anybody doesn't have the right to express their opinion so much as I am lamenting that people's opinions are so childish and petty.
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Check out https://www.simplify.com// (the double slash ending is important).
Not a Google Reader user (i used iGoogle until they discontinued it on smartphones...), but it's really a great site, congrats. I'll probably go get a look at the source since i'm an angular and app engine user (and not really serious with go...yet).

One small question : is there a reason why you need to go to the top right menu to add a new stream, instead of just a "+" at the bottom of the left pane list of feed ? Is that what google reader required ?
Nah, no shenanigans. It was definitely a glitch, but I'm not sure if I can explain it much better. The "flying cars" start with one wheel on top of the track, and one wheel below the track. As the wheels turn, it makes very little/slow progress, but you can see the car sort of shaking/struggling to release. That release eventually happens as the lower wheel gets to a point where it can cross back to the top of the track, and that twisting motion flings the car up and forward very quickly. The cars never even see the track again. I'm not sure what actually causes the car to stop... the replay wasn't very interesting to watch after the initial 'launch', as it just spins in whitespace for a little while and then eventually just stops spinning in an upright position while travelling forward.
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(I also work on Stripe's API and dashboard.)

I actually find it more interesting that quite a few of the obviously copied bits aren't even really worthy of copying if you're already going through the effort of building an entirely new product -- they're pieces of our product that could stand to be improved. :)
I see. I haven't gotten to the encoding page yet, but that sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Small question before I get there, I imagine that such things are tagged with a length so that you can actually determine where the text field really ends then?
>I wonder if Netflix is having to convert video on the backend for this as well.

They won't. They're using H.264 video, which all major browsers can play in HTML5 <video> tags now. Not so sure how they'd handle stuff like multiple audio tracks though - as far as I know they're bit of an issue now even if muxed with the video, and if you don't want to load extra audio tracks then you're pretty much out of luck since there's no decent way to play video and audio separately in sync with HTML5 at the moment (a combination of <video> and <audio> isn't exactly that reliable for this).
Thanks for the info. My site also has low traffic. The site sucks up lot of CPU and Memory during processing and large DB tables. It is primarily data analytics driven and does lot of dM/ML work. I will try out DO.
Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone traces his development of game theory.
Just having security clearance doesn't mean that he absolutely didn't necessarily do any 'hacking' to get the data - he may well not have had direct access to the data in question, clearance or not.
Dagmar Hovestaedt is the spokeswoman for the German
Stasi Records Agency, which showed 88,000 people last
year what the Stasi had gathered on them. She said the
U.S. should consider doing the same.

The Stasi Records Agency is known in Germany as "Gauck Behörde"[1], because for ten years its head was the anti-communist civil rights activist Joachim Gauck.

Gauck is now President of Germany and when Barack Obama was in Berlin they met and according to the schedule talked for one hour.

I was curious which topics they discussed, but unfortunately it was not covered in the press.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Commissioner_for_the_St...
Good link: http://subprint.com/blog/why-over-the-top-messaging-is-mobil...

OP's link doesn't have the crucial apostrophe, and leads to an error:

Cannot GET /blog/why-over-the-top-messaging-is-mobiles-newest-monetization-platform
No, your first point. The US has been just as responsible mass death. And of course it changes a lot.

Don't be obtuse. Of course it's remarkable, the only other reason you ever hear of 3000+ people being killed in the space of a few hours is when there's some large natural disaster like an earthquake.
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> We (people in the UK) have long been complaining that our Government stringently applies every single EU directive and human rights law but other countries just seem to ignore them

Er, but this is completely imaginary. The UK has derogations from more of the optional stuff than nearly any other member state, and has a poor record for implementing the mandatory stuff.
The Flash player is playing the exact same H.264 video that you could get with the HTML5 player.
For an article about how it is now SVG-compatible for improved display on retina-class screens, it sure does look crappy on my Chromebook Pixel.

Would have been nice if they used retina-quality assets in the announcement...
> There is nothing in submitting to punishment that absolves a disobedient of acting for "personal gain or fame".

If the punishment is severe enough to outweigh potential gain, then of course there is. Snowden could get 30 years in a federal penitentiary. If he stayed in the US and pled guilty to the charges, who could possibly think he was doing it for personal gain?

> Moreover, submitting to punishment may be okay in a nearly just society, but the further one moves from that ideal, the weaker the connection becomes between effective civil disobedience and submission to punishment becomes.

OK, but if you want to use this to avoid the civil-disobedience arguments of MLK, then you need to say that (for instance) today's society is less just than 1963 Birmingham, AL was for blacks.
I like the presentation with the colored graphs, it definitely it a good way of demonstrating the problem.

However for his own implementation, it's hard to see how significant the residual timing attacks are. If fact just looking at the graph, and without the acknowledgment in the introduction, I'd be hard pressed to say that those pictures had any irregularity at all.
It sounds like they were not aware of the wedding until late in the game. If you follow the arc of culpability throughout the post, Parker assumed that the Hotel was adequately permitted for such activities. When it turned out that they were not, the Hotel forced Parker into a indemnification agreement (presumably by threatening to cancel the wedding), which means he can't sue the Hotel. Then the Hotel refused to pay the CCC fine, preferring to cancel the wedding instead. So his only option at the point was to pay for the fines himself.

My take away from this is that the hotel is to blame. They did not have the required permits (despite an assumption on Parker's part that they did), and they refused to rectify the situation when it was discovered that there were issues. Parker seems to go easy on them, my guess is because he has some connections to the owners (in my opinion, his best defense would be to turn around and point fingers at the Hotel owners).
The word simple must be the word for today. From the payment processor to arguments for and against simple coding..arrrgh. Do you want a simple logo? Do what USA Today did to their logo. Have a third grader spill blue paint.
Oh yes, this is the clincher!
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> lamenting that people's opinions are so childish and petty.

Fair enough. Perhaps I'm overly cynical and jaded but lamenting that is like lamenting rain is wet.
Thank you. 'Lorem Ipsum' isn't Latin. Translation tools, dictionaries, or your old high school text books are not going to help you 'get it right.'

This is probably an Easter Egg.
Indeed.

Do you also keep a list of your sexual preferences, political views, medical history, etc? If so I would recommend giving this to every corporation you interact with. I mean, the odds are some of them might be able to improve their services, in some manner, using this information. Even if just one out of ten would be able to, it would be worth it, right? Since privacy doesn't really matter.
>Wait when were weddings ever sacred?

As for Catholicism, since it's a sacrament, I'd say since the inception of that religion which was some time ago.

>How willfully ignorant of humanity do you have to be to think that a wedding like that was going to just go without comment?

Victim blaming, but to answer your question at face value, somewhat ignorant.
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Note to concern trolls: article is clearly about an art project rather than an effective way to disrupt OCR
Quite that is why the UK drooped ID cards after WW2 rather surprised that other countries which had much more bad experience with "papers please" in WW2 did not do the same.
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Which language? C? You did your own implementation? Sounds like you used the wrong stuff.
Downvote me to hell but I can't stand the new logo. It's the little things, the designer is on the right track, simplification is the right direction but...

The new 2013 logo is unbalanced & dull.

1) First it's extremely unbalanced, all the eye popping color, depth, & detail is in the tail with nearly no highlights on the left side of the logo.

2) The fur on the end of the tail is 3D, slightly wrapping itself around the globe. Why? Why simplify the whole logo and leave the tail with the same awful complexities as the previous 09-13 logo? The tails in the 04-05 and 05-09 are near perfection and more simple. The newer tails add unnecessary detail yet they were kept.

3) It's inconsistently flat. Usually flat coincides with simple, but the logo's complex outlines have actually been exaggerated while the coloring has been flattened and simplified. The fox's head and torso on the other hand were nicely simplified (aside from the little hairs added all over).

4) It's dull. What was once planet earth is now a dull blue ball with coffee stains.

5) The gradient of orange to yellow is too hard. The entire fox is orange then sharply turns to yellow after the tail starts. The gradient change in the 04-05 version is perfect. The new logo's gradient is harsh and too distracting.

6) Micro-details were added. Why? I thought this was about simplifying? Look at the fox's fur on it's back. There's little tiny hairs that have been added that weren't there in the 04-05 and 05-09 version. There's no reason for those to be there. When the logo is shrunk and viewed at it's normal size they won't even be visible, why not just remove them altogether. In fact the ears have added hairs as well.

It's easily salvageable and the designer was on the right track:

Just bright up planet earth, contrast the continents from the ocean more, remove the 3D-ness of the fox's tail, further simplify or remove the tail's inner fur spikes, and soften the gradient of orange to yellow that runs across the fox's body and get rid of those annoying hairs that one can only see when zoomed in 400%.
No, it won't. As far as compatibility goes, EME is even worse than something like Silverlight. This should be evident just from the fact that in order to use HTML5 Netflix, you either need a) IE11 on Windows 8.1 or b) an official Google Chromebook with Google-provided image and which hasn't been rooted. In comparison, even Silverlight has a pretty amazing track record as far as compatibility goes.
I completely agree. And with 1ShoppingCart too. I considered using stripe but they didn't integrate with any of the popular shopping carts that handle affiliate marketing type of features. So I have to pay for two merchant accounts and a load balancing gateway. I also live in fear of my funds being frozen any moment or losing sales if I go over my processing limit.
I don't know, it's just not the first name that pops into my head. But I agree with you!
I tried Digital Ocean. Their SSD backed servers didn't perform for me as well as Amazon's PIOPS EBS, so the allure quickly faded.
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Although I'm less passionate about it, I tend to agree with ChrisNorstrom's comments that the change doesn't seem change enough to warrant neither this level of attention nor such a "detailed" analysis of the changes. Sure, "good design doesn't mean flat" in this post-iOS 7 world, but at the same time, dropping a few details is hardly a revolution.