Ghost_MH

Weren't there a bunch of rumors circulating about a potential Direct for the 13th someone last week?

41 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

 

There are also often financing deals in place for new purchases that are better than what you can get from a bank on a used car because the manufacturers and/or dealers buy down the rate a bit.

I'm sure many of those great financing deals are available to people with good credit. There are, at least, 7 million Americans here not eligible for favorable financing or even enough financing to afford them a new car without a significant down payment they may not have the money for.

32 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Not even pretending to just be against illegal immigrants here. No worries, though, because nobody will be held responsible and these people will never get their money back.

30 minutes ago, number305 said:

It is a CGI character anyway, they should have just kept all of Williams voice.

His will states that his voice can't be used until 25 years after his death, so Disney still has another 21 years to go before they try to cash in on whatever recordings they have of him.

6 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Personally I wasn't bothered by how he looked but more bothered that he was just being Will Smith.

That was always going to happen. They wanted someone with enough personality to carry the role themselves without needing or tryiing to copy what Williams did with the role, originally. It was a lose/lose for them.

How about we don't have a movie about a female super hero that devolves into talk about the size of her butt or whether her feet are nice? Let's stick to the normal superhero stuff. Like if the costumes are ridiculous or if we'll get another villain we'll forget about ten minutes into the final credit scroll or any of the stuff that actually matters.

This really isn't hard.

1 hour ago, mclumber1 said:

It blows my mind how Trump is willing to besties with North Korea, but feels that Iran is the Devil incarnate. 

Yeah, but Arabs are really brown.

I don't know if it was mentioned in the article, but it also looks like less than half of bitter Saints country tuned into the game than had in previous years. No doubt they certainly decided not to change their minds after hearing of the score or how dreadfully awful Maroon 5 was.

3 minutes ago, stepee said:

ain’t ntn wrong with flag football

I'd advocate for the Pro Bowl being turned into a flag football game with a skills competition.

4 hours ago, darkness35 said:

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms - 8.5/10

 

Fuck this movie legit made me tear up.

 

@Greatoneshere

@Ghost_MH

 

Did you guys watch it yet?

I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it come up for streaming just yet, but it is on my list as soon as it is.

20 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

My workplace is switching over to Azure next year for more of it's user/project management stuff!

We're in the middle of switching over to Azure for everything.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

Yes there is, potentially. From the article:

 

 

I guess that could work...maybe. That would only make sense if they dropped active cooling, but I'm not really sure how much money a fan would actually save them. As it stands, I do believe the Switch is just underclocked for cooling and power consumption's sake.

I guess we'll see what direction they won't up going in.

I would love a smaller, portable only unit for kids. Give it more of a bag friendly design, too, with those pancake analog sticks the 3DS like had. There's no reason not to make it dockable, either. Just keep the USB-C on the bottom and let people figure it out on their own.

3 hours ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

That would make sense but I think the only place he wants to go is the Lakers

I don't think he has a choice here and he'd kill his value if he tried to force the matter. He'd be worthless as a trade asset and New Orleans would be better off just letting him warm a bench until he got tired of potentially missing a season.

On 1/28/2019 at 3:13 PM, RedSoxFan9 said:

 

The Celtics have the best assets but can’t make a trade until the summer 

And now the Pelicans are looking at just benching him for the rest of the season. They're also not fielding any trade requests. I'm just going to assume that means they're waiting until the off season to make a deal with Boston.

2 hours ago, number305 said:

That is no lie.  Games from that gen were hard.  I feel like if Celeste came out for the NES you would have had 3 lives and 2 continues... and somehow people would have beat it.

That's because those games were short and adding a save system cost money on actual, physical hardware. Game length was inflated by just making them hard and require multiple playthroughs, and nobody complained because it was worse in arcades.

I beat the first Zelda and the second quest without a strategy guide back in the 80s, but current me bitches about a hidden areas in Hollow Knight are hard to find.

1 hour ago, TwinIon said:

I would argue that this isn't the case at all, at least not with these particular companies, and not with many others either. Sure, Apple wants Facebook to build apps for their platform in order to make that platform more valuable, but Apple isn't piggybacking off of Facebook's network effect in order to build their own social graph, they just want to sell you more hardware (and services and hardware to support that hardware). Facebook wants to vacuum up all possible data, but Apple has staked a claim to being privacy minded, selling hardware and services on the basis that they're not collecting or selling your information. In this particular case, the only reason it's possible for Facebook to build this app is because of enterprise oriented low level accessibility, not functionality that was ever meant to be available for developers to utilize with consumers.

 

As I mentioned in the OP, I'm mostly ok with companies directly compensating you for access to your data. I think people have a poor idea of what their data is worth to these companies, and if they understood better they might (rightfully) ask for a cut. I also think that people have a generally poor idea of what data we're talking about, and companies like Facebook and Google are incentivized to hide what and how much data is being collected and what purposes it's being used for. Just recently Facebook blocked Ad transparency tools. Still, if you're going to vacuum up people's information, I think it's reasonable to expect you be upfront about what you're collecting and what it's being used for. That's a lot of the gist behind the GDPR, and I think similar legislation is plausible in the US (eventually).

If you want to know how much your info is worth, look at the payouts to programs like Google Opinions Rewards. You get questions like, "Did you shop at Target? How did you pay?" Google values that answer at around twenty-five cents. They obviously are making something else in top of it, so it's certainly worth more than a quarter to them in aggregate. Most people have no idea how much all this data is worth.

19 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

It doesn't seem like either program should be able to use an enterprise cert for this kind of thing since it's explicitly against Apple's TOS. I agree they won't prevent Facebook from issuing a new cert for long, but I wouldn't rule them canceling Google's as well.

I guess that would depend on whether or not Google got permission or whether or not they were using the same enterprise cert they were using for internal testing. It seems pretty clear to me here that Faebook got one enterprise cert from Apple and used it for EVERYTHING. We don't yet know if that was the case for Google. On the face of it, this does feel like something Facebook would do without asking first, where as Google seems like the type of company that would have gotten the clearance ahead of time. Facebook is very much an act now, asking for forgiveness later type of company.

EDIT: It also seems that Facebook let ANYBODY sign up.

In Google's case, it's an invitation only service.

38 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

That's not good. It doesn't seem quite as sketchy as Facebook, but using an enterprise certificate for data collection is not cool. I wouldn't be surprised if they suffer the same fate as Facebook.

 

It'll be interesting to see how long Apple keeps Facebook (and possibly Google) from having an enterprise certificate. They deserve to be punished for so clearly breaking the rules, and Apple has a reputation to uphold on the privacy front. Still, these are gigantic companies that have a very real need to test app updates, apps that iOS users rely on daily. Right now on my iPad Google has 4 of the top 10 free apps and 7 of the top 21. Facebook has two of the top 16. I imagine the case is similar on the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to hurt their own customers in the process of punishing Google and Facebook.

 

I would expect Apple to restore the certificate(s) shortly, once it's clear that these spy apps are disabled on the platform. Then they'll probably take some time developing some new rules that everyone will have to abide by. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple makes some significant changes to the whole enterprise certificate process, but it'll take time because these devices are now mission critical to so many companies.

Apple isn't going to keep Facebook from having an enterprise cert. They are very likely just going to reissue their cert thus killing off access to all the Facebook Research users. I doubt anything will happen to Google here as they've had their service running for years and have been pretty up front about it. I think the bigger issue Apple has with Facebook is that it sounds like Facebook was allowing minors to sign up for the program with a parental consent that may have just been a checkbox. Google only allows minors into the program if they're part of a family account and even then, any credits or giftcards don't go to the minor.

39 minutes ago, Xbob42 said:

You guys talking about this like it's a social media issue when it's mostly just an isolation and mental health issue. Social media doesn't make you do this kind of shit. It might exacerbate it, but Fortnite memes and Pepe aren't gonna turn you into... this.

There's a unique problem the Internet brings to people suffering from depression and isolation issues. It gives them a support group, but not of the healthy variety. Instead, it allows for like minded individuals to find each other and revel in their loneliness. The anonymity of the Internet allows an anorexic to find other anorexics to help egg them along their way to death. It gives depressed people a room full of other depressed individuals where they can all convince themselves it's the world at fault and there's no need to seek any sort of help. Then the anonymity allows people to treat others not like human beings and troll those unstable people along to self destruction...for the lulz.

It's a very new thing. While this, of course, isn't causing mental illness. It certainly isn't helping those suffering. If you were suicidal just twenty years ago, you didn't worry about having hundreds of people ready and willing to tell you to kill yourself on the platform you most used to interact with your friends and family. That's not the case anymore.

The Internet and simultaneously the best and worst time to happen to humans. On the one hand, I have the breadth of human knowledge on a slab of glass sitting in my pocket.

On the other hand, it gave birth to this thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/23/an-instagram-troll-impersonated-parkland-shooter-harass-victims-families-friends-fbi-says/

I was just about to post this as: Netflix: Check out this trailer for our Ted Bundy biopic, starring Zac Efron. Also Netflix: Stop calling Ted Bundy hot.

Ted Bundy was always the charming serial killer guy, so this is really no surprise. Also, the thumbnail on their trailer isn't helping.

The only game I can think of that really hit me is Starfox. I don't think it's a bad game by any stretch of the imagination. I just can't believe the framerate never bothered me when I first played it back in '93.

3 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

Watch the Hulu one. The Netflix one was put out by the same marketing firm who was in charge of the festival and it shows. Any and all culpability is place solely on the main organizer and everyone else is made to look like they were trying to fix it/stop him. The Netflix one is straight up propaganda compared to Hulu’s. 

Sounds like the Netflix one was produced to coincide with the release of the Hulu film as a straight up propaganda campaign and muddy up the waters there. Cool. That'll be a skip from me.

Unless this is secretly a Jump Street crossover, staring Tatum and Hill, I really have no interest in this franchise being reboot again. Just follow up with the good cast from 2016 and give them better than a mediocre script. We've only ever had one good Ghostbusters movie. Every other one was pretty blah.