Based on the wired article covering this, much of the location data comes from geolocation of ip addresses obtained through malicious use of ad networks.

So what they're saying is that people who escape from reality and engage in fantasy to an unhealthy degree may be doing so because of some underlying problem with their reality? I'm glad we got that straightened out.

Three additional orders of magnitude is the difference between claiming you lifted a power wheels toy car with your bare hands, or a fully loaded 18 wheeler. It's not like the difference makes no difference.

Most home theater AVRs have a microphone based system that will automatically balance the channels at variety of listening positions. There are several brand names of the technology, but it's quite common. They also have a mode often called night mode or dynamic range compression that makes the LOUD things not quite so loud, and the quiet things not so quiet. If people want to use closed captions, go for it, but there are other ways to improve the experience for some of the issues described.

Marty McFly would be so proud.

It's true that Hulu doesn't allow VPNs, but for a different, and potentially subtle (to some) reason. Some of their content agreements are likely region locked. Want to watch TV shows in the US market? Must come from an IP address that some third party company they contract with believes was recently physically located in the US. There are all kinds of problems with this, but it's not really about net neutrality. It's about content providers wishing to control who can access which media after how much delay and at what price. Call it content neutrality possibly?

As an owner of a small ISP, it's remarkably difficult to get all of the various third party "geo IP" type services to correctly categorize your IPs. And if you are using any type of carrier grade NAT, fuggidaboutit. Sorry for the topic creep.

Too soon. It's the half of the country that has a credit history. Not comforting.

Also goes unpunished. Just don't lie to the FBI, because then you're going to jail.

You have been trolled by IT. Little known job #32766, trolling, well...., everyone, without their knowledge.

If that is the case, then you'll never be able to buy any sort of pvp game. Sad, but true.

The methodology to verify the data used in the paper was to perform their own scans of networks that were known to have hosts, and then compare the results to the published 2012 internet census data. They got a high match rate. I evaluated the data slightly differently. I scanned network segments that I know to be empty, unused, or entirely behind firewalls. In these cases (for segments /24 and larger) there are still records in the internet census data. These records are completely made up. Try going to the search engine and typing in a network you know to be completely empty as scanned from the outside. A network that has been allocated but never used would be best. It's a lot of fun, and shows the internet census data is partially falsified and likely to be of no scientific value. Don't avoid the data becuse it's immoral, just avoid it because it's incorrect.

Mod parent up. This is why people are protesting. Love it or hate it, this is also the free market at work.

Good point. "The movie" represents a short period of time where you might not be able to text, which is not a real hardship.

Not allowing texting during the previews would be cruel. That can be HOURS.

This. The entire business model of the internet has shifted to one of sharing geolocation, identity, and preference data that many people would consider private if given the opportunity to provide or withhold their informed consent. We do know that our phones are on the internet, right?