Comment Re:Old movies and TV shows being digitally altered (Score 1) 194
Love the irony of a post about, well censorship, itself being censored on Slashdot!
Comment "Flat Earth conventions have begun popping up all (Score 5, Funny) 404
..over the globe"
We all saw what you did there.
Comment It's The Mandela Effect! (Score 3, Funny) 190
Those experiencing it claim the past really did change and it's not their faulty memory. It's name comes from them remembering Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 80's.
Submission + - Old movies/TV shows being changed is freaking out the Mandela Effect crowd (alternatememories.com)
phonewebcam writes: The third season of Mr Robot is here, and it features the Mandela Effect conspiracy in it's story line. That name comes from the idea that some people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980's, but rather than accept they were wrong, claim he really did in their universe. They then somehow moved to one where he didn't, so there is no evidence of it apart from their memories. There are many other examples of this, such as the Star Wars line "No, I am your father" being widely remembered as "Luke, I am your father".
Carter Tweed talks of a technical angle which those who believe they are affected are just gonna love: old digital content being manipulated, initially to show ads. In other words, now it really is possible to show convincing different content on the internet to that which was originally broadcast. This goes back as far as 2011, where reruns of How I Met Your Mother had digital plasma TV's inserted in a scene showing ads for a movie which hadn't been made then. Many more examples exist, such as Gene Kelly breakdancing and the Star Wars digital re-release.
How long before this is being done covertly? And if someone claims it is, will they just be dismissed as a Mandela Effect conspiracist?
Carter Tweed talks of a technical angle which those who believe they are affected are just gonna love: old digital content being manipulated, initially to show ads. In other words, now it really is possible to show convincing different content on the internet to that which was originally broadcast. This goes back as far as 2011, where reruns of How I Met Your Mother had digital plasma TV's inserted in a scene showing ads for a movie which hadn't been made then. Many more examples exist, such as Gene Kelly breakdancing and the Star Wars digital re-release.
How long before this is being done covertly? And if someone claims it is, will they just be dismissed as a Mandela Effect conspiracist?
Submission + - Could Cryptocurrency kill online advertising? (linkedin.com) 1
phonewebcam writes: Far from being a new form of malware, could it turn out users actually prefer to trade a little CPU time to website owners in favor of them not showing ads? Slashdot covered the downside of this recently, with even Cristiano Ronaldo's official site falling victim, but that may not be the full story. This could be an ideal win-win situation, except for one huge downside — the current gang of online advertisers. Of course Google are already looking into controlling it, with a permission based system to start off with whilst letting 3rd party Chrome extensions take the strain for now. Adblockers are looking to extend their functionality to include AntiMining, too.
Comment Re:Clicks resulting in sales (Score 1) 289
Sure, Coca Cola & a zillion other instantly concoctable clones would go for that.
Comment Godless is actually a family of malware (Score 1) 87
Some variants are just the bare bones needed to install a payload which then waits for remote C&C instructions.
Comment These "ads" you speak of, "shaping my life" (Score 2) 191
They appear where? Oh, wait, *that's* what the ABP icon in my toolbar is saying - its been there so long I'd kinda gotten used to it. I must have become ad-blocker blind, if such a convoluted concept exists.
Comment Is there an echo in here? (Score 1) 135
Comment Advertised on YouTube? (Score 3, Funny) 97
Hey, so I don't get to see those "your content will play in 5 seconds" prompts if I use their service? Cool!
Submission + - Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For An Answer
RevWaldo writes: The Verge and other sources post how AOL's Ryan Block ultimately succeeded in cancelling his Comcast account over the phone, but not before the customer service representative pressed him for eight solid minutes (audio) to explain his reasoning for leaving "the number one provider of TV and internet service in the country" in a manner that would cause a character in Glengarry Glen Ross to blanch. Comcast has as of now issued an apology.
Submission + - Google's Project Zero Aims to Make the Internet A Safer Place for All (ibtimes.co.uk)
DavidGilbert99 writes: Google has announced Project Zero, a group of security experts who will hunt down security flaws in all software which touches the internet. Among the group is a 24-year-old called George Hotz who shot to fame in 2007 when he was the first to unlock the iPhone before reverse engineering the PlayStation 3.
Comment It's just another way to sell phones (Score 1) 381
Noticed these all need to be tethered to be useful? Anything which sells more huge-margin smartphones is just gonna be rammed down consumers throats, so expect tons of "buy this handset and get this hugely discounted smartwatch" type bundles any time now.
Comment The solution is obvious (Score 1) 471
Just do what this guy did and use two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-pMZd1fupw
Comment Total Recall [2012] (Score 1) 267
Never would I have thought science could be kicked out of the park regarding journeys beneath our feet further than The Core until
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