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  • On the post: Error 402: Exploring The Little Understood History Of Online Monetization

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2023 @ 02:51pm

    I should say, local cell plans. None of these apps take a U.S. or EU number.

  • On the post: Error 402: Exploring The Little Understood History Of Online Monetization

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2023 @ 02:47pm

    Cell phone ownership across the Pacific is in the upper 80% area. Higher in Asia as a whole. But computer ownership still is rather low. It’s just the history of technology there. Much of Asia has mobile pay, but very little of it has NFC/Tap-to-pay. Outside of larger cities, I find even using a physical credit card is often not an option. But everyone takes mobile pay. Hop on to any average PH, SG, JP, CH, VN, etc site and mobile pay is offered for payments. The process is quite simple. And often as fast as the embedded Android/samsung/Apple Pay we westerners use. Scan the QR code on your phone (often you have wallet choices with individual QR codes), click accept for the amount (or enter it), and show or type the 4-8 digit code. It’s so commonplace I ended up getting two low cost limited minutes cell plans (eSIM) to set up accounts myself. Everyone takes Ali etc. from shopping online to buying veggies on the side of the road.

  • On the post: Depressing: Ed Sheeran Films Songwriting Sessions Due To All The Copyright Suits

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2023 @ 12:20pm

    implying that they didn’t matter
    Actually, the artist doesn’t matter. The problem does. If a name is what it takes to bring this to public discussion, good. You deduced a nonexistent implication I didn’t make. Again, this is nothing new. It’s been covered by music publications for over 2 decades at various times, from Rolling Stone to BWBK to Terrorizer and LoudWire. It’s been a bigger issue since the early 90s when computerised detection began to be a thing. Discussion among artists became common with Acoustic ID. That was a long time ago. I stress again, hand me a name and I’ll hand you “theft” on a golden platter with caviar and gold leaf. If there was any subconscious implication, it was who is this artist that a tech site finally decided to cover the problem that has been stinging musicians for decades. Not a dismissal of a very real long known problem.

  • On the post: Depressing: Ed Sheeran Films Songwriting Sessions Due To All The Copyright Suits

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2023 @ 01:01am

    A, I rarely “imply” anything. I say what I think consequences be damned. B, I didn’t lessen the value based on not knowing the artist. Quite the contrary, maybe something know to many genera for a long time will finally get some coverage since this, apparently known, artist made the news. In other ok words, Nice to see the general public finally join a problem that first appeared in the 70s in general and has been a thorn since the 40s, if not earlier. When I was studying music theory I came across an old article about some dust up for Muddy Waters over a track he recorded. I laughed then as I do now Since the vast majority of Blues depends on the same set of 9 chords. General point being. Original post; who [is this artists] Further point being, welcome to the real world of music. Every artist plagiarises. If you want to use the most draconian definition of the term. It’s what music is.infact, without it, there would literally only be noise. You’re right, I don’t care about this artists. But I understand what he is going through. He’s far from unique. I can point to such theft in the biggest names in musical history. Gershwin? Beethoven Brahms, Bach, Kandor, … Too old? Black sabbath, beach boys, Beatles, zeppelin? Still too old? Jackson, Metallica, Death, pet shoppe boys. That’s what music is. The personal expression of self via harmonic, or disharmonic, sound. All artists copy others. You give me a name and a few days to review their catalogue and I’ll hand you “stolen” music.

  • On the post: AT&T Looking To Dump DirecTV After Years Of Merger Headaches

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2023 @ 06:34pm

    Huh?

    DirecTV lost about 400,000 subscribers
    I’m surprised they had that many subscribers in the first place. Unless your in the Great Plains or Heartland there’s not much good for a satellite tv service. Unless these were internet tv subscribers, who found Hulu and YouTube had far better offerings in the price of service.

  • On the post: Error 402: Exploring The Little Understood History Of Online Monetization

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2023 @ 06:26pm

    In much of Asian internet, paywalls have QR codes. Services like gCash and Ali. PayNow, and Mobi. They can scan the qr from the app, list dozens of choices, set up a secure user id and password, all from the cell phone. Then again, mobile pay is just about the most common way to pay in urban areas in these countries.

  • On the post: Error 402: Exploring The Little Understood History Of Online Monetization

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2023 @ 06:18pm

    I believe the earliest I got into the ‘web’ parts of information was a list the same time. Though I had used BBS systems and school networks earlier. I have to say with nearly 40 years of some sort of “on-line” I don’t remember ever seeing 402. Then again, the paywall idea was the most common thing I came across in the early days. Pay the phone company. Pay the BBS. Pay the OSN. Pay the ISP. But, no, probably never a 402. I had forgotten the code existed until seeing this.

  • On the post: EBook Pledge To Protect Libraries & Authors From Publishers’ Growing Abuse Of Copyright

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2023 @ 06:05pm

    Good luck with that

    There’s about zero chance and major publishers sign this AND abide by it. The publishers are now feeling the same pressure that hit the music industry in the 2000s and film in the 70s/80s. They are no longer needed. Today, artists can write up their book. Call a low cost publishing house, get full editorial completion, print books, distribute them nation wide, have a digital copy made, submit it to a dozen online sales channels, all for under $100. And Keep full control of the copyright doing so. The publishing industry is just about to join the music and movie industries.

  • On the post: Depressing: Ed Sheeran Films Songwriting Sessions Due To All The Copyright Suits

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2023 @ 04:14pm

    This boils down to a single thing. I asked a simple question expecting someone to give me something more concise than a long Wikipedia article. You invented some theory about my thoughts on the subject matter based on not knowing who some artist is. 99% of music today has some level of plagiarism in it. Just YouTube or DM “most used [term]” eg chord progression, break down, etc. loudwire even has a series of videos on this. This is a much older issue than some single artists you happen to be a fan of. One I’m well aware of myself and have known about for some time. This has nothing to do with any artists and everything to do with the greed of the industry. the RIAA and their international counterparts are desperate to claw back any cash they can from the literal millions of artists that have left the big name companies. The music industry of olde has failed and now dyeing. An issue that has grown since the 80s and DIY record pressings. I didn’t once say this was a non issue. Quite the contrary, I said this was a much bigger and older issue than any single artist.

  • On the post: Journalists Ask DOJ To Stop Treating URL Alterations As A Federal Crime

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2023 @ 11:21am

    Trump brought us the vaccine in the first place. The fastest rollout of an emergency response in history. He supported and endorsed taking the vaccine. You clearly have no medical or pharmaceutical knowledge, the practice of using one medication to treat a different disease is known as off label use. And is extremely common. Did you know over 10,000 people take a sugar pill each month? (The average cost is 0.01). Purely for the placebo effect. As for the other mentioned method, it didn’t happen. And no matter how many times I’ve said prove it did, nobody here has produced unadulterated proof Trump ever told anyone to use bleach.

  • On the post: Journalists Ask DOJ To Stop Treating URL Alterations As A Federal Crime

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2023 @ 07:03pm

    Start with the fiction!

    even as Trump continued to espouse things like bleach and horse dewormers
    The first is fictional nonsense of a far left extremist, the second has proven use in animal testing against some viruses. It was worth investigating Not to mention Trump supported vaccination.
    constitutes a crime in the minds of prosecutors
    I’ve got two right away; theft of intellectual property and unlicensed reproduction of a video recording.
    And it should have.
    No, not as long as it continues to pursue people for posting 40-50 year old films with no monitory value. This actually has monetary value, in the shows’ and sites’ advertising. Not to mention their paid streaming service.

  • On the post: Court: Apparently Vindictive Detainment And Strip Search Are, Yep, Constitutional Violations

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2023 @ 08:58am

    Thailand has more guns than people, Nearly no ownership requirements, and less gun violence. Mongolia has legal near-anything ownership and less gun crime. In the flip side of this? Turkey and the Philippines both have a near-total war-level armament of police and less issues of police violence. Traffic enforcers in both are armed with AK47 or M4s. They manage not to kill pets. Let alone people. Guns aren’t the problem. Guns never were the problem. The police society in this country is one issue. Bad training. Zero engagement regulation. And some mystical level of blue protectionist. BUT! America is a country born of blood. We were formed by slaughtering our government. In our own backyards. The US has no generation that has not known war. There is no 20-year gap in our history, none. The oldest living generation was born to fighters in a war in our soil. We are a violent people as a whole. You can try to diminish that, but we are a warrior nation. The fastest way to stop violent response to violent crime is to make the response to violent crime a worthy punishment. People go to jail for 20 years for tax evasion; but 3-7 for assault. Crime and punishment is backwards. (Assuming there are police there to actually make arrests now). Guns are not the problem.

  • On the post: Crime In Minneapolis Continues To Drop Despite The PD Losing Hundreds Of Officers

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2023 @ 01:29pm

    Tim hates cops. It’s that simple. Like every other defund the police person, he will continue to hate cops until he is a victim of actual crime.

  • On the post: Startups’ Tech For Displaying Ads On Walgreens Cooler Doors Is On Fire…Literally

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2023 @ 10:09am

    Uh, hey, you know…. Wow(. Never payed attention or noticed if the basics were there like lights, oil, doors, I just got in and drove. Never put much thought into the mirror But now with you saying it… yep, I remember a few here and there that didn’t have the notice. Lmao

  • On the post: Startups’ Tech For Displaying Ads On Walgreens Cooler Doors Is On Fire…Literally

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2023 @ 04:36am

    A) objects ARE closer than they appear. That message is localised but in mirrors in most countries. That’s not a crap product/ it’s a fact of science in optical interpretation of a forward facing pair of eyes! Second. This is no different than the giant posters they put on doors for sales. Except, Now you don’t need to open the door to see what’s behind the advertising. It switches to inventory automatically. Again, that saves energy.

  • On the post: Startups’ Tech For Displaying Ads On Walgreens Cooler Doors Is On Fire…Literally

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2023 @ 04:31am

    I was attempting to sosge the "but not here" that will surely come up. i cant speak for all locations and all rollout designs . But have dealr with a few of the company’s trial setups. I worked with a company that did digital POS and Kiosk work for Walgreens in the past and have friend’s within the company still. And the digital doors were interesting, so I leans on a few friends to get as much info and hands on play time as I could. Let’s start with the doors. Which are triple insulated self venting doors. Vs the single pain clear glass. From the data the company sent to trial users, the doors show a 10-25% reduction in thermal leakage costs. The idea of adverts in my experience is misleading in this article. Based on interacting with the system at multiple Walgreens other Chicago area independent locations that have them: Advertising on the doors switches to an inventory display based on proximity. Meaning you walk within 2 meter of the door and it switches to displaying the product, quantity, and price. The door (ideally) shows you what is in the cooler unit, how many per item, the cost of the item, and the location. Ideally a combination of competent employees stocking correctly, and a lack of lazy scum customers putting things in the wrong place, would lead to an overall reduction in cooling cost. While also being a billboard for other store sales and information.

  • On the post: Crime In Minneapolis Continues To Drop Despite The PD Losing Hundreds Of Officers

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2023 @ 06:25pm

    I question unfounded statistics

    It’s just as easy that these could be reported statistics. And that the reported or acted on numbers went down because there are less police to act on crimes.

  • On the post: Startups’ Tech For Displaying Ads On Walgreens Cooler Doors Is On Fire…Literally

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2023 @ 06:18pm

    Oh, I don’t know about all locations, but Some of the trial screen and stock systems tell you how many of a product are in the shelf. I’d you need 5 and they have 1, yo don’t need to open the door to look around. Again saving energy.

  • On the post: Startups’ Tech For Displaying Ads On Walgreens Cooler Doors Is On Fire…Literally

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2023 @ 06:14pm

    Fact here

    The cooler layout is set up by employees. If the screen location and pricing doesn’t line up, it’s the employee’s fault. These doors have the ability to be a major cut into environmental issues. Knowing where the items are, what they cost, without opening the door. The doors are better sealing and hold cold air better than clear glass doors, even with the heat from the tech running the screens. That’s a fact, coolers maintain their temperature better with these doors. This reducing the cost of cooling. It is the store employee who put the item in the wrong spot. It is the store employee who didn’t enter the correct, or changed, price. This mess is caused by the retailer, not the screen provider.

  • On the post: FCC Starts Taking ‘Space Junk’ More Seriously, Fines Dish For Parking Satellite In A Dumb Spot

    LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2023 @ 05:47pm

    Never mind. Some further reading shows they still intend to recover it. Somehow. Eventually. Now the cost savings of a mini-move makes more sense.

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