Texting in the theatre is good

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Texting in the theatre is good
Number 2736
Broadcast Date APRIL 14, 2016
Episode Length 44:59
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

AMC theaters considers letting you text while in movies. Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss why this could be a GOOD idea.

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Headlines

Microsoft filed suit in US federal court in the Western District of Washington for the right to inform customers of government requests for email and other documents. Microsoft says in the past 18 months it has received 5,264 legal orders under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 2,576 of which prevented disclosure and 68% of those had no end date to the secrecy. The US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved legislation requiring that authorities get a court warrant to obtain e-mail stored in the cloud, though without a provision regarding notification.
Submitted by goshayr
Sharp announced that RoboHon, its walking robo-cellphone will release May 26th in Japan. The RoboHon has a 2” QVGA screen, Android 5.0 OS, LTE radios and 3 types of voice recognition technology. RoboHon can walk, dance, and show videos and pictures using a 720p projector embedded in its head. The Verge reports it will sell for ¥198,000 ($1800) plus $6/month for Nuance’s cloud based voice recognition service.
Instagram made a change to its explore page adding new video channels, including one called “Videos You Might Like”. Other channels are curated around topics like Coachella or particular people. The update comes to Android and iOS in the US today with other countries to follow. - Similarly, Vine updated its iOS and Android apps with a new “watch” button that lets users view all videos in a channel with one tap. Playback can be sorted by channel popularity, chronological order and reverse chronological order.
GoPro has launched a developer program to encourage companies to create apps, accessories and mounts for GoPro cameras. More than 100 companies are participating at launch including, BMW, Fisher Price and Periscope.
Vice News and Motherboard report court documents made public in a Montreal crime syndicate case say the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used Blackberry’s global encryption key to decrypt roughly one million messages in connection with the case dating back to 2010. The documents do not indicate how the RCMP got the key although Blackberry was aware and cooperating in other matters. A sever in Ottawa mimics a mobile device to receive and decrypt messages. The key is for the consumer BlackBerry Messenger service not the BlackBerry Enterprise Service which gives control of keys to the customer.
One of the first big money makers on Kickstarter was the $13 million raised for the Coolest Cooler in the summer of 2014. You can order one on Amazon right now for $400 with 2-day shipping. However, most of the backers from 2014 haven’t received their cooler yet. Motherboard spotted an update to the 66% of backers who have not received their cooler yet. Coolest Cooler offered to take $97 more from them for expedited shipping by July 4th.
Submitted by pcguy8088_
Europe’s parliament passed the General Data Protection Regulation Thursday. It will come into force from 2018. Among the new rules are tougher penalties with fines up to 4% of global turnover, a required data protection officer at large data processors, 72-hour breach disclosure and liability for processors as well as controllers, expansion of the right to be forgotten, data portability, parental consent for social media, a bureau for handling data protection complaints.
Submitted by tm204
Facebook is working on bringing image recognition to video, including facial recognition. This would allow you to search video for people and automatically add captions too.
A study published in the journal Nature describes how doctors from Ohio State implanted a chip in 24-year-old Ian Burkhardt in 2014, bypassing a spinal injury to give him control over his right hand and fingers again. Essentially the chip sends signals to a computer which learns what the signals mean. Then the computer sends signals to a sleeve on his arm which stimulates the muscles to execute the action. Burkhart can pour from a bottle and pick up a straw and stir. He even can play Guitar Hero.
Reuters reports the .krd domain name opened this week for private companies, organizations and individuals to use. ICANN granted the domain name to a group of Kurds led by Hiwa Afandi, the head of the department of Information Technology in the Kurdish region of Iraq. It is not a two-letter country code.
Wired's Andy Greenberg reports Cornell Tech researchers’ demonstrated the unexpected privacy-invasive potential of “brute-forcing” shortened URLs. By guessing at shortened URLs until they found working ones, the researchers say that they could have pulled off tricks ranging from spreading malware on unwitting victims’ computers via Microsoft’s cloud storage service to finding out who requested Google Maps directions to abortion providers or drug addiction treatment facilities. When the researchers notified Google about their work in September of last year, the company responded by lengthening its shortened URLs to 11 or 12 randomized characters and taking new measures to identify and block automated scanning of shortened URLs. The researchers say that Microsoft, on the other hand, initially brushed off their concerns when they contacted the company in May of last year. But last month Microsoft removed the URL shortening feature from OneDrive altogether.

Discussion

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I've had them for a month now and love them. Together they're $15. ($10 and $5.) I appreciate that Stardock only makes me buy them once - a lot of software makes you pay for yearly licenses. You can use it on two computers as per their EULA.

http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
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Keep rocking!
Best Regards,
Submitted by Brett Stewart

Messages

I have a Paperwhite I use for reading in the evening before I go to bed. It allows me to read magazines & books without messing with my circadian rhythm.
Sent by Gary the SeniorGeek


I got a Paperwhite for a different reason: I will be traveling to Asia this summer and I tend to do a lot of reading while flying, and neither my iPad nor any of my other devices (e.g., Android phone, Macbook Air, etc.) has a battery life that lasts much more than half the duration of the flight.
Sent by Clara


I want my next ereader to display the book, and have no other features. No advertising, notifications, shopping, browsing, tracking my reading, or Orwellian removal of my books. In fact, my preferred device would have no Internet connectivity. Just let me cable it to my linux machine and copy the epub onto it.
Sent by Gregg


I actually use my phone (OnePlus One) with the Kindle app to read most of my e-books now. It has a large 5.5" 1080p screen so text is crisp and clear. I can set the Kindle app to "dark" mode so I don't have a bright screen in bed next to my wife.
Sent by Joel


On the other hand Tony writes: “…this year I made the switch back to physical books. Already, I have finished 3 books and am halfway through my fourth. I have fallen back in love with reading."
Sent by Tony


…while its great to be able to take notes on an ebook and have them available on all my devices, I find that I take less substantive notes with the built in Kindle notes function (even when using the old Kindle's physical keyboard)
Sent by Rich from lovely Cleveland


I buy physical books for my own reason: I consistently have about 4 or 5 different books that I slowly read at different times. So I have one in my car, one in my bathroom, one near my bed, and one at my girlfriends apartment currently. I never have to worry about battery, remembering my device, eye strain, notifications popping up, etc. and I always have something near me when I want to read!
Sent by Kevin in Auditing from Ann Arbor


I buy ebooks and keep them cheap. I avoid titles over $10. I just wait until the price drops down before I buy bestsellers. … BookBub helps me find titles for cheap or even free.
Sent by Mike


I like that e-readers themselves are cheaper. I don't want to go all the way and say eInk readers are disposable, I do feel way more comfortable in situations where the possibility of dropping, breaking or losing the eReader is somewhat higher.
Sent by Andrew


I prefer e-readers for weight: I kept offering to get my fiance a Kindle, but she never wanted to spend the money. She just left on a trip to Iraq and was severely restricted on the weight of her luggage. She borrowed my Kindle and was an instant convert.
Sent by Mike in annoyingly cold DC


I think e-readers are more comfortable: More than anything though I just feel like the kindle is the best form factor for reading. … I have a Surface Pro 4 but it's too heavy to be comfortable for bed reading, my phone is too small, and for whatever reason holding open books has always given me hand cramps.
Sent by Derek


On my bedside table I have a Kindle paperwhite, which is a lovely reading experience, and somehow even feels indulgent, when I settle down to read. However for my commute (by rail), I have an old windows phone.
Sent by Simon


Hi Tom
long time listener first-time writer. this email is in regards to your story about alibaba's Ai that predicted the winner for I'm a singer. I just want to give you a little bit of background on the show because I'm a huge fan. What they do on the show is sort of like American Idol. There are 500 live audience members watching the show. There's always 7 famous singers competing against each other and basically the season's winner is picked by the 500 audience members. So when they show the prediction by Ai, they actually showed it to the television audience, and the in studio audience did not know who the majority of people watching the show are picking.

They didn't really mention too much about the AI other than not he was predicting using all these different algorithms and people's reaction to the different singers. If you've been watching the whole season you know who is going to win and so it didn't really do much for the TV audience but I guess it kind of works. Also you should check out the finale of last season because they got some famous American musicians such as Akon. Also Ai means love in Chinese so there's the double meaning in that love the show.
Sent by Tony


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