Poor commie ladies. As if it wasn’t enough to be from North Korea.
What the Anzac said:
“I wouldn’t like it if our team did that,” New Zealand Coach Tony Readings said. “When teams concede [goals] they’re disappointed and they want to get on with the game. But it’s obviously something the Americans do.
“It’s something I guess they work on in training. We try to work on scoring goals. We haven’t got time to work on celebrations. If it makes them happy and they win games, then good for them.”
YouTube allows big important people to do stuff not allowed to anyone else. In this case, it lets NBC and US Swimming block embeds without making it patently obvious. As is the case with everyone else.
If you’re just Joe Shlabotnik you can disarm embedding but YouTube will tell users you have done so.
So the preferred client’s tactic, the important person, people or business with cash money and fame, is given a sneaky way of getting the video onto sites worldwide as a device that silently reverts to a backlink. It’s a way of rigging the system, using the working assumption that the viewer will get the “blocked” message and choose to view it on YouTube anyway, where they will be exposed to the maximum advertising potential.
So after a couple days, and after the glee of the culture of lickspittle has seen to it that it has been distributed everywhere, the minders stealthily placed a block on all other domains except their own, at NBC here.
And it’s only a strategy that works with people who already have it all, who can virtually guarantee their stuff will get passed around and published everywhere upon immediate release. Joe Blow average videographer on YouTube could never mount such a strategy.
It was blocked at DD blog here. After working for a day or so, it’s hard to say.
No, millions and millions of views aren’t enough for our conceited celebrity athletes and their grasping presenters.
It must be spread around to all news organizations and media sites, too. But only working on those places that support the maximum accumulation of advertising revenue is what they’re really after.
It’s actually kind of neat to find they’re just what you believe them to be — astonishingly greedy puffed up control freaks and pismires.
Alert viewers will note poor six foot one US celebrity teen swimmer Missy Franklin, who we were informed earlier would be taxed at least $14,000 dollars on her medals, was in virtually every scene of the video.
Freudian: Original post led with ‘Yahoo’ instead of YouTube.
GOP Gay-hater Chicken becomes rallying cry for national horde of overweight really angry white people aggrieved at the attack on their free speech and the anti-liberty, anti-American tyranny of all the damned liberals and homos.
Many conservatives blamed liberals, saying that their calls for tolerance ring hollow in the face of hateful graffiti.
Chick-Fil-A thing is just another example of people forgetting what made the US great. OK to disagree with people and not hate. #freespeech
The left. Always destroying, never creating: “Tastes Like Hate” Painted on Torrance Chick-fil-A. nbclosangeles.com/news/loca… #tcot #teaparty
Chick Fil A could say they hate women and I would still eat there.
If anyone strikes at your right to say how you object to Sodomites and liberals, go to Twitter and Facebook; and if anyone would go to Chick-fil-A and see man kissing man and woman upon woman, gather together in a fattish crowd for defense. Unless they are way out in the parking lot, then you’re safe. — Chapter 1, The Compleat Sayings of American Jesus.
Ridiculous news story, complaining Italy pays its gold medal winners, of which it has hardly any, too much:
With many countries in the world facing financial difficulties, there is greater focus on how much money governments are spending on Olympic athletes or Olympic-related events.
Raising eyebrows, Italy’s $182,400 payout to any Italian who wins a gold medal. That’s the highest payout in the world.
DD blog readers know what comes next. Since the US is the world champion of bragging, having eclipsed France in talent long ago, there must be something that shows us more virtuous and noble. We would never indulge in such gold-plated largess. US Olympians aren’t spoiled. Our US Olympic Committee is among the cheapest in the world, keeping the compensation down, presumably so it doesn’t go to anyone’s head:
In the U.S., gold medal winners get $25,000, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze. This is not government money, it’s paid by the U.S. Olympic Committee ..,
Taxes on a gold medal could run as high as $8,986, while silver could be $5,385. On a bronze metal, the tax might be $3,500.
The piece notes poor Missy Franklin, still in high school, will owe $14,000 in taxes for her medals.
Who would believe such shit? Yeah, our celebrity Olympians get no money. They’ve passed it up for the glory of sport.
“When she and her parents talk about college, the Franklins say they’re going to sit down and have a discussion if sponsors come calling,” it reads here. Took about two seconds to find that.
“After all, she’s one of the girls who starred in and helped produce USA Swimming’s Call Me Maybe video spoof, a good team-bonding activity.”
The Senate’s failure to move forward on a bill to strengthen U.S. computer defenses leaves little chance that Congress can find a compromise this year, as lawmakers turn their attention to November’s election.
The chamber’s Democratic leadership failed yesterday to get the 60 votes needed to force a final vote on the cybersecurity measure before the Senate leaves this week for an August recess. The vote was 52-46, largely along party lines, as most Republicans opposed a bill their leaders called a burden for businesses …
The Republicans’ roadblock was a setback for President Barack Obama’s administration, which tried to build support through a series of briefings for senators on potential dangers of a digital attack on the nation’s infrastructure, including a simulated assault on New York City’s power grid …
Cyber attacks on U.S. computer networks increased 17-fold from 2009 through 2011, General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, said last month, citing reports that digital adversaries have stolen $1 trillion of U.S. intellectual property.
Of course, the Republicans didn’t block this for any reason related to the issue of cybersecurity. It was blocked because, y’know, it was the socialist in the White House’s thing.
Oh, hai. No can haz cyberdefense against greatest transfer of wealth in history this year.
Unintentionally hilarious line, from one of the thousands of stories on the horde of angry white overweight people proudly showing Chick-fil-A that they, too, hate teh gays:
For many Americans, the idea of eating “forbidden fruit” like fried chicken sandwiches and french [fries] already taps into a rebellious spirit.
“You get that confluence,” [some nobody] said. “This food is under threat already, and then you have these other currents going on.”
Truly, I say to you, for hating on the Sodomites, today you will be with me and Mike Huckabee in the paradise of Chick-fil-A. — Chapter 1, The Compleat Sayings of American Jesus
An automated stock trading program suddenly flooded the market with millions of trades Wednesday morning, spreading turmoil across Wall Street and drawing renewed attention to the fragility and instability of the nation’s stock markets.
While the broad stock indexes quickly recovered and ended the day slightly down, it was the latest black eye for the financial markets.
The errant trades began hitting exchanges almost as soon as the opening bell rang and came from a single New Jersey broker that specializes in computer-driven trading, the Knight Capital Group. Shares of more than 100 companies, including big names like Alcoa, Citigroup and Ford suddenly spiked up or down. The New York Stock Exchange had most of the mistaken orders, but all of the nation’s exchanges executed trades for Knight and all agreed to cancel the trading in six stocks that had especially extreme movements …
The trades placed by Knight may have left the firm with millions of shares of overpriced stocks that quickly lost their value after the chaos ended, but the company did not comment on its potential losses …
Knight later said that “a technology issue occurred??? in the division of the company that uses computer algorithms to buy and sell stocks from other market participants.
On the other hand, if you conduct a meaningful public poll on how much average Americans really care about “the financial sector” being protected against cyberattacks, you might get an earful on how they’d like to be protected from the financial sector.
Good news, lads. Good news! A buffoon to rival the ‘Mericans.
Bradley Wiggins promised to forgo the traditional flute of champagne when he won the Tour de France. The British cyclist made up for it after winning an Olympic gold medal with a booze binge …
”Getting wasted,” he posted on Twitter along with a picture of himself posing with a drink and flashing a V for victory with St. Paul’s Cathedral gleaming in the background …
”Blind drunk at the minute and overwhelmed,” he posted later. ”It’s been emotional.” — from the wire
Two journalists at ProPublica blow Mr. Keith Alexander and corporate computer security firm reports on trillion dollar losses to computer crime out of the water here.
The piece drills in on the much publicized claim that this constitutes “the greatest transfer of wealth in history” and its foundation. Or total lack of one.
A handful of media stories, blog posts and academic studies have previously expressed skepticism about these attention-getting estimates, but this has not stopped an array of government officials and politicians from continuing to publicly cite them as authoritative. Now, an examination of their origins by ProPublica has found new grounds to question the data and methods used to generate these numbers, which McAfee and Symantec say they stand behind.
One of the figures Alexander attributed to Symantec — the $250 billion in annual losses from intellectual property theft — was indeed mentioned in a Symantec report, but it is not a Symantec number and its source remains a mystery.
McAfee’s trillion-dollar estimate is questioned even by the three independent researchers from Purdue University whom McAfee credits with analyzing the raw data from which the estimate was derived. “I was really kind of appalled when the number came out in news reports, the trillion dollars, because that was just way, way large,” said Eugene Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue.
Ross Anderson, a security engineering professor at University of Cambridge [who participated in the research] … told ProPublica that he did not know about the $1 trillion estimate before it was announced. “I would have objected at the time had I known about it,” he said. “The intellectual quality of this ($1 trillion number) is below abysmal.”
The use of these estimates comes amid increased debate about cyberattacks; warnings of a digital Pearl Harbor are becoming almost routine.
Computer scientists Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley, who work at Microsoft Research, the software giant’s computer science lab, recently wrote a paper, “Sex, Lies and Cyber-crime Surveys,” (PDF) that sharply criticized these sorts of surveys. “Our assessment of the quality of cyber-crime surveys is harsh: they are so compromised and biased that no faith whatever can be placed in their findings,” their report said. “We are not alone in this judgment. Most research teams who have looked at the survey data on cyber-crime have reached similarly negative conclusions.”
The figures from the Shoeshine Service are “scientifically worthless … but valuable from a marketing perspective,” adds another boffin.
Compromised. Biased. No faith, whatsoever. Scientifically worthless. A quality below abysmal.
The greatest transfer of wealth in history … according to the sticker on this here box of McAfee Cracker Jack.
The ProPublica article briefly goes into the history of McAfee Associates. The firm’s founder, John McAfee — long gone, misled journalists and others on computer virus infections for publicity, most famously, in 1992, with the Michelangelo computer virus.
And that story is excerpted from the book, The Virus Creation Labs, here.
