Interesting Links for 21-04-2015

[andrewducker]

• Prisoner fakes bail email to prison bosses, gets himself set free
  (tags: genius prison fraud viaElfy )
• FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades (at least 32 death penalty cases with flawed testimony)
  (tags: death_penalty forensics fbi viaJennieRigg )
• Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming
  (tags: netflix streaming tv )

Comments

[andrewducker]

1) Yay! Links! On time and everything!
2) No, Myers-Briggs isn't perfect - it definitely has issues and is oversold. However, it does have some predictive power (and correlates reasonably well with four of the scales on the Big Five), and it's really useful for starting conversations. I wish the Big Five would catch on better, but sadly it seems less catchy than MB.
3) I wonder how much pressure HBO is being put under to track down users. It's certainly not in HBO's interests to give a damn - so presumably the cable companies are the ones who are driving it.

[bart_calendar]

Yeah, HBO has been pretty clear that they dont' even care about people who pirate their shows, so I doubt they care about people trying to give them money.

That said it's probably not the cable providers giving them pressure. It's local governments. In France for example the country makes a fortune charging content providers for the right to distribute in France. So if HBO hasn't paid them for the right to distribute Season Five of GOT until later this year they could charge HBO with violating French law and ban them from distributing anything ever.

(This is why I have to get people to mail me Joan Jett and Rob Zombie albums - neither artist can afford the french copyright fees, so they can't sell their albums here and Amazon can't even send them here.)

[andrewducker]

I wonder how long France can get away with that kind of thing before other EU countries accuse them of preventing free trade...

[bart_calendar]

I'm not sure the EU will care as long as they limit it to non-EU artists/intellectual property.

[gonzo21]

They're gonna have to get most of the world onto internet faster than 1-3mb/s before internet tv becomes the future.

One person in my household can watch internet tv at a time at the moment. If two people want to watch something on different devices, forget about it.

That is completely mad that HBO are chasing actual paying customers away though. I... cannot see the logic in that at all. Must be a ton of pressure on them from Murdoch.

[bart_calendar]

I think it's more a matter of international law.

[andrewducker]

Apparently 78% of properties could get 24Mb/s broadband at the end of 2014.

Which still leaves a lot of people who can't, and it's probably more like 50-60% of places in the UK (with the higher density cities getting it first). But they're still pushing for 95% coverage by 2017, so we'll see if that reaches you!

[gonzo21]

Well it's interesting because they have just laid a fibre-optic cable down along the road outside my house. And I was quite excited because I thought that meant my standard broadband speed might be increased, if they were pushing the signal down this fibre optic line instead of the old copper line.

But apparently it doesn't work that way, and the fibre-optic line will just be for people who subsribe to BT Infinity.

And honestly I think Infinity is just too expensive still. But, I'm sure the price of it will come down over the next few years.

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[lovelyangel]

Most of my career was spent as an INTJ software developer, and I had many INTJ teammates - a significantly greater number than would be expected given the distribution in the US population. I had thought maybe my workplace was unusual in attracting cool talent - but now it’s nice to see that INTJs gravitate to the job, and it wasn’t just my specific workplace.

[andrewducker]

As an INTP, it can get a bit wearing with all of you judgemental people around the place :->

[kalimac]

Every time I tried to take the Myers-Briggs test, all my answers were one of the following three:

1) Sometimes one, sometimes the other.
2) Compared to whom?
3) What do you mean by that?

Fail.