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Who knew, part two? McDonald's has found a way to increase sales and decrease costs by using self serve kiosks in France. Apparently, customers like the idea of not waiting in line (and feel rushed to order by the counter folks) so using a touch screen to make selections they find it more convenient and less stressful. It also has shown that customers order more food by ordering it themselves. Workers also find the technology less stressful because they don't have to do two jobs at once, cashier and food assembly person. |
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cyberbarf WORDS OF LEO REVIEW Leo Laporte is a media survivor. He was in traditional media, as a hub in several Tech TV cable channel programs just as the dawn of the Internet age was upon us. When the digital media began to sprout, he was at the forefront of testing, reviewing and broadcasting these new forms of communications. He has gone through all the elements and fads from podcasts, videopodcasts, Internet shows, tweets, face time, etc. He is currently running TWiT, a Swiss army knife channel of all things tech and cool. He has even reincarnated the old Screensavers show from TechTV. Laporte is a speaker and expert on modern technology and the cultural ramifications of tech on society. He probably would not admit it, but he is an elder statesmen in a newborn industry of digital media. It was interesting to hear the old and new come together in one conversation. Laporte was recently on Chris Hardwick's Nerdist broadcast, episode 702. It is well worth a listen. There were a wide range of topics discussed between the panelists. Laporte was well ahead of the curve on new media such as podcasting and streaming web videos. But he admits that to him podcasting is basically radio (his roots) without broadcasting. The idea that radio programs are on demand separates it from the old media. However, he still finds value in having a live broadcast, which is why Twit have a schedule of shows that stream so people can come across them like surfing their network TV channels. Laporte believes that the biggest challenge with the new form of interactive media is trolls. He said in the beginning, Internet groups were a community of “like minded people.” That meant producers and content consumers were on the same page, similar values and appreciated the information presented in the shows, such as tech heavy Screensavers. But with the growth of the web, the audience became more diversified (just as with life in general) and with it the darker side of the community. Trolls may think they are funny, but why do they get gratification throwing bombs at other people? Part of the reason could be that trolls are nameless commentators who can say things they could not say in front of you (otherwise could start a physical confrontation.) Some think they are humorous ideologues, but others are just there to cause trouble. It does not matter whether they have a valid factual point, because as Hardwick remarks “everyone has a voice” on the net. But opinion has steam rolled truth, which Laporte feels is a dangerous when editorial and news is blurred into one. Consumers cannot tell the difference between what is fact or what is made up. And the trend is that making up stories is what the net consumer wants. The same growth twist is happening to crowd sourcing sites. Kickstarter fights the image of being a “store” where people pay to pre-order new products or gadgets. Kickstarter is a seed money vehicle for inventors to test, develop and prototype products for later sale. But many people have morphed it into a cheap (and potentially unaccountable) sales and marketing machine. But this aspect of tech culture falls into a subcategory of instant gratification. People are getting lazier because there is app for anything. The “sharing economy” is an example of how people doing other people's chores through a connection smartphone app is turning a large segment of the populous into lazy human beings. People will park your car for you, shop your groceries, or walk your pet at a moment's notice. The concept that more and more people are bonding with their technology is wasting other opportunities including living a life. “Boredom is the gateway to creativity,” Laporte said. People with the digital world in the palm of their hand are distracted but not bored. They have no desire to write a new symphony because they get instant gratification from playing Angry Birds. Laporte panned that upon their death beds, people will suddenly realize “oh shit, what happened?” One topic discussed for a long time was virtual reality. This technology is still at its infancy, but the potential applications are wide spread. Laporte thought Google Glass was merely an R&D experiment by Google to gather data for something else, like an augmented reality device that overlays information over a person's real world view. This is different than an immersive experience of virtual reality where one is transported into a different fantasy world. What may jump start a new industry is pornography. Laporte admitted that VR porn is a strange and haunting experience especially when you change gender in the program. How people consume entertainment will continually change. This Nerdist podcast lasts just over an hour. It is a very interesting discussion of technology and current culture. |
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cyberbarf SEX-A-PEEL ARTICLE There has been an old saying that all actions of humans are motivated by sex. This topic has been trending for the last few months in news stories. Reader discretion is advised. Sex sells. Whether it is inferred or direct, sex is one of the main consumer gears in our economy. People have a pursuable interest in other people's private lives. To feed this beast, the net is filled with stories and products and the misuse of technology all in the name of sex. Just as the next election cycle was about to begin, Missouri Speaker of the House John Diehl was caught allegedly exchanging a string of cringe-worthy texts with a 19-year-old female intern. A family values politician with a wife and children gets his private electronic messages published in the papers. In American political circles, this is another classic bimbo eruption. The Kansas City Star got hold of the speaker's steamy text record in which he got pretty fresh with a freshman from Missouri Southern State University. At one point Diehl wrote, “God I want you right now,” to which the girl replied, “I wish you could have me right now.” The speaker then went on to say how he “will have my way with you” and “leave you quivering.” The girl was an enthusiastic participant in this sexting, using cheery little emoticons to emphasize that she was ready to romp. “I just want you to be in charge,” she wrote. “After all, I do like a man in charge” -- emphasizing that point with a little winking yellow balloon head. Even though Diehl was almost 30 years her senior, it seems that power truly is an aphrodisiac. Until his resignation from office, the 49-year-old Diehl had been a hard-charging player in Missouri politics. As the leader of a dominant Republican majority, the speaker was counted as Missouri's second-most-powerful state official after Democratic Governor Jay Nixon. But his ego, personal weakness, infidelity or office “entitlements” led to his down fall. This is not the first nor will be the last of this kind of political sex scandal. On the flip side of the same coin, another scandal had many people running for their delete keys. When the Ashley Madison website's slogan invites users to have an affair, its user database was a blackmailed'Ős dream. As WIRED reported, hackers sole sensitive personal information from the “cheating” site's users. The hackers used their illegal digital break- in to morally blackmail not the site's users, but to demand the shutdown of the site itself. Avid Life Media, owner of the social network for married people seeking to have affairs known as AshleyMadison.com, admitted in a statement that it had been the target of a serious hacker intrusion. According to KrebsonSecurity, which broke the news, the hackers have published samples of stolen data, which appears to include information on the site's nearly 40 million users, company financial data such as salary figures, and even maps of the companyŐs internal network. At first glance, the breach seems like an almost unprecedented personal privacy disaster: Any of the millions of users of AshleyMadison.com seeking a discreet extramarital affair could potentially have had their identifying data stolen by the hackers. As Krebs reported, the hackers have already published examples of that user data, though itŐs not clear precisely what personal information it included (at this time.) In a followup statement to WIRED from Avid Life Media, , the company writes that it has used copyright infringement takedown requests to have “all personally identifiable information about our users” deleted from the unnamed websites where it was published. But that is no guarantee that the hackers will not publish the data again elsewhere or sell it to others who could use it for fraud or blackmail. One fall-out of the hack is that many suspecting spouses may be rushing divorce lawyers for counsel and advice. In addition to signing up for an adultery site, registered users gave the company personal credit card data. And once the story broke, users soon found out they could not fully delete their account or data, even after paying a termination fee. This is a compounding public relations disaster of the year. From behind the scenes exploitation to public displays of shame, two stories from the New York Post: China is an extremely morally conservative nation. It's government enforces strict codes of personal conduct. The government tries to monitor all communications, including information and videos on the web. So officials were aghast when a steamy video purportedly taken inside a Uniqlo fitting room in Beijing gave the clothing retailer some uncomfortable police attention. Online searches for the Japanese clothing brand soared this week after the viral spread of the video apparently showing a young couple having sex in the Chinese capital's flagship store. But the video also has drawn the concern of police and China's highest web regulator, who are investigating whether it was a vulgar marketing gimmick. The 71-second video shows a man filming himself with a woman in front of a mirror. A Uniqlo store announcement can be heard clearly in the background welcoming customers and advising them that fitting rooms are on the second and third floors while cashiers are on the first. Uniqlo has denied any involvement in the video. It also has urged shoppers to make proper use of its fitting rooms, which already have become a euphemism for make-out spots among China's web users, who are urging other clothing retailers to enlarge their fitting rooms to attract new clientele. Four people have been detained in connection with a sex video. A police statement said the couple admitted sending the video, which was made in April, to a friend on popular mobile chatting app WeChat, and that it later somehow appeared on the Sina Weibo's microblogging platform. A 19-year-old man is suspected of posting the video online and the other three of spreading obscene information, the statement said. In China, people convicted of disseminating obscene books, films, pictures and videos face up to two years' imprisonment, while those who make obscene products for profit face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. China's cyberspace administration has already chastised two of the country's main Internet companies, Sina Corp. which runs Sina Weibo, and Tencent Holding Ltd. which runs WeChat, for allowing the video to spread. From those who anonymously post sexy videos, comes the story of the Canadian woman who defiantly owned her public sex romp. A 20-year-old woman, Alexis Frulling, in the middle of a viral video scandal said she has no regrets after being filmed having a threesome with two men. The Mirror reports the public carnal acts, involving , was filmed by an unknown person at the Stampede Festival in Calgary, Canada. The sex she had was with two friends she had hooked up with before, she said to Vice.com. They were heading to the Wiz Khalifa show during the Stampede and making sexy jokes. They decided it would be funny to have a threesome. At first, she hesitated, but then decided to “just do what [she] want[s].” They went to a discrete downtown alley between industrial buildings. What they failed to account for was the person overlooking the scene from a second floor balcony who filmed the entire thing and felt the need to put it on Reddit. Within days of being uploaded to social media, hundreds of thousands of people had viewed the NSFW video, with some able to identify the woman involved. Before long, nasty comments began to flood in criticizing Frulling and her raunchy behavior. Now the buxom brunette has fired back at her haters with a bizarre video response, which contains simulated sex with a cucumber and breast fondling. Police are still investigating, and that person who made the video might be charged. Posting intimate images of someone else without their consent is illegal in Canada. Frulling and the two men involved could also face as public sex is also illegal, but police have not charged them to date. From the consensual to horrible misuse of technology, Engadget reported a 21-year-old from New Hampshire has been charged with a range of crimes surrounding a grisly extortion scheme involving underage girls. The Department of Justice accused Ryan J. Vallee of allegedly hacking into several teenagers' social media accounts, holding them hostage unless they sent him explicit images of themselves. If they didn't comply, he would threaten the girls with “additional harm,” although after obtaining the pictures, he distributed them to others anyway. In addition, Vallee is alleged said to have accessed the victim's Amazon accounts and ordered “items of a sexual nature,” which were then sent to their homes, causing untold distress. It is the second high-profile digital “sextortion” case that has cropped up this year after the successful prosecution of another New Hampshire case where that defendant, a 26-year-old now serving 105 years in prison after posing as a teenage boy and tricking teen girls into giving him explicit images of themselves. He too, then threatened the victims with exposure unless they complied with his requests for more pictures. Then finally, there are trolls even in the sex product industry.Gizmondo site reported that the dream of teledildonics, or having sex over the Internet using remote-controlled sex toys, has been around since the 1990s. Every once in a while, new companies try to perfect the technology, so that you can enhance your sexting with a little something extra. But now the dream is about to die - - - thanks to patent trolls. The U.S. patent office granted what some critics call an overbroad patent for a “Method and device for interactive virtual control of sexual aids using digital computer networks.” In other words, controlling a sex toy with any kind of computer network. This crazily overbroad description from the patent filing explains what is covered by the patent: It is a primary object of the invention to provide a system that permits an operator to have interactive control of a sexual aid used to stimulate a recipient that is remotely located from the operator. It is a further object of the invention to provide a system in which an operator may stimulate a recipient over currently existing computer networks, such as the Internet. It is yet another object of the invention to provide a multi-media event, such as a prerecorded video feed, that automatically operates a stimulation aid located at a user interface. The application only shows a Basic flow chart diagram on patent application but not how his invention actually works. Patent holder TZU recently bought this broad patent and began to sue several sex toy startups for infringement. Companies caught in the patent litigation include Comingle, a company that is taking pre-orders for its product, a programmable dildo called the Mod. Happy Haptics Inc., which does business as Frixion, a software system for virtual sex. Internet Services LLC, which creates RealTouch, a male masturbation device, and also offers the RealTouch interactive service. Holland Haptics, which creates the Frebble, a Kickstarter-backed project that suggests nothing more salacious than virtual hand-holding. Frebble's Kickstarter page suggests it has just recently been delivered to Hong Kong-based backers. Winzz, which creates the LovePalz vibrator, another product available for pre-order. The author of the sex-toy blog Metafetish, which first noted the TZU lawsuits, pointed out that LovePalz said it started shipping products in 2013, but no one has seen the device actually working. Vibease, which makes a Bluetooth-controlled vibrator. It appears to be the only one of the six companies sued by TZU that is actually selling a product. Commentators believe the suits have no merit. One possible outcome of this would be the defendants establishment the prior art for teledildonics. Assuming a product created before August 1997 was found, the defendants could file an inter partes review to the patent office to possibly invalidate the patent which would open the field to all sorts of new products in the world of networked sex toys (or even networked toys for kissy noises).
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cyberbarf EXAMINE THE NET WAY OF LIFE cyberbarf 15 YEARS CYBERCULT Friends, cyberbarf now enters its 15th year of continuous monthly publication. We thank you for all your support and readership. As more time changes things, there is a level of sentimental nostalgia that certain things steadfastly remain the same. We could have easily moved this site to a wordpress blog with random daily musings or links to other sites. We could have bit the bullet a long time ago and poured yahoo or google ads into the white spaces of the pages. We could have just realized that a monthly deadline is still a time consuming deadline and faded this site into one of those tombstones you find high up on your computer book mark lists. But no, we forge on because we are interested, amused, bemused and confused by modern technology and cyberculture. We stats are as guarded as the gold in Fort Knox. But throughout the 15 years, one thing has been fairly consistent; 3,000 unique visitors come to cyberbarf each month to view the articles, cartoons and essays. At his peak, writer George Plimpton said that he would give up all his heavy weight big media writing chores and he would be content open up a small New England literary magazine with 3,000 subscribers. We feel the same way. But rummaging around the back alleys of the interwebs, you can stumble across random, unverified bits of information. We know that there are hundreds of millions of web pages floating around the net like drops of water in the oceans. As of this writing, there was 972, 145, 613 active web sites. It is very difficult to know, track or comprehend who sees, reads or reacts to anything anyone publishes on the web. But really, that is not the point. People put things out on the net because they want to - - - it is a simple need to be expressive, creative and heard, even if it is to one stranger across the planet who stumbled upon your words or art by mistake. It is the potential power of connection that is hard wired into each human being. It called a community spirit. Whether you find it in your family, circle of friends, real world work colleagues or through social media groups, it is still a force that people need to release into the wild. The vast majority of people who post on the internet do so with no profit motive or personal gain. Only a microscopic fraction of those who run web sites actually make a living from posting original content. Ski has never been a big self-promoter. He does not make a livelihood from his web sites. He does not need to. He believes there is a form of independent purity in that fact that eludes the aggregators, the IPO sites and click bait mavens that grab the business headlines. So it comes with odd and strange fanfare that we learned the following this month: How cyberbarf “ranks” in global terms. GLOBAL RANK: 15,142,353 COUNTRY RANK: 227,238 (Columbia) CATEGORY RANK: 1,554,896 (Arts & Entertainment) If one takes the total number of active web sites minus global rank that equals 957,003,260 sites ranked lower than this one. That means cyberbarf is technically in the top 98.5 percent of active web sites by global rank. That seems both weird and absurd. The rankings must take into consideration traffic and posting new content. There are many personal blog pages that are probably seen by a few family members on an irregular basis. There are business web pages which are static advertising like a cut and paste yellow page ad. It also shows that there are so many web pages and information out in the web, it is a lonely wilderness of connections. Like the old fallen tree in the forest adage, if you post something on the Internet, will it be seen? But the most surprising thing is that cyberbarf's most “popular” ranking based on a country's top web sites is Columbia! Columbia!
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