While I'm surprised at the granularity, this seems like it would be needed at some point to generate read times and such. Kindle tells you how much time is left in a book and this is either a WAG or something based on data.
Yes, this information would be needed at some point to generate read times.
But why does it need to be calculated on Amazon's servers? AFAIK Kindles are running a linux kernel with a lot of busybox, and calculating a running average doesn't appear (to me) to be a particularly difficult calculation.
Perhaps it can be argued that this calculation uses battery, but so does sending all of this telemetry to el Amazon.
What I'm saying here is that I think that we shouldn't concede privacy in return for convenient little UI widgets, especially when the computing power is available, cheaply, locally.
I think your Kindle use case is single device but mine is across 4 devices so doing anything fully locally doesn’t really work. Unless each device would need to be trained.
> don't we also have to factor in possible different text sizes on these devices, too?
The kindle tracks progress via the actual amount of text read instead of pages, so the screen and text size should be irrelevant. It can still be switched to display the page number, but that is also independent of the amount of text on the screen(meaning it doesn't necessarily increase with every swipe to the next "page").
>The kindle tracks progress via the actual amount of text read instead of pages
This doesn't seem to me like what the tweet is describing, wherein the kindle is registering every tap instead of distinct "x words/chars progress made".
If they were capturing and storing "X words in fiction read in n seconds", I could understand it, but they're not: they're registering every tap.
I'd be interested to see how this matches up with "userChangedTextSizeToBlah" data if this is how they're calculating reading speed.
However Apple or Amazon didn't back up their claims. If Bloomberg published an article of this magnitude which could be demonstrably disproved, it'd kill Newsweek's reputation.
More importantly, think of what would be Bloomberg's reasons to publish a false story versus Amazon and Apple's reason to deny a true story.
The Commissions position is that the conduct would have been barred previously. With the consent order, WB has essentially lost the ability to claim that the conduct is not barred in any future actions, since it will be a violation of the consent order irrespective if it was a violation of the generally applicable rules or not.
A slap on the wrist is appropriate here. There were apparently 5.5 million views of sponsored content. The total value of that commerce is a few thousand dollars in AdSense revenue.
The calculation (admittedly a difficult one) should not be based on the amount of AdSense revenue generated, but the revenue generated by the number of people who bought the game based on Youtube_Personality's recommendation. Shadows of Mordor cost $60 at launch. Let's say just 20,000 people went out and bought the game as a result. Suddenly, the value of that fraudulent promotion is $1,200,000.
Shadows of Mordor cost $60 at launch. Let's say just 20,000 people went out and bought the game as a result. Suddenly, the value of that fraudulent promotion is $120,000.
But with a small fractional multiplier - the ad sense revenue is a measurement of Google's chargeable added value on those sales, not the revenue or profit accrued to the advertiser.
> The total value of that commerce is a few thousand dollars in AdSense revenue
Incorrect. Youtube videos are reportedly from personalities giving an honest opinion. Adsense is advertising. Most people know the difference and if they made a choice to buy the game based on that information they have been defrauded. 5.5 Million * 60 = $330 Million, not a few thousand dollars.
I understand that, it's merely illustrative of the cost of fraud like this. If I buy an ad in the paper that says I can cure cancer for 10k, you go after the 10k not the $100 I paid to place the ad.
Sure, but you don't multiply the 10k by the number of papers sold. You multiply it by the number of people that sent you the money because they saw the ad in the paper.
I am curious to find out how many reports they got from riders who saw the researchers. I know that if I saw someone releasing gas like in the picture in the article, I'd quickly find someone to talk to about it.
That said, hopefully they can validate models which will provide optimum locations for detectors, as well as action plans once a detection occurs, such as kill all cars near the detection and change venting airflows.
A guy in one of my old units used to carry a clipboard in the Army everywhere he went. He explained to us some years later that the clipboard was how he avoided being chosen for work details for years and years. Phenomenally clever idea.
Similar note, I found I could walk out of class anytime in high school and wander the halls as long as I looked sufficiently stressed. As long as you look like you have a purpose people will not bother you (unless you look like you have a purpose that you aren't fulfilling I suppose).
Yeah, totally. It works for avoiding too much attention from authority figures. I will never forget one time I was having a BBQ in an unauthorized area with my mom and ex-wife when this fat Air Force dude rolls by on his Segway. I turned to them and said "Just look like we're supposed to be here" but both of them, not being very good liars, continued with the deer-in-headlights look that guaranteed the guy started asking questions and eventually got us kicked off that part of the beach.
There have also been a few PSAs that I've seen over the past few weeks. I'm sure not every subway rider saw these and was thus okay with what was going on, but a fair bit probably did. I learned about the tests all the way up in Albany, I assume there was a more robust announcement in the city itself (but maybe not).
I'm a daily rider on the 4/5 and C lines, and I didn't see the ads for this. A semi-random sampling of my colleges where I work (upper east side) saw mixed knowledge about the tests.
I once called the police in London, because there was a group of men in masks using angle grinders on the door of a bank while the alarm was going off, and the operator said 'well if they're doing it in broad daylight I doubt they're up to no good'. Fine.
