Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
Nielsen ratings are based on how many households are watching a particular program. You have to have their special cable box connected to your tv in order for them to determine what you are watching. People volunteer to get this box because it makes them feel important. They are part of a random sample population. Nielsen takes this segment of the population and then through statistical analysis they determine that "x-amount of households across the country watched <insert program here>." Most of these boxes are in the southern California area. Anyway, that's how Nielsen works. You need this special transmitting box attached to your tv. My parents friends down in Irvine have one.
“The more I study science the more I believe in God.” -- Albert Einstein
Some places don't even use the boxes. You have a form you fill out and send in.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
Nah, my aunt and uncle did that several years ago. It probably has to do with how close you are to an actual Nielsen office.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
Tikker you live in Canada. Here they are proposing laws so they can track stuff like that for advertising.
Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
Martrae wrote:Tikker you live in Canada. Here they are proposing laws so they can track stuff like that for advertising.
see, and that kind of sounds like a good thing
if I start getting hit with ads for Hockey, Computer stuff, camping, etc etc instead of the random viagra/penis pump/whatever ads I see now it seems like a positive tradeoff
I actually have very little problem with targeted marketing
not to get off topic but how many of us actually watch the ads? The only time I watch them is if they get a good laugh out of me. Most times I hit the Fast Forward on my DVR.
no he shouldnt be but it his business. Just like it is mine fucking business. I dont want some peckerwood ggeek at Microsoft rummaging around in my data. Plain and simple. If you dont think they wont exploit the fuck out of this your living in a dreamworld.
kaharthemad wrote:no he shouldnt be but it his business. Just like it is mine fucking business. I dont want some peckerwood ggeek at Microsoft rummaging around in my data. Plain and simple. If you dont think they wont exploit the fuck out of this your living in a dreamworld.
feel free to explain how they will exploit my love of hockey, or RPG gaming?
i'm mostly playing devil's advocate here, but I really don't see what the big deal is
kaharthemad wrote:no he shouldnt be but it his business. Just like it is mine fucking business. I dont want some peckerwood ggeek at Microsoft rummaging around in my data. Plain and simple. If you dont think they wont exploit the fuck out of this your living in a dreamworld.
feel free to explain how they will exploit my love of hockey, or RPG gaming?
i'm mostly playing devil's advocate here, but I really don't see what the big deal is
lets say you keep data on your computer for your business? whats to stop them on one of their routine sweeps from downloading it?
Security rule number 1: If you think it has security floaws. then it probably does.
How about you run a business from home tik? Whats the difference between me jimmying your door to look for illegal smut and such, and Jimmying your computer to check for pirated software. I might not find either but both are stillan invasion of privacy.
Look all I am saying is the first chance someone gets they wil exploit the fuck out of this. If you dont think a hacker wont find a way to use this your sorely mistaken.
What about government computers? From what I am reading in Wired they will be able to bypass most firewalls because it appears to be a 'authorized patch' from microsoft. Do you actually trust them not to look at any thing that says Top Secret? Most of these dinks dont even live in our country. I just dont feel comfortable having some Malaysian named "Stan' diggin around in there. Hell I dont even trust them fucking with my shit.
