Non-IT News Thread
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Netflix feels the pressure as competitors circle
As the famed and admired early-mover in the high-quality streaming industry, Netflix has built a formidable business worth in the region of $125bn. In the past three months, it added 6.7million new subscribers, bringing its total userbase to 153million worldwide.
But the next three months will prove to be its most challenging yet. Soon, Netflix will be competing with Disney+, HBO Max and Apple+ - all companies with enormous brand recognition and a strong desire to take their own slice of streaming’s riches. On Wednesday, Netflix wrote to investors to tell them that competition would be a good thing. The rising tide of streaming services would just tempt more people away from “linear TV”, as they term it, and into streaming services. “Just like the evolution from broadcast TV to cable, these once-in-a-generation changes are very large and open up big, new opportunities for many players,” the company told investors. -
El Chapo: Mexican police free drug lord's son as Culiacán battle erupts
Heavy fighting broke out in northern Mexico on Thursday after security forces detained a son of the jailed drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
Fighting raged for several hours after Ovidio Guzmán López was found during a routine patrol in the city of Culiacán. Footage showed heavily-armed men firing on police, with cars, bodies and burning barricades strewn in the road. Police withdrew without Mr Guzmán in their custody to avoid further violence, officials said. Mexico's security minister, Alfonso Durazo, told Reuters news agency that a patrol of National Guard militarised police came under intense fire from outside the house where they had located Mr Guzmán, forcing them to retreat from the building for their own safety and "to recover calm in the city". -
BBC News - Boeing staff texted about 737 Max issue in 2016
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BBC News - Chile protests: Unrest in Santiago over metro fare increase
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BBC News - Brexit: Commons set for knife-edge votes on deal
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BBC News - Brexit: Johnson vows to press on despite defeat over deal delay
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This is interesting. I already knew about Aluminum Air Fuel cells, but I had no idea someone had worked out a, reportedly, non-toxc version that makes it cost effective.
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Tornados here in Dallas. We had to take shelter for one of them (so far.)
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Drugs firms reach $260m opioid settlement
Four drugs companies have reached a $260m (£200m) deal over their role in fuelling the US opioid crisis.
The agreement means that a nine-week trial, which had been scheduled to start in Cleveland, has been avoided. It settles accusations by two counties against Israel-based drugmaker Teva and drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. A trial for Walgreens Boots Alliance, which had also been accused, will be rescheduled. The last-minute deal with Summit and Cuyahoga counties was announced on Monday by the judge overseeing the trial in Ohio. It had been closely watched as the first of thousands of similar cases to go forward. -
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/happily-never-after-heres-why-disney-doesnt-support-linux
The top respondents are people who are suggesting you steal the content you want. . . doesn't really solve the issue, if anything is just makes it worse because Disney may never see the number of people that are subscribed and unable to use their service and cancel it.
Getting them to change.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/happily-never-after-heres-why-disney-doesnt-support-linux
The top respondents are people who are suggesting you steal the content you want. . . doesn't really solve the issue, if anything is just makes it worse because Disney may never see the number of people that are subscribed and unable to use their service and cancel it.
Getting them to change.
Simply refusing to be customers is something that they will never see, either.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/happily-never-after-heres-why-disney-doesnt-support-linux
The top respondents are people who are suggesting you steal the content you want. . . doesn't really solve the issue, if anything is just makes it worse because Disney may never see the number of people that are subscribed and unable to use their service and cancel it.
Getting them to change.
Simply refusing to be customers is something that they will never see, either.
But if you are a customer, who has a device that runs linux, and can't use it. Presumably if you cancelled your service (as apposed to using another device) you'd state why you were cancelling the service.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/happily-never-after-heres-why-disney-doesnt-support-linux
The top respondents are people who are suggesting you steal the content you want. . . doesn't really solve the issue, if anything is just makes it worse because Disney may never see the number of people that are subscribed and unable to use their service and cancel it.
Getting them to change.
Simply refusing to be customers is something that they will never see, either.
But if you are a customer, who has a device that runs linux, and can't use it. Presumably if you cancelled your service (as apposed to using another device) you'd state why you were cancelling the service.
Not likely. Because if you were smart enough to do so, you'd almost be smart enough to not have subscribed in the first place. And second, almost no service gets canceled with information as to why it is canceled. And third, most places that get information as to why things are canceled have a department that removes "answers they don't like" before it gets to anyone in charge so that what customers are actually experiencing is hidden from the organization.
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This was on August 2019.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20811513/disney-plus-launch-devices-iphone-ipad-apple-tv-roku-android-subscription
Desktop web browsers (except for Linux)
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I wonder why Linux doesn't / can't support this level of Widevine.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Widevine
https://www.widevine.com/about
I guess its not exactly trusted by Disney?
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I think it has to have more to do with this
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BBC News - Canada election: Trudeau's Liberals win but set to lose majority
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Bolivia election: Anger mounts over result confusion
Violent protests have erupted in at least nine cities in Bolivia amid ongoing confusion about the result of Sunday's presidential election.
Suspicion arose among opponents of the incumbent, Evo Morales, after the quick count was surprisingly halted. His main rival, Carlos Mesa, said the quick count's results were fraudulent. Counting is still under way with Mr Morales in first place but currently with not enough of a lead to stave off a second round. Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal is currently running two separate counts. The quick count, at 95.6% of votes verified, puts Mr Morales ahead of Mr Mesa with a lead of 9.33 percentage points. That is just short of the 10-percentage-point advantage he needs to win outright in the first round. If that result were to be confirmed, Mr Morales and Mr Mesa would face each other in a run-off on 15 December. The detailed count shows the two neck and neck. With 72% of the votes counted, Mr Morales just had a 0.58 percentage point lead over Mr Mesa, making a second round highly likely.
