for IBM DB2 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition Restricted Use Activation V11.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Multilingual By www.ibm.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0600 IBM DB2 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition Restricted Use Activation V11.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Multilingual Full Article
for IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual By www.ibm.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0600 IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual Full Article
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for IBM SDK, Java (TM) Technology Edition, Version 8 for Windows By www.ibm.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0600 IBM SDK, Java (TM) Technology Edition, Version 8 for Windows Full Article
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for FESTIVAL: CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Canceled For June 19-27. Producers Working To Reschedule Festival To Fall 2020 By news.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: 2020-04-06T15:11:47+00:00 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Producers Marc Iacona and John Nugent announced today that the festival's 19th edition, originally scheduled for June 19-27, will be canceled on those dates due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but that they are working hard to reschedule the festival to fall of 2020.... Full Article
for CONTEST: 7 Virtual Jazz Club's Contest - 5th Edition Applications For 2020 Are Now Open By news.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: 2020-04-11T09:36:02+00:00 7 Virtual Jazz Club continues its worldwide search for emerging and underrecognized creative musicians of all ages and backgrounds. This Year's Categories Under 25 Amateurs and Pros To enter the contest, soloists and groups pay a small registration fee and submit a video (maximum seven minutes) of their ... Full Article
for WEBSITE: Livestreaming An Event? Plan It, Promote It And Broadcast It At All About Jazz and Jazz Near You For Maximum Exposure By news.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: 2020-04-13T22:27:11+00:00 Looking to raise funds for a cause during COVID-19? Have a new album to promote? If so, your friends at All About Jazz can help. All About Jazz is currently broadcasting select livestream programs as we pivot our platform to present music performances, album release concerts, master classes, interviews, and more... Full Article
for AWARD / GRANT: Artist Relief - Coronavirus - Americans For The Arts By news.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: 2020-04-22T03:49:13+00:00 To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States. Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19; serve as an ongoing informational resource; and co-launch the ... Full Article
for Summer weight "sweatpants" for working from home By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:08:51 GMT These sweatpants are my everyday wear while we shelter in place. I'm looking for something similar but in a much lighter, summer weight. Key features: - elastic waist - roomy in the belly (that's where I carry my excess weight) - pockets (!) - full length pants (31" inseam so not "Tall" but a little longer than some) - made in USA Full Article pants
for What's the right second monitor for me? By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:28:52 GMT Working from home on an entry-level 16-inch 2019 MBP running Catalina.I currently use an ancient 27-inch Apple monitor (so ancient that I have to daisy-chain a Thunderbolt 1-2 adapter and Thunderbolt 2-USB-C adapter to use it). It works fine, but I really miss having my two-monitor work setup (for various reasons, the laptop screen doesn't work for me in this role). Just using Word and Excel and similar here, no crazy graphic demands. Ability to pass through power to the laptop, or to dock other peripherals, would be nice, but is not required. What should I be looking at? Wrinkle: my desk is against the window the view from which is the one aesthetically appealing aspect of this apartment. There's no way a second monitor won't tragically increase the amount of the view that's blocked, but I would prefer a compact footprint. Maybe one that can rotate to portrait mode? Full Article apple macbookpro monitor
for Why would my temperature be consistently high for weeks? By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 02:04:57 GMT Asking for friend: Normally my temperature tends to run a little low: 97.8-98.3 is typical. For the past two months, my temperature has been consistently around 99.5, about a degree and half above what is normal for me. What would cause that?I have a couple of long term, chronic health problems but no new symptoms that make me think I have a current infection. Blood tests taken shortly after this started were normal. Is this my new normal? Is there something I should ask my doctor to check out? Full Article bodytemperature fever
for Soothing books with short chapters for pandemic brain and despair By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:38:29 GMT I recently finished Margaret Renkl's Late Migrations. It was the perfect book for right now, accommodating my fractured attention span, frequent insomnia, and deep grief and despair at the state of the world. Almost every chapter was less than 3 pages, and most involve nature intertwined with family memories. What other books are like this?I try to keep a bedside book I can read before I fall asleep or when I'm dealing with insomnia. Not only do I really like the format of chapters that are less than a few pages long, it helps if the chapters don't have a lot of continuity so that if I read one at 3 AM and forget it the next day, I can pick up at the next chapter without having to go back and reread. I love the voice of women nature writers like Terry Tempest Williams, Rachel Carson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Rebecca Solnit (her earlier works) but most of their books seem to have chapters longer than what my brain can handle right now. Recommendations don't have to be light - explorations into grief and pain are okay. I prefer something with more modern language (for example, while I love Moby Dick and am rereading it right now as my non-bedside book, the language is a little too antiquated and "extra" for what I need in a bedside book). Other books I've found which scratch this itch are things like a compilation of thirty years of a naturalists column from a local newspaper. Full Article book books nature naturewriting pandemicbrain reading
for How do I add a criteria to the aggregate function in this excel formula? By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:45:43 GMT I've been working with this Excel formula for a month or so. It comes from Leila Gharani's Youtube tutorial.=IF(ROWS($A$1000:$A1000)<$J$291,INDEX($B$2:$B$300,AGGREGATE(15,3,($N$2:$N$300="Japanese")/($N$2:$N$300="Japanese")*ROW($N$2:$N$300)-ROW($N$1),ROWS($A$1000:$A1000)))," ") In this iteration, it's indexing column B, which is a list of movie names, and returning a list of every Japanese language film. Film languages are listed in column N. The formula takes advantage of Aggregate's "Ignore error" option; since Excel treats yeses as 1's and nos as 0's, dividing the aggregate results by itself returns an error for all the nos, since you can't divide by zero. Pretty clever. Then the formula multiplies the 1 by the row where it's located, and finally returns the smallest number in the list to the index function (then the second smallest, then third smallest as you drag down the formula). My question is, how do I add criteria so the film not only has to be in Japanese, but also has to have a RottenTomatoes score of >75%, if Column T is RottenTomatoes scores? I'm feel I should just multiply the Japanese criteria by the RT criteria in brackets and then divide that product by itself, but I keep getting errors when I try this. Maybe my syntax is screwy? And yes, I know it would be a lot easier to do this using VBA, but I'm running the workbook on Sharepoint, which doesn't support VBA. Thanks! Full Article Excel excelFormulas excelFunctions
for Recommendation for a simpler newer TV By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:24:13 GMT My mom is 90 and the new Samsung we got for her is so newfangled even I can barely figure out its set up and functions -- especially related to SOUND as there is NO headphone jack, no Bluetooth -- only the new optic sound hookup for a wireless headphone arrangement -- which is constantly failing and needs resetting -- which she is clueless about.Do there even exist nowadays televisions that are not so computer-modern high-maintenance 2001-Space-Odyssey delicate? We're constantly having to go over to her house and f_ck with the set to get things functioning again as she can't hear without the headphones -- only for her to hit the wrong button on the remote while alone, and all is lost. Thanks! Full Article tech television
for Antonia Tully on compulsory sex education for four year olds - BBC Radio Wales By archive.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:29:29 GMT Antonia Tully of SPUC's Safe at School was interviewed on BBC Radio Wales in response to the news that the Government is introducing compulsory sex and relationships education for children as young as four....This item belongs to: movies/opensource_movies.This item has files of the following types: Metadata Full Article movies/opensource_movies
for ISSTA 2019 Presentation and Performance By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:36:29 +0000 Currently I’m in Cork, Ireland to present and perform at the International Sound in Science Technology and the Arts (ISSTA 2019) conference. This year on Thursday, October 31st I am scheduled to give a paper about a project I have … Continue reading → Full Article Audio News Performance Writing Bass Station II ISSTA Korg nanoKONTROL Organelle Robert Henke
for REV2 Degrader™ Available for Pre-order By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:46:31 +0000 The software I used to design the AudioCookbook REV2 Experimental Patch Bank has been refined and developed into a standalone application titled, REV2 Degrader™. It is currently in beta and will be available in early March, 2020. If you’re interested … Continue reading → Full Article Audio News Max Prophet Rev2 REV2 Degrader Software
for HYDRAMORPH™ Morphing Editor for the ASM Hydrasynth By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:12:08 +0000 During self-isolation due to COVID-19 my teaching has moved online affording me more time toward individual projects. I had already started a building a morphing editor for the Ashun Sound Machines Hydrasynth, so this is where I have been directing … Continue reading → Full Article Audio News Max Sound Design Experimental Generative Glitch HYDRAMORPH Hydrasynth Software Video
for Grid: Decomposing Force By www.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:01:04 +0000 A lot of recognisable names and musical micro climes run through the blood and wires of this aggressive three. Jimi Hendrix, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, pure punk, death metal ... [ read more ] Full Article
for Borth Audio Releases Free Typewriter Sounds For NI Kontakt By bedroomproducersblog.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:32:38 +0000 Borth Audio has released Typewriter, a free sound library add-on for the Native Instruments Kontakt sampler. As the name suggests, Typewriter features a set of audio samples of an actual typewriter. This includes the sounds of typing, individual keys being pressed (Spacebar, Shift, and Caps Lock), levers, and various paper noises(feed, eject, crumple, tear). Six-octave [...] View post: Borth Audio Releases Free Typewriter Sounds For NI Kontakt Full Article News Free Soundware Kontakt
for The Sounds Of An Old Van – Bedford Rascal Free Sample Pack By bedroomproducersblog.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 10:44:25 +0000 Sourc Sync has released Bedford Rascal, a free sample pack featuring the sounds of an old Bedford van. The sample pack contains a collection of percussive sounds, squeaky noises, and processed loops. These were all made by banging, hitting, and otherwise “mistreating” an old van. All samples are provided in WAV format and the library [...] View post: The Sounds Of An Old Van – Bedford Rascal Free Sample Pack Full Article News Free Soundware WAV
for Andreas Pohl Releases FREE AudioGridder Plugin For macOS By bedroomproducersblog.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 11:22:27 +0000 Developer Andreas Pohl has released AudioGridder, a macOS-only client-server system that lets you offload plugin processing to any other computers in your network. As you probably know, plugins and virtual instruments can be rather hungry for CPU resources. Even if you have a powerful computer, a single DAW session with multiple instances of virtual synthesizers, [...] View post: Andreas Pohl Releases FREE AudioGridder Plugin For macOS Full Article News 32-bit 64-bit Free Software Mac
for 8Dio Releases FREE Cajon And Bongo Library For NI Kontakt By bedroomproducersblog.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 11:54:26 +0000 8Dio has released The New Cajon and Bongo, a freely downloadable percussion sound library for Native Instruments Kontakt. The New Cajon and Bongo sound library is based on over 7,500 individual Cajon drum and bongo sounds. The sounds were captured from four bongos, two Cajon drums, and two Cajon snares with multiple articulations and velocity [...] View post: 8Dio Releases FREE Cajon And Bongo Library For NI Kontakt Full Article News Free Soundware Kontakt
for Get Spitfire Audio’s BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover For FREE By bedroomproducersblog.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 19:29:38 +0000 Spitfire Audio is offering the new BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover ($49 value) virtual instrument as a free download for everyone who fills out a questionnaire on the company’s website. The download link will be delivered fourteen days after completing the questionnaire. BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover is Spitfire Audio’s brand new, super-affordable orchestra virtual instrument in [...] View post: Get Spitfire Audio’s BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover For FREE Full Article News 32-bit 64-bit Free Soundware Mac Windows
for Proponen reforma laboral, pagar trabajos por horas, apoyar empresas y trabajadores con decenas de billones de pesos By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 17:59:54 +0200 Hay medidas buenas y no tan buenas, pero el punto de fondo es que todos pongan para superar el Covid19 Full Article
for MinHacienda confirma reforma tributaria tras crisis de Covid-19 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:38:41 +0200 Full Article
for Ohio Electoral College Votes for Bush By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:21:57 GMT The Ohio delegation to the electoral college cast its votes for President Bush on Monday, hours after dissident groups asked the state Supreme Court to review the outcome of the state's presidential race. Full Article
for On Nov. 2, GOP Got More Bang for Its Billion By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:21:57 GMT In the most expensive presidential contest in the nation's history, John F. Kerry and his Democratic supporters nearly matched President Bush and the Republicans, who outspent them by just $60 million, $1.14 billion to $1.08 billion, an analysis shows. Full Article
for Lobbyist Paid for DeLay's Airfare By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:24:27 GMT House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting travel and related expenses from registered lobbyists. The House Majority Leader has said that his expenses on a 2000 trip were paid by a nonprofit organization, and that the financial arrangements for it were proper. Full Article
for Hospitals Services Performed Overseas By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:58:57 GMT A movement toward greater use of telemedicine is widening the spectrum of care doctors can provide from afar and enabling more outsourcing of services overseas. Full Article
for Former WSU Cougars DB Sean Harper Jr. will play for B.C. Lions By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:11:30 -0700 The CFL is idle during the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article Cougar Football Cougars Sports
for Former Washington State tackle Andre Dillard donates strength equipment, nutrition items to alma mater By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:49:04 -0700 The Woodinville grad, who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, sent packages the school will distribute to its athletes. Full Article Cougar Football Cougars Sports
for Grooming Anthony Gordon: Meet the two men who prepared WSU Cougars’ record-setting QB for the draft By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:33:35 -0700 The quarterback is expected to be a third-day pick in this week's NFL draft. Full Article Cougar Football Cougars Sports
for How former WSU Cougars receivers Easop Winston Jr., Brandon Arconado learn to speed up for NFL dreams By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:54:21 -0700 Working with a specialty coach for 10 weeks dropped their 40-yard dash times considerably. Full Article College Football College Sports Cougar Football Cougars Sports
for California wide receiver Orion Peters becomes first WSU Cougars commit in 2021 class By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 10:29:37 -0700 Inglewood (Calif.) High wide receiver Orion Peters pledged to WSU, becoming the first 2021 prospect to do so when he announced his decision on Twitter Friday night. Full Article Cougar Football Cougars Sports
for Due to coronavirus, NCAA grants extra year of eligibility to spring athletes, considers same for winter athletes By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:06:55 -0700 After the cancellation of the spring and winter championships tournaments stemming from concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic, the NCAA will grant an extra year of eligibility to athletes who participate in spring sports, the organization announced Friday. Full Article College Sports Cougar Basketball Cougars Gonzaga Huskies Husky Basketball NCAA Tournament Other Sports Pac-12 Sports
for Poll: How long before you start attending live sporting events once the games resume? By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:46:51 -0700 Full Article College Basketball College Football College Sports Cougar Basketball Cougar Football Cougars Gonzaga Hockey Huskies Husky Basketball Husky Football Mariners MLB NBA NCAA Tournament NFL Reign Seahawks Seattle University Soccer Sounders Sports Storm WNBA XFL Dragons
for Analysis: Four potential transfer targets for Washington State basketball By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:55:53 -0700 The Cougars have been in contact with a handful of potential transfers. Here's a look at four players who’ve reportedly shown interest in WSU and why they’d be a good match. Full Article Cougar Basketball Cougars Sports
for Forward Daron Henson transferring from WSU Cougars to play at Seattle U By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:14:36 -0700 Daron Henson is leaving Washington State to play at his fourth school, but the sharpshooting forward isn’t going far. Full Article Cougar Basketball Cougars Seattle University Sports
for Anti-India clashes continue in tense Kashmir for 3rd day By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 06:57:28 -0700 SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Anti-India protests and clashes continued for a third day in disputed Kashmir on Friday following the killing of a top rebel leader by government forces. Rebel commander Riyaz Naikoo and his aide were killed in a gunfight with Indian troops on Wednesday in the southern Awantipora area, leading to massive clashes […] Full Article Nation & World World
for Amid pandemic, Pompeo to visit Israel for annexation talks By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 09:58:36 -0700 WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Israel next week for a brief visit amid the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, a trip that’s expected to focus on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to annex portions of the West Bank, the State Department said Friday. Pompeo will make the lightning trip to […] Full Article Nation & World Politics World
for A top aide to Vice President Pence tests positive for coronavirus By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:30:30 -0700 WASHINGTON — A top aide to Vice President Mike Pence tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, making her the second known person working at the White House to contract the illness in the past two days, according to several sources familiar with the situation. Katie Miller, the vice president’s press secretary, was notified Friday about […] Full Article Health Nation Nation & World Nation & World Politics World
for Russian volunteers search for fallen World War II soldiers By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:09:09 -0700 KHULKHUTA, Russia (AP) — Crouching over the sun-drenched soil, Alfred Abayev picks up a charred fragment of a Soviet warplane downed in a World War II battle with advancing Nazi forces. “You can see it was burning,” he says, pointing at the weathered trace of a red star. Abayev and members of his search team […] Full Article World
for AMP'd Up for Recaptcha By www.seobook.com Published On :: 2019-06-30T21:47:54+00:00 Beyond search Google controls the leading distributed ad network, the leading mobile OS, the leading web browser, the leading email client, the leading web analytics platform, the leading mapping platform, the leading free video hosting site. They win a lot. And they take winnings from one market & leverage them into manipulating adjacent markets. Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. Imagine taking a universal open standard that has zero problems with it and then stripping it down to it's most basic components and then prepending each element with your own acronym. Then spend years building and recreating what has existed for decades. That is @amphtml— Jon Henshaw (@henshaw) April 4, 2019 AMP is an utterly unnecessary invention designed to further shift power to Google while disenfranchising publishers. From the very start it had many issues with basic things like supporting JavaScript, double counting unique users (no reason to fix broken stats if they drive adoption!), not supporting third party ad networks, not showing publisher domain names, and just generally being a useless layer of sunk cost technical overhead that provides literally no real value. Over time they have corrected some of these catastrophic deficiencies, but if it provided real value, they wouldn't have needed to force adoption with preferential placement in their search results. They force the bundling because AMP sucks. Absurdity knows no bounds. Googlers suggest: "AMP isn’t another “channel” or “format” that’s somehow not the web. It’s not a SEO thing. It’s not a replacement for HTML. It’s a web component framework that can power your whole site. ... We, the AMP team, want AMP to become a natural choice for modern web development of content websites, and for you to choose AMP as framework because it genuinely makes you more productive." Meanwhile some newspapers have about a dozen employees who work on re-formatting content for AMP: The AMP development team now keeps track of whether AMP traffic drops suddenly, which might indicate pages are invalid, and it can react quickly. All this adds expense, though. There are setup, development and maintenance costs associated with AMP, mostly in the form of time. After implementing AMP, the Guardian realized the project needed dedicated staff, so it created an 11-person team that works on AMP and other aspects of the site, drawing mostly from existing staff. Feeeeeel the productivity! Some content types (particularly user generated content) can be unpredictable & circuitous. For many years forums websites would use keywords embedded in the search referral to highlight relevant parts of the page. Keyword (not provided) largely destroyed that & then it became a competitive feature for AMP: "If the Featured Snippet links to an AMP article, Google will sometimes automatically scroll users to that section and highlight the answer in orange." That would perhaps be a single area where AMP was more efficient than the alternative. But it is only so because Google destroyed the alternative by stripping keyword referrers from search queries. The power dynamics of AMP are ugly: "I see them as part of the effort to normalise the use of the AMP Carousel, which is an anti-competitive land-grab for the web by an organisation that seems to have an insatiable appetite for consuming the web, probably ultimately to it’s own detriment. ... This enables Google to continue to exist after the destination site (eg the New York Times) has been navigated to. Essentially it flips the parent-child relationship to be the other way around. ... As soon as a publisher blesses a piece of content by packaging it (they have to opt in to this, but see coercion below), they totally lose control of its distribution. ... I’m not that smart, so it’s surely possible to figure out other ways of making a preload possible without cutting off the content creator from the people consuming their content. ... The web is open and decentralised. We spend a lot of time valuing the first of these concepts, but almost none trying to defend the second. Google knows, perhaps better than anyone, how being in control of the user is the most monetisable position, and having the deepest pockets and the most powerful platform to do so, they have very successfully inserted themselves into my relationship with millions of other websites. ... In AMP, the support for paywalls is based on a recommendation that the premium content be included in the source of the page regardless of the user’s authorisation state. ... These policies demonstrate contempt for others’ right to freely operate their businesses. After enough publishers adopted AMP Google was able to turn their mobile app's homepage into an interactive news feed below the search box. And inside that news feed Google gets to distribute MOAR ads while 0% of the revenue from those ads find its way to the publishers whose content is used to make up the feed. Appropriate appropriation. :D Thank you for your content!!! Well this issue (bug?) is going to cause a sh*t storm... Google @AMPhtml not allowing people to click through to full site? You can’t see but am clicking the link in top right iOS Chrome 74.0.3729.155 pic.twitter.com/dMt5QSW9fu— Scotch.io (@scotch_io) June 11, 2019 The mainstream media is waking up to AMP being a trap, but their neck is already in it: European and American tech, media and publishing companies, including some that originally embraced AMP, are complaining that the Google-backed technology, which loads article pages in the blink of an eye on smartphones, is cementing the search giant's dominance on the mobile web. Each additional layer of technical cruft is another cost center. Things that sound appealing at first blush may not be: The way you verify your identity to Let's Encrypt is the same as with other certificate authorities: you don't really. You place a file somewhere on your website, and they access that file over plain HTTP to verify that you own the website. The one attack that signed certificates are meant to prevent is a man-in-the-middle attack. But if someone is able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against your website, then he can intercept the certificate verification, too. In other words, Let's Encrypt certificates don't stop the one thing they're supposed to stop. And, as always with the certificate authorities, a thousand murderous theocracies, advertising companies, and international spy organizations are allowed to impersonate you by design. Anything that is easy to implement & widely marketed often has costs added to it in the future as the entity moves to monetize the service. This is a private equity firm buying up multiple hosting control panels & then adjusting prices. This is Google Maps drastically changing their API terms. This is Facebook charging you for likes to build an audience, giving your competitors access to those likes as an addressable audience to advertise against, and then charging you once more to boost the reach of your posts. This is Grubhub creating shadow websites on your behalf and charging you for every transaction created by the gravity of your brand. Shivane believes GrubHub purchased her restaurant’s web domain to prevent her from building her own online presence. She also believes the company may have had a special interest in owning her name because she processes a high volume of orders. ... it appears GrubHub has set up several generic, templated pages that look like real restaurant websites but in fact link only to GrubHub. These pages also display phone numbers that GrubHub controls. The calls are forwarded to the restaurant, but the platform records each one and charges the restaurant a commission fee for every order Settling for the easiest option drives a lack of differentiation, embeds additional risk & once the dominant player has enough marketshare they'll change the terms on you. Small gains in short term margins for massive increases in fragility. "Closed platforms increase the chunk size of competition & increase the cost of market entry, so people who have good ideas, it is a lot more expensive for their productivity to be monetized. They also don't like standardization ... it looks like rent seeking behaviors on top of friction" - Gabe Newell The other big issue is platforms that run out of growth space in their core market may break integrations with adjacent service providers as each want to grow by eating the other's market. Those who look at SaaS business models through the eyes of a seasoned investor will better understand how markets are likely to change: "I’d argue that many of today’s anointed tech “disruptors” are doing little in the way of true disruption. ... When investors used to get excited about a SAAS company, they typically would be describing a hosted multi-tenant subscription-billed piece of software that was replacing a ‘legacy’ on-premise perpetual license solution in the same target market (i.e. ERP, HCM, CRM, etc.). Today, the terms SAAS and Cloud essentially describe the business models of every single public software company. Most platform companies are initially required to operate at low margins in order to buy growth of their category & own their category. Then when they are valued on that, they quickly need to jump across to adjacent markets to grow into the valuation: Twilio has no choice but to climb up the application stack. This is a company whose ‘disruption’ is essentially great API documentation and gangbuster SEO spend built on top of a highly commoditized telephony aggregation API. They have won by marketing to DevOps engineers. With all the hype around them, you’d think Twilio invented the telephony API, when in reality what they did was turn it into a product company. Nobody had thought of doing this let alone that this could turn into a $17 billion company because simply put the economics don’t work. And to be clear they still don’t. But Twilio’s genius CEO clearly gets this. If the market is going to value robocalls, emergency sms notifications, on-call pages, and carrier fee passed through related revenue growth in the same way it does ‘subscription’ revenue from Atlassian or ServiceNow, then take advantage of it while it lasts. Large platforms offering temporary subsidies to ensure they dominate their categories & companies like SoftBank spraying capital across the markets is causing massive shifts in valuations: I also think if you look closely at what is celebrated today as innovation you often find models built on hidden subsidies. ... I’d argue the very distributed nature of microservices architecture and API-first product companies means addressable market sizes and unit economics assumptions should be even more carefully scrutinized. ... How hard would it be to create an Alibaba today if someone like SoftBank was raining money into such a greenfield space? Excess capital would lead to destruction and likely subpar returns. If capital was the solution, the 1.5 trillion that went into telcos in late '90s wouldn’t have led to a massive bust. Would a Netflix be what it is today if a SoftBank was pouring billions into streaming content startups right as the experiment was starting? Obviously not. Scarcity of capital is another often underappreciated part of the disruption equation. Knowing resources are finite leads to more robust models. ... This convergence is starting to manifest itself in performance. Disney is up 30% over the last 12 months while Netflix is basically flat. This may not feel like a bubble sign to most investors, but from my standpoint, it’s a clear evidence of the fact that we are approaching a something has got to give moment for the way certain businesses are valued." Circling back to Google's AMP, it has a cousin called Recaptcha. Recaptcha is another AMP-like trojan horse: According to tech statistics website Built With, more than 650,000 websites are already using reCaptcha v3; overall, there are at least 4.5 million websites use reCaptcha, including 25% of the top 10,000 sites. Google is also now testing an enterprise version of reCaptcha v3, where Google creates a customized reCaptcha for enterprises that are looking for more granular data about users’ risk levels to protect their site algorithms from malicious users and bots. ... According to two security researchers who’ve studied reCaptcha, one of the ways that Google determines whether you’re a malicious user or not is whether you already have a Google cookie installed on your browser. ... To make this risk-score system work accurately, website administrators are supposed to embed reCaptcha v3 code on all of the pages of their website, not just on forms or log-in pages. About a month ago when logging into Bing Ads I saw recaptcha on the login page & couldn't believe they'd give Google control at that access point. I think they got rid of that, but lots of companies are perhaps shooting themselves in the foot through a combination of over-reliance on Google infrastructure AND sloppy implementation Today when making a purchase on Fiverr, after converting, I got some of this action Hmm. Maybe I will enable JavaScript and try again. Oooops. That is called snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. My account is many years old. My payment type on record has been used for years. I have ordered from the particular seller about a dozen times over the years. And suddenly because my web browser had JavaScript turned off I was deemed a security risk of some sort for making an utterly ordinary transaction I have already completed about a dozen times. On AMP JavaScript was the devil. And on desktop not JavaScript was the devil. Pro tip: Ecommerce websites that see substandard conversion rates from using Recaptcha can boost their overall ecommerce revenue by buying more Google AdWords ads. --- As more of the infrastructure stack is driven by AI software there is going to be a very real opportunity for many people to become deplatformed across the web on an utterly arbitrary basis. That tech companies like Facebook also want to create digital currencies on top of the leverage they already have only makes the proposition that much scarier. If the tech platforms host copies of our sites, process the transactions & even create their own currencies, how will we know what level of value they are adding versus what they are extracting? Who measures the measurer? And when the economics turn negative, what will we do if we are hooked into an ecosystem we can't spend additional capital to get out of when things head south? Full Article
for Thursday was Seattle area’s warmest day since September, and the forecast looks mostly sunny. Remember these guidelines if you go outside. By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 11:37:14 -0700 The high hit 67 degrees at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as of 4 p.m. Thursday, marking the warmest day since the area reached 69 degrees on Sept. 26, 2019. If you're tempted to go outside and enjoy the sunshine, remember to stay away from other people and wear the proper gear. Full Article Local News Outdoors Puget Sound Weather Wellness
for Technology’s had us ‘social distancing’ for years. Can our digital ‘lifeline’ get us through the coronavirus pandemic? By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 06:00:30 -0700 In some ways, we’ve been social distancing for years as more aspects of our social lives go digital. So now, we may be uniquely equipped (if not conditioned) to adapt our lives to stay-at-home orders. Full Article Life Lifestyle Technology Wellness
for JetBlue is the first major U.S. airline to require masks for passengers By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:02:38 -0700 The coronavirus has changed how we travel in many ways including the increased use of face masks on flights and in airports. Full Article Business Health Nation Nation & World Travel Wellness World