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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      Twitter just got the rights to broadcast all NFL Thursday games.

      http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/35970379

      So I couldn't care less about the NFL, but what I am wondering is... how is Twitter going to monetize this? I mean, now that I know Twitter shows stuff... I still have no idea how I would go about watching or finding anything! As an interested possible Twitter viewer, as a long term Twitter user, I don't have the first clue how to use their service to consume this content that they are spending a fortune to get the rights to.

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      • brianlittlejohnB
        brianlittlejohn @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said:

        Twitter just got the rights to broadcast all NFL Thursday games.

        http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/35970379

        So I couldn't care less about the NFL, but what I am wondering is... how is Twitter going to monetize this? I mean, now that I know Twitter shows stuff... I still have no idea how I would go about watching or finding anything! As an interested possible Twitter viewer, as a long term Twitter user, I don't have the first clue how to use their service to consume this content that they are spending a fortune to get the rights to.

        Twitter owns Periscope... I imagine they will use the Periscope platform to broadcast it.

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        • coliverC
          coliver @brianlittlejohn
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          @brianlittlejohn said:

          @scottalanmiller said:

          Twitter just got the rights to broadcast all NFL Thursday games.

          http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/35970379

          So I couldn't care less about the NFL, but what I am wondering is... how is Twitter going to monetize this? I mean, now that I know Twitter shows stuff... I still have no idea how I would go about watching or finding anything! As an interested possible Twitter viewer, as a long term Twitter user, I don't have the first clue how to use their service to consume this content that they are spending a fortune to get the rights to.

          Twitter owns Periscope... I imagine they will use the Periscope platform to broadcast it.

          Maybe they will recoup what they spent on Periscope!

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
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            @brianlittlejohn said:

            @scottalanmiller said:

            Twitter just got the rights to broadcast all NFL Thursday games.

            http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/35970379

            So I couldn't care less about the NFL, but what I am wondering is... how is Twitter going to monetize this? I mean, now that I know Twitter shows stuff... I still have no idea how I would go about watching or finding anything! As an interested possible Twitter viewer, as a long term Twitter user, I don't have the first clue how to use their service to consume this content that they are spending a fortune to get the rights to.

            Twitter owns Periscope... I imagine they will use the Periscope platform to broadcast it.

            Ah, I've never seen that work and forget that they are related.

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            • coliverC
              coliver
              last edited by scottalanmiller

              https://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-flash-alert-hacking-group-has-had-access-to-us-govt-files-for-years

              And the FBI wanted a backdoor into every iphone...

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              • mlnewsM
                mlnews
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                Rumour is that 500 migrants trying to reach Italy went down and perished at sea tonight coming from Libya.

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                • mlnewsM
                  mlnews
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                  Houston is under a state of emergency from flooding. One part of the city has broken its all time high water mark by at additional forty feet!!

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                  • nadnerBN
                    nadnerB @mlnews
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                    @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    Houston is under a state of emergency from flooding. One part of the city has broken its all time high water mark by at additional forty feet!!

                    Wowzers! That's a huge amount of water!

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @nadnerB
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                      @nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      Houston is under a state of emergency from flooding. One part of the city has broken its all time high water mark by at additional forty feet!!

                      Wowzers! That's a huge amount of water!

                      it's an historical flood.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @mlnews
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                        @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                        Houston is under a state of emergency from flooding. One part of the city has broken its all time high water mark by at additional forty feet!!

                        I'm a bit surprised there is more than 40 ft of relief inside Houston.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          Major volcanic eruption in Mexico...

                          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/19/watch-volcanic-ash-cloud-sweeps-over-mexican-city-of-puebla/?cid=sf24620100&sf24620100=1

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                          • JaredBuschJ
                            JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            Major volcanic eruption in Mexico...

                            http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/19/watch-volcanic-ash-cloud-sweeps-over-mexican-city-of-puebla/?cid=sf24620100&sf24620100=1

                            I guess I will not be reading anymore Telegraph articles.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Weird, I use one and they didn't say that.

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender
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                                they use flash video too. yep.. a non starter.

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                                • NattNattN
                                  NattNatt @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller same 😕

                                  @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  they use flash video too. yep.. a non starter.

                                  yeah...Auto-play videos are annoying...autoplay where you can't stop it is infuriating.

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                                  • coliverC
                                    coliver
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                                    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                                    So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @coliver
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                                      @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                                      So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                                      Good let Texas deal with the their own issues without my support, I live in NY, I've never even seen Texas.

                                      And you know what once they do leave, I hope that Mexico takes over it.

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @DustinB3403
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                                        @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                        @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                                        So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                                        Good let Texas deal with the their own issues without my support, I live in NY, I've never even seen Texas.

                                        And you know what once they do leave, I hope that Mexico takes over it.

                                        LOL - not likely. More likely to go the other way, Texas will invade Mexico and take it over. Hell, maybe we'd end up with out own mini China right to the south.

                                        And if that happens, and you think we have a border problem today... you ain't seen nothin' yet!

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                          @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                          @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                          https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                                          So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                                          Good let Texas deal with the their own issues without my support, I live in NY, I've never even seen Texas.

                                          And you know what once they do leave, I hope that Mexico takes over it.

                                          Do you like hate Mexico or something 😉

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @coliver
                                            last edited by

                                            @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                                            So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                                            Eleven counties want a vote. The problem is... if they vote to do it, they still don't have any right to do it. Not that a vote isn't useful to see what people think but given that Texas is going to be a primarily hispanic state before any separation could take place, they should think carefully about what this means. Texas will be a Spanish speaking, "Little Mexico" very different from where it is today leveraging the northerns living there to buoy the votes.

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