I’m sorry, but could someone please elaborate on the significance of this post?
Hacker culture.
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#112My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
Just before I left the UK in 2018 there was starting to become this trend for voice verification on some services, in one particular one I had to go through the setup of (perhaps it was Virgin Media? I forget), they had me say "My voice is my passport" to train it on how I sound. I smiled to myself.
Charles Schwab does this, but tweaked it to, “my voice is my password.”
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#113Ironically, I think this movie is better suited to being watched on VHS quality.
the audio quality of the popular streaming versions is pretty bad
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes but many times, these can be quite valuable inferences. Shoes are indeed a valuable source of information about a person. I knew at least one BH case manager who really paid attention to them. Shoes are expensive, very durable, and typically one of those items that people have only a few pairs of. So while someone can easily change their outfit to match a situation, place, or mood for the day, they may be less li…
BH professional?
My best guess is Behavioral Health
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#115Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…
The X-Files went the opposite way: The streaming release was remastered from higher quality originals that had been prepared ahead of time for the eventual arrival of higher resolution TV.
I’m not surprised that some shows were never archived at higher quality, though. The entertainment industry has a lot of people who just want to get their job done and go home, just like any other industry. Many classic series were not instant classics, they were shoestring operations trying to get a product out the door on too little budget. Getting anything across the finish line was the objective, not archiving the highest quality for future generations.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
The movie was partially responsible for creating the stereotype. This was 1992 and hacker culture wasn't yet mainstream.
Hacker culture was quite mainstream in the 80's, already. This was a refactoring of it. War Games and Tron and other movies got there first. I think that's the reason I don't have the affinity for this movie that many do - it created incorrect stereotypes which still persist today.
_incorrect_ stereotypes?
Stereotyping isn't inherently bad, it's just lazy. That having been said, I think Sneakers gets them all correct.
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#117Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…
If you look close at the early silent movies: the campfires are burning the film from even older movies that are thus completely lost.
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#118Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…
Sometimes it happens by accident. See the 2008 Universal Studios fire, which destroyed music and film masters:
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#119Re: negative re-masters I can’t help but notice that a number of older and very prominent shows on streaming services are clearly ripped from a video cassette. For example, the older Simpsons episodes on Disney Plus. Some of the episodes have very prominent dot crawl which is unacceptable for a digital format that you pay for. I also can’t imagine the film masters were trashed, or that the show was composited to vide…
Same for older family guy episodes also on Disney +… maybe it’s a Disney + thing where they can’t be bothered?
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#120my voice is my passport