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Youtube isn't banning videos with that content btw, but it seems like you can't monetize them. Sounds more like advertisers are making this happen.
 
Mosh said:
Youtube isn't banning videos with that content btw, but it seems like you can't monetize them. Sounds more like advertisers are making this happen.
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Monetizing is what makes YouTube work. At least, the content creating aspect of it. You're essentially taking a dump on content creators with this censorship.

The new policy renders YouTube no different than TV stations. When you think how big of a factor its relativity to TV stations played on YouTube getting bigger, you can see the problem.
 
Mosh said:
Youtube isn't banning videos with that content btw, but it seems like you can't monetize them. Sounds more like advertisers are making this happen.
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That's how I read it. You can still post videos but you may not necessarily get adverting money.


Still, what did I have to endure these last few days? Well, Monday morning a disk goes down on our iseries box. Not a panic, it will get replaced on Tuesday morning. However, Monday night another disk goes down - again, not a panic BUT it was a disk in the same RAID set and we only found out when folk tried to log on on Tuesday morning. The one and only result of two disks going down in the same RAID set is total data loss. Now, if anyone knows about iseries boxes is that the backup routine is backing up a load of libraries once a day. So when you lose the box, you can only go back to the last good backup and in our case, Monday morning. All new data from then onwards lost forever. And again, if you know about these computers, recovery is nearly 12 hours and more if you have to rebuild the RAID. So, Tuesday lunchtime when it was decided we had no choice, we started that process. This finished around 4 AM on Wednesday. At that point, we had to get all the programmers on board to test, rebuild lost data, etc. By Wednesday 10 AM I had had only 2 hours sleep in 30 hours. The programmers a little bit more. The problem is, when a disk goes down it can only alert if it's up. When the second disk went down, the machine was still pinging do any monitoring tool we had assumed it was up.

So, Thursday morning I see an email at 2 AM, I was woken up by something, saying another disk had failed. Total panic. I had to get an engineer in within 4 hours. Fortunately, this box is getting replaced with a new one within weeks. Can't come sooner, these disks are failing to rapidly.
 

I present to you, my candidate for worst person of the year. (The shitshow starts at 0:57)

I wish Lord H to bestow upon me the patience of the man and the security officers.
 
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The Flash said:
Monetizing is what makes YouTube work. At least, the content creating aspect of it. You're essentially taking a dump on content creators with this censorship.

The new policy renders YouTube no different than TV stations. When you think how big of a factor its relativity to TV stations played on YouTube getting bigger, you can see the problem.
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I think we are on the same page here.

I don't agree with the decision either, I'm opposed to censorship. But I think the reactions suggesting that youtube is removing content they don't like are a bit ignorant.

YouTube has been pushing in the direction of TV stations since they began allowing advertisers on the site. Same thing happened on reddit last year. once you get third party companies involved this sort of thing is inevitable.
 
The Flash said:

I present to you, my candidate for worst person of the year. (The shitshow starts at 0:57)

I wish Lord H to bestow upon me the patience of the man and the security officers.
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Did you just sexually harass me by posting this video? How dare you? Disgusting!
 
Mosh said:
I think we are on the same page here.

I don't agree with the decision either, I'm opposed to censorship. But I think the reactions suggesting that youtube is removing content they don't like are a bit ignorant.

YouTube has been pushing in the direction of TV stations since they began allowing advertisers on the site. Same thing happened on reddit last year. once you get third party companies involved this sort of thing is inevitable.
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I think it's more disappointment than anything. YouTube is a huge company. They could've been more stern in the negotiations. They could've negotiated with advertisers seperately instead of coming to a general solution that's gonna lower the content quality, and with that, decrease interest in the long run.
 
Night Prowler said:
Thank you @The Flash, my jaw hurts from laughing so hard. Made my day :D
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It was more of a cringe session for me but glad you enjoyed it :p

You already know why she was adamantly asking for people's names, because she's gonna go on social media to publicly bash them by name. Complete retardation. Hope this isn't where society goes in the future. So sensitive, so quick to judge, so quick to ask for execution, so hateful of anything that contrasts the bubble in which they live.
 
The Flash said:
I think it's more disappointment than anything. YouTube is a huge company. They could've been more stern in the negotiations. They could've negotiated with advertisers seperately instead of coming to a general solution that's gonna lower the content quality, and with that, decrease interest in the long run.
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Well we'll see what happens. I'm not convinced that they'll actually enforce this, if they're even capable.
 
Albie said:
That's how I read it. You can still post videos but you may not necessarily get adverting money.


Still, what did I have to endure these last few days? Well, Monday morning a disk goes down on our iseries box. Not a panic, it will get replaced on Tuesday morning. However, Monday night another disk goes down - again, not a panic BUT it was a disk in the same RAID set and we only found out when folk tried to log on on Tuesday morning. The one and only result of two disks going down in the same RAID set is total data loss. Now, if anyone knows about iseries boxes is that the backup routine is backing up a load of libraries once a day. So when you lose the box, you can only go back to the last good backup and in our case, Monday morning. All new data from then onwards lost forever. And again, if you know about these computers, recovery is nearly 12 hours and more if you have to rebuild the RAID. So, Tuesday lunchtime when it was decided we had no choice, we started that process. This finished around 4 AM on Wednesday. At that point, we had to get all the programmers on board to test, rebuild lost data, etc. By Wednesday 10 AM I had had only 2 hours sleep in 30 hours. The programmers a little bit more. The problem is, when a disk goes down it can only alert if it's up. When the second disk went down, the machine was still pinging do any monitoring tool we had assumed it was up.

So, Thursday morning I see an email at 2 AM, I was woken up by something, saying another disk had failed. Total panic. I had to get an engineer in within 4 hours. Fortunately, this box is getting replaced with a new one within weeks. Can't come sooner, these disks are failing to rapidly.
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We had multiple EVA storages at my previous workplace. Some of them were in excess of 100.000 euros.
All the premium HP support in the world couldn't save it from a simple fact; if you buy disks in a series, there's a big chance that all units have a same or 'similar' mean time between failure. So redundancy is gone if MTBF Jesus shits on you and all your units fail simultaneously.

The monitoring, which was extensive, worked perfectly and reported massive failure at once on multiple hosts, EVA and servers using the volumes. I was out of that company for some time when it happened. So my former coworker had a story similar to yours, lots of hours of tape restore and array rebuild.
I don't miss the job. They didn't handle overtime or incidents at all, e.g. it wasn't paid or counted in. It was on the good will of my mgr who would let me go after lunch break if I had to intervene at off hours. Regardless of the actual time spent on incident. In a hindsight, that's all he could do. I hope you got rewarded fairly for the work you did :)
 
Oldest television interview with Mandela discovered, in archives of a Dutch broadcaster! A short fragment survived, from 1956.

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The Nelson Mandela Foundation has discovered what is probably now the first known television interview with Mr Mandela lasting 24 seconds.

It seems to have been filmed during a break at the 1956 Treason Trial which lasted four-and-a-half years. Mandela was with the last group of 28 accused in the marathon trial who were acquitted on 29 March 1961. Days later he went underground until his arrest on 5 August 1962.

It was previously believed the first television interview was done while Nelson Mandela was underground in late May 1961. British journalist Brian Widlake was taken to his secret hide-out in Johannesburg for the interview.

The recently resurfaced video was broadcast on 31 January 1961 by a Netherlands television broadcaster, AVRO. The rights holder, AVROTROS, has waived its licence fee for the Nelson Mandela Foundation and has authorised our use of it for one year.

“We are excited to have this historical material of what we now believe is the first television interview with Nelson Mandela,” said Sello Hatang, CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

The interview was conducted at the Old Synagogue in Pretoria which was used as a court for the Treason Trial.

It was included in a programme on apartheid South Africa called Boeren en Bantoes presented by Mr GBJ Hiltermann. It is unclear who conducted the interview and the exact date was not immediately available.
Among the others interviewed were Professor ZK Matthews, Ahmed Kathrada and Helen Joseph.
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This following television interview by Brian Widlake on 31 May 1961 was long considered to be the earliest known interview with Nelson Mandela:
 
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