Episode 2 of UFC Primetime: St-Pierre vs. Shields aired on ESPN2 on Wednesday night at 11 p.m. ET, prior to its midnight airing on SpikeTV.
UFC president Dana White confirmed with MMA Fighting on Thursday that the final episode will also air on "The Deuce" next Wednesday night at both 11:00 p.m. ET and 11:30 pm ET.
"More eyeballs. We put it everywhere," White responded via text message when asked why Primetime aired on ESPN2.
"I put [Primetime] on ESPN, Ion, Versus, Spike and Fuel for more distribution," White said when asked if the ESPN airing was the result of a time buy or some other kind of deal.
The UFC currently doesn't have a broadcast deal with "The Worldwide Leader in Sports." But with UFC 129 shaping up to be the biggest MMA event in North American history, the organization is clearly doing all that it can to get the word out to as many people as possible.
UFC 129: St-Pierre vs. Shields airs live on pay-per-view from Toronto's Rogers Centre on April 30.
Following up on Apple’s location data Q&A, posted earlier today, Mobilizer spoke with CEO Steve Jobs and other members of the executive team. ?We haven?t been tracking anyone,? Jobs said in a telephone interview with Mobilized on Wednesday. ?The files they found on these phones, as we explained, it turned out were basically files we [...]
By Rob Walch MacNewsWorld Part of the ECT News Network 04/29/11 5:00 AM PT
The discovery that iOS regularly logs its location has caused much commotion, and even U.S. senators are chiming in with proclamations of how Apple has violated users' privacy. Privacy is no small issue, of course, but if these critics were to carefully read what Apple's disclosed about the technology and look at the actual data, perhaps they'd tone down their rhetoric.
One of the biggest news stories around the iPhone in a long time is the recent -- for lack of a better term -- LocationGate fiasco. As with most stories like this, fear and link bait rule the day. You also have, in this case, U.S. Senators smelling blood in the water and inserting themselves into the story -- and in some cases actually contributing to the misinformation out there.
Take Senator Al Franken with this quote when talking about the data file that has location information in it:
"Anyone who gains access to this single file could likely determine the location of a user's home, the business he frequents, the doctors he visits, the schools his children attends."
Problem is, if he or his staffers had looked at the file in question, they would have realized that actually was not possible and definitely not an accurate statement.
If a bad guy gets your data they will not -- repeat NOT -- be able to figure out where you live. Not your exact address. Maybe the part of town -- but definitely not your specific house (unless your house is the only one for miles).
However, if they get your phone and they go to your mail app and see who an email was sent to and then go to contacts and find that person -- then they can figure out your address. Same thing if they get a hold of your laptop.
Lets face facts: There are much easier and faster ways for a bad guy to figure out your home address then going through location data in a .db file on your laptop -- which, as I said, still will not give your exact address. Same is true for figuring out where you work or where your kids go to school.
What It Does Show
If the senator's people and others making claims like this had taken the time to look at the data in question, they would have seen something like Figure 1.
Fig. 1
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What you see is a grid pattern. The image is a screen shot of data collected on my phone / computer. From this image, there is no way to tell the exact location of my house -- which is in the map above -- but around 1 million other people live in that map area as well. Can you say "needle in a haystack?"
It did not help that in Apples own press release, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) did not state that the data was rounded off. What Apple actually said was:
"The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it's maintaining a database of WiFi hotspots and cell towers around your current location"
Fig. 2
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That has lead people to post that Apple is keeping the precise location of WiFi hotspots -- and one likely is in your house.
No, they don't. Apple is actually rounding off to the grid pattern seen in the image -- and not the precise location of cell towers and WiFi hotspots. See Figure 2 for proof of that.
I am 100 percent certain that there is not a cell tower or WiFi hotspot in the middle of the runway of Islip Airport. And the chances that the rest of the cell towers and WiFi hotspots are that perfectly spaced is zero.
A Very General Location
The data will, however, show what cities and general areas you visit at a given time. So if you are telling your significant other you are going to meet up with a buddy and go to the ball game, which is on the north side of town, and your data shows you were on the south side of town (you know, down near where the strip clubs are located), they are going to know something was up. But they probably would have figured that out by the glitter on your shirt and the smell of cheap perfume -- or the ATM receipt from Spanky's.
Same if you tell your boss you need a day off to visit your sick mom in Dayton, Ohio, but your location data shows you were in Las Vegas -- or worse, the town or city of your biggest competitor.
So yes, this information on your computer and phone is not good. But it is not as bad as a certain senator and many bloggers made it out to be. And it's actually not as bad as even Apple seems to have made it out to be. To Apple's credit, per their press release, they did acknowledge this data should not have been gathered and kept for as long as it was, and it should not have been so easy to access. They also stated they will be updating their software to fix this issue. It will still gather location data (rounded off) of nearby cell towers and WiFi hotspots. They just will not keep the data on your device as long and they will eventually encrypt that data.
I don't want to make this sound like a non-issue -- privacy is a big issue. But if you plan on going somewhere you don't want someone or anyone to know of, try this: Leave your iPhone or Android phone or any cellphone at home.
Federal Reserve policymakers decided to leave short-term interest rates unchanged. A statement released after the meeting said the recovery is on "firmer footing" and noted a pick up in commodity prices. But Fed policymakers do not think the upward pressure on prices will result in a longer-term inflation problem. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke answers questions from reporters Wednesday afternoon in the Fed's first ever post-meeting press conference. Michele Norris talks with NPR's John Ydstie.
So, it seems that ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer has been hard to find, at least in part due to reasons other than customer demand. According to Netbook News, the Taiwanese company is having trouble sourcing the supplies needed to build the tablet / keyboard combo in sufficient numbers. For now, that means only 10,000 Transformers a month -- a fraction of the 300,000 ASUS was reportedly hoping to make. Word on the web suggests components in greater quantities are coming soon, and production will ramp up significantly in June. Until then, would-be owners will have to go the beg, borrow, or steal route to get one. Investing in a horseshoe or four-leaf clover might not be a bad idea, either.
It might look like a poor man's game of Pong now, but a new laser steering system coming out of North Carolina State University could make blowing things upStar Wars-style cheaper and more efficient. The setup enlists a series of "polarization gratings" through which a laser beam passes. Each of these gratings, made of liquid crystal applied to a plate of glass, are configured to redirect the light in a particular direction, thus simply steering the laser beam without significantly decreasing its power -- with each grating comes a new "steerable" angle. The system's creators point out its not only hyper accurate, but also less expensive than existing arrangements due to the use of liquid crystal. Apparently the US Air Force is already using the stuff, but don't expect them to go all Death Star anytime soon.
David?s and my time in NYC has come to an end and we have already made our way North to his parent?s home in Connecticut. Yesterday was pretty much a work day that turned into a travel day. Yesterday afternoon, we boarded an Amtrak train and made our way to David?s home state for the Easter weekend. It wasn?t an eventful trip ? but because I rarely get to ride trains, it was a blast for me.
David?s family celebrates Passover the same weekend that they celebrate Easter ? so we?ll be having Seder Dinner tomorrow night and then we?ll be dying Easter eggs Sunday morning ? before we pack up and fly back home to SoCal. Because we?re out in the boondocks right now, I don?t expect we?ll get into anything too exciting ? but, let me tell you, it?s nice to spend a couple days in the country away from the franticness of the city. I hope all y?all are having a nice Good Friday today ? and will have a Happy Easter weekend ahead!!
You don't have to be behind bars tonight to be getting a good look at Lindsay Lohan.
About five hours?after?trial-bound starlet?was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 480 hours of community service, she posted $75,000 bail with the help of her trusty bail bondsman and was a free woman pending her attorney's appeal of today's ruling.
She was released from Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., just before 9:30 p.m., after which she was driven off in a black SUV with a police escort.
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Episode 2 of UFC Primetime: St-Pierre vs. Shields aired on ESPN2 on Wednesday night at 11 p.m. ET, prior to its midnight airing on SpikeTV.
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