Tag: Alexa

Big Sister Has a Name

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Big Brother turns out to be Big Sister – and her name is Alexa.

Her outsized image isn’t plastered to every telephone pole and billboard, all-seeing eyes watching your every move. But her ears are always open – and increasingly, everywhere.

In the kitchens.

In TVs.

In a large and growing number of new cars, including almost all Audis, several Toyota/Lexus models, most new Cadillacs and Chevys, Lincolns, Chryslers and the just-redesigned 2022 Acura MDX I’m test driving this week.

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Siri “Regularly” Listens In On Your Sexual Encounters, Apple Insists “Only For A Few Seconds”

Via ZeroHedge

Should it come as any surprise? And yet the details are shocking and outrageous. A whistleblower working for Apple has revealed to The Guardian that its popular voice activated spying device helpful virtual assistant Siri, now in millions of households, “regularly” records people having sex, and captures other “countless” invasive moments which it promptly sends to Apple contractors for their listening pleasure “quality control”:

Apple contractors regularly hear confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex, as part of their job providing quality control, or “grading”, the company’s Siri voice assistant, the Guardian has learned.

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51,000

TBP set a visitor record yesterday with 51,000 visitors. It seems Fourth Turning articles really draw a crowd. That means your comments are getting a much broader viewership. It seems TBP has made another leap to a new level. Up until November 4th the daily visitor count was about 23,000. This was up from 17,000 in the previous year and 13,000 in the year before that. Since November 4th the daily visitor count has surged to 36,000 per day.

Alexa is a service that ranks websites from around the world. TBP is now the 13,915 most popular site in the U.S. and 94,762 most popular site in the world. For some perspective, back in July TBP was around 60,000 in the U.S. and 180,000 in the world.

I think the election, TBP’s relentless search for the truth, great articles from contributors and great commentary from the regulars are the reason for the surge in visitors. Not bad for a half assed “fake news site”.

The previous all-time high in visitors for a month was 760,000. At the current pace we have a shot at 1,000,000 visitors in November. Let’s do this!!!!


TBP GETS NO RESPECT

Doug Ross’ website published a list of the top conservative websites in the world based upon Alexa ranking.

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-top-150-conservative-websites.html

Zero Hedge was ranked #9.

Denninger was ranked #58

Mish was ranked #59

I consider TBP to be a libertarian website that is aligned closely with ZH, Denninger and Mish. So how come TBP didn’t make the list?

TBP’s global ranking is 87,966, which would put us at #94 on the list. We’ve gone up 30,907 places in the last three months. I guess doom is becoming more popular. Or maybe people can actually log-on now.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/theburningplatform.com

Our ranking in the U.S. is 21,612. Not too bad for a two bit blog run by an old guy, in his spare time, writing articles in his undershorts, while sitting in bed.

I don’t know if you noticed but the average load time has been between 1 and 2 seconds for the last month. I was ready to pull the plug a month ago due to all the technical problems and hacking into the site that was occurring. Stop the Hacker offered to fix the site for $149. It was the best investment I ever made. Whatever they did has worked. The site has been running like a dream from the moment they patched it. I applaud them.

With the new server company, the statistics are gathered differently than before, but our daily visitor counts are still around 15,000. One upgrade is that I can now see the views by post. We’ve been on the new server for two and a half months and I can run a report to see the most viewed posts of all-time. The results might explain why TBP is not classified as one of the top conservative websites. I have written hundreds of well researched factual articles over the last four years. I’ve put my blood, sweat and tears into the site. And after all that, the most viewed TBP post of all-time is my March 31, 2011 masterpiece:

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2011/03/31/best-penis-nicknames/

I’ve figured out that with all the AWD pictures and penis references, we must be classified as a porn site. The huge interest in penis nicknames is further proof that our country has jumped the shark, or in this case jumped the penis. When will TBP ever get a little respect?