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• On the post: Cable's Answer To A Changing TV Landscape? Stuff More Ads Into Every Hour

  

  WDS ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2015 @ 10:29am

  Re: Re: Re: Doing the Math

  And I misstated my own math. I get to 1 hour of commercials in 9 quarters or 2 years and a quarter.

• On the post: Cable's Answer To A Changing TV Landscape? Stuff More Ads Into Every Hour

  

  WDS ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2015 @ 10:26am

  Re: Re: Doing the Math

  I can't make either one of your math work. If you increase by 13% each quarter, each quarter the amount increase will be more, because you had a bigger base. I show getting to 100% of the show (or 1 hr of commercials) in only 3 years.

• On the post: FBI's 'We're From The Cable Company' Ruse Not Convincing To Magistrate Judge

  

  WDS ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2015 @ 02:18pm

  ARS coverage

  If what I understood from the ARSTechnica coverage is right, the problem wasn't that they gained entry by lying, but the fact that they didn't say that they gained entry by lying on the warrant request.
  
  The judge basically said that getting in by pretending to be who you are not was okay, but not telling the judge while you were getting your warrant was a no-no.
  
  That troubles me in so many ways.

• On the post: Cable's Answer To A Changing TV Landscape? Stuff More Ads Into Every Hour

  

  WDS ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2015 @ 12:08pm

  Network Provided Steaming and On-Demand are worse

  If I record a show on my DVR during a normal broadcast, I can fast forward through the commercials. If on the same DVR I happen to miss it, or the service was out, or the national broadcast was preempted by a local weather alert, if I get the same show On-Demand, it is locked and I can't fast forward through the commercials. Same with watching the show on-line on the network site.
  
  The commercials on-line are more irritating because they repeat the same two or three over and over in every break. That doesn't encourage me to buy the product, it makes me swear to never buy it.

• On the post: Bloomberg Latest To Kill Comments Because Really, Who Gives A Damn About Localized User Communities?

  

  WDS ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2015 @ 04:18pm

  Re: Comments have value to both the site and it's readers

  Thats ", often the comments" in the first line.

• On the post: Bloomberg Latest To Kill Comments Because Really, Who Gives A Damn About Localized User Communities?

  

  WDS ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2015 @ 04:16pm

  Comments have value to both the site and it's readers

  On sites with an active community, often the contents interest me as much as the original article. On this site while there are the regular trolls, there are also well thought out additions to most articles, and the weekly "Insightful/Funny" post is one I look forward to.
  
  There are other sites like the "Shark Tank" blog on "ComputerWorld" where I might still go there if they didn't have comments, but I certainly wouldn't be as regular, and I never comment on that site, but love the input of the regulars, much of it totally off topic.

• On the post: Chubby Vs. Fat: The Pointless Noodle Trademark War

  

  WDS ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2015 @ 08:40am

  Re:

  Only a geek would think that is funny.
  
  I just got up from rolling on the floor.

• On the post: College Claims Copyright On 16th Century Michelangelo Sculpture, Blocks 3D Printing Files

  

  WDS ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2015 @ 11:03am

  Re:

  Michelangelo might have ben an exception to many rules. That doesn't mean that the MPAA is not full of shit.

• On the post: If You Don't Mind A Little Perjury, You Can Convict Two People For The Same Crime

  

  WDS ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2014 @ 03:51pm

  Re:

  What we need is for it to be a crime to offer someone immunity for lying.

• On the post: One Year Since The Innovation Act, And Still No Patent Reform

  

  WDS ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2014 @ 12:30pm

  Re:

  So exactly how do you reform laws without rewriting them, and passing the new law?

• On the post: Music Publishers, With Help From Rightscorp, Test Legal Theory That DMCA Requires Kicking Repeat Infringers Off The Internet

  

  WDS ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2014 @ 11:52am

  Re:

  You really think that there is a chance that we will get a President that isn't beholding to big media? I admire your optimism.

• On the post: Music Publishers, With Help From Rightscorp, Test Legal Theory That DMCA Requires Kicking Repeat Infringers Off The Internet

  

  WDS ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2014 @ 10:51am

  Re: Re: Re: Subpoena

  Taken from the Class Action filed against Rightscorp:
  
  “It has been well-established for a decade that subpoenas may not be issued under 17 U.S.C. § 512(h) to ISPs merely acting as conduits for electronic communications. In re Charter Commc 'ns, Inc. , 393 F.3d771, 776-78 (8th Cir. 2005) (finding that Section 5 12(h) does not authorize the issuance of subpoenas to ISPs acting as mere conduits for communications between Internet users and vacating order issued by district court enforcing improperly issued Section 512(h) subpoenas); Recording Indus. Assoc. of Am. v. Verizon Internet Svcs., Inc., 351 F.3d 1229, 1236-39 (D.C. Cir. 2003) (Section 512(h) inapplicable where Internet service provider acted as conduit for alleged peer-to-peer filesharing between Internet users)."

• On the post: Music Publishers, With Help From Rightscorp, Test Legal Theory That DMCA Requires Kicking Repeat Infringers Off The Internet

  

  WDS ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2014 @ 09:33am

  Re: Subpoena

  I think the section that you are referring to is the same section that Rightscorp is getting sued for using, because it doesn't apply to transport only providers, but to hosting providers.

• On the post: Music Publishers, With Help From Rightscorp, Test Legal Theory That DMCA Requires Kicking Repeat Infringers Off The Internet

  

  WDS ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2014 @ 09:35am

  Surprised

  I am surprised that they are taking on Cox instead of some smaller ISP that doesn't have the resources to fight back.

• On the post: CenturyLink: We Lobby For Protectionist State Laws Because You Didn't Want Faster Fiber Anyway

  

  WDS ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2014 @ 08:21am

  CenturyLink is Obviously Right

  It's obvious that customers don't want fiber service. That is why Google is having such problems finding any towns that will allow them to build, and trouble finding customers when they do.

• On the post: Everybody Knows FBI Director James Comey Is Wrong About Encryption, Even The FBI

  

  WDS ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2014 @ 11:13am

  "It's almost as if Comey has absolutely no idea what he's talking about."
  
  No, It's exactly as if Comey has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.

• On the post: David Letterman Mocks The Eagles Over Refusal To License Their Music

  

  WDS ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2014 @ 01:06pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Reminds me of an author I had a run-in with

  Actually I was wondering if anybody saw anything right with it.

• On the post: Yet More Evidence That Offering Good Legal Alternatives Reduces Music Piracy

  

  WDS ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2014 @ 12:48pm

  Spotify

  The problem is the industry doesn't consider Spotify a "Good Legal Alternative". They think that Spotify is making a million on their backs without paying at least 999,990. of it to the old Gate Keepers.

• On the post: Ferrari 'DRM:' Don't Screw With Our Logos And We'll Let You Know If It's OK To Sell Your Car

  

  WDS ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2014 @ 09:21am

  Re: Badges

  Yes, replying to my own post. I don't see where they have any legal complaint about taking the Horse off and the the cat on. Now if he had put a Ferrari horse on a VW, that seems like a trademark problem.

• On the post: Ferrari 'DRM:' Don't Screw With Our Logos And We'll Let You Know If It's OK To Sell Your Car

  

  WDS ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2014 @ 09:06am

  Badges

  I don't think the wrap is what they are talking about. If you look at the video, before they do all of the add on things for the Gumball 3000 on the back of the car he had replaced the traditional Horse, with a small cat. Can't tell on the front.

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