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• On the post: CEO Gets Nine Months In Prison For Forging Court Documents Ordering Google To Delist Negative Reviews

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 11:21am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: And this...

  Augh. Senior moment.

• On the post: CEO Gets Nine Months In Prison For Forging Court Documents Ordering Google To Delist Negative Reviews

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 10:51am

  Re: Re: And this...

  Extremely unlikely with a sentence under a year. By the time all the paperwork is filed and accepted for Hearing, he'll already be out a month or two.

• On the post: Internet Memes Are Making UK Children Fat, Say Researchers Who Don't Understand Memes

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 08:22am

  Re: Re:

  There are two "body shaming" memes floating around I admit to snickering to.
  
  One is a pic of a rhino with the caption "Gravitationally Challenged Unicorn", the other a pic of a unicorn captioned "Fat Shamed Rhinoceros".

• On the post: CEO Gets Nine Months In Prison For Forging Court Documents Ordering Google To Delist Negative Reviews

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 09:49am

  And this...

  ...proves once again that shortcuts usually aren't.

• On the post: Internet Memes Are Making UK Children Fat, Say Researchers Who Don't Understand Memes

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 04:20am

  Fools..

  ..Everyone knows it's spoons that make people fat...

• On the post: City Council Seized, Crushed Resident's Legally-Parked BMW While He Was In The Hospital

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2018 @ 05:27am

  Crushed?

  Why the rush to crush a car apparently worth $20,000?
  
  Must be more to this story. You'd think they'd impound it and charge storage fees, or declare it abandoned and sell it off, before destroying it.

• On the post: Shitty Man Shows How Shitty Men Can Shit On Free Speech By Suing Over The Shitty Media Men List

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2018 @ 03:17pm

  Re: Diseased sluts.

  Seriously? "His brother was worse" defense?
  
  Judge all men by what some other men have done in the past.

• On the post: Shitty Man Shows How Shitty Men Can Shit On Free Speech By Suing Over The Shitty Media Men List

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2018 @ 02:11pm

  Re: Re: Odd double standard

  Point of Logic: Charges need to be filed before an Extradition Order can be issued.

• On the post: Shitty Man Shows How Shitty Men Can Shit On Free Speech By Suing Over The Shitty Media Men List

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2018 @ 12:42pm

  So, in the course of just a couple of months, we've gone from "accuse a man of sex crimes and he's guilty, even if he didn't do it" all the way to "SAY a man was accused of rape, even if he didn't and wasn't, he's guilty".
  
  Even further than that, once such a claim is made, any legal defense the man puts up is an attack on the First Amendment.
  
  Hey, start up a rumor, no, wait, POST ON THE INTERNET that you heard your boss was accused of being a pedophile and see how long you keep your job. And if you had a GOOD job, your now former boss will be seeing you in court...

• On the post: Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg's Big 'Chip Infiltration' Story; Bloomberg Has Some Explaining To Do

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2018 @ 08:11am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Denials everywhere...

  We just went through a similar server problem - the "housekeeping" firmware was exploitable. IIRC, nobody took credit for actually exploiting it, but the internal subnets it created, if exploited, could have wreaked havoc.
  
  I find it far more likely that the "journalists" were baffled by conspiracy theory regarding that firmware and ran with it.
  
  Huawei is "banned", but Apple is "allowed" at the moment. I can easily see a couple of engineers at Huawei coming up with a propaganda story to shift the claim of pre-exploited firmware to Apple.
  
  But even that is a bit far-fetched when simpler explanations are available.

• On the post: Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg's Big 'Chip Infiltration' Story; Bloomberg Has Some Explaining To Do

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2018 @ 11:19am

  Re: Re:

  Considering WHO was hit, if there's anything to it just being propaganda, applying cui bono says Huawei fed it to the press.

• On the post: Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg's Big 'Chip Infiltration' Story; Bloomberg Has Some Explaining To Do

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2018 @ 11:17am

  Re: Re: Re: Denials everywhere...

  I could see a gag order being issued, the infamous National Security Letter.
  
  But an Official Story to be presented to anyone questioning?
  
  Like I said, leaked before the gov't reps got out of the building.

• On the post: Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg's Big 'Chip Infiltration' Story; Bloomberg Has Some Explaining To Do

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2018 @ 09:29am

  Re:

  IIRC, because the firmware had a damned webserver in it. Treated satellite hardware as a network.
  
  It was an exploitable system, so they changed over to a new system.
  
  So far as I can recall, there were no claims of foreign OR domestic "hacks" via that firmware.

• On the post: Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg's Big 'Chip Infiltration' Story; Bloomberg Has Some Explaining To Do

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2018 @ 05:59am

  Re: Re: Denials everywhere...

  ...should any of your IMF force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions...
  
  The Government could "order" such. And it'd be "leaked" inside of fifteen minutes.

• On the post: Appeals Court Says Of Course Georgia's Laws (Including Annotations) Are Not Protected By Copyright And Free To Share

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2018 @ 03:33pm

  Re: look out NFPAyou're next

  Code and Law are different critters.
  
  Violate Code and you'll be fined, jobsite shut down, etc. You can't be jailed over a Code violation. Well, you can, but it gets involved with "attempt to defraud..." legalese.
  
  Violate a Law and you may find yourself on vacation at the Greybar Hotel, all expenses paid...
  
  Also, Code such as NEC are usually "incorporated into" local Code simply by referring to them as the Authority - "Wiring shall be done pursuant to NEC section;paragraph except where Noted".

• On the post: Streaming Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy And The Industry Is Largely Oblivious

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2018 @ 01:00pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: I forsee...

  Empirical observation over the last 20 years. Walk into someone's house or apartment and 90% of the time the TV is on - and nobody is paying any attention to it. It just runs all day...
  
  DVR's when they're not there when something they actually want to watch will be on, of course. We did that with VCR's as well.
  
  In the day of OTA only, advertisers had to put their ads into the "popular" shows, as the TV wasn't on at other times.
  
  Now that there's a choice of 2500 channels, there's still nothing to watch most of the day. The DVR grabs those one or two shows the viewer wants. And commercial breaks in those shows are an annoyance.

• On the post: Streaming Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy And The Industry Is Largely Oblivious

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2018 @ 11:08am

  Re:

  Books? They still make those?
  
  Tremendous piracy of ebooks. And they're so small, quarter million title libraries are up all over the pirate boards as well.

• On the post: Streaming Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy And The Industry Is Largely Oblivious

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2018 @ 10:45am

  Re: Re: I forsee...

  I'm not sure exactly how the current TV spot advertising metric is rationalized.
  
  I'm fairly old - I remember when "watching TV" meant you dug out the TV Guide to see if there was anything on you wanted to watch. If there was, you flipped on the TV five minutes before your show started so the TV would warm up, watched your show, and turned the TV back off.
  
  The current "viewers" turn on the TV the moment they get up in the morning, watch for maybe ten minutes, then it goes to background noise until the show they want to watch comes on.
  
  And when the show goes to commercial break, they get annoyed, so the likelihood of a show's fan buying anything advertised during it drops.
  
  But while the TV is in "background mode", the adverts have a greater effect - people might pay attention to one that is funny or relevant to their day.
  
  I was raised to never buy anything that was advertised on TV or by junk mail. Instilled the same in my kids. But there have been ads that have drawn my attention because of the way they're presented.
  
  If everyone "returned" to just turning the TV on when a specific show was coming on, I suspect TV ad rates would take a tremendous hit.
  
  All that said, "Pay Per View" is pretty much the only business model I can see succeeding in the future. And a lot of advertising on it for special rates for Binge Watchers, Late Night Only, etc.
  
  Having 500 streaming services, and expecting a household that watches ten shows to pay ten monthly fees to ten different streaming services just isn't going to work.

• On the post: Streaming Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy And The Industry Is Largely Oblivious

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2018 @ 09:41am

  Re: $100 million dollar movies

  Why does it cost that much? Because they expect to recoup it and make a profit on top of that. Plus Hollywood Accounting to prove they actually lost money on the $400 million dollar box office returns.
  
  We've got actors making millions of dollars per 20 minute serial episode. That isn't anywhere near covered by you standard cable rates. Where's the money coming from?

• On the post: Streaming Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy And The Industry Is Largely Oblivious

  

  Roy Wilson ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2018 @ 09:38am

  Re: Re: There are non-piracy options (for now).

  You see a $2.00 per month rate hike, the OP and I both see a 25% rate hike.

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