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• On the post: Facebook Has Lost The War It Declared On Fake News

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 02 May, 2016 @ 06:40am

  The irony

  I hope irony of Buzzfeed of all sites being the ones whom bring this to everyone's attention is not lost.

• On the post: Sheriff And Deputy Somehow Manage To Screw Up Forfeiture Badly Enough To Be Indicted On Extortion Charges

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2016 @ 06:09am

  Insane

  The fact the supreme court allows any of this and it not being a clear violation of due process still blows my mind.
  What the holy fuck were they thinking.

• On the post: Sean Parker's New Service Offers Theaters A New Revenue Stream But All They Can See Is Business Model Intereference And Piracy

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2016 @ 01:37pm

  Re:

  I always laugh when I hear people say things like
  
  "I don't even bother with the theaters anymore. They're not a pleasant experience."
  
  Are you SO anti-social and irritable that even the most minor things bother you? I have been to dozens and dozens of movies, and I can only think of twice ever being "bothered" at a theater. Even then it was a minor thing that didn't really impact the actual movie.
  
  I mean if you avoid theaters because of price or whatever, fine. But don't lie and say "not a pleasant experience". tell the truth and just say "I don't like crowds".

• On the post: Sean Parker's New Service Offers Theaters A New Revenue Stream But All They Can See Is Business Model Intereference And Piracy

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2016 @ 01:24pm

  Nothing is Piracy proof....nothing.

  I would bet anything this "piracy proof" box gets a work around in less than a week. All it takes is the feed to run into a video capture system that mimics the TV input.
  It really doesn't even sound that hard to do, and hell it doesn't even have to be "perfect", just better than the current "cam" rips that currently float out there for months before Blu-ray and DVD rips exist.

• On the post: Apple Engineers Contemplate Refusing To Write Code Demanded By Justice Department

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2016 @ 06:50am

  Supreme Court

  This is going to go to the Supreme Court one way or the other. No matter who loses it will be appealed.

• On the post: Canadian Cable Companies Make A Mockery Of Government's Push For Cheaper TV

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2016 @ 08:06am

  Re:

  Comparing the price of Cable TV to other tech goods like PCs or printers is disingenuous.
  Cable TV relies on a constant stream of programming to function. Which in turn requires paying PEOPLE to constantly be performing monkeys for the moving picture box. Not to mention the constantly demand for innovation in DVR, on Demand, variety in programming/channels.. ect ect.
  It is easy to see why Cable has continued to rise in price.
  But you always could just....not pay it....

• On the post: Afraid Of Upsetting The Cable Industry, Roku Won't Support FCC Quest For Increased Set Top Box Competition

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2016 @ 06:59am

  I completely understand

  Roku has A LOT of deals with pretty much every major Cable company to let them connect and stream channels and content from them. They are basically advertised as a "secondary cable box" which is what I bought one for.
  If I was them I wouldn't want to step on anybody's toes when the future is so uncertain right now either since they are in a good position currently.

• On the post: ESPN Pretends It Saw Cord Cutting Coming, Says Departing Subscribers Old And Poor Anyway

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2016 @ 11:30am

  Re:

  Presumable basic Cable only gets ESPN1 or ESPN2, the extended packages also get.....
  ESPN Latin America, ESPN Films, ESPNews, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ESPN Deportes, Longhorn Network, SEC Network

• On the post: ESPN Pretends It Saw Cord Cutting Coming, Says Departing Subscribers Old And Poor Anyway

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2016 @ 11:27am

  Water?

  So according to John Skipper it goes...
  Heat?(people heave a heating company now?)
  Electricity
  Pay TV
  Water maybe?
  
  Only the most rich of elite idiots who are disconnected from "normal society" would list "heat" as a household service(not gas and electric) and think Cable is more prevalent then water.
  no wonder he didn't see Cord cutting coming down the pipe...

• On the post: Patents On Presentation Of Information Excluded In EU, But Germany Has Just Granted A Patent On A Graphical User Interface

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 06:04am

  Damn Shame

  It is a damn shame Software was not recognized for what it is...a simple reorganization of math and therefore not patent-able.
  Software should go under the umbrella of trademark or copyright. That still would potentially cause all sorts of problems(YOUR GUI LOOKS TOO MUCH LIKE MY GUI!) but at least it would potentially stop some of the ridiculous licensing problems we have now.

• On the post: Police Union Thinks Cops Should Receive Less Scrutiny Than Retail Workers

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2015 @ 06:25am

  Funny

  I work for a Major Police Department and we do random drug screening here, at all levels, and nobody says a peep.
  last one was actually earlier this month actually.
  Slight difference is though, that if you are caught you are not instantly fired(depending on which drug) but are suspended and sent to counselling.

• On the post: Who Needs A No-Fly List When You Can Just Ground 91 Million Citizens?

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2015 @ 11:39am

  Re: Federal hypocrisy

  No different than when the Feds forced the drinking age up to 21 or forced the max highway speed limit down to 55.

• On the post: CBS Claims It Will Pull All Content Offline Unless It Can Be An Anti-Competitive Ass

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2015 @ 06:28am

  Please do this

  This is literally just threats and bluster. CBS is acting as if they don't make money from online content. Which nobody with any business acumen would take seriously.
  If they were loosing money from online content, they would have pulled their content a long time ago. If they were loosing money and still were chugging along months and months later with the same business model and no changes...then CBS online should pull their content regardless of what the FCC is doing.
  But they won't, because $$$$$$$$$

• On the post: DEA Seized $262k From Sexting Extortioners And Now The Oldest Private College In West Virginia Wants Its Money Back

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2015 @ 06:42am

  East Liverpool

  Hey I grew up in East Liverpool.
  What a weird thing to see mentioned on Techdirt since it is a tiny ass little town.

• On the post: Supreme Court Examines The Sixth Amendment Ramifications Of Pre-Conviction Asset Seizures

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2015 @ 06:56am

  Jail for high crimes

  This would be less of a issue if "justice" was more likely to be served for people doing white collar crimes.
  AKA if they really did steal 45 million then they, and anybody who knowingly took money from them, should go to JAIL for DECADES.
  But because this is a "white collar crime", we are soft on that issue and even if convicted they will likely only less than 8 years.

• On the post: Rockstar Whips Out The Ban-Hammer On GTAV Players Over Mod

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2015 @ 06:18am

  Re: You can't stop mods

  10 years ago micro-transactions and other DLC didn't exist. Now they rely on selling those items. The old model was to view mods as free word of mouth to sell more copies of your game, but now they view these mods as directly hurting their capability to sell more of their own DLC. They is why they are attacking them and it seems fewer games want to support community driven mods.

• On the post: 'Hundreds' Of Teens Found Sexting At A Single School And Everyone Seems Unsure Of How To Proceed

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2015 @ 06:23am

  Just take the phones

  Just take everyone's phones away and be done with it.
  If you are not willing, and hopefully he isn't, to charge horny teens for being who they are, then just take the "tools of crime" or whatever away and have the school bar those kids from having phones again.
  What else is there to do? Expel 1/3 of the student body?

• On the post: EFF Discovers More Leaky ALPR Cameras Accessible Via The Web

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2015 @ 06:13am

  Re: Re: Heads Up

  Funny thing, we DO pay for the service contract!
  Now we are going back through and resetting all the camera passwords to what we want them to be...except for two of them. Why not two of them? Because apparently 3M set them different than the rest and "forgot" what they were set to!
  And they are fighting us about resetting the password because it isn't part of the "standard service contract"...yeah our person in charge of the contract is ready to flip their shit and has vowed to never buy another 3M product over this whole thing.

• On the post: FCC Fines More Companies For Blocking Convention Center WiFi, Says Hilton Obstructed Investigation

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2015 @ 06:32am

  Re: Re: Re: Only $25K?

  You say "Corporations too big to jail"...obliviously the answer is to build bigger jails!

• On the post: EFF Discovers More Leaky ALPR Cameras Accessible Via The Web

  

  Geno0wl ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2015 @ 08:14am

  Heads Up

  Another fun tidbit PIPS/3M responded to the article from the EFF...and then didn't bother to contact the contractors/agencies with the vulnerable cameras!
  So while the article about the cameras came out on the 28th, and 3M responded to it...they never bothered to reach out and inform or help in any fashion the agencies that were vulnerable. So our agency didn't get notified of potential issues until the 29th when this article was read online.
  Thanks for nothing 3M.

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