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• On the post: Body Cam Footage Leads To Federal Indictment Of Abusive Las Vegas Cop

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2016 @ 02:48am

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  Rogue American cops - yet another reason to put off that trip to the States.

• On the post: DEA So Forfeiture-Focused It Hired A TSA Screener To Check Travelers And Baggage For 'Guilty' Cash

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2016 @ 02:28am

  Re: Re: 'Drug enforcement' for fun and profit, mostly profit

  Here's my main reason for keeping clear of the USA... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/18/tsa-mission-creep-us-police-state
  
  My nads are off-limits.

• On the post: DEA So Forfeiture-Focused It Hired A TSA Screener To Check Travelers And Baggage For 'Guilty' Cash

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2016 @ 02:19am

  Re:

  To be laundered?

• On the post: Hollywood Helps Show Why DMCA Takedowns Are Dangerous, By Taking Down Links To MPAA's Search Engine

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2016 @ 02:14am

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  Whoops, reply fail. The above was in response to ECA's comment above.

• On the post: Hollywood Helps Show Why DMCA Takedowns Are Dangerous, By Taking Down Links To MPAA's Search Engine

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2016 @ 02:12am

  "...the movie and music industry holds all the cards."
  
  I disagree with this statement: it seems to me that the public (as consumers) have the greater power as a) money flows from consumer to producer, and b) they have the means to bypass their distribution.
  
  The producer's power lies chiefly with their ability to influence lawmakers and law enforcers.

• On the post: Netflix Pretends It Will Crackdown On VPNs Just Days After Admitting It's Futile To Do So

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2016 @ 02:11am

  Re: Re: Morons

  "just explain how HBO is going to pay to produce Game of Thrones, Netflix makes Daredevil, etc"
  
  It's not so bleak. Personally, I still buy physical media to give as presents. I sometimes watch public broadcasts of content that has been paid for by the advertisers whose content I also (have to) watch. I go to the cinema, oftentimes just to get out of the house.
  
  Not to disagree with you, just pointing out that there are many different revenue streams. And many different moralities; Whisper's is certainly not universal.

• On the post: NBC Exec: Netflix Poses No Threat To Us, God Wants You To Watch Expensive, Legacy TV

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2016 @ 11:04pm

  Re: Re: Locked to the Cord

  Anywhere normal, that would sound like an incredible business opportunity, with government of any flavour encouraging entrepreneurs to wade in.
  
  I just don't get the US government. At all. I understand the lobbying system, that it's legalized and tied into political donations, and that that makes politicians beholden to lobbyists. And that it's legal, and not bribery in any way. But unless US politicians live on some island somewhere, when their actions benefit lobbyists to the detriment of their own citizens they're just crapping on their own lawn, and that makes no sense.
  
  I feel for you US guys. Have some kittens... http://www.kittenwar.com/

• On the post: Facebook Nixes Picture Of Bronze Mermaid Statue For Showing Too Much 'Skin'

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2016 @ 06:39am

  Re: Censorship galore

  Fascinating yet bizarre - as for the Danes the statue is blanked out for the French, Finns,...
  
  Brits, Russians, Spaniards do get to see her in the flesh.
  
  Italians and Germans get several shots, some full-frontal.
  
  Japanese, Dutch & Portuguese though doesn't even get a picture, blanked or otherwise.

• On the post: As Its CEO Continues To Claim It Doesn't Throttle, T-Mobile Spokesperson Confirms Company Throttles

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2016 @ 03:26am

  Re: Re: Re: benefit of the doubt

  "... create an Uncarrier image..."
  
  Image building. I prefer actual substance over marketing.

• On the post: Streaming Video Company Drops Out Of BingeOn To Protest John Legere's Attack On EFF; It Will Still Get Throttled, Though

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2016 @ 02:52am

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  "what does "taking the piss out of his customers" even mean? Is that British slang or something"
  
  It is indeed British. Piss to the British is like snow to the Eskimo. Think rain; in Britain it's always pissing it down. However in this instance:
  https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=taking+the+mickey

• On the post: ESPN Employees Keep Failing To Disclose Their Advertising Tweets As Advertising

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2016 @ 02:09am

  News articles?

  "There’s nothing better on NYE than some football and @Dominos #HomeOnNYE"
  
  "New Years Eve means college football and @Dominos pizza."
  
  I get that these are ESPN reporters, tweeting under their corporate umbrella, but it's a stretch to call these news articles. Yes these are wholesale ads, but Twitter doesn't have the equivalent of the "ad break", and using #Ad just seems clunky and ill conceived somehow.

• On the post: FCC Study: We Still Suck At Bringing Quality Broadband To All Americans

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 05:47am

  Except that...

  http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS
  
  The USA has an urban/rural demographic in-line with Western Europe, similar in urban density to Norway and Sweden, and indeed higher than Switzerland, all leaders in broadband deployment. If you applied your rationale across the board, the USA ranking would still be low.
  
  I'm inclined to blame lack of investment and political will for the US position.

• On the post: TVs Now 'Smart' Enough To Get Hijacked, Pick Up Malware

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 02:32am

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  "when the parents are gone and the kids are home alone"=very bad parenting
  
  And arguably orders of magnitude more serious than TVs that spy on you.

• On the post: TVs Now 'Smart' Enough To Get Hijacked, Pick Up Malware

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 02:11am

  Re: Re:

  I'm giving Violynne a funny.

• On the post: TVs Now 'Smart' Enough To Get Hijacked, Pick Up Malware

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 01:52am

  Re: Re:

  I'm sensing massive and subtle sarcasm. I got through the below before I thought... woah there Spartacus
  
  
  "This is an issue about consumer stupidity being so damn problematic as to hook a fucking television to the internet."
  
  Way to blame the victim. This is absolutely about TV security and trust. What are people going to do when TVs ship with their own cellular chips, and don't even bother asking for your wifi password? Will you be wrapping your TV in aluminium foil?

• On the post: Once Again, Piracy Is Destroying The Movie Industry… To Ever More Records At The Box Office

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 12:24am

  Netflix is becoming "The New Hollywood"

  http://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-is-making-movies-shunned-by-studios-1445201653

• On the post: Once Again, Piracy Is Destroying The Movie Industry… To Ever More Records At The Box Office

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 12:19am

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  Sorry to twist the knife further, but how many of those people who went to see Star Wars simply wanted to go watch a film?
  
  Star Wars fans and cinema-goers are not disjoint sets...

• On the post: Forbes Site, After Begging You To Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up A Steaming Pile Of Malware 'Ads'

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 12:06am

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  I don't doubt state actors use ad delivery as a virus delivery route.
  
  Why would they not? It's low-hanging fruit.

• On the post: Forbes Site, After Begging You To Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up A Steaming Pile Of Malware 'Ads'

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 12:00am

  Re: Re: Re: Long ago

  I think that's his whole point, that the ad network does not currently have control over content. And if it did, it would be less likely that malware would be distributed.
  
  Trust might be restored. Somewhat.

• On the post: Once Again, Piracy Is Destroying The Movie Industry… To Ever More Records At The Box Office

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2016 @ 01:03am

  "...a staggering $38 billion..."
  
  It's worth clarifying that that figure reflects just gross sales. Taken as a whole, the global industry takes even greater revenue.
  http://www.statista.com/statistics/259985/global-filmed-entertainment-revenue/
  
  I have dim recollections from "The Tech Wars" in the nineties, when Hollywood was trying to strong-arm hardware makers into accepting more and more crap like DVD regionalization, someone somewhere made the observation that Hollywood brought $38B to the US economy, whereas Silicon Valley brought $600B. Hollywood lost the argument.
  
  Sorry, I can't recall where I read that...

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