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• On the post: DailyDirt: Really Expensive (Or Just Time-Consuming) Foods

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2016 @ 01:19am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: bee balm

  Speaking of googling every damn thing... I seriously thought you'd misspelled STING and went off looking for a track of his I hadn't heard before called "All Good Things". I didn't get anywhere.
  
  Then I saw "Picard" and thought... muppet.

• On the post: After Spending Time As Surveillance Subjects, Intelligence Oversight Committee Suddenly Performing Some Oversight

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2016 @ 12:46am

  Re:

  Difficult to see how they can exempt themselves. In dragnet surveillance everything gets swept up. So unless politicians submit their id's, logons, phone nos, etc. for filtering out, how will they be excluded?
  
  And if they DO submit their details, it becomes an "of interest" list in it's own right...

• On the post: FBI Finally Completes FOIA Request 1,393 Days After It Was Filed; Withholds All 509 Responsive Pages

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2016 @ 01:13am

  Reply fail - my above post was a response to "Whatever Jan 10th, 2016 @ 5:45pm"

• On the post: FBI Finally Completes FOIA Request 1,393 Days After It Was Filed; Withholds All 509 Responsive Pages

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2016 @ 01:12am

  Enormous? We're talking about the meta-data of 3000 devices... That should fit on less than 100 sheets of A4.
  
  And if the FBI has any decent asset management system, it should be straightforward to run a report. There's no insanity or time-wasting as you describe. I don't see the issue.

• On the post: Former NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney Warns UK Lawmakers Mass Surveillance Will 'Cost Lives In Britain'

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2016 @ 04:34am

  Re: The point of surveillance

  The UK has far easier ways of diverting tax revenue to the private sector.
  
  http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/17/hs2-the-human-cost-of-britains-most-expensive-rail-project
  
  £57 billion for a mere 119 miles of track must have George Stephenson spinning in his grave. No-one in the UK wants this but the Gov. and the private sector. This is very telling, but it'll likely go ahead anyway, tearing through the heart of England's finest greensward.

• On the post: T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off The Deep End: 'Who The Fuck Are You, EFF?'

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2016 @ 02:05am

  Re: UNLIMITED DATA PLANS FOR AN AFFORDABLE PRICE

  It's a cardinal internet rule - don't tweet or post when you're in the middle of abusing something. Doubly so for company executives.
  
  John Legere ought to know better. He should also know who the EFF is.

• On the post: UK Government Spends Three Years And Large Sums Of Money To Avoid Revealing The Number '13'

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2016 @ 01:44am

  Re: Re: Ask for one thing, learn another thing (not) free!

  Exactly so. Ordinary folk pay taxes, entitled folk take benefits. Eadie is a scrounger in an expensive suit.
  
  http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/oct/23/two-lawyers-3m-fees-government

• On the post: UK Legislators Want To Toss Tech Company Officials In Jail If They Inform Users About Government Surveillance Efforts

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2016 @ 06:59am

  Re:

  "i wonder if it's because Cameron is afraid of being found out because of something stupid he did before being Prime Minister..."
  
  Doubt it - that particular pig has already squealed.
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-most-shocking-thing-about-piggate-is-that-it-wouldnt-be-the-worst-thing-david-cameron-has-done-10510916.html

• On the post: GQ And Forbes Go After Ad Blocker Users Rather Than Their Own Shitty Advertising Inventory

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2016 @ 03:39am

  Re: Re: Why were ad blockers created?

  It's worse. There's a attitude in certain circles that believe they have God-given right to put themselves and their crappy material right in your face.
  
  Remember Mr & Mrs Spam, (Canter & Siegel)? Utterly unrepentant to this day.

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

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2015 @ 06:54am

  Re: Re:

  I'm probably making a very stupid point, but I seem to remember from TV shows and films the police would dread a knock on their precinct door from "Internal Affairs". Surely that wasn't all make-believe?
  
  There has to be some police oversight, right?

• On the post: The Cable Industry's Response To A Banner Year For Cord Cutting? Massive Across The Board Price Increases For 2016

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2015 @ 06:39am

  Re: Re: Shocked

  I think of them more as cretins playing with complicated and powerful instruments, well beyond their ken, regulated by third-rate wannabees...

• On the post: One Of Congress's Biggest Defenders Of NSA Surveillance Suddenly Aghast That NSA May Have Spied On Him

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2015 @ 06:07am

  I see good in this

  Yes, Hoekstra is a hypocrite and an obnoxious one to boot, but maybe he'll realize that it's no fun having random people scrutinizing every electronic thing you do. For no good reason.

• On the post: Harmonix Caught Astroturfing Amazon Reviews For Rock Band 4, Offers Non-Apology Apology

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2015 @ 03:39am

  Re: poor quality management

  What angers me is that these "reviewers" (according to Doc Gerbil above) are senior people, designers, managers. You'd think they'd know better. It's perfectly clear they have no respect for their customers, for the gaming community, and they think themselves far superior to the great unwashed and mentally deficient folk of the internet.
  
  Kudos to whoever unravelled this. I read the posts on Amazon, they're not that hard to identify. Look for the overuse of management-speak and pseudo-hip. And the oh so breathless gushing...