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• On the post: News Corp. Claims Google News Is An Antitrust Violation In Europe

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2016 @ 11:32am

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  To read the article you have to click on the link which takes you to the newspaper website. Plus there is no advertising on Google News.

• On the post: News Corp. Claims Google News Is An Antitrust Violation In Europe

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2016 @ 11:32am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Except that Google News has no advertising. It makes no money from Google News.

• On the post: Netflix CEO Says Annoyed VPN Users Are 'Inconsequential'

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2016 @ 10:47am

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  "So this seems to me like using a disingenuous, pseudo-mathematical argument to justify the belief that ignoring consumers is something that could be good for Netflix long-term."
  
  It's not disingenuous. The whole "the customer is always right" motto is largely a farce. The customer isn't always right and sometimes it's cheaper in the long run to say good bye to that customer versus doing everything possible to keep them.
  
  Netflix could choose to ignore VPNs but then the content owners may decide to not sell Netflix their content because of 'piracy'. Not securing a show may have a larger impact on the bottom line and customer satisfaction then blocking VPNs.
  
  You argue against a pseudo-mathematical argument, but your second paragraph is nothing but pseudo-mathematical argument.

• On the post: Matthew Keys Gets 2 Years In Jail For 40 Minute Web Defacement He Didn't Even Commit

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2016 @ 11:40am

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  Except that he wasn't charged with hacking the site. He was charged with sharing his login credentials. That's like me giving you a key to the apartment I just vacated and you used the key to get into that apartment and trash the place.

• On the post: Brussels Terrorist Laptop Included Details Of Planned Attack In Unencrypted Folder Titled 'Target'

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2016 @ 09:03am

  Re: Re: They keyboard is mightier than the pen

  Nope can't go back to paper and pencil. That is how Osama Bin Laden communicated with senior AQ officers. We may have to go back to inscribing notes on rock tablets.

• On the post: Brewer Threatens Restaurant For Using The Word 'Hofbrau'

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2016 @ 12:38pm

  Re: Deja vu the Budweiser fiasco

  More importantly, if this restaurant has existed for six decades, clearly there has been no confusion.

• On the post: Led Zeppelin 'Stairway To Heaven' Copyright Case Will Go To A Jury… Meaning Band Will Almost Certainly Lose

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2016 @ 12:36pm

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  Keep in mind that it is the estate that is suing in this case. So any money earned from a likely settlement won't even go to the original creator, it will go to his estate.

• On the post: Congressman Wants To Make Attacking A Cop A Federal 'Hate' Crime

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2016 @ 09:47am

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  In other words, lower standard.

• On the post: Canada Forcing Cheaper, More Flexible Pricing On TV Industry March 1. Will It Work?

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2016 @ 06:45am

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  True, but if I dump phone and TV, my bill will be half of what I currently pay, even after losing the bundle 'discount'.

• On the post: NHL Streaming Service Descends Into Blackout Hell; NHL Threatens Anyone Trying To Circumvent Blackouts

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2016 @ 06:06am

  Re: 'Would you like some lemon juice and salt for that paper cut?'

  Yup, nothing like seeing five Sportnets channels listing "NHL Hockey" and then seeing that the game has been blacked out and replaced with the scores of that night's hockey games. I was under the impression that the blockbuster deal Rogers signed with the NHL was supposed to eliminate blackouts. Oh well, there are other sources to watch NHL games.

• On the post: Ted Koppel Writes Entire Book About How Hackers Will Take Down Our Electric Grid… And Never Spoke To Any Experts

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2015 @ 12:33pm

  The last blackout was caused by a software bug that didn't set off an alarm to notify operators to redistribute power and by not keeping power line corridors free of branches. But, sure, hackers.

• On the post: Advertising Is Content: The Threat To Streaming Sports Posed By A Tiny Advertisement Inventory

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2015 @ 06:24am

  Up here in Canada, it's the same on the various TV network apps. For the longest time I think the CBC only had two ads running on their app - an app that is connected to the internet.

• On the post: TSA: Terrible At Security But Finally Willing To Work On Its Problems

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2015 @ 10:05am

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  I believe that the TSA actually relishes these reports because they will argue that the need more money to hire and train staff and buy equipment to keep the air travelling public safe.

• On the post: TSA: Terrible At Security But Finally Willing To Work On Its Problems

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2015 @ 07:10am

  Looking forward to taking my shoes and belt off in the name of security theatre this coming Monday.

• On the post: Our Founding Fathers Used Encryption… And So Should You

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2015 @ 11:08am

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  By real democracy, do you mean the one where only a free adult male property owner could vote? The founding fathers had some good ideas, but it's stretching the truth to say they were trying to live in a real democracy.

• On the post: New Zealand Confirms That TPP Would Extend Copyright Terms In Many Countries, Block US Plans To Reduce Terms

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2015 @ 07:00am

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  Don't be silly. No work created today or in the past 50 years will ever enter the public domain. They will just keep extending the term of copyright.
  
  It's amusing to see a company like Disney push for longer copyright when it relied heavily on the public domain for content during it's formative years.

• On the post: Texas Police Arrest Kid For Building A Clock

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2015 @ 09:57am

  Re: Am I missing something....

  I constantly remind my kids that if they are called into the Principal's office, the only thing they should say is "call my mom and dad" and say nothing else.

• On the post: Burning Man Threatens Quizno's For 'Theft Of Intellectual Property' Because Of A Quizno's Ad Mocking Burning Man

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2015 @ 01:46pm

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  "These trademarks and copyrights may not be used for any commercial or promotional purpose whatsoever without prior written permission from Burning Man."
  
  Too bad for On Fire Male, that's not how trademark or copyright law works. Coke and Pepsi consistently use their competitors trademarks in their ads. And the ad is clearly mocking Burning Man, which means fair use comes into play.

• On the post: Parents Sue School, Claim Wi-Fi Made Son Sick

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2015 @ 10:05am

  Re: Seriously?

  Except that Karl doesn't uses a quote from the FCC. He uses a quote from the school's statement that the EMF analysis experts the school brought in noted that "RFE emissions on campus ‘were substantially less than one ten-thousandth (1/10,000th) of the applicable (FCC) safety limits.
  
  So FCC sets a limit. Experts analyze school and find that RFE emissions are 1/10,000 of the FCC safety limit. That's hardly saying the FCC are gods.
  
  It's not the "radition" from CFLs that is causing headaches. It's the number of cycles and modern CFLs don't have that problem.
  
  But, yes, lets talk about anti-science confirmation bias.

• On the post: Parents Sue School, Claim Wi-Fi Made Son Sick

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2015 @ 09:52am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Some of the studies cited actually don't make the conclusions that AC makes.

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