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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
£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.
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.
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?
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.
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...
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"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?
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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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Netflix is becoming "The New Hollywood"
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Star Wars fans and cinema-goers are not disjoint sets...
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Why would they not? It's low-hanging fruit.
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Trust might be restored. Somewhat.
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Then I saw "Picard" and thought... muppet.
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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.
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And if they DO submit their details, it becomes an "of interest" list in it's own right...
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Re: The point of surveillance
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.
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Re: UNLIMITED DATA PLANS FOR AN AFFORDABLE PRICE
John Legere ought to know better. He should also know who the EFF is.
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http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/oct/23/two-lawyers-3m-fees-government
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Doubt it - that particular pig has already squealed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-most-shocking-thing-about-piggate-is-that-it-wouldn t-be-the-worst-thing-david-cameron-has-done-10510916.html
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Remember Mr & Mrs Spam, (Canter & Siegel)? Utterly unrepentant to this day.
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There has to be some police oversight, right?
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I see good in this
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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...
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