Re: Mitch McConnell and Senator Burr are being a bit dense...
Hey, Mr Hack, have you sent that email yet?
Posts by Kane
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NSA spying is illegal? Then let's make it law, say Republicans
Facebook 'fesses up to running an ideological echo chamber
UK's annual PCB waste = 81 HMS Belfasts, says National Physical Lab
Graphic designs: Six speedy 17-inch gaming laptops
Dev gives HBO free math tips to nail Game of Thrones pirate leakers
Tuesday 14th April 2015 12:41 GMT 
Here's an Idea...
How about changing the broadcast model instead? You know, if the series is already finished with post-production, just have the entire series available for download/streaming from [input provider of choice here] immediately. Wait a short period afterwards, monitor the volume of actual retention of the entire series (all of those who watched the entire series run, and then possibly re-watched?), then release a limited run of the physical DVD/BRay based on those figures for those who like to collect such things.
Surely by providing what people actually want for a reasonable price, instead of pandering to advertisers wallet padding, would be better in the long run? And would possibly counter the torrent leaks?
Maybe?
TTIP: Protect our privacy in EU-US trade deal or ELSE, snarl MEPs
You. FTC. Get over here. Google is INVADING our children's MINDS – anti-ad campaigners
Wednesday 8th April 2015 10:04 GMT
Re: Ummmm @ Steve Davies 3
From the late, great Bill Hicks:
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing… kill yourself.
No, no, no it’s just a little thought. I’m just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they’ll take root – I don’t know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers. Okay – kill yourself – seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you’re going, “there’s going to be a joke coming,” there’s no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It’s the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.
Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, “he’s doing a joke…” there’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend – I don’t care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi… Whatever, you know what I mean.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing, he’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market, he’s very smart.”
Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!
“Ooh, you know what Bill’s doing now, he’s going for the righteous indignation dollar. That’s a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We’ve done research – huge market. He’s doing a good thing.”
Godammit, I’m not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
“Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill’s very bright to do that.”
God, I’m just caught in a fucking web.
“Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market – look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar…”
How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don’t you?
“What didya do today honey?”
“Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight.” [snores] “Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?” [snores] “Yeah, you know the mums will love it.” [snores]
Sleep like fucking children, don’t ya, this is your world isn’t it?
Turnbull's digital transformation office DOES SOMETHING
Boris Johnson backs trade union campaign to ungag civil servants
BBC gives naked computers to kids (hmm, code for something?)
Bulgaria nixes 'metadata' law, Paraguay delays
Bulk interception is NOT mass surveillance, says parliamentary committee
Thursday 12th March 2015 14:01 GMT 
The committee established that "bulk interception cannot be used to search for and examine the communications of an individual in the UK unless GCHQ first obtains a specific authorisation naming that individual, signed by a Secretary of State".
Unless one of our Special Relationship® partners happens to do the bulk interception/collection on our behalf.
Bulk comms spying is not mission creep, insists UK foreign sec
MPs 'alarmed' by millions of mugshots on Brit cops' databases
Tuesday 10th March 2015 13:10 GMT
Re: Future, what future@Hadvar
"Ultimately, I think people cant be arsed. As long as there is food and beer in the shops, and telly at home, the majority are happy."
"..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon..."
Lost WHITE CITY of the MONKEY GOD found after 500 years
Wednesday 4th March 2015 13:50 GMT
Re: Primeval rain forest?
"I feel National Geographic might need to look up the meaning of "primeval". It can hardly be primeval forest if 500 years ago it was a city."
Yeah...you may have misread that bit...
"The rain forest surrounding the area is so primeval that the animals appear never to have seen humans before, reported the National Geographic."
Plus, for bonus points...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-growth_forest - Particular extract...
Depending on the forest, this may take anywhere from a century to several millennia. Hardwood forests of the eastern United States can develop old-growth characteristics in one or two generations of trees, or 150–500 years. In British Columbia, Canada, old growth is defined as 120 to 140 years of age in the interior of the province where fire is a frequent and natural occurrence. In British Columbia’s coastal rainforests, old growth is defined as trees more than 250 years, with some trees reaching more than 1,000 years of age. In Australia, eucalypt trees rarely exceed 350 years of age due to frequent fire disturbance.
Yeah, yeah, I know. It's wikipedia....
HIGH-RANNOSAURUS WRECKED: Druggie dinos tripped balls on psychedelics – boffins
Thursday 12th February 2015 22:50 GMT
This reminds me...
"It seems like ergot has been involved with animals and humans almost forever, and now we know that this fungus literally dates back to the earliest evolution of grasses"
I remember watching a film in the late 90's that had a similar theme, almost like a docudrama with a narrator following the exploits of a pre homo sapiens/erectus ape wandering the plains of Africa (the premise being he was the last of his kind), and a particular scene that struck me was when the ape creature consumed a bunch of magic mushrooms; the narration went on to speculate that the consumption of halucinogenics could have been a precursor, trigger or catalyst for the evolution of primate minds, and that this was succesfully passed on to our ancestors and gave the species more of an edge in terms of changing the way an animal's thought processes works. I could never remember the name of the film, as it was one of those late night accidents that happens when changing channels.
I wonder how common it was/is for different species to consume halucinogens (by accident or on purpose), and how this has affected their development.
Jeb Bush, the man who may lead the US in 2016, dumps Floridians' private data on the web
Post-pub nosh neckfiller: The Red Dwarf chilli chutney egg sarnie
Monday 9th February 2015 11:11 GMT
Re: Encona?
Wow-Wow Sauce (the original, roundworld variety and the augmented variety)
Icon related>>>
Forget robo-butlers – ROBO-MAIDS! New hotel staffed by slave-droids
Friday 6th February 2015 10:21 GMT
Re: (so no good trying to bribe one for a room upgrade)
Is it me or did that actually make no sense
"Bribing for a room upgrade". So handing more cash over for a better room? okaaaayyyyyy.
What doesn't make sense? You slip a 20 of whatever the local currency happens to be (if it is the Triganic Pu, then I suggest you repair to the nearest currency exchange symposium), to the hotel receptionist, and they say "Ahh, it appears that the luxury suite has become available, please enjoy your stay with us, Sir!".
You get a room upgrade for less than the cost of the actual upgrade, and the receptionist pockets the 20 (or pocket universes all 160 Ningi's).
Abuse of health data deserves JAIL, thunders ethics body
Spent the weekend watching Game of Thrones? You're a FAT LONELY SADDO
Snoopers' Charter amendments withdrawn – FOR NOW ...
Doomsday Clock says 3 minutes to midnight. Again
Hola HoloLens: Reg man gets face time with Microsoft's holographic headset
Is it humanly possible to watch Gigli and Battlefield Earth back-to-back?
Friday 23rd January 2015 10:10 GMT
Terrible films...
As we're adding in to the mix, Red Lights. Diabolical waste of time. If you have an hour and a half to kill, may I recommend you take a nap instead?
In the words of a much better Sigourney Weaver character, "Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure". Icon most definitely related>>>
Facebook: Yo 'people'! Zap fake news on our giant ad farm, would'ja?
Just WHY is the FBI so sure North Korea hacked Sony? NSA: *BLUSH*
Monday 19th January 2015 14:27 GMT
"...is a load of dingo's kidneys..."
That's fetid dingo's kidneys, I think you'll find.
"Quite why the Feds are going to such lengths to convince the doubting infosec community, drawing attention to a program to wiretap a hostile country's internet infrastructure, is a puzzle. Perhaps the program had been uncovered. If not, why is the US intel community disclosing source and methods just to bolster the credibility of its explanation for the Sony hack?"
<cough>False Flag</cough>
Post-pub nosh neckfiller: 1.5 MILLION SCOVILLE masala omelette
PlayStation-processor-powered plutonium probe prepares Pluto pics
Peers warn against rushing 'enhanced' DATA SLURP powers through Parliament
Monday 12th January 2015 19:37 GMT
Re: Not getting my vote...
"Given the way politics are on both sides of the pond, I think it's more like: Heads, the people lose and tails, the people lose. The only winners are those to get more power and that's not the people who do the voting."
The only winners are those who hold the coin doing the flipping.
Sony post-mortem: Obama lobbies for new legal powers to thwart hackers
Sunday 11th January 2015 14:03 GMT
Re: Cheaper, faster broadband
"Next time, Sony... next time!"
Why did I just have a flashback to my youth watching Inspector Gadget?
Comet Lovejoy's greenish glow visible with naked eye this weekend
Saudi Arabia to flog man 1,000 times for insulting religion on Facebook
Car-crash IT: HUGE write-off for Universal Credit - PAC
Mom and daughter SUE Comcast for 'smuggling' public Wi-Fi hotspot into their home
The internet is less free than last year. Thanks a bunch, Snowden
Monday 8th December 2014 13:36 GMT
Re: ECHELON
"They already have had the ability to snoop on electronic communications for ages."
I seem to remember many years ago (ok, it was only the late 90's) that Mark Thomas covered something about this with his little Hot Air Balloon Over Menwith Hill stunt. Whilst he was in the balloon, he pulled out his mobile phone and rang his mum and started saying (not entirely) random words along the lines of "bomb" and suchlike. At which point his mum asked if he was high. Which he sort of was at the time (hot air balloon, remember?)
The general thrust of the piece was the listening post that the NSA had built slap-bang in the middle of Menwith Hill, without any real public knowledge or oversight, how the facility could tap into 100,000 live phone conversations at the drop of a hat (my memory is a bit tarnished about the figures here...), but the one thing they had forgotten to do was apply to the local council for building permission, which meant that there was a tiny little legal loophole and the airspace directly above the listening post was effectively open (no flight restrictions). So he flew right through it. And made his MI5 file all the larger because of it.
I seem to remember at the time thinking "how can they get away with this; surely this can't be right, let alone legal?". Then the Snowden leaks came along, and the Menwith Hill episode was the first image that floated to the top of my memory. And I was proven wrong on both of those last counts, as there seems to be no moral or legal argument that can be used to stop this sort of behaviour.
Sorry, got to go, incoming choppers and all that...
LIFE, JIM? Comet probot lander found 'ORGANICS' on far-off iceball
Are MPs smarter than 5-year-olds? We'll soon find out at coding school – Berners-Lee
Monday 17th November 2014 14:56 GMT
Re: Weeell... sort of
I, too, worry that it will end up with aforementioned MP instructing their minion to open MS Word, type "Hello World" and then using File -> Save as -> HTML and thinking that's all there is to this interweb lark. If you're lucky, they may use the Insert picture from file option...
There, FTFY!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
