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Posts by John Lilburne
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Help! What does 'personal conduct unrelated to operations or financials' mean?
Spotify mulls Swift change of policy – we can stream Taylor, but we'll charge
Re: One day the millenials will ...
Oh I don't expect you to find something and stick to it, I know you will. That won't stop you listening to new stuff, just that the 'new stuff' won't quite be as often. I put new stuff in quotes because by and large recommendations from streaming services aren't particularly good. They recommend thing similar to what you are currently listening too. Different artist same genre which once you think about it is rather boring.
Re: One day the millenials will ...
I can't help you with your penchant for buying shite, as I've not bought shite in several decades. Perhaps, as you are prone to buying shite, some URL and a subscription fee is sufficient for you. However, years after you've settled down on your favourite music, favourite bands, and favourite tracks, you'll still be paying $10 a month to listen to them.
As for sharing "new stuff you've found" you can do that without spotify, and "access to pretty much everything" isn't particular good, it means that unless you are disciplined in what you listen to you are at best channel flipping spending no time to savour or fully appreciate the 'new thing' you are listening to.
Google Ventures ventures away from European investments
14 strikes and you’re out. Or not. Emails reveal how Cox lost Safe Harbor
Re: The judge could be totally wrong!
OTOH they have emails between Cox managers and support staff where the staff is saying 'this guy has admitted to us he's pirating, we've asked him to stop a dozen times in the last six months" and the manager saying "he pays us $400 a month keep him on the books".
Google fends off EFF's claims kids probed by Chromebook software
Music publisher BMG vs US cable giant Cox: Here's why it matters
Re: Points
They were recording seeders of 1000s of files. Someone that is seeding 1000 files only need to get triggerer once every 1 day to mount up 54K 60 days.If they are seeding 7000 files they only need to be triggered once a week., etc. The issue here is that people seed 1000s upon 1000s of files so the numbers mount up quickly as do the potential loses.
UK will pay EU £180m in fines due to botched CAP IT system – NAO
Google snoops on kids via Chromebooks, claims EFF in FTC filing
Google launches virtual plastic pal who's fun to be with
Google takedown requests mushroom as copyright holders play whack-a-mole
Rdio's collapse another nail in the coffin of the 'digital economy'
Re: WTF?
I'm a huge fan of music released from the ECM label. In over 30 years and some 300 CDs I've not bought one that I hate or even regretted buying. This week I had 4 delivered. None of this stuff is on any of the streaming sites most was removed from spotify in 2010. It doesn't seem to have affected the artists or the label.
George Osborne fires starting gun on £20m coding comp wheeze
Cops use terror powers to lift BBC man's laptop after ISIS interview
Re: So what?
"What that means is that the only people giving interviews are those "in authority" and only their side of any story is reported."
This is what already happens. You have journalist either interview 'dissident' in darkened room, and disguised voice, or its some hairy tattoo'd dork, wearing a Tshirt with last months pizza and coffee stains. They then cut to some well dressed fellow in a bright smart office, with a row of hardback books behind him, dissing everything that previous oink said.
EU urged to ignore net neutrality delusions, choose science instead
Facebook's UK wing paid just £4k in corporation tax last year
US Treasury: How did ISIS get your trucks? Toyota: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Google .supplies .cheap web .properties with 90 top-level .domains to .world via .partners
Can we have a list of the 90 TLDs so that we know to avoid any website using them. If its Google related we know it is databases are going to be mined and scrambled over by the Google ad networks, the NSA and GCHQ regardless of the website owner. It won;t be as if we can avoid it by rejecting DoubleClick and Google Analytic trackers, it will be right there on the Google servers.
Russia vows to shame big biz that advertises on pirate sites, and save the internet
Adblock farms out acceptable ad policy to independent reviewer
Has the UK Uber crackdown begun? TfL opens consultation on private car biz
Technology changes society. Get used to it.
Technology that fucks people over needs to be thwacked with a 10lb lump hammer until said technology is a mass of shards on the ground.
Uber is just a mini cab firm with a modernized interface.
In which case it should be subject to the regulations as is everyone else. We wouldn't allow unregulated cabs just because they were voice controlled: BRAKE, TURN RIGHT, .... Or some touch screen device.
'Disruptive Innovation'? Take this theory and stuff it: MIT Profs
This new ivory tower business buzz word BS sounds much the same.
Back in the 80s our factory manager was holding a joint management/union meeting, and was telling us about developments at a sister site a couple of miles away:
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They've had Management Consultants in ... they've spent £100,000 on this and the upshot is that they have taken the name tags of their doors saying Dr. Jeykll or Mr Hyde and every one is now calling them Jim or Joe. I know what to call them "Bunch of fucking stupid cunts" that's what they are.
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You want a 6% Google Tax? Get lost, German copyright bods told
VW’s case of NOxious emissions: a tale of SMOKE and MIRRORS?
Ad-blocking super-weapon axed by maker for being TOO effective
Why the 'Dancing Baby' copyright case is just hi-tech victim shaming
UK lords aim probe into Silicon Valley oligarchs
Even in the UK the House of Lords is a joke
Actually no! For 20 years from the mid 80s to mid 00s they were the only effective opposition to the Government. Some of the most vile proposals of the Thatcher, and Major governments were defeated in the Lords. Blair and his crew didn't get ID cards and their most obnoxious snooping bills through due to opposition in the Lords. Now you might ask how it is that a unelected bunch of geriatrics have more spine than the run-of-the-mill parliamentarian, but that is another matter.
Wikipedia’s biggest scandal: Industrial-scale blackmail
Re: I gave up on Wikipedia a while ago...
What evidence do you have that the WMF vets anyone? The administrators there aren't vetted, those with advanced powers checkusers, bureaucrats, members of arbcom are required to send ID to the WMF who having determined that the person is +18 promptly shred the evidence. It has been known for kids to send fake ID.
Oh no Wikiwon't: Russians plan own version of 'distorted' Wikiland
Hey, folks. Meet the economics 'genius' behind Jeremy Corbyn
'Sunspots drive climate change' theory is result of ancient error
Re: Deniers?
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The problem that many of us "skeptics" (not deniers) have is not that the climate is changing but the reason WHY it is changing and the gospel of what must be done.
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What you are maintaining is the equivalent of saying "that if a building is on fire because of an electrical fire, then adding a bit of petrol to the flames will do no harm". Seems to me that regardless of the root cause (the science most likely has it right, but no matter) adding to the problem isn't a particularly smart way of proceeding.
Android faces SECOND patching crisis, on the same scale as Stagefright
Flash deserves to live, says Cisco security man
Google to French data cops: Dot-com RTBF? Baiser ma DERRIERE
Sue us for Safari ad tracking? You'll be lucky, peons, cackles Google
German regulator has it right
"For that matter Facebook cannot again argue that only Irish Data Protection law would be applicable ... anyone who stands on our pitch also has to play our game," he said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/28/us-facebook-germany-pseudonyms-idUSKCN0Q21U620150728
OK so that is facebook, but the same should apply to Google here too.
Bloke cuffed for blowing low-flying camera drone to bits with shotgun
Slashdot, SourceForge looking for new owners after parent dumps them on the web's doorstep
Google bows to inevitable, stops forcing Google+ logins on YouTubers
Amazon threatens UK with James Blunt, muscles into music streaming
None of these services cooperate
Most of my 1200+ LPs, Tapes, and CDs have been digitized. For my pain I use iTunes as the main hub of the collection and feed plays into last.fm neither of which can agree what album or track names should be, neither of which agree on the artist names. Example if you rip a CD in iTunes it sometimes identifies the album, artist, and tracks. But then it can't find the artwork until you change the name of the CD or artist, after which it can no longer identify it in the iTunes store. Additionally last.fm won't recognise the CD/track you are playing until you change it to some other variant. Throw autorip downloads from Amazon into the mix and you have yet another variation where iTunes doesn't understand the album and last.fm doesn't understand the track names.
Then we can add in the 100 or so albums that no one has heard of, cos they were obscure blues, jazz, or folk stuff from the 50s-70s.
No I don't want any of this streaming stuff its nothing but pain.
Ad rivals whimper: Hey Commish, we've 'ad it up to here with ad giant Google
Google dumps ISP email support. Virgin Media takes ball, stomps home
Re: ISP email!
Would I use gmail - nope too much snoopage. A yahoo account for yahoo groups, a hotmail account for trolling MS, hell I even have an grandfathered netscape.net addy for USENET trolling. Oh and a handful of other yahoo accounts for nefarious purposes. But a Google account never.
There is certainly a gotcha with an ISP email address. I have a demon account with unlimited email addresses but I'm currently migrating to use one of my own domains which similarly has unlimited addresses.
Apple Watch is such a flop it's the world's top-selling wearable
Re: Who actually wears a watch anymore? And why?
Not me. I used to be obsessive about the time. Constantly glancing at it every minute or so, for no good reason at all. Then one day in 1982 I was using the stopwatch function to time some film development and drop the thing into a bowl of photographic fixer. It never worked after that, and I never replaced it.
Knowing the time at any instant can never make you early for an appointment you either are or your not. It depends on when you started out. Other than appointments you rarely need accurate time. 30 minutes either way is good enough. We have become slaves to some clockwork cycles, that isn't how humans should be living, and it causes stress.
Besides everything around you has a time function, the camera, the DT computer, your mp3 player, the oven, the fridge, the video player, the car dashboard has at least two, the GPS ...
UK.gov makes total pig's ear of attempt to legalise home CD ripping
I think you've missed the point. The complainants aren't the big corporations but the composers, songwriters, and the session musicians. IE its the little guys that are out of pocket. In general the big corporations are too concerned about a bit of copying (they'd like it not to happen but hey). The problems of copying mainly affects the small producer.
Reddit scrubs up: Child abuse? Gone. Drugs? Cool. RACISM? FINE
Reddit CEO U-turn: Site no longer a bastion of free speech – and stop posting so much hate
You really don't understand this do you. "Free speech" means that you can say stuff and not get sanctioned by government for it. It doesn't mean that you get to write your message on my garden wall, or to yell it from my living room window.
What amuses me about these whiners is that they bitch about government being overreaching and then want every web property to be a branch of government, complaining "censorship" whenever some says "take your shit, and piss off somewhere else".