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Wow, had been following a ccc account on YouTube for some years, had no idea it wasn't official. Now subbed to the real source - thanks. :)

Are you referring to the incident involving author Philip Roth's book "The Human Stain"? The problem there appeared to be that Mr Roth took exception to the Wikipedia article which mentioned published reviews of his book where the review authors felt that a character may have been inspired by a real life person. Mr Roth disagreed with this, but he sought to have mention of the reviews themselves removed from the article purely because he disagreed with their conclusions.

There is little question that an author should easily be able to correct a factual inaccuracies in a Wikipedia article which is related to them or their work, however the rights of an author to suppress mentions of reviews of their work purely because they disagree with them, are a different matter entirely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Stain#Anatole_Broyar...

Content ID is automatic and relies on matching fingerprints of existing video. If you upload something that's known to be copyrighted and where the fingerprint is already (or subsequently becomes) known, content ID is what monetises or blocks the video. You don't get copyright strikes for content ID hits, and such a hit is not a "takedown" - that term refers to cases where a copyright holder notifies youtube that a specific video infringes their rights. THAT is when you get a copyright strike.

You have, of course, the ability to appeal - basically saying "Samsung are full of shit, put my video back and tell them to sue me if they don't like it" and that's exactly what happened here.

I remember trying out Zmodem early on, only to find that it obviously had some kind of bug in that it would reliably and consistently drop the line after a certain amount of data had been transferred.

Not so, of course - but unlike Xmodem and Ymodem which acknowledged every packet (and slowed things down), Zmodem would not constantly ack back to the host unless there was an error... So this triggered the modem's inactivity timeout, since despite the constant stream of data coming down from the remote system, there were no "keystrokes" or other packets travelling in the other direction. Hence, after X minutes... Line drop.

Easily sorted with a few AT commands, eventually. :)

OK, so, the obvious "congratulations" messages aside, what's really in that file?

Example: Take the PNG, convert it to another lossless format. Then convert that lossless format back to PNG.

Different file size, right? OK, the comment accounts for about 120 bytes.. but what about the rest? Why is it that much bigger?

"As I read, numbers I see. 'Twould be a great shame not to count this art among the great texts of our time" - count this art among the great texts... it's a one time pad, isn't it.

I got that far too. I don't believe it - there has to be more to it than that. There'll be something else in that file that's better hidden, for sure, and I'm pretty sure it won't be plain ASCII and hex. :)

"It may be no coincidence that in the last two weeks Paramount has struck a deal with Netflix to stream new episodes of the much-awaited 2017 Star Trek reboot globally within 24 hours of network broadcast."

Er, it certainly would be a coincidence, since the EU investigation began some time before the Star Trek reboot was even conceived, and additionally since no such distribution deal between Paramount and Netflix exists, since Star Trek in its TV form is a CBS property.

No, HMRC rents its offices from a commercial company - it just happens that the company is headquartered offshore. HMRC themselves aren't dodging tax, and I'm sure there is no suggestion that the offshore company is doing anything improper either, the article is more about the irony of HMRC seeming to endorse or validate such offshore behaviour when of course a big reason for companies to go offshore is to - legally - avoid tax which would otherwise have to be paid to authorities like HMRC.

No 3G, as you say, but Ofcom's mobile coverage checker shows Kendal bathed in 4G EE coverage, with a good chance of good indoor reception. (And if not, a 4G router with decent outdoor antenna should help enormously.)

Or there's always satellite...?

Prior art. The Doughnut was built in 2003. :)

It would be great if they could publish the live subtitles they produced for all the talks too, so they could be read as (close enough) transcripts.

IA seems to have a bit more than that - the full list is here:

https://archive.org/details/usenet

Obviously the UTZOO collection is one of the more significant ones, but there are thousands of others too, including Giganews.

I'm still trying to get past the idea that any significant number of people would rather SELL a broken iPod that was still under warranty, rather than get a warranty replacement themselves.

"Yet Cirque, as a corporate enterprise, is very different from Disney or MGM. Because it is a circus, the viability of its business is rooted in the willingness of a core group of performers to risk their lives on a daily basis."

Agreed about the documentary. I don't think it's fair to describe this as a "con", though. Larson merely spotted a consistency in the game, and played it to maximum effect. All perfectly within the rules and regulations, no deception or "con" involved - and hence no reason for CBS not to pay out, which they did.

As the documentary points out, they just didn't think that anyone would be able to "aim and hit" the square they wanted - but they were mistaken, and paid for that complacency. They did not make the mistake a second time.

Adult Swim's GM signs off with a pretty chilling taste of what is to come, though: “We want to … create original hits that can be more broad without losing the Adult Swim sensibility"

In other words, "we want to fix everything that is wrong with this success so that it makes more money."

This is why we can't have nice things.

That's as likely to be effective as the famous "To use Bebo/Facebook/Twitter you must be over 13. Are you over 13? [Yes] [No]" option.

"To get the thing you want, you have to say Yes. Will you say yes?" - How many people honestly choose the "no" option?

More googournalism by the BBC there - L750 Betamax tapes run for 3h15m (in Europe) and that wasn't even the longest length available.

People would pay good money for that kind of secure erasure if it could be triggered on demand. :)

This article seems a bit wooly and doesn't really explain how this personalised delivery is going to be achieved - but a real-world example of genuine ad personalisation technology running right now in the UK is Sky AdSmart:

http://www.skymedia.co.uk/sky-adsmart/

It downloads demographically targeted ads to your set top box ahead of time, and on channels with the appropriate signalling, will automatically replace a live advert on the broadcast channel, with a targeted ad playing back from your set top box. The experience is pretty much seamless. Some of the case studies are really interesting.

"Not too long ago, we tore down the Apple TV and Siri Remote. The developer unit we disassembled was sent to us by Apple. Evidently, they didn’t intend for us to take it apart."

The BBC did launch a "global iPlayer" some years ago - they actually closed it just recently.

Unfortunately modern "news" is not based on evidence, merely the event of a claim.

"scared of" is not an acceptable synonym of "opposed to".

Well, ChartMogul certainly earned a brand withdrawal by having a floating social media bar consistently obscuring the left hand side of the article text that I was trying to read...

This seems like a nice idea but all the results seem to be pretty much indistinguishable from noise. Nearly every show I tried returns the same genres and keywords (and I think it's reasonable to say that Frasier is NOT a crime show in space.)

If this is just counting the frequency of individual words, perhaps that's too simplistic an approach.

I see.

"NCC's work - which has been restricted to its labs..."

"Mr Davis said he had simulated his DAB-based attack only on equipment in his company's buildings..."

"But he added that he had previously compromised a real vehicle's automatic-braking system ... by modifying an infotainment system, and he believed this could be replicated via a DAB broadcast."

So basically this is one of those non-stories where a researcher looking for some press coverage broadcasts a custom radio station with a name like 'LOL I HAKD UR CAR', then shows it - in an office - to a zero-knowledge reporter who is immediately impressed as if it was a demonstration of anything at all. Whereas actually it's just some bloke in an office saying "well I'm sure this is possible, I've never done it, obviously."

I'm reminded of the words of Travis Goodspeed... Proof Of Concept or GTFO.

Yes, of course, understood and accepted - this is cool too.

I've never heard of this being used for hybrid C64/PC discs before, but the technique itself isn't all that new - as far back as the late 1980s there were dual-format Atari ST and Amiga discs which would work on either system. Some were mounted as cover discs on magazines, and indeed at least one magazine managed a three-way disc that was ST, Amiga and PC compatible.

Some released software was dual-format as well - I particularly recall the Atari ST/Amiga version of Starglider. While the ST and Amiga boxes were both separately labelled, the actual disc inside was the same, and worked on either machine.