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Comment Oh, not *that* VIZ (Score 4, Funny) 23

> Similarly, the ten most prolific rightsholders, including the BPI, HarperCollins, and VIZ Media, are responsible for 40% of all reported links

Sad and disappointed to learn that VIZ Media has no relation to VIZ Magazine; home of Johnny Fartpants and the Fat Slags. Would have laughed my arse off if VIZ was among of the top pirated content worldwide. Anyway, stay classy Internet!

Comment No Git (Score 3, Insightful) 124

Number one issue for spreadsheet reliability (other than Microsoft) is lack of any reasonable source management. I assume most spreadsheets offer some basic change auditing but nothing like the pipelines for code management, feature development, merging, deployment and automated testing you would have in any large software project hosted on Github/Gitlab/CodeCommit etc.

Frankly until you solve that you're not going to make any inroads into quality control and preventing garbage edits.

Comment Re:Should have used Thrustmaster (Score 1) 92

Fun fact, I own 5 Logitech F710 gamepads, the kind used in the sub. If anyone is going to implode it's me.

Additional fun fact: One of them seems to drift to the right and regularly lose connection so I can totally believe the sub just drove around in circles until it imploded.

Comment Re:HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (Score 1) 74

The story was called "Trucks" which became the movie "Maximum Override". He also wrote Christine and Duel.

I think it's interesting that the master of horror is less terrified of clowns and demons than he is of ... traffic. It does make sense though since in the US cars maul 50,000 people a year and demons and clowns kill about 100 people max.

Comment Re:I guess Murdoch has money in office blocks (Score 1) 122

Probably but it could be anyone. News Corp attack campaigns have always been available to the highest bidder. Notable campaigns in the past have been against renewables, resource taxes and banking regulations. It's obvious Murdoch press gets more money from big oil and mining groups than it does from subscriptions. Propaganda is News Corps' primary business model. The political attacks against the center/left parties, the poor and immigrants are really just frosting on a shitty cake of corporate greed.

As far as whether they do own inner-city offices or retail businesses I couldn't tell. The only articles I found about their property assets focus solely on the fancy big ticket items like mansions and expensive boat sheds.

Comment How is this not a DMCA violation? (Score 1) 41

Even as a foreigner, if I sold a tool to decrypt a commercial encryption scheme to Americans I'd be violating the DMCA right? Is what they are doing specifically exempt or are they just getting away with it because the government chooses to turn a blind eye? Why do I risk jail for hacking my tractor but they can legally break into a strangers phone?

Comment Re: A disgrace (Score 1) 260

There are a few other parts of this that you don't even consider:

* The helicopter was in no immediate danger
* The reporters would have been aware of the helicopter but made no attempts to hide, evade or shoot at it
* The gunner was audibly "frothing at the mouth" to fire
* They deliberately shot already wounded people
* They shot an unidentified van without even trying to confirm its role

You'd have to be pretty stupid or biased to describe this behaviour as anything less than "trigger happy".

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