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Comment Re:Did this really happen? (Score 1) 109

in 2009 the BBC paid a call center worker, who was assigned to the US, to take 3 calls for the UK queue and write down the callers CC number. The three callers were working for the BBC. They then published a story that "you cannot trust call centers in India", because they will take your number, and they pulled in the three "victims" to say on camera that they were appalled.

Comment Did this really happen? (Score 0, Flamebait) 109

BBC has been known to have a fake player x and fake player y to create a story. So formula goes: Player X contact Player Y to do something illegal-> Player Y agrees to do something illegal + adds good sound bite -> BBC only reports from Player X point of view and uses "sound bite" to make Player Y, as representative industry,which now look deplorable to the common reader. Thus, this report should be taken with a grain of salt.

Submission + - Smart Car Tipping Trending in San Francisco (ktvu.com)

hackajar1 writes: Is it a crime of opportunity or another page in the current chapter of Anti-Tech movement in San Francisco? Either way, the new crime trending in San Francisco invloves tipping Smart Cars on their side. While they only take 3 — 4 people to tip, this could just be kids simply having "fun" at the very expensive cost of car owners. Alternatively it could be part of a larger movement in San Francisco against anyone associated with HiTech, which is largely being blamed for neighborhood gentrification and rent spikes in recent years.

Comment Re:What did you expect? (Score 1) 99

Did you RTFA? They only turned away people who PAID to be at the conference. "Expo Only" passes, I.e. plain old tech people, were allowed access. It is also worth noting that you are attempting to claim something as a "tech conference" and blatantly ignoring fact that it is a SECURITY CONFERENCE. How many free lunches has RSA given you? is probably a better question, seeing all of your pro-rsa talk on these topic.
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Submission + - U.S. Congress Proposes Loud Commercial Legislation (yahoo.com)

Hackajar writes: "Have you ever caught yourself running for the volume control when a TV commercial comes on? Congresswoman Anna Eshoo has, and is submitting legislation that would require TV Commercials in the U.S. to stay at volume levels similar to the programming they are associated with. FTA, "Right now, the government doesn't have much say in the volume of TV ads. It's been getting complaints ever since televisions began proliferating in the 1950s. But the FCC concluded in 1984 there was no fair way to write regulations controlling the "apparent loudness" of commercials.""

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