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"Your BBC is (de facto) completely government run"
Up to a point, Lord Copper.
It's interesting that, despite the right wing Tory government apparently "running the BBC", Tories always accuse the BBC of left wing bias and anti-Tory sentiment. Conversely, the left see the BBC as having a bit of a right-wing spin and being pro-establishment. So it's probably about right in its even handedness.
The BBC is run by a board of trustees and has a board of governors. I'm sure the government of the day, whatever hue, would like to control it's output and propaganda, though.
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Well, most of what I watch is dicated by Jack Daniels.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Suddenly I realize: UK programs such as "Foyle's War" are for export-only.
Probably because of the uproar the historical inaccuracies would provoke.
If you want the realities of the war...[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I built a computer that we use for web/NAS stuff. The TV connects to it via a home theater receiver. The TV itself is not connected to the internet, but I can still stream Netflix, et al...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Similar, here - I bought a refurbished Dell Optiplex (with installed video card for HDMI) for that purpose. Also - used it yesterday, during snow-storm-that-wasn't to work remotely.
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According to your microwave, you spend so much time in the kitchen getting snacks there is no point in monitoring the tv.
veni bibi saltavi
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Don't believe the microwave! It's been jealous every since I bought the induction cooking surface.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: You turn it on and it goes through a setup. Aside from local date and time, I aborted the rest. In addition, I didn't give it any sort of connection to the internet.
Same here... but without 4K
Not only no internet to the TV (but yes to the laptop connected to it), I didn't even plugged the antenna since we don't see usual TV. Only films or things like that. Public Library on my town is for free and have a good load of DVDs if you don't mind to see them with 6 to 12 months delay...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That's not enough. You need to wear your tin foil hat as well! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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OK - wiseguy - what should I do with the HD Broadcast antenna I already connected to the set?
Too large to be a coaster. Too soft to be a cutting board. Well ?
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Throw it out in the shed. Maybe somebody can use it to phone home?!?!? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Damn - now everyone knows I have a shed.
They can use google-maps to find me.
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They also know that you have an HD antenna. That makes it even easier! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: They also know that you have an HD antenna. That makes it even easier!
Only if they start looking in my windows, again.
It's, as described earlier, too large for a coaster - a flat plastic panel with a wire.
Perhaps I ought wrap it in aluminum foil - to keep the pesky RF from getting in or out of it and interfering with the RF I want. My supply of foil, thanks to CP suggestions, has been running rather low.
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I initially made the mistake of letting my LG TV connect to my LAN when I first got it. Well, not entirely a mistake, I let it go ahead and download the latest firmware. Still not sure what the benefit of that was however; it's not like they publish any sort of "what's new" document.
After that I had no use for the internet connectivity. Damned if the TV will let you disconnect or clear any existing setting once it knows your wireless password however. And if you try to redirect it to something that doesn't exist, it'll fail to do the connection (obviously), and then cancelling will make it revert to the settings it already knows about.
The path of least resistance for me was to temporarily change my wireless password in the router, tell the TV to use that, then change the password back (otherwise I have countless devices I'd have to change).
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Ya know - all things considered.
If you agree to connect the TV to the internet they should give you the TV for free.
Make their profits by selling your information.
Now everyone would be happy.
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I suppose at least they'd be honest about it.
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No use for "smarts" in a TV; better to have a separate
box for that.
We also plan to discontinue cable TV and view only discs and streaming services.
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We did that a couple of years ago (sans DVD's actually). No way we'll go back!
Only one pay service, HuluPlus, has been picked up.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: So - when those attempting to reach out to watch what I do in front of the TV - they'll have no connection.
No connection needed to spy on you through your tv.
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Enlighten us as to how so!
Cell phone towers? A conspiracy!
Fortunately, I already sprayed the TV and the homunculus is dead (deep fried, actually).
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Enlighten us as to how so!
A technique that has been around since the 1940's. In the military it is called compromising emanations. To the every day it's called Van Eck phreaking, so named after the guy who first demonstrated it publicly by remotely reconstructing an image from nothing but the EM radiation given off a TV set. No internet connection needed, just someone with a little knowledge of electronics. From there your actions in front of your TV can be deduced by the amount of the EM field you are blocking and the way it is being blocked. Unless you have surgical pins or screws or some such in you, because then you're pretty screwed as they act as an amplifier.
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And this information will be picked up by whom? Where? Like the compromise of voting ballots - what happens to the old data when the next person votes? Where is the receiver for this signal . . . the induction cooker I just got?
I'd be more concerned with laser-Doppler being used to eavesdrop on conversations from window vibrations. Who's running all of these? But I'm not concerned.
If I were specifically targeted - then game is over for me. If not - this is no telephone conversation already streaming - it's a latent image of questionable persistence and even more questionable value.
The sun will die out some day - I'm not worried about that, either (yet).
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W∴ Balboos wrote: And this information will be picked up by whom? Where?
By anyone smart enough to create a receiver, for weak signals you have to be quite close, but TV is anything but a weak signal. Any electronic display can be recreated by this method. By whom? Anyone who wants to see what you do in front of your TV or what you watch.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Like the compromise of voting ballots - what happens to the old data when the next person votes?
The same can be applied to electronic voting booths, if you want to see what button people are pressing behind the curtain. The receiver is just a tv with the tuning controls replaced with manual oscillators. Only thing needed is a knowledge of electronics. and that data can be recorded for later use. Do some reading, it's quite interesting.
W∴ Balboos wrote: I'd be more concerned with laser-Doppler being used to eavesdrop on conversations from window vibrations.
The laser technique also doesn't require a closed window.
If you aren't worried about being spied on, why did you disable the ability for your tv to connect to the internet? So you're worried about some forms of surveillance but not others? Van Eck phreaking is a whole lot easier than breaking into your tv.
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Member 4724084 wrote: By anyone smart enough to create a receiver, for weak signals you have to be quite close, but TV is anything but a weak signal. Any electronic display can be recreated by this method. By whom? Anyone who wants to see what you do in front of your TV or what you watch.
Vague and empty.
I repeat my question - spelling it out: This "anything but a weak signal" - so they'll pick it up from a km away? 100m? A car parked out front, day and night? Generalities as you've put forth are not particularly useful. And what signal is 'anything but weak'? The shows that have been watched? It's been possible to determine what channel a view is watching almost forever - drive-by vehicles for ratings. Nothing to see there - the TV, itself, is always on the same station.
You got into this with "by by remotely reconstructing an image from nothing but the EM radiation given off a TV set" - image of what? The TV set? Me walking buy?
Scores of years ago there was a thing called a telephone pickup coil - it, too, worked by (ultimately) induction. Extrapolated, years later, for drive-by TV-station ratings talleys.
You endlessly overlook the real point of it all: who's targeting me? What for? Mainly, disappointment it the Telly's on; the good stuff's when it's off.
Rephrasing that: my data requests/returns are not being spewed on a network for a bank of super-computers to sip off of at their leisure. It's transient EMF - in a house and world full of the same - even if I watch broadcast and use the tuner, all they'd know is what I'm watching and when. For that - why bother with all the remaining electronics: time and station tell them all they need to know.
Get a grip: if someone wants to observe you, you're doomed. Don't forget, of course, that there is always "simple bugging"! Cheaper, too.
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