What is the legality of this bill? On 1st December 2009, the EU will have in law the hated Lisbon treaty, which gives the EU carte blanche to do what the hell it likes with laws in the former 27 EU countries, and is accountable to nobody.
The EU wish to have some sort of three strikes laws for "illegal" copyright downloaders and cut off "offenders", this conflicts with what the Spanish have just done.
In what some are calling a "rogue" decision, the Los Angeles District Court ruled on May 29, 2007, in Columbia Pictures Industries v. Bunnell, that data stored in a computer's Random Access Memory --that's correct you read it right, in its RAM -- is discoverable.
The budget for the snooping programme was allocated years ago, about £1bn ($1.6bn US) was made public - it was a nice small sounding figure, nothing heard of the scheme again for years. NOW there is an election looming where everything from lying about immigration to the politicians expenses claims have been leaked, they are claiming that the scheme is dead in the water, when the truth is anything but.
The UK's electronic intelligence agency has taken the unusual step of issuing a statement to deny it will track all UK internet and online phone use.
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) said it was developing tracking technology but "only acts when it is necessary" and "does not spy at will".
Known as Deep Packet Inspection equipment, these probes will "steal" the data, analyse and decode the information and then route it direct to a government-run database.
Every call you make, every e-mail you send, every website you visit - I'll be watching you.
That is the hope of Sir David Pepper who, as the director of GCHQ, the government's secret eavesdropping agency in Cheltenham, is plotting the biggest surveillance system ever created in Britain.
The scope of the project - classified top secret - is said by officials to be so vast that it will dwarf the estimated £5 billion ministers have set aside for the identity cards programme. It is intended to fight terrorism and crime. Civil liberties groups, however, say it poses an unprecedented intrusion into ordinary citizens' lives.
Aimed at placing a "live tap" on every electronic communication in Britain, it will dwarf other "big brother" surveillance projects such as the number plate recognition system and the spread of CCTV.
I will say that the politicians here like to say "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". Strangely they don't subscribe to this maxim when you are looking into their criminal expenses claims, or government documents that are deeply embarrassing to the current government that were claimed to not exist - but exist, they just didn't want to release them.
The UK police don't like the rise of photo and video cameras showing their abuses of the law, so the current corrupt UK government passes a law where is it's crime to photo / record a police officer. http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=839141
In the early 1990's The Times and The Sunday Times had archive (over a week old articles), which you had to pay to access, there was even a CD-ROM of the updated archive every couple of months, which you had to pay for of course. It was SUCH a great success that the newspaper decided to go for free on the internet, because nobody wanted to pay up for what they could get elsewhere. So now Rupert is going full circle.
Being a tester for 2010.0 there are still things broken but were not really looked into properly / at all by some developers.
However my biggest gripe is what people will think when on updating they will find their favourite KDE3 applications vanish, and only KDE4 in it's place (if the applications were even ported). It might be all fine for some people, but applications like Amarok2 and Kaffeine1 are real dogs in KDE4 versions, with plenty features completely missing compared to KDE3 versions, and horrible GUI designs (especially for Amarok2).
So long as two computers can communicate with each other, so you will have P2P.
Luckily, we have politicians who's only education is in English, law, history, politics, art. So it's easy to push any techno-babble on them because they are dangerously uneducated fools.
What benefit is there in _UK_ ISP's being asked to KEEP logs of all internet sites visited, VoIP traffic, email destinations, and dates times of all of it. The costs to the providers go up, so their profits either go down or subscriber costs go up.
It's no coincidence that the current crooked UK government New Labour hate the internet. The government controls most of the printed and TV press (and especially the BBC), but free ideas floating around the internet for anyone to click on that might mean "hey, there are less corrupt political parties out there, vote for them" is dangerous to the party.
They are now doing anything to squash free speech. Free speech is free thinking. Free thinking means they can be voted out. This must be stopped at all cost. The European Union is also as corrupt and depraved in smashing privacy for their own political ends, but nobody talks about that because the "free press" has been bought.
Taxes are being used as an easy way to push as many people away from the internet as possible.
The old drug worked, the new drug works, except the new drug can now cost more because it's "new", so more revenue comes in. The same as planned obsolescence in gadgets.
And if these people **REALLY** believe that upgrading any OS in this fashion, let alone MS Windows, will end up giving them a nice clean install afterwards, then they probably shouldn't be anywhere near a computer in the first place.
Now that's not quite true. I've got the "cooker" test versions of Mandriva on my machine, and whilst most other people wipe a machine to test the cooker stuff, I test how a LOT of ex-Windows users would install an update of their OS, by clicking "update" instead of wiping and a fresh install. This way, I can see what applications break, and see if there are any work-arounds I can find myself, or suggest the package maintainer to run a test for a condition that might not have been tested for. I hope that people such as myself make it easier for these kind of "unsophisticated" users to have a working system, and not a borked one.
Just because YOU know how to wipe and install a new OS, it doesn't mean the whole world does.
I used to go off to the Nvidia site to download the Nvidia drivers for my card, then manually installing the driver.
Then I read about DKMS packages in the repositories that I could install, so every time the Kernel got updated, the package for the graphics driver got automatically recompiled with that Kernel. I was unsure about trying it, but when I did I never looked back, it's been great. Never had to manually edit the xorg.conf file ever again (although I have a backup just in case it goes wrong).
They want to send the Internet back to 42BC.... (basterdised content).
All they see is (devalued) Dollars, and (devalued) Euros in front of their eyes.
The uneducated politicians pander to these people, because they give out campaign contributions / BIG brown envelopes. Maybe we should start demanding politicians with REAL degrees who understand the REAL world, not worthless cr@p subjects like English, law, art, history that politicians seem to specialise in.
1) It's easy to install Firefox / Opera / IE onto a pc, or even another OS, and test your pages using that one machine. 2) Netbooks are same as pc's not too difficult to design / test on. 3) How many mobile phones etc. does a normal person have to test a design? One? two? 4) Mobile devices generally have crappy image quality.
Only the most basic of pages like google's front page looks any good on most phones, there are far more non-iPhones and cloans around.
So WAP design remains pretty much pointless for all but the largest of companies.
A good few years ago now, Rupert had certain sections of The Times and The Sunday Times as subscription pages, certainly the archive section was subscription (basically any story over a week old went into the archive which you had to pay to access). They even had a CD-ROM of The Times archive (I remember using it at university - it only went back to about 1990 articles IIRC). Not enough people paid up to justify running the "archive", so it was removed and now we have the free for all, so long as Rupert allows the sites to be indexed.
Maybe Rupert forgot that he already tried the pay per view method, and people weren't interested.
Binary I/O from humans. Please, hide this story and the research, don't let the RIAA or MPAA find out, or they will use this to find a way to plug "the analogue hole".
Here in the UK one of my previous ISP's claimed my computer was infected with some worm, but how did I find this _lie_ they told me?
Whilst I was using my internet connection they started to flood my router and pc's open ports with packets. Whilst the router and pc were able to repel their attack on my machine which lasted some minutes, they did not impress me with their accusation and then tactics against my machine, I thought it was under a "genuine" DDOS attack which was saturating my connection.
To end the story, the ISP apologised for what they did with their attack on my machine and not informing me of their _lie_ of my pc being infected, and eating up my bandwidth. On the plus side, I upped and left them.
The one and only infection my pc had was when a university lecturer gave back our CAD work from our floppy discs, and the lecturer infected all the students discs, despite the cretin telling us to scan our discs before giving it to him. I'm very strict of what files I run on my machine, and after that incident, even more so.
I would be REALLY wary of an ISP and thier "war on infected pc's".
Noooo. It's bad enough that Flash slows down and eats system resources in Windows, Mac's and Linux, now they want to inflict the same on underpowered mobile devices. That's sick!
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What is the legality of this bill? On 1st December 2009, the EU will have in law the hated Lisbon treaty, which gives the EU carte blanche to do what the hell it likes with laws in the former 27 EU countries, and is accountable to nobody.
The EU wish to have some sort of three strikes laws for "illegal" copyright downloaders and cut off "offenders", this conflicts with what the Spanish have just done.
So who is going to win Spanish law, or EU law?
No doubt some government somewhere around the world will use this to grab as much information as possible before the exploit is patched.
Is this going to be the new processor requirement for running Flash in a web browser?
EC = European Cretins
You are now ordered to supply us with a printout of all information in
http://www.infoworld.com/t/tech-industry-analysis/court-rules-content-ram-memory-discoverable-705
In what some are calling a "rogue" decision, the Los Angeles District Court ruled on May 29, 2007, in Columbia Pictures Industries v. Bunnell, that data stored in a computer's Random Access Memory --that's correct you read it right, in its RAM -- is discoverable.
The budget for the snooping programme was allocated years ago, about £1bn ($1.6bn US) was made public - it was a nice small sounding figure, nothing heard of the scheme again for years. NOW there is an election looming where everything from lying about immigration to the politicians expenses claims have been leaked, they are claiming that the scheme is dead in the water, when the truth is anything but.
If the spies deny it, it is safe to assume they are lying to placate people
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8032367.stm
The UK's electronic intelligence agency has taken the unusual step of issuing a statement to deny it will track all UK internet and online phone use.
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) said it was developing tracking technology but "only acts when it is necessary" and "does not spy at will".
Known as Deep Packet Inspection equipment, these probes will "steal" the data, analyse and decode the information and then route it direct to a government-run database.
Or http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4882622.ece
Every call you make, every e-mail you send, every website you visit - I'll be watching you. That is the hope of Sir David Pepper who, as the director of GCHQ, the government's secret eavesdropping agency in Cheltenham, is plotting the biggest surveillance system ever created in Britain.
The scope of the project - classified top secret - is said by officials to be so vast that it will dwarf the estimated £5 billion ministers have set aside for the identity cards programme. It is intended to fight terrorism and crime. Civil liberties groups, however, say it poses an unprecedented intrusion into ordinary citizens' lives.
Aimed at placing a "live tap" on every electronic communication in Britain, it will dwarf other "big brother" surveillance projects such as the number plate recognition system and the spread of CCTV.
I will say that the politicians here like to say "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". Strangely they don't subscribe to this maxim when you are looking into their criminal expenses claims, or government documents that are deeply embarrassing to the current government that were claimed to not exist - but exist, they just didn't want to release them. The UK police don't like the rise of photo and video cameras showing their abuses of the law, so the current corrupt UK government passes a law where is it's crime to photo / record a police officer. http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=839141
In the early 1990's The Times and The Sunday Times had archive (over a week old articles), which you had to pay to access, there was even a CD-ROM of the updated archive every couple of months, which you had to pay for of course. It was SUCH a great success that the newspaper decided to go for free on the internet, because nobody wanted to pay up for what they could get elsewhere. So now Rupert is going full circle.
Being a tester for 2010.0 there are still things broken but were not really looked into properly / at all by some developers.
However my biggest gripe is what people will think when on updating they will find their favourite KDE3 applications vanish, and only KDE4 in it's place (if the applications were even ported). It might be all fine for some people, but applications like Amarok2 and Kaffeine1 are real dogs in KDE4 versions, with plenty features completely missing compared to KDE3 versions, and horrible GUI designs (especially for Amarok2).
$300m, isn't that the cost of a few US senators "campaign contributions"? :(
More fiber please, money that's more wisely spent. Now how about tackling the problem of fiber to the home.
I'd like to think that the end users are the most influential people in open source projects.
So long as two computers can communicate with each other, so you will have P2P.
Luckily, we have politicians who's only education is in English, law, history, politics, art. So it's easy to push any techno-babble on them because they are dangerously uneducated fools.
What benefit is there in _UK_ ISP's being asked to KEEP logs of all internet sites visited, VoIP traffic, email destinations, and dates times of all of it. The costs to the providers go up, so their profits either go down or subscriber costs go up.
It's no coincidence that the current crooked UK government New Labour hate the internet. The government controls most of the printed and TV press (and especially the BBC), but free ideas floating around the internet for anyone to click on that might mean "hey, there are less corrupt political parties out there, vote for them" is dangerous to the party.
They are now doing anything to squash free speech. Free speech is free thinking. Free thinking means they can be voted out. This must be stopped at all cost. The European Union is also as corrupt and depraved in smashing privacy for their own political ends, but nobody talks about that because the "free press" has been bought.
Taxes are being used as an easy way to push as many people away from the internet as possible.
The old drug worked, the new drug works, except the new drug can now cost more because it's "new", so more revenue comes in. The same as planned obsolescence in gadgets.
And America is NOT spying on China?
And if these people **REALLY** believe that upgrading any OS in this fashion, let alone MS Windows, will end up giving them a nice clean install afterwards, then they probably shouldn't be anywhere near a computer in the first place.
Now that's not quite true. I've got the "cooker" test versions of Mandriva on my machine, and whilst most other people wipe a machine to test the cooker stuff, I test how a LOT of ex-Windows users would install an update of their OS, by clicking "update" instead of wiping and a fresh install. This way, I can see what applications break, and see if there are any work-arounds I can find myself, or suggest the package maintainer to run a test for a condition that might not have been tested for. I hope that people such as myself make it easier for these kind of "unsophisticated" users to have a working system, and not a borked one.
Just because YOU know how to wipe and install a new OS, it doesn't mean the whole world does.
I used to go off to the Nvidia site to download the Nvidia drivers for my card, then manually installing the driver.
Then I read about DKMS packages in the repositories that I could install, so every time the Kernel got updated, the package for the graphics driver got automatically recompiled with that Kernel. I was unsure about trying it, but when I did I never looked back, it's been great. Never had to manually edit the xorg.conf file ever again (although I have a backup just in case it goes wrong).
They want to send the Internet back to 42BC.... (basterdised content).
All they see is (devalued) Dollars, and (devalued) Euros in front of their eyes.
The uneducated politicians pander to these people, because they give out campaign contributions / BIG brown envelopes. Maybe we should start demanding politicians with REAL degrees who understand the REAL world, not worthless cr@p subjects like English, law, art, history that politicians seem to specialise in.
The problem with mobile content is as follows:
1) It's easy to install Firefox / Opera / IE onto a pc, or even another OS, and test your pages using that one machine.
2) Netbooks are same as pc's not too difficult to design / test on.
3) How many mobile phones etc. does a normal person have to test a design? One? two?
4) Mobile devices generally have crappy image quality.
Only the most basic of pages like google's front page looks any good on most phones, there are far more non-iPhones and cloans around.
So WAP design remains pretty much pointless for all but the largest of companies.
The "Yes" option is different if you perform safe hex!
He was just looking for an appropriate place to play his "Magnetic Fields" Jean Michel Jarre CD!
A good few years ago now, Rupert had certain sections of The Times and The Sunday Times as subscription pages, certainly the archive section was subscription (basically any story over a week old went into the archive which you had to pay to access). They even had a CD-ROM of The Times archive (I remember using it at university - it only went back to about 1990 articles IIRC). Not enough people paid up to justify running the "archive", so it was removed and now we have the free for all, so long as Rupert allows the sites to be indexed.
Maybe Rupert forgot that he already tried the pay per view method, and people weren't interested.
Binary I/O from humans. Please, hide this story and the research, don't let the RIAA or MPAA find out, or they will use this to find a way to plug "the analogue hole".
"Microsoft Windows" and "trust", do those two even go together?
Here in the UK one of my previous ISP's claimed my computer was infected with some worm, but how did I find this _lie_ they told me?
Whilst I was using my internet connection they started to flood my router and pc's open ports with packets. Whilst the router and pc were able to repel their attack on my machine which lasted some minutes, they did not impress me with their accusation and then tactics against my machine, I thought it was under a "genuine" DDOS attack which was saturating my connection.
To end the story, the ISP apologised for what they did with their attack on my machine and not informing me of their _lie_ of my pc being infected, and eating up my bandwidth. On the plus side, I upped and left them.
The one and only infection my pc had was when a university lecturer gave back our CAD work from our floppy discs, and the lecturer infected all the students discs, despite the cretin telling us to scan our discs before giving it to him. I'm very strict of what files I run on my machine, and after that incident, even more so.
I would be REALLY wary of an ISP and thier "war on infected pc's".
Noooo. It's bad enough that Flash slows down and eats system resources in Windows, Mac's and Linux, now they want to inflict the same on underpowered mobile devices. That's sick!