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  1. Re:Effectiveness on After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy · · Score: 1

    The point is, by the time a request has been submitted, received and acted on, the content has probably already expired and disappeared. Everything is temporary there. I can't see much actual censorship resulting from any of this. The memory of 4chan is not on the website, it's in the dark corners of its users' hard disks, where no censorship reaches. Enforce takedowns as much as you like, but once an image expires or is taken down someone else will post it, probably under a different name or with a silly face photoshopped in, and so the cycle continues.

  2. Re:Insult to the journalist's entire career on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    Well said sir.

  3. Reverse psychology on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    The powers that be want as many people to see this as possible so that they can inflame passions for the new invasion of Iraq. They know that telling people not to watch it will ensure that as many people get to see it as possible.

  4. Re:And... on Iceland's Seismic Activity: A Repeat Show for Atmospheric Ash? · · Score: 1

    Short suncream futures?

  5. Re:How big is this thing? on Iceland's Seismic Activity: A Repeat Show for Atmospheric Ash? · · Score: 1

    VEI of 6 eruptions are not very frequent in the world and tend to cause prolonged extreme weather events. The last was Mount Pinatubo in 1991 and the ash dropped the global temperature by 0.4 degrees C.

  6. Re:How big is this thing? on Iceland's Seismic Activity: A Repeat Show for Atmospheric Ash? · · Score: 1

    Further: its eruption in 1477 had a VEI of 6.

  7. Re:How big is this thing? on Iceland's Seismic Activity: A Repeat Show for Atmospheric Ash? · · Score: 1

    Its largest eruption (8500 years ago) is estimated to have had a VEI of 6 and produced the largest holocene lava flow in the world. At least that's what wikipedia says. Could be big, could be less big in this case.

  8. Peak Hype on Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This must be what Gartner meant

  9. Re:Really? on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 1

    This.

  10. Re:Missing the point on Why the Public Library Beats Amazon · · Score: 1

    This. Plus it's somewhere to go and read books and magazines, check out the internet if you can't afford it or are away from home, and get help with finding information from skilled experts at finding information.

  11. Re:not sure how this is news. on Why the Public Library Beats Amazon · · Score: 1

    not sure if trolling but municipal parks obv.

  12. Re:Noone has to remember passwords any more on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    According to wiktionary, UK users of English prefer no one to noone by a factor of 12:1, so quite a large number of people are happy with noone. I agree with you that 'No none' is two words with a space between them, and that noone would say nonone :)

  13. Noone has to remember passwords any more on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    Don't people just click on the 'Forgot Password' button every time their browser forgets their password?

  14. Propaganda on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mod this propaganda.

  15. Re:The one of very few decent things. on DNA Project 'to Make UK World Genetic Research Leader' · · Score: 1

    It sounds like a nice thing to do, but let's take another look. Hundreds of million pounds of health spending go to Dave's mates in Cambridge, and the Illumina corporation in California. Not sure if like.

  16. Re:More biased than bulgaria on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    The City of London Corporation is outside the control of parliament, and the representatives of 21 of its 25 wards are entirely voted for by corporations, not individual voters who live there. The Corporation has a representative called the Rememberancer who sits behind the Speaker of the House of Commons, presumably with the job of 'remembrancing' the commoners about who's really in charge.

  17. Re:what a tremendous use of police resources on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 2

    This is the City of London Police. The City of London is a square-mile independent state within a city. It is outside the control of parliament, owned by the banks, who have most of the voting rights within the organisation of the state, and the City of London Police is its private police force, not to be confused with the Metropolitan Police whose remit is to catch the criminals in the rest of London.

  18. Re:Adblock Plus/FlashBlock on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 2

    Citation needed. Is it true that 80% don't know better, 10% do it knowingly? What happened to the other 10%?

  19. Re:Warnings are discoverable ... on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 1

    So they are going to pay extra to have proof that the letter was delivered, and to whom? What a giant waste of our money.

  20. Re:Illigal or not? on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think this would be difficult to prove. All experience in the music industry seems to indicate the opposite, that people who listen to music shared by their peers are MORE likely to buy it later than those who don't.

  21. Re:Only if the PC is made by Apple on All Web Developers Should Have Access to a Device Lab (Video) · · Score: 1

    I don't think people are bothering to check Safari compatibility any more, unless they happen to use a Mac themselves. I'm finding more and more sites where Safari has buttons completely missed from the rendering (or hidden behind something else or otherwise invisible). If Safair won't run on anything but a mac then a large proportion of the dev community is never going to bother checking it.

  22. Re:"What to do before selling or giving away your. on Avast Buys 20 Used Phones, Recovers 40,000 Deleted Photos · · Score: 1

    Unless you have the backdoor key

  23. Prisoner exchange? on US Arrests Son of Russian MP In Maldives For Hacking · · Score: 1

    It would be a shame if your son comes to harm in some foreign jail, perhaps we can come to some arrangement about Owd Sneedon?

  24. Re: User Beware on Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice · · Score: 1

    It is now clear that github is unreliable in their core mission - to allow robust hosting and sharing of useful technology. Unfortunately for them they are in a legal jurisdiction which is no longer suitable for their core activity.

  25. Censorship through comment on Google Reinstating Some 'Forgotten' Links · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Preston case was particularly pernicious - a whole article disappears from search results just because one person adds a comment to the article then decides to 'retract' their comment because 'it is not relevant any more'. It would have introduced a very easy attack route for anyone to take down any article they didn't like by posting a comment then asking Google to retract it thus hiding the whole article.