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  1. Re:Why not? A crime is a crime on MP Says 'Failed' Piracy Warnings Should Escalate To Fines & Jail · · Score: 1

    An IP address does not correlate to an individual. I would have thought someone with a user id below 1 million would know that by now.

  2. Re:We keep getting closer to a dystopia on MP Says 'Failed' Piracy Warnings Should Escalate To Fines & Jail · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we've got this thing with the major ISP (BT) where you can get free wireless at hot spots around the world (FON) by ticking a checkbox that sets aside bandwidth on an open SSID on the router. The IP remains the same, but a claim of responsibility for what other people do with open WiFi gets a "fuck you" to the prosecutor and to hell with the contempt of court.

  3. Re:Families come first on Age Discrimination In the Tech Industry · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because the older guys can fix the shit the younger guys made in a rush to get to the bars before they fill up.

  4. Re:Yes, be good sheep and take big pharma shots on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Do you mean thiomersal, the mercuric component of which is readily excreted by the body in less than a month with no ill effects and hasn't been used as a vaccine preservative in US, Europe and elsewhere since 1999?

    Ignorant fear monger.

  5. > Why is it too hard?

    They have to feed and guard you and that costs more.

  6. Re:Sigh on UK Seeks To Hold Terrorism Trial In Secret · · Score: 1

    So they've also brought back capital punishment (secretly, of course)? Good to know...

  7. Re:All I'll say... on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand the purpose of the act. It's so people aren't forever branded with a label making them effectively unemployable. It is libel because it is the same as someone who didn't have that spent conviction. Because legally it has now never happened. Publicly accessible records of that conviction are expunged, which is the big difference. In US forever in public view will be everything illegal thing you have ever been convicted for, no matter what. And you tell *me* to read nineteen eighty four. You're living in it and defending it.

  8. Re:All I'll say... on Thousands of Europeans Petition For Their 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 5, Informative

    We've got this thing in UK called Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This plainly states that when a conviction is deemed "spent" (depends on offence for the timescale, some offences never expire of course) then that it deemed to have never happened in the first place. This can even include being sent to prison. Any use of that information is prohibited and there is no upper limit for a fine that can be imposed for doing so. Plus, use of that information will get you sued for libel, which you will lose and lose badly.

  9. @boblatta on Congressman Introduces Bill To Limit FCC Powers · · Score: 1

    His Twitter feed makes for interesting reading, the replies tend not to be supportive...

  10. Re:Good on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    I remember an episode of the A-team where they created a firearm No one got hit by it that time either. Maybe the sights were off.

  11. Re:Pi? on The Rule of Three Proved By Physicists · · Score: 1

    Not much of a leap on my keyboard, / being next to . so an easy typo to make...

  12. Re:are the people still running XP on Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Then you're not using what the client uses. You can't get away with a "works for me / unreproducible" response if you aren't using the same setup.

  13. Re:are the people still running XP on Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP · · Score: 1

    My having to make sure sites still work in IE 7 didn't magically stop in April because my clients still run XP with support contracts (though I bet not all of them do).

  14. Re:Once again, Europe has real freedom on California Bill Would Safeguard Consumers' Rights To Criticize Firms Online · · Score: 1

    And it took you lot less than 200 years to get to the raping. I don't call that progress, especially when you can see the responsible attitude just by looking across the pond...

  15. Re:Not First Amendment on California Bill Would Safeguard Consumers' Rights To Criticize Firms Online · · Score: 1

    Is there such a thing as a click-through NDA? Surely a signature is required at the very least. Something a EULA does not provide for.

  16. Re:Not First Amendment on California Bill Would Safeguard Consumers' Rights To Criticize Firms Online · · Score: 1

    It's funny how much attachment there is to some fabric with a certain pattern on it. Jihadists burning the US flag, uproar, they're EVUL, kill 'em all. When they decided to burn the Union flag as well because of British involvement, we were just bemused that they thought burning *a piece of cloth* would get up our noses. But then we don't swear allegiance to the flag; we just pity those who fly it upside down...

  17. Re:Fake news on UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    The veto will happen because they don't want to lose the ability to threaten ISPs with legislation *later* if the ISPs don't implement an unaccountable filtering system *now*. They want to keep their method of censorship censored by not wanting the publicity of court cases and judicial decisions that can be appealed.

  18. Re:Turnstile Jumping and Broken Windows Policing on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 1

    You really think facts proving your innocence have any place in a US court when the cops and prosecutors have quotas to fill?

  19. Re:Software doesn't age on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    He doesn't need it, unless he's using that version of DOS that had a full networking stack built in that would allow hackers in. Oh, wait, there wasn't one. No, Novell doesn't count.

  20. Re:If you regulate properly, we'll stop our busine on Major ISPs Threaten To Throttle Innovation and Slow Network Upgrades · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Funny how regulation of ISPs doesn't affect their profit margin too much for the rest of the planet...

  21. Re:Brilliant move... on London Black Cabs Threaten Chaos To Stop Uber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're not talking about satnav reliant random people with a car: Every black cab driver has to pass The Knowledge, comprising a comprehensive map of London and ability to calculate the most efficient route depending on roadworks / time of day / year *in their heads*. This takes years to master and is possibly the most difficult memory and spatial relationship exercise in the world. I doubt you could do it.

  22. Re:Customers are not property. on London Black Cabs Threaten Chaos To Stop Uber · · Score: 1

    I doubt that any Uber driver has to have done The Knowledge before being fully registered, so this is just another private mini cab service. Whilst there is a bit more self-regulation in that you actually have some means of complaining about a particular driver (whereas before you had nothing, even if assaulted) being driven around London by someone relying on satnav rather than the superior Knowledge is prone to difficulties.

  23. Re:Our patent system is totally broken on USPTO Approves Amazon Patent For Taking Pictures · · Score: 1

    Prior art: infinity cove. Patent dismissed. End of story. Thanks for playing.

  24. Re:Also, why dump the waste on earth??? on Understanding the 2 Billion-Year-Old Natural Nuclear Reactor In W Africa · · Score: 2

    "...the equivalent of shitting on your elderly neighbor's lawn. You may not have to deal with it right away, but it's eventually going to come back and haunt you."

    I'm pretty sure I'll outlive my elderly neighbour. In fact, I think I'll *make* sure I do, brb.

  25. Re:What's the problem? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or having executions at all. Civilised countries don't execute people, no matter their crimes.