"It's not about MS crapware, censorship or privacy, it's about kids being abused by adults."
And just to hammer home the validity of this complaint, should we compare the numbers of sexual abuse at the hands of family to the numbers of sexual abuse at the hand of chatroom perverts?
Not having a go at you personally...I know this must worry you, but do you start educating your kids yourself, or wait for the government to do it?
"All of a sudden the 'caring parents' came out and protested the programme"
That was the main point; they generally didn't. The MPs and celebrities came out and proclaimed that they'd been duped, rather than ask _how_ they were duped. This is usually indicative of 'personalities' because they're generally not in environments where they're told they're wrong.
My brief foray into TV-land left me hankering after a wirebrush and dettol.
It was harsh and directed satire against the type of programme that is _still_ being made.
"you're misguided if you think the rest of the UK entirely shares your cynicism."
Okay, we'll both agree that neither of us are barometers of public opinion, but seriously, is the UK going through a moral panic?
No.
"can't dismiss it as purely tabloid scare mongering."
Can and will. Like so many other things, when you actually get into the detail of looking at figures, you start to find that some stuff that was always there suddenly jumps out at you...the problems arrive with the scaremongering which has and will take place. Nottingham Social Services 'satanic ritual abuse'? The 'flesh eating bug scare?' Anything that promotes Jordan?
"You CANNOT and SHOULD not be able to own an idea."
Hey, I thought of that first.
Seriously though, a lot of this is a holdover from the burgeoning corporate structure. Patents originally were geared towards protecting people's ideas _from_ companies that had the available cash to sell products based on those ideas. Now they're just a method for companies to beat other companies.
For one thing, I don't agree with corporates being given the rights and priveleges of individuals without also having to adhere to the rules, say, for example with regard to manslaughter.
"I agree with a number of your points if you are talking about classic ASP, but not ASP.NET."
The big change that I can see from albeit shallow use is the introduction of the MSIL and the compilation of the intermediate bytecode, coupled with the ability to use any number of (MS) languages, whereas ASP was a scripting language much like any other. I stand to be corrected on this, though.
"plethora of other tools"
Notepad, notepad, notepad. Okay, I use text editors that are a little more featured, but how would you go through the compile step?
"HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 standards are proprietary?"
Not at all, but the way it's used can be...however I'm light on examples at the moment, so I'll withdraw the complaint about the HTML.
"You can have your visual HTML elements in one file and your code in a completely separate file. Isn't this the very definition of code and content separability"
How does that work with a datagrid component?
Seriously, I am interested in adding ASP.Net as a string to my bow, but everything I've been seeing/using goes against the grain of the code/html separation by using custom controls. Without those custom controls it's roughly the same as PHP with more expensive hosting costs. Would you be interested in an email conversation about it?
"There is a real moral panic underway in the UK about this now"
Oh, do give over.
For one thing the UK *is not* the tabloids.
They try to foster a particular opinion as being national whether it is or not, and the Sun recently dropped the ball bigtime with their 'Bruno Bonkers' headline that they had to reprint because it was insensitive trash.
The whole deal with 'peadophiles' in the UK is that we don't have the association with 'Terrorism' that the US has. We've had terrorism for so long that it doesn't affect us. Kiddy Fiddlers, on the other hand, are this scary lurking menace that haunt the internet, street corners and *live in your town*.
"I think I've had to read enough stories in the news recently about teenage girls being raped by people they've met on the Internet to want something changed."
Stop putting 'internet chat rapes' into Google and the problem goes away.
Seriously, a lot of this is bluster because of the relatively simplistic way the whole thing is presented by media and interest groups. 'peadophiles' are the social terrorists for a time when people are trying to shift that uncomfortable problem of telling their kids about 'jiggy' and the relative dangers _of talking to strangers_.
In terms of the last couple of cases of 'chatroom' abuse, all parties have been consenting. In fact the most recent has been a case of a couple of youngsters running away with each other.
The peadophile argument is Godwinesque to the extreme because you can't argue against these things rationally when people start emoting about it. 'Think of the children' is usually trumpeted by people who're on extremely shaky ground.
"If one person is saved by this, then surely it's a good thing?"
Going to extremes to save a single person is never good, especially if you unknowingly place more in danger.
This isn't altruism, this is about cutting a lossmaker. Where chatrooms are controlled, moderated and *logged*, you have some fairly specific information to find people with...driving the whole thing underground doesn't cure the problem, it just makes it harder to control. The vast majority won't give up because a chatroom isn't there, they'll just find someplace else. MS' thing is about dodging possible liability.
"There might be some clever crypto techniques to make it even harder to change the log"
Single use passwords are one way to do this, and you can use them under *nix at the moment.
Diebold appear to be trying to avoid difficult questions from anyone that is even partially technically competent.
The thing that worries me is why the hell are people even considering electronic voting? What's wrong with OCR'ing the big cross from the ballot card in a controlled environment?
"As a Web developer who has created Web applications in both PHP and ASP.NET, I can say, without hyperbole, that ASP.NET is one-million times better."
Ditto on the experience, but I fall on the other side of the line. I generally object to a bloaty IDE, proprietary HTML and a complete inability to separate content from code. PHP *can* become ugly, but mostly the whining about this is from people who produce ugly code.
"Amiga addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use an Amiga over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems."
The Amiga (A500) ran at 7Mhz, but it was blistering fast compared with 386DX40 of the time simply because of the wide pathways between the relevant custom chips. PCs didn't really get this until AGP & Northbridge/Southbridge separation (correct me if I'm talking codshite).
All in all, it was better at handling graphics than a PC because we were thinking S3 chipsets were the dog's back wheels.
"My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 7.1 mhz machine at times."
In terms of raw performance (very raw), your 486 should run roughly nine times faster. But it won't.
"I really, really, miss my A500+, with 6Mb of RAM and a 45Mb SCSI HD."
Ah, one of those. Diamond shoes fit alright? Wallet snug with all the Benjamins? Ferrari still shiny?:o)
Seriously, if you had faith in EA Games, you'd be quite late in renouncing them now. They're rapidly becoming the most generic gaming brand on the planet.
"But seriously, if you'll allow me to turn my paranoid rant goggles on, doesn't this allow for the simple erasing of undesirable history, culture, memes, whatever?"
Only for a single controlled source, and the internet is hard to control because it's a grassroots enabler.
"Governments can and do control access to it"
Unsuccessfully, which is why some of the totalitarian regimes have done the functional equivalent of ripping out the wiring.
"What will the internet be in 20 years? What was it like 10 years ago?"
Ten years ago it was almost entirely academic, but still very exciting. In twenty years time it's partially up to you. In the US they have to oppose the consumerisation of the internet, while in the EU we have to push that 'representation' thing.
It's totally opened up the borders; in the EU we can find out about anything we wish to in minutes flat rather than wait for television news. We can compare notes with like minded people around the world. After a fashion it's a global democracy because there is a social awareness, notwithstanding that to be 'on' the internet requires an interest in it first.
The biggest danger is that it'll transform into a dumb medium controlled by business (like AOL), but hopefully familiarity will mean that more people can take an interest.
"I think it should be pretty clear by now (given the passage of the EU version of the DMCA, among other things) that the EU parliament and other European governments are very much in the pockets of corporations just like the U.S. government is."
Nope. The EU governments are trying to remain inline with the US without wanting to appear that they directly copying rules. The UK even defeated a motion to create a 'Homeland defense' thingamjig quite narrowly in 2002. Something about the fact that we'd been handling this stuff for years and didn't need a special wing of government...
The upshot is that in the next ten years, if you aren't with America, then you'll be against America...
"Others might ask why I haven't moved (I live in the U.S.), without realizing that there really isn't any place on the globe worth moving to."
"But its your call: think than shoot (at least initially). This judgement *does* add value to gameplay, isn't that his point?"
I think, without going back to the article in question, that he was criticising the 'if it moves' model of Quake and other modern games, which is like suggesting that there aren't enough motorbikes in Olympic Pole-Vaulting.
Even in Counterstrike games, you do (assuming that your 'team' doesn't consist of fourteen year olds) start to find an evolutionary set of squad tactics appearing. If the aim is a team victory, then you do start moving in that direction naturally.
This idea of communication being difficult without body language...well, duh, which is why the communications methods start to evolve.
Emoticons, love them or hate them, are one method of stating intention in text.
Both sets of people have ignored one fundamantal difference between men and women that colours the whole gaming thing quite heavily and that's simply that men compete more readily than women.
Although marketing droids would have the world believe that there's a vast untapped market of female players out there looking for a fluffier world, at the end of the day some women think that engaging a machine in competition is stupid.
However I did get my ass kicked in SSX by a girl a couple of days ago, but that does involve being on the same sofa.
"Independence War (1 and 2), X, the upcoming X2, Hardwar, Freelancer (cough, choke)..."
The independance wars were a tad too linear, and I exhausted a lot of interest hanging around jump points and taking out hostiles for cash and cargo.
X was brilliant, but quite slow and you were cannon fodder from the get-go (Think Frontier starting with the Eagle MkII)
I suspect that people's expectations of a game sequel tend to be coloured rose...Elite was basically wireframe graphics, and apart from the spreadsheet speculation of trading, it involved little more than repelling attacks from random pirate packs. Okay, it did eat some of my primary school _years_, but I don't really think that we'd consider a similar game groundbreaking unless it could completely wipe the floor with the ones you mentioned.
Of course, that's the function of market research.
The typical customer calls me and mentions that they've got 250Gb of memory. I ask if they mean 256Mb of Memory. It goes quiet. The say no, it's a 20Gb hard disk.
The typical consumer isn't a good example of why this needs to change.
In fact, as most of the industry _knows_ about this dichotomy between units, I personally don't see the problem at all.
"lose sympathy for *any* p2p system that is used for piracy."
Which, if you'd listened to the senate committee yesterday, has just been classified as 'The internet'. 'They' (meaning government) don't make the distinction between protocols and think Kazaa is a website. The RIAA knows the difference but it's not in their best interest to educate because they don't want to be limited.
In the end it won't matter whether you're doing something legal or illegal, if the RIAA suspect that you're doing something illegal, then they can come after you and apologise afterwards.
Before you accuse me of conspiracy theory, you should go look at the creative uses for the Patriot Act in recent weeks. The RIAA is engaging in 'wiretap'-like behaviour which it's indemnified for because it's looking for illegal behaviour.
One question that was asked yesterday was 'How many lawsuits will it take before you send the message?'....Cary Sherman wouldn't answer it.
Right now we're stuck in the position where the home taping, which The recording industry has always hated, has moved to a medium which is more easily tracked. Forget the bluster about lost sales, that's what they shout about to get Congressmen's sphincters to pucker; what they want is what they've been handed. The ability to punitively beat consumers into a more pleasing shape.
So, yes, there are people out there who're building 'collections' of stuff they'll never listen to, and give ill-advised statements boasting that they haven't bought a CD in years, but they're single data points.
'Then when the cops come running out he hides the gun behind his back and shouts "It wasn't me! The guy who did it ran away!".'
Plausible deniability has been used by government since the sixteenth century when Britain used to loosely fund freebooters. It was the linchpin of Irangate.
"Foreign airlines flying to US destinations have had to turn over their passenger manifests, incl. credit-card details and special food requirements ("No pork means....") to US authorities for months now."
Not entirely true. Some airlines are complying, but some are refusing and so far landing permission has yet to be denied. The EU is currently kicking up a stink about this violating EU law on data protection.
I'm quite amused that they think that a suicidal terrorist might want a halal meal on the plane. Don't you feel they might be preoccupied?
It was before the link crapped out. EMI Boss Jim Rose was claiming poverty, but I'm guessing that's got nothing to do with Mariah Carey's $28 million flop and the $49 million they gave her to get out and never come back.
The point has been made that you shouldn't expect privacy if you open your machine up to peer-to-peer networks, to which I suspect the DoD would be interested. Wouldn't this mean that anyone has a right to explore any non-firewalled machine?
EMI has claimed 2500 employees...which sounds a bit odd considering they run around 400 labels.
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"It's not about MS crapware, censorship or privacy, it's about kids being abused by adults."
And just to hammer home the validity of this complaint, should we compare the numbers of sexual abuse at the hands of family to the numbers of sexual abuse at the hand of chatroom perverts?
Not having a go at you personally...I know this must worry you, but do you start educating your kids yourself, or wait for the government to do it?
"All of a sudden the 'caring parents' came out and protested the programme"
That was the main point; they generally didn't. The MPs and celebrities came out and proclaimed that they'd been duped, rather than ask _how_ they were duped. This is usually indicative of 'personalities' because they're generally not in environments where they're told they're wrong.
My brief foray into TV-land left me hankering after a wirebrush and dettol.
It was harsh and directed satire against the type of programme that is _still_ being made.
"you're misguided if you think the rest of the UK entirely shares your cynicism."
Okay, we'll both agree that neither of us are barometers of public opinion, but seriously, is the UK going through a moral panic?
No.
"can't dismiss it as purely tabloid scare mongering."
Can and will. Like so many other things, when you actually get into the detail of looking at figures, you start to find that some stuff that was always there suddenly jumps out at you...the problems arrive with the scaremongering which has and will take place. Nottingham Social Services 'satanic ritual abuse'? The 'flesh eating bug scare?' Anything that promotes Jordan?
"You CANNOT and SHOULD not be able to own an idea."
Hey, I thought of that first.
Seriously though, a lot of this is a holdover from the burgeoning corporate structure. Patents originally were geared towards protecting people's ideas _from_ companies that had the available cash to sell products based on those ideas. Now they're just a method for companies to beat other companies.
For one thing, I don't agree with corporates being given the rights and priveleges of individuals without also having to adhere to the rules, say, for example with regard to manslaughter.
"I agree with a number of your points if you are talking about classic ASP, but not ASP.NET."
The big change that I can see from albeit shallow use is the introduction of the MSIL and the compilation of the intermediate bytecode, coupled with the ability to use any number of (MS) languages, whereas ASP was a scripting language much like any other. I stand to be corrected on this, though.
"plethora of other tools"
Notepad, notepad, notepad. Okay, I use text editors that are a little more featured, but how would you go through the compile step?
"HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 standards are proprietary?"
Not at all, but the way it's used can be...however I'm light on examples at the moment, so I'll withdraw the complaint about the HTML.
"You can have your visual HTML elements in one file and your code in a completely separate file. Isn't this the very definition of code and content separability"
How does that work with a datagrid component?
Seriously, I am interested in adding ASP.Net as a string to my bow, but everything I've been seeing/using goes against the grain of the code/html separation by using custom controls. Without those custom controls it's roughly the same as PHP with more expensive hosting costs. Would you be interested in an email conversation about it?
"There is a real moral panic underway in the UK about this now"
Oh, do give over.
For one thing the UK *is not* the tabloids.
They try to foster a particular opinion as being national whether it is or not, and the Sun recently dropped the ball bigtime with their 'Bruno Bonkers' headline that they had to reprint because it was insensitive trash.
The whole deal with 'peadophiles' in the UK is that we don't have the association with 'Terrorism' that the US has. We've had terrorism for so long that it doesn't affect us. Kiddy Fiddlers, on the other hand, are this scary lurking menace that haunt the internet, street corners and *live in your town*.
The Brass Eye Peadophile special nailed this concept completely, and the flak that surrounded it was indicative of the PR value of this kind of fear.
The British public, generally speaking, have a bit more cynicism.
"I think I've had to read enough stories in the news recently about teenage girls being raped by people they've met on the Internet to want something changed."
Stop putting 'internet chat rapes' into Google and the problem goes away.
Seriously, a lot of this is bluster because of the relatively simplistic way the whole thing is presented by media and interest groups. 'peadophiles' are the social terrorists for a time when people are trying to shift that uncomfortable problem of telling their kids about 'jiggy' and the relative dangers _of talking to strangers_.
In terms of the last couple of cases of 'chatroom' abuse, all parties have been consenting. In fact the most recent has been a case of a couple of youngsters running away with each other.
The peadophile argument is Godwinesque to the extreme because you can't argue against these things rationally when people start emoting about it. 'Think of the children' is usually trumpeted by people who're on extremely shaky ground.
"If one person is saved by this, then surely it's a good thing?"
Going to extremes to save a single person is never good, especially if you unknowingly place more in danger.
This isn't altruism, this is about cutting a lossmaker. Where chatrooms are controlled, moderated and *logged*, you have some fairly specific information to find people with...driving the whole thing underground doesn't cure the problem, it just makes it harder to control. The vast majority won't give up because a chatroom isn't there, they'll just find someplace else. MS' thing is about dodging possible liability.
"There might be some clever crypto techniques to make it even harder to change the log"
Single use passwords are one way to do this, and you can use them under *nix at the moment.
Diebold appear to be trying to avoid difficult questions from anyone that is even partially technically competent.
The thing that worries me is why the hell are people even considering electronic voting? What's wrong with OCR'ing the big cross from the ballot card in a controlled environment?
"As a Web developer who has created Web applications in both PHP and ASP.NET, I can say, without hyperbole, that ASP.NET is one-million times better."
Ditto on the experience, but I fall on the other side of the line. I generally object to a bloaty IDE, proprietary HTML and a complete inability to separate content from code. PHP *can* become ugly, but mostly the whining about this is from people who produce ugly code.
"*BSD a try today! You won't regret it!"
You BSD Tro...
Erm...hang on...
"Amiga addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use an Amiga over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems."
:o)
The Amiga (A500) ran at 7Mhz, but it was blistering fast compared with 386DX40 of the time simply because of the wide pathways between the relevant custom chips. PCs didn't really get this until AGP & Northbridge/Southbridge separation (correct me if I'm talking codshite).
All in all, it was better at handling graphics than a PC because we were thinking S3 chipsets were the dog's back wheels.
"My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 7.1 mhz machine at times."
In terms of raw performance (very raw), your 486 should run roughly nine times faster. But it won't.
"I really, really, miss my A500+, with 6Mb of RAM and a 45Mb SCSI HD."
Ah, one of those. Diamond shoes fit alright? Wallet snug with all the Benjamins? Ferrari still shiny?
"my Faith in EA is damaged"
Seriously, if you had faith in EA Games, you'd be quite late in renouncing them now. They're rapidly becoming the most generic gaming brand on the planet.
"And did someone say market research?"
Regrettably yes, although I wasn't expecting a kind of marketing research inquisition...
"But seriously, if you'll allow me to turn my paranoid rant goggles on, doesn't this allow for the simple erasing of undesirable history, culture, memes, whatever?"
Only for a single controlled source, and the internet is hard to control because it's a grassroots enabler.
"Governments can and do control access to it"
Unsuccessfully, which is why some of the totalitarian regimes have done the functional equivalent of ripping out the wiring.
"What will the internet be in 20 years? What was it like 10 years ago?"
Ten years ago it was almost entirely academic, but still very exciting. In twenty years time it's partially up to you. In the US they have to oppose the consumerisation of the internet, while in the EU we have to push that 'representation' thing.
It's totally opened up the borders; in the EU we can find out about anything we wish to in minutes flat rather than wait for television news. We can compare notes with like minded people around the world. After a fashion it's a global democracy because there is a social awareness, notwithstanding that to be 'on' the internet requires an interest in it first.
The biggest danger is that it'll transform into a dumb medium controlled by business (like AOL), but hopefully familiarity will mean that more people can take an interest.
"I think it should be pretty clear by now (given the passage of the EU version of the DMCA, among other things) that the EU parliament and other European governments are very much in the pockets of corporations just like the U.S. government is."
Nope. The EU governments are trying to remain inline with the US without wanting to appear that they directly copying rules. The UK even defeated a motion to create a 'Homeland defense' thingamjig quite narrowly in 2002. Something about the fact that we'd been handling this stuff for years and didn't need a special wing of government...
The upshot is that in the next ten years, if you aren't with America, then you'll be against America...
"Others might ask why I haven't moved (I live in the U.S.), without realizing that there really isn't any place on the globe worth moving to."
And the devil you know is always more preferable.
Yeah, finally I made it! The first post! EDIT: damn, beaten!
Have you considered a hobby? Masturbation, perhaps?
"But its your call: think than shoot (at least initially). This judgement *does* add value to gameplay, isn't that his point?"
I think, without going back to the article in question, that he was criticising the 'if it moves' model of Quake and other modern games, which is like suggesting that there aren't enough motorbikes in Olympic Pole-Vaulting.
Even in Counterstrike games, you do (assuming that your 'team' doesn't consist of fourteen year olds) start to find an evolutionary set of squad tactics appearing. If the aim is a team victory, then you do start moving in that direction naturally.
This idea of communication being difficult without body language...well, duh, which is why the communications methods start to evolve.
Emoticons, love them or hate them, are one method of stating intention in text.
Both sets of people have ignored one fundamantal difference between men and women that colours the whole gaming thing quite heavily and that's simply that men compete more readily than women.
Although marketing droids would have the world believe that there's a vast untapped market of female players out there looking for a fluffier world, at the end of the day some women think that engaging a machine in competition is stupid.
However I did get my ass kicked in SSX by a girl a couple of days ago, but that does involve being on the same sofa.
"Independence War (1 and 2), X, the upcoming X2, Hardwar, Freelancer (cough, choke)..."
The independance wars were a tad too linear, and I exhausted a lot of interest hanging around jump points and taking out hostiles for cash and cargo.
X was brilliant, but quite slow and you were cannon fodder from the get-go (Think Frontier starting with the Eagle MkII)
I suspect that people's expectations of a game sequel tend to be coloured rose...Elite was basically wireframe graphics, and apart from the spreadsheet speculation of trading, it involved little more than repelling attacks from random pirate packs. Okay, it did eat some of my primary school _years_, but I don't really think that we'd consider a similar game groundbreaking unless it could completely wipe the floor with the ones you mentioned.
Of course, that's the function of market research.
"in Elite, we made shooting another space craft illegal, so the player had to think before opening fire."
Unless you'd chosen the path of a pirate, which although risky did have the rewards you'd expect for trashing a Python inbound to a rich system.
Mind you, I don't think that many games will reward trading narcotics in these slightly moral times.
"really confusing for the typical customer"
The typical customer calls me and mentions that they've got 250Gb of memory. I ask if they mean 256Mb of Memory. It goes quiet. The say no, it's a 20Gb hard disk.
The typical consumer isn't a good example of why this needs to change.
In fact, as most of the industry _knows_ about this dichotomy between units, I personally don't see the problem at all.
"By including these ancient standards all PC manufactureers are doing is taking away room for USB and Firewire."
What the hell is your typing speed if you need that much bandwidth?
"lose sympathy for *any* p2p system that is used for piracy."
Which, if you'd listened to the senate committee yesterday, has just been classified as 'The internet'. 'They' (meaning government) don't make the distinction between protocols and think Kazaa is a website. The RIAA knows the difference but it's not in their best interest to educate because they don't want to be limited.
In the end it won't matter whether you're doing something legal or illegal, if the RIAA suspect that you're doing something illegal, then they can come after you and apologise afterwards.
Before you accuse me of conspiracy theory, you should go look at the creative uses for the Patriot Act in recent weeks. The RIAA is engaging in 'wiretap'-like behaviour which it's indemnified for because it's looking for illegal behaviour.
One question that was asked yesterday was 'How many lawsuits will it take before you send the message?'....Cary Sherman wouldn't answer it.
Right now we're stuck in the position where the home taping, which The recording industry has always hated, has moved to a medium which is more easily tracked. Forget the bluster about lost sales, that's what they shout about to get Congressmen's sphincters to pucker; what they want is what they've been handed. The ability to punitively beat consumers into a more pleasing shape.
So, yes, there are people out there who're building 'collections' of stuff they'll never listen to, and give ill-advised statements boasting that they haven't bought a CD in years, but they're single data points.
'Then when the cops come running out he hides the gun behind his back and shouts "It wasn't me! The guy who did it ran away!".'
Plausible deniability has been used by government since the sixteenth century when Britain used to loosely fund freebooters. It was the linchpin of Irangate.
Bad analogy, dude.
"If they can find one stupid low-risk passenger to carry on an unusually heavy stuffed animal or whatever, it could be bad news..."
You know, when they ask you if you packed your bag yourself, it isn't to critique your style.
Thank God Airport security is always recruited from the cream of the intellectual crop, eh?
"Foreign airlines flying to US destinations have had to turn over their passenger manifests, incl. credit-card details and special food requirements ("No pork means....") to US authorities for months now."
Not entirely true. Some airlines are complying, but some are refusing and so far landing permission has yet to be denied. The EU is currently kicking up a stink about this violating EU law on data protection.
I'm quite amused that they think that a suicidal terrorist might want a halal meal on the plane. Don't you feel they might be preoccupied?
"This should be fun."
It was before the link crapped out. EMI Boss Jim Rose was claiming poverty, but I'm guessing that's got nothing to do with Mariah Carey's $28 million flop and the $49 million they gave her to get out and never come back.
The point has been made that you shouldn't expect privacy if you open your machine up to peer-to-peer networks, to which I suspect the DoD would be interested. Wouldn't this mean that anyone has a right to explore any non-firewalled machine?
EMI has claimed 2500 employees...which sounds a bit odd considering they run around 400 labels.