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  1. Re: "Not intentional". Right. on Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video · · Score: 1

    Oh child, are you not aware that there have been eavesdropping laws for centuries? Wiretapping laws (Samsung is not the NSA) across the world. So, YES, BLOODY YES, this would be illegal in many of the world's juristrictions. "But you signed....." Explicitly does not work as in many places signing away a right is legally invalid.

  2. Re: "Not intentional". Right. on Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video · · Score: 1

    Dunno about greasemonkey but Adblock only deletes from the stream. It does not add to it, so it should be ok. That might depend on precedents if different jurist fictions though.

  3. Re:android + root + f-droid + adaway FTW on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    Well, if you do all that then you know enough to ue the Apple Development kit and hence your claim becomes moot.

  4. Re:Ditch iPhone on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    This may be informative but the information appears to be false. I have a number of different browsers on my iPad and they function in very different ways. I seriously doubt they are simply skins. Currently have Safari, Opera, Mercury, Chrome installed.

  5. Re: Plenty of other creatures haven't "evolved" on Deep-Sea Microorganism Hasn't Evolved For Over 2 Billion Years · · Score: 1

    Which is the only way we will ever get rid of religion. Eventually, given humanity does not fall, evolution will defeat god as the fittest (mostly, not always) of the two survives.

  6. Re: Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 2

    That turns out not to be the case. Few vaccines are perfectly effective. The reduce the chances of contagion not eliminate it. When there are few sources of contagion then it is eliminated before the contagion spreads. Thereby providing the misnamed herd immunity for both vaccinated and unvaccinated. Herd immunity is not actually an immunity at all. It is just that you cannot catch what is no longer there to be caught.

  7. Re: Patenting genes on The Gap Between What The Public Thinks And What Scientists Know · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think it would be legal in most duristrictions. Most patent law allows an individual to make a private and non commercial copy of a patented device for private use.

  8. Re:All that work on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    There are degrees of biodegradability. Even gold is biodegradable in the longest term (you use some in your biochemistry). As I said, you have a choice of detergents. Pick the right one.

  9. Re:All that work on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    You have a choice of detergents. If you use a biodegrable detergent it will not harm the waterways. I've seen the difference on a farm with no 'mains' connections.

  10. Re:English usage on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 2

    In the end, both.

  11. Re:However... on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Why? You ask me this? Shouldn't you be asking them? A US judge cannot order Microsoft Ireland to do anything unless it trades in his jurisdiction. Which I don't believe it does. Why should not a judge be required to understand everyone else's law? Every other country is required to understand the US's. All I ask for is reciprocity there. Oh, when are you going to turn over those CIA agents that broke international, Italian and US law by renditions? With a US government willing to kidnap and kill those that it chooses to the US cannot be considered a country that respects the laws of others.

  12. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Ireland would be constrained by european law from exporting the data. Is that not the case?

  13. Re:However... on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    The real issue at stake here is the very notion of cloud storage versus location storage. Not just laws and controls but existence. If I pump something into the cloud then it should be a cloud and where the data actually resides should be obscure at best. I would have thought that best practice for a cloud supplier would be to have everything RAIDed around the planet. Multiple redundancy, only fragments on any particular server.

  14. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Again you are confusing Microsoft USA with Microsoft Ireland. They are not the same.

  15. An Ad hominem. Your admission of defeat is accepted. And I wasn't even competing.

  16. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Sure Microsoft could. But the court could not order it. As to your chair in Europe, you might own a chair in Europe but what you do with it is still subject to European law. For example, certain historical artefacts may not be imported/exported. Ownership is a limited right.

  17. Re:Globalization on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Is this why governments all over the world are selling off the infrastructure?

  18. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Err.... No, No US court could claim ownership or seize a foreign company without going through that companies courts. They might be able to seize Microsoft US but not Microsoft Ireland without due process.

  19. Re:More accuratly on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    The data in question is held by Microsoft Ireland and fully owned subsidiary but separate legal entity. The judge cannot require Microsoft Ireland to produce the data as it is not a party to the case and as a foreign company must hold to the law of the territory where it is registered. So Microsoft US neither hods nor controls the data so the request to produce it is moot.

  20. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Microsoft US does not own or control the server in Ireland. A fully owned subsidiary, Microsoft Ireland does. They are required to follow EU law.

  21. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Ireland is not a US company. It is incorporated in Ireland. If Microsoft US requested or ordered Microsoft Ireland to supply the data then Microsoft Ireland would be bound by EU law to refuse it. The limit of Microsoft's ability there would be an endless chain of hire and fire if MS Irelands executives and employees.

  22. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    No. The order to produce went to Microsoft US. The data is under the control of Microsoft Ireland, a fully owned subsidiary registered in a foreign country. Since Microsoft Ireland has the legal obligation to refuse the data to Microsoft US, Microsoft US neither owns not controls the data and cannot be compelled to produce it.

  23. However... on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 2

    Microsoft US does not control the data. A separate company (Microsoft Ireland) does. Now it may be a fully owned subsidiary but it is still a separate legal entity. The question here is not what people think it is. Does the judge have the right to demand that Microsoft US instruct Microsoft Ireland to break Irish law. The answer to is no because the data is not in the possession or control of Microsoft US. If Microsoft US were to make the request of Microsoft Ireland the correct (and required) response from Microsoft Ireland would be "Sorry, we cannot do that even though you own us.". So since Microsoft US does not control the data the request from the judge would be invalid. Microsoft US cannot comply with the directive since they do not have direct access in their own right.

  24. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 2

    Because the US constitution requires that international treaties become part of US law when signed.

  25. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 3, Informative

    Excuse me but you appear to be mistaken. it is written in the US constitution that international treaties become part of US law. Where that introduces contradictions the treaty law applies. And judges have to repeat this. It may not apply in this particular case but it remains true.