Fixed ?
I think "re-broken" maybe ...
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"WE'LL SELL YOU LIKE A PIG at a fair"
I read the whole article out of respect for the genius of El Reg, I think, or maybe it's past noon on Friday and I'm drunk already.
After careful reading, I was unable to decern any nuances in the narrative which might lead me to believe the title did not say it all.
We need an separate Icon, for morning reading.
"Worked for the Interstate highway system."
That was quite an innovation.
So too Rural Free Delivery (RFD) of mail, in Mayberry and elsewhere, made it possible for the Sear's Catalog to market trinkets up to including the size of houses to rural areas.
The Hippies will never get mail-order communes on ATT's watch, you can bet your waving flag on that.
"What's faster? 1Gbps or the speed at which toys were just thrown out of a pram?"
Actually I used to live in New Jersey near the ATT Headquarters, El Reg. I got this one.
The shortest interval known to World+Dog in New Jersey is the time between the light turning green and the asshole behind you blowing his horn and making one finger hand signals. Or her horn, you have to check the manicure.
Wow. Way to miss the point, which is "inalienable", not "the people" who are native born (mostly) perhaps subject to jail but not subject to deportation (or "transportation", are you Australian ? or Napolean ? St. Helena, or French ? Devil's Island).
Somewhere between the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence Captain Kidd was dragged back to London for hanging.
Stop reading the words. Think the thoughts.
"It’s time to extend the US Privacy Act to EU citizens."
Trivia I can't seem to forget: In the US, perhaps in Europe as well, the laws generally refer to "citizens". The exception is FOIA (Freedom of Information Act). It specifically applies to "persons", and of course this can be a proxy meatbag for any organization.
Save yourselves.
The simple fact is that the right to question the NSA is one of those rights Tom Jefferson famously called "inalienable" in the US Declaration of Independence. To be honest I have never seen the word anywhere else. He may have invented it, but the EU can borrow it (as long as you translate into 30 languages).
No, I'm sorry william.
This is where the NSA "necessity of the surveillance society" argument skips merrily down the road to Heck. There is no evil twin Board of Directors who do not want you to buy the company's stock or products.
That said, I am surprised Apple, Google don't have both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the Board. His services must be in great demand in Silicon Valley.
"There was much money to be made at Spindletop, but there was even more money to lose. It is estimated that $50 million dollars was made from Spindletop, compared with investments equalling $80 million. As had happened in other booms, there were many frauds and cheats, ..."
http://www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/history/spindletop/spindletop.html
It all sort of all depends on the investors. They must be incredible idiots.
Surely the Irish are as capable as the Texas Oil men.
The subtle point about the Surveillence Society is that Richlieu has not hanged anyone lately.
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor once famously asked Stalin "When are you going to stop murdering people ?" Stalin replied "When it is no longer necessary" She insisted the question be translated verbatim so there was nothing lost in translation. Nancy and other American chicks probably lose a lot of Translators, however. In any case, Stalin has not murdered anyone recently.
Seeing a pattern here ? It's not the act, it's the agency.
'George Orwell was an OPTIMIST. Show me a search history, I'll show you a perv or a crook'
Won't someone please think of the children ?
They deserve a better Monster than this little jerk.
They may respond by behaving like criminals.
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Why yes.
Don't make gadget security a crime, make crime a crime.
And when you give those in Public Service access to insider information on demand then what would be treason after their service is simply a cosmetic for greed and thin ethical protection from the hangman.
The availability of lucrative second careers for former adjuncts to the Civil Service concerns me not.
"Data cops in charge of Facebook, LinkedIn, Google get a new office
But HQ remains next to corner store in the middle of Irish nowhere"
If Facebook ... etc. had their druthers the office would be a few hundred miles west of Irish nowhere. The only reason it isn't is because data cops are not allowed near Bermudian Banks Silicon Valley Mission Critical Facilities.
Nope sorry.
Only an incognito wage slave looking for his Master's validation could possibly write this:
"The prevailing wisdom is that multi-tenanted cloud platforms offer more cost-effective and reliable solutions than those built on private infrastructure, but centralisation has risks of its own that should be considered."
"Proposed penalties for non-compliance are a fine of 5 per cent of a company’s annual revenue, or up to €100m."
The stash in Bermuda Banks has a right to be forgotten ? The EU needs a RICO statute to deal with Silicon Valley. You can't let them get one apology for the misunderstanding ahead because that was just a misunderstanding, we apoligize. Meanwhile they are peeing on the Judge's shoes.
"I can't access the publication so I don't know how much xanthohumol they say is "normally" in beer and how much is needed to see the cognitive benefit."
All I can say is:
1) Xanthohumol is a funny name, and
2) It must be in there, but I can never taste it until pint # 3,500.
Give me a few minutes and we can resolve this dispute in a fair, clearheaded manner.
"Sadly, to get the same effect a human would have to down 2,000 litres of the stuff a day (3,520 pints) to ingest the amount of xanthohumol used in the study for the same period, which isn't going to do anyone's cognitive functions a favour."
All I can say is ... where there's a will there's a way
Exactly @Chris Miller
In the US, you have to get a Learner's Permit so you can practice, so you can get a License to drive a car.
Almost everywhere. On Wall St. and in Silicon Valley if you have an IPO or two on your CV the assumption is that you were granted an iLicence to do whatever the hell you damn well please any time you damn well please to do it.
Oh yes, the IT Angle my friendly El Reg Icon promised ...
(wonky, nearly indecipherable W3C snooze-fest alert. May require Addition, Subtraction AND Reading Skills)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2014Sep/0006.html
This is just what my old friends at Google were saying ...
You said ... <parody>yabber yabber yabber</parody>
We say, (correctly) ... <parody pageRank="1">yabber yabber yabber</parody>
Don't you see the added value or are you an anarcho-syndicalist with leanings toward poor personal hygiene ?
Which is it ? Honest debate is healthy! For The Children!
Sincerely,
Larry L.
The "energy" to run land lines is supplied by the Phone Exchange. That is one of the things for which you are paying to have a phone on your table. Having switched to a cordless phone - a radio link which requires power you supply - does not change the difference between a service you buy and a Public Utility service which works whether you buy it or not.
Ever since the forced retirement of Ma Bell, players in the Communications Industry have been fighting over the last mile and the first mile without any obligation to render service to either mile.
Turn them all back into Public Utilities - Recordkeeping and Privacy would be a good universal basis for public obligation - and you will see the the cherry picking cowboys vanish.
"In July, Cameron expressed frustration with US communications providers for "severely constraining" the work of spooks in Blighty over jurisdiction issues, by citing a conflict of legislation between US measures and UK law."
If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide bitch about, Mr. Cameron. If spook work is much easier on this side of the pond, let me ask, do you envy their power over ordinary citizens ? You want that for Blighty ?
If your spooks need a hug, say so, but do not intimate that a little less supervision is appropriate.
@Chemist
"... so this isn't anything more than a thought experiment unless you've seriously been dieting"
I suspect people cut down on thought experiment production by thinking less. I've tried everything, South Beach (thinking like a Blonde), Low Carbohydrate (thinking like a rock) ... if this diet works it will life-changing for millions.
Out of the mouth's of Cow Heards pearls of wisdom :-)
There is something else you have to do too.
Make sure the "Country Code" of your Loopback server is "XZ". This is "Installations in International Waters" in the UN-LOCODE system. This is an ISO "User Defined" Code. For a three character code (FIFA World Cup, etc. use those), I use XZZ because either XZ or ZZ are User Defined. The "civil" spooks in the US (NGA) use "UF" for "Undersea Features". You are kind of limited because there are no three character codes defined. However, if a transliteration of "UF" resolves to both "XZ" and "XZZ" you should be ok.
If the prying eyes of Social Networks were told that everyone were out of cannon shot range (this is where the "Three Mile Limit" comes from) then prying eyes would be shit-out-of-luck.
The "generic" jurisdiction violations would quickly become hugely expensive - a milking machine for arseholes. Well done Cow Heard.
... because you are on the right track, IMHO.
"The NSA don't resell their users .Google and Facebook do and are the two worse enemies of privacy liberty and freedom ever."
The insidious act here is not collecting data but rather "front running" personal information.
It rate of collection depends only on the hardware infrastructure. The NSA, Google and Facebook have these resources in megamultiples of you and I.
Be afraid of the NSA because their minions might act in haste - and irreversibly - on noise.
Be afraid of Google and Facebook (et al.) because they sell back doors and faster access to the noise product if you are a front runner with lots of cash.
Things could get worse if the NSA were to behave like Google, Facebook, et al..
The only way things get better is to fine the bejesus out of spam enablers.