Posts by David 45

Haven't changed the title of this post, as it's appropriate and says it all! Too much tracking going on already in this world. Infernal cheek, I call it.

Last gasps

Clutching at straws methinks. An IP address does not automatically identify an alleged infringer - only the account holder and just who will pay for all this extra work that the ISP's are expected to carry out?.

Important news

Well.....this is really the most earth-shattering and dangerous news I've heard in a long, long time and self-evidently JOLLY IMPORTANT. Rather than the police wasting their time and public resources on mundane happenings like robberies, burglaries, muggings, rapes and murders, they obviously have their priorities right in this case, eh?

What twaddle

Fat lot of good that will do! If there was a half-decent god, he/she/it wouldn't allow the roads to get clogged with the white stuff in the first place. I rest my case.

Yanks want world domination

This seems to me to be yet another step towards the goal of the USA government to rule the world, control the internet and regulate the meaning of life!

"The battery's flat."..." What shape should it be?"

Well - don't use it that way! Or, preferably, don't use it at all, then you won't get any problems.

Comments

Yup, I saw no comments earlier, despite there apparently being some available. Just a blank. And, yes, sounds like it's the EU just being nosey for the sake of it. This sounds very dangerous and great hacker fodder, as we all know what happens to databases these days. Who watches the watchers?

Free speech

I'm an atheist but I would defend anybody's right to have an opinion, provided it doesn't directly impact on me or involve violence, illegal acts or terrorism. From what I have read, it sounds like the SA government have bowed to that oppressive regime, China. For goodness' sake, people, stand up for free speech rights, religious or otherwise!

Too young

I make no bones about my opinions of Apple and Steve Jobs. Both ruthless to the core (pardon the pun), plus their products are always hyped up out of all proportion to what they actually are - basic items with a bit of style. However, my sympathies to Jobs' family. 56 is no age at all and he's certainly been very unlucky with his health, and I certainly would have not wished those related problems on him.

Back-up?

Where's the power back-up? In my day, as a BT man (or Post Office Telephones, as it was then), main exchanges ran on 50 volts DC from a mains power unit and also had two of the biggest set of wet batteries you've ever seen in your life, each cell alone being approx. a 2 ft. cube with an awful lot of ampere hours available (forget the figures now). Even rural exchanges had a smaller version, which was meant to run them for 24 hours in the event of a mains failure. The big stuff also had a whacking great diesel generator cutting in automatically if the mains volts vanished, so how does a modern system manage to go off the air completely?

Huh?

Dawkins preserve us! They'll be wanting to make him a saint next. Oh - hang on......saints are usually dead, aren't they? Just sayin'.

Private laws?

This sounds a very dangerous precedent to me. Who's to decide - an auto robot? If so, I smell a few law suits up and coming.

Agree

Yup. I too have noticed the disgusting amount of processing that goes on these days, both on CD's and radio. I have reel-to-reel recordings of old vinyl 45's and they sound great. Shove a so-called "re-mastered" version from a compilation CD into Audacity and it looks and sounds as flat as the proverbial pancake. As for radio......well, I don't listen much, as I find it painful. Some stations can be heard "pumping". Truly awful. Again, my old radio recordings outshine loads of new stuff. DAB in the UK is also one of the worst cons ever pulled on the great British listening public. Promises of near-CD quality but what do we get? Still the same old compression and processing and ever-decreasing bit rates that actually make it sound worse than FM. Use-adjustable compression was originally promised for DAB. Whatever happened to that? Current sound quality is at an all-time low in my opinion.

Me no understand

Likewise what Fibbles quoted. Why did Spamhaus have to do anything at all, if based here in the UK? Surely an American court has no reach across the pond? Any judgement or legal action over there has surely got to be totally irrelevant in this country if they do not have a presence over there. Makes no sense to me.

Camera shake?

Doesn't look very good to me. Either camera shake or I must have moved at the wrong moment. Could be anything, really!

Rubbish

I have just two words - "pretentious twaddle", which I think just about sums it up.

People carrier?

I hope this isn't a variant of what might be used to ferry astronauts to the ISS now the shuttle is retired. Sounds like a reliability review is in order.

This could be boring

Surely one part of the Amazon is going to look very similar to the rest of it? Can't see the point of repeating shots of the same water!

Intent

Vaguely reminiscent of the decision here in the UK not to prosecute BT and Phorm "as there was no criminal intent", despite the whole set-up seemingly breaking the law. "Oh, I just killed someone by running them over with my car whilst drunk but I didn't mean to, so that makes me innocent." or " I stabbed someone but didn't push the knife right in, so that also makes me innocent of any crime". Poppycock. If it's illegal, prosecution should follow - not have judges say it's only a small digression, so it doesn't count.

Not a clone

There are lots of different products out there that look and handle similarly, not to mention modern cars that all seem to have the same features and do very much the same thing, namely transport people from place to place. I understand that the new-fangled television thing causes most receivers of pictures and sound to look very much alike also. I believe this situation is called........er........let me think now.......ah yes - COMPETITION! Seems Apple can't hack it (pun intended). I would love to see Apple really slapped for this one. Arrogance is not the word.

No precautions?

Hmm. No sprinkler system? Did seem to go up with remarkable speed and ferocity.

Pull out

Just call their bluff and see how their commerce stands up. I can't see why firms that supply privacy and encryption methods have to bow down to these tyrannical governments and provide back-doors. Encryption means privacy. That's exactly why it was invented and no-one (not even governments) should have the right to by-pass it. What's the point of using it, if nosey government departments can eavesdrop on what might be commercial and trade secrets? It's just ripe for abuse and anyone who says it doesn't happen is in cloud-cuckoo land. I wouldn't mind betting that there are a few governmental Blackberries floating around. Are they also going to be open to the snoopers? I think not. All this governmental paranoia for control is getting completely put of hand and needs to be stopped.

Not enough

The phrases "locked up" and "key thrown away" come to mind. Still, might be a deterrent to others, if only their respective governments were to clamp down equally hard.

Why police?

Why are the police involved at all? Complete waste of time and resources that could be put to better use tracking down "real" criminals. In any case, since when have the police been authorised to decide what is, or is not, illegal? Thought that was a job for the courts.

Lies and/or statistics?

I thought deceptive advertising was supposed to be illegal anyway. This comes very close to it in my opinion. Somebody I know lives right next door to a rural telephone exchange and even SHE doesn't get the "up-to" speeds that her ISP plugs!

No Dr. Who?

Gosh.......does that mean Dr. Who doesn't really exist?

A no-no

Speaking personally, the idea of any form of so-called "social networking" leaves me stone cold. I fail to see the attraction in laying out an entire life's activities for all to see with the attendant risk that something (however innocent it might seem at the time) may come back to haunt you in the future. It strikes me as rather sad. I have better things to do with my time.

A tad arrogant?

Hmm. Looks like Mozilla have done themselves no favours here. If it wasn't for the vast range of add-ons, etc; and the flexibility of FF, I would be thinking of changing my allegiance.

Tiny toes

Personally, I'm a bit of a defeetist.

Ofcom offal

Sounds typical OFCOM these days. See the rumpus over power line internet distribution and the interference caused by same which they appear to be ignoring. Are they, or are they not, a regulatory authority? So..... REGULATE, like what you're supposed to, for goodness' sake!

Get your priorities right.

Looking at this from across the pond; "illegal" music sharing and the like is obviously MUCH more important than finding and convicting murderers, rapists and burglars. Real crimes will have to take second place now, I suppose. Police all over the world these days seem to take the easy option.

Small people.

Nearly always: "A small amount of customers" when these breaches occur. Amazing.

Nothing to say

Well, I have really but lots of folk have beaten me to it. This man Camping is a danger to all humanity and should be locked up with the key conveniently lost. He has incited families to split and, in one case, a poor deluded mother to attempt to murder her kids and commit suicide. In short, he is a total and utter nutter who should be excluded from this world - somewhere miles from civilisation where he would be totally unable to push his influence on the sad and vulnerable people who seem to suck this stuff in like some sort of drug.

Ouch!

That's the tingle I get in MY brain when I see Apple kit - the bit that controls the wallet!

Unwanted mollycoddling again from government.

Turkey has never struck me as being the sort of country that would be into heavy internet censorship. This is an insidious disease that seems to be putting ideas into governments' heads the whole world over. At this rate, we won't actually have an open internet in the near future. I am quite capable of deciding for myself what and what not to see on the net. This needs to be stopped - but how?

Apple paranoia strikes again

Control freaks (like Jobs himself), coupled with the most outlandish hype for their relatively ordinary, over-priced products gives me the signal to steer well clear.

Forgiveness?

MS subscribers would doubtless go for today's inspirational quote received today, coincidentally, via http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In

return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."

So, now you know!

Who's coffers?

And just who, exactly, is getting the lion's share of all this loverley money? Not the artists I would strongly suspect!

Yummy

You want fries with that?

No funds?

Crossley skint? Hmm. Don't believe a word of it. Reckon there should be further investigation of his statement. Sounds suspicious to me. He shouldn't be let off the hook THAT easily.

ID problem?

I thought I read elsewhere that a knowledgeable judge has ruled that an IP address does not identify an individual. Does that not apply in this case also?

Interesting

Except that, as is almost inevitable, governments throughout the world will demand a "back door" in or make it illegal to hide ANYTHING! As has been commented, if you encrypt, then you obviously must be up to no good.

Magical products?

Blimey - and all gained by hyping their relatively ordinary products up to the hilt to gullible folk. Just my opinion, y' understand...........................

Malware? Ah, so.

With the Chinese alleged reputation for malware and hacking, I would have thought this development should be looked at very closely!