Posts by Ejit
28 posts • joined Tuesday 16th June 2009 17:30 GMT
" If I grab your wallet and make a copy of your credit card numbers, I don't steal anything either."
Indeed you have. You have stolen my wallet and contents. Regardless of whether or not I recover all or part of my wallet and contents and regardless of how long you have deprived me of there use, you have committed a theft.
What happens to the credit card info thereafter is FUD.
Making a copy of a protected work may well be actionable in most jurisdictions but it is not theft.
Re: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Correct if you take his car to have wee hurl aroond and intend to dump it later then you have no stolen it. Take and drive away is the short hand version from the Road Traffic Act. In Scotland it prior to the statues to deal with it, it would have been libelled at common law as Clandestine Possession.
It you nick the motor with no intention of dumping it and strip it down into bits and flog them off, them yes it is theft. Make as many copies as you like, you may have committed a civil offence but you certainly have not stolen it.
Re: Perhaps not that surprising
Aye, and Labradors are born half trained while Spaniels on the other hand, die half trained.
Speaking as someone who lives in line of sight of the aforementioned palace of porcine splendiferousness, I can reveal that the secret ingredient of the winning sarnie is .......a quick trip through the deep fat fryer just prior to hitting the white bread doorstep. They have followed that recipe for years and there is not an unblocked artery for 10 miles in any direction.
Re: Proud!!
"Ah jeez you cut the pony-tail. Sell out"
UK Courts...really?
"Journalists will be able to tweet freely from courts ....in England and Wales" There fixed it for you.
There is no such think as a UK Judiciary and this does not apply to Scotland. Please try to keep up.
Easy
Go to your nearest Identity and Passport Service regional office and use the public bio reader.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Passports/Applicationinformation/DG_174159
Really?
"In general, cookies are harmless"
As El Reg has just dropped 6 of the little blighters on my PC without my informed consent then I hope the ICO also considers them harmless.
Did you mean....
manqué or the numbers 1 to 18 in roulette?
...talking bollocks..
There was no £850bn bailout.
The original NAO report shows that the total amount provided by the UK Treasury to bailout the British banking system was £753 billion. Of this, SPICe estimated that £470 billion relates to RBS and HBOS – but it is only an educated guess because the Treasury has provided no detailed breakdown. However, this does not - repeat, not - mean that the Treasury actually spent £470 billion in cash, paid for by the taxpayer.
First, the Labour Government took an 83 per cent stake in RBS, paying £45.5 billion in cash, and agreed to insure its riskiest assets for an annual fee. But it charged the bank for the insurance, making a profit on the deal. Again, Brown and Darling injected £20 billion into Lloyds Banking Group, which had acquired HBOS at their urging, in exchange for a 41 per cent stake. The Treasury also provided additional guarantees to insure Lloyd’s liquidity. And again, it charged for the priviledge.
So that makes an upfront payment of only £65.5 billion in cash and the rest in “guarantees” which the banks pay for. But where did the £65.5 billion in cash come from? The taxpayer? No – it was borrowed especially to fund the deal. However, as this borrowing was set against the bank shares acquired, it does not count as part of the Treasury’s net debt. In other words, it is merely a book-keeping transaction (though interest is paid). Any country of any size could do it. According to JPMorgan Chase, the annual cost of servicing that loan is around £3.2 billion. So the actual cost of rescuing RBS and Loyds was…er, £3.2 billion per year minus the charge to the banks for insuring them.
stuff fashionistas...
...there is nothing wrong with my dual sim, cheapo Chinese knockoff Blackberry lookee-likee.
Works a treat without all the posing faff.
Force of Law
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1208/made
Really
" and approved in the UK"
Citation required.
Proper Parliament
You could always get a proper parliament, like Scotland who do not allow any of that retention nonsense.
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/bills/24-CrimJustLc/index.htm
Is it unreasonable?
Mr Page,
I quite understand your stance on no hype and straight facts reporting of this incident, but it is really unreasonable to expect your drinking water not to come with an added bonus of Iodine 131?
You make it sound a bit like the burglar who shat in the householders pot of mince and forced him to have to throw half of it away.
Shocking
Did you see the quality of the pointing on the wall at 1m30s. Get you sacked that would.
Posted in Drupal 7 dives into machine-readable web
You need a title?
Well the article seems to concur with this report: http://www.waterandstone.com/book/2010-open-source-cms-market-share-report
What title?
...he didn't actually. In the UK, the Police have primacy over all rescue situations and any requests for mountain or cave rescue are routed to plod.
Posted in Contractors dodge ID cards axe
How do you tell the difference?
Ask to see her and her parents birth certificate.
Jus soli
Jus sanguinis
Simpliz
Posted in Contractors dodge ID cards axe
How do you tell the difference?
Ask to see her and her parents birth certificate.
Jus soli
Jus sanguinis
Okay
Just registered Her Britannic Majesty's Government. Hope the milk doesn't spoil too much on the way over.
What drivel is this?
The Identity and Passport Service did not take your fingerprints the last time that you applied for a passport.
There is no fingerprint biometric collected for a UK Passport.
Posted in Pupil database claimed to be breach-free
Eh?
It was established in 2002 and the retention policy is not developed yet? Comforting.
2400 ID Cards Issued?
A much more relevant question for El Reg is; "How many IPS managerial staff were shipped into the enrolment centres to swell the issued numbers for the card when it was launched?"
Should give a very interesting answer if given truthfully.
Posted in Ferry giant refuses ID card
@whatithink
I suspect that the people who work for the Identity and Passport Service are neither "very stupid" or "nasty"
They may be carrying out the instructions of the lawfully elected Government , who are very stupid and nasty" but IPS did not dream up this half baked idea. I fear you are shooting the messenger.
Posted in UK ID card project descends into muddle
Simpliz!
The lilac card is an Identity Card for British Citizens, the turquoise card is an Identification Card for an EU or EEC Citizen living in the UK (it doesn't contain the holders nationality, is only for ID purposes and is not a valid travel document.) Why they can't just use their national passport is beyond me.
Posted in Law lord lashes out at ID cards
Never thought I woud say this...
Thank God for the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords. They have been the only ones in this disunited kingdom with the balls to stand infront of NuLab in the past 10 years.
What righs we have left are due to Lord Steyn and his chums.
