* Posts by TheBeardyMan

12 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jul 2011

Hacktivists dish out DNS hijack to PayPal, eBay

TheBeardyMan

Re: >"no accounts were ever in any danger of being compromised"

A few users? A PayPal / eBay phish only needs to fool an average PayPal / eBay user. As noted, the hackers might not be rocket scientists, but neither are the targets of any phishing they might have attempted.

MPAA, RIAA: Kids need to learn 3 Rs – reading, writing and NO RIPPING

TheBeardyMan

The MPAA and RIAA are thinking of the children a little too much here. Maybe we should put their executives on some kind of list...

The Pirate Bay's new censorship-dodging browser 'not secure'

TheBeardyMan

Truth in advertising

So, the essence of this story is "Web browser advertised as not anonymous is in fact not anonymous". However, I suspect that "Wow, truth in advertising" isn't the sense in which the editors are expecting us to find this newsworthy.

WAR ON PORN: UK flicks switch on 'I am a pervert' web filters

TheBeardyMan

> are they going to publish a full and complete list of what's blocked and what's not?

We're probably going to have to rely on the whistleblowers for that.

TheBeardyMan

Censorship is a crime

Censorship - one of the few crimes that a government can commit against which switching sides on them in a conflict they're involved in (I won't stoop to using the politicians' weasel word "treason") is a justified and proportionate retaliation.

YES, Xbox One DOES need internet, DOES restrict game trading

TheBeardyMan
Joke

The real meaning of the new console's name

It's not "XB One", it's "X Bone", named after what they're doing to the customers.

Irish deputy PM: You want more tax from Apple? Your problem, not ours

TheBeardyMan

Why can't governments use import duties to discourage this?

When a corporation uses a legal loophole to say that a sale to a customer resident in country A occurred in country B, what prevents the government of country A from saying to the customer "you imported that from country B; cough up the import duty"?

Give porno danger classes to Brit kids as young as FIVE - parents

TheBeardyMan

The most important lesson

Regardless of the outcome of any debate on whether children should be shown pornography as part of sex education, the most important lesson on the dangers of pornography will always remain true: delete your browser cache and history, turn a blind eye, and never report it if you find something that's actually illegal.

UK student faces extradition to US after piracy case ruling

TheBeardyMan

If the state isn't on my side when I have a dispute with a foreign power, then I have no moral obligation to be on their side when they have a dispute with a foreign power.

Hackers dump secret info for thousands of cops

TheBeardyMan
Happy

If the cops haven't done anything wrong...

they've got nothing to be afraid of.

UK will obey Euro unisex-insurance rules from 2013

TheBeardyMan

@Lee

No argument from me against enforced non-discriminatory pricing being the right way to go.

I'm implying that decriminalizing driving without motor insurance is the only non-misandrist alternative to enforced non-discriminatory pricing, and NOT that it's an alternative that should be seriously considered.

TheBeardyMan
Flame

The elephant in the room...

Anyone who condones discriminatory pricing of motor insurance is ignoring the elephant in the room: you can be prosecuted, get a criminal record, and possibly go to jail for not having it.

Legalized discriminatory pricing of motor insurance.

Criminalized driving without motor insurance.

Choose one.