* Posts by bigtimehustler

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Fed-up bloke takes email spammers to court – and wins piles of cash

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I like that they still state that they do not agree with the decision. Well, thats nice, but that's the law and they were breaking it. They can take the choice to not like the decision, they can't take the choice not to agree with it, especially when it is written so plainly and they are not appealing it. Isn't not agreeing with the decision actually contempt of court? You can express a dislike for a judges opinion, not sure you can flat out say you don't agree or accept it.

China puts Windows 8 on TV, screams: 'SECURITY, GET IT OUT OF HERE!'

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Re: You ignore China to your peril

"refuse a sovereign government the right to review source" - Arrhhh, it sounds like your one of these people that think the government has the right to poke around in whatever they want. If you want to keep your source private, that your choice and the market will make up its own mind about that. For a government to demand access to it? Thats wrong, along with them demanding access to most other data.

US escalates Stingray mobe-snooping secrecy battle as judge unseals evidence

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Re: I would have thought a normal wiretap warrant would suffice?

Indeed, and one has to wonder how many times this is used to listen in just to work things out, they might know they could never use it in court evidence but that doesn't mean it wouldn't help solve a case.

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Re: “forces that handset to transmit at full power”.

Isn't that a little risky though, in an ideal world sure that would make sense, but seeing as this technology can only work if the phone chooses that base station as the strongest, having it transmit on just good enough power makes it extremely likely another base station is going to become the best candidate for the phone at any random time and fairly frequently. This would make tracking impossible, you could only do this if you have control of the networks base stations in the area. So I guess they have to make do with what is guaranteed to work, rather than what would theoretically work in a lab.

Oh, wow. US Secret Service wants a Twitter sarcasm-spotter

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"identify influencers" - that sounds particularly insidious! I hope they want to clarify that with influencers of criminal activity, and not just all people who may influence opinion. Which is what im pretty sure they really mean.

Google: OK world, make our 'End-to-End' crypto tool SPOOK PROOF

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Re: Google, privacy

It probably got a lot of down votes due to the complete misunderstanding of the point in hand, shown by his statement that the real problem is US law. If the encryption is end to end, not even Google can read or decrypt it, so they can not hand it over to the US government or in fact scan it for advertising. So this really in no way benefits Google, is not reliant on US law and hence the down votes.

Revealed: GCHQ's beyond top secret Middle Eastern internet spy base

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Re: Dissapointed

I actually thought when I read this, talk about secrecy creep! Why on earth do we need 3 levels about top secret, top secret was supposed to be the top (hence the name) and there are already levels lower than that! Tells you all you need to know about how well the various secret organisations manage to keep things secret.

The Pirate Bay's stor ost Peter Sunde collared at farm in Sweden

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Re: I'm lost...

In answer to your question, yes you would. At least as far as current precedent suggests. The only issue with the site was its name. If you set up a website to purely let people share a certain file type I fail to see how you can found guilty of anything, particularly if your a site that doesn't try to promote the sharing of illegal content through those file types. The fact that people commit crime using it is there problem and they should be taken to court.

It is akin to me walking into a local government building and murdering somebody, is the local government guilty of allowing this to happen in their building or as the perpetrator of the crime is it solely my responsibility?

Snowden shoots back: 'So you DO have my emails, after all'

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Re: Edward Snowden isn't very good at logic (and neither is the NSA)

Knowing the way most IT security works in an organisation, he probably had full access to download top secret info, but lots of access denied when he tries to export his own emails en masse.

'Failure is not an option... Never give up.' Not in Silicon Valley, mate

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I dont really agree with the general gist of this article. You can fail a hundred times but if you suddenly have a great idea, it is still a great idea and you will still make it. If you don't however you will just fail the 101st time, there is no saying when a great idea will come, it may never come. But there is one thing that is always true, if you never try, you will definitely never succeed.

100% driverless Wonka-wagon toy cars? Oh Google, you're having a laugh

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Re: Every BS claim about the capabilities of technology eventually comes true

Flying cars would be practical with a future generation of the same tech that auto driving cars will eventually be using, be a few hundred times more advanced, but one day why not? If you take humans out of the equation then there is no reason why auto pilot can not avoid other flying objects.

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Re: Drivel

They don't do it to be dicks? Of course they do, if not on purpose, but their inability to do anything but put the accelerator flat to the floor. If they range between 54 and 58 then there isn't a requirement for them to overtake, just sit behind the one doing a couple of miles an hour slower and you know, ease off the bloody accelerator, its not an on/off switch for a reason!

Snowden never blew a whistle, US spy boss claims

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Re: No public trial; no public evidence

Or of course the evidence is just plain manufactured and then produced to the defence team? How is anyone supposed to say otherwise, no one is getting a search warrant for the NSA offices.

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Errrm, I think the whole point is that he doesn't trust the American system of justice, I mean, isn't that his whole point! What an idiotic statement. Why does he have to be on American soil anyway to make his case to the American people? Unfortunately for the US we live in modern times and he can do that perfectly fine from anywhere but American soil where he will pressurised to redact things, say he was lying and much other nonsense in a bargain for a more lenient sentence...because thats justice, the US way.

Amazon's cloud reign may soon come to an end, says Gartner

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What utter nonsense, AWS still offers far more features in each product and far more products. Sure you can migrate if you don't need any of those features, but why would you? Price isn't the driving factor as they are all too similar and in huge competition on that front. The only choice is down to reliability and product selection, you might not use the products now, but hell i might want to in the future so better to be in the most feature laden walled garden.

TrueCrypt turmoil latest: Bruce Schneier reveals what he'll use instead

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If you are using the old version downloaded months ago then your no less secure than you were yesterday, time to get your hands off the big red button and wait a little while, see what happens. In true Dads Army sense, 'Don't panic! Don't Panic!'

Pirate Party runs aground in European Parliamentary elections

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You could say the same about the main parties too, why should any party receive more or less press than the others? The main 3 parties still get far more TV coverage over a year than any other party. There is a thing called freedom of speech you know, seems to me a lot of people would rather these people be censored, and not receive any press coverage just because they don't like the point of view. Which to be honest, is a far more insidious position than any of these parties themselves hold.

EBAY... You keep using that word 'ENCRYPTION' – it does not mean what you think it means

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Re: Sigh ...

Errr, no. You would hash each letter along with a particular salt which is always used on that Nth letter, along with another customer specific detail, which always changes, the salts not being kept anywhere near the data. Then you just do the same process against each letter at login. It is no less secure than hashing the entire password.

Spotify boasts 10 million paying subscribers ... Um, is that all?

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If the major owners are the record labels, then no money has really been lost anywhere as that expenditure would largely have been royalties which would have been paid to those 3 largest shareholders. So given its a circle of money, it can probably go on for a very long time.

FSF slams Mozilla for 'shocking' Firefox DRM ankle-grab

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How can they be criticized for going against "sticking to Web standards in the face of attempts to impose proprietary extensions." when they are following the HTML5 spec, which is the only standard any web browser can and should follow. If they have a problem with it, campaign to have it removed from the draft spec!

EFF blows Snapchat a raspberry in gov't surveillance report

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Re: Pretty rank

Indeed, much like the credit agencies that rate whole countries, its complete nonsense and any rating drop during the economic crisis has actually had no affect on any lending. Organisations like this that give their own arbitrary view that no one asked for are completely pointless.

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Re: Seems unblanced

Amazon is only a retailer? What moon did you just arrive from? They run AWS which in tern runs many other companies infrastructure setups, if anything how they handle this data affects far more people.

Adobe blames 'maintenance failure' for 27-hour outage

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Crazy, does the new version after CS6 actually offer anything that 90% of the people subscribing will ever need?

Oracle vs Google redux: Appeals court says APIs CAN TOO be copyrighted

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Re: RIP java?

Haha, yea right! What exactly does Oracle offer in their non OSS solution that 99% of the people using it actually need that any of those you listed does not have? Indeed the more you look at what most organisations use Oracle's DB for you wonder why on earth they are using an overly complicated system to administer to carry out things that a much more simple solution would carry out perfectly fine. Ultimately nobody really needs one piece of software that does it all, because people do not do everything that a DB does in their applications, so they can just choose one of the OSS solutions that does what they do actually need.

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Re: RIP java?

You might want to check out MariaDB because a lot of those you listed are using it, rather than MySQL, precisely because Oracle now own MySQL. They are also taking it forward into areas that Oracle would not want it, to cope with enterprise scale better, Oracle would never want to make it too good at this, why want to keep pushing their expensive DB for that instead.

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Regardless of who did what here, which becomes irrelevant anyway if my point was carried forward. Surely the name of a method and the parameters that get passed into it should not be copyrightable, it is trivial and the real work is what goes on inside that method. If they have copied large chunks of non trivial method contents then yes there might be a case to answer, but Oracle here is claiming that even copying the API stubs but implementing the methods your own way may in fact be in violation. Thats entirely wrong because this:

public Void myMethod (String x, String y, Boolean p)

is completely trivial and can not be protected because it would be too common to come up with the same thing over and over without having ever seen the original. The same follows for any method stubs, only the implementation of the methods themselves should have any protection, anything else is insanity.

That NAKED SELFIE you sent on Snapchat? You may be seeing it again

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Re: "While we were focused on building, some things didn't get the attention they could have."

These are all valid points, but why do you think a startup company with effectively not very many staff an their disposal or hard cash for that matter would actually know or be able to carry out these kinds of things while also trying to maintain their market position against competitors with more cash at their disposal? Just because something should happen, does not mean finances make it possible to happen.

When you have a decent idea and throw and app together plus a et of API's for said app, you dont always expect it to suddenly hit the big time and be used by millions of people, playing catch up on dealing with all of that is a mountain of a problem, given even the best intentions.

Nintendo says sorry, but there will be NO gay marriage in Tomodachi Life ... EVER

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Re: "such a significant development change"?

Sorry, but gender is a complex structure...do you really think what makes a person male or female is just a boolean flag IRL? I didn't think so, I am pretty sure Nintendo haven't even scratched the surface of gender differences in their application's gameplay but even if they have included some it could be complex to change the coupling logic, much the same as the differences between how a male and a female couple in real life is infinitely complex.

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To be honest without knowing the application I side with Nintendo on this one now, they should have thought about it pre launch but after launch it could be a huge change. It would change the whole social interaction logic of the entire game, there could be many variables not expecting all sexes to be able to couple together, its not a case of just allowing it to happen, its looking at how that affects game play after its happened/happening.

UK's pirate-nagging VCAP scheme WON'T have penalties – report

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Well, im pretty sure some of those IP jobs are related to enforcement, so I guess piracy directly helps some of those people keep their jobs. No copyright infringement...no enforcement jobs? So on this basis would you suggest we must actually keep some piracy to keep those jobs?

Symantec: Antivirus is 'DEAD' – no longer 'a moneymaker'

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Good, it always has been the most bloated piece of rubbish ever to be installed on a PC. They do so much analysis of virus software that hides on systems, you would think they would have been able to make their own software do the same, but no, it uses 50% of the CPU and throttles the speed you get things off the hard drive by about 80%, making it plainly obvious your running their software!

You'll hate Google's experimental Chrome UI, but so will phishers

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"But fellow Chrome dev Jake Archibald backed the feature and said it would have saved him from nearly losing his bank details to a phishing site."

Errrrr....should this person really be a chrome dev? Come on, avoiding phishing sites if your technically competent should not be difficult, as a chrome dev, he should be more than most!

Ouch... right in the Androids! Google hit by another antitrust sueball

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Except of course that it is the best search engine... and even though Bing has made vast improvements, you can't really say Google achieved its position by not being clearly better, I would say it got to where it is because of precisely that which is why I continue to use it over the various competition that does exist, unhindered.

Also, how can they "represent all US purchasers of any Android mobiles or tablets that were made under contracts that also included the preloading of Google apps." without the specific say so of all of those purchasers? I mean, if I lived in the US and had purchased an Android phone with Google apps but was entirely happy and wanted this, could I sue this law firm for misrepresentation?

Staunch your Heartbleed patching: FreeBSD has a nasty credentials leak

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Still, if they rewrote it around Vista, if it existed for long enough in the code base then Windows XP has this and will never be patched. Maybe the first issue affecting XP that makes people wish they had upgraded sooner.

Larry Ellison looks out from his island paradise and thinks: I wanna buy the LA Clippers

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Right, so they will be swapping one jackass for another jackass.

Canucks' ISPs routing data through snoop heaven USA

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Re: Sounds like

As soon as it goes over the Atlantic GCHQ will have tapped it at arrival in Europe, then passed it to the NSA for processing and received its intelligence back.

SpaceX: We NAILED the Falcon 9 landing! The video, on the other hand...

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I completely agree with everything you said, but this bit made me laugh "which is why they can sure the landing was a success - the data arrived" - are you sure they don't in fact know this because it had in fact landed, so it was there where it should be to be seen with their eyes, not just the data.

Did Google order staff to 'steal' web ad cash from publishers? THE TRUTH

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Sounds like utter rubbish for two reasons, more ex employees would have spoke up and more publishers would have gone crazy about this online. They work in the media after all, they know how to get attention. This isn't even news as the source is complete non credible and the story doesn't even pass a cursory sensibility test.

UK.gov data sell-off row: HMRC denies claims it'll flog YOUR private info

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Re: Its my data, not yours... @TopOnePercent

I think the data protection act actually disagrees with you here, certain data is defined as being your data and you can ask for it not to be shared and told exactly what is held. Seeing as HMRC have never sought my permission to give 3rd parties access to the data, it violates the data protection act. So be interesting to see what the courts have to say about the issue.

US judge: Our digital search warrants apply ANYWHERE

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Indeed, the problem here is that it is the due process of the country who's physical space is being used to host the said data that is being bypassed. This will violate that countries laws and so place US companies in a situation where they can not do right. This has been a problem brewing for a while with internet based information, who's laws can apply when laws are often in conflict across different countries. To make good in one state can often be to make bad in another, you cant run a different website or data centre or whatever might be in dispute in every country you operate in. Something has to change.

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Re: In the interests of efficiency

But it isn't the US that will receive the request, it is the company in question. When they do not comply their local office will be slapped with a huge fine and a contempt of court charge.

Oracle accused of breaking US competition law over Solaris support

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It has nothing to do with quality control, if you go to a third party for support you do not blame the OS maker when the support is crap. You blame your support contractor. In no way would it affect the quality control of their enterprise solutions. In fact, if they did offer by far the best support then the market would choose to buy support from them anyway.

Dell charges £5 to switch on power-saving for new PCs (it takes 5 clicks)

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And remember, they don't actually spend a minute changing this setting per PC, they simply have a config profile that gets included when the OS is installed. So actually, it probably took them 5 minutes, only once. Now if you divided that number by the total times the option was selected, you would get your real time taken.

Google adds a sense of history to Street View with archive footage

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Re: Accidents

I don't know one way or the other, but it is possible that they developed it but intended to have it turned off in production but a config flag was set incorrectly in their install. Stupider things have happened, there are crazy bugs and cocked up releases going on all the time in every major bit of software.

OnePlus One equals 'killer' new mobe running CyanogenMod

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Re: People, People...

There is some truth in this, but also, most of the time I think its a phrase invented by some incumbents marketing department in the past to protect their huge profit margins over some upstarts pricing.

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Re: Like, oh, 95% of the people on the planet

A £40 increase... to go from 16GB to 64GB is not what I call ludicrous, it is after all, this particular phone and pricing we are talking about here and what the complaints about no SD were about. If the smaller amount isn't enough, at this price just get 64GB, is that really ever going to be too small for most people?

Google's latest mega-earnings fail to impress shareholders

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Investors really need to realise that making more money every year for an infinite number of years is an impossibility, even if you reached 100% efficiency, there are only so many resources in the world.

Mounties always get their man: Heartbleed 'hacker', 19, CUFFED

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It will be hard to prove this one, because they need to prove he was doing this maliciously of his own choice. There are a number of defence options. He was doing it in a security testing capacity (not sure on Canadian law regarding this), he wasn't aware it was happening (his computer was acting as a bot), he was just making lots of requests and never captured any data returned, this never even happened (prove it did). They would have to be logging all of the incoming heartbeat requests and logging all of the outgoing heartbeat responses to be able to mount a serious prosecution that can prove this beyond reasonable doubt. That is a very large amount of data and would require custom logging to be setup as the programme in all likelihood will not have a log option to capture all of this. I think this one will fall by the wayside in the not too distant future, before ever reaching a court.

Don't let no-hire pact suit witnesses call Steve Jobs a bullyboy, plead Apple and Google

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It's pretty outrageous to try and get the DoJ investigation evidence held back. Whatever you might think of the evidence, it is still evidence of some description. Just because you entered into a dodgy deal with the DoJ not to take you to court, does not stop that being evidence and to prevent it in a civil case would be wrong.

Windows XP is finally DEAD, right? Er, not quite. Here's what to do if you're stuck with it

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"They haven’t buried their heads in the sand. Well, mostly they haven't." - Yes they have, the reason they are overshooting the deadline is because they buried their heads in the sand for too long in the first place and didn't leave themselves enough time to do the migration in time. Proper planning and not burying their heads would have saved them the Microsoft mitigation costs they are paying now.

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