Posts by teebie

Re: respec?

You are right to be suspicious of the figures the police release, given that the police can manipulate them, have incentive to do so and, based on recent headlines, do.

However crime rates are falling according to british crime survey stats, which are less easily manipulated. The figures come from surveying members of the population, and so can't be altered by no criming an offence.

Crime falling in the UK shouldn't really come as a surpise - it is the worldwide trend.

Re: Totally inadequate

Three strikes gets more people killed - if someone has been jailed twice burglary, and are offending again when the owner comes home they have 2 choices - give up and get jailed for life for burglary, or kill the owner and maybe get away with it.

I also think any system that can send someone to jail for life for failing to pay their TV license is intrinsically wrong.

(You seem to mean a total life sentence - the rest of you life behind bars, rather than a minimum term and life on license)

The prupose of a justice system is to reduce crime - if someone robbed me I'd want them punished, but I would much rather they didn't rob me in the first place.

Re: Care.data opy out

The "similar staff" you mention are NHSCIC, which was given a facelift but largely left unchanged when it became HSCIC

As for there never being a perceived problem search The Register's for "careless data-sharing plans" or "Triple-headed NHS privacy scare" to read about them selling, inappropriately sharing and failing to protect data.

Re: A taste of their own medicine

And now they are saying "as I have done nothing wrong, I have nothing to fear (we do appear to have done something wrong)"

Re: If I understand correctly...

No, a model release would make a difference in a copyright case, but not any of the crimes covered in the new guidelines.

Because 4chan consists of thousands of anonymous accounts and so can't be said to be taking a collective stand on a particular action just because one person posted something to the board.

If Dave Fictionalman posts to 4chan that he's going to streak at the Brit Awards, then Dave Fictionalman did it, 4chan didn't, and if he goes for a pasty later there should be headlines saying "Greggs threaten Brit Awards with streaking"

Re: Churnalism

The emmayouarenext site redirects to a site calling for 4chan to be shut down, i.e. censored.

I'll admit it is a pretty bizarre reality, but it's the reality we live in.

Re: Question

No, the standard of proof, and degree of misconduct, is much higher for the CPS.

A court/tribunal would back you if, on balance of probabilities, you were justified in dismissing someone (i.e. if there is at least a 50% chance they committed gross misconduct, or other fireable offence)

The CPS shouldn't take action unless there is a 50% chance they can convince a jury beyound reasonable doubt that a crime was committed (i.e. if there's a 50% chance you can conince a jury there is a 98%(*) chance they committed a crime)

(*) ish

Re: Twisted their words.

But it isn't an offence - they are unable to give any single offence that viewing the video would constitute. So they are lying about what the law is. It would be better if they refrained from doing so.

Re: hypothetical

The copyright for the film belongs to the company that owns the film.

The copyright won't be transfered to the dog because:-

It's a dog, and dogs can't copyright things

Copyright doesn't transfer to you when you make a copy of a work.

Re: there is a legitimate use for these...

I was talking to someone about how it was entirely possibly for a payday loans company to be run ethically, and in a way that benefits society as a whole (e.g. in the broken down car example). He pointed out I had just described a credit union.

Re: El Reg {rolls eyes up}!

"Playground humour is both childish and annoying"

So's your face!

Re: FUCK OFF

"pussy"

Surely it depends on the reason for non-collection - if you just don't bother to collect then, yes, people you later fine are more likely to not bother paying. But it's different if there are concrete reasons, such as, say, early payment reductions, appeals and impairments.

Re: Meaningless research

So the share price reflects whether investors think other investors think the torrent will affect the films' sucess.

Assuming the investors are all holywood insiders, does this study give us an insight that the film industry doesn't really believe that torrents affect their revenue? Or am I stretching too far?

I was made shortly before 1977, and I also often fail to receive commands.

Re: Turn off the computer, then turn it on again...

"A user is complaining that he can't reconcile the figures"

"find out what's going wrong"

[...]

"He's trying to get a report from our system, but he can't"

"What happens when he tries?"

[...]

"Yeah, he had forgotten his password"

"Where was the NSA when those two brothers were bombing Boston during the marathon?"

On Reddit posting "Hey guys, does anyone think america should be destroyed? Let me know! ;)" in the hope of getting easy leads.

Re: Roboform not 'on form'

"We are investigating the report, and will issue a statement when our tecnhical staff have fully evaluated it. In the meantime, to avoid embarrassment, we have distracted our VP of marketing and business development with a number of shiny objects, hidden his PC and changed his twitter password"

Re: Happy Snapper

"In that scenairo you'd hope the police and the courts would exercise some common sense."

Good luck with that.

The law should be based on "I'm sure everyone in the legal system will behave themselves". Just ask Paul Chambers, or Andrew Robert Holland (the tiger video) or the lawyer dragged through the courts for owning perfectly legal fisting pornography, or...

Re: OMG Mirrors!

"did our forebears have to go through this farce when printing was developed"

There was a hgue 'home printing is killing calligraphy' campaign

Re: Translation

> When at school I practised French by translating Asterix into French

But...wasn't it like that already?

Re: If you think that placebos for humans are bad enough

The placebo effect does work on animals, so these remedies are equally effective across species.