Posts by Jove

Generally Disclosing Pretty Rapidly: GDPR strapped a jet engine on hacked British Airways

Re: Companies about to take security seriously?

That would have to wait until Social Media are forced to set-up a legal entity in each jurisdiction they operate in and be subject via that entity to local regulations.

Ecuador's Prez talking to UK about Assange's six-year London Embassy stay – reports

Re: So much hostility

No. He took it upon himself to put others lives at risk.

... while his balls are mounted in the trophy case.

Re: Just Saying ...... Are they men or mice?

"Just Saying ...... Are they men or mice?

Any decision taken by UKGBNI Government to allow "punishment" of Assange, rather than deem the whole sad episode a mistake made under pressure from foreign third parties, with Assange able to walk free with no fear of malicious prosecution, will have dire consequences for UKGBNI, methinks, for who in their right minds would ever share any secrets with them whenever the truth has them running scared and terrorised by the thought of perverse repercussions."

This bot is a prime candidate for an episode of "Just a Minute"

Patience - we will have him soon enough.

Internet overseer ICANN loses a THIRD time in Whois GDPR legal war

Re: Costs?

In what way does ICANN not have access to funds?

How did it pay for the Lawyers and Legal paperwork in the first place? Is it not just a big money generating machine for those that run it?

... or rather that authorities such as the EU Commission stipulate that top-level domains be managed by regional authorities with a clear line of accountability to that region's legal system - something that ICANN would seem not to want to engage with.

Why does it need to be Global? That is likely undesirable as far as major bodies such as EU and China are concerned. This is one step towards partitioning of the Internet with control at nation/supra-state level.

Re: Mind you I'm more than a bit uncomfortable

The contracts are still binding except where superseded by the provisions of GDPR.

Game over for Google: Fortnite snubs Play Store, keeps its 30%, sparks security fears

Article sponsored by Google?

Fix this faxing hell! NHS told to stop hanging onto archaic tech

saboteurs

Another example of why you do not allow NHS workers to dictate how it should be reformed.

No one wants new phones – it's chips that keep Samsung chugging

Re: What else IS there?

Most sensible people transitioned more than five years ago

RIP Peter Firmin: Clangers creator dies aged 89

Noggin

Noggin the Nog (not the later adoption of the term elsewhere) - that is were it really started.

Micro Focus offloads Linux-wrangler SUSE for a cool $2.5bn

EQT

An interesting list of divestment - including that if Vertu before it hit the wall.

Tech firms, come to Blighty! Everything is brill! Brexit schmexit, Galileo schmalileo

With members of the Eurozone acting like brigands by not settling their bills what else would you expect from them. Several states are now effectively insolvent, with Euro-bonds and high Corporate Taxes on the way to finance their fantasies - reneging on promises made in return for British money is is just an easy path for them - for now.

Blood spilled from another US high school shooting has yet to dry – and video games are already being blamed

And there you have it; an article with a political agenda just throws up that the readers, and most certainly not the journalists, of the The Register are up to task of even discussing the topic of gun related crime without signalling their opposition to the USA, their comprehensive lack of engagement of the real world, their disregard for the realities on the leftist side of the curtain, the authorities that would have to implement their legislative fantasies, or of any other practical means of resolving real-world problems. There is more to the discussion that the dribble you happily gobble down.

Re: Really powerfull

More than two-thirds also want to retain the right to own guns.

Re: Business leaders

"The article is on the register because, once again, an American goes nuts and kills a bunch of people, and once again their politicians line up to blame software developers. That's a cut and dry IT angle right there."

Certainly not. This is just hijacking of the media to propagate a distorted factional point of view.

Re: Business leaders

"Did you know there were 288 posts on this topic (289 now), and you've posted 37 of them, or ~13%. Don't shoot me, but does this topic hit a nerve?"

The fact that is article appears in the Reg is the point of contention. Posts demonstrate the shallowness of the discussions around such a topic and the ignorance of those spouting childish dribble without any knowledge or experience on the subject apart from media manipulation. Good enough?

Business leaders

If Business Leaders took sometime to read the comments made on this article they would accelerate the export of IT jobs to distant shores.

"Yet again we come to learn that America is morally bankrupt."

Have you, and all the Little-Islanders that regularly attack the USA ever wondered what USA citizens think of the kind of UK that you represent?

Re: Something has changed

"So I have to ask, what's changed?"

Neoliberalism and the false moves engineered from events in the 50s and 60s which have lead to an undermining of authorities and the an excess of individualism.

Re: Agenda

"It's a dorkcatcher - and it sees that it works, eh? We'll let you out later."

Kiddie dribble.

Re: Foxnews

"Foxnews aint no BBC."

No of course not; the BBC is in the old Pravda camp.

Re: No one is asking why he did it

You may want to familiarise yourself with the term "alleged" to avoid problems in the future.

Re: RE: Criminals will still own guns

"The good thing about homemade bombs is that they often go off in the home of the person who made them."

Utterly crass.

Re: RE: Criminals will still own guns

"... So guess what - I'm happy to live in a country were only criminals have guns."

Would that include Ciudad Juárez in Mexico?

Re: RE: Criminals will still own guns

"However criminals don't do mass school shootings ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Iguala_mass_kidnapping

One for the Snowflakes and the Agenda-Signallers

Where do Russia and Venezuela stand in relation to the USA in the league table for homicide rates?

Re: Guns in the hands of stupid people

"Just because a corrupt Supreme Court"

Would that claim stand-up in Court? Your interpretations do not make them facts - but if you want to go back to the Inquisition ...

Re: $0.02 from a gunless veteran

"A higher percentage of blacks are killed by gunfire than whites. Yet the media and those who bemoan the shootings ignore this. It's just as big a tragedy yet buried somewhere around page 5 in most papers."

Plenty of coverage of Baltimore if you care to take a look. The problem is that many of those killings, if not the majority are Black-on-Black.

Re: 7 million people, less than 10 gun deaths in 10 years?

"I wouldn't lump the whole Far East together, there are big regional differences. As for trusting Governments, plenty of examples of... uh forcible leadership change."

You will also more than likely be fooling yourself. For a start, the Triad "Economy" was last estimated to be bigger than that of the EU.

Re: 7 million people, less than 10 gun deaths in 10 years?

"Plus having mainland China next door probably has an effect on criminal activity"

Oh dear. Do a little background reading before engaging mouth.

"I play violent video games. I also have mental health problems. And work with some Americans who piss me off constantly. But I've never felt the urge to fly to the US, buy a gun and shoot them.

I'm only a sample of 1, but maybe, just maybe, it's access to guns that's the problem?

(I've never gone on a rampage with a knife either, but that's probably because I'd get my arse kicked)."

... but it does not stop your Yankee co-workers pissing in your Tea while you are not looking.

Re: "Britain has the same video games as the US."

Well given your lack of command of the English language I'll take your comments to be part of the tide of sponsored agenda-signalling. How is the weather over there?

P.S.

I have lived in several places in the States over extended periods so I know a little of the background and the scale of the problem, which is more than can be said for the Snowflake dribble spouted on here.

"Britain has the same video games as the US.

No school shootings in 22 years.

However we banned private handgun ownership 22 years ago because of a school shooting."

They do not need guns in the UK now that the Liberal Leftists have emasculated the Police and the Law Courts. The scum and savages do what they want in the UK backed by a media that only publishes stories that fit with their liberal agenda.

Re: It really is stunning

"A majority of Americans are for stricter gun control, background checks, mental heath screening, etc"

... but they are not in favour preventing the public from owning firearms.

Even then, if you do get changes to the legislation, how are you going to enforce it with a country that has porous borders to the South across which organised criminals are able to ship substantial quantities of narcotics and weapons?

Suggesting changes to legislation is just massaging your own ego unless you prepared to go out yourself and take the guns off of the people (without access to a gun of course).

"You missed half of the problem. The above sentences finishes with "has the right to bear arms".

It does not say "Has the right bear arsenals".

Is that a legal interpretation? How can you have the first without the latter?

Re: Early information

"Anyone who thinks there's a quick and easy 'fix' is deluded.

> Certainly. It's going to take a lot more dead children to change the mindset of the powerful lobby known as the NRA."

... and public opinion; It is about 3 to one in no bans on hand-guns - so put forward all the legislation you want, you will not get sufficient support to take guns off of the general public.

We are also getting nearer the point in the UK were the general public will be calling for the right to own guns for self protection.

Re: Early information

"I read your comment:

"Please don't say, "Ban all guns," or something akin to that. It may have worked in the UK and parts of the Commonwealth"

And thought it really needed a little correction:

"Please don't say, "Ban all guns," or something akin to that. It may have worked everywhere else in the world."

So what about places like Thailand?

Re: Early information

""It hasnt worked here, not even a bit."

Yes it has.

"And the levels of violent gun crime are at similar levels as they have always been."

Which is at one of the lowest levels in the world."

That is a somewhat conceited stance, and is the usual selective manipulation of statistics to support the agenda signalling.

We do not have ready access to guns in the UK, so the savages are using acid and machetes. Include those numbers and the UK comes much higher up in the rankings of violet deaths in USA cities.

Re: Always from the same school?

"Incidentally, one person was killed and another injured at another school shooting incident in Georgia on the same day. Georgia school shooting: One killed, two injured."

Probably in a constituency that the Democrats won 2016.

Re: Early information

So in the time it takes the local Police to respond to an incident within a school, how many kids are you prepared to loose before you consider losses are too high?

What alternative practical arrangement are you going to make to protect individuals during the first response window?

Re: Early information

"but the actual fact of the matter is that we have never really had a problem with gun violence to start with"

That is incorrect.

Re: Early information

It is not far off the point were we will need guns in London to protect ourselves from the anarchy on our streets brought about the political correctness of the liberal left.

Re: Early information

"The mechanism of voting is temporarily broken in America, as it is in much of the rest of the world."

That opinion is no doubt due to the voting systems that have worked so well are currently delivering leadership that you disagree with. The so call new voting systems are less effective, encourage partisan politics, corruption, and rigid systems that harder still to over turn - see Italy, Ireland, Metropolitan Councils (those that use partial re-election mechanisms) and any for or proportional representation that gives seats to loosers that then act without any consideration to the wishes of the electorate.

Amending the USA constitution and legislation on gun laws is not going to fix the current problem unless you give answers to how they will be enforced.

Re: Early information

Sure you can change legislation, but who are you going to get to enforce it for you? You might also want to consider the starting point, and whether the polls are an accurate reflection of public opinion or just another case of public manipulation by the liberal left.

As expected; lots of negative agenda signalling with the thumbs-down, but still nothing more than conceited posturing and not a single attempt at suggesting a viable solution.

You are the ones that are going to be clicking the like-button as the world goes down the pan, and all because you have swallowed the liberal leftist doctrines that have undermined the state for the sake of degenerate individualism.

Re: Early information

And how would you deal with the civil war that will break out given that the likes of you have been working to undermine state and police forces that you will rely on over a period of years to make a ban work.

Re: Early information

Dribble. Perhaps you should spend some time in country before mouthing off. legislation will not work, it will just mean arms will pour in across the borders. There are no simple solutions, but as to blame you want to thank the liberals and the individualism movements from the 50s and 60s for this - that is the root of the problem.