* Posts by andy 45

136 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jul 2009

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App developer slurped kids' data without consent

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@steve 130

But 13 year olds are still children -- at least they are in the UK --

I suppose in America they look like full-grown adults...

BBC explains 'All your Twitter pics are belong to us' gaffe

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Holmes

Fair use?

I think the author of this article should have mentioned that there are some cases where 'Fair Use' of copyright works are allowed, for example to highlight excerpts from an existing article, or to allow for certain creative uses of material (for example, so a baby dancing to a particular pop song on Youtube should not be breaking copyright rules.

I'm sure the examples the author gives regarding BBC are probably not 'fair use', but thought it deserved a mention other wise you risk scaremongering as much as the BBC does when trying to explain copyright..

Gordon Ramsay sues father-in-law over alleged spyware plot

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@Elfros

Which part of your comment is sarcasm?

Anonymous and LulzSec spew out largest ever police data dump

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Alert

Maybe they didnt read all 10gb of data

Just a thought -- but would you bother to read all 10gb of data?

That's a lot of reading

Is Anon ready for the social network?

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I think some people here are mistaken by the term anonymous

I'm pretty sure the Anon. site will mean that people will be allowed to call themselves [Mr D Duck/Michael Mouse etc] without fear of reprisals -- unlike Facebook for example.

Users of the site won't all be called 'anonymous coward' -- that would be ridiculous!

Nokia X7 Symbian Anna smartphone

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Very happy with my Nokia C7

- Latest Symbian OS is pretty slick - hardly any lag

- It has an FM transmitter - play music in the car or anywhere with a radio

- TV output

- 720HD recording

- feels solid

£30 on upgraded contract - sweet...

Facebook, Google, and the war to lock you in

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Megaphone

Is this the same Google I know

The author thinks Google will 'revive its open approach to the web'?

This is the same Google which apparently now demands phone number verification to open a Gmail account, and then demands that all Youtube users open a Gmail account and are required to link it to their Youtube.

I see no signs of 'open'.

Mac trojan evades Apple's brand new security fix

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Coat

Re: Mac users get Sophos for free...

..But that's an antivirus program and...

....this latest issue wasn't a virus!!

What is UltraViolet™ and why should you care?

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Devil

Re: Catch?

The price...

FBI asks for help to crack mystery code in 12-year-old murder case

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Double Dutch?

It looks to me like it says

Fa shizzle dizzle, its the big Neptizzle

with the Snoopy D-O-Double Jizzle.

I could be wrong, of course.

Southampton Uni shows way to a truly open web

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What a numpty

"PDF is an embarrassment to our species"

A completely blinkered view which really doesnt deserve arguing the case against....

...but briefly, speaking as a designer, there are loads of reasons why I love pdf as well as things that annoy me -- the same with design for other media (web/print etc).

That quote must have been said with no thought whatsoever about the words which were coming out of his mouth

Whitehall to puff punters: 'Hide your fags'

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Unhappy

re:It's already started mate

Yep. I've noticed just about every week for the past year on more some numpty or other has been calling for a minimum price on alcohol.

Maybe that would be time to start making some homebrew -- Moonshine!

Nominet forgets what the first .uk domain name was

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..wait for it...

"It's well-known that the first .com domain was symbolics.com, originally registered to a now-defunct Lisp computer maker in March 1985, but less information is available about the origins of .uk."

...I think somebody's talking symbolics....

Top cyber crime cop lied under oath, says judge

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@ Oh FFS

""The tiny minority of actual honest cops"

Please get over yourself - Every single copper I have ever met has been honest and upstanding and willing to put themselfs at risk to protect the public, that's not to say that there aren't a very few corrupt coppers but, guess what: In a massive company there will always be a tiny minority of corrupt or self serving employees. This does not mean that they are in anything like the majority."

-- But you must admit they do seem to be pretty dishonest 'when it matters'. Such as the de Menezes case, The innocent guy killed at G20, the guy who was shot by police for carrying a wooden table leg in a bag etc etc -- not one copper brought to justice when it really mattered...

'Big Four' lose filesharing case against Irish ISP

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@james woods

"I haven't 'purchased' music in almost a decade and I could care less."

I think you mean you 'couldn't ' care less. If you could care less that means that you care to some degree.

I wish people would get that one right, it really irks me...

Greenland ice loss rates 'one-third' of what was thought

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@SimonW

In answer to your questions:

1. Does CO2 in the atmosphere retain heat? Yes

2. Does burning fossilised organic matter generate CO2? Yes

3. Was fossilised organic matter being burnt at the same rate before people started digging it out of the ground to burn?

Possibly more so (from things lke volcanoes/forest fires etc, possibly less so. You still have to take into account many other things such as the output of the sun and the fact that clouds also keep the warmth in. Whether man has increased the warming of the planet is still under debate but if he has it doesnt seem to be having any effect.

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@Lee and the other plums

Lee -

"You drink it then

If it is so small an amount."

I will drink 2mm of water every 100 years or so - that should stop the sea level rise.

Diesels greener than electric cars, says Swiss gov report

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All this only matters if....

...you believe the innocuous gas, H20, that we breath out and that plants need to survive is in any way damaging us.

If, like me, you don't think it's a problem, you should buggar the expensive diesel and go for the leccy car which you can currently top up for free at most places where you can find a charger, and you get to skip the Congestion charge too -- Win-Win!

EU climate exchange website hit by green-hat hacker

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Flame

preposterously describes its attack as a public act of digital direct action"

'Preposterously' -- Is that the author's opinion? Or the Reg's opinion?

Shouldn't this be left to opinion pieces with news stories just containing straight-up journalism?

I'll be the one to determine preposterousness -- and believe me, i know it when I see it...

Airline ejects passenger for being hungry

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WTF?

Wouldnt some people feel safer knowing there was a policeman on board?

That's all....

Russian spy ring bust uncovers tech toolkit

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Causal sex?

ask the average Sex-in-the-City wanabe if they’d do someing more dangerous than causal sex…

**gasp** you mean non-causal? ie: sex without a cause?!

Apple lifts iPhone code ban (for chosen few)

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Coat

I think...

...the iPhone is becoming more like the Bejesus Phone...

Steve Jobs beheads iPad apps for acting like desktops

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err... no Myspace audio player?

" All they care is that the thing is easy to use and they can get to Facebook and my space easily, this the iPad does beautifully"

Err, doesnt MySpace use Flash for it's music player? I think that would be a no-no then...

Drought effect on rainforests is negligible

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Headmaster

Sorry, you talk nonsense

Your arguments are not based on science, vandevelde...

Steve Jobs Flash rant put to the test

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Happy

@bobafett

Dont blame Flash - Those test results just mean Macs R Crap....

Google chief: Only miscreants worry about net privacy

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@harry

Just because tracking and privacy 'violations' are becoming more commonplace doesnt mean we have to put up with it.

Back to the topic though - the story is about this bignob from Google stating that if we want privacy we must be criminals - what a dick!

Pitchfork-wielding mobs encircle smart meters

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@Il Midga de Maceroni

I don't think we should just accept rabid environmentalism and everything that comes with it, especially as the Human Global Warming theory crumbles day-by-day, so no, I wont 'get used to it'.

If the energy companies reputation is anything to go by they will continue to try to bleed their customers dry (as they have done these last couple of years by swiftly putting prices up, but being very reluctant to bring them down when wholesale prices slumped)

The last thinkg I want is these bandits having any control over my appliances.

West Antarctic ice loss overestimated by NASA sats

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@GrantB

Grant B = Grant Big = Big ol' grant from the government to be a global warming advocate methinks...

Moon orbiter detects pole-plunge hotspots in dark bottom

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WTF?

@_wtf_

The alien has vanished....now that's spooky...

Tomorrow's World comes back to the future

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@Sigh.. by AC

Dude, you spelt Fuckwit wrong...

What US Homeland Security collects about you

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WTF?

@AC re: Show me the terrorists

They're the ones with bombs in their rucksacks you moron....

The Internet's most evil company?

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ARS

*chuckle*

Boston student fined thousands for Napstering

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FAIL

@Mike 61

Great idea mike.

If no-one shared like you there would be no file /sharing/

numpty!

Botched judge threat probe downs Fathers 4 Justice website

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Alert

@AC 14:33 - dont you geddit?

"If I was going to do something that stupid^Wdrastic then I'd put it on a web host in another country where it would be much harder for them to take it down without a lot of fuss first"

-- dont you understand AC? It wasnt Fathers4Justice

They dont need a web host in another country because they are innocent!

Too-tall terror snapper stopped by cops again

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@Catkins

Have you noticed that none of the people you are quoting have got a clue how to construct a hafl-decent english sentence and there is hardly a whiff of punctuation.

That tells me something...

Eurostar tunnels through UK border ring of steel

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Big Brother

@Steven Jones

Steven, I think you're being a little harsh on Mr Hohoho and maybe taking it alll a bit too seriously.

Fantasy as it may be, it's still a romantic notion that one could buy a ticket at Victoria to anywhere in the world, and it does make me wonder why it can't be that simple sometimes.

Maybe if we all had compulsory ID, we really could just jump on a ship or plane and the world would be our oyster (card).

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