Posts by Not Fred31

CEOP renews attack on Facebook

200 odd?

When you think about the number of kids on Facebook, the number is amazingly low - what does that work out at as a percentage?

Photographers rue Mandy's copyright landgrab

"no penalties for anonymising your work"

Funny, the UK is also actively involved in ACTA, where they are proposing criminal sanctions for the removal of authorship information from copyrighted material. Arse, may I introduce you to elbow? Elbow, meet arse.

US government rescinds 'leave internet alone' policy

"child protection"

is there anything as easy to exploit as exploited children?

Brussels data watchdog cries foul over secret copyright talks

Where is your article on the leaked ACTA...

digital chapter...?

MPs obsess about expenses, ignore data security

they obsessed about ACTA recently too...

and you wrote a story about that. Now that the digital chapter of ACTA has been published, however, for some reason you don't appear to think that ACTA is newsworthy any more. Curiouser and curiouser...

US school comes out fighting over webcam spy claim

school guilty of making child pornography?

If the webcam was involved and if the improper behaviour was... well, what it might have been...

Why you subsidize Google's Soviet-style Net

damn those freeloaders

ISPs must be livid that people are being given more and more compelling reasons to sign up because of Google. Dammit, life was simpler and happier before that outerweb came along.

Perhaps the author of this article might be better writing for luddites_unregistered.co.uk instead?

'I'm an IT worker not an assassin'

"I'm an IT worker not an Assassin"

The implication is that one precludes the other....

PS - There's no pedadantic semantics nazi alert button

Survey: Only 1% of Torrents non-infringing

wow, what else have undergraduates being saying?

"according to a survey by an American undergraduate." Have you asked your postman what he thinks?

Huffington Post retweets all of Twitter

Stolen?

"The strange move caused a bit of a blog storm from people who felt their content had been stolen."

Instead of visiting twitter.com, they should try dictionary.com for a definition of "stolen".

Why Bono is wrong about filesharing

child pornography?

"because ISPs can and do take some action to block child pornography"

ISPs provide a fig-leaf for government failures to take action internationally to have child pornography sites taken offline. It is entirely simple to get around these blocks, if one is sick enough to want to. It doesn't work, but nobody cares because its function is public relations, not to be effective.

Blocking would not work (and is seldom suggested) for copyright because it would be as ineffective for copyright as it is for child pornography. The difference is that nobody has any business or political interest in imposing entirely useless technology to protect copyright.

Cyber attack hits law firm that sued China

Who would turn down this PR opportunity?

The PR opportunities offered by the current media feeding frenzy on this issue were clearly too much for the law firm to turn down.

Home Office misses Brussels' Phorm deadline

if the judges find in favour of the Commission?

"if judges find in favour of the Commission." A Belgian government report on its own legal spending referred to cases like this as "lost before they start".

Google weighs in to Aussie firewall row

great sub-headline guys!

Because Google hasn't been able to overturn decades of entrenched "communist" censorship, you decide to have a sarcastic go at them because they are trying to stop Australia going in the same direction? Is that the best that you can do, when a western country is introducing the most widescale censorship mechanism ever introduced in a country that claims to be a democracy?? Really? Come on!

EU to approve more banking data for US spooks

Neat sidestep of democracy

Today? One day before the European Parliament would have been required under the Lisbon Treaty to be allowed its say on the issue. What are the odds?

Filesharing laws to hit websites and newsgroups too

And the tories?

Why do your stories on this issue never mention what the incoming government's view is? As far as I know, they are as nutty as the current crowd on this issue, but it would be nice to see this analysed in your articles.

Border guards get first dozen ID card readers

6% of Labour party members have volunteered then?

If the Labour party has 176,000 members and there are only 12,000 cards, that means that if every cardholder were a Labour member, the don't even have 10% of their own members supporthing them.

Health sector spews out much more carbon than airlines or IT

why is beef never mentioned in articles like this one?

Um, that's it really, where's the beef?

Intel punts portable text reader for the blind

Unauthorised copy of the text?

Under existing copyright legislation, this would be a device for unauthorised copying of the text. As the European Publishers' representative said in the European Parliament yesterday... "some books are meant to be audio books and others are not" - hence the need to get people to pay again for books they have already been paid for, if they use a device to read the book out loud.

Spain cuts off 3m pre-pay mobiles

good job mobiles can't be stolen

they can't be stolen, right?

Don't panic over the secret copyright treaty

you what?

"self-regulatory" graduated response exists in UK law?

Spain won't disconnect illegal file sharers

Would you mind reading the text the EU adopted?

Could you actually read the text adopted by the EU before repeatedly making reference to the "fact" that the EU "dumped" plans to restrict the rights of Member States to cut off internet users. Really, you'd never know what you might learn.

Turkish filters block Reg commentards

El Reg and the missing blocking stories

The European Commission is proposing mandatory blocking across the EU (not reported in El Reg yet, for some reason). This proposal is in the draft Framework Decision on child exploitation.

A study on the legal and technical aspects of blocking was published recently (not reported in El Reg yet, for some reason)

http://www.aconite.com/blocking/study

Tories to fight election on Spotify

YUK - worst sub-headline EVER

Don't do it again.

eBay boss bids for governorship

I failed at ebay, I failed with McCain so...

...elect me.

How can she lose?

Perhaps she could exchange San Francisco for a few shares in Skype?

NO2ID beats off ad complaint

privacy nuts

<>Typical scaremongering by privacy nuts.

<Homer> Mmmm privacy nuts</homer>

Cracks show in music industry over P2P enforcement

Veritable gibbons

"Are you saying that internet comments are not in fact a gibbon food-fight? It's verifiable fact."

Whether or not the analogy is correct and verifiable is one thing... that internet comments are actual, real conflicts involving members of that particular species and that these conflicts concern foot items... I think not.

"the gibbon food-fight of comments"

I'd love to see The Register article if some other online news site described its comments contributors in those words.

Why some articles are not commentable...

@sarah Bee... the reason is obvious. The Orlowski character is a typical bully, he likes to mete it out, but he's scared witless of getting any criticism back.