* Posts by john 212

11 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2010

Freeman Dyson: Shale gas is 'cheap and effective'

john 212

Relative truths.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/14/world_renowned_scientist_dr_theo_colborn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4s3EANkQ6E part 6 Mainly 3.25 onwards to understand how dangerous this is.

It is criminal how environmentally abusive hydraulic fracturing on Marcellus shale deposits can be. No one person in their right mind would accept this as an alternative energy source. As they would know, with a little research, that the cost is just too great in the long term. Talking of subsidies, what about all the money that will be poured into habitat management and “preservation” affected sites in the future. Do you know where the UK deposits actually are?

People need to understand exactly what this is before all politically fuelled mis-information gets to them. I haven’t had time to check the British Geographical Surveys to know to what extent we could be impacted. I’m would hazard a guess the energy interests are mostly looking to use Britain as a platform into the rest of Europe where the larger deposits are. According to Wikipedia the deposits are located as shown in the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EIA_World_Shale_Gas_Map.png

Colonel who slammed Afghan HQ PowerPoint culture is fired

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what is the NATO national anthem then?

Sellin tells Wired that an unidentified two-star general, angered by the article, told him he was "a coward, unpatriotic, ignorant [and] petty".

I didn't realise NATO was a country. Must be on the newer maps on this non-ignorant person has access to (I’m guessing a normal map and a big rubber NATO stamp).

Who makes those Top Secret stamps anyways or is it a secret? I dare not Google for using the terms Top-secret in case I end up in seeing results from some unsecured Government database or Obama’s Chief of Staff’s face book group and find myself on being deported for hacking.

It brings comfort to know these well informed individuals are responsible for the lives of many soldiers and Afghan civilians.

Online crims not just 'speccy geeks', researchers warn

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title!

The Invention of the contact lens was a game changer for the security industry.

*wonders if the stereotype is a result of Law enforcement profiling of cyber crime suspects*

Boobquake fails to destroy planet

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what would be interesting is

if the Reg had a Mohammed icon.

Epic Fail: How the photographers won, while digital rights failed

john 212

umm..

When you say “illegal downloading” and “copyright infringement” are you talking about the breaching the licensing agreement or actual Laws? With this knowledge of the law you are referring to, which specific laws are being broken?

It would seem your being a bit loose with your wording. Are talking about the acts deemed illegal by the licensing agreement here?

Illegal in the same way as lending your friend a DVD or CD?

Illegal as buying games and music from charity shops since the person who originally owned them had no right to transfer the license?

What exactly are you saying is illegal?

john 212

Opinion first, facts later.

so it has nothing to do with the rampant mis information that surrounds this debate then. Nothing to do with things like using the term "illegal downloading" which even the Register took a while to get their head round (still makes me laugh). this David and Goliath story of the photographers is touching, but really it's just a case of people of limited capacity, such as the Pirate Slayer, voicing opinion as fact compared to the other issue which was better understood from the start.

Would it be surprising that half the MP's who voted have no idea how P2P works? let alone understand the jargon involved. They hate P2P but they loovvve Opensource, like the Iphone!

Good thing the Pirate Slayer doesn’t know Saddam uploaded his WMD's to the Pirate bay while illegally downloading a free leech album on his open source Iphone. Then we would be in awe of his factual comprehension of the topic.

The Pirate Party is the shape of things to come

john 212
Welcome

With stupid all the way, thanks for that association.

The affliction of abiding in ignorance.

As for this particular Political platform all I can as is that hopefully the reactionary nature encourages at least some to see past its limitations and seek a better understanding of the subject at hand instead of re enforcing their detachment from it. It would seem the tools of today’s Political trade encourages apathy towards issues which effectively leads you to ask “what has it got to do with me?” instead of actively seeking out that information.

Whether the news media are the fuel or the catalyst I’m undecided, though one is for sure. They are not the voice of reason, if they even were at any stage.

I’m with stupid I guess. T-shirts all round.

Victorinox offers hackers £100,000 challenge

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Boffin

knowing the law fail x2

http://www.bkcg.co.uk/guide/law.html

contains all the relevant links.

on the Victorinox website Both secure flash knives (8 & 16 GB) are 5.8 cm in length (2.3" ) so i guess the blade on it is about 2 inches falling within the legal requirements of maximum of 3 or less inches (not 3.5). Location is also important concerning whether your are breaking the law regardless of the length when carrying any item that could be used as an offensive weapon.

http://www.victorinox.com/product/1/100/1007/4.6026.TG16F

On a distant Desert island...."No worries! i downloaded a Ray Mears survival guide to my Swiss army novelty knife..we're saved! all we need now is a laptop."

Sony PS3 Slim

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Go

never knew...

what my PS3 was missing until i needed it. That is A2DP blutooth support. I would really like to get this on the PS3 so i can use my bluetooth stereo headset. Works with my SonyEric phone, can't be too hard for them to implement. Is it too much to hope Sony base their product planning on these forums?

Ubisoft undone by anti-DRM DDoS storm

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Coffee/keyboard

valid issues

People always bang on about Piracy and the effects. What Ubisoft has managed to do wonderfully here is push to the front of the debate one of the most valid and real issues on this whole subject. Which of the two, Big publishers or Bittorrent/P2P has actually delivered the game or product or content in a way that the consumer wants it and can enjoy it better?

Another important issue is one of consumer rights. In the U.K at least you have the right to own a backup of something your legitimately own. Now since they insist on adding these odd DRM schemes you’d actually be at fault for trying to bypass them yourselves, so you’re quite entitled download a version where someone else has done this for you. Murky waters would come from then sharing this with people you can’t confirm own the game or not or as it should often be described but isn’t, illegal uploading instead of the over used and mostly false term of iIlegal downloading. But that is another story for another time.

So the point here is now that paying and legit customers actually have the right to choose between the hard copy they paid for or downloading a, well fixed .exe or whatever it they need for this particular game, since they often having the full game means you don’t need to download it from the net, you just need the part that fixes it.

Throw in a few words like Pirate, freetards, thief’s et al and you have a confused and unsure consumer who doesn’t understand what they are entitled to and that this P2P thing can benefit them. As well they should be benefited for supporting a game that they like. This is not much different from when Ubisoft support used a cracked .exe from Reloaded I think for customers who were having problems with the game. People who are genuinely having issues with this DRM should be made aware that they can legitimately benefit from these online backups. And why shouldn’t they get to enjoy what they paid for as they see fit? It’s hardly fair that these apparent Pirates should only be the ones to reap the rewards of a network heavily geared towards delivering content based on the demands and deisres of the users.

I don’t agree with the servers being DDOS’d. The DRM scheme if it would fail should have done so one its own merits and no one should have taken it upon themselves to force the issue. Perhaps it could be viewed as a catalyst of the debate but in this case it wouldn’t be proper to use it against Ubisoft as it wasn’t a naturally occurring result of their DRM but a forced one outside of their control.

E-book buyers favour iPad over Kindle and co.

john 212
Alert

%110 of %100 of people said...

I have no idea what your trying to say, must have got lost somewhere between your love of the ipad and...somewhere else.

So %37 of the %40 of people are actually looking to buy an iPad to use as an ebook reader? What is %37 of %40 anyway. %40 =400 out of 1000? people surveyed so only 148(%37 of 400) out of this 1000 people are interested in the ipad for it’s e-reader functionality.

How does that equate to ebooker fans looking to buy a ipad over a kindle. Also you note that MORE THAN A QUARTER (%27) would buy an iPad had it been available but ONLY %45 (ffs) would buy the same device again, you fail to mention what this %45 percent already own, all got Kindles perhaps, who knows since you didn’t bother to mention the fact.

all i get from this is people looking to buy something that will cover multiple tasks they might need would achieve from a portable device get and ipad or netbook, but someone with a budget looking for a good ebook reader is not going to be one of them. So the title makes no sense.