Re-enactments?
Can we expect to see the new Barbies in some future El Reg re-enactments, in place of the the Playmobil characters?
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WTF is "extreme free speech"? Free speech is when there are no constraints - when any constraints are introduced, then by definition, it is no longer free. Free speech is like virginity, you either have it or you don't.
"As long as Australians are free to read articles such as this criticizing the law, I don't see any threat to Australian democracy."
With a secret list, defined in secret and without any clear definition, there is nothing to prevent "The Register" being added to the list, along with any other websites that those in control decide might be subversive.
Whilst the website(s) concerned in this case might have been unpleasant, this ruling seems a bit questionable. For broadcast media, the EU suggests that jurisdiction lies in the country of origin.
Based on the precedent in this ruling, would the UK be OK with the idea that servers in the UK used by Chinese or Burmese dissidents should fall under the jurisdiction of the Chinese and Burmese governments?
Why not have some local base stations to provide coverage in the prison - and take the traffic through some filtering and maybe add some honeypots. That might yield some useful information and you could even use data from the base stations to pinpoint the location of attached mobiles. Maybe even get the network operators to charge access at a special higher rate to make their credit disappear faster. Staff and local residents mobiles could be excluded from special treatment on a case by case basis.
'C. Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?
Ahhhmmm: Yes ? Who would acknowledge this in a freaking form'
It is a legal issue. If the people concerned are honest (very unlikely), they will probably be denied entry to the USA. If the people concerned lie (as one would expect), they will have committed an offence when they submitted the form. This offence allows them to be deported with minimal proof of involvement, whereas proceedings for more specific crimes might be more complicated and the outcome is less clear because their level of involvement may be relevant.
"...you should try walking into the bank wearing a balaclava or niqab..."
I think some guys in Paris have done exactly that a couple of days ago. One of them produced a handgun and they escaped with 4500 Euros.
Then there was a robbery at a jewellers in the UK a while back, where a robber wore a burka.
Like others have said, battery bins have been available in Germany for years. More than that, it is illegal here in Germany to put batteries into normal waste bins.
Someone above mentioned about retailers being required to take back packaging - this too is law in Germany. I have seen some of the more eco-aware supermarket customers remove packing from various products at the checkout and hand it to the checkout operator.
Like many people, I think these back new airport scanners are an utter waste of money.
However, my bullshit scanner went off whilst reading about this. If what this chap said was true, his autographed images would be on the web for all to see - but they aren't, because it never happened.
Here in Germany (and several other European countries), TMC is broadcast along with regular FM radio stations. I am not aware of this feature being supported on any navigation systems using DAB. In the car, I listen to my own music rather than radio and I use Internet or satellite radio at home. On holiday, I sometimes listen to local radio stations on my MP3 player - using FM. I don't need or want DAB.
Whilst the couples action (or that of their lawyer) might have made things worse as far as their privacy goes, it doesn't detract from the fact that Google did invade their privacy. Given that the Google Streetview car apparently passed a "Private Road" sign on their way to the property in question, it is fair to assume that they should have know they were trespassing on someone else's private property.
I am damn certain that if I got into Eric Schmidt's back garden to take a few photos, with the intention of putting them online, I would be arrested and charged in short order. It is also reasonable to assume that I would be sued.
....worst fears have not been realised - YET.
It is not good to have vague laws on the books which the authorities can choose to use to "get" someone they do not like. We have too many laws for which the scope and definitions are unclear and open to interpretation. The ministers who have introduced such legislation have always claimed these laws have been introduced to address specific issues but then one wonders why the laws were not written with the original intent clearly specified.
I cannot find the link now but there was a case some years ago where a newsagent was raided by the police and charged under the Obscene Publications Act. The material in question turned out to be girlie mags that you could buy at any WHSmith. The reason for the raid turned out to be because the local council wanted the newsagent out of their building but he had a long lease.
I thought the American way as far as corporations was concerned was all about beating the competition into oblivion by any means that won't actually lead to jail time - i.e. the big guy wins (or at least, those with the best lawyers and friendly politicians). Surely it would be un-American to suggest that such behaviour is evil?
...like the units sold for several years by Sony, Samsung and others. The existing UMPCs run a full blown OS (Windows or Linux) and can run various applications of your choice. Apple's skill in persuading people that they have invented stuff that other manufacturers are already selling is their true genius.
The difficulty with this one is that UMPCs have largely been sidelined by netbooks, which typically do more for less money.
bit.ly offers a URL redirection service, allowing anyone to provide a short URL to any site. If someone decided to use bit.ly to redirect to a site containing malware, it is easy to see how both Kaspersky and F-secure might put bit.ly in their shit list for a while. Perhaps it would be better if advertisers used their own domains and not hide behind URL redirectors.
I had one of these alarms from Kaspersky yesterday - but only one. I guess the next update fixed the issue.
SourceForge are simply complying with the law of the land (in this case, that land is the USA). Judging from the the tone of the SourceForge announcement, it seems likely that someone (maybe from some branch of the US government) pointed out that they might be deemed to be assisting terrorists if they did not adjust their policies.
Perhaps some of those who responded so vociferously to SF's announcement may step in to offer a service to download and forward files to individuals on the various lists. Of course, they may want to consider the legality of such an offer and ramifications for their own freedom, career, etc. Given the state of US-UK extradition, I guess that would apply to UK residents as much as to those in the USA.
The link below shows what was discussed in ACTA negotiations in November 2009:
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2009/november/tradoc_145271.pdf
The introduction states that "The intended focus is on counterfeiting and piracy activities that significantly affect commercial interests, rather than on the activities of ordinary citizens".
However, this does not necessarily mean that the measures proposed or adopted will not be useful for enforcing copyright and "the activities of ordinary citizens". Indeed, Section 4 suggests that the measures being discussed will specifically address the online sharing of copyrighted material.
This would be much along the same lines as RIPA. If you remember ministers claims upon introduction of RIPA, it was to be all about terrorism and not at all about spying on normal citizens - in reality, we all now know the reverse to be true.
I can pay Vodafone to have a box that allows my mobile to use their network (for which I must pay Vodafone) and this box will use my broadband connection, for which I already pay someone else. People can then pay Vodafone to call me at mobile rates, I can pay Vodafone to call other people at mobile rates.
OR
I can just allow the mobile to connect to my WLAN and I don't have to pay Vodafone for the box or for using "their" Internet. People can then call me on my landline and I can call other people using my landline - all at less than Vodafone's mobile rates.
Maybe some people have mobiles with OS and applications that are crippled to require 3G connectivity rather than use WLAN: that's what happens when you get a "free" mobile. Just get a mobile without the SIM lock and crappy operator software - it's probably not much more than femtocell anyway.
The government should be addressing themselves to the economy, to help companies stay afloat and for everyone to keep their jobs.
I couldn't give a shit what any government thinks about my choice of browser, toothpaste, the colour of my underwear, etc. None of this is any of their business and is outside their areas of expertise (if they have any).
As for companies, the same applies. Companies employ people to decide on such issues - if they don't listen to the experts they employ, why would they be likely to listen to some government advice?
We keep getting told that there are insufficient resources for the surveillance of domestic terrorists and that this is why bombers remain undetected up to the time of their action. Despite this, a group responsible for tracking domestic extremism, apparently bored with their assigned role, now have sufficient resources to chase down a disgruntled non-terrorist who leaked a load of unclassified emails concerning public;y funded research.
Create a backdoor to your system, with access to all the networks and devices to which it is connected - then let some third party look after the doorkeys. All hidden from the corporate firewall in an outgoing encrypted tunnel.
Of course, this isn't unique to gotomypc - it applies to logmein and a bunch of similar offerings.
Neighbourhood beat manager = he has restricted his intake of jam and cream scones* to a level whereby he can still manage to walk around his neighbourhood beat.
* For our transatlantic cousins: scones with jam and cream are a local Devon delicacy and are nicer than doughnuts.
"The UK was a founder and major propoent of the ECHR when it was created, but "forgot" to ratify it into the UK domestic legal systems (until a few years ago)."
Maybe but Council of Europe members (the UK was a founding member) are bound by the European Convention on Human Rights and the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights are binding on member states. Whilst the court has no direct means to enforce judgements, they could expel member states who do not comply.
This may be irrelevant when the EU ratifies the European Convention on Human Rights, as it will then apply to all EU member states and be applicable in the European Court of Justice.
In the meantime, if you want the Human Rights Act to be repealed, you'll have to vote Conservative.
"I have a Honda civic diesel which is quoted around 56mpg and does 0-60 in 8.9s. Whats so good about these hybrid cars with rubbish performance and still only middling fuel consumption?"
Lower emissions.
"Where are all the fuel cell cars?"
It's a chicken and egg situation. The car manufacturers aren't going to make fuel cell cars until there is a network of stations to refuel them - and the energy companies are waiting for the cars to arrive first.
There is another problem though - hydrogen refuelling is a bit tricky.
As I am not a web browser, I don't really care what links Google ads have in the real world.
I don't see why a shopkeeper would put up an ad with a barcode link for Google or anyone else in their window (unless they get paid to do so). If they put up any ad of this type, it would more likely be a link directly to their own website or other contact details.
Depending on what figures you look at, Nokia has between 35% to over 50% of the worldwide mobile phone market. That share is more than twice the 16% share of the second place manufacturer, Samsung. Apple is long long way down that list. If Nokia is "going down", they have a long way to go before anyone else matches their market share.
My current phone is a Nokia and so were the previous two - I guess everyone has their own preference.
The pilots were not on trial for a criminal offence and could not be because they were dead. However, they were posthumously blamed for the crash. Had the pilots been alive, they would have had legal representation and the finding of gross negligence would have been unlikely in the absence of any proof. It might have been better for the MOD to have acknowledged that the cause remained unknown and left it at that - but they decided to blame the pilots anyway.
The "new" documents are new in that they were not available at the RAF board of inquiry, presumably because in one of them, the CO of the Rotary Wing Test Squadron wrote that the RAF should "cease Chinook HC2 operations" until issues with the digital flight systems were resolved. If the inquiry had been aware of these documents or of the MOD's legal action at that time of the inquiry against the suppliers of FADEC, perhaps they would have arrived at different conclusions. That such information was not available to the inquiry might lead many people to suspect that there was a cover up and possibly some corruption involved.