Posts by xpusostomos

ACCC spikes gadget price-fix

Love the ACCC

Love the ACCC. It's the only arm of government that whenever I read about them I think, hey they're actually doing something, and they're doing something good.

Kim Dotcom's locker may be full, but the cupboard is bare

Re: It don't work that way...

You're right, but only because the government said so. Oil companies get their oil from public land, and copyright holders charge for an artificially created government monopoly. Both exist at the sufference of the community.

Utopia

I think the writer of this article is promoting a utopia, a reality that is in defiance of reality. Copying of information is free by natural law. It is utopians who hope to defy natural law by putting a price on something which by nature is free.

Would our world come crashing down in this scenario? Well despite the internet and rampant copying, the world seems to be continuing just fine. Even the commodity which was copied most rampantly: music, seems to be continuing to be made. I didn't hear any news that the music died. And despite there being more free, out of copyright and brilliant books, not to mentioned pirated ones, I don't see anyone lamenting not enough new books being written. You can argue some masterpiece would have been writtten, but I doubt it. Creativity exists even without incentive. Even the Soviet union, lacking any meaningful incentive for anything, didn't do too badly in the area of artistic endeavor.

‘Anonymous’ hacks Oz Uni’s email to protest bulk iPad buy

Re: They're not free

I don't know the justification for the purchase, but it may well be as simple as costing paper printed textbooks versus costing ipad, and ipad wins. Just because some crap Android tablet might be cheaper, and may have other features, doesn't mean its actually a viable solution. This hacker is just a fanboi who doesn't understand, probably.

Security audit finds dev outsourced his job to China to goof off at work

What's the problem?

He got the job done, and he took the pay on offer to get it done. Who cares how he got it done?

Nokia decrypts browser traffic, assures public not to worry

Not reall

I'm guessing the traffic is still encrypted, just with Nokia's key instead. Not good enough I know, but probably still unbreakable in the middle. Breakable if the authorities get a warrant for Nokia's servers though.

Apple's iOS 6 maps STILL muddle Mildura

Nope, not close

A GPS that relies on 3G coverage like Apple maps should not be relied on in the outback!! At least have a GPS with built-in maps.

Kim Dotcom shows off new mega service

Re: @Invidious Aardvark

It doesn't have to be plainsailing for everyone, only for mega that counts.

While nobody can know what the law ends up saying, your argument is just as strong against something like Google, who must be aware that a lot of the stuff they link to or even host must be copyright. Sure they take the stuff down when they find out about it, but so will mega.

You can still do that, you just post the key on the end of the URL, probably. mega.com/foobar?mykey=baz

The point is, mega now have plausible deniability. They don't know the URL that can access the data, only you do and whoever you give the URL to. If you post it publicly, sure the feds can chase it, but they can't blame mega, because they never knew anything.