I wonder...
... how long it will take for that "unlimited" to be redefined as "unlimited until you actually try to start downloading stuff..."?
Posts by Graham Marsden
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Universal Music mulls 'all you can eat' buffet of song downloads
Twittapocalypse! Twitter implodes, locked out tweeps around the world
Communist party boss blames Kunming knife attack on VPNs
Dammit internet... you promised naked videos of my Facebook friends
X marks the... They SAID there was a mystery planet there – NASA
Space-junk RAYGUN wins Australian government funding
Hubble 'scope snaps 200,000-ton chunky crumble conundrum
Delhi police forget passwords to corruption portal, ignore 600 crimes
X-rated Android antics: Motorola's Moto X puts boot in chunky brother
Triple-headed NHS privacy scare after hospital data reach marketers, Google
Labour calls for BIG OVERHAUL of UK super-snoop powers in 'new digital world'
Monday 3rd March 2014 23:47 GMT 
"paedophiles, extremists and terrorists... oh my!"
These are the people who gave us the Dangerous Pictures Act. Who wanted the National DNA Database. Who wanted us all to have ID cards. Who introduced the RIP Act which was supposed to protect us against terrorists, not to spy on people who might be sending their kids to the wrong school, etc etc etc.
And NOW they expect us to TRUST THEM?
Child sex abuse image peddlers dodge UK smut filters and demand Bitcoin payments
Monday 3rd March 2014 12:30 GMT
@Grease Monkey - Re: Innocent?
I think it is you who does not understand:
> If you did not put the images on your server and were not aware that they were there could the prosecution prove that you "possessed" the images?
Quoting from the Criminal Justice Act 1988:
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160 Possession of indecent photograph of child
(1) Subject to section 160A it is an offence for a person to have any indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child in his possession.
(2) Where a person is charged with an offence under subsection (1) above, it shall be a defence for him to prove—
(a)that he had a legitimate reason for having the photograph or pseudo-photograph in his possession; or
(b) that he had not himself seen the photograph or pseudo-photograph and did not know, nor had any cause to suspect, it to be indecent
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/33/part/XI/crossheading/possession-of-indecent-photograph-of-child
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Note where it says "It is a defence for him to prove" ie a person is *assumed* to be guilty *unless* they can prove that they didn't know the images were there and they hadn't seen them!
UK.gov back-office battle may see British Justice offshored
UK spies on MILLIONS of Yahoo! webcams, ogles sex vids - report
Thursday 27th February 2014 22:58 GMT
@Oninoshiko Re: Translation:
> thought child pornography was always a crime to posses, no matter how you received it
Sexual Offences Act 2003:
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46 Criminal proceedings, investigations etc.
(1)After section 1A of the Protection of Children Act 1978 (c. 37) insert—
“1BException for criminal proceedings, investigations etc.
(1)In proceedings for an offence under section 1(1)(a) of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child, the defendant is not guilty of the offence if he proves that—
(a)it was necessary for him to make the photograph or pseudo-photograph for the purposes of the prevention, detection or investigation of crime, or for the purposes of criminal proceedings, in any part of the world,
(b)at the time of the offence charged he was a member of the Security Service, and it was necessary for him to make the photograph or pseudo-photograph for the exercise of any of the functions of the Service, or
(c)at the time of the offence charged he was a member of GCHQ, and it was necessary for him to make the photograph or pseudo-photograph for the exercise of any of the functions of GCHQ.
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Of course the "necessity" here is the prevention of terrerism...
New FBI boss says cyber crime, not terrorism, is top of Feds' todo list
Hungarian eggheads unleash not-at-all-scary DRONE SWARM
NHS England tells MPs: 'The state isn't doing dastardly things with GP medical records'
Wot a COCKUP: Poorly NHS websites spawn SPAMMY VIAGRA ads
Google kills copycat TfL congestion charge payment ads
Tuesday 25th February 2014 18:24 GMT
I agree, but be careful...
... Yes, there are scam sites out there who will try to rip people off by charging a fee for simply forwarding on data, but the flip side is, for instance, the business that a friend of mine runs.
She sorts out US Visa applications which is something you can do yourself, but she does it for well known celebrities, pop bands and so on and it's quicker and simpler for them to pay her to do the work rather than spend time trying to sort out a dozen or twenty Visas by themselves. This also means that, sometimes, she has to travel to London to get to the US Embassy when it opens in the morning to sort out a problem for someone whose plane is leaving later that day.
So, yes, we need to do something about the scammers, but not at the cost of catching legitimate businesses in an overly big net.
Moon flashes Earth after getting pounding from MASSIVE meteorite
NHS England DIDN'T tell households about GP medical data grab plan
Climate change will 'cause huge increase in murder, robbery and rape'
Just like Elvis, dead Steve Jobs to appear all over America in 2015
French youth faces court for illegal drone flight
Robot army to police football World Cup
How many mobile apps collect data on users? Oh ... nearly all of them
SkyDrive is dead! All hail Microsoft OneDrive! Happy now, Uncle Rupe?
Thursday 20th February 2014 12:18 GMT 
"100GB of free storage...
"...although the extra gigabytes are only good for twelve months, after which customers must either start paying for them or lose them."
Well isn't *that* generous of them! Start to use those "free" 100GB and then you have to decide whether to fork out money or lose/ delete whatever you were storing in them.
And the pushers always offer a "free" sample too...
Big Beardie's watching: Gaze into the screen... it shall gaze also into you
Korean credit card companies hit with 90-day, $100m sales ban
Ill communication delays NHS England's GP data grab for six months
Birds Eye releases 'mashtags' social spud snacks
Top Brit docs wade into GP data grab row, demand 'urgent' NHS England talks
SPACE VID: Watch JUMBO ASTEROID 2000 EM26 buzzing Earth
Brit boffins brew up blight-resistant FRANKENSPUD
Vertical take-off and laughing: Space Harrier
Tuesday 18th February 2014 10:43 GMT
Re: Southsea Arcade
Damn, you and I must have been wasting (erm, spending) money on the game around the same time because I was one of those people standing around in Clarence Pier waiting for my turn!
I was never as good, though, as my friend Raf (tall, dark curly hair) who would casually sit there, can of Quattro in one hand, joystick in the other, blasting his way through the entire game :-/
Tuesday 18th February 2014 10:38 GMT 
"It’s hard to comprehend...
"...why so much love is still felt for this half-baked (by today’s standards) shooter."
Because it was *FUN*!!!
A game that ran at an almost insane speed, which required lots of concentration, a chair you sat in that *moved*, great (for their time) graphics, what is there not to love?!
“Welcome to the Fantasy Zone, get ready!”
New password system lets planet Earth do the hard work
Who OWNS data generated by 'connected cars' sensor slurpers?
Monday 17th February 2014 10:18 GMT
My car...
... my data!
All that is needed is for it to be able to say "here I am" to any other such equipped cars in the vicitinity. Anything else is going beyond its remit into the realms of monitoring and spying on me and where I go, just as the last Labour government wanted to put ANPR cameras at every major junction.
It doesn't matter whether you're the government or the motor manufacturer, you do *NOT* have the right to demand that information from me.
SCRAP the TELLY TAX? Ancient BBC Time Lords mull Beeb's future
Saturday 15th February 2014 13:23 GMT
Re: @M Gale - Unfair Tax?
M Gale - *NOBODY* pays "Road Tax" and haven't done since just after WWII, you are taxed on your ownership of a motor vehicle but you don't get a discount because "I don't use that sort of road, therefore I won't pay for it."
I'll spell out what this has to with the Goggle box: It's just like someone saying "I don't watch the BBC therefore I shouldn't have to pay for it." Is that clear now?
(Oh and BTW, if you ride a motorbike, which does not contribute to congestion and causes less damage to a road than a small car, you *still* have to pay VED, even though its capacity is less than those cars which are exempted from VED.)
Friday 14th February 2014 01:55 GMT
And who would produce...
... documentaries like Michael Moseley comes up with? Pain, Pus and Poison? Eww! Nobody wants to watch that!
Or what about Danny Baker's Rockin' Decades? A bunch of people sat around a table nattering about music? Too boring (the fact that the guy has forgotten more about music than most people know seems to be irrelevant).
And The Sky at Night would get the axe because it has no mass-market appeal.
I'll leave the last word(s) to Mitch Benn... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3q2iZuU5WM
'The Mystery of the Martian Doughnut' solved by NASA sleuths
US Senate bill would mandate 'kill switch' on all smartphones
'Please don't make me spend more time with my family...'
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