Posts by Christoph

"That has to be in the best interests of victims, prosecution and defence witnesses and all parties within the wider criminal justice system."

And how about the best interests of the accused? Do they still get time to find out what the prosecution case is, dig out the bits that the prosecution "forgot" to tell them about, and prepare the defence case?

Rejoining EPEAT

Does Rejoining EPEAT make it REPEAT?

only "Surface-like devices"

So nobody would ever need 3-D, eh?

Digital Archery

So they tried to rob from the rich, and ended up not so much Robin Hood, more Dennis Moore.

Excellent idea

Can we also have a public register of everyone who buys red-top newspapers with pictures of topless women? Obviously the government must act against the filthy pornographers who publish and sell those. Register every customer of every newsagent.

When is Murdoch going to start a campaign to have this done? Oh, wait ...

Be Afraid - and give us more powers

Yet another scare story, yet another request for increased powers and surveillance. And it's all the fault of those terrible foreigners who may be doing ... err ... exactly what we've been caught doing with Stuxnet and Flame.

Just how will this apply?

Will they confirm that the content is actually as claimed, or will they follow the current model of "It has the same title as our copyright work, therefore it is our copyright work".

Will they block major sites that use an individual's copyright photograph without asking?

No wonder they could afford it

Vodafone have plenty of money for the takeover. After all they don't need to bother with trivial details like paying tax.

ObQuote

Oh my God it's full of stars

Next-generation ciphers

All very well switching new stuff to next-generation ciphers, but there's a problem that essentially all existing encrypted data will be easily crackable with quantum computers.

That's not too bad if you can re-encrypt all your stored data and every single one of the backups, but if it's ever got out on the web you've had it.

You are guilty, please convict yourself

We've decided that you are guilty but we don't actually know what you've done that is wrong.

So we've decided to make you tell us what it is that you're doing wrong.

And if you refuse to tell us then that obviously proves that you are guilty

Wow, how generous

"The MPAA Members are sympathetic to legitimate users who may have relied on Megaupload to store their legitimately acquired or created data"

Gosh, that is *so* very generous of them. To actually consider graciously permitting innocent parties to access their own entirely legitimate data!

"If files are going to be handed back, then the MPAA needs to be sure that none of the material infringes copyright"

Why? It's their own data, it's none of the MPAA's business what it is. If they want to inspect it then they should show probable cause to a judge and get a warrant. And they can either get third parties to inspect it, or accept full liability if they are ever found to have later published something which might have been copied from that data. For instance suppose someone has a story idea in that data? If the MPAA seize and inspect that data then they had better never create anything based on that idea, whether or not they actually copied from it.

What about write access?

Being able to read the data is bad enough, but what if it's possible to gain write access?

Will it be possible to switch off someone's electricity supply from anywhere in the world? (And then watch the supplier's bureaucracy take months to switch it back on again).

Next Chinese hacker scare story, they are going to switch off most of the households and businesses in the USA! So of course we need lots of extra powers to combat this.

OK, so these are surplus unlaunched scopes?

How many of this model were launched and are currently in orbit?

And why are these two surplus?

Either they no longer, without shuttle, have the ability to launch them - which means they know NASA certainly can't and the whole thing is a publicity stunt.

Or they are surplus because the US military now have something much better.