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We're doomed

Just goes to show. We are all doomed if the government still doesn't understand that patents destroy innovation.

It's the politicians fault

For giving them the laws to do this. If they really want to help the economy you drop the entire patent thing on the ground for anything that involves a cpu be that software or hardware. On the balance of things any possible value from patents is outweighed a million-fold in today's age by the disadvantages.

Cool

But can they make a statement guaranteeing no packet shaping or filtering ?

Anonymous?

Via facebook? Yeah right!

An excuse

Sounds like they just want an excuse to keep their massive military budgets in the age of having to deal with massive US debt.

Bizzare

It's bizzare the the first one was allowed on sky. I wouldn't want to watch it either, but with the new suites there does seem to be a huge double standard with respect to what hollywood is allowed to show on tv and what you are allowed in your own private collection, which would inevitably result in the jackboots kicking down your doors. Same applies to the "Last house on the right" which contained a rape scene that I swear would put you in jail if it were on your private dvd collection but cause hollywood put it out it was fine to show on tv.

Personally, I think it would be funny to apply the same vigor to tv as is implyed by the new draconian laws and watch hollywood shriek as they loose money and watch the politicians loose out on their favourite violence movies.

Next

they will find some Swedish girl that claims he raped her.

Bill Gates

I've always thought that Gates stunted software development by many years through some of the choices he made with his monopoly position. Linus should have received it over preference to Gates.

Re: Bloody hippies

Actually, this is funny. I remember actually buying my first copy of netscape. Then the non-hippy, i.e. microsoft, installed explorer for free. And that was the end of that.

It's a good thing

The only people that have a problem with it are the people who could never envisionage themselves in a position to wish to provide video content on a website and hence the costs are of little concern to them. Small entrepeneurs would tend to welcome it.

What's it called

So it's a sort of reverse dutch steamboat for taxes ?

Antennae gate

Forget about the antennae, the iphone has bigger problems. Gazillion call drops go away when you switch off the 3G, after which the iPhone seems to perform quite ok as a phone, implying that there is a very bad software fault that occurs when 3G is enabled.

Precogs

You mean because of the "recorded future" company ?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-jacobson/google-and-cia-invest-in_b_664525.html

Over my head

I would never have got the innuendo. I guess the moral complainers had a more racey upbringing than I did. Which would have surprised me.

Hammers

There's a guy with a hammer looking for nails.

President of the ACPO

I watched the Andrew Maar show in the weekend and they had the president of the ACPO on there. And the main points he wanted to make amounted to "Think of the childre, CHEOP is great" and he wanted the police on the street to be about to make up their own minds even more and rest assured that they would back him if he happened to make a mistake. I couldn't beleive my ears, he's not learnt a thing about the change on Government.

Lies man

See the section on the home office website entitled

"More tools for police and security services"

And they state that many people wanted the police to have more powers and tools and that they agree.

From what I saw of the suggestions, they were overwhelmingly the opposite of this view!!

Flip side

I'd like to see the US estimate the cost of securing their systems had Mckinnon not been involved at all. In addition, I'd like to see the cost that would have been estimated if they had simply left their systems the way they were and North Korea or Iran hacked into their systems.

These were the early days of hacking, there's was not the criminal intent that hacking these days tends to have and what he did then can best be looked as doing them a favour. He he hadn't done that back then, then the risk to their systems would have greatly increased with all passing time.

Money

I thought you could sell these rocks or a lot of money. The guy's sitting on a goldmine.

5MB is not big

I'd be surprised at any session worth being a session using less than 5MB data. My spam is frequently about 50MB/day. Personally I think that is a bullshit statistic that would bear no relevance to the truth.

Kim

Do we want more police?

Last time there was a topic like this, I asked if we really wanted more police like the politicians were saying as they go about ring fencing police budgets. Many of the people on this list replied, "yes' we do want more police.

Sigh... If we go about protecting their budgets and stating in public that we want more police, obviously the message they take from this is that we are happy with them and want more of it...

Bluray

Although I will still buy cd's occasionally, after recently having purchased a bluray player, and in spite of loathing drm, I was recently looking forward to buying some bluray movies, only to get a real bitter taste in my mouth when I find that I am forced to watch several movie trailers each time I power up the disk and lost the ability to play from where I left off. This experience makes me feel quite shafted and whereas I may have become a born again media purchaser I now doubt very much if I will be buying very much, it's just too painful.