Posts by streaky

Re: More Crimes, Just what "we" need!

Stored forever - in the case new offences are created

I'd just like to draw your attention to this.

Re: turn it round ...

Nice angry rant.

Political/legal case for invading Iraq wasn't based solely on one specific document. Either way Kelly had already spilled his guts as you are perfectly aware.

Using a lot of "don't know what you're talking about" for somebody making claims on the legality of something which hasn't even been challenged anywhere. If the govt is going to bump people off for leaking things even of minor value Snowden, Greenwald, Assange and many other people (earlier example from before Kelly so we can't pretend it's stopped now: David Shayler) would be dead. These people are extremely easy to get at. The stuff Kelly talked about isn't worth killing him over, anybody arguing it is.. well, they're remarkably naive. It wasn't even the government's entire case for the invasion of Iraq, but on the offchance (again, hypothetically) it was, it doesn't mean it's some sort of threat to government, in fact it didn't even cause Tony Blair personal embarrassment - he won a third term 2 years later.

As for making a case against Russia, the case makes itself. They put people they don't like in jail, often they kill them, the end. Don't ask me ask Amnesty.

Because you're personally angry doesn't actually make anything you say objectively true. I'm quite aware of who David Kelly was - I'm pointing out that he wasn't nor could be any sort of legal or existential threat to the government of the time. Nothing about what he said or could have known at the time has been that because much more than what he knew then has come out. Or put another way; killing him would be a huge waste of time. Everything he knew was his opinion of a) Iraq and b) The Dossier - and any 3 year old could frame it that way. Shit - I just did.

Re: turn it round ...

The idea that Kelly was murdered is frankly pretty absurd. Here's a guy with very loose connections to the Iraq thing with no real voice (literally) - who didn't like being force-fed into the limelight. If the assumption is the government goes around arbitrarily killing people who simply criticise it and share not secrets about anything they have bigger fish to fry.

There's been an absurd waste of taxpayer funds over the whole affair; not for nothing but even on the chance it was true and not completely absurd - at least they're not using the assassination of one political adversary to frame more political adversaries and even if they were the questions are at least being asked - again, unlike in Russia.

Re: turn it round ...

Says the great expert on those two countries.

They can't even frame people for assassinating Putin's political adversaries right. You don't need to be an expert to see Russia's entire legal system is top-to-bottom batshit. A lot of western countries have problems, some of them fairly serious - but nothing on that scale.

Re: @x 7

Why are we pretending the Irish government would ever bill any US multinational either tax or fines - for the sake of those 500 people who work for them. Not that I'd ever suggest any of that was related to the reason the Irish economy collapsed. Noooo...

Re: What an insult

So you're saying they should just hand over the data?

Re: turn it round ...

You're not turning around properly. There's no rule of law in China or Russia, you have to suggest somewhere with a functioning legal system else it looks a bit batshit - Russian company would just hand over the data for fear of being Putin's next target, there'd be no discussion over it.

Has there actually been any "formal declaration of war" since 1939?

Probably not, lost art of calligraphy and whatnot. How does one even define a declaration of war? Missiles shot out of SSBNs is the standard clue these days - why would you give your enemy a chance to set up defences, move forces, shred documents, hide in a cave and whatnot?

There's at least 3 wars going on between major/superpowers right now today, just because they haven't been declared doesn't mean there isn't war.

Re: too much churn yet

I would hope quite a lot of security, auditing and alerting.

Not if the owner is allowing it based on a court order. Which is the point - that crypto is supposed to be there to stop you worrying about such things and tempt you to buy Azure CPU time, it's a chocolate teapot in reality.

However if they went to those sort of lengths then they might as well just hack your office PC as probably a much simpler way of getting at the data...

No because it's actually useful if you control the physical access to the system. You'd hardware crypt the HV and restrict access and it'd do things.. Though obviously if the thing itself is compromised remotely yes you're screwed, but it's not as easy. Physical access is king in tech security though.

Also it aint that difficult.

Re: too much churn yet

Just encrypt your data and keep your keys out of US reach

What exactly is there to stop the hypervisor injecting a process into the VM's memory to make the VM copy data decrypted off the disk. Hint: it rhymes with hero.

Speaking of rhymes.. Thales rhymes with..

Re: too much churn yet

8% is the final number of these and those - it's still a pretty significant figure. Doing it as a UK business isn't majorly useful though.

I imagine most people concerned by it realise that the spooks have their grubby mitts into everything so the question becomes "but where do you go?".

Re: Fast Integral Reactor.

Moon/Sun. Never sure if people are seriously when they suggest stuff like this but on the offchance I always like to point out what happens when rockets go bang in the atmosphere. Doubt many Floridians would like highly reactive waste raining doing on their houses and half the Atlantic coast.

Also deep borehole disposal is the only way forwards.

Re: Case..

I appreciate the need for semantic accuracy on this topic, but my use of "entire codebase" here was intended to mean "the entire codebase (of everything that is linked to the GPL code)"

Is that the sound of all GNU/Linux's corporate benefactors/sponsors/commiters running away screaming that I can hear? Yep, that's what that'll be.

You use some GPL code that *links* non-statically to some GPLv2 code thereby all that code must be also GPLv2, and not only that - you must share it. That one must have them rolling in the aisles at OSS-Lawyer Con.

Re: Case..

if you include GPL source code in your work then your entire codebase becomes subject to the GPL

No, it really doesn't.

Loving the downvotes, you're all confusing Stallman's "spirit" of the document with legal reality. If you want to donate feel free to go nuts, if they win it'll change the legal status quo. The entire GPLv3 exists is because v2 doesn't do what you think it does, and the entire reason not many projects (including the Linux kernel) don't use v3 is because nobody who is for all OSS, all the time, likes it - because it makes it extremely difficult for business to use OSS code and that doesn't help anybody.

Re: Case..

He's trolling. If he had something real to say, he would say it instead of just making vague,meaningless allusions

GPL is a source code license, VMWare (by the entire case's main objective) isn't redistributing source, they're distributing binaries - things like copyright come into play in those cases - not source code licenses. As somebody who regularly licenses stuff under BSD and GPLv2 from my perspective it's fairly nonsense. If VMWare can prove some sort of linkage to the original (kernel) source the entire case goes out the window - which is precisely why they're pan-handling rather than trying to get fast injunctive relief.

I said good luck the case doesn't pass the laugh test based both on reality and that I'm going to assume VMWare's lawyers are smarter than all of us.

It's been tested in court and proven valid in the past. Just ask Cisco.

In a US court - and they were sued over API copyright. The EU and the ECJ have been repeatedly clear that API copyrights block innovation and are not enforceable, even though it doesn't apply in this case.

Re: Bah ... philistines

Bodem (French press) is the only way to go

French press is dumb; ruins perfectly good coffee. You have two choices - some sort of modern espresso machine or the proper Italian stove-top deals.

Re: North East

In all fairness, if I didn't think I'd regret it later I'd probably suggest RAF Scampton as a decent candidate for all sorts of good reasons - including North and South of it could do with some jobs.

Re: Where to put it?

Guys we're talking about space planes so..