Posts by Dam

Competition \o/

While I don't contemplate the possibility of using Opera, Safari or God forbid, IE, one has to admit that Firefox rekindled the competition.

That's a good thing :)

Well tbh

Glad google lost the case, would have set a terrible precedent.

Liking their sense of humour though ;)

TITLE !!

"phails", not "fails" !

Fix it already ;)

Re: Fair use

First, UK law doesn't apply in France, thankfully.

Second, ripping an audio track from a movie I bought definitely qualifies for fair use.

alienware ? SCRAM

If it goes in an Alienware, the poor disk is being wasted.

Overheavy, overheating computers with PISS POOR customer care.

Wait, your computer overheated because we actually fsckd up at assembly time ?

Alright, we'll give you one extra month warranty and pray your pieces fail in 32 days.

Alienware eh ? NEVER AGAIN.

Availability ? wait for the diamond thingy

To be honest seeing these won't be in stock for a good time, you may as well wait for June and the new CPUs...

Illegal even with opt in

Even if it's opt-in it remains illegal.

A user can't give consent for *my* articles on a *private* section of *my* website to be intercepted.

My own consent is still required, the lawsuits WILL roll.

at BT's comment

Quote:

A BT representative meanwhile wrote in an email: "I don't see anything wrong with correcting Wikipedia articles about your own company or services."

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Yeah right, besides violating the site's policy they agree to abide by ?

I guess they saw nothing wrong either in conducting the stealth data pimping trials.

MONEY WILL FLOW

Regardless of legality in the UK under DPA and RIPA, it still isn't legal in France where my servers sit, and where my intellectual property is hosted.

Now I can't wait for the moment Phorm starts *intercepting* *my* intellectual property and make money out of it.

I'm so sueing and claiming damages.

Please not the legal crap again

"Written by civil servant Simon Watkin, it argues that the system will probably be legal if consent is obtained from users."

Oh will it ?

A client consents to his data being spyed upon.

Said client connects to *my* servers, logs in a *restricted* area and receives *my* data (say a tech article).

Phorm *intercepts* said data without *my* consent and falls foul of RIPA, despite having the end user's consent.

Despite of what BT and Phorm may think, a user can't give them consent to intercept intellectual that belongs to me.

Phorm can't be legal because it'd need consent from every site admin and publisher everywhere.

Re: NDAs

Instead of trying to be a smart ass, get this in your head:

People think -with reason- that NDAs apply because to bypass them a *warrant* is required.

See the big picture here ?

The asses at customs try to play cowboy and act bullies, and now they're pissed cause the courts told them off.

DROP THE DOT

As has been said in previous stories, STOP using the dot after "Ass." because it actually looks like you're trying to shorten "association", instead of referring to a body part.

Thank you.

Re various comments

Quote from reply: "Over a barrel"

"To which the ISPs simply respond, "OK we'll start charging our customers by the gigabyte and remove all caps on transfer limits." At which point, film and music piracy on the internet falls to a tiny fraction of its current level"

You mean, at which point every user switches to a 128kbs line which will be MORE THAN ENOUGH for email and browsing, for $5 a month ?

ISPs are going to make a fortune.

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Quote from reply: "Obliged to"

"What is it you think they are obliged to provide, they certainly aren't obliged to provide access to iPlayer if they don't want, they are perfectly free to throttle that traffic just as they do with p2p traffic. Hell, if they want they can block it entirely."

Can you spell breach of contract ?

They have a right to manage their network, however completely blocking a site or service for arbitrary reasons is a denial of the service they've contracted themselves to provide.

No service, no contract.

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Quote from "I don't want to complain"

"Is there not a market for an internet provider, that provides a fast, unmetered internet access, for a reasonable cost. No value adds, no support beyond "our network is cool, the problem's your end, JFGI", no "free web space", no "portal", just a cool, clear connection that works? Or is such a thing an impossibility?"

Free in France ?

Their customer support is piss poor but the network is awesome.

Unlimited offer for 24mbs tops, of course usually you're closer to 10-20 but that's still very good.

Did I mention I'm 900m away from the exchange and I'm grabbing from newsgroups at 2mbytes per sec, which is around 22mbits ?

Going for €29 per month, and they're deploying fiber as we speak.

Re: What a joke

I was thinkiing just that.

However please notice that he's not been convicted for *data theft* or unauthorized introduction into a computer system; but for ID theft.

The court didn't retain the introduction bit because there was no crime related to getting the files, as they were willingly offered.

Re: Gr8t!

You are now officially granted the right to get out of the office and enjoy your weekend.

@Chewy

"@Dam - well no the buyers don't make the rules that's the point. You can't go into Tesco and take anything you like for free. I couldn't expect to break into your house and take what I liked could I? You are within your rights as a consumer to avoid companies you don't wish to do business with, which includes members of the BPI/RIAA."

You miss my point.

My point is, they can make up as silly rules as they like.

In the end if customers don't like them and choose to take their business elsewhere, the labels end up selling nil.

Hence: the customers "make" the rules.

It has been literally years since I last bought music on CD (or at all, with the exception of this Ultramax-music.com album last year) and I hardly ever download any.

Actually thinking back on it I think the last CD I bought was Nyana from Tiësto say what, 4 or 5 years ago.

And it's got absolutely nothing to do with downloading, it's just that:

- I'm happy with the music collection I currently have

- I'm happy to put a comical movie in the drive, toggle media player classic's display to NULL, and listen to it in the background

- Web radios work as well as our old radios and don't imply buying anything

- One can actually record tracks from web radios in all legality, google for "streamripper".

Re: conflicted

You fail, to be honest.

"Yahoo Messenger is just better than other IM clients which don't support things like offline messaging."

Or is it ?

I mean... ICQ much ? Welcome to 8-9 years ago ? Offline message from day one ?

If you're going to make claims, get them right first please.

This is not mentionning the fact that (crappy, granted) Live Messenger does support offline messaging...

Time to subscribe that judge to a lot of promotional lists...

Or leave her email dangling around on sites where it can be mined by countless bots.

See how she'll like it.

Signal: Light years

You're all talking about us being already 50-100 light years in.

But errr...

Now, seriously, you're aware that *radio* signals *don't* travel at the speed of light ?

RADIO

SIGNALS

DONT

TRAVEL

AT

THE

SPEED

OF

LIGHT

Sigh...

HOWTO: lose a Comet ; procedures courtesy of HMRC

Need help losing something ?

Anything ?

Ask HMRC.

using as a modem not part of the data plan ?

quote:

"using the cellphone as a modem wasn't part of his data plan"

Errr, hold on there.

What's a modem supposed to do then, playback dumb tones ?

That's called dialing, after that it kinda transmits... you know... *data*

@Steve

Microsoft's Santa ?

He had too much of it for his own good, my, what with him offering oral...

@Edwin: you fail

WD have brought this upon themselves, not el reg.

They're the ones that push their box with false and deceptive advertising.

BOFH \o/

Seriously, BOFHesque :p