Posts by Mark 85

Re: Lowest Denominator, not even "common"

If so it could make privacy protections in the EU a race to the bottom.

Indeed it already is. What I see is "legalizing" what's already being done. The cases making the media were/are, at least from the media reports, variations of old-fashioned police work. They get a tip (usually an FB post) on someone and then investigate.

I would think that if they want these invasive acts to be approved by the general public, a bit of PR would be involved. Such as, we found via the data collection..... But they don't.

Re: So he's white right?

Nah.... wouldn't happen. Cops don't carry .38's. They use 9mm's.

Re: How Green is my Apple @dorsetknob

Go do a little research first before shooting yourself in the foot. Paper products come from trees raised for that purpose and are replanted. Then go research recycling and see what's generated by the process because to recycle, the paper has to be bleached and re-processed. Once done, get back to us. Recycling really isn't "green" no matter what you learned from Sesame Street. The enegy input and the waste products are worse cutting and turning fresh trees into paper.

Re: Loophole

The crims don't have to pay attention. Their attorneys do and you can bet your bippy they are paying attention. I don't think this is first case dropped and it won't be the last. I wonder like others, where will the line be drawn? A single murderer? Serial killer? Massive terrorist attack?

The problem is, this will soon be common knowledge, if it's not already. So how long will the FBI, etc. play this game? Or will just pull the equipment back and tell the local police to go screw themselves?

Ah questions and more questions with every new reveal....

Re: Sometimes we criticize El Reg

Nor could Buzzwhatever handle Apple. <tosses potshot><ducks>

You left out the Norks... oh... nevermind, that's the FBI's scapegoat this year.

Re: Hey Elon

I would agree but go look at previous posts... not many and all downvoted..... he's a troll.

Re: @Mark 85

Very true. But it will make the "customer" feel better....

Re: Reading this has chilled me to the core…

Now that you've bashed the hell out of the US, how about doing the same for others? Such as the Deash? Taliban? Guerrilla warfare has changed the way wars are fought. Go back to WWII (actually go back as far as you'd like) and look at the way it was fought by both sides. Not just the military against military but the guerillas vs. military. The sad part is it's not just one country at fault here, it's all of them. It's the natural progression of warfare and those would do evil.

The by product of this is civilian casualties. Lots of them since WWII on both sides of the battle line. How does one prevent civilian casualties? Allow the enemy to move in amongst them and use civilians as sort of armor? I'm sure the civilians like that idea. NOT. Non-combatants have suffered since the first war way back in time. It was customary for the victor to slay all civilians when a town was taken.

I'm not condoning. Just explaining that this is nothing new in warfare. Warfare is brutal and many times the victors suffer just as much as the losers. The face of warfare is changing and will continue to change.

Learn from history instead of repeating it.

Depends... there's ten lights and ten doorways. Choose wisely.

Re: Business as usual then...

Just never ceases to amaze me that these cable companies believe their own tripe.

I'm of the opinion that they don't believe their own tripe. But the Marketing Department thinks that the customers believe it. After all, isn't this what PR and Ad companies do: Shovel the BS long enough and pile it high enough and a major proportion of the population will believe it as a fact and a great deal. Sort of like political parties.... err.. no.. exactly like political parties.

@Why is it 'hard to sympathise with Assange'?

You really have to ask this? How about it's because he has the same self-serviing personality (asshat) that brings out the hate of Jobs, Gates, Ballmer, etc. here in the comments. Any story about Wikileaks releases also has comments from the asshat about how great he is and what he's doing for the for the world.. Which may be why sites like cryptome tend to get overlooked.

It's not just the Internet that attracts these types, look at non-tech business and you'll often find that the CEO or owner of said business takes a bigger role in a given article than the business and what happened in the business. Megalomaniacs are everywhere and usually equally hated.

Re: Surprising

On the other hand, in spite of what some think and spout on other threads around here, IT bods are terrible at law.

Re: Bah!

There's different aspects to war. However to take and hold territory, means troops go in harm's way. No drone will ever be able to do that job as it's so multi-faceted. There's more to war then killing and the guys on the ground know this and practice it.

Re: Moving "Up"

I believe you are spot on. But the logic behind this isn't logical. In the academic world you move by getting advanced degrees and each move is more specialized. Sadly, a generalist who has a world view of things and knows that if Team "A" do "X", then something will crash for Team "B" is out of favor because they can point the finger, affix the blame, and solve the problem. The specialist lose out on that glory. It's business politics at it's best (or worst) and comes from the worlds of academia and government. I'm usually surprised that business work at all sometimes.

I'll go one further... I doubt that there's many of us in IT that would understand it. Maybe they ought to publish it with a small error or two just to throw off those who might understand it.