Irrespective of whether or not The Pirate Bay was 'bad' or 'good', it's a sad day, sat here atop the slipperly slope of censorship.
Sure, sites have been taken down in the past, blacklists have been used to filter the illegal stuff out of our reach, but this is definitely another level.
My predictions for the years to come, if we don't manage to reverse this:
- 'Ordinary' people will become familiar with using proxies, TOR, VPN etc. as part of 'normal' internet usage to circumvent the ISP-level blocks. Kids will show their previously tech-unsavvy parents how to do so and once their use reaches a critical mass, the Govt., Judges and Lobbyists will take note.
- Rather than see the mass avoidance of censorship as a wake-up call that the whack-a-mole censorship can never work for long - if at all - they'll add the proxy servers, VPNs, TOR nodes to their hitlist because they're obviously a BAD THING that enables people to do BAD THINGS.
- ISPs and website owners will be ordered to maintain some sort of net ID scheme, whereby they must attribute every action on the internet to an individual, else they're liable for their customers' actions. They comply because they can't afford not to.
When will parents learn to take responsibilty for educating themselves and subsequently, their offspring?
This guy clearly had no interest in what his daughter was doing and no knowledge of whether she could make purchases on the device he let her use unsupervised.
I'm no Apple fan but I think letting him claim up to $5 million "damages" is unfair on Apple!
He's now had to pay the in-app "idiot tax" and got a bonus parenting wake-up call - call it quits.
Only a matter of time until a Fanboi comes along to tell us how crap Java is, this isn't Apple's fault, Macs are still 100% virus-free and did I mention how good Apple are?
"your current location as determined by your IP address"
So, not your location at all then? Yes, oppressive government, I know "IP address" sounds like "my address", but it's REALLY not the same thing. Trust me.
OK, so there's a strong correlation to location but do governments seriously think their net-savvy citizens haven't heard of proxies?!
Hell, most of them probably already run a TOR exit node from their bedroom!
Will someone please educate politicians as to how the internet works as clearly none of them use it.
Without constant supervision there is no way on earth you can prevent a specific individual from accessing the internet.
Fine, cut off service contracts held in their name or at their address, but then what?
Watch them to make sure they don't go to Starbucks?
Ban visiting mates who are known to have internet access?
Oh and why reward them by removing Facebook from their lives? They should be made to do EVERYTHING via Facebook until they're so sick of it, they voluntarily become Luddites.
And I'll bet he didn't have to pay any 'excess baggage' fee, even though he was smuggling the equivalent of two suitcases in that belly of his.
You know you're a little fat when you can't fit into a seat; should definitely have purchased two.
I think a new pricing model should be introduced:
Ticket cost = BC + (CW * S * PPK)
BC = £Basic charge (minimum cost)
CW = Combined weight of body, clothes and all luggage
S = Number of seats required to accommodate you without spillage
PPK = £ per kilogram
This way, fat people will either slim down to get better value, run out of money and starve or better still - stop taking up my personal space with their lardy overspills.
Google recently "adjusted" their Al Gore Rhythms to push content-scraping sites to the bottom, after the duplicate content had started ranking higher than the original source.
Black Hat SEO is full of posting dodgy links with your competitor's site referenced alongside to put them in a bad light.
It's times like this when having your documents saved "in the cloud" really pays - I mean, imagine if someone didn't use SkyDrive and only maintained local copies of their docs!
In other news, 98 people seriously need to find something significant to get upset about.
If your life is so easy that you have no problems to sort out besides complaining about a stylized cartoon of a famous dead guy - then I'm very jealous of you all.
If I'd spent my life uttering profundities and my image was still used 2000 years after my death, I'd be very chuffed indeed.
I expect Jesus feels the same and is now cursing those who got him removed from the Phones4U ad campaign.
I suspect you're a troll, but I'll say it anyway...
You might not be up to anything nefarious, but the same argument could be flip-reversed on the mobile operator: if THEY'RE really not going to do anything with my details, then why do THEY need them?
Whether or not you have "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is not the point. They're MY details, I'll keep them close to my chest, thanks.
By the way, I have an interest in the phone number of those commentards whose comments I reply to. I assume you'll have no qualms about handing them over - after all, I can't do anything bad with just your phone number, right? Right?
I think I may be waiting a long time to get number...
So, it measures consumption for the whole house and you can't break it down by applicance?
I just got myself a plug-in meter for £20 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plug-In-Power-and-Energy-Monitor/dp/B000Q7PJGW) and it does the job much more accurately and usefully. (Not on comission here, btw.)
Not only does it let you see how much individual applicances use, it also measures the power factor (PF), VA, watts etc. so you can see the difference between what you're being billed for and what is "useful" energy, real/reactive power and all that geeky goodness.
Fair enough, you can't access it through the web or save stas after you switch off, but for £20 I'm not complaining!
For the same reason we see how fast we can make cars go, or how stealthily we can make aircraft fly.
In other words, it's human nature - curiosity, innovation and just plain old finding things out.
If we stopped pushing the limits of what can be done for fear of the bad guys misusing our work, we'd probably be a whole lot less "civilised" than we are today.
I reckon he was sat on the roof, steering with a rope and using a broom to work the pedals which subsequently got stuck, leaving him to roll down a hill.
I noticed this today, as it was addressed to the name of someone I booked on behalf of once, using a me@googlemail.com address. So it's not just the email address, but also the account holder name they've pilfered.
I also have another account with them using me@gmail.com but no email has been sent there (so far).
Google identified it as spam, so unless they've not shown me the 2nd mail then it could be that it's an 'old' dataset that got taken?
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"real-time PAYE pilot trousers"
I got excited for a minute and nearly ordered a pair.
"12 million cyber security incidents"
That's bollocks.
A sad day
Irrespective of whether or not The Pirate Bay was 'bad' or 'good', it's a sad day, sat here atop the slipperly slope of censorship.
Sure, sites have been taken down in the past, blacklists have been used to filter the illegal stuff out of our reach, but this is definitely another level.
My predictions for the years to come, if we don't manage to reverse this:
- 'Ordinary' people will become familiar with using proxies, TOR, VPN etc. as part of 'normal' internet usage to circumvent the ISP-level blocks. Kids will show their previously tech-unsavvy parents how to do so and once their use reaches a critical mass, the Govt., Judges and Lobbyists will take note.
- Rather than see the mass avoidance of censorship as a wake-up call that the whack-a-mole censorship can never work for long - if at all - they'll add the proxy servers, VPNs, TOR nodes to their hitlist because they're obviously a BAD THING that enables people to do BAD THINGS.
- ISPs and website owners will be ordered to maintain some sort of net ID scheme, whereby they must attribute every action on the internet to an individual, else they're liable for their customers' actions. They comply because they can't afford not to.
When will parents learn
When will parents learn to take responsibilty for educating themselves and subsequently, their offspring?
This guy clearly had no interest in what his daughter was doing and no knowledge of whether she could make purchases on the device he let her use unsupervised.
I'm no Apple fan but I think letting him claim up to $5 million "damages" is unfair on Apple!
He's now had to pay the in-app "idiot tax" and got a bonus parenting wake-up call - call it quits.
...and my planned site
www.TheEarlofWes.sex
will now have to take on a whole new feel.
Fanboi slates Java, misses point in 3, 2, 1...
Only a matter of time until a Fanboi comes along to tell us how crap Java is, this isn't Apple's fault, Macs are still 100% virus-free and did I mention how good Apple are?
Why do you have a space before and after your full stops? ('Periods' for you crazy Merkins) .
Idiot tax
Should have stuck to "no refunds" - just write it off as per title.
Mandatory XKCD: Password Strength
http://xkcd.com/936/
I'm sighing, by proxy.
"your current location as determined by your IP address"
So, not your location at all then? Yes, oppressive government, I know "IP address" sounds like "my address", but it's REALLY not the same thing. Trust me.
OK, so there's a strong correlation to location but do governments seriously think their net-savvy citizens haven't heard of proxies?!
Hell, most of them probably already run a TOR exit node from their bedroom!
Why the caps?
Why capitalize it as fBoriGin?
Surely it's FbOrigin or FBorigin?
Or have I missed something subtle?!
Clbuttic censorship error
The breastle says it all.
And you'll enforce this how, exactly?
Will someone please educate politicians as to how the internet works as clearly none of them use it.
Without constant supervision there is no way on earth you can prevent a specific individual from accessing the internet.
Fine, cut off service contracts held in their name or at their address, but then what?
Watch them to make sure they don't go to Starbucks?
Ban visiting mates who are known to have internet access?
Oh and why reward them by removing Facebook from their lives? They should be made to do EVERYTHING via Facebook until they're so sick of it, they voluntarily become Luddites.
Excess baggage
And I'll bet he didn't have to pay any 'excess baggage' fee, even though he was smuggling the equivalent of two suitcases in that belly of his.
You know you're a little fat when you can't fit into a seat; should definitely have purchased two.
I think a new pricing model should be introduced:
Ticket cost = BC + (CW * S * PPK)
BC = £Basic charge (minimum cost)
CW = Combined weight of body, clothes and all luggage
S = Number of seats required to accommodate you without spillage
PPK = £ per kilogram
This way, fat people will either slim down to get better value, run out of money and starve or better still - stop taking up my personal space with their lardy overspills.
"slightly more than an English pint a day"
Not that Scottish 'pints' are NOT a suitable measure of alcohol.
Re: Pizza, Right?
<Gareth Keenan>
He means his knob.
</Gareth Keenan>
Surely Ooh-Arr
Arr, where that degree to?
Bit harsh
Initially I thought these punishments were a bit harsh.
Then I re-read the headline and realised they were only "rapped" and no sexual violence had actually taken place.
Internet Banking works for me
I can log on to check my balance and it accurately confirms that I still have no money. Oh well.
Oh well
Looks like it's time to start carrying nothing but cash in my tinfoil RFID-shielded wallet now then!
New Security Roles...
...are notable by their absence.
That's normal
"Only turning off the engine will cancel the mode in these circumstances"
In other words, 'turning it off and on again', which is a fairly normal thing to do when a computer misbehaves!
Can't imagine why they feel the need to recall them!
Why so long?
"The council said it will address any weaknesses uncovered during the audit by January 2012"
Why does it always take so long, and why are timescales of that magnitude tolerated?
How about you stop sending out confidential spreadsheets next flippin' week, you lazy fools.
Basically, they got caught messing up and their response was "yeah, we'll sort it next year" - and that's acceptable?
"Wales says no to outing Wikipedia users on Facebook"
What, the whole country?
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I propose a new game - "hunt the Higgs"
Bit like a multiplayer version of Where's Wally (that's "Waldo" for our American chums).
Also, Paris because she's a PROtease, geddit?! Not sure if she's retroviral, however...
Am I the only one...
...who read "LOHAN vacuum beast" as "LOHAN vacuum breast"?
Not far off
Already happening as far as I can tell.
Google recently "adjusted" their Al Gore Rhythms to push content-scraping sites to the bottom, after the duplicate content had started ranking higher than the original source.
Black Hat SEO is full of posting dodgy links with your competitor's site referenced alongside to put them in a bad light.
Opt out?
Yet to see any of these sinister data-harvesting schemes have the decency to operate on an opt-IN basis.
And yes, I know it's because there would only be a handful of people enrolled, but still...
As for a UniqueId providing anonymity - erm hello, it's *unique* and tied to the movements of an *individual*.
For details of how that strips away any anonymity when coupled with other seemingly harmless data, ask the chaps who released the AOL search logs.
The Cloud
It's times like this when having your documents saved "in the cloud" really pays - I mean, imagine if someone didn't use SkyDrive and only maintained local copies of their docs!
Oh, wait...
98 people...
In other news, 98 people seriously need to find something significant to get upset about.
If your life is so easy that you have no problems to sort out besides complaining about a stylized cartoon of a famous dead guy - then I'm very jealous of you all.
If I'd spent my life uttering profundities and my image was still used 2000 years after my death, I'd be very chuffed indeed.
I expect Jesus feels the same and is now cursing those who got him removed from the Phones4U ad campaign.
Not rich, powerful or famous
So, can we assume that whoever the latest suspect is, they're not rich, powerful or famous?
Because if they were, they'd have been arrested "by appointment at a local police station" like the rest.
Repeal date?
Wiki says 1973; you say 1967 - which is it?!
Title+
In the same way that we got a flood of iEverything from Apple wannabes, has Google+ started the trend of 'Everything'+, I wonder?
Troll-dar activated
I suspect you're a troll, but I'll say it anyway...
You might not be up to anything nefarious, but the same argument could be flip-reversed on the mobile operator: if THEY'RE really not going to do anything with my details, then why do THEY need them?
Whether or not you have "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is not the point. They're MY details, I'll keep them close to my chest, thanks.
By the way, I have an interest in the phone number of those commentards whose comments I reply to. I assume you'll have no qualms about handing them over - after all, I can't do anything bad with just your phone number, right? Right?
I think I may be waiting a long time to get number...
Not once, but twice!
"PayPal, Amazon, Mastercard, Bank of America, PayPal and Visa"
Well, if he's going to attack PayPal twice he dserves all he gets!
http://whois.domaintools.com/jacquismith.xxx
So Jacqui Smith of porno-documentary fame is still good to set up her own site, seeing as she loves it so.
*shudders*
Not this one...
I'm sure some are widly inaccurate but this one's good to within 0.5%:
http://www.prodigit.com/pdf/2000mu.pdf
Don't bother
So, it measures consumption for the whole house and you can't break it down by applicance?
I just got myself a plug-in meter for £20 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plug-In-Power-and-Energy-Monitor/dp/B000Q7PJGW) and it does the job much more accurately and usefully. (Not on comission here, btw.)
Not only does it let you see how much individual applicances use, it also measures the power factor (PF), VA, watts etc. so you can see the difference between what you're being billed for and what is "useful" energy, real/reactive power and all that geeky goodness.
Fair enough, you can't access it through the web or save stas after you switch off, but for £20 I'm not complaining!
Re: Why?
For the same reason we see how fast we can make cars go, or how stealthily we can make aircraft fly.
In other words, it's human nature - curiosity, innovation and just plain old finding things out.
If we stopped pushing the limits of what can be done for fear of the bad guys misusing our work, we'd probably be a whole lot less "civilised" than we are today.
The Real Hustle
I'm sure they didn't invent it, but The Real Hustle (BBC3...) did the same thing on a safe a year or two back.
They posed as shopping mall security guards and got the shopkeeper to open their safe to "check" it hadn't been emptied.
Then as soon as he'd entered the PIN, called him away on some "urgent" matter.
The other chap then took an IR image of the keypad, before entering the glowing digits into the safe, brightest last.
Today I learned...
...that Super Glue is, in fact, a registered trademark and not a generic type of glue.
I already knew about Sellotape, so I am disappointed in myself for not realising.
I like to think he was sat on the roof
I reckon he was sat on the roof, steering with a rope and using a broom to work the pedals which subsequently got stuck, leaving him to roll down a hill.
Yes, Love really does Change Everything...
See also:
- Jesus Christ Pornstar
- Starfish Express
- Pussies
- The Pound of Music
Baptists?
"Dinham has already paid back £150,000 and is involved with the Baptist Church"
Fair enough, that is quite a harsh sentence. I'm sure he'll learn his lesson once the Baptists sort him out.
640k
"there will NEVER be a time when an online service can offer to stream every film ever made"
Really? And 640k ought to be enough RAM for anybody, right?
FAO Paris
Paris, if you're reading this, do you fancy going to the pub sometime?
I have a VERY exciting new film project I think you'd be just right for.
BT
Clearly you've never done business with BT...
Keep Britain Tidy
Isn't that just a logo featuring a stick figure using a dustbin?
If scrapping that saves money, what on earth was it being spent on?!
Only one email address leaked
I noticed this today, as it was addressed to the name of someone I booked on behalf of once, using a me@googlemail.com address. So it's not just the email address, but also the account holder name they've pilfered.
I also have another account with them using me@gmail.com but no email has been sent there (so far).
Google identified it as spam, so unless they've not shown me the 2nd mail then it could be that it's an 'old' dataset that got taken?
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