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• On the post: Guardian Tech Reporter: Apple Should Help FBI Break Into iPhone Because I Don't Consider Privacy All That Important

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2016 @ 11:06pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Somehow I think even she has limits.....

  What you're suggesting is, by it's very definition, self censorship.
  
  And... are disco's still a thing? LOL

• On the post: Techdirt Crowdsourcing: How Will The TSA Idiotically Respond To The Laptop Terror Bomb?

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2016 @ 09:38am

  External storage

  Laptops will be wrapped in several layers of bubble-wrap, and for the duration of the flight will be stored outside the aircraft, at the end of a 500m tether.
  
  Though speaking for myself, I have no inclination to visit the USA anytime soon.

• On the post: Bandai-Namco Blows Money On DRM Rather Than Fixing Its Terrible PC Port Of Tales Of Symphonia

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2016 @ 12:59am

  Re: Re:

  The smartest (and most successful) company I ever worked for took the view that fixing defects at design was cheaper than fixing them at code, fixing them at code was cheaper than fixing them at test, and fixing them at test was far, far cheaper than fixing them via customer support.
  
  They also took the view that happy customers were more likely to be loyal customers, and hence repeat business.

• On the post: 20 Years Ago Today: The Most Important Law On The Internet Was Signed, Almost By Accident

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2016 @ 11:55pm

  Re:

  You cannot underestimate how important politicians like Ron Wyden are. I go with smart and fair minded. Pro-people. I think such people are rare, especially so in politics, but I'm glad they're there, and that they have our backs.

• On the post: Verizon Gives Net Neutrality A Giant Middle Finger, Exempts Own Video Service From Wireless Usage Caps

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2016 @ 11:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Wash, rinse, repeat

  "The real problem is not zero rating it's data caps"
  
  My take is that both of these are problems. You can have no caps whatsoever, but if you're trying to stream video and your mobile provider is artificially hobbling your speed, you're not going to be too pleased.
  
  I'm also non US but take an interest in these goings on, partly because of US dominance, partly because corporate dickery travels well.

• On the post: Also Turning 20 Years Old Today: John Perry Barlow's Declaration Of The Independence Of Cyberspace

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2016 @ 02:55am

  Linked

  I always thought Barlow come up with his declaration because the CDA had been made into law, and he could see where we were headed...

• On the post: Proposed Hungarian Law Would Allow Government To Suspend Key Human Rights Whenever There Is A 'Terror Threat Situation'

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2016 @ 05:49am

  Re:

  It's going to depend on the frequency that these "Terror Threat Situations" occur, and if human rights are restored afterwards in a timely fashion.
  
  Also, having been an EU member since the early noughties, I'm not that convinced that these laws would be EU legal.

• On the post: PayPal Continues To Drive People To Bitcoin And Other Solutions As It Starts Cutting Off VPNs & Open Internet Solutions

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2016 @ 11:56pm

  I did just that... from Palantir's wiki:
  
  "...help the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center build a controversial license plates database for California."
  
  This worries me. A license plate database should be trivial, recording a simple event; what, where and when. So when a company like Palantir gets involved, you can be sure that heaps and heaps of (expensive) data analysis and mining is going to take place. Inference upon inference. Mashed up with other datasets into some big-picture. Pseudo data. In haystacks. And all for no sane reason.

• On the post: DHS Official Thinks People Should Have To Give Up Their Anonymity To Use The Internet

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 11:23pm

  Re: Re: Re: It's Only a Matter of Time

  "Every computer, router, or other device on the Internet has its own unique IP address."
  
  Not quite true...
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

• On the post: DHS Official Thinks People Should Have To Give Up Their Anonymity To Use The Internet

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 11:15pm

  Re: Re: Barnett should avoid that analogy

  "...being shared not only with LE, but also with insurers, debt collectors and corporations willing to pay. I think we're going to be seeing pushback in this area soon as well."
  
  This is a particular grievance of mine, and it applies to personal data in general. Personal data has NEVER been regarded as belonging to the data subject, and even under the most protective regimes, as long as it's declared by the collector to some authority to some degree, it's free to be disclosed to just about anyone willing to pay for it.

• On the post: French Politicians Pushing To Ban Linking To Any Website Without Permission

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 11:02pm

  Re: Re: Talk about the web going dark...

  If you're talking about bookmarks, I never stopped keeping them. I don't view search engines as being all that reliable.

• On the post: French Politicians Pushing To Ban Linking To Any Website Without Permission

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 10:33pm

  Re: Re: Nuke 'em

  "...it was one of the darkest points in the country's history."
  
  I have to disagree. To my mind the French in Haiti and Indochina, and perhaps also their treatment of their other colonies such as Algeria and Morocco was far darker...

• On the post: New Report Debunks FBI's 'Going Dark' FUD

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2016 @ 01:00am

  Depressing

  True, this report debunks the FBI's claim that things will be "going dark" (what a ridiculous expression). But it does this by saying law enforcement shouldn't worry because there will be ever more opportunities to snoop because trends.
  
  IT should be evolving towards ever greater security, not less.

• On the post: Stupid Patent Of The Month: Sharing Your Hard Copy Documents, But On A Social Network

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 09:25am

  Re: And 3...2...1

  I wouldn't mess with the librarians. Seriously. They may not have the deepest pockets, but they're as smart as Yoda, utterly fearless, and on the side of liberty, justice and the All American Way.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Winning Isn't Everything

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 09:08am

  Re: Just the beginning

  I used to form alliances with weaker players, to try and bankrupt the stronger ones.
  
  I'd always end up losing...

• On the post: Former FTC CTO Ashkan Soltani Denied Security Clearance, Perhaps Because He Helped In Reporting On Snowden Docs

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 09:02am

  Re: Re:

  That's what I was thinking. Whatever is right, but fails to draw the conclusion that it was an individual who put that flag on Ashkan Soltani's file.
  
  Not data, but someone's view.

• On the post: Former FTC CTO Ashkan Soltani Denied Security Clearance, Perhaps Because He Helped In Reporting On Snowden Docs

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 08:56am

  Re: Re: Re:

  The disturbing thing is they're untouchable, answerable to no-one but themselves...

• On the post: Monkey See, Monkey Do, But Judge Says Monkey Gets No Copyright

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 08:50am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Other animals...

  Whatever merits your arguments might have had, I'm afraid you lost me with your "simpletons" and "idiots" comments.

• On the post: YouTube Wins This Round In Germany In The Stupid Neverending War With GEMA Over Streaming Rates

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2016 @ 05:22am

  I loathe GEMA with every fibre of my being...

  Created by the Nazi government in the mid-thirties, they're responsible for killing off music being aired in public spaces. They've gone after market stalls, kindergartens, schools, pubs, hotels, garages, shops... This ongoing farce with YouTube is just embarrassing.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Those Who Can, Write Textbooks…

  

  Klaus Hergesheimer ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2016 @ 05:12am

  Re: "Out of print" textbooks

  Just thinking out loud, but I wonder how publishers could prevent authors from re-publishing their work, as you suggest, using freshened up exercises? If this practice works for producers to generate new sales, surely it would work for authors too...

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