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  • On the post: David Braben, Once Angry At Used Games, Now A New Business Model Embracer

    Violated ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2014 @ 02:58am

    Re: Mistake?

    Indeed you are correct. A shame I did not read that before I posted below but damn you TechDirt for having no edit in your obsolete reply system.

  • On the post: David Braben, Once Angry At Used Games, Now A New Business Model Embracer

    Violated ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2014 @ 02:54am

    Purchase Theoy

    Well I am certainly buying Frontier: First Encounters once available when I already own every Elite game made.

    My only choice is if to pirate it first or not when as a value shopper I never like the RRP and would prefer to wait for the price to fall. I would buy the game in the end so such a long piracy trial should not be a social problem.

    A recent compatible game was Kerbal Space Program when while this was a much wanted game I had no desire to buy or to pirate this game all the time it was stuck in a buggy Beta version. So only after I played the KSP demo which worked well enough did I pay out for the full version. Due to my value shopping nature I of course searched around for the best price.

    So to me when it comes to computer games then piracy is only a temporary stop-off on the way to a full purchase.

  • On the post: UK Man Jailed For Not Giving Police Thumbstick Password

    Violated ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 10:23am

    Re: Self incrimination in the UK

    The difference between them wanting blood, DNA and fingerprints compared to a password is that the former can be forced from you simply by holding you down while the latter cannot without applying some torture or punishment.

    So all they are doing here is saying like "tell us where you buried the body or we jail you for 4 months for non-cooperation". This is keeping in mind they don't even know there is actually a "body" for you to identify.

    Still in this case he later revealed the password proving he did lie saying he forgot it. So this is certainly not the best case for a ECHR challenge.

  • On the post: UK Man Jailed For Not Giving Police Thumbstick Password

    Violated ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 10:00am

    Re: For all authorities

    If you desire a strong password and not one easily cracked then try... $n0denR0ck$.

  • On the post: UK Man Jailed For Not Giving Police Thumbstick Password

    Violated ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 09:56am

    I think he should have appealed to the EU Court of Human Rights when the UK has signed up to the Human Rights act and where EU law is there to correct such faulty national law.

    The right to silence as protection from self-incrimination is a large part of the Human Rights act. So the Government commits human rights violations against their own citizens.

    I also find it interesting how far the administration now goes to hack people's computers keeping in mind that hacking and password breaking is unlawful for the average citizen.

    Well one thing that is true to say is that I would never turn over my passwords no matter their punishment and no matter what I have to hide because... they are wrong to demand it.

  • On the post: Hollywood Needs The Internet More Than The Internet Needs Hollywood… So Why Is The W3C Pretending Otherwise?

    Violated ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2014 @ 02:11am

    CCS

    I can understand why NetFlix is pushing for this DRM which should be correctly called a Content Control System. This is because NetFlix is denied key PPV events all the time their streams can be easily ripped and distributed.

    So I can sympathise with them in what should be a natural expansion of their business but at the same time while I consider NetFlix use "fair" I can also recognize the danger in that priority use events can soon become general use inflicting all media.

    The article is correct that this would turn HTML into a huge broadcast system which in the longer term would restrict the free flow of information.

    I would believe NetFlix would win this one when general user communication is not being blocked making this a new layer. My only doubt if the HTML specification is the right place for DRM when they should really be doing this themselves in their player or plug-in.

  • On the post: It Is 2013, And The Queen Just Pardoned Alan Turing

    Violated ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2013 @ 04:05pm

    Re:

    As to the others then let us recall that many of those are still alive where they could make quite a fuss or even sue if pardoned.

    So the Government for now sticks to the "You were fairly convicted of a crime existing at the time" line but sure in later decades once all these people are safely dead they will wave their hand in a mass pardon.

    All misdeeds are then undone and history will smile on our modern political wankers.

  • On the post: It Is 2013, And The Queen Just Pardoned Alan Turing

    Violated ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2013 @ 01:53pm

    Re: After all these years.

    Indeed but we have come a long way since homosexuality was classed a sinful perversion that required a medical correction.

    Even Oscar Wilde once fled the persecution of the UK for the more tolerant atmosphere of Europe.

    I also well recall that homosexuality only became lawful during my lifetime. So I would say be thankful the persecution has ended and that they are taking small steps to absolve this mess.

  • On the post: It Is 2013, And The Queen Just Pardoned Alan Turing

    Violated ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2013 @ 01:40pm

    Suicide doubtful

    While Alan Turing's death is recorded as a suicide a review of the available evidence points to a simple fatal accident in his experiments due to careless handling of cyanide.

    More details can be seen here... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18561092

  • On the post: UK Retailer Goes Legal After Shipping PS Vitas To Customers Who Just Bought A Game

    Violated ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2013 @ 09:06pm

    xmas

    Since I am a trader of electronic goods then I am well aware that any accidental shipping of the wrong item to a customer or non-customer means they get to keep it.

    The only rule on this is that the package needs to be sent to your name and address when you can't claim a package for your neighbour shipped to your address due to a typo.

    This store can certainly request their return so the correct item can be sent but since these buyers have the lawful right to say "no" then it hardly helps your business reputation to scream and shout at them for your own mistake.

    Well this business sure had a very painful time beyond what I have ever seen, where I would not be surprised if the employee responsible gets fired, but at the end of the day they have to accept that they sent these people an early xmas gift.

  • On the post: Latest TPP Leaks Reveal That US Is Isolated In Its Desire To Push Through Corporate Exceptionalism

    Violated ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2013 @ 01:46am

    I see that there are three options here...

    1. Give in to the United States demands leading to a document hated by all but soon shot down in the political system.

    2. Release the full TPPA document without the section covering copyright and patents when that may be passable.

    3. Kick the United States out of the discussions then to spend the time needed to make TPPA more public friendly to then be celebrated as trade heroes.

  • On the post: Without Anyone Paying Attention, Canada Is About To Change Its Laws To Support ACTA

    Violated ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2013 @ 04:50pm

    Well this is sad news but what I would have expected in a dictatorship to just ram it home with no discussion or debate contrary to public opinion.

    Canada sure must love ACTA when they are the only one single country to actually proceed to ratify it (in their secondary bill way). Even in the United States ACTA ratification has indefinitely stalled following the death of ACTA in the EU.

    So Canada signs up to an International Trade Agreement composing of one country... so far. This would indeed mark a bad sign if ACTA returns to life.

  • On the post: Feds: Even Though We've Been Ordered To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act, We're Not Going To Do That

    Violated ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 11:25am

    Re:

    They should take example from the last English Civil War where you can still visit the railings outside Parliament where we impaled their decapitated heads.

  • On the post: Google Announces More Child Porn Blocking Efforts While David Cameron Offers To Throw The GCHQ At The Problem

    Violated ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 03:19pm

    Attacking Google is indeed only about making a news story when that is like asking the police to do some policing. Then yeah right people seeking paedophilia are really clueless as to the nature of the law on the matter.

    On the other had them attacking certain sites on Tor Core is not unexpected but if any of their appointed services can crack that encryption nut remains to be seen. The British are not nearly as bad as those Americans for abusing granted powers but sure what power is granted for one crime soon expands into other crimes.

    Then even if they do crack this dark net then only means a large technology upgrade to stop it happening again. So cat and mouse soon becomes cat and tiger.

    Anyway more work by them to create pre-election stories where this is a case of damn technology it seems.

  • On the post: Declassified Opinion Shows The NSA Exploited Pen Register Statutes To Collect Internet Metadata On Millions Of Americans

    Violated ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 11:48am

    Proof these FISA Judges are morons.

    To spy on one person makes them a suspect. To spy on everyone makes the whole population a suspect even if there has been prior indication of wrongdoing.

    They seem to have forget the aspect of "targeted" where that range should always be set as very narrow. So indeed a violation of the US Bill of Rights.

  • On the post: Feds: Even Though We've Been Ordered To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act, We're Not Going To Do That

    Violated ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 11:21am

    Poo

    So the US Administration really wants to be accountable to no one which basically means their interpretation is complete bullshit where they just don't want people to laugh at how unlawfully they have acted.

    Yet another example of Obama's Secret Government where all documents, as to their true operation, must be kept top secret, where even their existence is redacted, so that the US public is blissfully unaware of how many times they break and abuse the law.

    Not that Obama created this system where he is just the willing new King sitting on this throne of turds.

  • On the post: Senate Intelligence Committee Rejects A Bunch Of Attempts To Amend Dianne Feinstein's Fake NSA Reform Bill

    Violated ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2013 @ 01:53pm

    Well this is only their Intelligence Committee which is obviously Intelligence biased where I guess passing this resolution highlights how Unintelligent many are.

    I highly doubt the full Senate will pass this one simply turning all that is unlawful into lawful. Yeah let them ignore all the public disgust by saying "no problem here". Such supreme corruption would make people almost happy if "terrorists" exploded the Senate.

    Well as already stated this one should not pass when it should be clear to most that the NSA has far exceeded what they have been authorised to do.

  • On the post: NSA Defenders Reject Appeal For Clemency That Ed Snowden Never Made; But Here's Why US Should Give Him Amnesty

    Violated ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2013 @ 05:12pm

    Re: Re:

    Had Obama been innocent then he would have welcomed Snowden exposing their law abuse but doing as he has only makes him King turd of this crap pile.

    You do indeed have to wonder how unaccountable the Administration is these days when even Congress's oversight committee were clueless as to the true operation of the NSA. So would the President do much better?

    Well Congress is supposed to set the laws the Administration operates under, or more correctly abuses, meaning they should have the power to reign them in. That conclusion then makes me wonder if these members of congress actually know what they are doing.

  • On the post: The Rogers Doctrine: More Transparency Creates More Privacy Violations, Since You'll Find Out About Them

    Violated ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2013 @ 01:21pm

    Rogers was just playing the old "It is only unlawful if I get caught" excuse.

  • On the post: NSA Defenders Reject Appeal For Clemency That Ed Snowden Never Made; But Here's Why US Should Give Him Amnesty

    Violated ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2013 @ 12:57pm

    Amnesty for Snowden simply won't happen when Obama loves his secret unaccountable Government that can get away with piles and piles of crap simply because they public don't know.

    So those people who leak secrets are the greatest threat to Obama's secret Government where Obama only wants to see Snowden crucified to discourage others from doing the same.

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