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• On the post: French Gov't Rejects Plan To Tax DRM eBooks More Than Non-DRM eBooks

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 08:43am

  Why must e-books be taxed at all? Here in the UK, e-books are subject to VAT while paper books are not. Not sure how it is everywhere else but this is ludicrous.

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

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 06:53am

  Still cannot grasp that Google is not the Internet. Still cannot grasp that this is nothing more than one site pretending that child abuse content does not exist.
  
  How exactly does sweeping the problem under the rug solve anything? This content will continue to be made and distributed away from Google.
  
  Still, better to be seen to be doing something than to actually do something to make children safer.

• On the post: Chicago Law Professor Claims No Privacy In Your Emails, As Long As The Content Isn't Used To Detain Or Harass You

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2013 @ 08:07am

  So he thinks the government need more power? He clearly has never heard of Edmund Burke who quite correctly stated "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse".
  
  Honestly, I would expect a law professor to know better.

• On the post: Privacy Groups Want The Government To Investigate Google Over The NSA's Hacking

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 01:37pm

  Re: Re: Re: Where the fanboys LIE about me in advance!

  "Who talks like that?"
  
  Fanboys talk like that ;-)

• On the post: 'Attribution Troll' Issues DMCA Notice To Remove Critical Posts From Techdirt, Boing Boing And Popehat

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 10:50am

  Re: Ah, just the kind of hissy fit anomaly that Mike and minions enjoy!

  Seriously, you have used the word 'anomaly' so much to describe these cases that they are bound to be anomalies no more.

• On the post: The Most Nefarious Part Of The TPP Proposal: Making Copyright Reform Impossible

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 01:05pm

  Free trade agreement, my arse.

• On the post: Privacy Groups Want The Government To Investigate Google Over The NSA's Hacking

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 01:05pm

  So it's not just politicians and the entertainment industries who do not know that GOOGLE IS NOT THE INTERNET?
  
  That's depressing.

• On the post: Google Gets Total Victory Over Authors Guild: Book Scanning Is Fair Use

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 12:01pm

  Good

  Hopefully now, we can apply this to schools and Universities.

• On the post: USTR's Weakass Response To TPP's IP Chapter Leaking

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 08:30am

  Working with shareholders, my arse.
  
  The public are the big shareholders and we are being kept in the dark on this and other supposed free trade treaties.

• On the post: UK Political Party Tries To Dump 10 Years Of Speeches Down The Memory Hole

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2013 @ 07:14am

  Two years to a general election, the Tories don't want the unwashed masses remembering all those pesky broken promises. Pity they are all available elsewhere.
  
  Politicians really have no clue what the Internet is or how it works.

• On the post: Boston Police Department Claims Contacting Its Public Affairs Number Is A Criminal Act

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2013 @ 01:33pm

  It is a scary world when the police (those who are supposed to protect the public from crime) have no idea what is or is not a crime.

• On the post: Canonical Apologizes For Trademark Bullying… And Again… And Again

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2013 @ 04:36pm

  Re: Re: Not a mention of the spyware. And this is progress?

  Except that a shopping lens is not spyware. The shopping lens makes it clear Amazon results are queried and displayed, it can simply be removed if not desired, and it's no less spyware than visiting Amazon and searching for products there.
  
  That said, the way Canonical dealt with the site criticising it was less than ideal and I am glad they have apologised.

• On the post: Disappointing To See Canonical Act Like A Trademark Bully Over Ubuntu

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2013 @ 05:34pm

  Re: Go get some ...

  Or better yet, use Xubuntu. You get the benefits of Linux and the Ubuntu repositories without anything related to the much maligned Unity.

• On the post: Is Twitter Worried About Losing Control Over The Word 'Tweet?'

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2013 @ 03:40pm

  I have used the word tweet for years before Twitter existed when talking about the birds outside my window. Perhaps Twitter should pay the birds for the use of the word.

• On the post: You'd Think NSA Employees Would Know Better Than To Hand Out Their Passwords, But Many Gave Them To Snowden

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2013 @ 05:21am

  It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people are when it comes to passwords. Working in front line IT, I see my share of it. You would be amazed how many people, when asked for their log on ID, give me their password; and how many of those passwords are ridiculously easy to guess.

• On the post: UK Spy Chief Says Al-Qaeda Loving Snowden Leaks, But How Would He Know Unless Viable Intercepts Are Still In Place?

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2013 @ 01:01pm

  Al Qaeda and paedophiles loving the Snowden leaks.
  
  Why do government and 'intelligence' officials always go after the same bogey men every time? Perhaps more interestingly, why are huge numbers of people so stupid that they fall for it?

• On the post: Al Gore And Tim Berners-Lee Condemn NSA Surveillance: Appalling And Unconstitutional

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2013 @ 11:54am

  Pity Mr Berners-Lee would not condemn DRM in HTML5.

• On the post: As Silk Road 2.0 Pops Up, The Government Needs To Avoid The Temptation Of Moral Panic

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2013 @ 11:33am

  When politicians decide to jump in and try to understand what they previously have failed to understand, nothing good happens.

• On the post: UK Gov't: David Miranda Might Be A Terrorist Because Journalism Can Be Terrorism; Also: We Had No Idea He Was A Journalist

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2013 @ 12:43pm

  Re: Re:

  And also because none of them seem to have a clue what is causing debt levels to spiral out of control never mind how to solve the problems.
  
  There are oh so many reasons governments are losing credibility.

• On the post: NSA Funding Bill Passed By Senate Intelligence Community Gives Agency Extra Cash To Hunt 'Insider Threats'

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2013 @ 04:37pm

  Come on, US, your country is trillions in debt and that is down, in no small part, to a defense budget that is out of control.
  
  Wake up or you will soon be staring down the barrel at bankruptcy.

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