Posts by HarshKarma

Re: "Google also uses the Buganizer tool as a way of managing workflow"

Nope. According to LinkedIn, she's a "specialist on the legal online operations team". Can't see any legal training mentioned.

Re: What did the court orginally ask for?

Don't really see how this is the same. MS in Ireland is a separate legal entity and does not do any business in the US; it does conform to laws in Ireland where it actually conducts business. If MS Ireland did business in the US, then I would expect it would conform to the laws there as well. WhatsApp in the US does business in Brazil and as such should be expected to confirm to the local laws. This is no different from any company doing business internationally, just because the company is registered in a different country, doesn't mean they can ignore all the laws of the country they're doing business in.

Re: Surely the real problem is...

"not that loss of .ir would affect the government of Iran but that the main users of domain names within the name space are to varying degrees, innocent companies and corporations trying to earn an honest dollar rial."

FTFY

Re: Google's an INDEX, FFS

An index is only useful when it indexes what is important. If you look at the back of any reference book, you do not see entries for every possible word, only those that matter. Google obviously thinks the same otherwise it wouldn't be delisting all kinds of dross from it's organic search index.

The ruling includes references to "in the public interest" & this should be the litmus test for what would be considered important enough to not be excluded.

Re: The Bible in a tweet

"Creation myths, rules and stories which we say are from our God"

How about:

"The Bible: A fictitious document declaring love for all but ultimately used as an excuse to start wars"

"unless they are carrying out illegal activities"

Given that the government is concerned these sites are fooling people into believing they are the official hmrc means of doing a tax return then I think "carrying out illegal activities" definitely comes into play.

The issue of the warning being above the fold is that, it is above the fold on a desktop monitor not a tablet or smart phone. My stepdad got caught out paying extra for the congestion charge through a third party in this way.

Re: "Dumb Parents"

"Since when was "Ignorance", an excuse for the Law?"

Tell that to Apple, they're the one's who broke it

FTC chairwoman from the article says "You cannot charge consumers for purchases they did not authorize."

Just because Apple says that entering your password means you've authorized all purchases for 15 minutes doesn't mean that the actual law is going to agree with them...

Re: net neutrality

"How does that have anything to do with net neutraility? AFAIAC net neutrality means that packets are considered equal indepedenly of their type/origin/destination."

Did you not read this bit?

"Telstra, for example, offers a movie download service and would obviously prefer it offers a better user experience than iTunes"

Presumably "better user experience" in this case means dumping iTunes movie packets in favour of Telstra movie packets...