Posts by Arclight 190 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2007
But it is illegal in the UK. If the person that posted that message is based in the UK Twitter shouldn't be invoking US law to protect him. As I said, and this is actually backed up by the Texan court order Re: online gambling, they have made their site accessible within the UK. If they don't want to be subject to UK law then they should make some effort to block people from the UK using it.
Not missing anything. "Incitement to racial hatred' does not require me to see it or be offended by it , and is nothing to do with my hurt feelings:
deliberately provoking hatred of a racial group
distributing racist material to the public
making inflammatory public speeches
inciting inflammatory rumours about an individual or an ethnic group, for the purpose of spreading racial discontent.
Post "Purple people, fight for your rights and go out and kill all green people" on Twitter, and its not whether someone who is green is going to read it and be upset, your inciting someone else to carry out that crime
Doesn't really work though does it. If I as a law abiding person decided to use your logic not use twitter that doesn't stop a tw@ using it. To be fair your half way there, if Twitter don't to be taken to court in France it should block access to anyone based in France
If plod got involved that must mean this was a criminal investiation, not a civil matter, then surely several crimes could be said to have been commited?
The privateering CIAPC have committed the crime of accepting a bribe, blackmail, wasting police time, extortion, theft (as previously, Chisu probably won't see any of this, and unless she recieves a cheque for her share they've stolen it?). I'm sure there's a few more in there. Is there any other area of law where once you get the police involved its acceptable to say "Give £300 and I'll make this all go away"?
I'm guessing that by rain and horse piss you don't live in the middle of a built up area on the scale of Beijing?
Is decomposed granite and cement a suitable road building material capable of handling heavy and constant traffic, and while you can vouch for its equine urine dispersal in a country enviroment how is it at coping with rainfall in an urban enviroment where roads also have to cope with runoff from houses, tower blocks, concreted gardens, carparks etc.?
We can huff and puff as much as we want, but at the end of the day if they have switched off several stations, and only a couple of people have noticed what difference does it make if they switch the whole lot off. We aren't going to see masses of radios ditched and replaced largely because no-one will notice that the only thing on that band is polish radio stations.
What I don't agree with is ditching FM. DAB does not have good enough coverage
http://www.ukdigitalradio.com/images/coverage-map.gif
Even in the areas marked as having coverage have massive holes in them
"And the mouse being so accurate is actually a negative for me, I don't want a point and click FPS"
If your playing multiplayer surely everyone is playing with the same control system?
" I want it to take some skill, that's why I prefer games with gun sway, bullet drop and recoil."
Yes, because bullet drop and recoil has never been used in a PC FPS. As for gun sway, dispersal area increase when running has alsobeen around for years on the PC
"So really
$249
£199.20"
Not Really, allowing for the exchange rate if its £199 in the uk,and it really is the same price it would be $319 in the US, or £155 in the Uk if its $249 in the US.
For a multinational company if you sell anything the UK stick 25% on it seems to be the rule of thumb.
This wasn't some sick idiot posting on a random message board to humour moronic friends, he posted the joke on a Facebook page dedicated to April, and read by her friends and family. Do you have any idea how much distress these sick jokes caused? No,probably not, and the majority of you sticking up for his 'freedom' of speech probably don't care either. As someone else said 'freedom of speech' is supposed to allow us to criticise the government without fear of charge, it isn't about being an offensive idiot.
Would any of considered going to Machynlleth church last Sunday, and repeating these jokes? Why not, your only exercising your 'freedom of speech'
My knowledge of the Roman empire doesn't in anyway make me an expert, but with my rough layman knowledge, how does this spike correspond with the gradual decline of the Roman Empire? A spike would suggest a sudden and rapid change, but did the population suffer a similarly massive fall? The Roman Empire devolved into smaller empires and nations, Byzantine for example, but the population of europe and the world stayed roughly the same. Regardless of who was in charge Joeus Bloggus would still need to cook his food, clear woodland for his farm.
Wanhang:
Why did you choose to ignore prior art despite it being a legitimate claim?
Velvin Hogan @Wanhang
I is not ignore prior art yes it was legitimate, however it was not interchangeable therefore it did not invalidate Apples patents....Under the current law the prior art must be among other things interchangeable. the prior art sighted even Samsung does not currently use. Read the law and the statues covering Prior art.
For someone who claims to know what he's talking about in such cases, he might want to learn the difference between 'sighted' and 'cited'
"as they did they were actively serving other peoples' copyright material for their own monetry gain (advertising revenue"
And this is were their 'freedom fighter' defence falls down, the same as the guys at megaupload. You can't claim the moral high ground of fighting the profiteering movie and music industry while making a decent wedge out of it, unlike the tv-links guy who made nothing from his site and merely provided links to other sites which hosted movies.
So in the eyes of Anonmous and other 'freedom of speech fighters' the best way for me to avoid being held responsible of serious crimes such as rape is to post politically sensitive material on the internet? The assumption being made is that the rape claims have been made up so the USA can punish him. This is based on what? Knowledge of the full details of the charges or internet celebrity status? At what point would does everyone think the seriousness of the crime out wieghs Assanges 'freedom fighter' status? Do the laws of the land no longer apply to him? Lets face it, provided he's not captured on film, he can pretty much do what the hell he likes, any charge made against him would dismissed as an attack against freedom of speech.
Conspiracy theories don't bother me, if you want to spend your life coming up with fanciful reasons as to why we didn't go to moon, or how little grey men did crash at Roswell, great, go for it you aren't harming anyone. However, if your potential protecting a rapist thats a different thing altogether. He's a swedish citizen, formally charged with rape in Sweden. He should be extradited and face the charges.
And am I the only one thats concerned that the Ecudorian president belives that rape isn't an offence worthy of being a crime?
Can anyone resurrect Gene Roddenberry? Google "Star Trek PADD".
In the original Star Trek series Kirk was seen the using a PADD, a touch screen portable computer device. Fast forward 40 years and Apple release the 'innovative' iPad, a touch screen portable computer device. There isn't anything on the iPad or iPhone that was innovative, all of it had been seen before, the only thing it did was put it all together in a nice wrapper.
Well the first part of point one is what I said in my post. For the second half, do you think it should be legal to make rascist or homophobic comments?
As for point two, what a pile of bull ox. At the age of 13 you are classed as a minor, and there is a reason that underage sex is illegal, its because at that age aren't fully capable of understanding your actions. Why does the judicial system differentiate between adults and children?
Freedom of Speech does not equal freedom to be a complete dick. While I find hard to understand how they are responsible for what other people posted on that page, the page should have been shut down and the people who actually made the comments charged, do you really see nothing wrong with comments of a sexual nature about 13 year old girls?
If freedom of speech means I can say what I like, and offend who I like, can I post rascist comments on the Reg?
The police can't do anything unless he actually bothers to report the crime. He returned home to Canada, and then sent emails. Even then he's not actually reporting a crime, he's asked for assistance in what is effectively a civil claim for compensation. How do you expect the French police to do anything if he doesn't report the crime, and the main witness is in Canada? You expect them to fly a couple of gendarmes over to Toronto?
I've noticed a lot people throwing around probability as reason why life would have ET origins, speaking from the perspective of a true layman surely the probability of:
Life starts on Melmac (Which is a billion in 1 event as someone else has already used as an arguement against earth origin)
Melmac has massive catastophic event
Small chunks fly into space and with a few bits of Alf strapped on
Tiny bits of Alf manage to survive the millions of years flying through space
Tiny Alf rock manages to manages to find its way to earth (space is really big. You may think its a long way to the shops, but thats just peanuts to space (DA))
Alf manages to survive the intense heat of entering the earths atmosphere
Each one of those steps has a massive probability of failure, surely probability actually favours life starting here?
To a point I agree, just because your posting on the internet doesn't give you carte blanche to post whatever vile abuse you like, but........'annoy'? I get annoyed by the bloody flash ads on every other site, I get annoyed by the constant "Please help feed my animal request in *insert name of random facebook app" posts that come up on facebook. Annoy is a very loose term.
"to use any electronic or digital device and use any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act,"
So thats any number of stand up comedians (lewd profane language) who release dvd's,nhorny text message, anyone using a swinger site, or in some cases dating site. The Sun newspaper website. Personally I'm annoyed by Simon Cowell.
My Nan used to be offended by the word "sod" or "bloody". If they're going to word it as loosely as 'annoy' you may as well shut the internet down now.
For once the phrase "Won't anyone think of the children" has a serious use on The Reg. Its not the lycra adults that are the problem, well they are when your sat behind a gaggle of them on a country road, its kids.
As its a bicycle, kids can ride it. Given that the average 17 year-old, after several lessons and even passing a test, is the most lethal thing on the planet, do you really want one of these steaming along the footpath at 28 mph under the control of a 14 year old?
So WTF are doing advertising it? If its beta then put it on the phone, and people will think of it as a cool extra, but they actually advertised as a feature of the phone. You can't sell something and then turn around and say "Don't expect it to work, we're still devolping some of it"
Its like LG selling a TV. You get it home, set it up, and then find that the built in PVR won't work. The adverts says it does, the grunts in the shop told you it did, but its okay because if your geeky enough you'd have watched the launch event on a website.
Its nothing to do with regional dialect, the advertised feature just plain doesn't work in the UK.
Someone suggested that he should have asked in the shop, but as Vodafone themselves actually believed the BS coming from Apple, it stands to reason the average mobi wallah at carphone warehouse would believe it as well
The gorilla glass may withstand a bunch of keys, but its no match for Mr Kiplings finest. A scrunched up metal cake case shoved nonchalantly into a pocket put an impressive scratch right across the screen. That said, the dust proof and water resistant case has proved handy, and personally even after a year, I still love it. I just wish it wasn't on bloody t-mobile
@local group I guess 500 or so years should be enough to give prior art
I wonder if he changes it to dryphone will they still claim it sounds the same as driphone
How about he changes the 'i' to a capital. All Apples 'i' products are in the lower case......actually that gives me an idea, why not bring out a range of products called Ipad, Iphone, with the 'I' in times roman, and if apple complain I can just claim its actually a roman numeral, and it is in fact a 'one'pad :)
Despite Apple trying to project a friendly image to the end user, as opposed to the evil MS monster, I'm relieved MS got there first. Can you imagine a world without MS, one where Apple rules the PC market?
Every PC would be an Apple, all software approved by Apple, no home build PC's, no variety, no choice, and most likely an internet so heavily restricted by the Church of Jobs sites like El Reg would not exist (can you imagine Apple allowing this level of heresy?). As bad as it is being reliant on MS for the worlds operating system, it would be far worse under the magic Apple
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