Comment DSL? (Score 1) 554
DSL technology is way more than ten years old...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line
Comment Re:Dont' quit, but don't agree either. (Score 1) 554
not really, they'd be extracting gold hard cash form zynga, and rightly so.
Comment Yet another AC (Score 1) 1105
Yet another trollmouthed coward not prepared to use their own name, with no sensible arguments supporting their 'position'
Comment wrong! (Score 1) 1105
an oilrig isnt efficient, unless it's magically fabricating the oil it's pumping out rather than extracting it from the earth?
Comment Strawmen! (Score 1) 1105
They're everywhere today, and on both sides of this debate!
Comment In your opinion, AC (Score 1) 1105
Which holds zero water, as you're too much a of coward to post non AC
Comment either that (Score 1) 168
or is 12 years old
Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment
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greenrainbow writes "Philips just unveiled a new concept for an urban beehive that would allow anyone to become an amateur bee keeper – even those who live in apartments with no backyards. Best of all you pull a little string and all the fresh honey you want comes out. Hopefully no bees come with it!"
Comment Re:setting straight (Score 1) 948
No, not really, this was not a government agency or indeed any corporation that outed him. This was his daughter publishing the video. I'm unsure what your argument saying that there are actually are any. Who's privacy are you saying was violated in this case? (hint: who's bedroom was it, and who was in a state of undress?) This is not a case of governmental snooping.
Comment Re:that's not straight (Score 1) 948
You think that privacy implications trump the disclosure of obvious criminal child abuse
Who ever said that? Who ever said anything remotely like that?
Most people won't be able to see how this situation is (generally) privacy related, they'll be focused too narrowly. That's okay. But don't make wrong assumptions about what my stance is on the very specific issue of this man's right to privacy versus that girl's right to justice.
People were bound to read into what I said, even though I said nothing about that particular matter. Expectations and narrow focus make people troll themselves.
For those with the ability, I am prompting discussion of the more general implications of how democratized data capture affects everyone's privacy. And I can't stress strongly enough how this generalized trend is something we should be keeping our eyes on. Taken to the extreme, it means eventually that no one, whether acting evilly or good, will have any privacy at all. Discuss.
I completely disagree with your premise here. Privacy concerns have no place in situations of child abuse. There is indeed a line regarding privacy of events and actions in private situations, however in this case that line is about 3 timeszones back that way. The only 'implication' inferrable from this regarding privacy is that if you break the law and someone records it then any expectations of privacy are delusional.
To take this as an indicator of the extreme end of this being zero expectactions of privacy in any scenario is just a strawman argument. To wit, this case and privacy 'implications' have zero to do with each other.
Comment well hang on (Score 1) 948
Look at it this way, this is physical abuse, and imo sexual molestation of a young woman. THis was not about retribution for her actions, what is clear from the video is that this was about control and domination. He violated his own daughter, in his own way, for his own ends. Its not a liberal viewpoint to regard that as wrong.
Comment funny, and kind of fitting (Score 1) 667
But check (that's how you use that particular group of letters!) the disambiguation
Comment so let me get this straight (Score 1) 948
You think that privacy implications trump the disclosure of obvious criminal child abuse (and frankly from the video i'd also call it sexual abuse of a minor)?
What have you been smoking?
Comment at the risk of baiting flames (Score 1) 175
Careful, 'they' don't have a fully formed sense of homo(u)r and may not get the irony
Music Industry Pushing For BT To Block Pirate Bay 175
First time accepted submitter mariocki writes "British music industry body BPI has requested BT block access to Pirate Bay. In response, BT say they will only do so if they receive a court order. But after BT recently lost a court case forcing them to block Newzbin, it looks like it's a case of when — not if — this will happen."
