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Comment Re:OK, but... (Score 4, Funny) 89

No. If X (not Hitler) is doing Y and Y is very bad then you should be able to explain how come Y is very bad WITHOUT BRINGING HITLER INTO THE DISCUSSION.

Dragging Hitler/Nazis into a discussion is a lazy way to try to claim some moral high ground.

That's just the sort of thing Hitler would say.

Comment Re:Semantics (Score 1) 98

If it's not the closest, are we going to rename it?

No, because it will presumably still be the nearest in the constellation of Centaurus. It's 'Proxima Centauri' not 'Proxima'

Constellations are not defined by a collection of stars at roughly the same distance. They are a collection of stars roughly close together, in a pattern _as viewed from Earth_. Apparently adjacent stars in the same constellation can vary in distance from earth by thousands of light years.

So any newly discovered star closer to Earth is most likely to be in the scope of some other constellation.

Comment And in 5 years time... (Score 1) 329

An in due course, will leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition David Cameron accept that Prime Minister Edward Milliband, as leader of the government should be capable of reading any communication such as Conservative party policy, election and campaign plans, electorate candidate profiles, and such-like.

I mean, he did say: "any communications"....

Comment Re:The Pirate Bay (Score 1) 302

Copyright is an exchange. The government protects content, for a limited time, in exchange for the "owner" releasing it into the public domain.

This is incorrect. You are right that copyright is an exchange, but the default case is that ideas, songs, poems, art, etc are in the public domain, on their creation. That's been true for millenia.

The exchange that copyright provides is to delay the natural transfer into the public domain, giving the copyright owner a limited-time government enforced monopoloy on the copying of the creative work.

The benefit that society is to receive for this limited time concession, is that it should encourage the production of more creative works.

Society doesn't get immediate public-domain access to creative works, but there are more creative works being produced.

Comment Re:Why is everyone claiming Bitcoin is anonymous? (Score 5, Funny) 216

Several years ago, a friend of mine worked in Iraq doing computer forensics on computers taken from Islamic whack jobs. One of his jobs was to watch all the porn videos looking for other video that might have been embedded in it.

My wife would kill me if she caught me watching steganography.

Comment Re:Metlink IRP (Score 5, Insightful) 287

He has not yet been arrested and Metlink were simply following their IRP for a security breach which doesn't discriminate based on intent.

No. This is simply wrong. If "Metlink were simply following their IRP" then they would have started investigating and taking action last month when their gaping security violation was first reported.

Instead they did nothing until exposure of their incompetence was threatened by mainstream media.

Comment As per the contract (Score 4, Funny) 291

17. RSA agrees that should the existence of this contract, the general nature of the agreements made herein, or the relationship bewtern the RSA and NSA be made public then the RSA shall, with due expediency, issue the following denial: "we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA's products, or introducing potential 'backdoors' into our products for anyone's use."

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