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Comment Re:So (Score 2) 347

Although I am on the other side of the pond, I'd gladly send you rope and bashing articles.

Please be sure that the target digs a hole deep enough beforehand. You wouldn't want the worms to come crawling up and arrange for a whack-a-mole session.

DRM

Submission + - Outlawed by Amazon DRM (bekkelund.net)

BSAtHome writes: A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail, being very frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her Kindle. Without notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst.

Comment Tracking (Score 4, Funny) 342

Tracking commuters has been on the increase with the use of license-plate scaners. When you get them to use a bicycle, that advantage is no longer an option.

So, either we need a very fast computer system to track bicycles based on the images, or we need legislation to ensure every bike has a proper license plate that can be scanned and tracked. Also, a locked down holding container should be placed on each bicycle for the Feds to place their GPS equipment. Last but not least, a mandatory encircled cross on the rider's coat which would make a remote killshots easier. You never know when you need to set an example of environmentalists.

Comment Re:privacy implication FUD (Score 2, Insightful) 150

The question is not whether this is a useful technology. The real question is whether that what /can/ be done /should/ be done. The technology is without any feeling; it is us who bring feelings into play when we use technology.

Access to information, be it local or global, is not inherently bad. We can use it to learn and promote. However, not everyone has the same intentions and that is where it gets problematic.

If we make all information readily available in a way that we all become transparent, then not only can we use this for a positive benefit for us, but it can and _will_ be used against us. That is why it is so important to think about the consequences of any (technological) creation before it is actually made.

Comment Re:Infringe all the patents! (Score 5, Interesting) 126

Basically, if you work around a patent's claim by ommiting step(s), but the user(s) are able to perform these ommitted steps, then you are liable.

This means that a whole new area of induced infringement opens and I'm sure some companies are taking note how to extract more protection money from this.

The bar is now lowered to a level where a chain of events can make you liable whether intended or not. It monopelizes not only the patented claims but the whole field of operation.

Just wow...

Comment Re:When Egypt or Libya does it, it's bad, of cours (Score 0) 513

Not only shutter, but the opposite is true too.

"...and privately owned communications resources, when appropriate..."

That also includes your mouth. They can thus force you to spread lies, damn lies and statistics through demanding the voices of you all in any and all organisation. Of course, who needs Fox when you can horde the herd. /me gets popcorn and waits for the revolution

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