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UK Government Wants "Unsavory" Web Content To Be Removed 250

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday March 16, 2014 @05:50PM from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-children? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The UK minister for immigration and security, James Brokenshire has called for the government to do more to deal with 'unsavoury', rather than illegal, material online. 'Terrorist propaganda online has a direct impact on the radicalisation of individuals and we work closely with the internet industry to remove terrorist material hosted in the UK or overseas,' Brokenshire told Wired.co.uk in a statement."

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 390

by Forbo on Thursday March 06, 2014 @01:24PM (#46420489) Attached to: Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek

I'm sorry, but what is "KTK'd"? I tried searching for it on a few different sites but can't come up with anything that seems remotely relevant.

Comment Re:Sclerotacracy (Score 1) 89

by Forbo on Monday February 24, 2014 @01:35AM (#46321095) Attached to: Microsoft Circles the Wagons To Defeat ODF In the UK

Excellent break down, thank you for the clarification! ^_^

Comment Re:I have no doubt whatsoever ... (Score 1) 89

by Forbo on Friday February 21, 2014 @05:59PM (#46306751) Attached to: Microsoft Circles the Wagons To Defeat ODF In the UK

What in the world is a sclerotocracy? I had never heard of it before, so I tried looking up the term on DuckDuckGo, Google and Bing and I'm coming up with nothing.

Comment Call me paranoid... (Score 4, Insightful) 305

by Forbo on Thursday February 20, 2014 @04:59PM (#46298587) Attached to: Why Your Phone Gets OTA Updates But Your Car Doesn't

...but I'd rather not add any more attack vectors than absolutely essential.

Submission + - How to fix Slashdot Beta? 17

Submitted by Forbo on Thursday February 06, 2014 @01:58PM

Forbo writes: Since the migration to Slashdot Beta was announced, it seems all meaningful discussion has been completely disrupted with calls to boycott and protest. Rather than pull an Occupy, what can be done to focus and organize the action? What is the end goal: To revert entirely to the previous site, or to address the problems with the new site?

Comment Re:Don't forget there's another out there. (Score 1) 224

by Forbo on Monday February 03, 2014 @01:08PM (#46141747) Attached to: First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All

For anyone who (like me) didn't understand the reference: Colossus

Thank you for that, it was an interesting read and quite pertinent to the subject matter. Someone throw some mod points at that person!

Comment Re:New Meaning to the phrase: (Score 3, Funny) 112

by Forbo on Monday February 03, 2014 @12:24PM (#46141213) Attached to: Researchers Try To "Close the Nutrient Cycle" Through Better Waste Recycling

Chocolate rain...
Some stay dry, others feel the pain.

Comment Don't forget there's another out there. (Score 1) 224

by Forbo on Monday February 03, 2014 @12:21PM (#46141183) Attached to: First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All

Lockheed Martin also has a D-Wave system, so let's not forget that's already churning away for some three letter agency somewhere.

Comment Re:1984 (Score 4, Informative) 347

by Forbo on Monday February 03, 2014 @12:12PM (#46141093) Attached to: Super Bowl Ads: Worth the Price Or Waste of Time?

I honestly don't understand why Apple is on this list. They're pretty much the final computer company that will just sell you a computer, and not tie it into a million services that track your identity, and try to spam you/sell you.

Setting up Mavericks:
- "Oh, hey, sign in with your AppleID for everything iCloud!" No, shut up, I don't need your crap.
- "You really should turn on location services so we know where you are at any given time!" No, shut up, you don't need that.
- "Hey, in order to update the applications that come with the OS by default, you're going to need an AppleID with a credit card attached." No, shut up.

Please, tell me again how Apple isn't trying to tie me into a million services that track me.

Canadian Spy Agency Snooped Travelers With Airport Wi-Fi 159

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 31, 2014 @11:54AM from the mapping-everyone's-hockey-allegiances dept.

Walking The Walk writes: "It seems the NSA isn't the only agency doing illegal domestic spying. According to a Snowden document obtained by the CBC, Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) has apparently been tracking domestic travelers, starting from when they first use free Wi-Fi at an airport, and continuing for days after they left the terminal. From the article: 'The document indicates the passenger tracking operation was a trial run of a powerful new software program CSEC was developing with help from its U.S. counterpart, the National Security Agency. In the document, CSEC called the new technologies "game-changing," and said they could be used for tracking "any target that makes occasional forays into other cities/regions."' The CBC notes early in the article that the spy agency 'is supposed to be collecting primarily foreign intelligence by intercepting overseas phone and internet traffic, and is prohibited by law from targeting Canadians or anyone in Canada without a judicial warrant.' Predictably, CSEC's chief is quoted saying that they aren't allowed to spy on Canadians, so therefore they don't. As observed by experts consulted for the story, that claim is equivalent to saying that they collect the data but we're to trust that they don't look at it."

Comment Re:In before the cyborgs.. (Score 1) 50

by Forbo on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:13PM (#46095649) Attached to: With No Guidance From Google, Makers Creating Own Glass Accessories

Maybe they can make a face shield attachment accessory to deaden the blows of the punches they deserve for wearing google glass in public. Glassholes.

...something, something, punishment fitting crime, mumble mumble...

Comment They won't say anything. (Score 3, Insightful) 50

by Forbo on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:01PM (#46095557) Attached to: With No Guidance From Google, Makers Creating Own Glass Accessories

They're crowdsourcing the R&D of accessories. Why pay for it when you have hundreds of devoted followers who will do it for you?

Comment Re:So, can it play Crysis at full framerates, or.. (Score 2) 219

by Forbo on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @06:27PM (#45892457) Attached to: Intel Puts a PC Into an SD Card-Sized Casing

Rather than just calling someone an idiot, here's some actual useful information to provide a real rebuttal to that point:

http://www.steegle.com/google-devices/chromebooks/faq#TOC-What-storage-options-do-Chromebooks-provide-

Local Storage Options
Chromebooks provide a limited amount of internal storage: the amount of storage available depends on the model of Chromebook you own and start at 16GB and rise to 300GB of internal, local storage. All Chromebooks provide an SD card slot so you can extend storage using SD memory cards.

Comment Re:More info here (Score 2) 37

by Forbo on Monday January 06, 2014 @10:24AM (#45877559) Attached to: Bruce Schneier Becomes CTO of Co3 Systems

The above is a link to "Let Me Google That For You" with a query of "Co3 Systems".

I don't trust URL shorteners and figured I would save everyone the time that I wasted in expanding it.

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