The UK has no such requirement, which is quite odd given their authoritarian state apparatus and FUD-riddled, knee-jerk politicians.
You can buy unlocked (i.e. no carrier) phones quite cheaply from any high-street shop or supermarket. They also sell branded and own-brand SIMs, and it's quite trivial to buy airtime credit vouchers at the check-out. And of course, cash is welcome.
I have one such phone for any website or outfit that wants to verify my "real-world" identity, because frankly I don't want marketing calls to my personal phone and I don't trust organizations with my information.
Even the French are going overboard for this crap. Yes, the French. The land of the crusty baguette, where finding the freshest loaf from the finest boulangerie is (was) the leading national pastime. If you're into healthy food, I recommend reading Andrew Whitley's "Bread Matters". Even if you never get to make your own, it shows just how much our food is being screwed with.
"... we might see names like E120, which are already being used in the EU."
We have a saying in Europe (well, maybe it was just my family) - if a product's 'E' numbers add up to over 1000, don't buy it; it's probably not good for you.
Most of Magna Carta has been repealed... Imagine that for a moment.
Here's a sad little factoid; as of 2008 British people were no longer able to freely forage for firewood in The Kings Forests. For health and safety reasons. God forbid That Sceptered Isle should ever need to go to war again, for their mighty army of middle-managers would surely lose.
Erm... Mathew P Doyle, in the off chance you should ever read this, I would love for you to kindly explain to me exactly what a "Muslim woman" looks like...
I understand you're a "PR guy"? I would also love to know your thoughts on how to best go about attracting business in your line of work...
You would have hoped that NPM would have taken a more central and positive role in this dispute. What were they thinking? And you're right... so what if there are two 'kik's with skin in the game. Humanity copes well enough with a finite range of names, what makes trademark law think it's so special?
My biggest takeaway on this though are the comments from Sven Slootweg - open source is NOT as secure as we were led to believe.
"...this new right would be managed by one or more collecting societies, regardless of the intention of the rightholders..."
This is the very definition of corruption: introducing a new law that grants your crony the right to set and demand a tax that usurps the property of others.
I'm curious as to how the French can possibly believe their ridiculous argument that this "is only about French people, and protecting French people's rights". It's stacking one countries laws up against another.
Although the fine is (only) €100k, I for one hope that Google appeal and continue to fight.
I'm not convinced that the British people have ever hated or feared the Irish, certainly no more than Lancastrians have ever hated or feared folk from Cheshire, or Shropshire. Or people from Norfolk have ever hated or feared folk from Suffolk. Those plucky Brits survived The Blitz yet still give Germans the time of day on Mediterranean beaches. As for Ireland? Cromwell's New Model Army was a long, long time ago.
The British are a mongrel nation, and all the stronger for it. The problem they have is that their leadership is, at least since the latter half of the 20th Century, far too arrogant, and utterly clueless.
"The tax legislation is created by the politicians..."
A small point I'd like to add is that tax legislation is often drawn up and tailored to suit corporate tax minimisation schemes by organisations like ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council).
Re: The Media Not Realizing That They Are Clueless Concerning Encryption
"...third party encryption software is different from the iPhone itself. Breaking the iPhone, will not magically give law enforcement access to the communications of terrorists using this third party software."
My take on this is that the goal is to access the endpoints. The easiest way to defeat encryption is not to brute force decrypt (which is hard, if not outright impossible) but to access an endpoint, and thereby gain access to the plaintext. This case against Apple is a step in that direction.
"Yet (as I showed in the linked article) it seems that Techdirt is adding more and more confusion to the topic."
I don't see the confusion, only further information on the issue. Also, Mike did not author that article, Kenneth Rashbaum & Liberty McAteer from Barton LLP did.
The UK is a land where anti-terror laws have been widely abused against "bin-crimes". Yes, people who's rubbish bins were not parked on the kerb correctly. People who's bin lids were not fully down. That sort of stuff. Bin-crime, it really is a thing in That Sceptered Isle.
The truly Orwellian RIPA laws. David Blunkett, Home Secretary under Tony Blair, was so pleased with RIPA that he wanted to follow it up with RIPA2, which was so utterly, unspeakably awful that his own son had to tell him to back off.
"And to Shiva Ayyadura: how DARE you use the sad occasion of Ray's death to engage in even more self-aggrandizing fabricated PR. That's not only bullshit, it's vile."
I quite like eBooks. They're convenient and let me read several at a time (parallel reading?). Also, I get to carry a huge reference library around with me, which is fantastic when stuck in dull meetings.
But I avoid DRM like the plague. Everything I have is format shifted and managed by Calibre. If you've never come across this application, I strongly recommend it.
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Re: Re: Already a requirement in Europe
You can buy unlocked (i.e. no carrier) phones quite cheaply from any high-street shop or supermarket. They also sell branded and own-brand SIMs, and it's quite trivial to buy airtime credit vouchers at the check-out. And of course, cash is welcome.
I have one such phone for any website or outfit that wants to verify my "real-world" identity, because frankly I don't want marketing calls to my personal phone and I don't trust organizations with my information.
On the post: DailyDirt: More 'All Natural' Ingredients Are Coming...
Frankenbread
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/the-shocking-truth-about -bread-413156.html
Even the French are going overboard for this crap. Yes, the French. The land of the crusty baguette, where finding the freshest loaf from the finest boulangerie is (was) the leading national pastime. If you're into healthy food, I recommend reading Andrew Whitley's "Bread Matters". Even if you never get to make your own, it shows just how much our food is being screwed with.
On the post: DailyDirt: More 'All Natural' Ingredients Are Coming...
We have a saying in Europe (well, maybe it was just my family) - if a product's 'E' numbers add up to over 1000, don't buy it; it's probably not good for you.
On the post: Namespaces, Intellectual Property, Dependencies And A Big Giant Mess
Re: Re: Re: Numbers are the answer to remove petiness from the world of IP
Be seeing you.
On the post: Ignorant Bigot Arrested In UK For Tweeting About Being An Obnoxious Ignorant Bigot
Re:
Here's a sad little factoid; as of 2008 British people were no longer able to freely forage for firewood in The Kings Forests. For health and safety reasons. God forbid That Sceptered Isle should ever need to go to war again, for their mighty army of middle-managers would surely lose.
On the post: Ignorant Bigot Arrested In UK For Tweeting About Being An Obnoxious Ignorant Bigot
Mathew P Doyle is indeed an ignorant bigot
I understand you're a "PR guy"? I would also love to know your thoughts on how to best go about attracting business in your line of work...
On the post: Namespaces, Intellectual Property, Dependencies And A Big Giant Mess
Re:
My biggest takeaway on this though are the comments from Sven Slootweg - open source is NOT as secure as we were led to believe.
On the post: Namespaces, Intellectual Property, Dependencies And A Big Giant Mess
Re: Numbers are the answer to remove petiness from the world of IP
On the post: Senator Wyden Warns That The Justice Department Is Lying To The Courts; Also Still Worried About Secret Law
Re: Get some BackBone, Wyden !
On the post: French Politicians Want To Create Ancillary Copyright In Thumbnail Images
Re: ... forty-third time's the charm?
This is the very definition of corruption: introducing a new law that grants your crony the right to set and demand a tax that usurps the property of others.
On the post: France Still Thinks It Regulates Entire Internet, Fines Google For Not Making Right To Be Forgotten Global
Re:
Although the fine is (only) €100k, I for one hope that Google appeal and continue to fight.
On the post: UK Teachers Report 4 Year Old Boy To The Terrorism Police For Drawing A Cucumber
What?
The British are a mongrel nation, and all the stronger for it. The problem they have is that their leadership is, at least since the latter half of the 20th Century, far too arrogant, and utterly clueless.
On the post: How Apple Could Lose By Winning: The DOJ's Next Move Could Be Worse
Re: Tax minimisation Vs Tax avoidance
A small point I'd like to add is that tax legislation is often drawn up and tailored to suit corporate tax minimisation schemes by organisations like ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council).
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_to_Create_Tax_Loopholes_or_Affect_Budgets_Etc.
A deeply insidious situation allowed to happen by those lazy and inept politicians you mention...
On the post: How Apple Could Lose By Winning: The DOJ's Next Move Could Be Worse
Re: Who could do this?
They'd contract it out to Apple.
On the post: John Oliver Explains Why You Should Side With Apple Over The FBI Better Than Most Journalists
Re: The Media Not Realizing That They Are Clueless Concerning Encryption
My take on this is that the goal is to access the endpoints. The easiest way to defeat encryption is not to brute force decrypt (which is hard, if not outright impossible) but to access an endpoint, and thereby gain access to the plaintext. This case against Apple is a step in that direction.
On the post: Author And Former Covert CIA Operative Barry Eisler On Why You Should Support Techdirt
Re: Re: Re:
I don't see the confusion, only further information on the issue. Also, Mike did not author that article, Kenneth Rashbaum & Liberty McAteer from Barton LLP did.
On the post: DailyDirt: Don't Make My Brown Eyes Blue!
Awesome
And yes, that person got laid...
On the post: GCHQ Boss Says Tech Companies, Government Should Work Together To Give The Government What It Wants
The UK is a land where anti-terror laws have been widely abused against "bin-crimes". Yes, people who's rubbish bins were not parked on the kerb correctly. People who's bin lids were not fully down. That sort of stuff. Bin-crime, it really is a thing in That Sceptered Isle.
The truly Orwellian RIPA laws. David Blunkett, Home Secretary under Tony Blair, was so pleased with RIPA that he wanted to follow it up with RIPA2, which was so utterly, unspeakably awful that his own son had to tell him to back off.
On the post: Guy Who Pretends He Invented Email Whines At Every Journalist For Writing Obit Of Guy Who Actually Helped Create Email
Re: Ray did more than just work on email
+1 Couldn't have said it better myself...
On the post: DRM Is Evil, Part 8,492: Nook Pulls Out Of UK, Exploring Options To Let People Retain Access To At Least Some Books
Re: Old Tech
But I avoid DRM like the plague. Everything I have is format shifted and managed by Calibre. If you've never come across this application, I strongly recommend it.
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