Not quite sure why you feel a need to blame the victim.
All kinds of factors such as marketing, novelty, efficiency, and green values have been pushing eBooks and electronic readers down peoples throats for at least a decade. When the choice is DRM or nothing what exactly are people supposed to do?
I think it's unfair to call the lack of understanding around a complex and technical issue such as DRM as "stupid".
Well I'm really confused. Why is this narrowed down to just children? If this is truly related to privacy, then surely anyone posting a picture of anyone else would come under this. Which would shut down Tumblr (in France).
From the Telegraph: "Some parents have been forced to remove naked pictures of babies or young children"
Well ok, but that's not even remotely the same issue as privacy. Maybe I'm missing something (or forgot to take my crazy pills) but I suspect something is being conflated here, and it's hard to tell if it's the French with their comedy lawmaking or The Telegraph desperately trying to be The Guardian.
Barnes Wallace confessed to Wing Commander Gibson that the "bouncing bomb" was not completely his idea, and that Lord Nelson found that he could increase the destructive power of cannonballs by getting them to ricochet off the water.
BW: "Usually he pitched them about two thirds of the way between his guns and the target. But there is some evidence to suggest that during the Battle of the Nile he dismissed the French flagship with a yorker."
This patent is 99.5% business rules liberally sprinkled with computer keywords, such as RAM, pointing device, storage...
It mentions the word "invention" many times, but it reads like "these are our processes for marketing insurance policies". There's nothing at all inventive about that.
Notwithstanding the obviousness of it all, I'm trying to get my head around how "this is how we do business" could possibly be patentable. It's almost as though the patent process is being used to stifle, or at least control, competition.
I don't know what Techdirt's traffic is and I don't particularly care. What I DO know is that Alexa is not the place to go to for reliable information.
Site rankings and SEO are horrible distortions. Your suspicions may be valid, but again, I simply don't care. Techdirt is a business. Mike Masnick is in business. So we should be surprised if he acts businesslike?
The first time you mentioned Alexa I put it down to blissful ignorance. The second time, well, it just saddened me. Please don't go for the trifecta...
You do know, don't you, just how worthless Alexa is, right? It's wide open to abuse and it's technical model has so many failings I wouldn't know where to begin.
True, but that gives the Brits the opportunity to filter and massage said data. And I'm not convinced that 5-eyes is all that cosy. I just don't see "M" putting that much faith in Stephen Harper, or Tony Abbott. Or even David "porky" Cameron, come to think of it...
Forgot to comment that this is good news. Kilton Public Library, and Alison Macrina and her team, can bask in the warm, fuzzy glow of heartfelt appreciation from people like me, who use TOR to bypass filtering like Websense, and state and EU level censorship.
That's also my take on this. There must be ample evidence to convict both Farook and Malik. Cracking open their phones will add nothing. This as a test case; in this battle of wills, if they can force Apple to comply with backdooring their flagship product, it will solidify the principle that state security overrules personal security.
"If you have nothing to hide" be damned. It doesn't help that lazy and inept blowhards in the press are compliant with this travesty.
Over the last 16 months, as I've debated this issue around the world, every single time somebody has said to me, "I don't really worry about invasions of privacy because I don't have anything to hide." I always say the same thing to them. I get out a pen, I write down my email address. I say, "Here's my email address. What I want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords to all of your email accounts, not just the nice, respectable work one in your name, but all of them, because I want to be able to just troll through what it is you're doing online, read what I want to read and publish whatever I find interesting. After all, if you're not a bad person, if you're doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide." Not a single person has taken me up on that offer.
Not heard this weeks yet, but part one last week was super-good. Barry Eisler is a pretty cool guy. I'm going to look out for the book (The God's Eye View).
Also, thanks for the Pocket Casts tip a while back; I've been using it since I switched from IOS to Android.
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Re: Avast me hearties!
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Re: DRM, Barnes and Nuisance
Not quite sure why you feel a need to blame the victim.
All kinds of factors such as marketing, novelty, efficiency, and green values have been pushing eBooks and electronic readers down peoples throats for at least a decade. When the choice is DRM or nothing what exactly are people supposed to do?
I think it's unfair to call the lack of understanding around a complex and technical issue such as DRM as "stupid".
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From the Telegraph: "Some parents have been forced to remove naked pictures of babies or young children"
Well ok, but that's not even remotely the same issue as privacy. Maybe I'm missing something (or forgot to take my crazy pills) but I suspect something is being conflated here, and it's hard to tell if it's the French with their comedy lawmaking or The Telegraph desperately trying to be The Guardian.
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Re: Machine beating man...
BW: "Usually he pitched them about two thirds of the way between his guns and the target. But there is some evidence to suggest that during the Battle of the Nile he dismissed the French flagship with a yorker."
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Re: Maybe we should change their titles...
Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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Blowing Smoke
If they can tell what their foreign targets are talking about, then clearly their communications are insecure.
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A High Level of Abstraction Indeed
It mentions the word "invention" many times, but it reads like "these are our processes for marketing insurance policies". There's nothing at all inventive about that.
Notwithstanding the obviousness of it all, I'm trying to get my head around how "this is how we do business" could possibly be patentable. It's almost as though the patent process is being used to stifle, or at least control, competition.
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Politics by Other Means
Destabilize.
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Site rankings and SEO are horrible distortions. Your suspicions may be valid, but again, I simply don't care. Techdirt is a business. Mike Masnick is in business. So we should be surprised if he acts businesslike?
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You're entitled to your opinion, even if it's wrong.
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You do know, don't you, just how worthless Alexa is, right? It's wide open to abuse and it's technical model has so many failings I wouldn't know where to begin.
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Tone deaf
Whoever made that comment has no sense of irony; narrow-minded entitlement is an attitude all too common in law enforcement.
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Re: It's all about precedent
"If you have nothing to hide" be damned. It doesn't help that lazy and inept blowhards in the press are compliant with this travesty.
On the post: Guardian Tech Reporter: Apple Should Help FBI Break Into iPhone Because I Don't Consider Privacy All That Important
Quoting Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald in Why privacy matters - TED Talk [from privacytools.io]
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*crickets*
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Re: Not a fight to pick right now
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Somehow I think even she has limits.....
And... are disco's still a thing? LOL
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Also, thanks for the Pocket Casts tip a while back; I've been using it since I switched from IOS to Android.
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