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Comment: Re:This is in fact an entirely reasonable proposal (Score 1) 312

by nickos (#27828407) Attached to: UK Possibly Exploring "Google Tax"





Comment: Re:Windows 7 should go back to home and pro setup (Score 1) 864

by nickos (#26510881) Attached to: Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista's

dump the retail/OEM distinction too


Comment: Re:Where exactly is child porn legal to host (Score 2, Informative) 309

by nickos (#26469789) Attached to: Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters

Comment: Re:Saving emails (Score 3, Insightful) 115

by nickos (#26398299) Attached to: UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed

Sweden regarded free? You must be joking.




+ - UK Local Councils Spy on Emails and Calls->

Submitted by MrSteveSD
MrSteveSD (801820) writes "The Daily Mail is reporting that local councils have been using the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) to spy on peoples phone and email records. Reasons given for the surveillance include checking for evidence of people storing petrol without permission and investigating unburied animal carcasses. The surveillance was uncovered using the Freedom of Information Act. The scope of the RIPA act is staggering. It would be simpler to list who isn't allowed to access your phone and email records. Aside from political action, what can be done technologically to combat this threat? Use Skype rather than the normal telephone?"
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+ - Codeplex fails; MS doesn't understand Open Source

Submitted by nickos
nickos (91443) writes "Microsoft's answer to SourceForge, CodePlex is supposed to be "Microsoft's open source project hosting web site" where users can "Start a new project, join an existing one, or download software created by the community". Why is it then that despite being released on Microsoft's CodePlex website, there is no source code available for Sandcastle (a "Documentation Compiler for Managed Class Libraries")? Sandcastle has been released under the Ms-PL (Microsoft Public License) which does not explicitly state source code must be available, but since it's an OSI approved license it has to conform strictly to the OSI definition which includes the requirement that "The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form".

There's a good discussion of the problem on Sandcastle's discussion board here. Looks like Microsoft's still having problems getting it's head around open source."

+ - Water leak at Slovenian nuclear power plant->

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Mak writes "A faulty valve caused a water leak at a nuclear power plant in southwestern Slovenia that raised alarms across Europe a day earlier, officials said Thursday. This is the first time that a State activates the European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange (ECURIE). In Italy and in Croatia there are no reported rises in radiation levels and the Slovenian government says that "Everything is normal." I live in Italy, at 140 km from Krsko and I have a warm and fuzzy feeling about this story."
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+ - UK government to outlaw cartoons of child abuse

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An anonymous reader writes "The British government announced proposals on Wednesday to make possession of drawings and computer-generated images of child abuse illegal. Many will say "fair enough", but others worry this will be yet another piece of ill-conceived legislation from the current government. From this article at The Register:

Professor Julian Petley is an expert on media policy and regulation. He believes this government "won't rest content until it has terrified people into viewing only material which bears the official seal of moral approval — an ambition which it shares with Iran, Saudi Arabia and China."

He adds: "For a government which boasts of its commitment to 'deregulation' and new technology, this measure, taken in conjunction with the anti-porn proposals in the Criminal Justice Bill, presents an utterly ludicrous spectacle and one which reduces the UK to an international laughing stock."

+ - UK to Criminalise Virtual Child Pornography 1

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Brian Ribbon

+ - UK proposes banning computer generated abuse->

Submitted by peterprior
peterprior (319967) writes "The UK Justice Minister is planning to outlaw computer generated images and drawings of child sex abuse. While photographs and videos of child sex abuse are already illegal, undoubtedly to protect children from being exploited by these acts, what children will be protected by this new law? If there is no actual child involved is the law merely protecting against the possibility of offenders committing future crimes against real children?"
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