[LINK] Fwd: Bruceb News - Microsoft Is Not Playing Nicely With Your Internet Connection

It may not be a privacy problem, but it is a data usage/storage problem. We're back to the discussion recently about assumptions re the end user situation. What is particularly appalling is the on-going data quota peer-to-peer issue. It's ok on your own home network, but not outside. That's

[LINK] Artificial eLife Forms

Here's some useful boilerplate for the Terms of Service for your next design for an imaginary world: >In order to allow persons who are Guests on our Site to experience the type of >communications they can expect as Members, we create profiles that can >interact with them. You acknowledge and

Re: [LINK] RFI: Quality in Emergency Phone-Location

At 09:00 AM 15/09/2015, Tom Worthington wrote: >The Federal Government has obtained increased powers to carry out >surveillance of citizens in cases of terrorism, but it takes five days >to triangulate the signals from cell towers to find someone in danger? I had a similar experience at the

Re: [LINK] RFI: Quality in Emergency Phone-Location

On 12 September 2015 at 14:09, Roger Clarke wrote: > > > I'm wondering how come it took 5 extra days to get "more precise > information on where her phone last contacted a tower". > > My guess is she is a Telstra customer so the connection to Black Mountain tower was

Re: [LINK] John Birmingham's Chicken Theory of Copyright

Given that KFC tastes very similar to traditional Thai recipes the example is an interesting choice? On 14 September 2015 at 18:27, Tom Worthington wrote: > Greetings from the Senate Alcove of Australian Parliament House in > Canberra, where John Birmingham is

Re: [LINK] RFI: Quality in Emergency Phone-Location

On 12/09/15 14:09, Roger Clarke wrote: > A young woman was missing for 6 days just outside Canberra. ... I'm > wondering how come it took 5 extra days to get "more precise > information on where her phone last contacted a tower". ... Yes, fortunately there was no fatality, but as a result there

[LINK] John Birmingham's Chicken Theory of Copyright

Greetings from the Senate Alcove of Australian Parliament House in Canberra, where John Birmingham is speaking on copyright, using on an analogy to fast food chicken recipes. This is at an event organized by the Copyright Agency, for the launch of the book Copyfight, edited by Phillipa

Re: [LINK] web: Microsoft's Windows 10 is recording your voice and your key strokes - here' ...

On 14/09/15 14:30, Scott Howard wrote: [working around a top-post, thanks Scott] > Realistically what needs to happen is that Microsoft should be forced to > state they are doing this the very first time that you boot into Windows 10. The very first time you "boot into Windows 10" you are given