Deke

There's just one thing I don't understand, Doc...

Sunday, April 15, 2012 1:00:07 AM

paypal, Money, politics, avoidance, stupidity, amazon, Weirdness, ecchh, tax, internet, capitalism, ebay, hacking, rant, crime

There's going to be a steady flow of internet hackers leaving the UK shores bound for the USA after the EU courts decided that although their crimes took place in Britain, the servers upon which they were committed were in the US.

Using this same logic, companies like Amazon, Ebay, and Paypal are getting away with paying no tax on their UK sales.

Is it really more important that a few hackers get tried abroad than that we recuperate all that money the exchequer is losing?

I think we should be told.

A concerned citizen writes:-Australian research makes elections unnecessary.

Comments

DHdarkesthour # Sunday, April 15, 2012 4:56:27 AM

Internet crime is so cosmopolitan these days

Deke # Monday, April 16, 2012 1:50:39 AM

I wish I knew what 'Cosmopolitan' actually meant, then I could agree with you.

Or call you a rissole.

DHdarkesthour # Monday, April 16, 2012 2:13:14 AM

Dunno, I read about it in a magazine somewhere

Deke # Monday, April 16, 2012 2:30:56 AM

'Somewhere' magazine. Of course!

Never heard of it.

DHdarkesthour # Monday, April 16, 2012 2:37:17 AM

There was only ever one copy, and I have it

Deke # Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:48:06 AM

It's what Ebay was invented for.

catseopcat # Thursday, April 19, 2012 5:36:58 AM

I did not understand everything but I think you talk of new laws
may be that the states will think twice before giving in to majors who want to make maximum money on the backs of artists and of we

Deke # Friday, April 20, 2012 1:18:36 AM

Thanks to organisations like Avaaz we've been able to fight off most of big businesses attempts to take over the internet, but with all their money they'll just keep trying until they win.

That'll be the day I shut down my 'net connection for the last time.

catseopcat # Friday, April 20, 2012 6:08:59 AM

have you sign ?

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa_corporate_global/?fp

Deke # Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:12:12 PM

Absolutley.

The sooner some country opens up a duplicate A-drive based outside the USA the better.

catseopcat # Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:21:51 PM

yes it's right , I have also signed
a duplicata ? i don't understand the word in your sentence

Deke # Monday, April 23, 2012 12:39:39 AM

You know how you can add other drives to your computer? The drive in your computer has to control all the others, that makes it the A drive.

The internet is like millions of drives, and the A drive is run by the US military. They could cut the internet off right now if they wanted to.

A couple of countries have declared they were going to install A drives of their own. So far the USA have bought them both off.

catseopcat # Monday, April 23, 2012 4:14:13 AM

you talk about servers
the servers are very expensive to be effective , where they take money to make them independent , is there possible to be independant , with the internet system ?I don't think so

we( specialists) should have a prospective reflection ,by example: the world is invaded ... the invaders want cut internet .... now how we can do a new "internet" , an other method
else we will have always a Damocles sword

Deke # Tuesday, April 24, 2012 2:58:22 AM

I'm pretty sure that if anyone installed a second A drive it would cause chaos, but if the invaders were to cut off the 'net by destroying the US A drive I have a theory that the internet could actually continue without it.

Before the internet there was the BBNet, which was simply the equivalent of ISPs running their own little 'net, but linking up with all the other little internets.

I figure it would still work.

But I hope it doesn't take an alien invasion to find out.

catseopcat # Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:19:25 AM

I wait an other way for internet , maybe the BBnet , I see it is still alive
http://era.utt.fr/fr/projets_de_recherche/anr_bbnet.html

Deke # Thursday, April 26, 2012 2:32:02 AM

They can't call it that!

I'll sue.

catseopcat # Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:25:13 AM

it's affiliate at the CNRS ! not a mini organisation ... , CNRS

http://www.cnrs.fr/en/aboutCNRS/institutes.htm

maybe the documentation is old

Deke # Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:28:28 PM

1939.

OK, that probably beats 'somewhere around the mid-80s'...

...but I bet the Bulletin Board Network thought of BBNet before them...

catseopcat # Thursday, April 26, 2012 2:03:51 PM

I see on a forum
4 octobre 2007
The team ERA (Autonomous Network Environments) of the ICD (FRE CNRS 2848) offers a post-doctoral
The inscription for the post-doctoral is a part of the project ANR-RNRT BBNet (Behavior Based Network) which includes the University of Paris 6, UTT and society Ginkgo Networks
Institut Charles Delaunay - FRE CNRS 2848

http://deptmedia.cnam.fr/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5651

Deke # Friday, April 27, 2012 1:08:39 AM

Well why didn't they say so before? I'm glad that's been sorted out.