Comments on: Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an "Intellectual Property address" http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 12:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757250 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757250 After he is slung out on his ear, Timms can form a doublethink-tank with Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens. After he is slung out on his ear, Timms can form a doublethink-tank with Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens.

]]> By: benher http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-756996 benher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-756996 Wait,... it doesn't stand for Internet Porn? Wait,… it doesn’t stand for Internet Porn?

]]> By: Justin Forder http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-758277 Justin Forder Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758277 I had the pleasure of working with Stephen Timms at Logica, and he is a very bright and honourable person. I doubt very much that this was his mistake. I had the pleasure of working with Stephen Timms at Logica, and he is a very bright and honourable person. I doubt very much that this was his mistake.

]]> By: politeruin http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757766 politeruin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757766 Interesting. He didn't include that passage when he wrote to me on behalf of my mp. Mine was dated 8 december 2009, compare and contrast... http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/File:Digital_economy_bill_-_response_from_Stephen_Timms_MP.pdf Interesting. He didn’t include that passage when he wrote to me on behalf of my mp. Mine was dated 8 december 2009, compare and contrast…

http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/File:Digital_economy_bill_-_response_from_Stephen_Timms_MP.pdf

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757000 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757000 Brilliant! Not surprising, but a welcome reminder that our politicians are amateurs - they have no specialised knowledge and rely entirely on advisers to brief them. (It used to be one of the strengths of the House of Lords that debates were more likely to involve people who knew their subject, but that too has gone now the Lords are there only by virtue of the PM's patronage - a change that I don't remember voting for.) Brilliant! Not surprising, but a welcome reminder that our politicians are amateurs – they have no specialised knowledge and rely entirely on advisers to brief them. (It used to be one of the strengths of the House of Lords that debates were more likely to involve people who knew their subject, but that too has gone now the Lords are there only by virtue of the PM’s patronage – a change that I don’t remember voting for.)

]]> By: WalterBillington http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757001 WalterBillington Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757001 Surely this starts to erode the validity of the bill? And who spells "Tims" "Timms"? He's an upper class twat, that's who he is. Or a lower class scoundrel wannabe. Or a very left leaning something or other ... oh no, prob not. Politicians will only ever strive for influence, power, and the ability to dip their mucky paws into the honey pot. Surely this starts to erode the validity of the bill?

And who spells “Tims” “Timms”? He’s an upper class twat, that’s who he is. Or a lower class scoundrel wannabe. Or a very left leaning something or other … oh no, prob not.

Politicians will only ever strive for influence, power, and the ability to dip their mucky paws into the honey pot.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757769 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757769 "Our future is being decided by idiots!!" And in other news, ursine mammals defecate in arboreal areas, and Joseph Alois Ratzinger is a member of the Catholic church. All politicians are idiots; I think it's part of their job description. “Our future is being decided by idiots!!”

And in other news, ursine mammals defecate in arboreal areas, and Joseph Alois Ratzinger is a member of the Catholic church.

All politicians are idiots; I think it’s part of their job description.

]]> By: Vili Lehdonvirta http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757012 Vili Lehdonvirta Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757012 And TCP stands for trademarks, copyrights and patents. Hence TCP/IP. And TCP stands for trademarks, copyrights and patents. Hence TCP/IP.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-758806 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758806 @#26 - knowledge of the industry you're in isn't a requirement for being in management. As long as you can produce colourful flowcharts, that's all that is required. And that is the problem with the world today - dumbf**ks in charge of everything. A spin-off of this problem is that everyone will end up majoring in business and management because 'the money's better', and there will be no one with real skills left in 40 years time (either all retired, or dead from working to fill in the gap from an increasing lack of skilled workers). Future generations are truely screwed. @#26 – knowledge of the industry you’re in isn’t a requirement for being in management. As long as you can produce colourful flowcharts, that’s all that is required. And that is the problem with the world today – dumbf**ks in charge of everything. A spin-off of this problem is that everyone will end up majoring in business and management because ‘the money’s better’, and there will be no one with real skills left in 40 years time (either all retired, or dead from working to fill in the gap from an increasing lack of skilled workers). Future generations are truely screwed.

]]> By: alecmuffett http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757017 alecmuffett Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757017 That's _my_ joke, Andrew! Bah, I shall have to claim my Digital Rights upon it! http://twitter.com/alecmuffett/statuses/11871406596 "The British Internet is filled with Traffic Containing Pirated Intellectual Property (TCP/IP) - write to your MP to have it banned immediately!" I think banning TCP-IP from the British Internet would be a strong statement for this Government to make, and be a powerful force to aid the adoption of proper, _British_ (ahem) technologies like X.25! That’s _my_ joke, Andrew!

Bah, I shall have to claim my Digital Rights upon it!

http://twitter.com/alecmuffett/statuses/11871406596

“The British Internet is filled with Traffic Containing Pirated Intellectual Property (TCP/IP) – write to your MP to have it banned immediately!”

I think banning TCP-IP from the British Internet would be a strong statement for this Government to make, and be a powerful force to aid the adoption of proper, _British_ (ahem) technologies like X.25!

]]> By: Blue http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757277 Blue Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757277 Then why have we got the House of Commons? Then why have we got the House of Commons?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757800 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757800 The mp3-file doesn't contain an IP-address, but you can track from where you download, while you download. The mp3-file doesn’t contain an IP-address, but you can track from where you download, while you download.

]]> By: igpajo http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-756784 igpajo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-756784 Our future is being decided by idiots!! Our future is being decided by idiots!!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-756786 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-756786 if that's real, it is beyond shocking. holy cow if that’s real, it is beyond shocking. holy cow

]]> By: Glenn Fleishman http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-756790 Glenn Fleishman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-756790 From what I'm reading, it sounds like there is a slim chance that this will be held up in some post-parliamentary move that is beyond my understanding of English politic procedure? Or is that just a dream? From what I’m reading, it sounds like there is a slim chance that this will be held up in some post-parliamentary move that is beyond my understanding of English politic procedure? Or is that just a dream?

]]> By: zyodei http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757051 zyodei Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757051 I caught the comments in the other thread, and I was gobsmacked by it. I agree it's not just a simple typo, but a fundamental misunderstanding of this basic technical issue. If it were just any old MP, it wouldn't matter. The head of "Digital Britain" - it's an outrageous gaffe. I caught the comments in the other thread, and I was gobsmacked by it.

I agree it’s not just a simple typo, but a fundamental misunderstanding of this basic technical issue. If it were just any old MP, it wouldn’t matter. The head of “Digital Britain” – it’s an outrageous gaffe.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-758333 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758333 I agree that either some assistant "proofread" and incorrectly "corrected" the memo, or that Microsoft Word, thinking it knew better than the author, expanded it to its full "incorrect meaning." I agree that either some assistant “proofread” and incorrectly “corrected” the memo, or that Microsoft Word, thinking it knew better than the author, expanded it to its full “incorrect meaning.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-758845 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758845 It is nice to know that you Brits are run by idiots just as the USA is. I don't feel so bad now. It is nice to know that you Brits are run by idiots just as the USA is. I don’t feel so bad now.

]]> By: Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-756798 Cory Doctorow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-756798 AFAIK, it has to go back to the Lords for a rubberstamp, and then the Queen has to sign it. I think there's a slim chance that it could die in the former, and no chance at all it will die in the latter. Much of the worst stuff in the bill has to be brought in as "secondary legislation," meaning that we might be able to demand a full debate and so on then. AFAIK, it has to go back to the Lords for a rubberstamp, and then the Queen has to sign it. I think there’s a slim chance that it could die in the former, and no chance at all it will die in the latter.

Much of the worst stuff in the bill has to be brought in as “secondary legislation,” meaning that we might be able to demand a full debate and so on then.

]]> By: Boba Fett Diop http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757313 Boba Fett Diop Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757313 It's a series of tubes! It’s a series of tubes!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-758344 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758344 secondary legislation is rarely debated. secondary legislation is rarely debated.

]]> By: tw15 http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-756810 tw15 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-756810 Microsoft Word's autocomplete feature is probably partly to blame. The devil is in the details. Microsoft Word’s autocomplete feature is probably partly to blame. The devil is in the details.

]]> By: Baldhead http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757331 Baldhead Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757331 if there's any doubt about typo/ not typo- the sentence makes no sense at all if IP means Internet Protocol. Is there and IP address in an mp3? either kind even? They've put a man who can't swim in charge of the Navy. if there’s any doubt about typo/ not typo- the sentence makes no sense at all if IP means Internet Protocol. Is there and IP address in an mp3? either kind even? They’ve put a man who can’t swim in charge of the Navy.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-758102 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758102 Digital Economy Pill - http://depill.me/ Digital Economy Pill – http://depill.me/

]]> By: teapot http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-756824 teapot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-756824 copy paste fail? Mistakes like this need to be rubbed in the face of the person responsible. copy paste fail?

Mistakes like this need to be rubbed in the face of the person responsible.

]]> By: Thac0 http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757080 Thac0 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757080 This guy needs to get tossed out on his ear. This guy needs to get tossed out on his ear.

]]> By: hadlock http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-756826 hadlock Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-756826 Hell of a Freudian slip Hell of a Freudian slip

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757861 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757861 Nope. IP stands for Idiot Politician Nope. IP stands for Idiot Politician

]]> By: VonWatters http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-757094 VonWatters Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-757094 head -> keyboard despairing groan head -> keyboard
despairing groan

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html#comment-756840 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-756840 Surely this man should simply not be allowed to pass legislation in areas he clearly doesn't understand? If this erroneous definition is a core tenet of the bill, then it undermines the whole thing, and it ought to be thrown out as a bad job. Surely this man should simply not be allowed to pass legislation in areas he clearly doesn’t understand? If this erroneous definition is a core tenet of the bill, then it undermines the whole thing, and it ought to be thrown out as a bad job.

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