Geek Note : Service Interruption Possible
Guido is doing a full dress-rehearsal of his host mirroring system today. There should be no noticeable interruption to the blog. The Californian server's 70 megabytes of contents were mirrored on a back-up server in an entirely different legal jurisdiction yesterday.
The intention is to switch servers seamlessly, see how it performs under the traffic load, then switch back to California - without losing a single comment. Isn't technology wonderful?
So anyone thinking of wielding a legal hammer, better get a bigger hammer.
The intention is to switch servers seamlessly, see how it performs under the traffic load, then switch back to California - without losing a single comment. Isn't technology wonderful?
So anyone thinking of wielding a legal hammer, better get a bigger hammer.
25 comments:
it's a sad day when you have to literally move continent in order to say what you think....
having said that, isn't sweden a better choice? i think they're very relaxed about most things internet related
Or Belize? The US/UK extradition laws don't often work in favour of UK Citizens - so I don't imagine publishing/slander laws are any less bendy.
Good on ya Guido - I rang my Dad and told him the name of the "Royal". He was most impressed and is not an avid reader.
"The intention is to switch servers seamlessly, see how it performs under the traffic load, then switch back to California - without losing a single comment."
Any chance you could lose Poisonous Kevin's? Despite his posting under several aliases they're easy to spot because of the shit spelling and bizarre fixations with happy slapping and paedophiles.
Have you thought about using the Principality of Sealand for legal reasons?
More info here -
http://www.havenco.com/
A bigger hammer? Or maybe just a Great Clunking Fist? He is her Minister, you know...!
More power to you for publishing the name, but wouldn't it have been smarter to keep quiet until this test had been successfully completed?
Backing up was the main thing.
Big Hammer - reminds me of an alleged quote by Cyril Smith MP. When taunted about the size of his posterior, responded with the statement that it takes a big hammer to drive home a long nail!
SHouldn't blackmail victims get anonymity though? (at least until the end of the trial).
Otherwise why risk reporting a blackmail to the police as it will automatically mean that the blackmailer has won.
How does the location of your servers effect your personal legal position Guido? You can still be sued as an individual or be prosecuted for contempt regardless so long as you personally remain on these shores.
Examine your premises.
The Daily Telegraph is looking for nominations for their 'Great Britons' of 2007.
If every reader of this blog logged on to www.greatbritons.org and voted for David Cameron, he would walk it. Let's do it, and show Broon up!
Great britons site has collapsed. I can't nominate anyone.
I was intending to nominate Viscount Linley.
anon 12.48
It's "Great Britons" not "Great Cocksuckers"!!
"It's "Great Britons" not "Great Cocksuckers"!!"
Ha ha ha! That's brilliant!
Sealand seem quite keen on libel law and laws relating to individuals etc seems to be more aimed at businesses than political dissidents... (correct me if I'm wrong)
whilst i abhore most of the seedy things the internet allows , freedom of speech and expression is vital. if gordo tries to put the clampers on guido and others , he will look more like stalin.
put this way if he stops you guido we have a number of other ways of getting our message across on the internet. the more he represses the more we will fight back for our freedoms .
It’s a measure of the incompetence of those that shape our political system that thinks it can place controls technological events.
Flat earth "forward to the past" ideas out of step and out of time.
Its pityful.
What a week so far:
No Bin Tax - then still Bin Tax,
No Pay as you drive - then still pay as you drive,
No extra immigrants - then 1.5 Million of them,
No Foreign Secretary present at the visit of the big cheeze of the Gulf (A variant on the proverbial diplomatic cold?).
Does one detect that Gordo having bottled the election is now trying hard to delay the vote-loosing ideas he has already signed up to with the accursed EU?
Agreed anymong 3.02pm.
British laws are out of step with current technology, considering the case of a certain royal in the news at the mo. Nothing on a name in the uk newspapers, shit loads on american media blogs news sites and just about anywhere else other than UK.
What a farce, they never learn the more you try to hide it the more interest it promotes, its a shame because nobody really gives a toss anyway.
Good old brit press gagged and stupid, another dead in the water institution, no guts no chance!
Guido
What you should do is talk to a honest lawyer. I know there is no such thing, so finding a slightly less crooked one, might have to do.
Then get them to draft a simple set of rules so we can all avoid being sued.
Mind you I would love to be taken to court for most of the things I say. The money I could make with all that publicity would more then pay for anything they could possibly take from me.
They also cant touch your home if other people live in it. Or the tools of your trade.
"Atlas shrugged at 17:01"
"The tools of your trade"
In the case of Gordo "rocking arse" Brown are the "tools" of his trade his fellow cabinet members?
re 17:52 the word verification was "txcfu" - seems apposite
:-)
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