"So how does that fit in with a copyrighted retail DVD, which is licensed for home viewing, but not on oil rigs, coaches, prisons and schools?"
The rights they are dictating there are "performance rights" which come under an entirely seperate set of laws which have very little to do with "copyright" which is what we/you/they/us are discussing here.
If you "show" a DVD or "play" a CD (or motion/still pictures and/or music on any other medium/method of delivery) to viewers/listeners outside your home (or even inside your home under certain circumstances), it becomes a "public performance" of the content - nothing to do with copyright whatsoever. Please try a different analogy.
Unless I'm completely out of date (which I don't think I am) you have to be over 18 to have a credit card, so if an online credit card transaction takes place, you must be selling to an 18 year old.
Yes! I know they could be using a parent's card but that then becomes the responsibility of the parent - not the retailer.
It just so happens, that in the diving world, a knife is an essential item of safety equipment (cutting free from entanglement etc.) so I don't see how they can ban the online sale of an essential piece of safety equipment. It's the usual knee-jerk UK reaction.
Yes, but at the border, the security guy can see if someone is holding up a photo in front of their real face...
What we really need is for everyone to be implanted at birth with a unique identifying device that can't be removed or compromised, which can then be used for all identification purposes!
"The only effective theft prevention it to have the laptop locked onto something. Government officials carrying confidential material on their laptops should have them cuffed to their wrists."
No, no, no...... They should have it cuffed to their balls, then, when some miscreant grabs it to run, they'll be painfully reminded why they shouldn't be taking it home in the first place!
Steve Renouf
Too late! @ Doesn't anybody see the problem with this? →#
I run it on the same AMD64 4Gb RAM machine that I run Ubuntu 8.04 and 64Studio and they both fly compared to Vista which, even with Aero disabled, still does an extremely amazing impression of a tortoise!
Also, it keeps wanting to change my Nvidia Raid drivers from my latest ones to ones that are over 2 years old!?! Like, yeah! I'm really going to let it do that!
Thai cuisine is by far the best in terms of variety of taste & spiciness.
Although, where the IT angle is... Ah! I've got it! The IT angle is that you can order all the ingredients online using your PC, to make your own Thai food!
"Witnessing recent events in Georgia, I'm just saddened that Russia and China still exist in their present form - instead of being non-nuclear nations under joint U.S. and British occupation, to be followed by a lengthy period of colonial tutelage."
WOT!? Like Burma & Uganda, for example? That sure showed them!
Steve Renouf
Physical possession of the card does not mean ownership →#
"The CCV (or CVV ?) code on the back of the card is to stop credit card fraud."
Yes it was but, of course they soon discovered the fatal flaw in that - if someone has stolen your card, they can simply read the number off the back!! DUH!
No system will completely stop fraud but at least this reduces it considerably by the user having to know some security information which is not obtainable by purely having possession of the card.
The system is now mandatory for e-tailers (at least those on Streamline).
"In any case, historical claims are suspect in any case. Denmark might as well claim to get the city of York back, as it was founded by the Danes and "unrightfully" taken from them by the Saxons. Once a certain period of time has passed, current occupation of land or material assets is what matter."
Yes. Exactly. Otherwise, all those Europeans whose forefathers stole land from the native (Americans, Africans, Australians, Maories, etc., etc.) would have to fuck off back where they came from!
Steve Renouf
@ "but nuke the house and the roaches are gone" →#
Errr... No. At that time they weren't yet English - Saxons = German. They subsequently were assimilated into what became the "English". (a mixture of Angle, Briton, Saxon, Nordic, etc..
"In 409 a major Saxon invasion took place in Britain without the Roman army to repel them."
Well, I just checked and my system tells me FF3 has been installed on my PC (actually, it would be all of them - once I've decided things are OK, I tend to install onto all my systems) since 2008/04/22 19:09:49 and I've had no issues with it at all.
I certainly find it far superior to MS's offering. I hear their new browser is going to be "more standards compliant" but will have a "broken mode" switch to enable all those badly designed websites (those only designed to work on previous versions of IE) to display correctly-ish.
The penguin because now I've managed to the TV tuner, Video editing and everything else to work in Linux now, I hardly ever have any reason to boot into Vista, XP, or W2K now. I think it will soon be time to recover all that disc space.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061017 Firefox/3.0
Ah well, if the traders are actually selling the goods in Euros, you know what they're charging for the goods in Euros before you start, so how can they be screwing you on exchange - when they are selling in Euros and you are buying in Euros, there is no exchange...
Unless, of course, they're not actually selling in Euros but merely giving an indication of what the exchange spot-rate "might" be when the bank does the exchange. Or , it could be that they calculated the Euro price (if they are actually selling in Euros) when they actually bought the goods based on what they paid for them at the time and the then exchange rate!?!
...and then there's the question of what currency they bought the goods in -
There are lots of factors involved in the pricing of goods - made even more complex when fluctuating exchange rates are involved in the calculations.
"For providing a correct pound to euro exchange rate and not have instances like thecrookpeople.co.uk who allow you to purchase in sterling but charge you in euros adding nearly 60% to the total without warning"
All exchange rates fluctuate constantly on the world currency markets - the "correct" rate isn't fixed anywhere.
Also, contrary to popular belief/merchant knocking, it's not the merchant that conducts the exchange, it's the cardholder's card issuer - if your account is in sterling, your bank will conduct the transaction in sterling - if your account is in euros, your bank will have to convert the transaction to euros in order to debit your account, so if someone is being charged exorbitant exchange rates, they should change banks. Typically, the banks charge a 3% spread on the spot rate at the time of conversion.
e.g. If the spot rate is £1 = €1.29 then the bank's £ purchase rate would be €1.30935 and the selling rate would be €1.27094 (based on 3% spread). Today's closing spot rate is £1 = €1.2656 so a £100 purchase should be converted to €101.50. If your bank is charging you more than that, I'd change banks.
Paris, because she probably doesn't understand how the banking system works either.
People don't want quality products any more - they want cheap, throw-away ones. They can't do, or they'd insist on only buying quality products and paying the price for them!
Most seem to be missing the fact that what the ASS of AMerica et al are aimimg for is their eutopia of everyone having to pay each time they watch/listen to/use something.
Anyone for getting back to only going to live performances? - that way, the artists get paid for the actual work they do and the leeches get nothing!
What a shame all these big companies don't spend their money on innovation and trying to produce better products than their competitors - instead of their current attitude of trying to sue each other out of existence.
I see people constantly going on about the WEP/WPA angle but very few people seem to mention about locking the connection down to specific allowed devices via their MAC addresses. If a hacker can't even connect to the router, how is he going to crack the WEP/WPA key anyway?
Someone did mention about the possibility of spoofing MAC addresses but they would need to know what MAC addresses are allowed to connect and their associated NAME.
Well, because I would use Ubuntu all the time if I could.
I can't remember the last time I had occasion to do that.. So how would I even see the opt-in/opt-out info? They would have to enclose it with the monthly bill in the post, requesting that I go to page........ if if I want to opt-in - otherwise it should be NOT opted-in by default.
There's one thing that's puzzling me in all this business...
Now, perhaps I'm unique in my use of this inter-thingy-wotsit but, when I go to the internet for browsing, my browser starts up with what I have set as my "homepage" and it has never been, nor ever will be, my ISPs "homepage". That being the case, how would I ever see that notice in order to be able to opt-out?? This is yet another reason why it MUST be OPT-IN ONLY!
Are there really that many people who have their ISPs "homepage" set in their browser. I never have any valid reason to go to my ISPs homepage - unless I want to check latest mobile/phone/services/prices or something - which are always notified in writing anyway if it's any changes to services I am already signed up for.
Perhaps my ISP isn't as big a scumbag as some of these others are?!? Although that could always change... Although there are still other issues - such as the 50 - 1 contention ratio!
Or think some more and you'll see that someone who currently holds a (enter country of choice) passport, may have problems freely entering and leaving the UK (to partake in their illegal activities) and would therefore benefit greatly from the freedom of movement that a British passort would give them...
Less hope they don't screw things up like M$ have by eliminating the ability to have multiple identities on ONE user ID/login.
I (and I'm sure there must be many others who also run several domains for themselves and customers) have a need to be able to setup several email identities with several IMAP accounts in each identity which i need to be able to switch back and forth without having to log in&out several windows user accounts!
This used to work OK in Lookout Expre$$ but M$ have b0rken it in Vista Mail so the only way to do it there is to have a seperate Window$ login for each identity (obviously M$ have absolutely NO IDEA how people work in the real world.
Still! It's not entirely the end of the world, I just dumped Vista Mail and installed Thunderbird - I just hope they don't b0rk it in the same way.
Paris because M$ are nearly as clueless as she is!
"..."Microsoft make no money out of IE,..." If it didn't make them money, it wouldn't be there, Ken........ but it appears to be a very incestuous affair"
Indeed. And, of course, if you consistently break standards and get it to the point where all developers end up having to build their webpages for your proprietory code to the extent that no other browsers will any longer work with the vast majority of websites so that, eventually, all the other browser manufacturers just give up, well, then, of course, you can stop bundling it with your OS and start charging extra for it!
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Steve Renouf
Wala?? → # ↑
Posted Friday 29th January 2010 13:01 GMT
In Windows 7 upgrades Vista laptops to lower battery life
Or maybe he's Thai...
Steve Renouf
Gays? → # ↑
Posted Monday 25th January 2010 15:43 GMT
In UK.gov uses booze to lure London kids into ID scheme
Well, not quite - you're forgetting the "don't knows" or the "not eithers"...
Steve Renouf
Different concept entirely... → # ↑
Posted Saturday 2nd January 2010 18:51 GMT
In Hackintosher's new line: Linux and T-shirts
"So how does that fit in with a copyrighted retail DVD, which is licensed for home viewing, but not on oil rigs, coaches, prisons and schools?"
The rights they are dictating there are "performance rights" which come under an entirely seperate set of laws which have very little to do with "copyright" which is what we/you/they/us are discussing here.
If you "show" a DVD or "play" a CD (or motion/still pictures and/or music on any other medium/method of delivery) to viewers/listeners outside your home (or even inside your home under certain circumstances), it becomes a "public performance" of the content - nothing to do with copyright whatsoever. Please try a different analogy.
Steve Renouf
Goose/Gander → #
Posted Wednesday 18th November 2009 12:22 GMT
In T-Mobile coughs to data theft
It's the usual "Let's fear-monger this totally out of proportion so that we can get our ulterior motive policies through easier" processes at work.
Steve Renouf
Never mind the photos... → #
Posted Monday 16th November 2009 15:12 GMT
In Cheerleaders in danger from cheerleading
Where's our mobil reconstruction??
Steve Renouf
#Charles 9 → #
Posted Thursday 1st October 2009 08:36 GMT
In Malware ecosystem thrives thanks to pay-per-install fees
"A lot of the activities are taking place in known "havens" where the authorities have little if any incentive or power to deal with them."
What, like the USA you mean??
***************************************************
Domain ID:D151825232-LROR
Domain Name:PAY-PER-INSTALL.ORG
Registrant Name:WhoisGuard Protected
Registrant Organization:WhoisGuard
Registrant Street1:8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 - 732
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Westchester
Registrant State/Province:CA
Registrant Postal Code:90045
Registrant Country:US
************************************************
Steve Renouf
Grammar Police! → #
Posted Monday 27th July 2009 19:45 GMT
In Botched judge threat probe downs Fathers 4 Justice website
"@Grease Monkey / #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 27th July 2009 14:51 GMT
>> also wish I had a quarter for every fool who doesn't know the difference between "their" and "there".
Indeed.
The same goes for Terry 9's use of "effect" instead of "affect"."
Not to mention things like "would of", "could of", "should of", etc., instead of "would have", "could have", "should have", etc..
Steve Renouf
Under-age Credit Card holders? → #
Posted Thursday 2nd July 2009 14:35 GMT
In Trading Standards calls for online knife sale ban
Unless I'm completely out of date (which I don't think I am) you have to be over 18 to have a credit card, so if an online credit card transaction takes place, you must be selling to an 18 year old.
Yes! I know they could be using a parent's card but that then becomes the responsibility of the parent - not the retailer.
It just so happens, that in the diving world, a knife is an essential item of safety equipment (cutting free from entanglement etc.) so I don't see how they can ban the online sale of an essential piece of safety equipment. It's the usual knee-jerk UK reaction.
Steve Renouf
@ Pete Foster → #
Posted Monday 20th April 2009 10:37 GMT
In Wikimedia becomes latest to ban Phorm
' Details for stopping Phorm can be found here:
http://www2.bt.com/static/i/btretail/webwise/help.html#how-do-i-prevent-webwise-from-scanning-my-site
I think the bit about using robots.txt is interesting. They are essentially saying, "If we can't spider, then nor can anybody else." '
Indeed! Little shits! I WANT Googlebot to index my sites = I DON'T WANT Phorm profiling my sites!
Steve Renouf
@Facial recognition at the border → #
Posted Thursday 19th February 2009 20:50 GMT
In Laptop facial recognition defeated by Photoshop
Yes, but at the border, the security guy can see if someone is holding up a photo in front of their real face...
What we really need is for everyone to be implanted at birth with a unique identifying device that can't be removed or compromised, which can then be used for all identification purposes!
;-¦
Steve Renouf
@Good work by the sun → #
Posted Wednesday 18th February 2009 13:20 GMT
In Rail workers get shirty with see-through blouses
Unfortunately though, I suspect most sights would, perhaps, not be quite as nice as that!...
Steve Renouf
@Torben Mogensen → #
Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 15:18 GMT
In Intel, Lenovo to foil laptop thieves
"The only effective theft prevention it to have the laptop locked onto something. Government officials carrying confidential material on their laptops should have them cuffed to their wrists."
No, no, no...... They should have it cuffed to their balls, then, when some miscreant grabs it to run, they'll be painfully reminded why they shouldn't be taking it home in the first place!
Steve Renouf
Too late! @ Doesn't anybody see the problem with this? → #
Posted Wednesday 26th November 2008 16:34 GMT
In Yes! It's the USB Toaster!
Too late! It's already been done!
http://www.the4cs.com/~corin/cse477/toaster/FAQ.shtml
Steve Renouf
French for Duhh! → #
Posted Wednesday 22nd October 2008 12:09 GMT
In Sarko demands withdrawal of voodoo doll
Le duhh....??
Steve Renouf
@ Its not totally Vista's fault → #
Posted Monday 20th October 2008 14:44 GMT
In Vista SP2 beta could land within next four weeks
Like hell it isn't!
I run it on the same AMD64 4Gb RAM machine that I run Ubuntu 8.04 and 64Studio and they both fly compared to Vista which, even with Aero disabled, still does an extremely amazing impression of a tortoise!
Also, it keeps wanting to change my Nvidia Raid drivers from my latest ones to ones that are over 2 years old!?! Like, yeah! I'm really going to let it do that!
mumble.. mumble.. %$&"$*(($"£ pile of shite....
Steve Renouf
SP2?!? What about SP1? → #
Posted Monday 20th October 2008 12:55 GMT
In Vista SP2 beta could land within next four weeks
Never mind SP2! I still can't get F£$%£$"G SP1 to install!!!**!! Pile of shite!
Steve Renouf
Who the F*** are miisolutions.net → #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 20:56 GMT
In Network Solutions falls off the web
It comes up as a re-direct in NO-SCRIPT
Steve Renouf
French food? Pah! → #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 17:38 GMT
In French cough
into filthy restaurantsThai cuisine is by far the best in terms of variety of taste & spiciness.
Although, where the IT angle is... Ah! I've got it! The IT angle is that you can order all the ingredients online using your PC, to make your own Thai food!
Steve Renouf
Backup? → #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 17:33 GMT
In BT seals free Digital Vault
Hmmm..... Be interesting to see just how long it would take to do a restore from this 50Gb backup, given the current BB speeds...
Steve Renouf
@ Comments → #
Posted Friday 15th August 2008 15:24 GMT
In Thai court jails 'swirly-face' paedophile
"I fail to see what constructive purpose they could serve."
Well, who knows - if there aren't any comments, there is no way to determine if any of them serve any useful purpose...
Steve Renouf
@I can't speak for the Gyalpo Rinpoche, but... → #
Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 20:21 GMT
In Olympic Committee wins gold for foot shooting
"Witnessing recent events in Georgia, I'm just saddened that Russia and China still exist in their present form - instead of being non-nuclear nations under joint U.S. and British occupation, to be followed by a lengthy period of colonial tutelage."
WOT!? Like Burma & Uganda, for example? That sure showed them!
Steve Renouf
Physical possession of the card does not mean ownership → #
Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 14:44 GMT
In Net shoppers bullied into being Verified by Visa
"The CCV (or CVV ?) code on the back of the card is to stop credit card fraud."
Yes it was but, of course they soon discovered the fatal flaw in that - if someone has stolen your card, they can simply read the number off the back!! DUH!
No system will completely stop fraud but at least this reduces it considerably by the user having to know some security information which is not obtainable by purely having possession of the card.
The system is now mandatory for e-tailers (at least those on Streamline).
Steve Renouf
@Historical Claims → #
Posted Monday 4th August 2008 15:11 GMT
In Knights Templar to Vatican: Give us back our assets
"In any case, historical claims are suspect in any case. Denmark might as well claim to get the city of York back, as it was founded by the Danes and "unrightfully" taken from them by the Saxons. Once a certain period of time has passed, current occupation of land or material assets is what matter."
Yes. Exactly. Otherwise, all those Europeans whose forefathers stole land from the native (Americans, Africans, Australians, Maories, etc., etc.) would have to fuck off back where they came from!
Steve Renouf
@ "but nuke the house and the roaches are gone" → #
Posted Wednesday 23rd July 2008 04:27 GMT
In New York threatens Comcast with anti-porn suit
... and the fall-out poisons the land/air/water for hundreds/thousands of years hence.
Steve Renouf
I Guess it's a start... → #
Posted Saturday 19th July 2008 09:40 GMT
In Dell's Ubuntu love-in expands to new laptops
All we need now is for some decent manufacturers to start doing the same.
Steve Renouf
@ebays dirty tricks → #
Posted Thursday 17th July 2008 12:51 GMT
In eBay revenues defy worldwide army of bitter users
'I've just noticed that another "glitch" has prevented ebay Australia from forwarding sellers bank deposit details to buyers'.
What!?! Those fools are giving their bank details to complete strangers!?!
Steve Renouf
@$20 for 6 months is a rip off - By Steve → #
Posted Thursday 10th July 2008 17:48 GMT
In US retailers start pushing $20 Ubuntu
Err, try again.
Your retail package of Vista doesn't get you unpaid support until 2014.
"Mainstream Support
Mainstream Support is the first phase of the product support lifecycle.
At the supported service pack level, Mainstream Support includes:
* Incident support (no-charge incident support, paid incident support, support charged on an hourly basis, support for warranty claims)
* Security update support
* The ability to request non-security hotfixes"
The OS is supported until 2012. But free? - No (apart from the online KB options)
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
Steve Renouf
Literacy @AC → #
Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 16:12 GMT
In How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew
'"Gots" is not a word'
Nor is gotten but it doesn't stop 'mer'cans from using it...
"There" is not the same as "they're" (they are) either.
"There's (there is) is not the same as "theirs" (belongs to them) either.
And any number of other fundamental grammatical errors that one increasingly sees with each generation of school-leavers.
Steve Renouf
@Forgot to mention... - By zcat → #
Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 09:24 GMT
In How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew
Ha ha.... Brilliant idea but..... why not make it 1000??? mmmm.... 1000 x 20m = lots
That's the problem with a lot of "clever" people (ala Grisoft) they can be really stupid in the common sense stakes.
Steve Renouf
English? Saxons were Germanic → #
Posted Monday 30th June 2008 14:59 GMT
In King Arthur was English 'propaganda', French claim
@ "English?
By Anonymous Coward"
"Saxons = English, some historian"
Errr... No. At that time they weren't yet English - Saxons = German. They subsequently were assimilated into what became the "English". (a mixture of Angle, Briton, Saxon, Nordic, etc..
"In 409 a major Saxon invasion took place in Britain without the Roman army to repel them."
http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/410ad-865ad.cfm
IT? Well, because they didn't have IT in them thar days of yore....
Steve Renouf
No Problems here → #
Posted Sunday 22nd June 2008 16:09 GMT
In Bugs casts shadow over Firefox 3
Well, I just checked and my system tells me FF3 has been installed on my PC (actually, it would be all of them - once I've decided things are OK, I tend to install onto all my systems) since 2008/04/22 19:09:49 and I've had no issues with it at all.
I certainly find it far superior to MS's offering. I hear their new browser is going to be "more standards compliant" but will have a "broken mode" switch to enable all those badly designed websites (those only designed to work on previous versions of IE) to display correctly-ish.
The penguin because now I've managed to the TV tuner, Video editing and everything else to work in Linux now, I hardly ever have any reason to boot into Vista, XP, or W2K now. I think it will soon be time to recover all that disc space.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061017 Firefox/3.0
Steve Renouf
@Andrew Moore → #
Posted Saturday 21st June 2008 18:10 GMT
In EU Commission plots to end rip-off Britain online
Ah well, if the traders are actually selling the goods in Euros, you know what they're charging for the goods in Euros before you start, so how can they be screwing you on exchange - when they are selling in Euros and you are buying in Euros, there is no exchange...
Unless, of course, they're not actually selling in Euros but merely giving an indication of what the exchange spot-rate "might" be when the bank does the exchange. Or , it could be that they calculated the Euro price (if they are actually selling in Euros) when they actually bought the goods based on what they paid for them at the time and the then exchange rate!?!
...and then there's the question of what currency they bought the goods in -
There are lots of factors involved in the pricing of goods - made even more complex when fluctuating exchange rates are involved in the calculations.
Steve Renouf
Oops! → #
Posted Saturday 21st June 2008 02:12 GMT
In EU Commission plots to end rip-off Britain online
That should, of course, have been €1.284584 - not £101.50
Steve Renouf
@Andrew Moore - Exchange rates... → #
Posted Friday 20th June 2008 22:42 GMT
In EU Commission plots to end rip-off Britain online
"For providing a correct pound to euro exchange rate and not have instances like thecrookpeople.co.uk who allow you to purchase in sterling but charge you in euros adding nearly 60% to the total without warning"
All exchange rates fluctuate constantly on the world currency markets - the "correct" rate isn't fixed anywhere.
Also, contrary to popular belief/merchant knocking, it's not the merchant that conducts the exchange, it's the cardholder's card issuer - if your account is in sterling, your bank will conduct the transaction in sterling - if your account is in euros, your bank will have to convert the transaction to euros in order to debit your account, so if someone is being charged exorbitant exchange rates, they should change banks. Typically, the banks charge a 3% spread on the spot rate at the time of conversion.
e.g. If the spot rate is £1 = €1.29 then the bank's £ purchase rate would be €1.30935 and the selling rate would be €1.27094 (based on 3% spread). Today's closing spot rate is £1 = €1.2656 so a £100 purchase should be converted to €101.50. If your bank is charging you more than that, I'd change banks.
Paris, because she probably doesn't understand how the banking system works either.
Steve Renouf
All I can say is... → #
Posted Friday 20th June 2008 15:43 GMT
In Croydon devil dog execution: Exclusive photo
you guys have way too much time on your hands! ;-)
Steve Renouf
You're missing the key factor → #
Posted Tuesday 3rd June 2008 14:52 GMT
In Most 'malfunctioning' gadgets work just fine, report claims
People don't want quality products any more - they want cheap, throw-away ones. They can't do, or they'd insist on only buying quality products and paying the price for them!
Steve Renouf
Not only that... → #
Posted Tuesday 3rd June 2008 14:03 GMT
In T5 Transformers t-shirt bust: Shock snap
but they've totally failed to notice the REAL Transformer lurking in the background!
Paris? Because she basically has a million times as many brain cells as these morons!
Steve Renouf
@Well what a surprise? (not) @By Anonymous Coward → #
Posted Thursday 29th May 2008 13:59 GMT
In US protests to WTO over EU 'IT' tariffs
"So, in order to keep MP expenses in the region of several hundreds of thousands of pounds (that is UKP)"
<pedantic>
it's GBP - I thought everyone here was supposed to be standards compliant?!?
</pedantic>
Steve Renouf
Pay per view/listen → #
Posted Tuesday 27th May 2008 15:31 GMT
In International copyright talks seek BitTorrent-killer laws
Most seem to be missing the fact that what the ASS of AMerica et al are aimimg for is their eutopia of everyone having to pay each time they watch/listen to/use something.
Anyone for getting back to only going to live performances? - that way, the artists get paid for the actual work they do and the leeches get nothing!
Steve Renouf
Wasting money → #
Posted Thursday 8th May 2008 11:24 GMT
In Nvidia paid the right amount for 3dfx, court affirms
What a shame all these big companies don't spend their money on innovation and trying to produce better products than their competitors - instead of their current attitude of trying to sue each other out of existence.
Steve Renouf
a la PHORM perhaps... → #
Posted Wednesday 30th April 2008 22:29 GMT
In Zango's adware fox desperate to guard net henhouse
Isn't it more or less what phorm is up to?!?
Steve Renouf
MAC → #
Posted Tuesday 15th April 2008 14:12 GMT
In UK's most popular Wi-Fi router defaults to insecurity
I see people constantly going on about the WEP/WPA angle but very few people seem to mention about locking the connection down to specific allowed devices via their MAC addresses. If a hacker can't even connect to the router, how is he going to crack the WEP/WPA key anyway?
Someone did mention about the possibility of spoofing MAC addresses but they would need to know what MAC addresses are allowed to connect and their associated NAME.
Well, because I would use Ubuntu all the time if I could.
Steve Renouf
ISPs front webpage → #
Posted Monday 14th April 2008 10:32 GMT
In BT's 'illegal' 2007 Phorm trial profiled tens of thousands
Who ever goes to their ISPs front page?
I can't remember the last time I had occasion to do that.. So how would I even see the opt-in/opt-out info? They would have to enclose it with the monthly bill in the post, requesting that I go to page........ if if I want to opt-in - otherwise it should be NOT opted-in by default.
Steve Renouf
Puzzled?!? → #
Posted Thursday 10th April 2008 13:19 GMT
In American ISPs already sharing data with outside ad firms
There's one thing that's puzzling me in all this business...
Now, perhaps I'm unique in my use of this inter-thingy-wotsit but, when I go to the internet for browsing, my browser starts up with what I have set as my "homepage" and it has never been, nor ever will be, my ISPs "homepage". That being the case, how would I ever see that notice in order to be able to opt-out?? This is yet another reason why it MUST be OPT-IN ONLY!
Are there really that many people who have their ISPs "homepage" set in their browser. I never have any valid reason to go to my ISPs homepage - unless I want to check latest mobile/phone/services/prices or something - which are always notified in writing anyway if it's any changes to services I am already signed up for.
Perhaps my ISP isn't as big a scumbag as some of these others are?!? Although that could always change... Although there are still other issues - such as the 50 - 1 contention ratio!
PH because she's always confused ;-)
Steve Renouf
Re: Re: It's in everyone's interest → #
Posted Tuesday 25th March 2008 16:17 GMT
In Awed fraudsters defeated by UK's passport interviews
Or think some more and you'll see that someone who currently holds a (enter country of choice) passport, may have problems freely entering and leaving the UK (to partake in their illegal activities) and would therefore benefit greatly from the freedom of movement that a British passort would give them...
Steve Renouf
@Richard Bos → #
Posted Tuesday 11th March 2008 11:52 GMT
In Hackers find clever new way to hose Google users
.... and if you refer to the ISO country listings, there is no Holland - only Netherlands
Steve Renouf
Multiple Identities → #
Posted Wednesday 20th February 2008 13:09 GMT
In Mozilla opens the doors on Messaging subsidiary
Less hope they don't screw things up like M$ have by eliminating the ability to have multiple identities on ONE user ID/login.
I (and I'm sure there must be many others who also run several domains for themselves and customers) have a need to be able to setup several email identities with several IMAP accounts in each identity which i need to be able to switch back and forth without having to log in&out several windows user accounts!
This used to work OK in Lookout Expre$$ but M$ have b0rken it in Vista Mail so the only way to do it there is to have a seperate Window$ login for each identity (obviously M$ have absolutely NO IDEA how people work in the real world.
Still! It's not entirely the end of the world, I just dumped Vista Mail and installed Thunderbird - I just hope they don't b0rk it in the same way.
Paris because M$ are nearly as clueless as she is!
Steve Renouf
@amanfromMars → #
Posted Tuesday 19th February 2008 15:59 GMT
In Opera CTO: How to fix Microsoft's browser issues
"..."Microsoft make no money out of IE,..." If it didn't make them money, it wouldn't be there, Ken........ but it appears to be a very incestuous affair"
Indeed. And, of course, if you consistently break standards and get it to the point where all developers end up having to build their webpages for your proprietory code to the extent that no other browsers will any longer work with the vast majority of websites so that, eventually, all the other browser manufacturers just give up, well, then, of course, you can stop bundling it with your OS and start charging extra for it!
Steve Renouf
Military machine Windows based? → #
Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 11:20 GMT
In US Army struggles with Windows to Linux overhaul
No wonder they keep killing so many Brits when we're supposed o be on the same side!
Steve Renouf
Fine them! → #
Posted Friday 1st February 2008 15:10 GMT
In Hamster-in-rain emergency prompts 999 call
...that's what I say - that might get the message across!
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