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Comment brilliant product - shame on the Government (Score 1) 89

by speardane (#38033868) Attached to: 60 Years of Business Computing Started With Tea Shops
and people got trained that computing was a tool to solve business problems. not - the more familiar now - here's a bit of kit who can we talk into buying it... yet another great product mismanaged. there again the British government got it all wrong - just like the Enigma machine & Alan Turing - better to hound him to death (as a gay security risk); hand the technology to the USA and block any use of any UK based experience for 30 years...

Comment Re:Civil war? (Score 1) 275

by speardane (#32528268) Attached to: British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War
well I'm a member - so far

whatever it is about:

neither party appears to be telling the truth about each other

neither party can explain it's point of view succinctly - and I am used to reading poor specs....

neither seems to be genuinely focussed on professionalising IT.

I recently joined PMI - if I could work out how to translate my experience and qualifications into a recognisable level - I think I'd drop BCS as well

Submission + - EMI piracy? (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by speardane
speardane writes: EMI have been succesfully sued by Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd objected to the payments for their music sold by EMI and to EMI breaching their contractual stipulation about not splitting the albums up.
The judge is considering what penalties to impose
In addition to the normal RIAA / BPI multiplier
As King Crimson have also sued EMI succesfully, should EMI also be subject to the "three strikes" rule and disconnected from the Internet?

Comment The Best Democracy News international can buy... (Score 1) 246

by speardane (#31355682) Attached to: BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services
Absolutely there is no business case for the cuts

As a BBC licence payer - £140 pa is remarkable value - between 1/2 and a 1/3 of the annual cost of a daily news paper!

News International wants to charge for it's News on the internet

Why would anyone pay for News international - when a superior product - the BBC is free? So - as above News International wants cuts

The Sun which prides itself in swinging UK Marginal votes "It's the Sun wot did it!" has just moved to support the Conservatives

The BBC is responding to pressure from the Conservatives

Both the Tory leader David Cameron and their Finance minister George Osborne have met and holidayed with Murdoch

The proposed shut of 6 Music is a sleight of hand - the real question - is why non-UK-national gets so much influence over our culture and media?

Submission + - Ask Tunespro - how to find out if it's genuine? (tunespro.com)

Submitted by speardane
speardane writes: I pay £££s (or $$$s) YMMV for iTunes and eMusic — indeed frequently CDs are higher quality and lower price...

These people are much "cheaper" — almost too good to be true — if it's not true.. . both I and the record company lose

***AA could make themselves actually useful by telling me if they are genuinely licensed.
and if the ***AA are too busy harassing punters, how do we find out?
Privacy

Submission + - UK increases surveillance

Submitted by speardane
speardane writes: The BBC reports that the Uk government plans to require the logging of all landline and phoneline calls to be stored for a year.

This has been signed off under previous legislation, effectively by passing debate in parliament. The justification for the change is to bring it into line with EU legislation.
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Submission + - Sleep Apnea Symptoms (weebly.com)

Submitted by
fmjcie
fmjcie writes: "After recognizing my Sleep Apnea symptoms I knew it was time to do something about my struggle to simply get a decent nights sleep, and not feel irritable and frustrated on a daily basis due to low sleep quality."
Linux Business

Submission + - Creative releases proprietary Linux X-FI drivers

Submitted by ichwillauchwassagen
ichwillauchwassagen writes: Creative Technology has finally released a (proprietary) Linux driver for a rather widespread piece of PC hardware: their X-FI series of soundcards. As Creative failed to work together with the ALSA team in this issue, these cards were useless for Linux users so far. The X-FI was releaed more than 2 years ago. These drivers have been announced for some time now but seem to have been delayed due to the efforts invested in Vista support. The driver is in beta stage and currently 64-bit only.
Privacy

Submission + - Germany plans to email trojans (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by speardane
speardane writes: The BBC is reporting that the German authorities are planning to send emails containing trojan horses to suspected terrorists. This is apparently supported by the German chancellor despite protests.

Apparently "the spyware would be used only in a few cases and for a limited time".

It seems to me that this is even more stupid than Sony.

Perhaps the Greman authorities have never heard of emails being forwarded...

Perhaps criminals and terrorists (no I didn't say hackers) won't re-use the weapons the German government have given them...
Communications

Submission + - Skypeout not working for many, Skype runaround

Submitted by Sherm77
Sherm77 writes: Apparently many of us that use Skypeout lost functionality on May 11th. We pay $29 per year to be able to make free calls to the US and Canada, and are dependent on this service as we would normal landlines. There a few threads on the Skype forums, but we're getting the runaround. Skype supposedly knows about some problems, but they aren't acknowledging the problems or letting us know that they are working on it. I'm not sure how they can claim this service is anything but beta if they will take a week to solve a problem.

Skype to Skype calls work just great and we can also receive calls via Skypein. It's the Skypeout functionality that is lost. The customer service to this point has been non-existant and meaningless, as you can see from the posts. If I were an investor, I'd be asking eBay what they are doing about their company and the terrible customer service. We give them money, but have no recourse when problems develop.

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=86053

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=85762

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=85737

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