Comment Re:O Canada (Score 1) 271
As GP suggested, and I agreed, that's what I'd prefer.
Comment Re:O Canada (Score 1) 271
Please tell the EU to go fuck itself and/or adapt its copyright and patent law to the Canadian model.
Canadians, please do as he says.
I'm European.
Comment MOD Parent up (Score 1) 534
Disinformation is a great attack.
Comment Re:All admins (Score 1) 502
All valid points.
Comment Re:All admins (Score 4, Interesting) 502
There is a potential for problems if a very manager with very insecure security tendencies asks a sysadmin for very important passwords. In some circumstances, the sysadmin might feel justified not handing the passwords over as it would compromise the security of the existing system.
Comment Re:So... (Score 3, Interesting) 596
Much like children aren't allowed in bars, children should not be allowed on the internet.
There are THREE ways to of getting something done: Pay someone to do it, do it yourself or forbid your children from doing it...
Comment "Pirate finder general" (Score 2, Funny) 332
I didn't think finding Pirates was difficult.
Buy a boat, sail past somalia, and THEY'LL COME TO YOU!
Comment Re:Most important question... (Score 1) 175
It will once I install Ubuntu.
Comment Re:Please grow up, you're driving us away (Score 0, Troll) 427
You must be new here.
British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid 340
chrb writes "BBC News is reporting that the British Video Recordings Act 1984 is invalid due to a 25 year old legal blunder. The Thatcher government of the day failed to officially "notify" the European Commission about the law, and hence it no longer stands as a legal Act. There will now be a period of around three months before the Act can be passed again, during which time it will be entirely legal to sell any video content without age-rated certifications."
Submission + - Well it's not as if you need rm, or cp, ls, touch. (techideas.co.uk)
Ajehals writes: "So, sometimes people act before they think, sometimes that leads to problems that appear to the uninitiated to be catastrophic. But then the great thing about GNU/Linux, BSD and Solaris is that generally nothing is totally catastrophic, well almost nothing.
In this case the problem occurred during an upgrade, the identities of the guilty will be obscured, but the lesson may be useful regardless."
Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost (Score 2, Informative) 398
Indeed twitter's centralised service is what makes it such a problem.
Personally I use http://identi.ca/
It's based on laconica, is free software and is federated. eg. http://army.twit.tv/
I'm at http://identi.ca/tdobson and this downtime is not causing me any problems!
Twitter Offline Due To DDoS 398
The elusive Precision dropped a submission in my lap about a DDoS taking down Twitter running on CNet. It's been down for several hours, no doubt wreaking havoc on the latest hawtness in social networking. Won't someone please think of the tweeters? Word is that both Facebook & LiveJournal have been having problems this AM as well.
Comment Re:Same thing, different Tuesday. (Score 1) 420
my boss sees blue screens on a daily basis on his vista laptop. something to do with a network driver?
(we do asterisk consultancy so it's not like he's doing anything exotic)
Anyway, it and it alone is pushing him to let me install ubuntu on it for him...
We'll get there in the end.
BSOD's *do* still live on.
Submission + - Last.fm to start charging international users (mashable.com) 2
tdobson writes: "The popular online radio service, Last.fm, has announced that users outside of the UK, USA and Germany will need to start paying 3.00 (about $4.40 USD/£2.80 GBP) per month to continue streaming music on their service.
Last.fm doesn't offer much of a reason as to the change, other than writing on their blog that "There will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio"
Already, there appears to be quite a backlash in responses so far, amongst subscribers and non-subscribers of all nationalities — has this killed Last.fm's appeal, globally?"
Last.fm doesn't offer much of a reason as to the change, other than writing on their blog that "There will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio"
Already, there appears to be quite a backlash in responses so far, amongst subscribers and non-subscribers of all nationalities — has this killed Last.fm's appeal, globally?"
