Handpaper - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Did you type this on a manual typewriter? (Score 1) 776

by Handpaper on Monday April 05, 2010 @10:50AM (#31733828) Attached to: Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly

I drive quite frequently for fun, though not as often as I'm on a motorbike, these days.

If you think an AT can be controlled properly, would you ride a motorcycle with one (outside of CVT scooters)?

Comment Re:Raise your hand... (Score 1) 262

by Handpaper on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @06:18AM (#27049253) Attached to: UK Government Wants To Bypass Data Protection Act

I see nothing wrong with Dacre's choice of target in this case.
Through a string of libel rulings Eady has made proper investigative reporting very difficult, not just in the UK but, by acceding to the practice of libel tourism, throughout the rest of the world.

Comment Re:Couldn't have happened to nicer people (Score 1) 187

by Handpaper on Monday March 02, 2009 @01:50PM (#27042141) Attached to: RIAA Sued For Fraud, Abuse, & "Sham Litigation"

Compression is only the beginning, on many modern CDs the waveform is actually clipped.

You can't engrave a clipped waveform onto vinyl; even if the cutter were able to follow such a path, the needle would jump out of the groove on encountering it.

Comment Re:What about Google? (Score 1) 281

by Handpaper on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @04:03PM (#26974223) Attached to: UK Gov. Wants IWF List To Cover 100% of UK Broadband

Indeed. And another problem with the UK's censorship is that you don't even know the site is censored - they just falsely return a fake 404 error.

This behaviour is down to the ISP - Demon gives a '403 Forbidden' with an explanation and links.

Comment Re:The most widespread form of child abuse (Score 4, Insightful) 281

by Handpaper on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @06:10AM (#26967441) Attached to: UK Gov. Wants IWF List To Cover 100% of UK Broadband

I honestly can't see that the ISPs/IWF are actually serious about blocking anything.
The block is implemented via DNS - avoiding it is trivial. It's a sop to the Government, rather than an effective censor.
In fact, as things stand, we may have the best of it. The Government have their 'block', ISPs are 'doing something' and we have our Internet. All of it.

Submission + - Krak demands money from blogger who linked to them

Submitted by

Paul O'Flaherty

on Sunday January 21, 2007 @10:22AM

Paul O'Flaherty writes: "Krak.dk, a danish company has demanded that a blogger pay them 5625 DKK (about 940 USD) because he linked to their site. This was not hotlinking. It was a direct link to page. They have a "no deep linking" policy hidden away in the copyright section of their help pages. But no mention of it anywhere else on the site.

Per Kaarup, a good friend of mine who has been running a Danish WordPress blog about his two dogs received an letter from Krak.dk stating that they were going to charge him 5625 DKK (about 940 USD) because he linked to their site.

Per, for the last two years, has had a link in the footer of his web page, and on his contact page, to a page on Krak.dk which displayed his home. This page has a small copyright notice on the map section of the page itself stating in Danish that it is copyright and you can’t use it.

Per was not using the map, he was directly linking to the page on which it is displayed, and the page itself is much more than just the map.

How long before other sites start doing this?. Full story."

Submission + - Whatever happened to Aerogel?

Submitted by

BK117

on Sunday January 21, 2007 @12:15AM

BK117 writes: "When I first saw the news releases for this amazing material (in the early 1990's) they said it would revolutionize refrigerators, hot water heaters and many other devices needing lightweight insulation. Well, I have yet to see any consumer-level appliances using aerogels. Why not?"

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