Comment Re:Let's Put This In Perspective (Score 1) 251
I refer you to my comment in reply to a post expressing similar thoughts further up in the thread. No point repeating myself, not even on /. ;-)
Comment Re:Really? (Score 4, Informative) 251
If you knew anything about this story, which has been running since 2006, you'd know that it isn't about the actions of one individual; it's about a culture of using illegal techniques to obtain access to private information that has been rife at the News of the World (NotW) for years.
Rebekah Brooks, editor of the NotW at the time Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked, accidentally admitted to a House of Commons committee a few years ago that the paper bribed police officers for information, though she later claimed that she didn't know the details of specific instances. As knowing the specifics would have left her open to prosecution, we can form an opinion of the merits of her claims of ignorance of what those she employed and directly supervised were doing on a regular basis.
Two people, one a NotW editor and the other a private investigator employed by the NotW, have served prison sentences for hacking the voicemail messages of members of the royal household.
The voicemail messages of senior politicians, including the former Deputy Prime Minister, and of senior military officers have been hacked, and this has been admitted by News International.
So far, News International has paid out more than £2million in out-of-court settlements, and it is believed they may have to pay as much as £40million to deal with all the claims against them by individuals whose privacy has been invaded.
This isn't the actions of one individual: it is a corporate policy of deliberate illegality for the sake of profit.
Comment Re:Newscorp isn't in the business of news (Score 1) 251
At least we have the guts to put our names to it when we say: Fuck you, troll.
Comment Re:Running up the down escalator (Score 1) 171
The chunked transfer encoding referred to in the book is not the same as progressive browser rendering, which is what you are referring to. Nor is either one dependent on the other.
Comment Re:html and xhtml (Score 1) 222
Unfortunately, IE sends an Accept header which doesn't include text/html but does include */*, thereby ruling out content negotiation in the case of text/html versus application/xhtml+xml.
Comment Re:Old stuff (Score 1) 216
The IE click effect on TFA is a side-effect of the demo, not of the fundamental technique. If the original page markup includes a hidden iframe containing all the links of interest there will be no reloading and no click.
It would look as if the page is taking a long time to finish loading because of the size of the iframe contents for any usefully large set of links, but a lot of sites seem to get that effect just by using Google Analytics, so the average user wouldn't notice any difference ;-)
Comment Re:DUH! (Score 5, Funny) 711
What about archive.org?
Submission + - Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes
NickFitz writes: "Students at UCSC have recreated the first level of Donkey Kong using 6,400 Post-it notes stuck to the windows of the E2 building. It took a team of about 10 people five hours to complete the work, which will remain in place until May 1. There's a time-lapse video of the construction process."
Submission + - Pegasus mail client discontinued after seven years
bbc writes: "David Harris announced today that both development and distribution of Pegasus Mail will be discontinued starting immediately. Hardly any good e-mail clients exist, but Pegasus has consistently belonged to that club for 17 years. Its worst offenses are its quirkyness, and the strange preference of its developer to work on expanding HTML support instead of working on real features. For the past 9 years I have been able to live with that. It's been awhile since I lamented the death of a computer program."
Submission + - When celebrities speak on science
Timberwolf0122 writes: "Sense About Science has urged stars not to dip their toes into tricky scientific issues without checking their facts first. In the article on BBC News some examples are put forward of the dubious science uttered by celebrities — together with the views of its experts."
Submission + - Gooogle's answer to the Slashdot article
Ludwik writes: "Matt Cutts of Google answers to the Slashdott's article about Google de-indexing hacked site.
"(...) This site was hacked and stuffed with a bunch of hidden spammy porn words and links. Google detected the spam in less than 10 days; that's faster than the site owner noticed it. We temporarily removed the site from our index so that users wouldn't get the spammy porn back in response to queries. We made it possible for the webmaster to verify that their site was penalized. Then we emailed the site, with the exact page and the exact text that was causing problems. We provided a link to the correct place for the site owner to request reinclusion. We also made the penalty for a relatively short time (60 days), so that if the webmaster fixed the issue but didn't contact Google, they would still be fine after a few weeks. (...)
