Comment: Re:I'll auto-Godwin myself (Score 1) 385
Wasn't Phaedrus, was it?
Comment: The People Who Know Best love this, don't they? (Score 2) 101
About 70% of the 78 voluntary and community sector organisations that responded answered "yes" to an automatic block while a strong majority of respondents from all other groups answered "no".
For "community [ ] organisations" they don't seem very much in tune with "the community", do they?
Nothing new there then, the NSPCC et al have to keep the pressure on or their State Funding might dry up.
Policymaking with the aid of government funded pressure groups - more incest than you'll ever find online!
Comment: Re:I knew it (Score 1) 75
Posted over two years ago :
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1138427&cid=26967441
Still true.
Comment: Re:Did you type this on a manual typewriter? (Score 1) 776
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Comment: Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars (Score 1) 1320
And is the only car ever to be driven away from a MIRA crash test.
Do it right and light can be strong, too.
Do it right and light can be strong, too.
+ - British ISP's selling customers browsing history-> 1
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red star hardkore writes "The Register has a frightening article about BT, Virgin and Carphone Warehouse selling their customers browsing history. The part that is most despicable is that the service is opt-out rather than opt-in, meaning that for many people they won't even know it's happening. From the article:
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"Phorm's Open Internet Exchange is an online broker that matches advertisers with publishers, much like Google or Yahoo!. The difference is that rather than target your interests using data you volunteer via web searches and by using free email services, Phorm is paying your ISP to hand over data on your browsing habits direct. The technology has roots in spyware, but the company insists it is setting a new "gold standard" in privacy online and emphasises that ISP customers will be able to opt-out./blockquote
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+ - Krak demands money from blogger who linked to them
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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.
How long before other sites start doing this?. Full story."
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."
+ - Whatever happened to Aerogel?
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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?"