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Comment: Open goal for pirates? (Score 1) 230

by mutube (#43584559) Attached to: UK Passes "Instagram Act"

So, I download the latest Hollywood blockbuster, re-title it giving it an absurd name, removing credits/publisher marks and maybe blurring/replacing the lead's face. Then I re-upload 'Deep Groat: Sub-Prime Deposit' (a.k.a Catwoman -it's a modern classic) on the Pirate Bay.

Our good UK subject comes along, downloads it and thinks 'Never heard of this!?' No idea who made it, no way of finding out.

That 'film' is now in the public domain?

Space

Nearest Alien Planet Gets New Name 185

Posted by samzenpus
from the a-planet-by-any-other-name dept.
SchrodingerZ writes "The nearest planet outside our solar system has recently been named Albertus Alauda. Originally named Alpha Centauri Bb, the planet is the closest known planet not orbiting the Sun, being a mere 4.3 light years away. The name comes from Jay Lark, who won the naming contest held by Uwingu starting last month and ending on April 22. Lark remarks that the name comes from the Latin name of his late grandfather, stating, "My grandfather passed away after a lengthy and valiant battle with cancer; his name in Latin means noble or bright and to praise or extol." The competition for naming the planet came from Uwing, a company which used the buying of name proposals and votes to fund grants for future space exploration ventures. Albertus Alauda won the competition with 751 votes, followed by Rakhat with 684 votes, and Caleo, with 622 votes."

Comment: Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot (Score 1) 203

by mutube (#43528155) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Science Books For Middle School Enrichment?

It's is a biographical history of the 1950s woman who's cancerous cells (HeLa) are now used throughout the world as a research tool. It's an interesting look into the development of scientific research ethics (there was no consent given at the time), civil rights, biological patents and commercialisation but in an incredibly readable way. I would think the upper-end of your age group would quite enjoy it.

Comment: Re:I'll remember the pain. (Score 1) 285

by mutube (#43394563) Attached to: Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games?

I guess I don't mind because I think I spent weeks getting Wing Commander Privateer to run on my computer from with a floppy with custom config.sys & autoexe.bat files. There were others, but Privateer was the one I remember the most frustration with.

This. I remember a group of 3 of us sitting over a 486 fiddling with config.sys and autoexec.bat files for hours on end. Adding and removing HIMEM.SYS, EMM386. Rearranging the order things were loaded to squeeze the last bit of memory out of the machine.

It was like that scene in Apollo 13. But with snacks.

Comment: Re:Margaret who? (Score 1) 539

by mutube (#43392169) Attached to: Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87

Ah right, well I'm with you on that one.

I never liked the woman but I still find comments along the lines of "at last, shes gone!" a bit strange since - as you say - she's been irrelevant for a long time not to mention incapacitated by Alzheimers. She was 'gone' when she lost power. I guess we can recognise the end of her as a living political icon (both positive and negative) but that's just paving the way for even more mythologising of who she was.

North Korea is far more interesting, I'll grant you that.

Top quote so far from John Major: "She made the wind".

Comment: Re:I'd be pretty pissed (Score 1) 134

by mutube (#43391743) Attached to: British ISP Bombards Users With Deleted Emails

Ah right, I get you. I didn't realise the folder support might not be there - it would probably cause more trouble than it's worth pulling individual folders separately and trying to remove duplications (multiple-tagged). Since they've apparently already copied over the All Mail folder for all their users you're right that the simplest fix would be pull the Trash and remove anything that is in there from the user's accounts.

Seems like the sort of thing you'd test before migrating all your live user accounts.

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