Esperi - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Don't sign the contract then. (Score 1) 305

by Esperi on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @05:04AM (#49125525) Attached to: Pandora Pays Artists $0.001 Per Stream, Thinks This Is "Very Fair"

The day of the rock god is over. Accept it

There are still rock gods, but the number is much more limited now. Take one from the multitude and elevate just like the old days. Everyone else is getting Pandora rates.

Comment TalkTalk is the worst ISP I have ever had. (Score 2) 227

by Esperi on Thursday December 19, 2013 @05:41AM (#45734291) Attached to: UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn

I'm not surprised they can't get filters right, they can't get anything right. I joined TalkTalk in December last year as the price is attractive. They are the worst ISP I have ever had the misfortune to sign up with. Go-Live dates that came and went, with no connection. Engineer visits. Incorrect billing. Horrible network congestion rendering internet use nigh on impossible during peak times. The list is endless with my woes. My 12 month contract is up in a few days and I will never re-sign with this company.

There is a reason this company has been listed as the worst ISP in the UK as defined by complaints to Ofcom (UK ombudsman) http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2013/09/27/latest-telecoms-and-pay-tv-complaints-figures-3/

Comment Re:Too late to run and hide now (Score 1) 106

by Esperi on Monday March 18, 2013 @07:23AM (#43201843) Attached to: Porn Troll Panics, Dismisses Pending Lawsuits

Can't someone ban this guy? (getting back my mod points)

Comment Re:You can make it expensive for them ... (Score 1) 333

by Esperi on Sunday March 17, 2013 @08:27PM (#43199843) Attached to: Schneier: The Internet Is a Surveillance State

The The Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the EU parliament are voting on the General Data Protection Regulation on the 19th March 2013 (tomorrow).Right of Erasure/Right to be Forgotten is only part of the reforms.http://www.privacycampaign.eu/2013/02/faq//

Google don't think much of our quaint European privacy regulations however:
"American companies will come out big winners, compared to their European rivals. European companies face decades of innovation-paralysis under the new rules. American companies will just reorganize and relocate certain operations out of Europe to mitigate risk."
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/dox-quixote.html/

Comment The Public are Swine. (Score 1) 978

by Esperi on Monday March 11, 2013 @12:27PM (#43139481) Attached to: Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." – George Orwell

Comment Cleaning my Dad's PC just yesterday with MSSE (Score 1) 228

by Esperi on Friday January 18, 2013 @01:46PM (#42626857) Attached to: Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results

I've had MSSE on my dad's laptop for a few years now. He recently mentioned his laptop was very slow, so I guessed it was overdue for some maintenance. A quick look at task manager immediately flagged up stdrt.exe using lots of resources so I got MSSE running while I checked online to find out what this thing was. It's not new by any stretch and looks to be fairly commonplace. MSSE failed to find anything, even when I scanned the executable directly. I had to install Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to remove it (which it did quickly and easily).

I've removed MSSE and set him up with AVG Free and Malwarebytes.

Comment Re:Tarrists! (Score 1) 676

by Esperi on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @07:30AM (#23490520) Attached to: YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos

The posters may not be tarrists, but there is a connection in that they know someone who knows someone who knows someone who is the tarrist who filmed the video. Investigating them is a matter of unpeeling the onion skin.

So true! I propose the immediate waterboarding of ALL Youtube contributers, especially Rick Astley fans, you just can't be too careful.~

Two Totally Unique Star Systems Discovered 141

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @05:22AM from the two-of-a-kind-beats-ace-high dept.

esocid writes "Astronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind — until its discovery helped them pinpoint a second one that was much closer to home. In a paper published in a recent issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Ohio State University astronomers and their colleagues suggest that these star systems are the progenitors of a rare type of supernova. In research funded by the National Science Foundation, they found a star system that is unusual, because it's what the astronomers have called a 'yellow supergiant eclipsing binary' — it contains two very bright, massive yellow stars that are very closely orbiting each other. In fact, the stars are so close together that a large amount of stellar material is shared between them, so that the shape of the system resembles a peanut."

IBM Suspended From US Federal Contracts 136

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @03:18AM from the shouldn't-aught-to-have-done-that dept.

theodp writes "IBM has been temporarily banned from receiving future contracts with federal agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed on Monday. The suspension went into effect last Thursday due to 'concerns raised about potential activities involving an EPA procurement,' the agency said in an e-mailed statement. Under a reciprocal agreement among federal agencies, when one issues a ban, the others follow it. The EPA said it will not comment further on the matter. An IBM spokesman said he had no immediate comment. 'You don't see this very often, particularly for large companies,' commented a stunned industry analyst, mentioning a bankrupt MCI as a notable exception. IBM earned an estimated $1.5 billion in revenue from federal prime contracts in fiscal 2007."

OOXML Will Pass Amid Massive Irregularities 329

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 30, 2008 @09:53PM from the all-over-but-the-shouting-and-the-antitrust-probes dept.

Tokimasa notes a CNet blog predicting that OOXML will make the cut. Updegrove agrees, as does the OpenMalasia blog. Reports of irregularities continue to surface, such as this one from Norway — "The meeting: 27 people in the room, 4 of which were administrative staff from Standard Norge. The outcome: Of the 24 members attending, 19 disapproved, 5 approved. The result: The administrative staff decided that Norway wants to approve OOXML as an ISO standard." Groklaw adds reportage of odd processes in Germany and Croatia.

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