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Journal Journal: LOVEFiLM Appears to Condone Affiliate Spam

Journal by NoSCO on Saturday June 06, 2009 @09:04AM

I received an email to one of my hundreds of spam-trap addresses a few days ago, promoting a free trial of the LOVEFiLM service (UK version of Netflix). Ironic, as only a few days ago I was promoting the service myself on my blog as I love it so much. "This will be easy", I thought to myself, and fired off an email to their Customer Service team with full headers and a description as to how the email had arrived.

UK Government Says More Spying Needed 297

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 11, 2008 @01:32AM from the need-to-make-up-for-the-losses dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we're not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton's phone calls, e-mails, and internet usage. According to various sources, upwards of £1 billion has already been spent on the uber-database. Rationale? Terrorism, of course (no prizes for guessing). Needless to say, not everyone is as happy as Larry over this: Michael Parker pointed out how us Brits are being 'stalked.' I'm just looking forward to when the data gets lost."

Comment Re:simple solution (Score 2, Interesting) 483

by NoSCO on Sunday July 20, 2008 @03:20AM (#24260097) Attached to: Real-World 3G Monthly Cost With Taxes and Fees?

Here in the UK there's no competition for the iPhone (not that I want one anyway) but the rates and plans are actually pretty darn good.

I'm more of a Nokia person myself, and my N95 on the 3UK network provides 1,100 minutes inclusive or 1,100 text messages or any mixture of the two providing the total of both is not more than 1,100 (extremely unlikely in my case!); A further 300 minutes for 3-to-3 calls (which is fine as all my relatives and most friends use 3); unlimited internet access (proper internet, not just WWW); 90 video minutes, they support Skype properly and all sorts of other stuff. Total outlay per month is $80 USD (converted).

People complain about ripoff Britain but some things we actually seem to get a reasonable deal on.

Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan 200

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 08, 2008 @09:16AM from the when-childhood-goes-wrong dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired.com is reporting that the Firefox browser has been unknowingly distributing a trojan with the Firefox Vietnamese language pack. Over 16,000 downloads of the pack occurred since being infected. This highlights a risk on relying on user-submitted Firefox extensions, or a lack of peer-review of the extensions, many of which receive frequent upgrades."

China to Deploy Secure GPS by 2010 217

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 08, 2008 @03:24AM from the in-space-nobody-can-hear-the-competition dept.

hackingbear writes "Unsatisfied by the reliance on American GPS navigation systems and not feeling much security joining the European Galileo system, China will expand its 4-satellite Beidou navigation system to a full-fledged, competitive, and encrypted system by 2010."

Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD 274

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @03:12PM from the gary-sinise-was-not-involved dept.

WmHBlair writes "Data recovered from a 400MB Seagate hard drive carried on the Space Shuttle Columbia has been used to complete a physics experiment performed on the mission in space. The Johnson Space Center sent the recovered drive to Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Considering the shape the drive was in (see picture in the linked article), it could indeed qualify for the 'most amazing disk data recovery ever.'" Update: 05/08 12:51 GMT by T : Reader lucas123 points out a piece at Computerworld with a series of photos of the recovered drive.

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