A rather famous saying sums up Sony's litigous actions . . .
(In simple terms so the PS3 fanbois can understand.)
Locking. The. Stable. Door. After. The. Horse. Has. Bolted.
Posts by DJGM
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Sony expands legal offensive to more PS3 hackers
Undead Commodore 64 comes back for Christmas
UK hot-swaps leaders - Brown out, Cameron in
Wednesday 12th May 2010 08:52 GMT
See ya then!
QUOTE:
Floreat Etona → #
That's that then. We're all completely buggered.
I'll get me coat. Not much point staying in this country any more.
UNQUOTE.
Or at least we would be completely buggered and totally fubar'd with another five years of Gordon Brown and Lord Slimeball at the helm.
As for what posh bloke Dave and his new but (not so posh) LibDem chums ultimately plan to go about doing what needs to be done ... remains to be seem. Fun times lie ahead I'm sure!
Some kudos though to Gordon Brown, for stepping down as the not democratically elected (now ex) PM with some level of dignity, not dragged out of No.10 kicking and screaming as some newspapers would've you believe might happen, and probably wanted to see.
Mozilla blocks Firefox Java plugin
A user's timetable to the Digital Economy Act
Sunday 11th April 2010 14:22 GMT
Sky+ vs torrents
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I'm still waiting for some to qualitatively (or quantitatively) define the difference between downloading a TV series, from torrent and keeping it on your PC as compared to simply hitting SeriesLink on your Sky+ and automatically recording each episode that you can then keep forever. Or putting a blank DVD in a recorder and making a perfect digital copy. Or even a videotape for f**ks sake!
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Download any TV shows from torrents on to your PC, and you have pretty much full control over how long you can keep the files, regardless of the legality of doing so, at least until your hard drive is full or crashes.
Meanwhile, with recording TV shows on a Sky+ box, since Sky still have some level of control over their proprietary PVR system, what's to stop them suddenly moving the goalposts? With one over the air software update downloaded to your Sky+ box in the background or overnight, suddenly your Sky+ recordings can only be kept for a specific amount of time, say up to 30 days, or maybe less, before they're automatically deleted. They could even impose another restriction that prevents you from copying those recordings from your Sky+ to another device, be it a computer, a DVD recorder, or an old skool VCR.
There's a chance that all Sky+ boxes already have these restrictions built in, but not enabled by default. It'd only take one push of a button by someone at BSkyB HQ to enable these "features" . . .
It'd most certainly stir up a shitload of controversy, but I wouldn't put it past Murdoch's Money Vultures to pull a stunt like this.
Paris ... only because she enjoys being screwed!
Mozilla prepares for SeaMonkey 2.0 release
Tuesday 15th September 2009 01:00 GMT 
@ TeeCee
As Steve72 said, you've clearly never used SeaMonkey. Although it's the same TYPE of
product as the old Netscape Communicator, an internet application suite, it uses the
same codebase as current or recent products from Mozilla, rather than the creaky
old Netscape 4.x codebase from the days of internet yore.
So instead of unnecessary criticisms, maybe you should actually try it first.
http://seamonkey-project.org/
The only physical similarity between the current stable SeaMonkey releases (v1.1.8)
which you'll notice straightaway is the default "Classic" theme, which uses the old
style Netscape 4.x buttons, but in a layout more like the main toolbar in Firefox.
SeaMonkey 2 has finally got rid of the old Netscape look for a new default theme.
Monday 14th September 2009 13:58 GMT
SeaMonkey is . . .
. . . not an official Mozilla product alongside Firefox, as this article appears to suggest.
The Mozilla Foundation scrapped official development of the Mozilla App-Suite a few
years ago to concentrate their efforts on Firefox. Development of the App-Suite was
continued by a small band of volunteers, The SeaMonkey Council.
SeaMonkey is a project officially supported by The Mozilla Foundation with regards to
technical resources such as webservers and bandwidth, and various legal aspects
such as trademarks protection for the SeaMonkey name, logo and artwork.
Seamonkey was originally the development codename for the early prototype, alpha
and beta builds of the Mozilla Suite used as the basis for Netscape 6.x in much the
same way Mozilla was a development codename for early Netscape browsers.
EDIT: By the way, why is the spacing between the lines on my message all wrong?
Why is their a gap after every single line, rather than only after each paragraph,
and why do the gaps reappear after each attempt to correct the spacing?
The message comment software installed on this site needs this major bug fixed!
Poor porn protection hurt Firefox 3 uptake
11 Time Lords plan charity shindig
D-Link exposes WiFi routers with new 'security feature'
Prism Firefox extension hits beta
Tuesday 12th May 2009 08:19 GMT 
It doesn't work. It doesn't do anything!
It's completely unusable. It doesn't even start up, but bombs out with a Visual C++ error!
I know it's a beta app, but even so, I'd expect something that actually runs. I'd have also
expected something a lot more stable from Mozilla, than this piece of useless junk.
Beeb pushes major new iPlayer release
Philips prices up 21:9 ratio 'cinema' TV
Friday 20th February 2009 18:52 GMT
@ Anonymous coward - RE: "Standard"
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Why can't we have to a single standard aspect ratio? Ideally 4:3.
Almost everything is transmitted 4:3 and it's a *good* ratio. You can view both tall
objects and wide objects without them looking too small. But nowadays it's
almost impossible to buy a decent size TV in 4:3 and you have to get 16:9
which makes European people look as fat as Americans ... etc ....
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Someone needs to stop living in the past methinks. It's 2009 now, and most TV shows
are made in 16:9 widescreen format. 16:9 is the standard TV aspect ratio now, while
the old style 4:3 aspect ratio is becoming increasingly obsolete.
Apple, O2 to release PAYG iPhones this month
Mozilla security chief confirms data leakage bug in Firefox
Apple to roll out Mac OS X 10.5 next week
NBC unveils self-destructing, ad-addled anti-iTunes service
Friday 21st September 2007 05:22 GMT
Re ... What Philip Marshall said about BBC iPlayer . . .
QUOTE . . . the BBC demands you watch the ident before the programme . . . UNQUOTE
Not true ... play the files you've downloaded from the BBC iPlayer, directly in WMP, and the program will start playing immediately you don't get to see the BBC ident.
Google's PowerPoint beater beta is go
Tuesday 18th September 2007 19:59 GMT
Browser support . . .
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Sorry, but this browser does not support web presentations.
We recommend you try Google Docs on:
* Mozilla Firefox: 1.5.0.12 or higher
* Mozilla SeaMonkey: 1.0 or higher
* Internet Explorer: 6.0 or higher
All of these are FREE and easy to download and use.
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Errr, my default browser is SeaMonkey 1.1.4 ... and I'm using it right now.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
