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Posts by Steen Hive
842 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Nov 2007
Dell unveils 10-inch Windows 7 tablet
Assange assault accusers sought 'revenge,' attorneys say
Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun
Iranian state telly bins foreign cuisine
Monday 7th February 2011 19:58 GMT
Uncle
"even though there is much distrust of the UK thanks to the TV series/books My Uncle Napoleon"
Eh I think you'll find "My Uncle Napoleon" ridicules the idea of blaming the British for everything - even though the machinations of BP alone could have legitimately engendered such distrust without any help from literature.
Mac App Store: Developer godsend or Evil Empire?
New auto-crowd tech writes better articles than pro writers TRUE
Secret Service, NY DA bust Apple Store 'ID scam' ring
Documents in Assange rape probe leak onto the net
Egypt switches off the internet
Google disappears torrent terms from autocomplete search results
Pirates: Good for Microsoft, great for open sourcers
Friday 21st January 2011 14:41 GMT
Timeline fail.
"Software used to be so easy. You built a product and sold it through a variety of channels."
.. And the source came with it! Selling half a product that was by definition unfit for the purpose intended came later.
Wasn't it a closed printer driver or something that got RMS's knickers in a twist in the first place?
Israel and US fingered for Stuxnet attack on Iran
Tuesday 18th January 2011 14:49 GMT
WTF?
The only way one can confuse an argument against the makey-uppy, racist, ethnic-cleansing nation-state of Israel as anti-Jewish propaganda is if one maliciously conflates the existence of the state of Israel with the existence of Jews - a magical sleight-of hand, if it weren't so totally transparent and vile - and hadn't cost so many their lives, land and livelihoods .
Tuesday 18th January 2011 10:29 GMT
@Iran is in complete defiance of the UN
I know a state that is defiance of more UN resolutions than any other. A political entity that is xenophobic by design and that was created by nothing but gerrymandering by colonial powers and pure terrorism against the wishes of every single neighbouring state so that foreigners could kick people out of their homes with impunity and never let them return.
That aside, those same colonial powers, their corporations and their allies have fucked up another country with no modern history of aggression continuously for decade after decade, supporting military coups, dictatorships, removal of democratically-elected governments, invasions by neighbouring countries at the cost of a million lives, chemical weapon attacks and continuous destabilization of neighbouring states. All to a greater or lesser degree in support the above mentioned political entity.
Iran may or may not be in violation of it's obligations under the NPT, it remains to be seen. Those are the only obligations it is truly bound by to the UN itself. The rest is mere "Security" Council FUD, as usual.
Honda US cops to vast data snaffle from marketing firm
US woman sues again over XP 'downgrade', seeks class action
Monday 3rd January 2011 14:53 GMT
Akin?
"It's akin to buying a car with leather interior and then saying to the car dealer "I want 'X' trim package but I want to downgrade the leather to cloth seats"
It's akin to nothing of the sort. The computer you buy and the OS that may or may not be installed on it are completely different standalone products by different manufacturers! Forcibly "Bundling" a specific OS with a computer is anti-competitive exploitation of the consumer to their detriment full stop.
Sure retailers can knock themselves out and sell packages as default with a bundled OS - as long as they are specified as 2 separate entries on the receipt and you don't have to buy one to buy the other.
BAA accused of banning passengers from filming travel chaos
Wednesday 22nd December 2010 12:15 GMT
Simples
"Nevertheless, whenever something fascist happens you can guarantee that there will dozens of commentards saying it's all fine because it's "private property".
Nothing a public threat of nationalisation won't solve. ;-)
Privatised by-laws should only be allowed in a handful of circumstances.
How GCHQ keeps tabs on FOI requestors
Wednesday 15th December 2010 19:34 GMT 
"A worrying conclusion"?
"The mantra appears to be “if it can be kept secret, it will be kept secret”.
Worrying maybe, but not anything that isn't common knowledge.
Both the military and the civil service are festering top-to-bottom with a "need-to-know" culture and always have been - with themselves of course being the arbiters of "need" in this context. A few new-age hippy politicians wittering on about "FOI" populist transparency nonsense to get elected isn't going to change that in the slightest.
FOI was designed to be useless - that leaves us with the likes of Wikileaks. Great eh?
Join in the Wikileaks DDoS war from your iPhone or iPad
Monday 13th December 2010 10:49 GMT
Free Information
"We're more than willing to cheer as private information in the affairs of our world order are revealed, but less so when our own private information is accessible."
With the obvious difference that the info leaked by wikileaks isn't private information at all - it's public but secret information withheld from it's rightful owners "for their own good" - i.e. from us.
Your credit card number, etc. may be viewed as private information, communications by your representatives regarding killing sundry brown people on your behalf certainly is not.
Default judgement FAIL: ACS:Law muffs up in court
iOS upgrade cocks up iPad USB connections
US politician: 'homosexual agenda' behind TSA groin grope
Apple patents glasses-free, multi-viewer 3D
Apple Facetime flings out frightening random calls
WikiLeaks re-taunts feds with US Amazon mirrors
Tuesday 30th November 2010 09:20 GMT
Wikileaks
Wikileaks may be of limited use, of limited impact and suffering from a cult of personality. But every secret kept by Western governments that diverges from public policy is nothing but an abuse of power, and often - as we have seen - just a lame cover for cold-blooded murder.
Someone has to do the watching - come up with a better idea if you are so inclined.
Meet the Oz teen behind Operation Titstorm
Of Kuwait and DSLR cameras
Twitter 'martyr' takes airport joke case to High Court
Berners-Lee: Facebook 'threatens' web future
Monday 22nd November 2010 22:37 GMT
@Economic forces
"Very basic Economic Forces will effect this."
Undoubtedly, but what has that to do with "thriving open standards" Every "thriving open standard" you describe was either socially-engineered by committee, or a proprietary creation standardised by social-engineering.
In general, open standards allow economic forces to work properly, not the converse.
Adobe (finally) adds security sandbox to Reader
Adobe update tackles PDF peril
How to make boots on Mars affordable - One way trips
Devil's dollars drive open source
Friday 5th November 2010 12:00 GMT
The entire point
Of Free Software seems to have whizzed through the author's head without even triggering a neuron.
There is no such thing as a "proprietary" software company of any import in the software world any longer. The major players all both use and contribute to Free Software to a greater or lesser degree -and they don't do it for the karma, they do it because it improves their bottom-line. Epic win all round.
It doesn't matter a hoot if the coders are tainted by proprietary - as long as the code isn't.
eBay Meg bitchslapped by Governor Moonbeam
Wikileaks outs 400,000 classified Iraq War docs
Iran: 'Nuke spies nabbed, but not for Stuxnet'
Lone Android dev 'almost brought down T-Mobile'
Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractals, dies at 85
Margaret Thatcher celebrates 85 years
Thursday 14th October 2010 09:24 GMT
@Biggest Heist
Mining output in the UK has been in steady decline for 97 years. Thatcher nonetheless still killed deep mining in the UK along with pretty much every other heavy industry, and every community these industries supported.
As for the "Labour" government - these spiv yahoos are her vile spawn, pure and simple. She was the enabler and the root of the rot. A traitor by any other name.
Wednesday 13th October 2010 15:58 GMT
@Hmm
"She left it a much more prosperous, stronger and more confident country"
She left it a basket-case at the mercy of foreign money and asset-strippers.
If you hadn't noticed, the biggest heist in human history has just been pulled off by Thatcher's cronies the financial services sector - the bill for which will be met by the taxpayer - a minute fraction of the cost of which could have easily given every coal-miner in Britain a shovel made of gold, and a Rolls Royce to get to his job-for-life in.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
