Still working, still quirky as they ever were
For a trip down memory lane see my pic of the scientific and standard calculators here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/somersetman/4037850828/.
Posts by GregT
6 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Feb 2011
Google chap reverse engineers Sinclair Scientific Calculator
BT! dumps! Yahoo! after! 10! long! years! together!
Monday 3rd June 2013 09:40 GMT
Good luck with this, BT!
I get emails from BT every week about "upgrading", and every single one of them is a phishing message from some time-waster. Quite how BT are going to convince me that I really do need to change my email I don't know :-)
Why the BT spam filter doesn't pick up spammers who are trying to impersonate BT themselves is beyond me.
The UK's copyright landgrab: The FAQ
Friday 3rd May 2013 09:31 GMT
Re: rights/privileges again
The purpose of IP Rights (including copyright) is surely to encourage the sharing of creative works (be they photographs, art works, inventions, whatever) and the state granted protection privileges are a consideration for that. So to "maximise the public good" needs to take account of the very real possibility that people simply won't share stuff if they believe it's going to get ripped off.
Friday 3rd May 2013 09:21 GMT
Re: Could metadata stripping be defined as a copyright infringement?
@ Richard Gadsden
I believe that your comment and the original article are wrong in respect of Flickr stripping meta-data. As a long time use of Flickr I can confirm that Flickr does NOT strip meta-data but gives users the option to keep the meta-data for their photos hidden. I can't think of a good reason for hiding the meta-data unless photo doesn't actually belong to you, but there might be one.
Million-plus IOPS: Kaminario smashes IBM in DRAM decimation
Flickr thinks again about 4,000 pix loss
Thursday 3rd February 2011 15:48 GMT
re: why don't they offer a useful function....
Others have already mentioned that tagging *before* uploading is the best way of ensuring you have your own copy of the most crucial metadata. For the majority that have a lot of stuff uploaded already there are plenty of cheap/free tools (such as Bulkr) out there that can be used after the event to backup your Flickr pics with automatic incorporation of title, description, tags etc into the EXIF data.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
