According to the telegraph, Virgin Media will start sending warning letters to suspected file sharers, and will eventually disconnect them if they don’t stop. File sharers will be identified by the BPI. The mind boggling stupidity of this plan is hard to comprehend, but here is a short list of reasons why it will fail:
It [...]
With HD imminently becoming more accessible and common in the UK, I read this forum post with despair. I looks like Comcast have just dropped the bitrates on all their national HD channels, severely reducing picture quality.
The issue of available bandwidth on cable and especially Freeview has been holding HD back in the UK. In [...]
From BBC News: “A website that a Dutch right-wing politician was planning to use to release a film expected to be fiercely critical of Islam has been suspended.”
Seems that once again an “outcry” from Muslims has got a website taken down because it was offensive. Once again, free speech looses.
The irony is, Geert Wilders’s film [...]
Reading Bruce Schneier’s latest blog post, I can’t help but think that this is a man everyone should listen to. Especially anyone thinking of implementing a national ID card scheme.
If this quote doesn’t get you to read it, I don’t know what will: “SmartWater is a liquid with a unique identifier linked to a particular [...]
On the day on which BluRay’s BD+ DRM was cracked, one company seems to have finally understood how to do business in the modern world. Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock, says pirates don’t matter, and he’s right.
He points to Trent Reznor’s conclusion as the logical way forwards: “[pirates] weren’t customers, they might never be customers, [...]
From The Guardian: “Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert.” Gary Pugh is a spokesperson for ACPO, the Association of Chief Police Officers.
Essentially, this is branding children as criminals before they have [...]
I have been trying to compile a list of email addresses to submit samples of unknown viruses to all AV companies in one go. Unfortunately not all have an email address; many rely on web forms. Anyway, here is my list so far:
Lavasoft (AdAware): research@lavasoft.com
Comodo: malwaresubmit@comodo.com
Command: virus@commandcom.com
CA: virus@ca.com
NOD32: sample@nod32.com
F-Secure: samples@f-secure.com
F-PROT: viruslab@f-prot.com
Grisoft (AVG): virus@grisoft.cz
Avira (Anti-Vir): virus@antivir.de
Kaspersky: [...]
One more interesting post on how evil Phorm really is. Looks like there is no escape, and best of all if the Phorm servers go down it breaks your internet connection. This might actually be Phorm’s undoing – if browsing speeds plummet as everything has to go through their hardware, customers who don’t even know [...]
Re-posted with permission from http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?632. Needs as much publicity as possible.
Many thanks to The Other Steve at the regester message board
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/10/isps_phorm_comment_target_market/comments/
Hey I said they wer lying to us all the time.
OK PHORM PR GET OUT OF THIS you have been spreading lies over the internet, yet your patent says otherwise.
Posted Monday 10th March 2008 [...]
A while back I wrote a guide to traffic shaping with pfSense. The pfSense wiki got broken, so I’m re-publishing it here for posterity. There is at least some useful info about calculating required upload bandwidth for a given download speed.
It is recommened that you use the Traffic Shaping Wizard to create a default set [...]