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  1. Re:talking on mobile as dangerous as drunk driving on Study Confirms Mobile Phones Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    In the UK it is often quoted that cellphone driving is more dangerous than drink driving. However the actual study that was done compared it with people who were at the current legal limit, not over it - and therefore able to drive legally.

    In any case they'll never ban conversations whilst driving as that would mean that the police would be completely out of contact unless they were parked.

  2. Re:How do you get membership? on EU Strikes Down French "3 Strikes" Copyright Infringement Law · · Score: 1

    No you don't, or at least you'll be glad you don't live in Hull UK. Their monopoly ISP 'Karoo' disconnects users with NO WARNING upon receiving any unsubstantiated allegations of file sharing by its users.

    Here's proof with a link to a sample letter.

    I've also had this happen to me on one occasion. They claim that they will charge 60GBP for reconnection if it happens regularly.

  3. Re:Can you bypass using WGA at all? on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    Yet they still insist that you use Internet Explorer for some things. I tried to install Windows Live Messenger on my daughter's PC last week and it came back with an error saying that the installer requires "Windows Update Agent 5.8.02469"

    What it requires is that you download the Windows Update ActiveX control in IE and install it. You're best exiting when it starts scanning for updates as it then tries to silently foist WGA Notifications on you! Then the installer works fine. I then went into IE and deleted the ActiveX control and Live Messenger works perfectly fine without it.

  4. Re:Flash sucks on Why Is Adobe Flash On Linux Still Broken? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'd be more inclined to try it out if it didn't send your unique system identifier* to all the web sites you visit. I've got used to appearing to be a new visitor to every site I go to by deleting cookies and removing flash shared objects** which are used as surrogate cookies. I'm not willing to give it up for another snazzy plugin.

    Doubtless there will be a way to prevent it, especially in Moonlight as it's open source.
    * See my journal
    ** Put the following code in a batch file in your "all users" startup folder:

    RMDIR "%APPDATA%\Macromedia" /S /Q

  5. Re:How annoying on Canadian ISP Hijacking DNS Lookup Errors · · Score: 1

    If you use FireFox, simply press the Delete key whilst the incorrect entry is in your drop down list (type something to make it appear).

    If you use IE, you're hosed.

  6. Re:Average? on Blake's 7 Remake In the Works · · Score: 1

    Just that they were nearly 30 years ago

    I think it was also budget (or lack of it). Have a look at Space 1999 which was made around 5 years before B7. The effects and sets were fantastic. I think I recall they had a budget of 250K per episode which obviously helps.

  7. Re:"Smile, you are being videotaped." on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    No you don't; Thief caught on webcam in UK

    I've talked to the police myself about this and evidence is inadmissible if you are recording images outside your boundarys within the field of view. For example a neighbour's garden. Since this was inside the guy's house there was no problem.

  8. Re:Six months then. on Windows XP SP3 Released To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    I would have modded this insightful rather than funny, based on his user name.

  9. Re:what do you sell on Should Wikipedia Sell Advertising? · · Score: 1

    This pagemight pay most of the bills so the rest can be left free.

  10. Re:Simple solution - send someone dying from cance on Will Mars be a One-way Trip? · · Score: 1

    The article seems mostly focussed on the idea of sending someone with loads of supplies and possibly sending additional people later on - ie a colony rather than a suicide mission.

    In any case, isn't the transit time about 6 months, they'd be cutting it a bit fine.

  11. Re:This just in! on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    Well I wish you all the best. I can't say I've been there but I think I have been close by. I was prescribed similar and it helped loads, which is why I was sceptical about the article.

    Take care.

  12. Re:Which Gallon? on VW Set To Release Diesel Hybrid · · Score: 1

    The VW Polo Bluemotion gets 74.3 mpg combined apparently.

    Although this will be per imperial gallon.

  13. Re:This just in! on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    So were you offered any medication and if so, was it effective?

    I know people who have been seen improvements when prescribed the class of drugs mentioned in the study so I'm quite skeptical of its findings.

  14. Re:Just an exuse on Microsoft Says Not All Ad Clicks Are Created Equal · · Score: 1

    It'll be Silverlight you can bet. I've noted in my Journal about Silverlight's privacy policy and the fact that it creates a unique ID for every installation - idea for an Ad network.

    The only way the'll be able to do this is for Silverlight to reach critical mass. Which is why Microsoft are pushing it everywhere they can. What with cookies, Flash Local Storage and Silverlight - it seems browsers are slowly being turned into spyware.

  15. Re:Or it is not spreading on Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free · · Score: 1

    you don't need to defrag ext2. it doesn't get fragmented

    There is a very interesting and amusing writeup about why this is the case here

    Keep in mind that it's from 1998 but it still applies.

  16. Re:hmm on UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads · · Score: 3, Informative
    They're using cookies to track behaviour. OIX.net is the address you need to block by the looks of it. Link

    I delete my cookies regularly, and I want to keep Webwise switched off. How do I do that?

    If you regularly delete your cookies and want to ensure that Webwise is permanently switched off, simply add [OIX.net] to the Blocked Cookies settings in your browser.
  17. Re:Well... on Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker · · Score: 1
    it will simply take a bit longer for the torrent to find peers and pick up speed.

    It won't even do that. Look how they've done it. Link

    The Tele2 block will be applied only at DNS level, so will be very easy to circumvent for technically-aware subscribers,

    Solution; either use another DNS service or add thepiratebay.org into your hosts file.
  18. Mod parent up on Helium Crisis Approaching · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. There's a clip on YouTube of someone talking after inhaling SF6 and the deep voice persists for quite a while until his colleague tells him to breathe deeply to expel it. Can't link you, it's blocked here but you'll find it on Digg every couple of weeks.

  19. Re:Well Done chaps on Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools · · Score: 3, Informative
    Update an agreement with the government forcing the use of Microsoft licenses on every computing devices.

    Yep

    Microsoft required schools to have licences for every PC in a school that might use its software, whether they were actually doing so or running something else.

  20. Re:Not about spying on Adobe Quietly Monitoring Software Use? · · Score: 1
    Okay, now cue the trolls and apoligists who will quote part of a EULA that not even its own author ever read.

    Far from it, Adobe are actually trying to tell you that the no such communication takes place. From here

    Bonjour connects to no other servers than your machine's pre-configured DNS server.

    "Plus our behavioral analytics partners" I think they meant to say. I don't use Adobe software but I've blocked all traffic to 2o7.net just in case.
  21. Re:Sure on Will Privacy Sell? · · Score: 2, Informative
    "Hey, I forgot about ask.com. Maybe I'll run a few searches through them and see how it goes."

    You go ahead, I've blocked them from my entire network on account of their connection with MyWebSearch, SmileyCentral and other spyware.

    The only way to make your searches private is to do it yourself. Set the option "Accept Cookies from sites: Until I close Firefox". Then, don't forget about those Flash SOL cookies that all those video ads track you with - Add:

    RMDIR "%APPDATA%\Macromedia" /S /Q

    to a batch file in "Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup".
  22. Re:now with more annoyance on Yahoo, Adobe To Serve Ads In PDFs · · Score: 1
    They're not embedded so you should be able to firewall them in much the same way as you can with Windows Live Messenger (rad.msn.com)

    Thereafter, when opened, ad-enabled documents will call out to Yahoo to fetch dynamic ads for display, provided the PDFs are being read on an Internet-connected device.

    Link
  23. Re:Three times! on UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records · · Score: 1

    half the population is "on the dole."

    Receiving child benefit you mean. ie. you have at least one child.

    Irrespective, I wonder how long before we can expect to see the .torrent on TPB!

  24. Re:excuse my stupidity on Mandriva's Open Letter To Steve Ballmer · · Score: 1

    That would be Starter edition

    32bit only and aimed at emerging markets.

  25. Re:Enough with the stealth auto-"updates" dammit! on Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update · · Score: 1

    Yes but be careful, I refused WGA Notifications but it was still offered to ALL other admin users of the computer. I assume any refused updated would be the same.