Doug Winter channels Victor Meldrew
This
from Larry McAvoy to the Linux Kernel Mailing List is pretty
interesting. They have 179 changes per day committed to the Linux
kernel for the last year - a remarkable rate of change. Someone
in the thread points out some stats for
What is remarkable is that, particularly with Linux, it is a live
codebase, with people using versions of it right back to 2.0.39, and
right up to the latest 2.6.0-test9.
It’s people like
make America great. Lets hear it for Anti-Porn Guy.
This
Slashdot has some great links. Particularly this
Cricket Wicket.
An interesting
from Danny O’Brien about the loss of the private register on the Internet.
He’s probably right too.
It’s certainly a good point about why blogs seem so strange when you
wander into one unannounced (hi there stranger!). Although I doubt most
bloggers know who they are writing for anyway. I certainly don’t.
We went to the
Battersea Park today, and bought a painting. “Affordable” apparently means
under £2,500. A very well organised event, very busy with a lot of
browsers, but a lot of people buying too.
There was a lot of impressively good stuff there (to an igoramus like me
a lot of it looked as good as anything you would find in a gallery) —
it would have been easy to spend major quantities of money. If we’d had
major quantities of money obviously. As it is, my mum had given us
£500 when we got married and told us to get some art (which was very
nice of her), so this is what we got
(apologies for terrible photo).
From Kuro5hin
German-based media giant Bertelsmann Group has launched a 400
million dollar lawsuit against major hardware manufacturers, alleging
they traffic in banned circumvention devices that can be used to
illegally copy their music CDs. It says that the Digital Millenium
Copyright Act entitles it to protection from devices that can be used
to circumvent its technological protections against piracy.
Specifically, it demands compensation for the inclusion of “Shift”
buttons on standard computer keyboards.
A company called Eolas has successfully won a case against Microsoft,
because Eolas patented browser plug-ins. Obviously software patents are a
lunatic idea, but they are very popular with our dogmatic American cousins.
Anyhow, Eolas are now trying to enjoin Microsoft from distributing Internet
Explorer. Since IE is (famously) a built-in part of Windows, Microsoft
would be unable to sell their monopolistic product. Lets hear it for
Eolas, parasites on a particularly nasty host. News.com story
A new copy-protection system called MediaMax CD3 has been
Halderman. To cut a long report short, all it does is have a Microsoft
Windows CD Autoplay configuration on it, so that when you pop it in the cd
tray of a default windows system it installs some drivers that include some
lame DRM attempt.
Obviously you can copy the CD on all the other operating systems out
there. You can also copy it if you have disabled autoplay (which everyone
ought to do since it’s such a poor feature anyway). You can also copy it if
you hold shift when you put the cd in.
Wow. These record companies are really smart when it comes to technology
aren’t they. Very impressive.
This will be held at the LSE on 22 October. Previous Scrambling
meetings have addressed quite a wide range of issues, but this one is
concerned entirely with the new surveillance rules currently before
parliament. See The FIPR
announcement for more details.
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