The PirateBay’s copyright infringement trial has gotten under way in Sweden. The press has been promising that it will be the “internet piracy trial of the decade” (I guess Grokster is chopped liver), but as Mathias Klang astutely points out, Read more…
And now back to our favourite sport, Microsoft bashing. Slashdot reports some unnerving built-in features in the new MS operating system: “That Photoshop stopped functioning after we messed with one of its nag DLLs was not so much a surprise, Read more…
Neil Gaiman has proved once more that he’s One Of The Good Guys. He has posted an interesting comment about the new Amazon Kindle, and its reading-aloud capabilities. Apparently, his publishers think that this infringes their licensing agreement, as there Read more…
(via Matthew Bozarth) A WoW insider joke I had to share. Has the Ice Stone melted?
It seems like as soon as this blog’s Technorati ratings go up, we start getting flooded by virtual gold sellers. I don’t know if it’s because of my earlier confession to having purchased WoW gold, or just random attacks. Last Read more…
The Bad Science copyright chill has seemingly reached an impasse. The offending clip is still not available on the blog, but it can be found in countless websites as bloggers all across the country have started infringing copyright in a Read more…
xkcd once more manages to distil complex issues in an understandable and undeniable manner. The weakest point in any computer security system is the carbon-based element managing the keys.
Ben Goldacre is the author of the Guardian column Bad Science (and eponymous blog). Dr Goldacre is a champion of rationality in a world enamoured with sloppy thinking, uncorroborated anecdotes and dodgy statistics. For many years he has been at Read more…
The programme for the upcoming SCRIPTed conference has been published, and it looks pretty interesting. SUNDAY 29 MARCH 2009 19:00 Welcome Wine Reception (Playfair Library) MONDAY 30 MARCH 2009 09:00 Registration (Raeburn Room Vestibule) (Posters Erected) 10:00 Welcome & Opening Read more…
Continuing with the coverage of the interim Digital Britain report, something has been bothering me since I read it, so I went back and browsed through it again until I realised what it was. According to the UK’s chief technology Read more…