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Camera Phone Clampdown Demanded
Talkback Demand for a clampdown will mostly come from people with inflated egos; the rich and the famous, tycoons, footballers, people on TV, government and council and civil-service wallahs, quangoites, MPs and Councillors, all of whom now grotesquely and...
[November 19, 2004, 8:05]
Transatlantic Clampdown To Hit Extreme Web Sites
News Miss Longhurst's family are demanding a clampdown on such sites. Britain and America have agreed to launch a joint crackdown on Web sites devoted to extreme forms of pornography. The two countries will create a new group devoted to closing down...
[March 9, 2004, 13:55]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
News FAST's clampdown attracted criticism from one expert working in the open source educational field, who called the scheme "disastrous". The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has threatened to prosecute educational establishments that use...
[May 25, 2006, 11:30]
Camera Phone Clampdown Demanded
Talkback i like to have the option to turn off the sound, I always have mine silent - even on my digital camera. I also do not want a flash on my mobile, some places like museums have T&C that forbid a flash, possibly a small red LED like the old Kodaks...
[November 16, 2004, 19:45]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
Talkback Very good. The more the public gets to know about what nowedays commercial licencing, software patents, IP and such is really about the more likely it is they know who to vote for next. However, so far history has proven that ignorance and...
[June 3, 2006, 23:56]
Camera Phone Clampdown Demanded
Talkback If someone is intent on taking unauthorised pictures, they will use a camera. I do admit though, that cameras on mobile phones are more ubiquitous than standard cameras.
[November 19, 2004, 12:12]
Camera Phone Clampdown Demanded
Talkback As an administrator of around 250 mobile telephones, we have a few customers who will just about allow a mobile to be taken on their site. If the user had a camera phone, they would have to be left at security and then be uncontactable in those cases.
[November 18, 2004, 15:02]
Camera Phone Clampdown Demanded
Talkback This whole thing is ludicrous. It's not the public's fault anyway. It's practically impossible to buy a decent phone WITHOUT a camera regardless of whether you want one or not. I don't know of anyone from my group of friends that actually uses the...
[November 16, 2004, 23:39]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
Talkback FAST is a PROFIT making business NOT an organisation working for the Law or Government They use scare tactics to get businesses and organisation to use their services. Software companies should supply their products Free to all Schools and collages...
[May 24, 2006, 12:15]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
Talkback The motto of business is, was, and always will be: the uninformed consumer is our best friend. Business does not seek to support education - but instead to do the only thing it knows and cares how to do: exploit, exploit, exploit!
[May 25, 2006, 2:42]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
Talkback This is exactly why schools in Portland, Oregon (USA) moved to GNU/Linux and K12LTSP. They were directly threatened by Microsoft with an audit and a thinly veiled attempt to extort them into buying into "Software Assurance" and "Licensing 6.0".
[May 24, 2006, 18:55]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
Talkback Ten years jail sentence? I just checked the statistics and the average sentence for rape is six years. Something is seriously wrong with a society that places a higher value on dodgy software than brutal assault.
[May 24, 2006, 15:20]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
Talkback Open Source companies DO supply their software products free to schools, not only for evaluation by students, but permanently and in perpetuity. The Open Source business model is simply, and understandable.
[May 24, 2006, 12:34]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
Talkback FAST is a PROFIT making business NOT an organisation working for the Law or Government They use scare tactics to get businesses and organisation to use their services. Software companies should supply their products Free to all Schools and collages...
[May 24, 2006, 12:15]
Sony Rootkit Prompts Clampdown On CD Use
Talkback Surely the review should be about allowing users default administrator access to their machines. If the reason this is done is that some software requires the user to run as administrator, then the review should include the use of that software.
[November 15, 2005, 17:38]
Clampdown On Rogue Diallers Is Imminent
Talkback Thats all well and good but what about the new trend of reverse charge SMS messages for services you have not subcribed to.
[July 14, 2004, 18:44]
Transatlantic Clampdown To Hit Extreme Web Sites
Talkback "All wood burns" says Sir Bedivere. Therefore, all that burns must be wood". It's called a logical fallacy. We went through this same issue with the homicides in schools. They listened to hard rock and metal music, but that's not what made them go...
[March 10, 2005, 15:08]
Camera Phone Clampdown Demanded
Talkback As a single parent I wish Mobile Phones had never been invented! Let alone ones with Camera's Radio's attached.
[December 18, 2004, 7:49]
Schools Face Software Licensing Clampdown
Talkback "Software companies should supply their products Free to all Schools and collages, that way our students can evaluate and make up their own mind on the best products to use. That worked for Oracle. If they hadn't made their Relational Database free...
[July 4, 2006, 15:08]
