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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 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]
China web clampdown ahead of anniversary
News The organisation said "government security paranoia" had led to the clampdown. The Chinese authorities have tightened internet censorship ahead of Thursday's 60th anniversary of communist rule, according to reports.
[October 1, 2009, 16:18]
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]
Sony rootkit prompts clampdown on CD use
Talkback yea yea, I look like an idoit, it should have been: DBS = Don't Buy SONY
[November 14, 2005, 17:06]
Sony rootkit prompts clampdown on CD use
Talkback It's not the CD, it's the operating system that installs the rootkit. Sony's got no clear conscience here both from the rootkit and from apparently violating copyright by stealing code, but lets call them as they are: the operating system should...
[November 14, 2005, 13:24]
Spam clampdown starts to win victories
Talkback John Doherty -- you should be aware that the From: header in an e-mail can be completely falsified. Most spam is now sent via virus-infested home computers; the spammers have entire networks of theses computers and a control system for commanding...
[April 10, 2004, 6:27]
Spam clampdown starts to win victories
Talkback Hi John I am not favoring any one here, but those emails that you receive are basically from spammers, but the spammer is using fake hotmail and yahoo email addresses to send spam emails.
[April 9, 2004, 23:27]
Spam clampdown starts to win victories
Talkback I am getting spam from the following yahoo.com/@msn.com/@hotmail.com.ebay etc. I have had 30 in the last few days. Who do i complain to about these?
[April 8, 2004, 13:18]
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]
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]
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]
