The All Party Internet Group of MPs has been looking at DRM and has now announced it’s results. Their main recommendation is that all digital content should be clearly labelled with details of what you can and can’t do with it. I think this is a great idea. Record companies have been slowly introducing DRM… Continue reading MPs in Digital Downloads Warning
Author: Dave Cross
Typepad Update
As I mentioned yesterday I raised a bug report against Typepad because of its insecure password handling. This is the response that was waiting for me this morning. Thank you for your feedback on this. We will keep this in mind for future updates to the system. While we cannot share specific technical details on… Continue reading Typepad Update
Broken Password Handling
It’s six months since I wrote my rant on password handling and, of course, there are still companies out there who don’t seem to care about handling customers’ passwords with respect. Today I was surprised to find that Six Apart were one of the worst offenders. Following on from my earlier post I had a… Continue reading Broken Password Handling
Moving Elsewhere
I’ve been running the blog here for almost four years, but the recent spate of comment spam has made me reconsider my options. The comment spam seems to be under control for the time being, but I know it’s only a matter of time before it comes back again. So I’m thinking that maybe I… Continue reading Moving Elsewhere
Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment has been released on DVD. If you’re not aware of the significance of this event then you’re not as big a Rocky Horror fan as you like to think you are. There’s also the obligatory collectors edition with stupid amounts of extra stuff.
Root Of All Evil Complaints Dismissed
Richard Dawkins’ programme The Root of All Evil? generated 23 complaints to Ofcom. The latest Ofcom bulletin is published today and it deals with these complaints (the relevant section starts on page 10). In summary, the complainants considered that the programme: showed a negative portrayal of religious beliefs and called religious faith “a virus”, and… Continue reading Root Of All Evil Complaints Dismissed
Serendipitous Scheduling
Just catching up with some American TV shows that we recorded last weekend and stumbled across some seredipitous scheduling by Channel 4. At 8pm last Sunday on E4, in ER a doctor called Debbie (Mary McCormack) was working at an IDP camp in Darfur with John Carter. At 9pm over on More 4[1] in the… Continue reading Serendipitous Scheduling
Desmond Dekker RIP
Desmond Dekker has died. Altogether now… Woh-oh… me ears are alight
Girls with Guitars (and Broken Web Sites)
(This entry is mostly about technical standards on the web – not, as it might seem at first, my dubious musical taste) I’m a sucker for a pretty girl with a jangly guitar. And we all know that I’m a geek. So I was interested in the idea of Sandi Thom who supposedly[1] got her… Continue reading Girls with Guitars (and Broken Web Sites)
Comment Spam
The amount of comment spam this site gets has gone up by an order of magnitude or two in the last week or so. And it looks like I’m not the only one to be suffering. The server is just about keeping up with the load, but it’s probably just a matter of time before… Continue reading Comment Spam