Author: sroot
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Spam wars – "determination of damages" hearing date set
Taking a spammer to court to get them to stop isn’t for the faint of heart. Here’s the history: A company, “Cybernet Media” (stick .co.uk on the end of that and you’ll find their website, I’ll not give them the benefit of a link) started sending spam way back in 2006. I asked them to…
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BBC iPlayer – still not worth installing but worth watching online
The BBC iPlayer came out of beta recently and they’ve been advertising it’s release to the masses across BBC TV. I tried the beta version earlier in the year (well, 2007, you know what I mean) and my first response to it coming out of beta was simply “Have they fixed it then?”. Why? When…
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Jennifer Morgue (Charles Stross)
Another completely surreal novel by Charles Stross, it somehow takes real world technical knowledge of mundane things like TCP/IP (that’s the protocol the internet uses to send and receives information), compares it to using carrier pigeon instead of copper wire and then uses it set up a network via demon worlds to save our realm/domain/planet/reality…