Posts by Marc Wilson

Ad networks owned by Google, Microsoft serve malware

Hosts file is the best solution

I have all the ad-serving domains aliased to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file. Sod the lot of 'em.

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Demon splurges details of 3,600 customers in billing email

Demon passwords....

I'm sure that New Scotland Yard don't need a Demon account- users there will be {name}@met.police.uk. It may be someone who /wishes/ he worked for NSY. Probably lives with his mother.

Toshiba pitches HD DVD players as... DVD machines

Many will just wait it out.....

Like many people, especially those who are veterans of VHS vs Beta, or Minidisk vs DCC, I'm just going to wait until the battle is won.

I still have DVDs I've not watched, so there's no way I'm rushing out to replace my current kit with the latest thing. I'm not enough of a perfectionist any more to have to have a perfect system- I'll wait, let the Pioneers and Early Adopters suffer the pain, and I'll buy when the products become commodity items.

You'd have thought that the industry could learn, settle its differences behind locked doors, and come out with a forced smile behind a single standard. They got it wrong with tape, they managed to get their collective act together for CD- then it's all gone downhill again.