Posts by Leonard Shelby

ISPs eye role in Jacqui's mass surveillance system

Take wolf....

...dress as sheep, call it a sheep. Hope noone notices the claws.

It's the same f*cking thing.

So what, now instead of having a database of info at http:\\intranet.snoopingspooks.gov they have to go via a form at http:\\giveustheinfo.fromisp.net and wait a few hours for it all to be sent to them. Wow. We can all relax, everything's OK now.

What a absolute joke. If it wasn't so serious it would be hillarious. Do `they` honestly think that thinking people will believe this makes ANY difference to the end result? They are still snooping on EVERYTHING EVERY normal person does, just by proxy....

Windows 7 gets built in XP mode

Oh FFS.. MS...

Stop making silly, incremental little Operating Systems with no tangible benefits that noone with a real life cares about. Windows XP SP2 works, period. Well done, here's a cookie, now go away and don't come back until there's some really good reason to do so, like, oh I don't know, when we start using organic processors or something, which really NEEDS a fundamentally new type of O/S, and then actually make something REALLY new.

Windows Vista, mm shiny - pointless. Flaky. Why bother unless you're the sort of person who buys a Mac because they `look nicer`.

Windows 7 - Erm, OK. Whatever you say.

Windows 8 - Oh I see what you're doing, clever. Oh look at the weather, let's go outside and have some fun.

Pirate Bay loses trial: defendants face prison time, hefty fines

Usenet...

SSL Usenet FTW.

P2P died years ago.

A year in bangup in Sweden? Wow.. The fine is the killer. Anyway, who cares, people can still get what they want, just not in the same way. It will make no difference.

I have no sympathy for those who profess to create `art` and then expect to be paid disproportionately, repeatedly and forever for their `creation`.

As others have said - art should be about passion, not churning out generic shit for corporations who market it. I long since gave up donwloading films and most music, as it is all utter meaningless vacuous DRIVEL. I pay for albums released on small labels (if on a label at all), which actually carries some kind of meaning or message, or has some passion behind it... I will go to concerts and gigs, and happily pay. The argument is long and academic and I lack both the time and inclination to go into it with people who would not understand the concept anyway.

Meanwhile our great nations continue to rape and pillage natural resources from all around the globe, little men with white collars and quiet voices killing from the behind their desks! Enjoy your comfortable lives, and all your precious `intellectual copyrights` - you fools.