Posts by K T

FOSS maven says $29 'Freedom Box' will kill Facebook

Debian GNU/Linux

There's even a damn gnu on the Freedom Box website. Surely it can't be THAT hard?

UK.gov braces for Anonymous hacklash

Yes, open source.

Wasn't SourceForge DDoSed recently? Obviously, the Great Open Source Wars of 2011 have begun. I can't wait for the <free software version of LOIC> attacks to come from Boston, MA!

Either that or the "intellectual property address"-government doesn't know what they're talking about. Again.

Either way, I'll be on the battle bridge.

NHS enables Facebook to track surfers on health info website

Yes.

"What if someone has the sense not to have a Facebook account? Do these Like buttons still send their IP and OS version to Facebook?"

See title.

Privacy-protecting social network opens up

I lost my (e-)homeland

The internet used to be my homeland (ah, good old days!). Then the "facebook login" brigade (the 'tards that type "facebook" into Google to get to facebook.com; "youtube" for youtube.com etc) took over.

I feel displaced, separated from what used to be my territory and I have a small hope that some other geeks feel the same; so we may make our own e-homeland once again.

Oh, the humanity!

Attachmate gobbles up Novell for $2.2bn

Coward indeed

If you're going to make unbased and silly accusations, you could try not to hide your username next time...

I'm one of those "Free Software hippies". All of our ("our", as, despite being a dirty code-hugging hippie, I have a girlfriend!) computers run GNU/Linux. They run really, really well.

My main computer is a 1.6GHz, 512MB RAM machine celebrating its fifth build birthday next month. It's been running Debian GNU/Linux perfectly through hardware changes, country changes whilst all this time only taking up 1.94GB for a fully installed system (system + all apps I want) and, after booting, taking up a disgusting 85MB of RAM.

By God, how dare those Free Software hippies think their stupid little distros are so great. Windows Vista only takes up 30GB with most apps installed and would crap itself on anything less than 1GB of RAM.

Forgive us for letting our computers have technical superiority (and actually being able to use most of a 200GB drive, instead of spending a fifth on it on the OS/apps only).

We may not pay for licenses, but we do pay taxes - so, if by chance we're in the same country, I'm paying for your kids. You're welcome.

Scroogle scrapes back to life

Alternatives

I don't mean to steal AC's right to reply here, but seeing as I've got nothing better to do... Two privacy-respecting search engines I use (apart from Scroogle) are yauba.com and ixquick.com . Very handy as Scroogle doesn't have an image search, and I for one don't want Google logging my image searches (those searches for "1/16 scale model tank porn" are sure to be used against me someday).

Icelandic ash cloud to keep UK skies closed 'til Saturday

@Icelandic Vengeance!!

"Eyjafjallajoekull" /is/ Icelandic for "Bob".

Police National Database will have audit trail

Urgh

"Chief police officers will be responsible for auditing the activity of their own officers and no user should audit their own activities"

By God, it's the most ingenious plan ever! Britain is safe once more.

"To guard against data breaches, the code says that exported information should be anonymised by the removal of information which could be used to identify individuals."

Didn't AOL already try this once...?

Password reset questions dead easy to guess

Exactly

The only sensible answer to any security question is to mash the keyboard like a drunk, coked-up monkey. Nothing companies think you can easily remember is unable to be found out easily.

On the SMS front, my bank has recently started to send SMS messages with a code to confirm online transactions (only with online payment systems who support the extra security, though). I've done two so far and the SMS arrived within a minute. However, I'd like to know how that will work when the mobile network is busy.

I shop online for the convenience. If a payment session times out (as they are bound to do), I might as well go queue up with the other proles.

Microsoft embraces another Linux company

Somebody had to

We are Microsoft. We will add your financial distinctiveness to our own. Your accounts will adapt to ours. Resistance is futile.

P2P snafu blows lid on secret Congress probes

@Pablo

You're right, but if he had set his shared folder to an entire drive or his home folder (let's say D:\ or /home/<user>), the file would get inadvertedly shared. This only means he's not automatically a snitch, however, he's still a moron.

But, as has been pointed out, transparency in government is important and one can only applaud this guy's idiocy!

Ubuntu's Karmic Koala opens its eyes

Free vs. well, free

Why does no publication dare mention "GNU/Linux" instead of just "Linux"? Take all of the GNU software out of these "Linux" operating systems and see how much (better: little) is left.

Without GNU, the Linux kernel is nothing.

I understand the adverse reaction towards Stallman and his radicalism, but please give credit where credit is due. The GNU Project contributes the majority of "Linux" software and should be credited as such!

Ageing Google supersizes its search box

It's a bug, isn't it?

That is all.

Apart from the fact that thank God, I wasn't the only one messing around with the browser zoom function going "WTF?!".