technology

Quickhit: iiSmackdown: Roadshow, Disney, Paramount, Sony, 20thC Fox, Universal, Dreamworks, Warner Bros, and friends to pay costs

By lauredhel on 2010-02-04 • ( 5 )

Stilgherrian writes at Crikey: iiTrial: ISPs not responsible for users’ copyright infringement Film industry claims that iiNet, Australia’s third-largest internet service provider, was responsible for its users’ illegal file sharing were dismissed. […] “I understand this is the first Australian… Read More ›

QOTD: Andrew Bartlett #nocleanfeed

By tigtog on 2010-01-09 • ( 9 )

The government’s compulsory internet filter will not make the internet any safer for children to use unsupervised, nor will it make police detection of users of illegal content any easier.

A False Sense of Security

By tigtog on 2009-12-16 • ( 4 )

“The internet filter will not protect kids from nasty things on the net, but will instead give parents a false sense of security leading to the very outcomes that they are trying to prevent”.

Saving Spoons: Wee Web Widgets

By lauredhel on 2009-12-15 • ( 3 )

I’m probably the last person on the block to find out there’s a better way to delete hundreds of old comment subscriptions in livejournal. I’ve been going to the Subscription Tracking page and deleting each one by hand – which… Read More ›

Show your vote

By tigtog on 2009-12-02 • ( 4 )

a virtual ballot box that can be embedded into any website allowing people to register their support for sealing a fair and effective climate deal at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, which runs for two weeks from Monday.

tigtog gets a needed nudge: brains trust input sought

By tigtog on 2009-11-24 • ( 17 )

You know how you were talking about putting up a page showcasing the skills of Hoydenizens? I was wondering whether it would be plausible or appropriate to have a place where people can ask for needed skills and referrals?

Blind folks can’t use donotcall.gov.au

By lauredhel on 2009-11-23

There’s a Do Not Call register, hosted by the Australian Government, at donotcall.gov.au. You can, in theory, register your home or mobile number with the register; “responsible” telemarketers then compare their shonkily-obtained “lists” with the Do Not Call register, and,… Read More ›

WTF are they thinking OTD: M$ Borgware

By tigtog on 2009-11-20 • ( 16 )

Why in the name of all that’s noodly does Microsoft produce, with Internet Explorer 8, a browser that is even less standards-compliant than IE7?

Alas, poor geocities: I knew it well

By tigtog on 2009-11-17

I know, I’m several weeks late on this. Just catching up on the news that Yahoo has pulled the plug on geocities last month does give me a pang. Although I never actually made myself a geocities page, having fallen in with net-purists at a very early stage of my online habit: they scoffed, and thus so did I. Still, those blinkenlight pages were an important stage in the evolution of electronic self-publishing.