From Channel9: "Mark at SysInternals disects a Sony CD DRM protection which includes installation of a poorly written rootkit trojan to protect their content." This is going too far. Sony should be stamped out of existance for this, it's bad enough installing DRM shite on the machine with thier own damn player - let alone hiding it behind rootkits it's disgusting. I will never buy another Sony product, I suggest you all do the same....
Well it looks like Pluto could possibly have two new satellites - we should know for sure early next year when the team that made the discovery can get more telescope time to confirm it. But it looks pretty likely as they have likely discovered the two satellites in images of the area back in 2002 too - in roughly the same positions as they had calculated. The two objects designated by the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union as S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2 will more formally named once it is confirmed they are indeed satellites....
Catherine's birthday today! No I can't put 18 candles on it.
First off I was flicking through Google News when I spotted something about Mars, an article, on a news site... I can see other astronomers cringing. CHENNAI: Sky gazers were treated to a rare celestial event as planet mars shone like a bright red ruby during its closest encounter with earth on Saturday night. In a rare phenomenon, the red planet, which was in the constellation of Taurus, came to a distance of about 69 million km from the earth, making it visible with naked eye....
I've just found a brilliant new article on the problem of Intelligent Design written by Pat Shipman, give it a read it's really good. Somebody sent me an e-mail last week asking why I care about the advancement of ID in the United States, sure I'm in Europe and I could never see anything like this being considered, let alone implemented here in the near future. But that's not the point....
In my further attempts to use the blog to publish everything website wise, here are my old photos of the 1999 UK solar eclipse from Smirnov's Domain. The cloud!
Nick (webNV) got the RSS feed up on his new site (which btw kicks ass), so I added them to RSSFeeder, so they were copied over to my Smartphone - only to then find out when I went to read them on the way to work they're not complete feeds ahhhh I thought it was kind of weird when sentances weren't being finished! Complete feeds rule man, I could read your blog on the go without getting huge bandwidth charges from pulling the whole site over to my phone....
Lewis Sidnick... When the wage was introduced it was set at a reasonable level but since we have seen large increases [...] The government needs to recognise that the economy is worsening, while business costs are rising. Sir Digby Jones, director general of the CBI added that next year's planned rise to £5.35 an hour would have a "serious impact" on some sectors of the economy. Yawn. Same old tired rubbish, the same tired rubbish you peddled when Labour started the minimum wage in 1999, which at that time was £3....
There was a bit of talk a few days ago about burying Lenin or not, I've always been pretty neutral on the topic, however I've just punched in Lenin into Google News and have been surprised at the amount of Lenin bashing going on in the capitalist press. So I'm going fully over to keep Lenin where he is until the work of the people is finished. If they can get so annoyed at an 80 year old corpse then they're obviously a bit scared of what he represents....
I'm a huge fan of web feeds, I'm using RSS Feeder.net at the moment which is a great tool, it syncs to Outlook, unlike something like RSSBandit which includes a web browser, I'd have to pop up a new window to actually view the content - that's kind of annoying. Of course ideally the feed will contain all of the content - then I can just read the whole lot within Outlook....