eAi

Recent Actions
Comment Threads

Recent Actions

Commented on British Airways adds a "fly next to your children" fee
Yeah, if you'd read the story properly, you'd have seen they're just charging to book before the 24 hour window you can normally book in. Not many people will do this, so it won't really affect most people. It's just...
Commented on Perfect Daily Mail headline
... and the government is talking about reducing spending on schools and merging them into even larger, even less personal schools... That's why independent schools generally do a better job than comprehensive schools. Teachers get to know the pupils and...
Commented on Anti-health-care loon says Stephen Hawking wouldn't stand a chance under British health care system
Here in the UK, anyone can pay for treatment, if they want, just as in the US. You'd probably have to go to a different (private) hospital though. Equally, you can get private health insurance that 'extends' the NHS coverage,...
Commented on Inventing American History
retrojoe: 'Populist' history is probably what matters to most though - it's what us, the population believe happened. Humanity as a whole has a tendency to look at things with rose-tinted glasses - we look back and see the best...
Commented on Petition to repeal expanded powers of arrest for UK cops
Not a single petition on the government's website has resulted in any change. Every single time they fob people off by saying how they're doing this that and the other. I've never seen them say "Hey, that's a good point...
Commented on Second-person in fiction compels you
Just reading this blog post and the comments irritates the hell out of me! It's really clunky to read even in fairly small amounts. It almost suffers in the same way computer games do - it forces a personality on...
Commented on iPhone repair company iResQ: No bad-service refund unless you delete blog posts complaining about the bad service
I'd guess it's more a matter of principle, Guy....
Commented on Worst-ever threat to UK privacy: write your MP now!
I would write, but my MP never goes against the party line......
Commented on Virtual worlds increasingly generated by software, not made by artists
The issue with procedural generation is that it produces boring levels. Even if it's very random, that randomness in itself is not random and the result is a boring level. So, to combat this, artists are brought in to make...
Commented on The Manuscript: a technothriller written by someone who understands technology
It does make me cringe when authors clearly don't understand what they're writing about. The same applies on TV - look at 24 for example, or even more blatantly, CSI et al. I'll have a read of the sample chapter....
Commented on XKCD strip explains how DRM creates piracy
PIXELFISH: I've heard from various other people that if you email Apple nicely, they can let you redownload all your music... I agree it should be easy... If you do it with an App from the App Store on iTunes,...
Commented on People who have killed their lawns
This seems like a strange idea, being in London (UK). Pretty much nobody here has a lawn, in their 'front yard'. I'm in central London, so we've got pretty small 'front yards' but even they all are full of plants...
Commented on Italian tourist detained by Homeland Security for visiting his American girlfriend
I'd really love to visit the US (from the UK), but these stories, although clearly exceptions put me off. Plus, I'm not massively keen on being fingerprinted and stored on a US database forever......
Commented on Band "shoots" video by sending Data Protection Act requests to CCTVs that caught them performing
You mean Data Protection act, not FOI. FOI covers government data held about you. Data Protection covers any data anyone holds about you....
Commented on BBC sends legal threat over fan's Dr Who knitting patterns
I think the issue is that they have to defend the trademark, otherwise they lose it. I'd imagine Mazz could get away with just removing the Doctor Who reference, though the BBC could still complain about copyright infringement, but that...
Commented on Weekend Mayhem: Come Play <i>Team Fortress 2</i> With Boing Boing!
You need to enable the developer console in the Advanced section of the options. There's a button called "Advanced..." I think, click that and it's one of the two or three checkboxes. Is the password on the server necessary? You'd...
Commented on America's war on tourism: airlines to foot the bill for fingerprinting foreigners as the leave the US
I'd really like to visit the US (from the UK), but I'm not going to give my fingerprints to do so. Maybe I'll sneak in over the Canadian border ;)...
Commented on Scotland Yard wants DNA samples from 5-year-olds in case they grow up to be criminals; Oyster card records to become part of "war on terror"
They're not dealing with the problem, they're just trying to pigeon hole the victims of it. I can't claim to know what the problem is, but clearly something is making our society become more and more violent....
Commented on BBC drops DRM from iPlayer video on demand service
Well, someone will find out what they've changed and fix it. Should be possible to just packet sniff an iPhone's connection and play that back....
Commented on BBC drops DRM from iPlayer video on demand service
Southy, you can't, legally. Illegally, you visit the iplayer page, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer, find the video you want and open it. View the source for the page and find the text "pid :" and copy the code (something like b0094ytb) after that....
Commented on BBC drops DRM from iPlayer video on demand service
It will continue to work as long as it works on the iPhone, unless Apple license them fairplay or they implement their own DRM player....
Commented on BBC drops DRM from iPlayer video on demand service
Maurik, it looks to me like uitzendinggemist is supported by adverts, which the BBC is not....
Commented on BBC drops DRM from iPlayer video on demand service
Well, Maurik, I imagine the market for dutch content is fairly limited outside the Netherlands....
Commented on BBC drops DRM from iPlayer video on demand service
I noticed this yesterday. It has to be intentional, the iPlayer doesn't support any DRM except FairPlay which Apple won't license. The BBC have fairly heavily promoted the iPlayer for the iPhone and clearly invested quite a bit of hardware...

Recent Actions from eAi

Comment Threads

AlexG55 commented on British Airways adds a "fly next to your children" fee
This is all a bit overblown. The former BA system was a first-come-first-served system in the last 24 hours before the flight, which had the advantage that if you could be at a computer 24 hours before departure, you could have pretty much any seat (including an exit-row seat) with no extra charge, but the disadvantage that if you didn't check in until a few hours before (or, worse, at the airport) you got stuck with the middle seat at the back of the plane, and families often got put in different rows. The current system allows you to "jump...
wpncyril commented on British Airways adds a "fly next to your children" fee
it scares me to read how many people here do not like children in planes while forgetting they, too, where small and unbearable once .... bloody ignorant and arrogant motherf******, excuse my language!...
freeyourcrt commented on British Airways adds a "fly next to your children" fee
Great Britain (Airlines) is our ally. Great Britain (Airlines) has always been our ally....
hbl commented on Perfect Daily Mail headline
The Daily Mail is not an 'awful sensationalist rag' as Cory describes it. It is a deeply unpleasant, racist, fear-mongering piece of hate-ridden propaganda that doesn't even possess the basic usefulness of a rag....
crazy canuck commented on Perfect Daily Mail headline
My grandmother was shipped off to Canada in the Victorian times (Home Children). If she wasn't, then along with countless others, she would have died of starvation or disease. Life in Britain has always had its strife. It appears that, like other industrialized countries, common social ills have taken root in western society. I think the breakdown of the traditional family unit has given way to gangs, teenage pregnancy and the downward spiral of poverty. It's difficult to think that the country of my forefathers, Great Britain, is no longer "great". As in most western countries, we are losing our...

Responses to Comments from eAi

eAi

Recent Actions

Comment Threads

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries.