Month: April 2010
Help! My Gmail and Facebook accounts have been stolen and the passwords changed. Someone I know just called to tell me that he got an email saying that I’m in London in a hospital and need money immediately. What do I do?
Firstly report the fact that your account has been hacked to Facebook and Google using the following links.
Next notify any close friends or family that your accounts have been hacked and to ignore any pleas to send money.
If you get your accounts returned I recommend using http://strongpasswordgenerator.com to create a new password.
The Digital economy bill has been passed and now just awaits the Royal Assent.
I think that the bill will spectacularly fail to prevent file-sharing instead it will be a boon for the companies that offer virtual private networking services and teenagers will start file-sharing offline by exchanging DVD-ROMs full of MP3s.
I’m torn with regard to the Liberal Democrats as my local MP is Don Foster who not only voted against the bill, but was present at the barely attended second reading of the bill and argued against it in the debate. I’m displeased with the party as a whole though as they didn’t oppose the bill and it was Lib Dem peers Lords Razzall and Clement Jones who sought to amend the Digital Economy Bill to allow site blocking for copyright infringement, although in the end that clause was dropped.
Mark Millar’s comic book attracted some interest but the story was not controversial until it became adapted for the big screen. The idea of a 12 year old girl calling gangsters cunts and then slaughtering them was considered by many people who hadn’t even seen the film to be beyond the pale.
But that is kind of the point. It firmly establishes early on that this is set in the real world where the bad guys can win and innocent people can be killed or gravely injured, but then it throws at the viewers the traditional tropes of the superhero action movie. It messes with how the viewer is supposed to watch and enjoy the film, it dares people to enjoy stuff that they see as immoral.
You are supposed to be unnerved by the violence performed by Hit Girl and see Big Daddy as being as monstrous as the mob boss Frank D’Amico.