Posts by Steven

Porn company Perfect 10 sues Microsoft

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Surely?

Oh and $4m a month?! That's a whole-lotta smut!

Drunken German joyrider totals 300 chickens

Re: Did you hear about the German Lorry Driver who stopped in the M26 fast lane?

Sorry I'd say four years for killing someone is quite reasonable, the mere fact that the guy has refused to attend court after killing someone shows to me and no doubt the judge that he has little regard for the life his mistake took away.

The lad on the A14 'fessed up to it (although with a fractured spine he probably wasn't in a position to argue) and could be put down to him genuinely panicking given the circumstances (I've had a bonnet catch let go on the M25 and I can assure you it definitely qualifies as a brown-trouser moment).

Given that nobody died in the later of the two incidents and that the accused actually bothered to turn up for the trial I think the punishment that he got was appropriate.

Perhaps the anonymous poster is a little too keen to jump on the race bandwagon and is therefore blinkered to any other facts which may have swayed the judge/jury.

NASA examining Shuttle's dings, extending mission

Re: Great close-up....

They take piccy's from the flying killer drones of course....

...or on a cloudy day possibly use the orbiters camera tipped boom to have a butchers are the soft underbelly of the shuttle.

;)

VeriSign worker exits after laptop security breach

Nobody's learning...

For f**k sake how hard is it for these people to understand that storing confidental data on laptops is an accident waiting to happen.

CIO's of these companies should be dragged to the nearest field and shot repeatedly until the message finally gets through to everyone who does this.

You wouldn't leave a full copy of your own credit history sitting in the boot (sorry trunk for our US readers) of your car so why is it ok to do it with your employees or customers data?

Cupid Stunts.

Miserable Brits declare War on Comfort

Re: Trees incomparably good relative to politicians

"Setting fire to local politicians might be viewed as a public service in some quarters, the problem is that they are 70% water and difficult to light"

Oh I don't know, with the right amount of accelerant I’m sure they’d be popping away like a Glaswegian "terrorist". Worth a go eh? ;)

BSkyB buys Amstrad

PC1640 DD

Was ALL about the colour display (that power the base unit, wtf was all that about?!), double-disk drive and the 640k RAM....

Fond memories, anyone remember GEM?

DVLA turns censor on grubby number plates

Boredom in Swansea...

Overzealous Welsh BA57ARD5...

;)

Muffy Mount voted ultimate 'nom de sex'

lol

I'll never slot a blade into its enclosure with a straight face again :o)

Suit blows £105k in London bar

What else?

Was he spalshing the cash on? I mean if he's prepared to spend 100k on booze how much is he spending on 'nose candy'?

I'm sure the proprietor didn't bother mentioning how much 'gear' gets hoovered up as well as the drink in his club!

Dubai claims world's tallest building title

@Rhys

"the media gets all upset about the prospects of a plane ramming that tower."

Cannae see Ozzy B shitting in his own back yard and ramming a building in Dubai can you?

The IBM ThinkPad: 15 years old today

Couldn't agree more

Got a T42 which has been a very faithful servant ever since I got it two and a half years ago, it’s been used and abused in data centers all over the UK and hasn’t *touches wooden surface* crapped on me once. In fact I’ve only rebuilt it once during that time and that was as a result of its MS bloatware O/S slowing to a crawl, once rebuilt its back to its good old self and to be honest I can’t see me replacing this until it dies.

Granted its not the prettiest or lightest laptop on the market but for reliability I wouldn’t even consider another manufacturer, I just hope Lenovo don’t turn the brand to crap ala Compaq/HP.

Indians slip on tobacco-flavoured condom

Lester!

<tongue in cheek>

Lester once again you disappoint us with stories that don't have an IT angle!

</tongue in cheek>

;o)

Crazy cyber-jihadi emails planned death for Mayport, FL

Misguided gamer?

Sounds like it would make a good plot for a new Grand Theft Auto release....

(Un)lucky UCLA student cops Paris's old mobile number

Re: For the benefit of Marco

"I guess this is one of Murphy' laws."

Who is this Murphy and why is he making such stupid laws?

;o)

Canadian iPod user struck by lightning

Divine Attention

"The unnamed victim, reportedly an active church musician and enjoying "religious music" at the time of the incident"

Obviously the big man "upstairs" wasn't too impressed with his efforts! Although speaking as a devout atheist I suspect it was more to do with the idiot standing under a tree in a thunderstorm which contributed to this guys downfall.

Police hunt renegade cow sex youth

I'm sorry..

..but how the fuck do you shag a cow?

The guy must either of been 8 foot tall or brought a couple of milk crates to stand on!

The perp can count himself lucky 2 tonne of very raw bovine meat didn't decide to sit on him, hell that would have to rank fairly high up the Darwin Award list!

Institutional idiocy in IT

*looks over shoulder*

You've got this place bugged haven't you?

Very astute article, I smiled in several places after recognizing personality traits amongst my colleagues that you described.

Virgin Trains's mysterious full-price ticket promotion

Uh-huh.

So the sudden unavailability of cheap tickets yesterday had nothing to do with the fact that the trains on the West Coast lines were really busy due to the disruption caused on other lines due to flooding in other parts of the UK yesterday?

Bush kills stem cell research bill

*sigh*

Refresh my memory.

How long does the world have to wait before this idiot is removed from office?

Fancy an earful? Click here for tech support

Work experience kid?

Jesus I've worked with some dodgy techs over the years but I've never seen anything quite like that before!

Scotland ranked 'worst small country'

Ecosse

"This government is determined that Scotland can and will do better. The policies we put in place with the powers of devolution will improve our performance, and with the fuller powers of independence we can give Scotland a clear competitive edge in achieving our overarching aim of strong, sustainable economic growth."

Best they start off by outlawing deep fried Mars Bars and dramatically increasing the tax on a four pack of Tennants then...

Planning a drunken stag night? Avoid Slovakia

Justice Served

Serves the wanker right, astounds me that people think they can go to another country purely to get bladdered and cause mayhem and expect the locals to accept it.

And then to top it off act as if their the innocent party when they get nicked and have to play hide the soap in the local gaol for a couple of months.

No doubt they'll be a quote from Mummy somewhere about how he's a good boy and 'never done anything like this before' etc etc.

Brit gamer shot in armed robbery out of hospital

CSS

The ultimate eco round.

Maybe he was seeing if he'd respawn?

Another ISP throttles bandwidth

Motherf**kers

Curious coincidence that this article has been posted today…

Just migrated one of our customers from Nildram/Pipex to Zen as they have been unable to get more that 64k/sec on their circuit SINCE the 3rd May so I’d be interested to hear from anyone else who seems to have been caught up in an unofficial trial.

Nildram tech support have been nothing short of useless in attempting to resolve this issue blaming everything from a faulty router/microfilter to a dodgy line card in the DSLAM, in the end the client got so frustrated they provisioned a new analogue line and got a new circuit. Which surprise surprise is getting 8MB/sec which the same equipment that Nildram said was faulty.

And our client? A large firm of solicitors, guess which article I’ll be forwarding them…

I think this is an absolute disgrace; not only are they applying this to all their customers, business and home users alike but it would seem that it affects every protocol, not just P2P apps etc.

Scientology tries to discredit BBC documentary

If it were me...

I would have just stuck one on the annoying t**t (The Scientology guy not John Sweeney) and had done with it.

I'm sure given the context of the whole program more people will be sympathising with John than the Scientologists by the end of the program.

Still I think its a style of questioning Paxman should adopt in the future "MR BROWN WILL YOU LISTEN TO ME!!!!"

Workplace smut runs rampant

Rightyo....

No doubt PixAlert (you can tell a lot about a company by its name) will be able to assist the aforementioned organisations with said smut removal.

Another example of a company with a vested interest in a sector producing a 'no shit Sherlock' report.

Trio suspended for putting 'vagina' into Monologues

Uh-huh.

Principal Richard, putting the letter ‘R’ in Retarded.

Maybe he’d confused the play with Macbeth…