Posts by Dave

French police plan Windows-free jails, offices

Where's Ballmer?

I expect to see Steve Ballmer crash landing in France at some point in the near future to try to persuade the french bobbies to continue using Windows.

I wonder if he'll 'persuade' them with a bit of chair throwing?

Paris - obviously!

Polish IT worker calculates exact speed of snail mail

I was going to say

Don't forget to mention global warming on the grant application form.

Paris - for the hot air she spouts.

Nintendo kills Wii ads due to console shortage

Not shortage in France

One could just pop over to cite europe. Micromania has plenty of wiis (plural wiiiii?) for sale. I even popped into leclerc and bought a DS just like that.

HMRC offers £20k reward for ID goldmine CDs

@Chris

£60 a record comes from Vince Cable's reckoning, therefore 60 * 25,000,000 = 1,500,000,000 or £1.5bn

Met Police to pilot Tasers

Hmmm

You hear about people dying after banging their head on the pavement after falling over.

Assuming that the taser will probably make you fall over and not merely make your hair stand on end while frozen, could one assume that there could be more deaths due to the victim suffering head trauma.

Maybe the cops could kindly place a cushion near the poor bastard.

Darling admits Revenue loss of 25 million personal records

On the news

I noticed that on the news last night all the people whose data was on the disks were referred to as 'customers', whatever happened to the word 'citizens'.

That does it, we are all customers of UK plc with Executive Director Brown at the helm.

I'm (hopefully) a free man, get me out of here!!!!