Posts by fred

Germany laughs at EU's full-body scanners plan

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Are there any vacencies? I love to perv at women and men and children from the legal safety behind the full body sexual scanner.

Dawkins' atheist ad campaign hits fundraising target

on the buses

Current donations is now valued at £51,000.

UK cybercrime overhaul finally comes into effect

article 3A (4)

(4) In this section "article" includes any program or data held in electronic form.

So you can code on paper and post it to someone. Reminds me of PGP. Power up the racks of printers and start buying stamps.

Mozilla plans mobile Firefox, plus 'public resource' usage data

mobile Firefox

There is a mobile version of firefox compiled for GPE. It runs well on my iPAQ hx4700 with either Familiar or the later Angstrom release for it.

There: Another good reason to run Linux on your PDA :D

Availble from http://www.angstrom-distribution.org

Site guesses your sex via age-old web flaw

Privoxy blocked this

Privoxy blocked this I declined the offer :)

"Request for blocked URL

Your request for http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/ was blocked.

See why or go there anyway."

Nah, I went anyway and clicked on the button and nothing happened. No results :( I am not using any Mozilla or Microsoft related browser.

Analyser and me are incompatible

Gave errors: boo hoo

JavaScript - http://www.mikeonads.com/PRIVOXY-FORCE/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/

Inline script thread

Error:

name: ReferenceError

message: Statement on line 3: Undefined variable: urchinTracker

Backtrace:

Line 3 of inline#4 script in http://www.mikeonads.com/PRIVOXY-FORCE/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/

urchinTracker();

stacktrace: n/a; see 'opera:config#UserPrefs|Exceptions Have Stacktrace'

JavaScript - http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js

Linked script not loaded

JavaScript - http://www.mikeonads.com/PRIVOXY-FORCE/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/

Event thread: click

Error:

name: ReferenceError

message: Statement on line 1: Undefined variable: SocialHistory

Backtrace:

Line 1 of inline#3 script in http://www.mikeonads.com/PRIVOXY-FORCE/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/: In function startAnalysis

function startAnalysis() { user = SocialHistory(); var listOfVisitedSites = user.visitedSites(); document.getElementById('analyze').style.display='block';document.getElementById('analyze').src="http://www.mikeonads.com/gender/analyze.php?sites="+listOfVisitedSites;}

Line 1 of function script

startAnalysis()

...

stacktrace: n/a; see 'opera:config#UserPrefs|Exceptions Have Stacktrace'

Home Office to order fingerprinting of air passengers

Won't go back even for cash.

I have already left the country, but regrettfully I still have a lot of stuff in a friend's loft, which I shall have to pickup within the next few years, but thankfully, courier companies help here.

San Francisco's 'rogue' sysadmin still being paid while in jail

title

I wonder what pissed him off enough to do this? That would be interesting to know.

EU emissions trading to include airlines

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Bit confused about the cold start bit. All our electy equipment execpt the water heater is never on standby. Its turned off at the plug including the broadband modem, router and telly. These items are only in use for between two and three hours daily. Have I missed something magical about standbys on television sets? (Mine is an LCD and used lots of cool carbon screwing chems to make it)

Trousers Brown: Blighty faces 'food security' threat

allotments

I often look at what people buy when I go to the supermarket. Usually, its pre-cooked meals, sweets, crisps and other crap. Instead of buying veggies and meat and making a meal, they economise by buying cheaper pre-cooked crap, which is worse for them, and heat this up. Its cheaper and better for them to actually cook a good meal where the ingredients can still be bought for a reasonable price especially when one buys the 2for1 offers.

The other option is to use the garden for what it was intended for. A vegterible patch! Veg is easy to grow and almost free. You can use the bathwater to water it. Run a hosepipe up to the bath, and stand with it next to the veggie plot. Then suck on the tube until you hear the gurggeling noise (or get a mouthful of water) and then water the veggie plot.

Paris' patch watering? (^pat^snat)

Google's spycar revs up UK privacy fears

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No problem with Google photographing everything. Its not an invasion of privacy so long as all private scenes are blurred out. The request to be opted in instead of contacting them to opt-out.

Court slaps UK BitTorrenters with landmark damages award

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"some of the net users accused of infringing Codermasters' copyright last year received more than half a dozen separate demands for cash" and probably deleted these automatically as these might have been marked as SPAM!

Swedish customs pull Frenchman with two asses

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called Nounou, which means fanny in English as in virgina :D ha ha.

Think tank slams paedophile paranoia culture

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Re: titled Suffer, little childDren

By Anonymous Coward

Posted Thursday 26th June 2008 11:03 GMT

I hoped the capitalised letters would produce a hidden code but all it in its taggeled form is:

WCCITLCNXXXGRATCGGUDSCLAFTLNXXXSPARAGEERDDPDCIFRWVTRIUITIHMWBGADCPDSDLITD, which I won't pronounce because it might sound rude.

Snoop-happy councils warned off RIPA abuse

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Milton wrote: "Whilst it is a matter for each council to determine for its area, our advice is that, save in the most unusual and extreme of circumstances, it is inappropriate to use these powers for trivial matters."

Therefore, it is appropriate to use RIPA for trivial matters in extreme and unusual circumstances.

UK culture sec wants a public service web

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“I can see how some people feel there is no alternative ...[to] in the new world [order]” said Burnham.

I'll get my coat.

God makes you stupid, researchers claim

oops

Manhatten part 2. lol. I'm with this practical joke http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Islam (since the thread is going this way)

UK civil servant leaves Top Secret Iraq war intelligence documents on a train

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"The documents were handed in to the BBC which passed them to the police." after being photocopied and made available in a torrent?

Bots to blame for Amazon.com outages?

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> "a single attacker perpetrated a "layer 7" attack on IMDB"

Thousands of gopher sessions? ^^

ISS toilet sucks again

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What happened to recycling?

poo power

Is this what space exploration amounts to now? The bog. They have to be doing something else up there!

Brussels wants eID cards to work Europe-wide

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Secure idenTity Across (borders) LinKed - STALK

The New Order: When reading is a crime

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Are prime ministers imune from proscution once they leave office, or can one attempt to take them to court during office?

Adobe coughs up CS4 public betas

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GIMP.

Home Office hands over £50m for police mobile devices

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“ ... while out on patrol, will spend less time returning to the station and more time on the frontline," added Richard Earland, CIO at the National Policing Improvement Authority.

Frontline: the line along which opposing armies face each other

No more community policing. Its black and white. The public verses the police!

Social networking site bans oldies over sex offender fears

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I just had a look at the faceparty.com web site. One is confronted with slogons :

Log Ur Ass On

Join Us and eat Brain

Back To The Bitch: All Hell Is about To Break Loose

Fuck this.

I think they did us 36 year oldies a favour by banning us!

Yours,

Mr. Not Quite As Offensive than FaceParty.

MS whips lens cap off WorldWide Telescope

Cygwin - Que?

I downloaded and it lauched the Cygwin setup programme. I had already installed cygwin. I cancelled and decided to await more info...

Swiss start-up re-broadcasting UK TV channels

FTA

Why do they care? Most of the European television (including British tele) is free to air on the satellites!

join.freesat.co.uk

Your personal data just got permanently cached at the US border

14 years.

I only have a laptop and it has all my emails and files on it. Fives years my arse. It goes back to 1994! Thats fourteen years for those without mental arithmetic.

Paris, because I hope that she won't be shy about showing her laptop.

School crossing guards join CCTV panlollycon

good

I don't really see the big deal; For once I am on the side of the lollipop cameras, so long as the recorded images are deleted at the end of each shift.

Brown opts for morality over science on 'lethal skunk'

unconstructive commment

Build more goals. Increase sentences. Put the people in. Stack 'em high.

The government knows that the best place for people is inside and off their streets. They will work for free in goal and seldom complain about the conditions and lack of rights.

Face it. Its a conspiracy to lock us all up. :D

// I went for the 'I'll get my coat' because otherwise I might get lynched.

Unmasking the Neighborhood Network Watch

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"...or hide away and close doors?"

Its a good way to encourage fear of others.

Paris, because I love to hide away behind a closed door with her.

eBay slams UK.gov touting ban

creepy functionality

When punters buy a ticket ask them to include the name of the person who is going to use it. Then when said person tries to use the ticket s/he can be asked for identification to prove that they are the correct person. This could be nicely included with a new shiny national ID card...

Virgin Media mops up CEO's 'boll*cks' outburst

1:1 contention - off topic

I use Gib Telecom (in Gibraltar) and they provide 1:1 contention ratio on all their ADSL. However, 1 256/512Mbit connection inclusive of filter/phone line is £24 a month. It sounds expensive, but when I compare this to the UK & Spain I feel a lot better off. I check it regularly and always get the same up/down rate each time. A 512/2,048 KB link is rather dear at £94 per month.

I don't know if that many people here realise what they get, and there is competition from CTS now who offer wimax connections, but the contention is at least 20:1 and we shall see how much the average user will notice. I would. Like an earlier poster wrote, many think its witchcraft

O2: We didn't know we were capping 3G data speeds

kb verses kB

Kilobit (kb), ), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity

Kilobyte (kB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity

Home Office opens sex offender files in pilot scheme

rubbish

Insteaf of potentially smacking children why not lock them all up inside padded cells so that they cannot hurt themselves. Then release them to the world at large at sixteen years old and see what happens.

'I live the mobile lifestyle dream...'

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Putting the K in quality

HMRC blows £1.4m on two-word slogan

Wie bitte

"If you improve the quality and leadership in the department it benefits everyone from people who claim tax credits to the Government."

How do it do this?

Brit stargazers get Gemini reprieve

wrong sky

"the Northern Hemisphere sky with Gemini's 8.1m telescopes in Hawaii and the Chilean Andes, "

The Gemini observatory, in Chile (Pachon), views the southern hemispere and not the northern hemisphere, but the Chilean Pisco might turn your world upside down :)

eBayer invites buyers to rip him off

British Territory - Good Condition - No Reserve

Another classic Ebay auction was this, which was pulled a long time ago:

http://www.gibinquirer.net/gbay/index.htm

NASA to beam Beatles song into deep space

Rocket girl

Bring Paris Hilton back. She can sing and will fit into a panty sized rocket and could be blasted off towards the galatic centre.

EU watchdogs probe German and Swedish gambling blockades

People have the choice on how they spend their money.

There is an assumption that those who gamble online are spending their lives' saving on it, which is further from the truth than could be imagined. The majority of players are casual ones having a flutter; there are others who really do play with a lot of cash, but these are serious players and would other wise play in a casino.

Gambeling companies would not survive if the players lost lots of money on the games, which is why these games pay out rather well. Otherwise, its bad for their business "Come play and loose" is not a good strapline. As a result players are really winning.

The companies also let you play for free. You can bet on the tables with virtual money, and win. Of course, its not real money and you cannot put it into the bank accouny ;P If a player wants to play with real money then the option is there. Of course, this is a ploy to get the player comfortable with the game so that s/he will feel comfortable and then wager real bets. This works both ways. The player gains confidence and wins more money on the real tables, and the companies gain a client.

These people are often playing for fun and relaxation, and I expect they get a similar joy from a table that I get from playing my favourite MMORG.

Online gambeling is well regulated and if players are highlighted as having a gambeling problem, they are usually contacted and asked if they want to suspect their account, or have hard limits set so that they cannot gamble their lifes savings away.

Back to the point: People have the choice on how they spend their money. It is not up to a government how they should spend their money other than that the local taxes (Income tax, car tax, poll tax, VAT on goods etc) in that nation.

However, this is all silly because usually the reason a nation wants to ban something like this is to protect their own internal market. The evils of gambeling can be applied to the evils of foreign investment and that terrible foreign food [that undermines the national markets].

Sociologists: Studying engineering turns you into a terrorist

engineers are terrorists

If thue then we are running your company networks and administering your systems ;P

Bank turns London man into RFID-enabled guinea pig

A piece of the action

Well, at least we can actually act about this.

If Barclays send me a new RFID enabled card I shall take it to the bank and cut it up with a pair of scissors, after explaining to them why I am doing so. I shall ask them to either reactivate my previous card, or provide a non-RFID card, or move to another bank, which is not too hard these days to do.

Privacy storm descends on Dutch health care database

Re: Solution

Dave,

Does this work in practice? How easily do companies cooperate with these requests for information about onesel? I am interested in obtaining (and hopefully deleting) my data held by Kroll.com submitted for a job application.

HMRC offers £20k reward for ID goldmine CDs

cd torrent

I think one can find a copy on piratebay.