Posts by dervheid

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"European People's Party"

You sure it's not the "People's Party of Europe"

or the "Popular People's Party of Europe"

or the "European Popular People's Party" (bloody splitters)

Gulf of California terrorized by ONE-EYED MUTANT SHARK!

Not a shark...

it's an emmisary from the vindaloovian empire. :P

Plods to get dot-uk takedown powers - without court order

balance?

Am I to take from your post that you think that giving Plod this level of judicial authority, without formal oversight by the courts, is a good thing? And as for "consider steps which might be taken to reduce the chances of the worst outcomes happening (like having meaningful compensation in the case of a domain being unfairly blocked)?" exactly how much compensation did you have in mind, how do you actually formulate 'meaningful' compensation. And who would foot the bill for said compo? Would that be the particular Plod taking the action personally paying the compo? No, it would end up being the rest of us shelling out for Plod's screw-ups as usual.

I believe the 'slippery slope' referred to is the political expediency of giving Plod ever increasing, unchecked judicial 'authority' without reference to the courts. (Cue police state).

Plod needs to be put back in his collective box, and reminded that his purpose is to uphold the law, and that it is the court's purpose to enforce the law.

US judge: Warrant required to access mobile location data

What?

A Judge that actually has a full set of balls. And an ounce or two of common sense ( and knows his Orwell!)

Can we give him a job here...

Nokia snubs UK with N9

What. The. Fuck.

Seriously. talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. What a knob.

Standard smartphone charger to dominate in two years

true, but

As has previously been pointed out, and as is the case with my 5800, the micro usb doesn't support charging in every case. And anyhoo, wasn't this all promised at least a couple of years ago.

Russia wins World Cup bid in parrot-sickening travesty

And still paying...

well past the next one in '22...

GSMA opens the way for Apple SIM

I predict

That this will be a good thing... for the phone manufacturers/telcos. And a BAD thing for the consumer...

Facebook unveils 'next-gen' messaging system

Yup

Pretty much dead there...

Just one small thing, Mr Zuckerberg...

Anyone with sense will NOT want to put "all of their eggs in the same basket" as it were. Well, I certainly won't. I like having it all separated, thank you.

I was going to call it a fail, but it's way more like badgers...

Top cyber crime cop lied under oath, says judge

Is it just me

or does she look like Paul Whitehouse!

Microsoft plans biggest ever Patch Tuesday

Windows including Windows 7 and 2008R2.

So, are Microstuffed themselves now trying to gloss over the turd that was 'Vista' by referring to it as"2008R2"

Almost as big a joke as one of the world's biggest petrochemical companies opting for Vista globally.

Mind you, up until this, they were still using NT/2000...

ICO issues draft data-sharing code

Based on past performance...

the resultant code will be simple:

'Share whatever you want of whatever you have with whomever you want. Oh and don't bother informing the original "owner" of the data. They gave it to you, it's yours to do with as you see fit.'

Apple in 873-page legal claim to word 'Pod'

Really?

And maybe glazing companies should sue Microstuffed for people confusing their shitty little product with REAL windows...

Or maybe publishers could sue Apple over the Macbook, based on your initial premise...

POD, it's a WORD. NO-ONE gets to 'own' words. Apart from corporate lawyers. They've pretty much come to define the word WANKERS...

Phone hacking probe cops 'got law wrong' - were too lenient

Since when did PLOD...

decide on what was illegal or not?

Am I the only one who thinks that their job is to investigate alleged crimes, present said evidence to DPP/Procurator Fiscal, who then decide if there's enough evidence to warrant proceeding to court, where either a magistrate/sheriff or Jury (under the direction of a learned judge) decide if the law has been broken.

Or is that not the way the system works?

Sussex police try new tactic to relieve snappers of pics

Ooops!

"Sorry, your image/video appears to have been 'accidentally' lost/erased/deleted. We apologise for your inconvenience/loss."

Google squirrels into human brains with Scribe experiment

if the results...

are anything like the audio on google translate, it'll last 5 minutes. Let's NOT have google 'deciding' what we want to say.

The 3G coverage picture that can't be published

Wankers

That is all...

Scotland Yard mulls Google Wi-Fi slurp

I love picking up on a troll, so...

Dearest Micky 1,

I'm so happy for you to be content to let every Tom, Dick and Google snoop on your Wi Fi connection (I'm making the presumption that you DO have one). However, there are some of us who would, and I believe quite rightly, rather that they, and others like them refrained from this utterly unnecessary practice entirely. Yes, we do all give away personal information all the time, but usually we accept it because were AWARE OF IT, and it's all a bit of a trade off. Would you be so happy if someone was listening in to your mobile phone conversation? I'm betting on NOT for that one. Same principle my simple minded friend.

UK.gov issues death warrant for ID cards

Or

er, Not...

Certainly not the £30 the idiots coughed up

I'd suggest that this...

is just about the ideal place...

Clegg promises liberties restoration

Woo Hoo!

But let's wait and see if it actually happens.

Though it was nice to see FORMER Home Secretary Alan Johnson having a wee rant on the Beeb:

Quote from BBC website-

"accused Mr Clegg of using "rampant hyperbole" when talking about surveillance and added that the previous government's law and order reforms had public backing.

He said: "If he [Mr Clegg] wants to ask the public which laws to get rid of, he should also ask which laws they would like to keep." "

'S funny, I don't remember him or his cohorts giving a fucking TOSS about public opinion when they were trying to stitch us up into the State of NuLabouria.

Dear Alan, YOU created our surveillance society! Now FUCK OFF you knobhead.

UK regulator wants register of all premium-rate firms

Shouldn't they already HAVE...

a register of all premium rate firms, on the basis that it's damned difficult to regulate something you don't even know exists?

Oh, sorry, my mistake. This is a body that's supposed to stop Joe Public from being ripped off by these smeg-pots. I apologise for staying into the 'common sense' territory there. Won't happen again...

Police send Reg hack CRB check database

More to the point...

is why someone felt the need to have extrated ANY info from the CRB database to be stored, presumably locally, on a poxy spreadsheet. It's not just the twat who accidentally sent it that should be 'disciplined', but also whoever put the spreadsheet together. And also, if the CRB database is being abused by one force, would we be wrong to presume that it's being abused by them all?

MPs criticise government's climate of fear

Keep us in a state of 'fear'...

and keep tweaking it plausibly every now and then. Remember the festive season 'incident'? And there's another lovely 'holiday' just around the corner. Anyone taking bets on there being a 'terrorist scare' of some sort over the Easter weekend. Awaiting details from the Home Office/Minitrue.

Election, what election? Countries in a 'State of Emergency' don't you know! <vague sound of Jackboots in the distance, but getting louder...>

Oops: Chief Climategate investigator failed to declare eco directorship

Successful People as MP's?

Yes, definitely. However, once they become an MP, that should be their one and only 'job'. No pay from other quarters, and absolutely NO PAY from lobbying / 'consultation'. The 'gravy-train' needs to be permanently derailed.

Another Ice Age?

And they'll STILL say " we told you so" and blame it on the 'tipping point'.

Climate warms up, climate cools down, climate warms up, climate cools down, climate warms up, climate cools down, climate warms up, climate cools down, climate warms up, climate cools down, climate warms up, climate cools down, climate warms up, climate cools down. You see the pattern...

Home Office planning to brick version 1 ID cards in 2012?

Uses for ID Cards...

How about a handy, pocket-sized car windscreen scraper, emergency beer-mat (I was going to suggest coaster, but that's so fuckin' lah-de-dah!), applicator for ipod anti-scratch film, hotel room lightswitch card, pizza cutter, survival tool (lichen scraper, latrine digger). the list of possibilities is endless.

Well, OK, it's not.

Nope...

It's the scent of "Fuckup!" by Homme Orifice

Apple bins iPhone covers

Apple are just...

so fucking ANAL. Cutting off their nose to spite their face (again). Next thing they'll be removing all the skins and stuff that 'protect' the rest of the case. Twats

'The LHC will implode the Moon or PUT OUT THE SUN'

The only thing likely to disappear...

into any kind of black hole, mini, micro, pico or otherwise is the good Professor (retired) Rössler's head up his own personal 'black (or is that more of a brown?) hole'

Ad industry OKs climate porn

And I'm glad to see...

some people don't like what I'm saying here. Meh! Time to turn up the central heating, pass my regards to EnviroPope Gore.

I was astounded...

when I received my copy of the adjudication (yes, I DID complain!). Now I discover that "the chair of the ASA, Lord Chris Smith of Finsbury, also chairs the Environment Agency, and is currently working closely with DECC," I'm not surprised one little bitty bit now.

So, clearly the ASA feels that as long as the 'facts' have been 'qualified' (had they really? I don't think so, and I'm sure I'm NOT the only one), then it's ok if the 'facts' aren't 'absolute'. (not 'facts' then!)

I remember the ASA's own self publicising ad campaign of some time ago, based on the four principles;

"Legal, Decent, Honest, Truthful"

I for one think that the ASA have failed to uphold at least two of those 'principles' in this case.

Still, another fine example of the depths to which the Holy Church of Envirogeddon will stoop to promote 'the cause'

Home Office misses Brussels' Phorm deadline

Surely the Hom. Sec...

must be held to account for this.

Personally if need be.

BTW, just who the feck IS the Home secretary these days anyway? Given that the entire cabinet seem to be a collection of "who the fuck?"s as opposed to a "who's who".

Johnson reveals ID register linked to NI numbers

Nulabourians tighten...

their grip on the sheeple a little bit more then. And they're 'providing' full body scanners at all airports too. Everyone thank the nice gentleman with the explosive xmas package for his 'assistance' in that , will you. How very convenient.

Now, if they can just come up with a plausible 'reason' NOT to have a general election this year...

Southampton chap lodges todger in steel pipe

Eight firemen?

Ah, that would be one to wield the cutter, and seven to hold him down then.

Vatican awards self 'unique copyright' on Pope

Ex-fecking-sucse-me?

I happen to enjoy a regular pontification, have done for years, as anyone who has read my posts before will know (ok, not many people then). Point being, I will continue to pontificate as and when I feel like it (and obviously as and when the moderatrix permits ;-P), and no-one's religious order is going to stop me from doing so. You didn't get this kind of abject silliness from the previous management, backward steps all the time, IMHO.

As for all this talk of religious intolerance, don't get me started on all of that.........

File-sharing Bill could give Government control of the internet

The thin end of the wedge...

is long gone. NuLabour are inexorably tightening their desperate grip on power in this country. An election is (well, currently anyway) coming next year, gawd help us if these fuckers get back in (or are bold enough to decide that they can get away with not having one. Do you think that the merkins would move in to 'restore democracy'?)

Government lets CCTV watchdog off the leash

"And the government think we're fooled by this?"

No, they don't think WE will, but they're probably right in thinking that the sheeple will be placated by this though.

And just what makes you think...

that the Tories will scrap this one? (We can but hope, however)

Not that I would EVER accuse the Tories of doing anything like using it as another set of nice cushy jobs for their 'mates' to do, no Siree Bob.

'CRU cherrypicked Russian climate data', says Russian

Another nail...

in the coffin lid of 'Global Warming'?

Pass me the hammer, I'd dearly love to drive them in.

(that'll be the huge, coal-fired, steam driven power hammer. best kind, of course)

Data collector threatens scribe who reported breach

WTF!

Talk about brass neck!

Have to sort of agree with Gene Cash, in as much as if they tried it over this side of t' Atlantic, they probably WOULD get away with it.

It's the sort of 'defensive' tactics you'd expect from a govern-mental department.

Hacked climate Prof stands aside

"the equivilant NASA one can be used to check your calibration."

Only if you have recently calibrated that one.

It's called traceable standards, by the way.

Calibrate the data?

Isn't data just another word for information. How, then, can information be 'calibrated' in any way? Only by the 'Ministry of Truth'. What should be being calibrated is the INSTRUMENTATION being used to make the measurements. That is the only way to ensure the accuracy of the data. I speak as an Instrument Engineer here. Why should climate science be any different to industry in this respect. Proper equipment calibration procedures and records of those are what are reguired to validate measurements. Without those, the collected data is MEANINGLESS.

May I be the first to suggest...

"All eyes will now be on UEA's review."

WHITEWASH.

Or should that maybe be GREENWASH.

Gov confirms plans for Sky box in charge of your house

A little more high tech...

but I'm pretty sure Winston Smith would recognise the principles at the root of this.

As for being able to turn gas supplies off and back on remotely! You have GOT to be fucking joking. Even restricting the flow of gas into a property may result in reduced pressure at the appliance, inefficient combustion and an increase of toxic combustion products, ie, Carbon Monoxide.

Of course, if you're a member of the Inner Party, there'll be no worries about fuel supplies for you. ("Throw another prole on the fire on the way out Jeves, there's a good chap!")

ISPA slams Mandy's copyright land grab

Yet another example...

of this NuLabourian government's shameless attempts to shift power away from our (woefully inadequate, self serving) elected 'representatives' and into their direct control.

The next election can't come soon enough. Unless the Dark Lord can figure out a way of postponing, or better still, cancelling it. Would I be surprised. Eh,.. NO.

Orwell, as I predict the Dark Lord will be running 'his' department as "The Ministry of Plenty" before very long...

Time for the daily Two-Minute Hate, I believe...

Terrorism chiefs don't know what they've censored online

The power of words...

will, if NuLabour has it's way, be diminished and removed by the introduction of 'NewSpeak'.

They appear to already be declaring 'ThoughtCrime'.

Mark my words.

(Well, George Orwell's actually)

NASA: the world will not end in 2012

Looks like I forgot...

the icon for my last post.

Can the afflicted please return the fish-hooks, apparently I might need them soon!

Ta.

@Baying Lynch Mob

Finally, someone else has come to realise that AGW is mythology...

"For the planet did indeed get warmer,

and the seas did rise,

and the planet got cooler,

and the seas did fall.

And this did repeat itself time and time again.

And The Lord grumbled unto himself

"I must get someone in to look at that bloody thermostat."

And he did reach for the Yellow Book of Answers..."