Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects 1355 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2007
He's got to cross off the 5th amendment to defend himself by telling the various people not to split on him?
Sounds logical.
Why can't he just post a tiny 3 liner at the end of the Internet admitting his fault and promising not to do it again the way the Daily Mail promises never to buy crapperatzi photographs taken intrusively by stalkers?
Why do I get the impression that certain newspaper columnists are in the wrong business?
Were you referring to Microsoft?
Or Persia?
Beats me why small firms are threatened by patent laws.
I'd just agree to the terms if even remotely likely to go to Texas, declare bankrupt and restart in another name in another location. That would cost less than a thousand quid to do in Britain where the legal system is crap but not as crap as some, so I hear.
> So because Iran is not allowed to use anti-virus tech (because that would defeat the virus writers at the CIA)
How would an AV have caught it?
It wasn't earmarked until this report came out from Kaspersky.
> There could be a nuclear accident which could generate loads of radioactive material in the environment potentially harming millions of rather tanned, bearded people who wear weird clothes, don't speak English, are incredibly cruel to their wives and have generally well behaved children until/unless indoctrinated by Western trained clerics.
Like when the Israeliis bombed a French built reactor in Iraq?
Makes you wonder who the good guys are.
And who the most stupid bad ones are.
I think some of the Americans I have met have been among the best total strangers I have met in fact as the standard goes I don't believe I have met a bad one.
But I haven't met a US politician and would certainly class Condolisa Rice and George W Bush alongside any I would like to meet for an entirely different reason.
We have only had three or four Prime Ministers in this and the last century who were any bit as bad as the average US president in the same time frame. That is probably because we haven't had anyone that powerful IN THAT time frame.
I say average because I'm pretty ropey on US Presidunces past WW 2.
BTW all; sorry about my language in the first post I made on this thread. It was one of the first and I was incensed that the bulk of its progenitors was written by fools. Obviously there is a cadre of people up early in the morning to slam-dunk (whatever that means) anything a little bit sensitive as regards US politics.
I see now that the Reg has righted itself with the odd human.
(We really need a Thatcheresque cheesy grin Icon on here!!!!!!!
(And a swiftboat one.))
It's odd when there are no stories about Iran, the USA is free game for the evil our overlords and protectors do.
So far as MAD goes a functional balance had the effect of keeping the Russians and the USAniis apart.
Why should the Iranians and the Israelis not have the same protocols?
They are no dafter than the two superpowers were not all that long ago.
We managed to trust the silly buggers then, MacCarthyism and Pogroms and all.
Since then the USA has devastated Iraq economically, socially and with weapons of mass destruction, including phosphorus and uranium. It has used secret torture chambers all over the world, has umpteen people held incommunicado after being kidnapped and it has starving homeless people sleeping on the streets of every one of its towns. They have severe problems getting decent health treatment and the Israelis are back in their usual genocidal habits, having been granted by the USA, the territory of Palestine to play with.
Now tell me again that Iran is the most evil country in the world.
And that you don't use anything Made In China on principle.
You wankers.
How much is TV tax these days?
I haven't watched any TV for a while now so I forget.
It's not just drama that the BBC lost the plot to. It utterly fails in all its science stuff though it could continue cruising until the last tax payer puts the lights out on people like you.
It is that tax that is keeping the BBC going and it is that tax that is killing the BBC. It's like a dangerous, addictive chemical. They can't live with or without it.
I haven't got a license but I do get threatening letters telling me they have the power of intrusion into my privacy.
That alone would be enough to stop me buying into their tax shelter for morons and speed queens. They could save themselves the postage by allowing me to view the news every once in a while.
At what age does that become repetitive?
Soooo long and stanks of all the fish.
> G4S have not replied to our request for comment.
How would you know unless they told you?
Errrmmm...
Ah!
I see. Sorry for doubting you.
> The UK seems to have almost a 3rd world level of corruption when it comes to
> the government and private contractors. Its bad in the US also but generally
> the cock-ups don't rise to the level as seen in the UK.
Not counting the fact that ALL US cops have guns to shoot their victims for being suspect, their rentacops do the same too -and get the local sheriff to exonerate them.
" security guard shooting "
If you mess up your search query, Google will help you compound it with its Image search propensity to fuch up.
And it has killed Google Groups.
I am out of there, soonest!
Hey! I just realised there is now a massive opportunity to do exactly what Google was good at.
Imagine a company starting up with all the ground-work done for them and no dirty little secrets kept.
> I am not particularly fond of Google's approach to many things but the technology really does work.
But for whom?
At ^n clicks of six thousand million switches, Google's underlords know all there is to know about everyone they want to know anything about.
No icon until we get get a Thatcher inane grin icon.
Come on you dolts!
You know it makes sense.
You don't "man" mines.
They have less need of a crew than the robot subs.
You just put a stick of TNT in a pop bottle with a proximity fuse and make sure your own tankers are well out of the way.
If you want a bigger bang you recycle old oil drums. The problem with those is that they can be seen easily but at $sillysillies a pop you can soon win a war even if the USA blows them all up and you fail to even hit an hole in one.
No facepalm icon until we get a Thatcher cheesy grin icon.
I can knock off a relatively good poem in about half an hour. Come back to it a day or two later to give it a once over, maybe change a phrase or a couple of words. Another half an hour.
I dare say a good musician can do something similar. There are thousands of words to make rhymes with, so it is all very easy for me. There are only 7 notes and therefore not many thousands of combinations to couple. It shouldn't be too hard to knock out a newish tune, if your audience is young, silly and inept. Pop misusick isn't even concerned with four part harmonies.
People with pimples singing about broken hearts. FFS!
Not even that these days, just rhyming swear words. How hard can that be?
Writing a book takes a few months. Few authors can knock out 2 an year of any merit. But musicians will all too frequently knock out shit. Even good ones such as Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, god help me what about Stravinsky and Rites of Spring?
Any old tat can be given the Warhol treatment. The target customers are children after all.
> If you don't want to pay for music, then we won't make it.
Give me a break you tit.
In every town in Britain you can find gifted musicians singing their own stuff for free, just happy to be in a groove on open mic. night. Now GTHOOI.
I gave up when I realised the man was talking about out of date digiware that costs an amateur about 20 to 30 pence to produce retail.
Should an artist require a book, he will be forced to pay something like 4 quid apiece for each book because he can't hope to sell more than 3 or 4 hundred first editions.
So if a CD by a professional musician costs say 5 pence to produce and another 5 to distribute, why the hell does the artist expect us proles to pay more than a tenner for the privilege of hearing his work?
Said amateur author has to sell his book at willing local shops at a tenner apiece to make a couple of quid per volume.
If the mass market available to amateurs on the internet were utilised musicians could sell their work at reasonable rates. Why is a corporation like Apple the only one to realise this?
And why are all the others acting like yobs?
Basically, the problem is too much excitement.
They now know what they are doing -which is slightly different to knowing how to do it.
When it comes to explaining/understanding science things it pays to remember certain "tells" such as :
"Massive amounts of" or
"What we need is"
Sorry, I've just repeated what BoldMan had just said:
It could be argued that being a good engineer is not going to do you or the system much good if you get shitcanned because you didn't have the social / political skills to emigrate to India.
There IFTFY.
No icon until we get a fixed inane grin Thatcher icon.
Shoot first, hit you allies with friendly fire, ignore their sovereignty and legal system, then ask questions later.
Corrected for you:
Shoot first, hit you allies with friendly fire, ignore their sovereignty and legal system, then ask the wrong questions (mainly about who leaked the bad news) but not necessarily on topic later.
> Why do BT continue to install EO lines in places they know people will want faster broadband?
> Does the cost saving outweigh the lost revenue from people like me?
It is because everything Thatcher sold off went to asset strippers. All they want out of ex-public companies is golden handshakes.
It went west with the start of yuppie England whilst the rest of the country was get urine handshakes. And it was downhill all the way. 4 decades of it.
What we really need is a Thatcher image of a cheesy grin. So no more icons till I get what I want.
Since the fall of the economy most companies are using the willingness of the worst hit to open up conditions that are as close to a B movie SciFi scenario. Meat packing plants run by supermarkets, traditionally low paying jobs that nobody wants, now have the most exacting security designed to put people off and keep them out.
The situation is nearly as bad on building sites -of all places!
You mean the second time the son of a bitch covered the idiot in dog czjd he was dead?
The man is stupid enough to make Presidunce.
Where do they find them?
Is it chemically induced as foetuses or do Republicans cauterise the brains of their children hoping they will go into politics?
Crown lawyer John Pike to undertake to return data that was not relevant to the trial, but Pike said this may not be possible.
"Police, to put it bluntly, would not have a clue what is relevant and what is not relevant. How could they?" he said.
If the police didn't have a clue what was relevant how the hell could they know enough to get a warrant?
How can the data have gone missing if the crimianals only took copies and sent the data to the home of Stuxnet or whatever lame flame they write?
Speakin go which, sinc etrh USA govt is responsible for a lot of the hacker outrages...
Ah stuff it!
I hope MegaUpload can manage to screw all and sundry.
I just got another nasty letter from the TV Licensing authority threatening me.
Can we have an article on how and why the government controls what sort of entertainment we are allowed to watch?
And why I have to pay if I watch anything else but the British Broadcasting Crap.
It's not that the BBC TV shows are banal, boring or just plain crap but that I am treated to threatening letter syndrome if I I don't reply to the bastards.
If it doesn't break him it is already making him stronger. The publicity he's getting would have seen to that alone if it wasn't overwhelmed by the publicity the whole of the USA is getting from it.
The world aught to vote the digital rights people a planetary treasure.
It's a classic of American politics, right up there just under slavery, genocide and communist witch hunts; alongside the Debs Decision, Freedom Riders, and Mohammed Ali's stand against the Vietnam war. Long may the RFBIAA never accomplish anything more.
What we need in this country is some fat chav like Dotcom to stand for politics.
That's how we got the Conservatives, right?
Ah...
Except we'll probably end up with another fat drunk giving half of Europe to Russia again.
I just remembered.
Blast!
I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects' plan to save the world bites the dust.
Foiled again.
Has the New Zealand ever done anything like the US and UK government have under George the Thickth Tory Bloodyliar?
Do they have a law that anyone taken into police custody has to be brought before a judge within a day or so so that any charges against him can be publicly stated for discussion?
Or is it a country run by crooks and worse?
Instead of hundreds of thousands of people downloading files from TPB, what's to stop hundreds of people getting the files off Virgin and selling copies to thousands of people in their local pubs?
(Not counting Virgin's evident disabilities, of course.)
That's what my generation used to do back in the good old days.
So which operating systems were affected?
I have read this article, Slashdot's and Wired's and read the Kaspersky thread. I would have thought at least one report would contain the useful information that it has hit Windows machines, or that it has hit both Windows and Linux machines.
Or was it just Apple's carte that was upset?
And if it was on the Minister of Oil's computers it must have been on their server. So what are they running?
It can't be Windows 2000 because even a backward state like Great Britain is now using XP.
> I realise that "privacy" and "Google" are not great conceptual bedfellows...
Since the whole Net is supposed to be the antithesis of privacy.. Or rather it is non-private by default; people accept the crap safety values of social networks.
It's just that Google got caught by bad timing over its data retention publicity and that has put off me at least.
I have an account I only use for e-mail and I am falling out of love with that. Not that I have all that much to worry about unless George Bush and Tony Blair get sorted and the Feds come bungling to me.
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