Posts by josh

Obama balks at recovery of lost Dubya emails

title error?

i think someones 2 key has broken..surely it should be

Obama balks at recovery of "lost" Dubya emails

Sony demos ultra-expensive, ultra-thin OLED telly

how much?

i actually shouted out expletives when i found out how high the price wsa...i think ill wait a few years till they make a 50 inch one before i have a heart attack

Kids' sites 'must register moderators'

another useless law

my plan to stop stupid laws woyuld be with every law put through it must have already gone through a test case and then we could get rid of all these fecking useless laws how exactly are!!

owuld lvoe to see a pedo get convicted because they were moderating a forum for children to stop kids saying rude words hmm sounds like another good chance to fill up our jails with more useless people to me

Babbage's Difference Engine hits Silicon Valley

saw this being built

the london science museum made a massive thing about this being built, it really is a mechanical marvel...and arguably a tecnical marvel however it does seem a bit extreme, no matter how much money you have to commission one... its like paying 5 billion for a commodore 64 really isnt it?

still imagine the size of the house this will fit in!

Malware still malingering for up-to-date anti-virus users

wow

i, of course like everyone else intelligent enough to subscribe to the register have very good online practices about website viewing and attachment downloading, im running the scan and almost straight away it says i have 127 virus'... its tempting to do a full system wipe and reinstall xp then jun the scan...bet it would still say 127 or its picking up things using its heuristics which actually i want to have and need unhappy face incase i have 127 virus' and all the lectures i give my friends actually have very little credibility now

Craigslist and eBay: Terrorist arms bazaars of DEATH

buying body armour?

surely they should sell them back to the american govornemnt, they have way more money and we all know their troops need them desperatley excuse my french but...bunch of tossers dead bird because it was shot without body armour!!

very infuriating

"Nuclear biological chemical [protective] gear... that could be reverse engineered to develop countermeasures or produce equivalent technology"

this phrase has angered me greatly...

ok i understand that they dont want to have the enemy be able to break through haz mat suits...they need their soldiers for their evil war but they dont want anyone else having nuclear and biological protection? wow says a lot about the govornment doesnt it?

flames in full knowledge that if hell existed most of america is going there

Local council uses snooping laws to spy on three-year-old

not surprised

being someone who, when not at uni lives 20miles from Poole im not surprised at all it can be a very snooty place among the higher classes. aside from that surely we will hear in a few weeks of legal preceedings being made against the council? heres hoping!

HMRC tax credit database takes the week off

again?

HMRC really need to get their act togetheri was almost scared to ask for a tax rebate this year just incase the cheque gets lost in the post

NetScape Navigator put out to pasture

SCHOOL DAYS

the first computer i used on the internet was using netscape, cute little thing really, sure it was basic but so was the internet, everyone was using dial up but our school was chosen to test new tecnologies for learning like isdn lines and video conferancing with phones connected to the internet as a means to talk during video conferencing...

netscape will be missed

Hotmail dies on both sides of the Atlantic

uwe?

only the best university in the world! yoooooooooooouweeeeeeeeeeee!