Posts by Elmer Phud 4520 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Mar 2008
Presumably companies are more concerned about time being wasted than Trojans and other lovely things from gambling and porn sites.
Spammers are just spammers fer f's sake, a right pain in the arse and not much more. How are they more risky than opting to become part of a bot-net?
I've never quite been able to work out what 'English' actually is.
A language made up of all sorts including thing brought back from the colonies, a language with loads of French etc. etc. in it.
A monarchy that has never been English, the ruling nobility using a French model.
And to top it all a patron saint who was made redundant some time back who came from somewhere in the Mediterranean supposedly fighting a mythical creature.
It's a bit late trying to reclaim Blighty as it's all been foreign for centuries. We'd just forgotten that us invading other places is a fairly recent thing - before that it was an all-European fixture.
'English' really is the Chicken Tikka Masala, the white of the chicken and the red of the sauce -- not a bit of white rag with a red cross on it.
It's not that they smoke, it's what they (don't) smoke. They appear to be angry - as if they'd not had the first fag of the day. If they mixed the baccy with something extra they'd chill out a bit and there wouldn't be so many 'bad vibes' maaaan.
Flame as it looks a bit like (a) burning bush
Machines decide that the humans 'in charge' are more dangerous than the targets and want to off the wet-ware with the buttons.
Certainly more intelligent than the monkeys that get conned in to buying the things in the first place.
Not 'machine intelligence' just plain ol' intelligence.
" . . . of mice and men? What have men got to do with it?"
Serves them right for cheating on others who had more rights to send their kids to the school.
Reports say that they didn't move out of their old house until the kid had a placement at the school - how many other families can afford that sort of thing just to ensure that their brats get in to the 'right' school.
Greedy, selfish bastards bringing their kids up to learn that it's fine to fuck everyone else over if the end seems to justify the means.
"always found in patients with halitosis and never in patients who did not have this problem".
That doesn't say that it's the cause, it could be a by-product that prevents something else from infecting - a defence mechanism.
Which could mean that getting rid of it may be similar to killing all the birds to stop them eating the crops when the birds are actually eating the bugs on the crops.
Looks like they've smelt a product that will make them a fortune.
Which SF writer came up with ElRonners - a mindless horde of joggers?
Anyway, El Ron was a poor writer, the same old Aryan Race tm. images of big chested, strong men and big chested, strong (but not quite as tall) women. Phil Farmer had odd aliens shagging blonde large-breasted women and humans shagging large-breasted women. Bob Heinlein gave us 'Stranger in a Strange Land' which seems to be adopted as the sort of New Testament of El Ron's blatherings. Even though they now read just a tad sexist the writing is miles better than El Ron could ever manage.
Better watch it though or Space Captain Travolta will be visiting on a bombing run. Accompanied by Space Cadet Cruise, of course.
because we're all selfish buggers who don't give a toss if we're going to snuff it anyway before the ice melts.
"Snow at Easter and in April, officially the coldest Easter in 40 years. More like the coming of an Ice Age." Nah, really early Easter, snow in April is nothing new 'eh, we 'ad all that before yer global warming malarkey'.
I'll get me boat
Erm, the business with Harold and Normans was purely a family squabble. Not really and England v's France match. In the meantime the French have bought up things like Water and Power companies and ISP's.
The English are proud of their victories but forget that it's usually with the aid of others. Even some of the more 'famous' victories against the Scots were only possible by using foreign mercenaries - either that or mainly local Auld Firm fixtures that the English claimed to have won afterwards (and claimed by Brits with French sounding surnames).
'Hundred Years War' was just the corporate name for it - see also 'War on Terror' and 'Axis of Evil' -- great soundbites but the reality is rather disappointing.
Needs a Berlusconi icon for free-thinking, truthful Italian hero.
Old people remember (possibly) the days long before skunk when it was mainly sticky brown stuff from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The good stuff was on par with today's skunk, possibly better. Not all skunk is that good either.
Yes, skunk is hell of a lot stronger than the bog-standard 'cooking' hash but due to HM Gov inc. (who outlawed cannabis in turn for goodies from the U.S.) and the War on Drugs tm. it becomes economic sense to the crooks to get rid of the hassle of smugging the stuff in and grow the stuff locally.
If it were legal I'd be happy to have a small plantation indoors but I'm forced to choose between the crooks that run the brewing industry and the crooks that run the weed industry. I can't afford the booze.
What folks are also forgetting is that young people are going out and getting wasted as quick as possible - whether with blow or booze, it doesn't matter - it's what young people do. Not so long ago it was all about young people necking E's and other pills by the dozen
They've had the appalling 'Ask Frank' site up for ages. A relic from the days of trying to attract the Yoof it just went (and still does) "Drugs are bad, m'kay" without much advice on the stuff you can buy legally other than that they can be bad for you. Plenty of stuff about drugs dealers but nothing about revenue from cigs and booze.
Anyway I thought Web 2.0 was a bit turn of the century stuff, we're almost in 2010. By the time they got anything sorted they wouldn't be able to use it as the kit wouldn't be energy efficient.
Think I'll stick to reading Private Eye and such other mighty organs as the Reg for what's going on with HM Gov(inc.)
Well, if the little advert is a pop up how many people will see it?
"Click here to get rid of annoying pop ups"
Will there be a message like "Have you just seen something you don't like? Click here to tell the Police" Then they'll come round and nick you for looking at the kiddie porn that opened up in a window all by itself.
Anyway, there's enough hoax calls as it is, no need to encourage the sad ones who spend all day in Second Life.
I've got an old Talk21 account which doesn't seem to have been affected.
Can also use the *@openworld.com variation on my *@btinternet.com account with no problems.
Other than the spam filters overflowing now and then it all seems to be O.K.
(now I've invoked Sod's/Finagle's Law I'll be reduced to Hotmail as soon as this is sent)
Needs either 'arse from elbow' or 'arse with both hands and a map' icon
"Intel Inside --Idiot Outside"
Connectivity may be the goal but it's highly unlikely to improve matters. I can see Powerpoint presentations arguing as to which one should go first as people turn up for a meeting.
It'll also be great for cabin crew to see all the Viagra spam photo's as they are displayed on the backs of seats.
It's all down to focussed microwave radiation.
The phones were acting as an antenna that drew in and focussed the radiation from the school's industrial strength microwave oven (anyone having tried microwave popcorn in one will know that the bag catches fire in a minute or two).
The nature of the phone signals mean that the microwave radiation is reverse-phased which defeats the normal shielding.
The focussed radiation then rapidly boils the fluids in the brain resulting in the usual 'egg in a microwave' situation.
It was deemed too explicit for publication but in short the 'interviewees' have been subjected to sonic torture. The use of Pete Andre and Katie Price's 'singing' had already been specifically banned under the Geneva Convention but it was thought that unlike the usual three or four hours of intense white noise, ten minutes would be sufficient to break even the hardest Eurovision fan.
Sorry Mike, can't call it the 'El Ron'* as it learning to drive it would involve having to do several meaningless courses at great expense.
But it does come with a free 'personality check' for all at the ISS.
(*El Ron - legendary bandit who stole from the poor and gave to the really rich)
Looking at it from the IT angle it appears that the major money players will not be doing so much business but those a rung or two down the pile will be busy transferring what's left between each other as bankruptcies and foreclosures start to impact.
There's still money to be made out of money but maybe not so much.
My thanks to amanfromMars for explaining it all on Corporatspeak.
Can we both have £1.5mil for the consultancy fees, please.
What? like "You want fries with the Big Mac?"
We're almost a foreign country anyway.
We don't seem to own any of the old public stuff like energy supply or water.
We've sold most of the companies to venture groups and the like.
ISTR in the past we've hated the Dutch, French, Spanish, Germans, Turks, Indians. Oh and Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Moors,
Hey, you can't say we're not inclusive.
There appears to be a belief that when growing bio-fuel crops all you need to do is plant stuff and it grows then you harvest it and - by some miracle, it's fuel.
Trouble is that the crops are rarely self-sustaining and need intervention to help them along.
The faster something grown the faster it uses nutrients, the nutrients will need to be replaced but intensive bio-fuel farming wouldn't allow time for the land to recover so there would be a need for additional support in the form of fertilisers and the like. Oh, and there's the need to stop the crops being got at by bugs so it's either spraying or engineered crops or a mixture of both.
Not so much of a need elsewhere as you can just cut down more trees to get at better soil.
On top of all that is the old issue of loans for farming being subject to a large percentage of bio-fuel crops and not food crops which has already raised the local prices of staple foods in some areas.
Nope, it really isn't a case of buying some magic beans from the market.
The beanstalk is not self-supporting and it won't be a golden egg coming out of the gooses arse.
After a while the picture becomes familiar and one's attention is no longer drawn just to cleavage -- I'm now not so sure that she's smiling. Is that a frown or grimace?
Though I do get the feeling that many Reg readers will not be happy until the picture changes to an Eee PC wedged in a far more substantial cleavage - sad but no doubt true. Now boys, wash your hands and grow up.
Paris - as she couldn't measure up (or is it down) to that expectation.
Oh great, 'long awaited review' only tells us what's been said before.
Maybe Aunty Tanya can have a go at the telly broadcasters -- This Easter we've been fed a constant stream of Jesus being kicked around, tortured and lovely shots of blood and gore -- all in the name of religion. It seems O.K. to have Mel Gibson's Last wotsit and even Braveheart shown with all the blood and gore of both films. "No more Heroes" on the Wii doesn't have the gore factor of either but has a 16+ rating on the box.
Someone should sit on the naughty step but just like in her programmes, it's usually not really the children that need educating, it's the parents. In this case substitute us lot for the kids and HM Gov for mum and dad. It's the way we've been brought up by our elders and betters.
I don't think it's greedy downloaders to blame - ISPs advertise how simple it all is and how fast the connections are. The tech is sold on that - not continuous connection.
However, the current tech is not the same as before, the kit used to try and maintain speed rather than connection but these days the promise is for the kit to attempt to maintain connection all the time. The boxes constantly monitor line condition and are more likely to drop speeds as conditions vary but don't always raise the speeds if line conditions improve --- you can see line conditions change from hour to hour and they frequently vary due to weather conditions, humidity seems to play a large part in it as it can affect whether a joint goes partially short circuit or high resistance. a lot of it is down to the wires.
What the ISP's don't usually tell people is to drop then router/modem connection for a few minutes and power up again. The kit at the exchange is re-set to the highest possible speed at that point in time.
Even here, 1.5 km from the local exchange with recent main cables and joint boxes, it's not unknown for the speeds to drop when the weather gets very wet but the speeds don't always ramp up again. Power off the router, make a cuppa, power back on, speeds restored.
But, as others have said, there is also the problem of insufficient investment - as the customer base grows the kit isn't always upgraded to meet the number of customers so throttle the speeds and blame it on P2P.
You've still got connection, the ISP is still fulfilling their small print.
If the customers are encouraged by content providers to download all the telly programs they missed, download films for a few days rental and share holiday movies and the next music sensation it's hardly the fault of the customers. we;re only trying to use a service that's heavily promoted by content providers and ISP's.
Doesn't seem much different from trying to drive anywhere -- cars sold on a promise of speed and convenience, roads advertised to be good routes to places and shopping centres and theme parks built for the punters to visit.
But somehow it's always the fault of the motorist for attempting to use these services in the way they are told they can as surprise, surprise - it all fills up with traffic.
There are -and always have been - plenty of adults who don't have a clue about history. Moon landings were so long ago that I doubt if many adults can name them - I couldn't and I don't give a toss.
Many adults, though, can tell you the entire history of every character in
Eastenders/Coronation Street/Emmerdale/Neighbours which is really how it is preferred.
History has a nasty habit of coming up and reminding people what really went on instead of the usual official press-release rubbish we are fed.
Churchill should be remembered for both stopping the use of Road Tax funds going directly to roads and for chemical bombing people in Persia back in the 1920's -- history is best for taking the shine off of well-polished turds.
Darwin awards are for those who manage to top themselves with sheer grit, determination and pure stupidity. It can't be applied here as the vic/perp/stiff carefully set out to Heath-Robinson himself to death.
Seems to have worked rather well.
Now, if he'd spent years designing and building the device and it got a short-circuit and zapped him or fell out of a window and got someone else . . .
Paris -- something to do with electro-mechanical devices
*Those who lack small kids or an early-evening cannabis habit - and hence don't watch In The Night Garden - may not be familiar with the Pinky-Ponk."
Not having any small kids available some of us never knew about the prog. From the same folks that brought us Pob - now there was a character who appeared to have been at the bong before transmission.
Extra Rizlas now on shopping list.
A big smiley E
Fortunately I don't understand the technical stuff but if my ISP is supposed to tell the authorities if I'm guilty of unauthorised transfer of data then shirley it works both ways. If I don't personally authorise transfer of my data to Phorm then the ISP is guilty and should turn themselves in.
As Regan would have it "Get your trousers on, you're nicked!"
If he obtained the info from people who had just shared their entire P.C. then there's not a small amount of "What did they expect?".
Not so much stealing as things being left outside the house with a sign on saying
"Please take me" and he obliged. Are people who were happy to download unlicensed stuff complaining that they were robbed? (needs Victor Meldrew icon here)
If you don't want your telly nicked why leave the front door open.
At least only share a folder or three - a separate partition where only stuff to be shared would be advisable (and then the anti-virus set to scan after a file is complete).
No I.T. angle - not even a need for stripey jumper and bag with swag if it was that easy.
"So how about only allowing the government to use the road fund license and fuel duty to fix the roads and plan disruptions better as opposed to going into a giant black hole,"
The rot started some time back with that bastion for all things British (and aerial chemical weapons in Persia) Winston Churchill for 'twas he who took the "Road Tax" and put in it the general coffer. Since then roads have had to beg for some of their money back.
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