Posts by Wize 1553 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Mar 2008
"Members of Parliament have voted themselves the right to withhold their names and addresses from publication. Candidates at Parliamentary elections will get the same right."
So, how will this voting sheet look?
Conservative Party
Representative: *not foud*
Labour Party
Representative: *not foud*
Liberal Party
Representative: *not foud*
If they want to use viral marketing to promote prevention of spreading anything viral, they need to make clips/sites that people will want to tell their friends about. Nothing spreads faster than something that's genuinely funny and not a public information film.
"Why should mathematics be abbreviated maths? It isn't mathSematics. We don't shorten economics to econs, or physics to physs. So why should we shorten mathematics to maths? The proper way to abbreviate a word is to lop off letters from the end, not extract them from the middle."
So, do you abbreviate economics to econ and physics to phys? I've never seen those abbreviations before.
...and a prosecution results by you being found via a search on this database, surely you could get a case thrown out of court. All fingerprints and DNA evidence could be ruled inadmissible making it difficult to prove you were at the scene of the crime.
'He also confirmed that the law should catch "any pornographic image scrawled on a piece of paper": even, presumably, an image that an individual created for their own use and no other.'
So no more CDCs anywhere. Thats B3TA stuffed.
And will all the copies of the Simpsons movie now be recalled?
"People who buy their lunch every day are simply lazy. Yes you are, come on flame me."
Not everyone has somewhere to keep their sarnie cool during the day. Chicken mayo isn't that great when its been sitting in a warm desk drawer all morning.
Many have a subsidised canteen. It may be cheaper than buying the 'raw materials'.
If you have honey roast ham in your lunch, do you start with the raw meat, or are you lazy and buy it cooked to fill the bread of your choice?
Ok, your budget is tight. Open source is free and saves you cash.
Its not the only factor to be considered.
You have to train staff up on the open equivalents.
Various systems will require tweaking to get them to work properly (eg, you could have a bit of software to launch word template documents. It would need tweaking and so would the template files).
Not so many IT people know how to support the open equivalents, so will require extra training or a more expensive outsourcing company.
You know the boundaries of a tried and tested solution from a tried and tested provider. Unknown territory is risky.
Incompatibility issues. Other departments may not be changed over, so documents might not be so easily transferable.
What would be the change to the current system where the product of dead animals is being used to heat the place?
If they are the 'pure vegies', the kind that don't wear leather in their shoes, they should be reminded that the plastics in their shoes and clothes are oil derrived. And that everything they have has some input from a meat eater. Turf them out naked in the snow.
'"Computers used at nuclear power plants are not connected to the internet and therefore they're not vulnerable to viruses of any kind," he said'
Yea, because a bored nightshift worker wont plug in a usb stick and try running a game.
I've seen many closes systems with viruses roaming their internal network.
Your average virus is designed to turn your PC into a spam drone or just wipe your data. They wont try faking signals to the PLC which does all the proper controlling on the system.
Have it in breast pocket and blow your heart up, or place it in trouser pocket and blow your 'best friend' away. Shirt pocket please.
Electric cars (like the fast one they fiddled with in Top Gear) use the same technology in their batteries.
So all it will need is a slight tap on the car in front when parking and... bang.
FFS people, its not like she was trying to kill people. She wasn't brandishing her car under the nose of an old lady to steal a purse. She didn't wave her car in the air to look tough. So stop all the analogies to a deliberate attempt at murder.
However, she was being bloody stupid and should suffer the consequences.
at the moment I have a watch with a mineral glass screen (or whatever you call the scratch resistant screens) as watches dont last long before I give them a nasty big scratch on the screen.
Theres something for the geek watch manufacturers, how about something more rugged? I had to buy this one in America as Casio still don't sell it over here.
...'we calculated it would run out after only 55 miles on our track' which implies calculation rather than by actual test.
And for pushing it back. Well, if it was a petrol car they would stick a bit of fuel in and drive it back. They couldn't drop in a couple of everyreadys and limped that thing home.
The line drawn where someone tried to incite a panic, plus causing loss of money and (especially with the current economic climate) possibly causing a company to fold. I'm happy with that line.
I thought free speech allowed someone to get their point across. What point was he making?
Hang 'em high, I say.
...at some point it would. And have to be pushed back.
Any car would run out too.
But the point they are proving is that any other car could have a top up of juice from a can and be off and running again.
These things had to be taken back, not under their own power, and be charged for a long time before they go again.
Bet if it does come back, it will be a cartoon.
Hope they cremate him, so he can't spin in his grave over that.
Bagpuss,
Dear Bagpuss,
Old fat furry cat-puss,
Wake up and look at this thing that I bring.
Wake up, be bright,
Be golden and light.
Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing.
Mines the pink and white stripy one.
Plenty of fakers out there. Back in the days of MSN run chatrooms on IRC there would be at least one a week in the main channel threatening to off themselves. All just people wanting attention with no intention of actually joining the choir invisible. I told one the flaws in their plan and how to do it properly as not be become a drain on the NHS when they mess it up, only to be called "a sick bastard" by them.
And theres all the David Blane wannabes that will fake a death on video.
Did he give out his address? If so, how are the authorities supposed to find him? Besides a call to 911 of "I've just seen someone kill themselves on the net" would be met with confusion or 'are you sure its not fake/a recording'
There are more things to think of than someone on the phone.
Like people with loud 'personal' stereos. Although the current trend is to play your MP3s via your speakers.
Electronic games with loud beeps.
People constantly sniffing (and not a little sniff, its the ones that sound like they have some bone in them. Come on, blow your nose).
Screaming kids
Arguments and fights (I travelled using C2C for a while. The fights are more regular than the trains)
Not to mention the new trains have aircon instead of windows. Which isn't good when the aircon breaks on a hot day.
And what do you do in an emergency? Can't call for help if you are trapped in one by some nutter.
The trouble being, these adverts are on a video you are trying to watch. Its overlayed onto youtube or whatever site it is.
The advert people love them because you cant simply use adblock on it, as its inserted by part of the player. Its an 'all or nothing' block. Block it and lose the video feed.
Unless those wonderful people behind adblock work out how to block the in-video ads.
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