Posts by Slartybardfast

Selfridges punts £1,800 Spanish ham

They only use the back legs

The title says it all

Taser offers obsessive parents total mobe intrusion package

Protector - trademarked?

How can they Trademark the word Protector? Surely there are/have been loads of products called "The Protector" or similar.

BFA!

Spook firm readies Virgin Media filesharing probes

The answer lies in your post

"I use a encrypted VPN traffic to both work systems and into clients systems"

They will not look encrypted VPN traffic. They almost certainly would not be able to break the encryption.

"I have to say that I know just how much extra logging is done (for "quality research") which will mean my work traffic will be in the hands of a now private company - who can/will sell this onto my clients competitors."

No they won't.

Catholics slam PETA nude adopt-a-mutt poster

Atheist pwned by pretty girl

Well if the Catholic church had people like this taking their services I might even be tempted to go.

El Reg receives message from planet 'Female Pigeon'

I'd like tro see Four Ecks

see title

Freeview website titsup ahead of big retune

Channel Five

Channel 5 isn't that bad, I liked the first episode of Flashforward last night.

T-Orange: How it's going to work

@TeeCee - Outspan Minis

There's one at the National Motor Museum Beaulieu.

http://www.mantaworld.com/gallery/classic-cars/beaulieu2005/outspan_mini.php

US software pirate fined $210K for auction sales

Fines and suff

If he was selling music or making it available via the torrents the his fine would have been in the millions. WTF is going on with the US court system.

Amazon, Apple dish up $300,000 to 'musical crims'

Which Bands/Artists?

The title says it all..

One fifth of humanity deprived of Milky Way

@Martin19

In answer to your insightful post and question: Yes.

BTW if you "really, really, really don't care" why did you bother to comment.

Councils have a role to play

I have two bright security lights that shine into my back garden from 500yds away. These are not your small household lamps but very powerful industrial ones. They appear to have no real use or function, I've complained to my local council but have had no response. They just aren't set up to deal with this. Until there is is route by which complaints can be accepted, moderated and actioned locally there will be little change.

Downing Street on Phorm: 'Meh'

New Petition?

How About a new petition along the lines of;

We the undersigned have no faith that the recent statement from No10 Re Phorm does anything to protect our rights to privacy or clarify the situation as to the legality of Phorm and related systems.

I'm sure that someone else could put this into better words and submit it.

Hulu recognizes Blighty existence

@Some Guy

"Since iPlayer doesn't recognize the US, I think we're even."

Actually we're not, you don't pay for Hulu whereas most UK viewers do, therefore why should you get it for free? iPlayer is paid for by the tv licence payer here in the UK and carries no adverts.

Kaminsky: MS security assessment tool is a 'game changer'

Po' Man's Blues

Oh! So tired. So very tired - of the same old shit.

Ev'rybody's talking about

Gatesism, Jobsism, Tuxism, Freeism, Macism, Pcism

This-ism, that-ism

Isn't it the most

All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance

A company releases a tool that hopefully will make third party code a little safer to run on their operating system. What do we get, same shit different day.

Give it a rest, for fucks sake.

It there's any chance it will make computing safer for all of us then you should applaud it. But do you? No, far better just to have another meaningless pop as per usual. Well I hope you feel better for it.

We are not all Microsoft fan boys, Apple fan boys or Tux wearers but if our friends, parents and colleagues are saved from having their pc's pawned by the use of this tool then it was worth while.

Even if all this tool does is to get someone else to think "that's a good idea" and write a better one, then it's still been a good use of resources.

And they're making it open source - So for fucks sake stop moaning and if you think you can do better, then write one yourself. Or write one for your own operating system of choice, because I bet it probably needs one....

Too busy to make a jam sandwich? M&S can help

@AndyC

Butter ... MMMmmmmmm

Photography rights: Snappers to descend on Scotland Yard

On Monday

I'm going to try my hardest to be there, with my camera of course...

2008's top three compact cameras

CoolPix the best - You must be joking

I've had one of these and it's not the "best" by a long chalk. I've recently sold mine and gone for a low pixel count but better camera model.

Have a look here for a better review of the coolpix and good cross model comparisons.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Q408premiumgroup/page4.asp

Government still losing at least a computer a week

So What!

This is one of those fairly meaningless stats without any reference.

So that's one a day out of how many owned by the Gov?

1 a day sounds bad but is it?

Recent studies have shown that at US airports approx 12000 laptops are lost each week., that's over 600000 a year.

UK and EU Airports also have a problem with approx 4000 being lost each week, Heathrow accounting for 900 per week on average.

AT&T cops to Jesus Phone-as-modem app

@@Stop IT

OK so if Jesus phone is out, how about the God Gadget?

Oprah cuddles Kindle

@Mike Richards

Hear, hear!

Lovely comment Mike.

Microsoft rushes out emergency Windows update

A Patch in Time

You've got to feel a bit sorry for Microsoft. They respond quickly to a very nasty exploit and are slagged off for it.

If they did nothing or denied that there was a problem (like Adobe or Apple) they would be slagged off for it.

Ho Hum...

BT seals free Digital Vault

The Cloud - Pah!

Many web sites and people depend apon free services in "the cloud" and then whinge when they get crap service.

MORAL:

There's no such thing as a free launch. (sic)

I suspect that most of the whingers are under 30, many older and more experienced folk wouldn't trust their data (without backup) to any free service no matter who it was from.

US PS3 sales fell 45% in July

Just a blip?

Surely PS3 and Xbox sales have been pretty much tracking each other all year. So the question is, what caused the big PS3 jump in June sales in the US compared with the rest of the year? If it was just a statistical blip then surely the return to mean was to be expected?

Gordon Brown's secret life as network admin

Fujitsu?

Fujitsu took over from HP as the service provider for the Cabinet Office's IT last year. I'm not sure if they do No 10 as well, but I know that certain functions are shared.

Given Fujitsu's performance generally is it any surprise that things have gone tits up?

PARIS - because if anyone knows about going tits up ...

eBay auction fraudster jailed for four years

Just for once someone who deserved to be locked up gets nicked..

I've got a Liberal view when it comes to software copying. If I've got a program and a friend would like to try it then I have little compunction in giving them a copy, as long as it's for non-commercial use. However; I have never and would never make any money out of such a transaction as personally I believe that it crosses a line. Therefore, good on them for locking this guy away. If I charged people for for other people's work then I would expect a similar fate.

Better to charge/convict people like this rather than someone who downloads a few music tracks for their own pleasure..

@AC - Adobe.. no surprise

And your point is?

1.MS are W***kers?

2. Abode are better at fighting crime?

3. You are a person that if a business decides not to take up your complaint against

a third party thinks that all of them are F**tards?

4. You are the sort of person who always turns any article about anything into an

anti-Microsoft rant. Maybe that's why your an Anonymous Coward.

Malodorous Europe gasses UK

It's the Germans ...

I heard on Radio 4 this morning that they think it came from German farmers near Hamburg.

There, I've mentioned it once and I think I've got away with it..