Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

Kiwis deploy nut-crush powered jumbo

Ex Rain Forest recovery projects anyone?

NT.

Record industry refused Jammie Thomas appeal

Frog's three wishes.

Watch out Frenchie, the European Courts await you.

Funny how the Yanks can see reason when it doesn't involve dark skinned people being butchered.

Demise of British tank industry foretold admitted

@ Daniel Wilkie

Challenger 2 is still one of the most survivable tanks on the battlefield. Unless any more have been taken out recently, there's only ever been 3 damaged in combat, and I don't think any of them have been destroyed and they have CERTAINLY been busy enough in Iraq. Indeed iirc one of them took RPG hits well into double figures in the Siege at Al Amarah, withdrew with damage, and was back in a few hours later. Indeed from what I've heard, without the Challengers the relief convoy wouldn't have even got as close as it did to Cimic House.

Helicopters are all well and good but tanks bring heavy SURVIVABLE firepower with the troops, I think that is still a useful capability.

Improvised devices are trays of weed killer/fertilizer laced with diesel or mutton fat with a little TNT mixed in.

They cost next to nothing to make. Less if you steal the TNT from the enemy land mines. They take out huge amounts of expensive material and trained men as well as causing havoc among the survivors and the logistic of an ill equipped army.

You can take a tank out with an high powered rifle if you have uranium shells for it.

But now we are living in the age of the carbon fibre bullet. How are you going to protect anything from a child with an air gun loaded with nanotubes? God forbid I should have to post anything so technical it requires an icon upgrade.

City of Heroes fingered in MMO patent lawsuit

@Shell

I know it's probably naive, but is there no mechanism for fighting the patent system itself? Surely nobody takes it seriously any more. Why aren't people turning their lawyers against the system instead?

You man they aught to find lawyers willing to bite the hand that feeds IT?

Are you serious?

There should be a law

Thou shalt not bear false witness...

in a land that demanded n eye for an eye would have saved the lives of not a few people in Britain at one time or another.

And kept the police a lot cleaner than the slime balls they are these days.

Let them have it.

But know accuse an ex husband of paedophilia and they won't do you for perjury even if he can prove he is innocent (not that I can imagine how) puts a man at risk of ten years inside and a life of a marked man for eternity and what is the punishment for perjury? Community service for a month?

There are greater crimes to bother with than patent trolls in east Texas.

San Francisco's 'rogue' sysadmin faces trial

Forgive my ignorance. butt.

If he has a secret word is he required to tell anyone what it is?

I would have thought it wasn't mandatory in state or federal law that he does. In which case the action against him is a civil matter is it not?

So how can he be held in gaol?

All he has to do is prove he gave someone else another password and I can't believe he failed to do that. He wouldn't have to release that other password would he?

So exactly what has he done or is he alledged to have done?

AT&T punts $99 iPhone

New friends

Oh boy that's the secret? I have to get me uh old phone.

CastleCops shuts up shop

Very sad.

But Microsoft couldn't fund that sort of thing. It would be tantamount to admitting their box of crabs was worthless without all the freebie support it was getting from them.

I remember a remark by the owner of Pepisoft in his plea for funding, that Misery scoff donated an whole OS copy to them once.

Fecking generous ? wat's the word?

Zavvi goes titsup

Pigeons roost cliche

I'm all RIAA at home.

Ta.

I didn't even know Virgin's stores had gone. Never heard of this one. What a crappy name.

Jaw droppers of 2008 - what they'd rather you forgot

Also rans

Was the article exclusively written about IT company errors of judgement for Yahoo couln't have known about the looming economic crisis could it?

It was a poor decision yes but an heroic one.

As for bloomers this year the rest of the tat on there is as nothing compared to what the US and UK governments had done.

Prolific penis-pill pusher gets slap on the wrist

Pay spam get penis.

I can't see the harm the only people he could make money on, would be dozey pricks that needed to learn that they were getting their plonkers pulled.

Scientology refuseniks sue over compulsory workplace courses

Belchy Pork.

"The German government asked Microsoft for the ability to inspect source code before it was prepared to allow the use of the technology of German government systems. Microsoft declined, but resolved the resulting impasse by releasing a tool that removed the utility from systems"

I don't believe for one moment that the source code of any operating system is a big secret in governments of any size.

But..

It does strike me as odd that before this controversy, closed source anything would be allowed access to a government site. Any site in any government.

How the hell would anyone know what is on a system install? You can only know what you have decoded. You can never know what you missed. That applies to the very best of the very best.

And the ultimate incredible is that the inventors of computing go to bloody Microsoft. WTF????

I mean...

WTF?

BBC: Top Gear Tesla didn't run out of juice

BBC?

This is the second time that Top Gear has got away with doing what the BBC does best:

Elaborate on the truth somewhat.

I noticed that other BBC shows that week were not treated so leniently.

I wonder what else they have done in the name of art. No doubt altered some of the lap times?

RIAA won't sue, but will throttle

Loose contract canons

Third party organisations are a buffer for these crooks. The ISPs have been the jam in the sandwich for years for supplying the tubes to load the dumper trucks and now they are the sandwich for the tubes that make the bread that goes down the tubes into the truck.

Why don't the ISPs just flag the file sharers and tell the crooks where the pirates live so they can get the tubes and the trucks sorted out between themselves?

I suppose it all depends on what contracts which parties have with their custonsumers. Sort it out Paris, you got rich on Fail.

Royal laptop theft 'will expose picture'

It's the thought that counts.

Or not as the case may be, or wasn't rather, in this particular Madam's case.

Still, it's nice to know the police are on the job. Or do they just shuffle papers for these things like they did when someone stole my bicycle?

I mean, how the hell are they supposed to find it?

Aussie protests over Great Firewall

@ Idiot

"Why to they want to access illegal material?"

It's not a matter of what some criminals want, its a matter of freedom.

We used to have public access that was totally erased by the Enclosure Laws. We now have the freedom to walk along designated trails in British countryside but it took centuries of servility and two world wars for people to stand up for their rights.

Now our masters are keen to ensure any common connection we may hold to one another over the surface of the earth is patrolled and licensed. As if they can't do more to betray us by intercepting all we say and do.

Attack of the quarter-ton, 'fridge-sized' killer jellyfish

@ ben

"OVERLORDS: Can I be the first to welcome our all powerful gelatinous overlords of the sea?"

Yes, provided you post early for sick mess.

McCain campaign sells unwiped Blackberry for $20

The US sells its data. The UK gives it away for free.

But we have much better controls on the law after the event. It is soooo much cheaper than keeping it doncherno.

Judge buries bogus malware-protection gang

Learning Curves

Wouldn't it be cheaper even quietly remunerative for national agencies to ensure that potential computer users are not brain dead.

Anyone can make a mistake but the young and inexperienced and the old and unsuspecting see the world the way it is supposed to be.

Perhaps if no-one was allowed to use a computer before they were seasoned or at least well informed, OK... that will never happen but at the moment the TV companies are desperate for advertisers. I can't stand another ASDA Krizzmaazz ad...

Couldn't the public information people wind up to this century? I know that is asking a lot from Her Majesty's Govt. but ...ah...

Feckit!

Come to think of it, how come you never see the Music Industry advertising antipiracy? Is it that they don't want to give the young and inexperienced and the old and unsuspecting ideas?

How about a knicker elastic warning icon? I am getting fed up with clicking on cheap trollop icons every second post.

Google Native Client challenges Microsoft and Adobe RIAs

Off Topic

The Dole insist that you visit their website at least twice a week if you have access (????)but the site thet insist you visit sets cookies. I know cookies are needed ....but would you?

A government website? A BRITISH Government website?

Carphone co-founder quits over secret share pledge

Did you hear about the dodgy accountant ?

He's now got phorm.

Aussie convicted over Simpsons sex pics

I hope he is going in for an appeal

"The judgement said that the television series implied ages of about ten for Bart and eight for Lisa."

As far as I know Bart and Lisa are over the age of consent. The judge is not only ill advised but barking mad.

Entire class fails IT exam by submitting in Word format

What's the problem

I was always being put in detention and it never did me any good. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons the kids aught to be doing detention but are getting away with it. And if the teaher has to stay behind too maybe he will learn something.

At least they are not Harrin-gays.

Are they?

Second Firefox 3.1 beta under starters order

@ Mark

I haven't read the article yet. I just came straight here to flame them for never mentioning Opera. Their Blogsite has just had major reconstruction too.

Third ex-NASA Ames worker jailed for child porn

Sharon Mathews' Turkey

Seems there is a marked lack of seasoned greeting in this section of STOOOPID.

If only we could rely on the President to pardon them.

He flies through the air waves with insouciant ease looking for children to slake his disease. He is ever so old and so easy to please and he's stolen their childhood away.

Leaked Met letter questions Speaker's version of police raid

Secrets and lies

Robin Cook was once the only opposition member of parliament allowed access to a proposition chained to the desk in guarded office set up to prevent discussion of said paper.

Isn't the point of democracy that all interested parties be allowed to discuss controversial prospective laws?

They seemed to have passed a bunch of stuff recently that runs counter to the charter of the human rights declaration. AND been caught out by it themselves.

Jacqui Smith denies any knowledge of police search

@ caffeine addict

"Can we take away AC for people proven to be muppets?"

No more than we can allow the police to stop and search us. Make ourselves their enemies and trust them not to interfere with our computers when they take them away to inspect them.

If the police are to be opposed we will have to resist with violence and all of us will have to act together. Otherwise they will win.

And don't forget their abilities to do what Margarat thatcher wanted them to do [b]incorporated violence[/b] against the miners. Incorporated [b][u]organised violence[/u][/b] against the miners.

BSI consults on first British Standard for accessible websites

BSI?

Bloody Stupid Interface?

These are the people who backed OOKSMELL.

BSI?

[s]Bloody Stupid Interface?[/s]

Bloody Stupid Iohamster.

London hospitals back online after PC virus infection

Windows to infection

Not targeted?

What the hell is an important system like that doing with Microsoft-ware on it in the first place? Unimportant sites such as the Job Centres are failing every week. It is expected. It makes us losers that can't get work feel part of the community.

And may we take it as read that had the NHS been specifically targeted, the condition would still be chaotic in several months time?

NRSA (No Reliable Systems Advice) anyone?

Honeywell's Kitchen Computer remembered

Bush co co.

Isn't one of the US Presidunce's family selling them to schools in the only state in the Uniun daft enough to accept them?

MoD kit chief: Blighty unsure of supersonic stealth jumpjet

@ Cube

"Why can't we catapult them with a bunch of big bungy cords wound up to tension with a couple of old lawn mower engines?"

Why not just attach them to the anchor with glider pulley wires and make the boat go backwards? Can they go backwards flat out? How many gears do they have?

Maybe they could put another gear box on it if it is a problem. They could put the brakes on and rev it up and drop it straight into 2nd or even 3rd.

Prosecutors gather evidence on secret BT-Phorm trials

@ James Pickett

"I don't work for the government"

Yes you do. It should be the other way around but what are they going to do when they lose power and there are no banks to float them in slush?

iPhone developer stoops to straight bribery

Their banks are better than our banks

I saw something on the news last night about Ethiopian ministers diverting foreign aid to their banks.

So how is that such a despicable act when the home banks are getting funded by our own government aid and instead of heads rolling, we read of fat cat feeding frenzies.

So why should the customers of the banks be squeaky clean?

BNP list hunters bring down Wikileaks

@cybersaur

They are not the Repugnant party those are the hard right wing Tories over here. But you have semi criminal political wing nuts over the pond. KKK like in their policies.

In the UK political parties enjoy equal air time on TV so that one party doesn't get get more cover than another (It's related to the limit that parties can spend on canvassing and adverts.)

But that ex Nazi party is banned from any broadcasting. Or rather the original party was and it had reformed to go underground.

These days they insert members as independent candidates for election. The UKIP party is another version of it. Though it isn't in any way a sharer with it.

MPs declare their ignorance on the web

@ N

"Ive no doubt that some of them can probably speak a word or two of techie language, acquired from endless meetings with 'consultants' drip feeding them"

I have. I watched some of this programme. It was startling. One oaf was surprised that his 4 yr old grandson could access his wife's computer in moments. And the child was surprised his granny was such a lame luser.

There was an appalling list of these schmuck stories.

Good government won't be capable of dealing with the internet for another 30 years.

They really had no idea. I explains everything you have heard of secrecy and security from our lords and masters. The oafs who lose CDs in trains were probably using them as temporary coasters.

Can we have a new icon for people who are even more stupid than Paris Hilton? I think this one is an insult to her.

Regulators back Bell Canada choking indie ISP traffic

Court of appeal?

Is there a precedent for international legal appeal? I vaguely remember the European courts becoming involved with British fishing laws that was about throttled capacity.

Mind you that was in another century.

Top 500 supers: Big Blue Roadrunner outpaces Jaguar

Inertia

I wonder how the system works where a company is waiting for chip developers to come out with the designs they want and have to wait whilst problems knock the shipment times back.

In which case why is the US (which you say like to have as many such companies afloat as possible) not more astringent about chip fabricators?

I'd have thought they see the danger of having only Intel in business was letting the monopolist too much slack.

US Dept of Agriculture rubbishes Amish anti-RFID push

@ Al

I read about the Longhorn records being down to some half dozen ranchers a few decades back. They'd be extinct now, in the USA, I imagine.

So how does the guvmint decide a religious outlook should be ignored because of the size of the herds?

"Small farmers were expected to be excluded, so, argues the submission (pdf), there can be no imposition on the religious beliefs of the Amish."

Is it illegal for Amish farmers to be big farmers?

Judge says tech-addled jurors undermine justice

Sheep heads.

I was listening to BBC's coverage of Parliament earlier.

About half a dozen men representing the cream of British counsellors are addressing a committee for oversight of the Internet. (13th November 2008 Harmful Internet Content.)

One clown (Paul Farrelly) had his laptop compromised by his 9 year old. He said that up until yesterday he had never removed a programme on the machine. Then he found it compromised with "adverts" and "icons".

He presumed it was adware that was causing the problem.

This is one of the bosses who will be passing laws about Internet access. Honest to god, I imagine Tory B Liar got us into the quagmire of the Iraq and Afghan wars under the same level of competence.

He then went on to say that Google and another couldn't police the Internet but that My Space could.

Keith Vaz then got up to say that his secretary knows what a virus is.

So at least we are in safe hands...

Auntie Beeb's amazing, evolving, ID card stories

@ Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

As I mentioned last week, the BBC doesn't do proper journalism or critical thinking any more as post Gilligan it is petrified that if it rocks the boat too much then the unique (and if I may add my two pennies worth... grotesque) way the BBC is funded may be revoked.

Post Gilligan? Is that the affair that saw the end of the BBC's head and take over by that bloke who stage managed the fiasco over the Iraq war effort?

Who really runs the BBC these days?

Why don't we know?

Questions should be asked.

That was not a question.

Judge: No cryptographic hash analysis without warrant

One slight problem

"Good and bad, right and wrong

By Chris C Posted Saturday 15th November 2008 03:02 GMT

While I applaud the judge in acknowledging the existence of the fourth amendment and it's intended purpose, I do feel she may have erred in this case. If the suspect truly did leave his computer behind when evicted, then he abandoned it. As such, it should no longer be protected by his fourth amendment right. Once he abandoned it (as opposed to accidentally leaving it behind or, more likely, not being allowed to retrieve it), it was no longer his possession, and as such, the person who did take possession of it had every right to turn it over to the police, who then had every right to examine it without a search warrant (since the new owner voluntarily, without being coerced or threatened, gave them permission)."

With all the time it took you to write all the above it never occurred to you that the machine, if not under the suspects control, is itself suspect?

I own a vehicle. Suppose it was used to commit a crime when it was not in my possession? I am not guilty am I? Suppose I used it as the sole user despite it being in the safe keeping of a third party? Still not necessarily guilty.

So if the judge had found any different, the perp would still have a god reason for walking.

Still sending naked email? Get your protection here

Passwords

One of many nay sayers:

"Is that it is a two way street. Not only do you need the people you send emails to to encrypt them, you need them to be able to decrypt yours. As much as I'd love all my casual emails to be encrypted - the people I'm sending them too don't know anything about encrypting."

The point is that if you have anything you want kept secret, you wouldn't tell some people if they had access to the best coding machinery going. If you need to keep your business private you will only be sharing passwords and keys with people who are like minded.

A man would be a fool to do other than meet face to face to exchange such details as are required to decrypt any such messages. And as for trusting third party sites, would you trust the government?

Not many would but plenty would trust a third party?

Microsoft nobbled ‘Vista-Capable’ for Intel

The global economic crisis writ small.

Someone tell me that a computer that was worth hundreds of pounds a few years ago is reduced to junk by the addition of a programme that is contained on a CD.

As far as I am aware a number of recently released operating systems will run on Pentium threes and offer as much as Vista aught to be capable of. And the CD has room for a bunch of other software choices of software.

Is it really so? What is this aero of which you write? What is so special about it that the code can not be written to allow it to run properly on fairly high powered machines?

Does anyone have a link to a list of alternatives? Something which isn't so interested in cutting edge tech so much as a database of what will work with what.

All this is like the bank of Iceland going into recession. The Iceland government has a duty to protect its population from the maladministration of the company. It has no remit to levy taxes on its citizens to pay out the British customers whose tails got caught in the cracks.

But a few phone calls later and a miracle of economic process sorts all that out.

And if the papers are shuffled fast enough nobody stops to think it's a shell game.

It is "The Government" so what is the alternative?

It must be Microsoft so what is the alternative?

Another Paris Hilton moment. I have a penchant for these items. She is young rich and blonde so she must be pretty right?

Just don't look too closely.

Attorneys for Palin email hacker: 'Don't call him hacker'

Is the crime the term or is the term the crime?

Governor Palin denied -officially denied, the existence of such e-mails.

So whose account has he opened? If nobody owns up to them, he didn't obtain anything worth having. If Mrs Palin now claims they are hers, why is she still Governor?

I am all for open government even if it means more trailer trash is asleep at the wheel. Lets see; so far we have had:

Dopey, Sleazy, Grumpy, Dozey, Happy, Lucky, Tricky and ....

Of Dell's self-encrypting laptop

Please Explain

Why is the rest of the world obliged to conform to US laws about encryption strengths?

What would be the possibilities of a code implanted in hidden data that would convert it to harmless files of similar sizes that make sense but are in reality a mere smoke screen?

Microsoft: Windows 7 ready for Christmas 2009

How many

How many Linux distros will have been updated by then? I'm guessing there will be another release on top of any that are due out shortly that means two new OSs per distributor by the time they get it out the door.

Maybe another one by the time they get a much needed patch.

What's the betting Microsoft will be looking at the next new new thing by then. I an't see them trying to keep Windows afloat in a year or two without another enterprise to fill the pot.

I don't think they will expand into music.

It won't be a Googleplex Yahwhosit. It won't be a forum thingumie blogsite not an office wahler. Well it might be something with office but it won't be a money spinner with officeware. So what can it be but a video/tv station?

MP calls for Jezza Clarkson's head

Necktopic

Seems a good idea, in these straightened times, to get rid of a few high earners.

I hope it won't stop there. When the presentation is worth more than the content you know it's time to shop elsewhere.

At least they were not graduates of the Blue Peter School of Science.

Top aero boffin: Green planes will be noisy planes

Test beddie-byes.

"BAe Systems are looking at aircraft-mounted radar systems that can be used to knock out enemy craft by using the radar to transmit a virus and thus knock out the enemy aircraft's systems. Too many liquid lunches and Independence Day repeats maybe?"

More likely that the engineers were getting problems from stray EMF and couldn't get funding to fix it. I doubt that the enemy (should we ever get one) will be as easily misled as Luftwaffe in the early days of radio guidance:

"Oh look at these results. Someone must have been using a mobile phone a mile away."

"Blast, we'll never sell that to the damned Saudis."

"What if we tell them it's a feature?"

"Good idea. Who do you know that works at The Register?"

"Why don't we just make up a CD and leave it on a train somewhere?"

French Senate passes bill to disconnect filesharers

Departing from works and pensions on the next train...

Guess what file sharers are going to be banned by France twice over.