Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

US court blocks Amazon-style patent trolls

Copyright on computer records.

When you click on a computer it writes something onto someone's hard drive. You then own the copyright to that material do you not?

In which case the storage facility for that medium should be under your control shjould that not?

Obviously when you send an e-mail the recipient owns the copyright to it as is the case with letters, they are considered the property of the addressed. But no such contract exists between a vendor and his customers online doe they?

Pedantic I know but who gives anyone the rights to collate material that you have had a major part in writing?

'Series of Tubes' Senator convicted of corruption

@ re: so what's the problem?

Like a BBC presenter supporting his mate Russel Brand this morning:

OK yes one person got a phone call and a couple were upset but what real difference did it make to anyone?

Where does it stop?

OK so a child got run over by a drunk and then raped by him then he ate the body; so what? It didn't affect the rest of us.

OK so one American Presidunce invaded Iraq so what? It doesn't affect the rest of us.

Germany laughs at EU's full-body scanners plan

Something not to be sniffed @

Aren't the USAnians guilty of sexist discrimination against ovulating women? I vaguely remember reading about enforced strip searches by the gleeful that seemed to target fertile women.

Forcing them against their will, doggy style so to speak.

It comes as no surprise to me that the present British regime is neck deep in czjd like this. I'd vote Boris if I could. I've had enough of these tories at any rate.

BBC's TV detector vans to remain a state secret

Shs? WTF @ SHS

<Quoth Reg.>

If you buy or rent a TV or buy a PC tuner card in the UK your address is passed onto TV Licensing

<Unquoth Reg.>

How the heck is that supposed to mean anything in a caught @ law?

The law is that 1 licence must be held for the TV or tuner at any address used. It doesn't have anything to do with the ownership and it can't prove the set was used is usable. Nor does it indicate the premisses where it might.

I believe they can obtain the set/card but I imagine not before you pass it on or break it. Or pay the TV tax.

And WTH is going to put a signature on anything that indicates otherwise? Not that it applies to me. I buy second hand or from computer shows. (Plus: I have a license.)

NASA: Google Gulfstreams not science experiments

Hi Fliers

I think they should be put in charge of the world economy.

What is a Linux distro worth?

Thank You.

Not you. Fools.

This is for the open sourcerers:

Ta.

Sky and BBC in iPlayer deal

I have great idea!

Why don't we put on the show right here?

Germans seduce Jacqui over remote hacking of disks

Victoriana

What is so different from the good old days when the governing classes feared the working classes so much they invented world war to destroy it?

Pogroms and the like having failed the round up of subversives, it is now the intent to curtail information by removing the distribution of it.

Get the internets by the curlies and you can rerun the statutes quotes. So what else in new online? New staff on the Register I hear?

Interesting!

Kentucky judge OKs 141-site net casino land grab

A US state of mine

"Surely the only jurisdiction this judge has is over the users in Kentucky who are breaking Kentucky law?"

They are the only people who can break that law. Running a casino, no matter how crooked, outside of Kentucky isn't illegal there is it?

But what about larger issues. How are they going to choose governors and for that matter which liar is going to replace the chimp? Or isn't democracy gambling online? OK not with Diebold machines but...

How much profit did the state make out of prohibition? Maybe they need another blanket ban to get them out of this economic crisis too.

Ofcom denies lifeboat spectrum squeeze

Please explain

Who is going to be using the other radio that the RNLI needs?

>>"Individual cases aside, there is an ideological point too:

if one imagines that the RNLI or similar is given its spectrum for free, and someone comes along with an improved radio that provides the same quality of service but using half the spectrum, there is no incentive to switch to the new system.

Ofcom's argument that those who pay for spectrum are more likely to use it wisely has some basis in fact, and has been effective in getting the Ministry of Defence to give up great swathes of spectrum after finding out how much it was worth."<<

Obviously if you stopped Liberian and Panamanian ships entering British waters, you wouldn't need the old kit but if you did that and boosted the national economy in the process, then you wouldn't need the RNLI in the first place, would you?

Dutch court orders Google to reveal Gmail user

Did they?

n July, Google was told cough up the personal data of every person who has ever watched a Viacom video on the YouTube website as part of a billion-dollar court case. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a "set-back to privacy rights." ®

So did they bow to that one? I heard they went to court over it and I then lost track of the story.

Home Office mulls fighting hacking with corporate ASBOs

@ "Corporate ASBOs"

I was wondering when the really useful socialism in the socialist party would work up some gumption. WTF is the need to police the net when nobody thought to police the banks?

Sort out reality before sorting out this place. We have badly served service men strolling around Iraq and Afghanistan like the Hitler yoof., racist extremists shooting down electricians on subways and any amount of spivs and fraudsters getting places in the house of lords.

Chavs run the television and other entertainment industries, Supermarkets force farmers into unspeakable practices and druggies are charging so much for fixes that cancer, stroke and god knows what patients can't get their doses but they can get MRSA...

Get effing real.

US teen admits to 'Anonymous' DDoS attack on Scientology

@ Religion

If only the atheists could be a lot less like the people who have a religion you'd put people in prison for.

There would be a lot less replies on this thread for one thing.

UK.gov says: Regulate the internet

I'm not a happy chappie.

I'm very unhappy about this. I just posted an off topic missal on the exact same proble as a jibe at the BBC.

I am displeased to find that the commie reprobates on here are of a similar mind.

Oz watchdogs howl over 'Cyber-Safety' net filter

Sail Hostagia Fair

Where did that Oz shaped iceberg of a few years back end up? Not on an island in the sun the one with Iraqi refusees on All of my days I will sing the praise Oops wrong song...

Bee Gees belter may help cheat death

@ Sarah Bee

"You guys can be so, like, literal. "

What I like best about them is their insistence on pointing out the meaning of the allusion of the icons they choose to use to highlight the drift of the <ermmm> whatever it is <s> I am </s> they are (I mean) talking about </ermmm> despite the mouse-overs available to otherwise competent computer users.

But you may not have already noticed that which is why I wished to point out to you that the use of pictures of Paris Hilton for example in this example exemplified the need for a reappraisal of the need to repeat the need because she is somewhat repetitive.

Paris because we don't have an ERM icon

To coin a phrase.

Das überdatabase: Inside Wacky Jacqui's motherbrain

Blow me up.

Seeing the only politicians with any common sense were the Guy Fawkes clique and they were done for terrorism... there isn't an alternative opposition, outside of Arabia, with any power to defeat such scurrilous government.

Seems to me that Bin Laden had a valid point. No wonder they never put anyone on trial out of all the prisoners kept in GITMO.

NASA's nuclear Mars tank is go

Less waste on Earth, more and more in space?

Can't see anything going wrong with it. If it fails it will make us look good; if it is successful it will provide more military input for long range penetration of small penetration penetrators.

Think of all those brown skinned people they'll be able to kill if Obama Wan Kenova doesn't get elected.

Think of all those brown skinned people in the USA already who won't get health care or decent housing if the cuts aren't made. Which will make us look good if only we can re-employ those stinking, thieving, grabbing, crooked, bank scammers as toilet attendants in our Notvery Healthy Hospitals.

Microsoft's 'ordinary Joe' promises Windows 7 bliss

Other wisely

I didn't read the article because my brain was slowly sinking in a broth of its own tears. Is Microsoft owning up to something?

Or seeing the light or what?

Are they about to produce an OS that works properly or works otherwise capably or what?

Daughter cremates mom on improvised barbecue

Klingons?

Do Klingons barbie their elders?

Personally i thought they were more of a couple of odd bods that might get a walk-on at the Crab Shack. The woman looks like her name is Earl II.

Abu Dhabi emir rescues Thames Estuary mega-windfarm

Petrodollars to pedtrotodollars

Makes sense. If you understand underhand.

Parliament to probe military kit issues

Wot wee realy kneed

Is sumon to go into thu banks from the army and sort out everythink. That is the way the guverment should do.

McCain begs for YouTube DMCA takedown immunity

Doh Stupid politics.

What on earth would anyone want to be looking at political crap on YouTube for? OK if I'm directed to a scathing clip as its always nice to see one of the buggers fall on their arse but the really interesting thing about this is that the man is a wealthy businessman with all sorts of advisors.

None of whom got a contract for him to use freely any clips of film of him taken by anyone.

Good job he's not going to have to deal with any financial stuff when he is in office. Is he?

Newcastle men dodge post-bog handwash

TB or not TB

No this is not about conservative pee ermaker Tory B Liar but something just as devastating, the community spirit that will bring us plagues after plagues in the not very distant.

I live in Stoke on Trent -a valley full of nose pickers. I don't think I ever went to a pub where the natives wash their hands. Seriously, I can only vaguely remember seeing the odd bod do so. Come the revulsolultion will I be the last man standing?

CPS to consider private prosecution over stealth Phorm trials

48 daze

Unbelievable that the gubunt can round up anyone in the UK and give them full bed and bored for more than 6 weeks and no proof of guilt but with all the evidence in the world including admission of guilt, the scum can be allowed to get away with it.

When and if the computers are searched there could be information that might not favour either the police or the cluberment. Someone in the know had given them the go ahead.

And what is this about stocks given to a new mismanager of B...ahem... a person of alternative employment.

Bloke knocked up kebabs close to corpse couch

@ The stiff was going to be the next kebab?

Nope, just a doner.

After a wipe down with a bit of disinfectionide, the shop can open again and nobody will remember or know the reason.

Then the gumfluff will degenerate and the swing will come back. The only way to treat these people is put them in gaol where they can cook for the inmates.

Organized crime tampers with European card swipe devices

House of cards.

Just watched:

http://uk.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=SIHw7C73s3E&fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3DSIHw7C73s3E

So tell me how long it's going to be before you give us a decent explanation to how all this sort of stuff goes on?

Scotland Mountain Rescue turns on Ofcom

Let Scotland go, say I.

They've been bleating about home rule for decades now. Let em go. Then we can do what Gordon intends to do to Iceland:

Take all their cod for reneging on county council loans to one of their banks.

We can have the rest of the oil for all the money the RBS has defaulted on.

NSA spied on US aid workers, officers, and journalists in Baghdad

Salon Kitty?

What was the name of the officer behind the idea of the sex scandal in the book: "Private Schultz"?

BT outsources international network ops

Foist against the wall

Beats me that outsourcing should be allowed. So now the French own all our nuclear plants and ex GPO facilities?

The USA P0WNed our banks and now some commie regime in Russia or China is about to pounce on them. What's left for the hi tech banditos to screw us out of?

Let's see... helicopters and guns that don't work. -Well at least that's better than the once cutting edge British submarine industry with its one way submersibles.

I'd like all company directors who ship even the most menial work abroad shot. Then all the company directors with no excuse for failing companies shot so they get the right idea.

Then the occasional company director shot once in a while, just to keep them occupied at work instead of pissing it away or golfing off early.

$236m judgment lands on mom and pop spam shop

What does a large unpaid fine mean long term?

I get the idea they are not going to be able to set up a business in a while. Not until they can come up with something their banks will be assured of. Something that will return million is short order enough to cover running costs and cover the fine out of the profits?

Not cool with low finance so this higher stuff completely passes me by.

Can someone explain in words of more than tree letters but less than three syllables?

Judge Dredd smartshell shotguns to hit Iraq in '09

Boreing

With the damage to the bore done in cleaning, use and corrosion how long before the army is less armful than armless?

I remember reading that a battleship for all it's expensive metalurgy, was due of a refit if the guns had ben used 300 or so many times.

That just brings us to the reason her majesty's army stuck with .303s for so many decades:

The ammunition weighed enough to cripple you as it was. Carrying an (IIRC) 18 lb rifle was a doddle compared to the ration of lead issued with it.

Talking of preparation; why can you not use brackets to explain (inline) esoteric details that seem to you best covered at the end of the essay? It's not ballistics (IMO the most challenging branch of rocket science.)

Son of state lawmaker charged with Palin email hack

Interesting case

If a thief steals stolen property, is he a thief?

If a man takes hold of illicit documents and returns them to their rightful owner by means other than accepted channels, what crime is he committing?

Intentionally accessing Palin's Yahoo email account without authorization?

The Alaska governor uses private email accounts... violations of open government laws requiring communications be carried out on state-issued accounts.

Typical White Housemanship if I may be so bold.

Oxbridge lectures now on iTunes

@@ First poster...

So iPod are providing the interface for the severely impoverished British universities?

I stand connected.

So instead of just giving them little tiddly computers, couldn't the humongous US firm see its way to supplying Britain's elite with real computers so that the dons could have the opportunity to put the stuff online for the rest of humanity that don't have teeny tiny tinnitus brains.

I think it is disgraceful that theird r#ate tschnical colleges at the back of beyonf like the ones I had to frequent in my irredeemable, should have huge big servers and top class internet connection but these universities have to go cap in hand to that crapware warrior.

But what do I know. Maybe it's a protection for the rest of us that only losers will get access to all the thinking that has brought us what we now have?

Crooked bank managers, crooked politicians, illegal wars, out of control society. A chimpanzee in the wit house.

OK not all of the above is computer powered and very little of what is wrong is directly related to...

as far as we know ...not all of the above is computer powered and very little of what is wrong is directly related to....

OK maybe we could have...

ummm.

Why not online?

Why is this being offered on iTunes for free?

If the subject matter was funded from the public purse and is being freely donated to a firm that is making money out of it, we should be allowed a portion of that. But before that, if it is educational material it should be open access for all should it not?

It's not as if even copyright laws can be used against file sharers. All matter used for educational purposes should be free at source.

The barskets have been sitting on it for long enough. Other colleges post their stuff online freely why is it always Britain that stuffs everyone?

Fish snapped snacking at 4,200 fathoms

@ Units of measurement?

"So if the roof of a mini is the size of a football pitch how many elephants do we need now?"

1 Tuskerena.

Ballmer backs away from 'Vista Capable' legal row

@ What about the OOXML lies?

I was wondering what could have kept Mr Ballmer so distracted that he never noticed what the core of his business wasn't up to.

@ "By the fact that one of the Microsoft bigwigs, Mike Nash, bought a machine with that sticker on it, and he felt cheated.

"I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine.""

I suppose the proof that Windows doesn't work is.. no..

I suppose the fact that Microsoft doesn't know that Windows doesn't w...

Let me think about this..

Come back in a few years.

Windows Update to trumpet Vista Capable debacle?

@ I doubt this will happen...

Could you imagine a country that would put stickers on Deibold voting machines that say:

There is no reason to believe the veracity of votes this machine churns out?

Or on walls outside banks:

The machine you are about to use will eventually cost the economy 700billion just in the USA alone?

Can you imagine a Socialist party nationalising a bank such as Northern Rock and paying the idiot in charge three quarters of a million pounds? Then going on a year later having learned nothing...

...shoot!

You are right; it ain't gonad zappen.

Where is the icon for kicking our beloved leaders of government and commerce etc in the knackers? Feck you have a black helicopter for them stuffing us!

Crypto attack unveils hidden backups

Back up boner

"There shouldn't be that much data that's secret so it would be better to code it and bury it in something like a MP3 or video file."

There isn't anything left that IS secret these days is there?

It's hard to imagine a sector of the secret and not so secret service that hasn't had all its files dumped as CDs on the last train to Smallville.

Or do I mean MP's three.

Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts

So what about the boys in the backroom?

What happened to all the stuff the NRA was looking at? Or was it set to ignore anything from the big banks?

Any hope that the dicked White House emails will turn up and turn out to have something to do with all this crock? Got anybody not working on it, or is it too early to ask?

BOFH: Remote access malarkey

What's this about Heathrow?

http://events.theregister.co.uk/event/10379

PERFORMANCE 2008

Right next to the BOFH files. Got to be good.

Is some strange Machavellian thing that is a little too sophisticated for us non geek lusers?

EFF sues Dubya over warrantless surveillance

The REAL reason 9/11 was allowed to happen:

Central and South America were running low on bananas?

Isn't "warrentless surveillance" by default a dirty bomb:

A dirty bomb is a radiation device that captures electronic output from various initiators, compresses them and then broadcasts the electronic materiel at levels too low to cause immediate death but to have broad band casualties that may suffer lasting harm.

I post this comment on the stated condition that my:

"...email! address! is! never! published!"!

World goes mad as Bill and Jerry eat churros

World goes mad as Bill and Jerry eat churros

I thought it was an article about Tom and Jerry Ice cream and wondered what it had to do with M$.

So churros are shoes not crisps/Mexican snacks or ice creams?

How Chrome puts the skids under Nokia

What this thin people is didding to its Firefox installs loves us.

Start > Search > Ff profile> Ff x off.

Add / remove > uninstall Fffxache

Add / remove > uninstall Flash & etc.

Add / remove > uninstall AVG (after finding a replacement to load offline after uninstall.)

Add / remove > uninstall > Anything else I can think of that Firefox -which sometimes crosses into some start-ups on XP via the Windows registry. (Thanks Bill.)

Reboot > Install Firefox of choice. Find English language add ons.

Wait and see > Add to pot as required.

Or I could just use Opera and K-Melion and not bother -till they start Microshorting out. There is a limit how badly you can mung your code to keep your market cornered and seriously expect it to work with itself. Vista is a prime example of that.

Shot themselves in the foot there. In effect poetic justice stuck back.

I had thought it was that AVG stuff being rejected. Obviously not. My apologies to them. All is not lost. I just got Linux Mag and am about to try the 4 live distros on the disk.

It's time I grew up.

Dumass they come

But I had the wit to try Firefox sans all add ons before kicking off AVG and ultimately Ffx itself.

So I hope this wasn't aimed at me:

"Those of us who have the wit to identify what extension is causing the problem and uninstall it will probably stick with the ultimately configurable Firefox."

But I wouldn't mind knowing how to find the extension causing the problem without uninstalling it, for next time.

●●●●●●●● Doh!

I too am getting problems with Firefox. I thought it might be the dictionary then AVG. So It was the bloody thing all along?

I can't get on with a browser without a menu bar either. What is the saving there? Safari isn't that good on XP.

I've Opera reserved for my science tabs, the rest are just IE reworks so that leaves K-Melion. Which takes some readjusting to. What version of Firefox do I need to get the dictionary working and no oh... hang on... the dictionary is working..

Feck off that Chrome then.

Police quiz BT on secret Phorm trials

In depth, analysis.

Spread it around. It's a shame to waste it on politics, British politics at that.

"Sadly they'll just fire the directors, rehire them and change branding again. Then you've got a whole new company that's not liable to the previous mistakes and so continue being arseholes."

There some incisive minds reading this rubbish, why don't you all come over to sci.geo.earthquakes and blow all those stupid bastards away with this clarity of mind?

Ice in fuel caused Heathrow 777 crash

Filters

Nobody here mentioned filters. Years ago I had an old Citroen that had a fuel filter you could put your foot in. I think it was some 3 or 4 litres. When I checked it I found it full of water but the engine -a diesel, worked fine.

Paraffin is somewhere between petrol and diesel so should filter even better. (IIRC petrol is 8 C atoms to paraffin's 20 and diesel's 30.) I imagine the military need to use additives as they keep their aircraft grounded most of the time?

Commercial aircraft have their tanks rinsed through every day -24/7. Catching water in the sumps might be a problem only because the engines are never switched off therefore keeping water suspended.

But draining the sumps every journey would cover any problems. I bet there was skimping there, especially with the weather here and in China over the past year.

I haven't looked at the report but this piccie makes it seem the wings broke:

http://flickr.com/photos/nick777/2204693716/sizes/l/

May I take it the relevant tanks were undamaged?

Mythbusters busted over RFID gagging

The weather is dull

ITV have got it taped with full frontal pretty presenters in the morning.

But it's still the same old same old in a begrudged 2 minute slot.

The reason is that nobody watches the weather slot, it is not as interesting as some queer talking about Cross Roads or Emerdale Farm.

And on the other side, the BBC would like to present the weather with Ms Wet T-shirt but the weather isn't always up to it and it is the BBC.

Their story is that the average punter is not ready for tales about jet streams.

But the fact is that until you actually DO get "INTO" something, anything is boring. That is why school is boring when you are young and ignorant.

"Which leaves the question of why, if not because of commercial pressure, Mythbusters hasn't tackled RFID security?

BECAUSE IT WOULD BE DULL.

It's nothing interesting to show. Wow.

Wake me up when they do a segment on Fortran Programming - that'll get me interested....

Seriously I cannot think of a way to show this sort of thing on mythbusters (or any TV show) and appeal to more than a thousand people in the entire US."

A popular conception of the USA is that it is full of retards with guns. Some of them are precocious with GNUs. Enough of them to still be running the planet despite off shoring and Chinese factories.

The same is true for us in the UK. We are still at the heart and soul of hi-tech -despite everything we read about and despite the bulk of TV and etc being designed for morons.

It is not that the audience is stupid so much as management is stupid. There is a ceiling involved when management gets set up in such a way. Latency before the problem can be surmounted.

Someone has to break the mold but while the system is working, no one is going to break anything important. And government is too weak to do anything about it.

It isn't Lord Beaverbrook or whoever vs the Socialists anymore, it's about the Murdoch Empire versus whichever party's spin doctors.

There aren't enough Liverpudlians to dent the Sun and there are not enough whingeing citizens to get the rest of our media sorted out.

It just won't happen.

Hi-tech cops lose their website

Czjd happens. !!!! Chris Walker

"Cluley suggests its new owners would do well to donate the site back to SOCA. We've relayed this suggestion to digitalsuccess.biz and await its response with interest."

Why would the site be best back in the hands of computer incompetents? Why not donate Clapham Junction to the Secret Services at the same time, save them using it unofficially?

If you can't trust the people at the cutting edge of national security with a web site...

for goodness sake!3 !3 !3 !3 !3 !3 !3 !3 !3 !3 !3