* Posts by shock_wave

5 publicly visible posts • joined 14 May 2008

Baby-roasting BBQ pulled from Sears site

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Paris Hilton

Shame...

Rather than accept that they had a problem with the website, fix it and issue a public statement that it has been fixed what do they do. State that they have been hacked and threaten reddit.com to take down the post showing the method.

And what could have been a quiet episode that almost nobody knew about is making news and threatening to show up on CNN. Way to completely mishandle it sears!

/Paris because she could teach sears about service

Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns a 'non-issue'

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Linux

What ever!

I've given up trying to get people to consider Linux. I got sick of all the bleating about how this isn't like ms-this and office-that isn't working. Linux can remain the domain of the skilled, smart and hobbyists.

Linux needs a better tagline anyhow. "Linux - just smart people"

Robot vacuum cleaners - now with grenade launchers

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Joke

Am I the only one...

that thought it was a scutter from Red Dwarf for a brief moment.

Canada moots tough sanctions for DRM flouters

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Flame

Former Canadian willing to immigrate

To any country that hasn't made common sense and basic rights illegal.

I am officially ashamed of my country for allowing this to even be read in Parliament.

We were the country that stood up to the US and said that we would not join the coalition of the idiots and now our rights are up for the highest bidder.

The US flag added a small maple leaf to the blue field today.

Bell Canada chokes P2P and privacy?

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Linux

If Bell really cared about QOS

They'd choke off all the bots on their network. Send a daily shutdown to infected PC's who have no idea that they've been compromised. There's your bandwidth loss.

Of course this wouldn't please the ones holding the leash.