Posts by Dan

Blears is latest to scurry away from Brown's Cabinet

"Return to the cut and thrust of grassroots, on-the-street politics"

Sounds more likely to tempt someone to 'cut and thrust' a local politician.

Blears trying for new health minister maybe?

Fujitsu Services shuts final salary pension scheme

EDS next?

Where one goes, the rest will follow.

Yes! It's the World of Warcraft house!

But wait...

Build them, sell them.

Then we know where to drop the bombs.

Flying-rifle robocopter: Hovering sniper backup for US troops

BOING

Re: AC 10:42 "Boing Helicopters"

Heh...thats a great image, bouncy rubber helipcopters.

Coming in for landing now......BOING.....mayday myday.

BBC fined £150k over Manuelgate

fonejacker

I thought fonejacker was made by channel 4, therefore making is exempt from all broadcasting standards?

Advertising watchdog okays 'gaming equals early grave' ad

When do we see...

..adverts showing joggers mown down by cars, power-walkers hanging a heart attack in the park, weight lifters crushed by falling weights.

Maybe even....dieing due to repeated beating from a PS3 controller for taking photos and getting in the way of the telly.

People like playing console game, it allows them to vent the huge build up of rage without having to go out an do it in the street.

Child porn suspect ordered to decrypt own hard drive

You want the passphrase?

Was it?....Or maybe?....I forgot it...sorry.

I'll be going home with my laptop now.

kthxbai

Pirate Bay prosecutors get jiggy with charge sheet - again

Waiting for...

...the charges to be changed to.

"They've done something clever with computers and the global-internets-zone-web, we don't understand it, but we know we don't like it."

HP imposes staff wage cuts

Non HP man in an HP world

Watching the news of this spread round the office as people opened their Outlook was like watching a crippling plague slowly creep round the desks.

Good job Mr Hurd, instead of making a few people redundant, you have demotivated the ENTIRE GLOBAL workforce.

10 out of 10 for trying, minus several million for good thinking.

Fasthosts to offshore support staff

Really?

Do people actually still use this bunch of cowboys. I cancelled several packages with them over a year ago, they keep sending mails telling me they can't debit my account.

Cretins.

DoS and distributed hacking tools finally criminalised

What about....

..Mailstorm.exe, I assume that covered under this ruling?

I use Mailstorm quite a bit to do long running load tests over messaging systems, bulk tests, flood tests, etc etc.

What about Outlook Macros that send messages multiple times?

How many messages constitute a DoS...I know some old Exchange boxes that fall over after just 1 or 2 messages.

Paris....she seems as confused as the rest of us.

Manhunt 2 to hit UK on Halloween

Eh?

No Xbox360 or PS3 release?....Strange.

HP measuring up necks of global EDS staff?

Swing that axe

Aim for middle management, you can't go wrong.

Union gears up for BT strike action this month

Finally....

"There are managers being paid less than the people they manage"

At last, common sense.