Posts by The Fuzzy Wotnot 1805 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Sep 2008
A whole £13,000! Well that really will put all those thousands of dodgy copies of Microsoft and Adobe software, currently being run up and down the country, into perspective! Gosh a whole £13k!
FFS! No clout? Well if you really had any clout you'd be out busting every Tom, Dick and Harry down the local Car Boot sales, when they are offering knocked off Windows XP/Vista/7/Office!!!
Jesus what a freaking waste of time! Probably cost more to process the proceedings than what was recovered!!
I was sensible and did a postal vote last week!
You see long before "da Net", we had this thing called a postal service. It still sort of works and indeed a very large firm starting with the letter A, use it to deliver your fun stuff!
( Anyway I wanted my vote to be blasted all over Twitter the day after it was counted! )
I never knew about it and neither did thousands of others! Now it's blown out of all proportion, we all hit YouTube looking for it and play it thousands of times giving Apple the finger and Ellen Wotnot some free publicity!
This article and my waste of time commenting is 5 mins of my life I am not getting back!
"Alternatively any officer who has done the X-course and has "at least one year of cyberspace experience" since 2006 can badge up too."
Was this written by an adult or an 8 year-old writing a essay project in English classes? Of course add to that the 8 year-old's mate designing the badges and uniforms and it's a project any junior school teacher would be proud to have coaxed from their charges!
"DumpTap" has been getting popular with Apple fanbois and so Google fancied sticking their oar in just in case Steve started getting ideas. Google only want to secure the IP, before someone else does.
Those who like "bling" on their desktops love BumpTop, to me it looks like a A-level student's CS project, nice work but hardly a "quantum paradigm shift in desktop GUI design"!
I remember that, I was working in DBA team and these mails came up...the mail team were ALL down the pub! "Can you come back, I think there's something funny going on?".
The best bit was that we couldn't use email to tell users to stop opening the mails! So 5 people were told to run around the whole office and tell users to stop using Outlook. The sight of people having to....*GASP*... pick up the phone and talk to other people!
So people can behave like utter bastards when they know, that no one else knows who they are or can find them? Well duh!
Typical car driver behaviour. We get in our cars and as soon as someone cuts us up, it's all flashing lights, middle digits and C-words! You don't do that when someone cuts you up in a supermarket, you apologise and mutter "Utter prat!", under your breath.
Sorry academics, you spend an afternoon driving through city traffic in a car you would soon learn all about this sort of "anonymous/cocoon" behaviour!
Alright average home user might be OK with it, but 4TB max? These days even the mums round my kid's school are into ripping torrent movies ( Mandy will deal them in due course no doubt! ) so some home users must be stacking up some serious SAN-style data requirements. I have a two 6TB NAS boxes for storage of the family's DVD rips and iTunes libraries. RAID is a MUST when you start storing so much stuff that there is no way you could possibly back it up.
RAID means that I will hopefully never have to face the prospect of sleeping in the car, after having to face the wrath of kids and Missus demanding where the hell all their vids/MP3s/photos went! *shudder*
So what are Cameron, Brown and Clegg going to do about it eh?! Oh yes, bang on about the NHS, privacy concerns and proportional representation, won't do you much good when a slimy skinned, yet beautiful and slightly soft-focused alien ( thinking 80's V here! ) is about to chow down on your soft squidgy bits!!
I am sure Nikon/Canon/Olympus/Pentax/Sony are fully aware of the state of cameraphone tech!
I own Canon 450 and 550 DSLRs and enjoy messing about for personal enjoyment. While I was staggered at how good a cameraphone can be when playing with my LG 520 (3MBP camera), it's never ever going even reach the cheaper quality of my low-end enthusiast kit, let alone a full on Nikon D3x or Canon 1D! DOF is most obvious thing that grabs you, the camera phone has no concept of DOF, preset and that's it! Great for snaps and some mid-range scenic shots in average light, but too bright/dark light and it's knackered!
Another case of PR BS and ad-men pushing their products to make 'em seem better than they are!
This has nothing to do with customer privacy per se, if customers find out Amazon handed over the fact that they bought Pervy NIghts in Bangkok, they will never shop at Amazon again or at least think twice in future!
All about Amazon's bottom line, which is fair enough, but don't come over all Guardians of Privacy, tell it like it is!
How about you simply mail it back to Apple recorded post or whatever the US equivalent is?
If I had found a prototype, I would be so paranoid that they were after me, I'd drive the sodding thing back to the HQ and hand it over to the reception or ask for a the head of R&D! Say, I found this and I don't want anything to do with it, sign anything to ensure I have nothing more to do with it!
That's 'cos anyone who believes that tripe deserves all they get! Those Apple ads are an utter pile of puppy-poop. Every computer, EVERY COMPUTER, has some point of entry that the scumbags can get in. If you believe what Lord Jobs and his acolytes say and take it as gospel, you are a fool!
If you buy a diesel car you make sure you always go for the black or yellow pumps, you stick "green" pump in it and it's going to go a bit funny! Same with PCs, you buy it and expect it to look after itself as Lord Jobs says it will, you will be in a world of pain in no time!
Oh and I own four Macs by the way, it's still the best O/S I have used in 25 years of IT, I have just been burned too many times by IT equipment to take PR bullshit as written!
Good job you don't run Anti-Money-Laundering checks in business!
AML, the individual is responsible, right up through the chain to the MD/CEO.
ANYONE found to have had any knowledge and failed to report it, hefty fine and a spell in chokey! No matter what position you hold from cleaner to MD, no excuses. If you knew and it's proven, tough!
Quicker we use AML type punishments for data-breaches the better it will be, then everyone top to bottom will feel the pain if they faff about with Excel ODBC-hooked up their central DBs!
Now why can't these shady characters write code for Microsoft and Apple?!
1. Product ( BT ) running for yonks.
2. Legal action threatened by govs.
3. Patch available quicker than can you say "Get stuffed Mandelson!"!!!
I am surprised it took someone this long to come up with some way around being caught ripping off the latest Hollywood cack! Don't give me that Linux distro cobblers, yes we know you can do that, but less face it, BT exists purely for everyone to rip-off the latest blockbuster and wonderful X-Factor wang offering from Sony Music corp!
"addicts plus controlled experimental conditions don't really go together"
I don't know, it didn't stop the Gov and MOD working on this sort of thing at at Porton Down. Happily giving innocent soldiers doses of God-knows what then asking them to perform basic tasks, letting them go without telling them what they had been given or why.
All in the name of science. We don't need a reason, we just need answers, even if they are wrong ones, we just need them!
...Google front the money to for some PIs ( like Magnum or Angela Lansbury ), they get the perps and beat a confession out of them to find out if they really did use Google SV or not?!
Shut your whining and stop blaming everyone else!
If your liberty was so bloody precious to you, you saw the Google-mobile go past and you didn't bother to check to see what they captured on their "spy-cams" later in the month?!?! No. You got clobbered by some scumbags and this seemed a convenient excuse!
So this guy is bleating about a £350 bike being nicked? My car, a 3 year old Honda CRV, has been broken into twice in a CCTV car park in broad daylight, in an average UK town! £1250 quid so far in broken glass. I never leave things on the seat but the scum still targetted me twice and the police basically never gave a toss and simply told me to claim on the insurance. Yeah thanks, now my premiums go up through no fault of my own!
( Thinking about it, there's been no murders in very posh apartments, so Angela wouldn't be much use! Maybe Columbo or Jim Rockford? )
Indeed!
Alright Scarface is probably a little too far, but it depends how it's acted and presented.
Kids play out the nativity all over the country, every year! Woman gets knocked up, thinks that it's devine intervention. Her husband, who may be a bit dim, believes her and to avoid getting caught in a wholesale infanticide instigated by some demented despot, decide to up-sticks and move somewhere to have the baby. Baby grows up and starts a cult, sorry, bonafide religion!
We let children as young as 4 play this out?!?!
Lets censor all violent media, so that means you won't be studying any history then! Almost everything that has lead mankind this far, is more or less based on some feud or war!
BG make a ton of spondoolics by over-egging the direct-debits and then paying the money, AFTER they have creamed off the interest on havng thousands of over payments in BG's accounts.
What scam will they come up with to cover the loss of interest when they know exactly how much you have consumed to the nearest microsecond? Ah yes, selling the obly supported monitoring gizmos to al the other energy companies!
I think the whole point of this Autodesk thingy is to stir up some interest, they know it hasn't a hope in hell of working yet, but jumping on the hottest Hollywood ticket is going to secure a bit more interest in the trade papers.
As for OnLive, best of luck, great idea but somehow when I see my ADSL line dropping to 150kb/s even in quiet times, I find it hard to imagine this service will be any good to anyone more than 1000 yards from the nearest fibre junction!
The Apple II was what got Apple on the road to their millions! Woz designed the thing from the ground up using pen and paper, it was running businesses for years and years after production stopped. The Apple III was complete pants compared to the Apple II.
Get yourself a copy of the book "iWoz", Woz's autobiography and you will genuinely appreciate what a genius the guy is and how much of an influence he had on the IT biz.
IT techies like us say to the upper bods: "You know, this stuff should be encrypted, if it fell into the wrong hands could spell disaster!"
Management: "Well how much will this encrypting thingy cost?"
IT Techie: "Well it could be X thousands up front but the peace of mind of..."
Management: "How much?! Sorry, maybe next year's budget, but with no obvious value for money, sorry but no!"
Granted they do, but when they choose to! You're quite the enlightened new man are you? You're either a sad basement dweller or a complete troll/tool!
Not much shocks me, but if a device came back like this I would feel quite sick knowing some nasty pond-dwelling scumbag had been loading bongo-flicks on my phone then using my phone with the same grubby mits they had most likely been playing with themselves with!! *SHUDDER*
Exactly what I was thinking!
They decided to peer at a personal note, private to that individual. As nothing more than security guards on private property, they had no right to look at his private notes! I would certainly conisder a private prosecution on the grounds of harrassment.
Good luck if he does!
Lucas said he'd gone shopping to buy Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter, but the first three pages of Google's search results all pointed to illegal versions.
"It was extremely difficult to find something that was legal ... I do not see why search engines should not be able to block these things."
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You are a plank! How about you start with a Google search for, oh I dunno, "audiobook and book retailers", like erm...what's it called, Ama-something or that other one Waterwoods or something?
Strange when I searched for "Pervy Nights in Bangkok", I got loads of links to porn sites not DVD retailers!!!
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