Posts by Martin

Obama chopper plans leaked on file-sharing nets

silly contractor

He's going to have a hard time convincing the authorities that he's a pr0n connoisseur and not a spy that happens to leak his information via P2P. Very silly.

Nigerian car thief turns into sheep

well the motive is clear

They obviously wanted the car to do a little ram-raiding.

The police should dye all its wool orange and then let it go; and the next day arrest the first man they see with orange hair...

Microsoft eyes metered-PC boondoggle

'Software as a Scam'

I would love to have done this for Microsoft Office. It's my most expensive single piece of software, and I use it once in a blue moon. But when it comes to gaming, it sounds more like blackmail - pay up or I'll hobble your PC. Any way, I think Vista already reserves a whole lot of my PC's power; they just haven't implemented the 'pay to get it back' yet (to be marketed as 'Windows 7'...).