Posts by Matthew

Air force pounds Philippine MILF lairs

mil wars ftw

Looks like they're coming down hard on those MILFS

12 of the best... mice

I still love my microsoft 6000 mouse.

Light, plenty of features and high quality laser.

Core i7 bumped to 3.33GHz

eh..

I find it's always to buy whatever is 2nd best as the cost/value is usually far more acceptable than buying the best

Microsoft breaks Windows 7 three-apps netbook handicap

fkn lost the plot

why 1000000 versions of windows? home, and pro. why do they need more? it just pisses off their customers

Sky dishes up iPlayer-style service for Xbox 360

would be good if you could just subscribe through it

One less box to fit under the tv

Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology

Camilla Smythe FTW

You got it in one.

Pity they the Red won't ban AC's IP address.

ITS A CULT

AT&T, not ready for 3G, lobbies for 3G Palm Pre

Pointless

Really, with the high latency I don't see how a speed upgrade will make any significant difference to the average user.

eBay not obliged to protect trade marks, says High Court

hrm

In a way I think that they should protect their users better. There's lots of fake Sony crap, make-up, etc etc, on ebay that shouldn't be there.

It's sometimes hard to tell if its real or not unless you're comparing it against the real thing.

Though I guess that's the price you pay for paying peanuts.

Apple counts $1bn for mystery data center

riight

If it has to be put in one of the states poorest counties surely they would have trouble finding skilled labour?

Does it really matter where they put it? Jobs are jobs

Net closes on NZ bank error fugitives

*clap clap*

What's the bet the sister won't be on their Christmas card list eh ;-)

Missing: 1TB of Clinton White House data

laughable

firstly that they had 1tb drives in the clinton years. and 2ndly that they still don't have cctv or encryption to catch whoever did it. *sigh* I don't think ANY government anywhere in the world has caught up with the basics of security in the modern age.

NZ couple do bunk with £3.9m bank error

good on them

Yet another reason not to be with westpac. They are in china now apparantly, still with 6 of the $10m. Wish them well lol

Toddler snaps up mechanical digger online

remember people..

this is trademe, not ebay. you can (and everyone does) save password automaticly, so you dont need to login each time. and the article on stuff.co.nz says it was already on trademe.

Sony takes on iPod Touch with Walkman X

wow

Thats got to be one of the first touch screen devices I actually want

Nice one sony

Gordon Ramsay breaches f**king broadcasting code

f#cking morons

you can't tell me they were surprised at Mr Ramseys language? If you don't like swearing then don't watch the show. People really need to get a life

US teen pleads guilty over Scientology DDoS attacks

give him a cheer

hopefully the judge just gives him 1 day in prison or something

Sikh coppers request bulletproof turbans

easy way round this

Make the protective gear an option...

Or make them pay for the cost

Missile data, medical records found on discarded hard disks

Why?

the military can't be that desperate for cash. All you need is one bloke with a hammer, and all your problems disappear. That's what we do at our accounting firm, with out old drives.

Telecom NZ dodges Vodafone wrath

Telecom are hardly ones to talk

They run their business using underhand tactics.

The average employee also has an IQ equal to that of a brain-damaged ape.

HTC Touch Diamond 2

nearly ok

apart from the huge lack of a 3.5mm, and the fact its touch screen i might actually buy it. It looks nice

Aussie censors implement six degrees of separation policy

Google banned then?

Stupid stupid policy made as usual by people who haven't yet learned how to put the paper in the fax machine, let alone learning about the interweb.

US P2P bill aims shackles at browsers, IM

lol...

Reminds me when at school they said that "downloading" was banned.. erhm :) wtf is the point of the internet if your cant download data?

Safe thing with "filesharing"

Anyway, good luck with this. Just make sure your download servers aren't located in the USA and what can they do if your software doesn't conform?

Sage numbers buoyed by falling pound

sage..

sage line 50 is a headache

Satellite to offer 10Mbit broadband to entire UK

Completely Useless

Having lived on the west coast, new zealand I had to put up with satellite broadband for a while. Latency was 1+ seconds....

it was faster to use a 56k for most things.

Do the morons who push this tech even know what its like to use it?

Even 3G is faster

Windows 7 gets built in XP mode

why dont they just make a XP V2.0

it would be better...

At the moment the selling point is "buy your new product, its exactly the same as the old one"

UK agent leaves secret drugs info on bus

wtf

Why is it not mandatory to encrypt sensitive documents. its not rocket science

Pirate Bay judge and pro-copyright lobbyist accused of bias

hope they get a retrial

but i think the end of this case is inevitable

eBay officially not cheaper than High Street

this assumes

that adverts at any point in time have ever told the truth? Its not like ebay is a one off case. why pick on them?

Boffins build super-accurate atomic clock

re: Bernie

Who wouldn't want a nuclear device on their wrist!

'Soon soldiers will have 3 tiny choppers in their pocket'

I want one

so much

Pirate Bay guilty verdict: Now what?

Meh

In the end it will just be like kazaa or napster. there is always another waiting to take its place

What really gets me though is the way they measure copyright infringement. I mean if its free your going to download FAR more than if you have to pay for something. therefore, its stupid measuring the downloads etc and saying "we have list this much", because most of the people downloading wouldn't have bought it if it cost actual money.

.

Pirate Bay loses trial: defendants face prison time, hefty fines

@ lee

That assumes that you would buy the material if you didn't download it :-)

which is most cases wouldn't happen..

Plus alot of it is TV anyway that people just want to watch in their own time etc, but is paid for by broadcasting fee anyway.

google next?

what a can of worms

BT chief: People don't need fibre to the home

well 40mbit is a supercar...

If he's from NZ. I live in Wellington the capital city, 7.5 mins from the CBD and I'm on the fastest connection available to me..

Its less than 2mbit.....

consider yourselves lucky!

Sony-Ericsson calls time on another 2,000 jobs

*clap clap*

So..

1 - you sack the people that design your phones..

2 - Quality of phones suffers as a result

3 - *shock* people buy less of your phones, market share falls..

4 - Repeat steps 1 to 3 again and again and again...

Wanted: Creative spark for iPhone games

@ goat

That's why Ubisoft is FTW. buggy games, but they're sure different

McAfee: Save the planet - use a spam filter

wtf

So none of the power comes from green sources such as nuclear power or hydro plants or wind power?

I think for the average modern dual/quad core PC the amount of processing power is negligible, especially since many people use laptops these days.

Plus, how much CPU does a spam filter use?

This sounds as believable as the "apple tax"

Profs: Facebook, Twitter users are lazy, thick, amoral

subjects?

Perhaps facebook students are doing harder subjects. Its easier to get an A in media studies than in law..

Perhaps this shows that people on face book take harder subjects at uni, not that they are stupid. When i was finishing uni last year the amount of people who used computers regularly, and therefore networking sites was much higher in law and commerce subjects than in arts, which are far easier.

Tesla Roadster runs for 241 miles in Monte Carlo e-rally

still crippled

by the fact that Lithium batteries are in such short supply that it would cost an unreasonable amount if they wanted to start adding them to cars on a large scale. They also degrade over time so don't expect that range to last more than 3 or so months.

AND there's also the little detail that when you do run out of fuel its not just 30 seconds to recharge.

Replacing batteries doesn't seem like the answer either as you still have the same battery degrade problem, if a battery capacity is reduced say 20%, which happens very quickly do you get a 20% reduction in your erm..... battery... bill?

There would also be the problem of cheap Asian batteries people would doubtlessly start buying as replacements :-). Would be interesting to see one explode at a charging station.

Cable-cutting vandals disconnect Silicon Valley

you would think..

that emergency services at least your have some form of backup such as a satellite uplink... not that their would me much to do if no one could call 911

Apple eyes new-age iPhone answering machine

it will take off

just like video calling did.... or not

Teens reject Microsoft's Zune

woops

And their shuffle come to that

apple on the way down..

There's no where for them but down now, and their new nano looks like the first step backward for them... It's shit..

Apple muffles PC noisemakers

useless

If they don't give you away to disable the most annoying sound of them all. that f**kn start-up sound.

Microsoft killing free XP support next week

*free support*

eh.. its just some Indian reading directly off the Microsoft KB anyway.. hardly helpful.

Acer debuts thin and light notebooks for the masses

Looks good

Might upgrade to that one later this year then :-)

Isolated Aussies left really isolated

Telstra...

Nearly as bad as telecom NZ

Acer flaunts first Ion-based nettop

No CD drive?

Wont be much use for gaming then will it. Thought it looked good till you hear "windows 7/Vista".. won't me any system resources left over for MS word let alone trying to play call of duty

Profs: Sex with oldies or youngsters will give you the clap

wow...

Some bright sparks working there.. How could age make any difference. Geez

BT does Italian Job on London traffic lights

heh..

this happens in wellington (new zealand) every few weeks lol.