Posts by Mcbain

Snowden's email provider Lavabit flows again to let users retrieve data

The avatar says it all

City of Munich throws Ubuntu lifeline to Windows XP holdouts

Re: I used to care...

You can try a simulation of how it will be when XP loses support.

Imagine installing XP without any service patches, vanilla XP as released in 2001.

Now connect it to the internet, leave it connected for 24hours no patching allowed.

Now login to all your favourite banking websites one at a time.

Still feeling happy?

Most of these people use XP because of Microsoft's continued support for vulnerabilities/security fixes, even if they're not aware of it.

When that support disappears just watch how quickly people find something secure, the smart ones are already moving.

It's akin to the police closing down the station and moving out of the neighbourhood, sure you can still stay in your house but it's going to become more and more lawless outside your door.

Jedi light-sabre beats Taser in Oregon parking-lot fracas

This little one's not worth it

The last time someone of the porky appearance pulled a blaster on a Jedi he left armless, lucky cop I say

iPhone 4/4S 'self combusts' in airliner inferno

Perhaps he was playing Nokia Snakes on a plane, it was bound to end badly for an Apple device.

Don't buy your iPad in a McDonald's car park

Near Field Communication in next gen iPad?

I think the salesmen tree dead her well, they obviously saw her coming.

She'll never get board.

100% recycleable.

Don't mention Firesale.

It's official: IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers

IE accessibilty win!

This is my 2nd attempt at posting on this article, still rubbing the crayon off the 1st go

Surely this is an IE accessibility win, more useable by users of all abilities, no need for pocket calculator or Linux lab coat, computing for the real world

Car crash driver blames pterodactyl

Did you ever try pterodactyl on predictive?

T9's the way to go my young American, follow the pterodactyl into the land of holy Darwin

NJ hospital suspends 27 over Clooney record snoop

UK Government

Much like borrowing a book from a library every reader of your medical file is known and recorded, I'm not worried.

Sony's 40GB PS3 due 28 October?

Pricing parity

I for one will never buy a next gen console until there is pricing parity across the markets, if this console $399 in the States I wouldn't pay more than £199 for it here.

£299 for the 40GB

So if you pop the PS3 from play into your basket with some URL trickery.....

http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation3/4-/3497508/-/Product.html?add=3497508

the suggested price is £299

Toshiba to tempt Matrix buffs with freebie HD DVD player

Or leave Ronnie's cue out of it and...

.... join the queue.

American inventor builds jet-propelled crapper

Youtube comes up trumps again!

Sorry for the pun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMqGfjNJ9nw