Posts by Niall 5

Muso turfed off train for 'suspicious' set list

Muso

When I read 'Muso' I thought El Reg had adopted the Australian shorthand for a Muslim.

TechCrunch dubs Linux a 'big ol’ bag of drivers'

Welcome to the 80s

Anyone on hear remember the eighties ? Client / Server anyone ? Dumb terminals running apps on a central server ?

This is just that, except you don't own the server, have no control over it's availability, the data on it and are at the mercy of your benevelent ISP to continue to provide your ( up to ) 8MB link to enable you to abso-fucking-lutely anything.

If I were Google's investment arm, I'd be throwing everything at the major ISPs. When you need to be connected as much as you need electricity in order to use your work / play tool of choice, it's going to be a gold rush !

Utter, utter tosh.

Law lord lashes out at ID cards

Blubber

Rosco's post damn near bought tears to my eyes. Go Rosco !!

"They can do whatever they want to hinder the material aspirations of us unprivileged underclasses - just keep us free and I'll live with the less than meritocratic society they doubtless want to create."