Posts by Al fazed

NHS computers hit by voracious, data-stealing worm

Oooh Nooo !

It can't be true !

What then for all the other data collecting muppet schemes in the Government sponsored "let's totally fuck Britain up" project ?

As I understand it, the Houses of Pillarymunt run under Windows 2K, mandating IE 6 as their browser of choice, as do the deliverers of our Nuclear Incapability at sea the Royal Navvy (In case of enemy fire, just reboot the system).

No doubt our "friends" up there in Cheltenham will be snooping through our digital shit with the same blythe "Up Yours" attitude that they have always shown to us lesser mortals when going through the bins, and I expect nothing other from their brothers in arms, the scambags responsible for the Police National Database, the National Identity Scheme Database, et fucking al.

Please tell me, as a concerned Anarchist, is there any National institution in the UK NOT running Win2K with IE6 ?

ALF

Trojan poses as Google Chrome extension

Durr !

Eponymous Coward,

Do you think that your average Chrome User will give a fuck which OS they are using ?

Or which programming school is responsible for letting them get their device pwned ?

It would appear that you Linii creeps still have a great deal to learn too.

ALF

Police send Reg hack CRB check database

Which ?

Novell eMail application were they using ?

I have to say, I have been using SeaMonkey eMail client for several years under various Microshaft OSes,

However, having gone over to Ubuntu for a dreadfull few months, I am now running OpenSuse Linux and I am forced to say that SeaMonkey is very very wonkey by comparison to the Windose versions.

This morning the preview pane opened up by itself, one of my Junk folders decided it wanted to be open on a TAB of it's own (?) and the message headers are often all screwed up (?)

WFT ?

Still, plod doing this sort of stunt just makes the whole thing a fucking farce. As per expectations.

ALF

School secretly snapped 1000s of students at home

Name change

Maybe Philadelphia should change the name of their town to Paedophilia ?

ALF

Internet abuzz with BitTorrent bypass code

Way to go

Who downloads that pigopolist shite anyway ?

Most films they are involved with and that I sometimes get to see, usually turn out to be rank remakes of tales of yore. Everything is drowned in very poor CGI, making a film appear like a very long comic strip ! DURR !

Where went the art and creativity ? Seems like a visual cul de sac to me.

Most music I hear these days is the same, just a rank remake of crappy pop tunes, once churned out by bands with names like "the Beatles", which in reality were once enjoyed only by grannies and very very young children, oh yeah and my son with Downs Syndrome.

Mind you, some of the Beatles T-shirts doing the rounds are pretty groovey, and they are not free, and I'll bet that "the band" members do not get any royalties off these. AAAR !

All the stuff I get to listen to or watch these days is usually available free of charge, NOT via P2P, but mainly as it is made to be distributed free of copyright.

There you go Industry NIL, anarchists ONE.

You should know, there are more of us than there are of you, anal retentive, need to pay to own it types. Because we are the worlds poor and you are not. The gap is apparently widening between us, so don't get any ideas about a career as a pop star, silly ! Or you'll end up as one of us anyway looking for stuff you can get for nowt ........

I thought that this technology was supposed to narrow this gap ?

Try this FREETARD haven,

www.crackpots.org.uk

ALF

Volcanic ash grounds dozens of UK flights

Typical

Britain brought to it's knees again, by a smokescreen.

ALF

Fedora 13 - Ubuntu's smart but less attractive cousin

BUT !

Is Fedora 13 more stable than Ubuntu ?

Surely, as an end user, that is the crucial issue ?

ALF

Skewing statistics: Booze, money and sex

I concurr

I could not agree more.

But maybe it's the software that's at fault ?

ALF

Opera alerts EU to hidden Windows browser-ballot

Obfuscation

is after all Microsoft's forte, is it not.

I haven't seen mention anywhere yet, of Microsoft's dastardly mean trickery in this "Browser Choice" issue.

I encountered this Browser Choice while running a Windows Update (manually of course). This sneaky little f*cker pops up a screen just like some virus or malware. It clearly told me that this was my ONLY chance to make a choice of browser preference.

Since I already had all 4 (?) of 'em, installed, I was rather pissed that Bill's applet was demanding that I re make my earlier choice, again, NOW ! Which one do I want to use ....... forever. Couched in such terms as to make someone less enlightened think that this decision would be irreversible, final, like no going back ..............

It's simply more of the same old US marketing terrorism tactics that we and the Afgahnis, et al are very used to by now, surely ! You know, treat everybody as if they are stupid and are actually being graced by American intervention, automating everything and pumping shit into some dumb stupid grinning moron, happily stabbing at icons all day long, in the belief that the divine dispenser gives us sustenance rather than a nasty shock.

The metaphore is internet security, for those without the irony gland.

Choice ? Good old Opera. Right On !

ALF

UK.gov revamps cybercrime strategy

Response, are you sure ?

Slightly innaccurate reporting by el Reg today, Ie;

When you say ............

Police response will be informed by the "development of accurate reporting mechanisms for the public", a reference to the National Fraud Reporting Centre (NFRC).

This NFRC is for Joe public who wish to report fraud in Government Office,

NOTHING ELSE !

So tired of these tossers

ALF

Nerd alert: First Lucid Lynx Ubuntu beta fun

Bollox

I'll bet it don't play MP3's straight from the box !

If Ubuntu's earlier incarcerations are anything to go by, it's all peguin fluff and not a grain of truth about greater security, stability, Windows desktop replacement, blah, bloody blah, blah blah,

Look what I'm getting at is this,

Firefox is totally fucked up when running under any sort of Linux, (in my experience since November last.)

Seamonkey is rather more than a little wonky, when compared to the same app when running under Microshaft OSes.

If you need a browser that works under Linux, you will have to go looking for Opera.

Don't try to play your MP3s, your .wav files or your movies either, (in my experience)

Flash adds on this web site kill browsers dead after 5 minutes, under Ubuntu or OpenSuse.

And no it isn't the box, as everything worked just fine under the horror that was Windows XP.

And if you don't mind a failed update trashing your master boot record so the poor old PC doesn't know where to start afterwards, go ahead,

bleed for us baby.

I am so fed up with reading all this YANKEE "we are the greatest" bollox.

Penguin SHIT; Basefuck, Twatter indeed.

Why not preload MS fuckin' N and IE9 while you are at it ?

Come back and tell me when it actually WORKS ! Then I can get some bleedin' work done !

ALF

Is it ta-ta for Flash?

@Jamie

Same as Jamie,

But my problem is because I'm running Linux as opposed to Windows.

HONEST !

I had to ditch Ubuntu, no tell a lie, it ditched itself during a software update. I couldn't read the register because the adds took my humble P4 2.2 Ghz machine back to the old PII days.

In all truthfullnes, OpenSuse is only slightly better, in that the adds take up about 50% CPU cycles when using SeaMonkey to read the register, compared to the 100% CPU cycles with Ubuntu.

PS the same machine works without a hitch running Windows XP !

So go figure ?

FLASH is still a load of bandwidth grabbing shite.

IF I land on a web site with Flash and it takes longer than 5-10 seconds to load, I'm gone.

BUT !!!!!!

Having said that. One of the best music sites I've ever visited is still going,

http://www.pianographique.net/

and it is Flash, and it's been going for years !

ALF

As good as it gets ?

It is still NOT ACCESSIBLE !

Flash is trash.

Amanita wouldn't get my work.

It looks good - but one cannot increase the font size, so web sites that use Flash are generally unreadable YAAAAAH.

Way to go Mothf*ckers !

ALF

Microsoft slams nails in Windows Vista, XP SP2, 2000

@The Unexpected Bill

Well said,

unfortunate that Microsoft didn't realise this before embarking on their path to oblivion.

Ubuntu penguin heads haven't seen anything like it, yet they dream of their OS emulating Microstien's newer monsters. When Ubuntu is half as stable I might review it again. But for the most part the Microsoft despising idiots who write in to the forums are enough to keep me well away from that Distro in future.

Best thing to do with the Win2k box is simply unplug it, uninstall the firewall and all the other baggage and use it as a stand alone system for everything which requires NOT being attached to the net. You get to keep all you old, working applications too. Bloody marvelous !

ALF

Har Har, there she blows

Personally I don't give a flying f*ck, as I have been planning and conducting my migration to Linux for some time and it's looking good for OpenSuse 11.2

Sorry Ubuntu fan boys, it just doesn't do what it says on the tin, does it ?

Us rats are leaving the sinking ship.

Mind the gap Bill, your gonna need a life raft.

I think it is a smart move.

ALF

ICO to investigate surveillance for Parliamentary report

Just waking up !

to the fact that we live and breathe Police state daily.

Obviously it's the sleeping politician syndrome again.

Yesterday, my 17 year old daughter went to the newly refurbished Ashmolean Museum, as member of a party of students on an organised and supervised Art college trip. This should be a fantastic experience for any young person who shows interest in our cultural heritage. However, the day was marred again and again by security staff who made their presence very visible through out the duration of the visit. One guy even went as far as standing in the middle of the doorway to one of the rooms. His body language presented a posture intended to disuade my daughter from entering. If she had been tripping or stoned this may have simply been paranoia on her part, but she assures me that she wasn't. The bloke even went as far as to glower at her angrily, as she slid passed him through the entrance into the room.

As if there hasn't been enough spent on the surveilance equipment newly installed in this public building, we are still being harassed by the low paid individuals who have their daily, petty, national news fed prejudices to bear in life, and use their positions of relative superiority to "lord it" over what ever individual crosses their path. All this surveilance just teachers us to be suspicious of everyone. Assume they are a terrorist, a yobbo, a thief, a junky, a Benefits thief.

We are already here in a loop of 1984 which has been reiterating itself ever since.

And this guy has just woken up to the fact !

What happened to the Information Super Highway ?

Obviously, those dwellers in rural Brittania have only decrepit ali pots to deliver their Wiki knowledge, and we should expect some latency. But 26 years FFS !

ALF

Almost 2,500 firms breached in ongoing hack attack

well durr !

Wake up call required eh.

FFS, just how long is this charade going to continue.

Didn't think it could happen to them, wasn't worth the investment.

I'm sure we've all read the security briefs and then had to pull in our necks when being told why we can't implement the required strategy.

Well someone is going to wake up much richer today.

And some are not being so Fortunate, hee hee hee.

Make way idiots !

ALF

DoH splurges £2.72m on Adwords

Well spent

not an ounce of common sense left in da House.

SEO = £2,720,457.11 per annum for just one UK Go Vermin department !

And just how many departments are there ?

Talk about a spending spree in the middle of a recession.

We at least, can take a good guess at which IT specialists were not employed on this project. Good old cut backs.

F*ck me, if they had a Google account they could have got just as good a service (if not better) for nuffin'. But then, they aren't in the business of knowing stuff, are they ?

All they needed was to stick Google Checkout on their pages and they could earn free AddWords everytime some numchaka uses the Google cart !

ALF

ZeuS tracker shrinks takedowns from days to minutes

But

less sexy

ALF

French mock British G-spot probe

Hand Face

Well blow me down, the English cannot find the noses on their faces !

If I were not English this would seem like an insult to the English.

Being English I have ample clear evidence that this is true right across our culture, politics, law, marketing, fiscal policies.

In this case, the results showed that the identical twins were, "no more likely to share a G-spot than non-identical twins".

Which says more about our superstious beliefs surrounding twins, than it proves or otherwise anything about a womans biological system.

For F*cks sake, the avarage British man has no clues as to the workings a woman's mind. So deliberating about the G spot might be better conducted and have more success if the research was done in bed, rather than in a lab.

By the way, I do know where the G spot is and if any of our female readers would like a hand to find theirs, get in touch do. This PC does not have one, definitely ! But then neither does a MAC and Linux also definitely not, up to now anyways.

ALF

Top Gear's Stig prowls Loch Ness

Stig ?

Don't tell me that Top Gear is faking it now !

Didn't they just reveal the Stig to be Michael Schumacher ?

Either the other Reg commentards should change seats and sit in front of a TV set occasionally.

Or I have been watching too much TV.

ALF

Oil companies hit by 'state' cyber attacks, says report

more industry jokes

to follow !

No f*ckin wonder the world is in such a shit state and the Goovermins dunt no nuffin'.

One of the first things I learnt about ITC is that data connected to the internet can be accessed from the internet.

First thing I learned about business is how to make money by not spending money.

Put the two things together and you have a world wide orchestrated bunch of overpaid, half trained, wrongly aimed, resource syphons - connecting stuff to the internet (or leaving unencrypted discs on trains) that should never be - in the first place.

Cripplingly funny from an anarchists perspective.

Then the thought of adding to this mix, the knee jerkers, re-edutainment and beware of the burkhas and I nearly fell out of my orthopeadic office chair.

More please, more .. where is the guffaw icon ?

SourceForge bars 5 nations from open source downloads

Land of the free

Hee Hee !

If you believe that, you'll believe any old rubbish.

Open Source, you mean try my Betas, scoff !!

ALF

Bloated Office 2010 kicks dirt in face of old computers

So,

what's the bad news ?

ALF

Amateur goof makes Twitter account hijacking a snap

Even No Script

has it's off days and cannot be relied upon, unfortunately.

I have come across a problem where NoScript installed in Firefox using a strange foriegn language, not English. Consequently, not much can be understood of the message content when it stops a script. Making it absolutely useless on my children's PC.

Er, even the program writer has been unable to fathom out this one. Any takers ?

And as for Firefox, you penguin heads might know why I cannot see the media player controls on my Myspace account. Flash Block isn't stopping the adds from playing, just the control panel ? NoScript would appear

superfluous at this time.

PS I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and SeaMonkey is very wonkey too. Hence the use of Epiphany and Opera, the only browsers that actually work under my version of Linux. Sheesh !

ALF

EMI, Universal ink pacts with free tunes startup

Make a profit ?

I run an add free music site at www.crackpots.org.uk promoting unsigned UK bands and musicians. It's all DRM free and we don't talk about profit.

Sorry the site may not be available at all times, (the cost of running on shoe strings), but hopefully as time goes by this unavailability will not be a problem.

Regards

ALF

Berserker Bing bots bring down Perl network

NOT attack bots ?

F*ck me, I've been unable to access a Myspace account since November last year. Maybe it isn't the work of hackers after all, who have replaced the authentic log in panel with a false data stealing one. It is only Microsoft search robots looking for some decent free music, which are running amok and causing my DOS with the error message "Too many failed log in attempts using this eMail address".

Please someone bellow in the ear of the sys admins at MySpace, saying, "it's OK you can go back to sleep !" This DOS trick may have been in effect since 1996, according to Netcraft.

ALF

Cadbury flakes in face of Kraft bid - cuts expected

Here's puss in yer eye

As I understand it, milk produced in the UK cannot be used if there is some (not sure exactly how much) level of puss in it (derived from mastitis of cow udders). This strict regulation does not cover dairy "products" imported from the USA, where a significantly greater ammount of puss is acceptable in the milk.

YUKKEE !

Also, over the pond they regularly stuff their cow feed with hormones, antibiotics and steriods, all in the name of improving the outcome ! On the other hand we do not care for these additives, as we have our own drugs to play with. But you can see why I ain't gonna be eating Cadbury's anything in future.

As an animal lover, I can't say that I will miss the UK dairy industry when it collapses after this deal. Maybe there'll be some cheap building land available when our herds of cattle have vanished. Sad day for UK farming.

Short in the lunch box

That'll leave me with another gap in my satchel where the goodies used to be.

After this deal, I won't be buying anymore Cadbury's products, so I can only suggest that those affected by the staff cuts should set up a Social Enterprise making Cream Eggs just for Mandy. Who knows, if they are any good, full of true grit or summat, they could be just what Gordon needs to save the English economy.

Now, I have a load of debt and this deal has got me wondering if I can't maybe buy a US bank on the strength of it ? How about all us debt laden folks in the UK buy out all the US banks ?

We could make loads a Wonka maybe, and get the UK goovermin to bail us out when it all goes tits up, as it will, 'cos that's how we like 'em.

ALF

IE zero-day used in Chinese cyber assault on 34 firms

IT savvy muppets

from a different story in today's Register, a Law firm suffered a similar attack, "Attorneys at ........ began receiving trojan-laced emails made to appear as if they were sent by other members of the firm"

Lynx is not the only way.

Mandate that all eMails are received and sent in text only format.

Just say no to reading/sending HTML messages.

ALF

Knuckle rap for riot shield sledging coppers

Arse ! Fek

And the Superintendant was watching Youtube when ?

ALF

New Labour bring old Nuremberg Laws to Britain

Business as usual

is what I think I read.

This merely gives legal cover for the unlawful acts already being carried out. Nothing new here then, eh.

It extends the other tweakings this Goovermin have been making, like those to the Housing Act, which now allows Benefit making Authorities to screw the public they are providing benefit for. ALL overpayments are recoverable, even if the Benefit Agency screwed up and have caused you financial ruin. It does state, "unless of Hardship", but who the fuck is assessing your hardship ?

The LGA or DWP that made the financial errors !

The f*ckin' slave driver of course !

They also save a bundle on training.

This type of mind set allows authorities to fuck up big time without having to pay the price, as joe public will get the bill or the big stick, every time.

ALF

UK.gov moves to block Hamas kids site

Missing Link ?

I thought that was what our Goovermin was playing with in it's affart to join up it's political thinking.

What about the labour Anarchist movement, don't we get a say ?

Why can't the goovermin spontaneously combust, fry an egg, tie it's shoe laces, without the help of the Isrealis ?

Oh yeah, they are writing all our surveilance software for us, RIGHT !

ALF

Hacker pierces hardware firewalls with web page

Tell me do

I have limited my 3Com firewall with NAT to only allow HTTP connections on port 80 and HTTPS on 443.

So how come my kids still manage to use instant messaging apps like those that come with MSN, Facebook, Web Messenger, etc on their windose machines ?

Is all this [IRC/ICMP traffic ?] being run over port 80 at the router ?

File and Printer Sharing is disabled in Services on each machine, as is FTP and TELNET. Can they be truned on sureptitiously by such an exploit ?

Is my router still vulnerable to the exploit ?

ALF

Major helicopter reorganisation for RAF and Navy

So Vietghanistan it is then

This is tactical warfare ........

".. whose effect will be to put more resources into the Afghan war ..."

"... with initial deliveries of ten new choppers arriving by 2013 ..."

".. will be extremely welcome among British forces there .."

They just have to wait 3 years, while the wouldbeworldrulers/oilthieves either, try to NOT lose the war or NOT bring it to a conclusion in that time frame. Thinking of maintaining the job numbers and continued sustainable development I suppose !

ALF

Surgery fools Japan's fingerprint checks

@philbo

Or, as is the way of grey Gordon et al, by crossing their fingers.

ALF

Windows 7 - Microsoft minus the martyrdom

More MS Propaganda

This sounds like more Microsoft marketing bullshit to me.

Sorry, but I've heard this sort of American sales crap too many times already. Surely they must have picked up by now that it isn't the Operating System that people hate, it's the bogus company that sells broken stuff that the consumer has to fix.

As a daily user of the PC, I have to state categoricaly, there is nothing interesting or exciting about having to go looking for the application menus that the egg heads have just moved to somewhere else, or marketing types have had removed altogether.

Mind you, Ubuntu Linux is't a great deal better in this, it simply costs me ONLY the earning curve, which is enough, when you just want to do some work.

There is no new hardware required, no new office software required.

Hey ho, I've saved a packet already.

I still need to provide the cost for maintenance, whatever the OS.

So, if folks really like to be on the leading edge, good, I'll pick up the pieces when their machines fail.

ALF

Prevx blames Microsoft for black hawk screen down

I feel the same about Linux

Don't get me wrong, I hate Microsoft Operating Systems, having been using them since the first GUI of those Win 3.1 days.

Unfortunately, I seem to have even less satisfaction when it comes to running Linux Ubuntu. I've been trying since version 6 and still encountering problems which mean I cannot use this as my every day desktop, even though I would really love to. With my current Ubuntu 9.04 install, I am dragging my arse through the mud as the display is falling apart, close, minimise and maximise buttons are suddenly missing from every GUI application I have been using. Control panel is today just a white sace on the screen.

I really really wish I was one of those people who never ever have any problems with Linux, but I am not. I am one of those people who have lots of problems each time they try a new release, in the hope the bugs in the last release will have been fixed. Unfortunately, for would-be Linux Ubuntu users, (I can't speak about the other distro's) Linux developers are just like Microsoft's developers, the fasion is not for fixing stuff that's broke, just making more broken stuff.

Regards

David Urmston

New hacker peril for older IE versions

browser bollox

@Nathan Williams,

constantly upgrading my browsers and OS creates anything but sanity, where have you been ?

Counting since Win 3.1 there have been six new Microsoft Operating Systems, Ubuntu Linux alone has released about the same number in half that time, and I can't be arsed to work out how many Red Hats etc, there have been.

Netscape becomes Mozilla, becomes Seamonkey, par Firefox BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAHHHHHH !

Do any of them work in all situations ?

The honest answer for all you Linuxtards is NO they don't !

So if you want to get any work done, or design apps for the majority of web surfers, that's why I still need a version of IE 6. As with the UK's nuclear capability, which I believe is still running on Windows 2000, in some parts of the net, it is all that works, while the likes of Firefox and SeaMonkey on Ubuntu 9.04 - just don't work where you expect they should. I am talking MySpace you penguin heads. Every Flash advert I block still runs merrily along while the control panel required to play the tracks is in-bloody-visible, except in Opera on Ubuntu and IE6 on Windose 2000.

SHOCK HORROR beware of the blind sick penguins.

ALF

Microsoft squirts out Office 2010 public beta

Micostuff Orifice

I began my PC life with Word 6 for Windows, got a City & Guilds cert in Office 97, my BSc using Office 2000, an ECDL in Office XP, buggered about with 2003 on client's machines for a while. However I only saw Office 2007 for the first time yesterday.

I have had less enthusiasm for each release, especially as those learning curves are costly and very frustrating. I felt physically sick when I saw Word 2007. I don't want to go back there, simplez !

I don't have to, Open Office is only one of a number of Microsoft's competitors.

I hope Office 2010 goes the same way as Vista !

Just 'cos I can.

ALF

Legendary McLaren F1 designer talks up e-car plan

F1 off

£4.5 million to develop a three seater with no space for shopping !

Where are these 3 little green people going in their eco car ?

The same old landfill as before I'll bet.

Not so good really.

Electric vehicles simply move the emmissions shit from where they are driven to the place where battery is manufactured and the places where it's 'orrible heavy metal contents comes from.

What a bunch of technophantic twats.

The only green wankers around here are still the same wankers.

ALF

Facebook, MySpace backdoor exposed user accounts

Bacef*ck and InyourFace

If the site owners actually employed someone behind the HELP link, they could have been aware of the problems as soon as they turned up, but no, there is no one home, other than a robot or robot like person with FAQs stuffed to standard output.

I've been posting to them for for weeks reporting the problem but .....

And no, it isn't fixed!

Or maybe it is some other robot, trying to nab log in credentials as of today.

So again, I cannot log in, but get the Error Message "Too many failed log in attempts from this eMail", then a none working CATCHPA device cycles through taking my details again, and then presenting fresh blank input fields when SUBMIT is clicked.

It should be shut down, at least I'd get some work done then.

ALF

Feds’ insider trading wiretap snares IBM heir apparent

Boys in da hood

Sounds like a bunch of freshmen with too much money and very little social obligation.

All too familiar a pattern amongst the wealthy.

I bet they even download pirated music.

Wonder if they will go to jail ?

ALF

Trojan plunders $480k from online bank account

Virtual stupidity

Don't tread in it or you will have ..........

Has anyone looked at Ubuntu 9.04 yet ?

Talk about bloat ware, it's reminiscent of MS Windose these days.

I mean, do I need to have MySQL, PHP, Python, C, C++, and God knows what else, installed by default ?

No I don't !

What do they do ?

Make it so someone that it's possible for a person not on your machine to use them, if they know how.

How do you stop them, if you weren't born with Penguin blood ?

You can't ! Or you have a long uphill climb where the terrain changes as fast as the English weather.

I think Linux fans need to shut up and read a book some times.

That would help us none penguin blooded folks arrive at a solution without all the PROPAGANDA getting ion the way.

Don't get me wrong. I hope there is a Linux solution, but genuine penguin heads ain't got it.

Thanks Mark.

ALFAZED

Olympic builders hit with biometrics - local residents next?

What a load of *

Surely it would be cheaper to move all the local residents out of the affected area and then build new luxury houses for sale to the visitors, who would have been vetted already at UK entry points.

This should radically cut the cost of Biometricising the locals on a regular basis and rake in a few extra bob to cover the cost of the champagne used to celebrate such a coup for the developers and their mates.

Psst wanna buy a ticket ?

'Hack Idol' to find top UK cyberwarriors

F*ck' dickhead

Without stating the bloody obvious, this clever idea assumes that no person of Afghan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Rumania, China, etc, need apply.

Which leaves not a lot of wh*te *nglish m*les to choose from, as most of the computing students at uni, as far as I can remember, were not in this category.

Sorry folks, but this sounds like another recipe for disaster dreamt up by some connected wanker who should be disconnected before he hurts someone.

Police charge anarchist over G20 protest network

Commentards

Do you have no work today ?

It appears you are not able to think for your selves.

Poor IT sods, Tick Box clods.

Please try to think outside the box you were born in, muppets.

ALF

Palestine mobile operator struggles for room to breathe

What ?

Just 'cos in this place it isn't THAT obvious that we are all under that facsist jackboot, it doesn't make it any better here, just outlines how f*ckin gullible we are here in UK.

ALF

AI robots to mark exams

As an after thought

As Pearson are a US company, I assume that my 15 year old taking English language GCSE this year, had better refrain totally from the use of irony in her written answers and essays.

Quelling her natural inclination for creative writing might also score some points in the exam. Leaving me to wonder what will happen to poetry, prose and lyric writing (at which I once thought that we excelled)

Humour might also cause her a problem if there is but an iota of whit, in what she writ.

She has already had to deal with not being able to study Art, Music, Design Technology and Drama for her GCSE owing to modular timetable clashes which no human in the school, (3rd best in UK apparently) has the power to undo.

I rather suspect that the machines have already penetrated our civilisation and only willing healthy and dumb subjects will be incorporated into the new society, vetted by Pearson Education software no doubt.

I just hope this AI program doesn't use American English to mark the fookin exam papers.

ALF

Mozilla sides with Microsoft against Google IE

Fail

IE 6 runs on legacy Operating Systems like Windows 2000, which can't or won't run anything newer from Microsoft, but Google Chrome doesn't support Windows 2000.

So where does that leave us ?

Another fail !

Or only half a Fail ?

ALF