* Posts by FatBloke

10 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jul 2009

UK crime-busters knock hiphop site off the Internet

FatBloke
Devil

Incoming

Just waiting for Anonymous to fire up...

Guy Kewney dies at 63

FatBloke

Sad. Very.

So sorry to hear the news of Guy's passing.

A name so familiar to me throughout the years.

R.I.P.

EU block to Mandelson's filesharing laws removed

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As has been said before....

Savvy people will always find some way to 'cloak' their connection (ipredator.se etc.) so it won't really have any solid effect as their findings filter through to the mainstream and everyone else eventually employs the same methods.

Politicians really don't understand what they're dealing with or naively try to use this for political capital.

ISPs are bearing the brunt unjustifiably and unncessarily.

Bolt on the ensuing mess when an incorrect allegation is made and what do you have?

SNAFU

IT contractors aghast as FSA evicts self-cert mortgages

FatBloke

Another nail...

... in the coffin

MoD pays quadruple in money + blood for Afghan helicopters

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Flame

What price....

.... a soldier's life?

Sad. Very.

IOD: Slash UK.gov IT, save public cash

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And to think....

.... I pay my taxes for these people and these projects.....

Sheesh.

YouTube Lad from Lagos gets a bite

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Happy

In a word...

Superb.

Windows XP customers positive but split on Windows 7

FatBloke
Happy

I'll be changing from XP...

... to Linux!

I was weaned on Microsoft OSes and spent years working with them. Now, I'm just sick of the robbing bar-stewards and want nothing more to do with them or their products.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Hain breaks ranks with Cabinet over McKinnon extradition

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At last...

... someone doing something right.

Here's hoping that it snowballs...

McKinnon loses judicial review

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Sign of the times...

... as Britain becomes ever more subservient to the US.

It will only get worse in the future