Posts by William 135 publicly visible posts • joined 23 May 2007
Anyone who carelessly allows a breach of confidential data and/or personal data should be classed as a terrorist and incarcerated for 42 days without charge and then thrown in prison for 10 years for refusing to give up their passwords.
Or maybe we should adopt sharia law (and why not) and cut off one of their hands. doubtul they will make the same mistake twice. And if they do, there certainly won't be a third leak from that particular chappie.
You're at a loss how Vista is supposed to be handled by the average email sending web browsing letter writing non-power user. Give it a break mate.
The FUD people, such as you have given Vista a bad name. Along with the mongy OSX crew and Linux geeks.
Sure, it is a step sidewises from XP. However it is no-where near as bad as some of the bullshit spouted out by people who have never used it. Especially those who claim they are not IT experts and then go on to say how much experience they have with computers and class themselves as power users.
Prick.
Whilst bored at work a couple of us were being juvenile by testing what domains are available. Naturally domains such as bastard.com and twat.com were all taken.
Eventually we got down to scraping the barrel.
Shockingly peado.com was taken! However, all tld variations of peadophile were available. We contemplated the finer humour of registering the domain peado.net (which was available) and setting up email address with our friends (or enemies) names.
Can you imagine the hilarity that would ensue from sending an email to a mutual friend from @peado.net. Finally common sense prevailed and we realised that if we tried to register the domain we could expect a knock at the door several hours later and a trip down to the station for some akward questioning.
Now imagine the fun you can have with these TLD's. I want to register Gordon-Brown.Twat
What could be possibly worse than those nasueating fanbois ranting on about their favourite browser, console, os? Could anything be worse? Well yes it can. It's those bloody people who constantly moan about them. You know, the loner type that belongs to no club and has no friends. The type that somehow believes that complaining about fanbois makes them more of a man. Well, I have news for them. Get back in your gimp suit and only come out when you are told to.
Is that if this ever takes off in a big way, I bet you all a dollar each that their will be an exploit for it.
And to the chap who claims it has stopped him countless times from getting infected - If you going to go searching for dubious material, do it on a VM machine you nitwit, and for the love of god - DONT use google to search for it.
Some prize idiots out there.
John A Thompson, what a player you are -
"Bandwidth is cheap these days" - Erm, no its not.
"but anyone with even a half decent broadband connection shouldn't notice any difference when browsing the web" - LOL! Really. Maxing out the TCP/IP stack by clicking on 10 links all at once isn't going to have any effect because you have "fast" broabdnad... Yeah, right.
"If smaller websites can't afford to pay for it then maybe they need to find alternate suppliers or reconsider their web presence." - So innocent people should be forced out of business or move ISP or earn more.
Besides, how long is before Google gets pissed off with you (as you obviously work for the company, by the way) for increasing the load on its servers and finds a way to stop you in your tracks. Or do you expect google to add a few data centres to cope with the increase workload so you can sell some shite AV software.
After all, AV software is a lot of bollocks, it ain't stopping jack shit.
They sure like them when they are theirs. But soon kick up a fuss if they originate from another country.
I imagine if we boycotted American companies they would start a war with us - claiming we are a terrorist state. Especially if we dared to peg our North Sea Oil to the Euro instead of the the Dollar.
"Come on Ben, your average punter doesn't see it that way. A working system gets 'upgraded' to Vista and it stops working. Whose fault is that? I suppose next you'll be saying it's the punter's own fault for expecting a product that works in return for their money!"
Come on Paul, your average punter never upgrades an OS. They buy it as part of their 'new' computer.
You remind me of the very politicians that dreamt this up. Ignorant and you just don't listen. People already have put forward suggestions. Like spending the £3Bn on a viable and integrated transport network. Such as buses that go to where you want to go, rather than in clumps that merely go in and out of the city centre. Trains that are not full. But of course, you just ignored all of that.
People still have to go to work. The buses are full in the morning anyway. And not only are they full, but they are full of scrotes with their Phones Blaring out shite music, and people smoking weed upstairs. Not to mention the drunks and the thugs.
No-one in their right mind would travel on the buses here if they have a car. Unless Manchester council is going to solve this little problem, it isn't going to stop congestion one bit.
Oh, and before you smugly tell me that I should inform the driver of the bus - Try it. I remember one driver phoning for inspectors to come as people were smoking upstairs, but none were available. He evened phoned the police and they did fuck all either.
There used to be a park and ride scheme, whereby you drove to a car park just on the outskirts of manchester city centre, and then got a bus into town. The car park was supervised. This is the kind of thing what is needed. Several large car parks about 2-3 miles outside the city centre all around, then trams or buses into the centre.
And claim you will fly people anywhere they want to go in the world up to the speed of light as many times as they want.
And then in small print.
* physics applies - speed of light only applies if you have the mass of a photon, actual speed may vary dependent on mass
* you can only travel clockwise around the world twice in one year. Any extra flights after this will be subject to a surcharge or we just throw you off the plane in mid air.
Seems like anything is game....
All you can eat anyone?
If this catches on, then you can rest assured there will be a raft of people saving bandwidth by getting rid of all the adverts.
Why should I use up by limited bandwidth night by downloading bleeding adverts? I mean, what % in data of this very webpage is made up by adverts?
You do realise that those who have replied to this post and have complained or raised grievances will be monitored even more closely now. Especially those posting anonymously.
As for the TOR network, pull the other one. Its a honey trap, specifically designed to snare those people with something to hide. As soon as you connect to one your details are passed on by your ISP, as is all of your traffic from that point on.
Have you checked the dictionary definition of "game"
1. "An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime: party games; word games."
I would imagine that all of nintendos games are "proper".
And as for your "Next Gen" remark, unless you have a time machine and have been to the future I can only assume you mean "current gen" console.
Thus, Nintendo is a "proper" 'current gen' console that plays "proper" 'current gen' games.
In the words of a "serious" gamer (look, I am not laughing and will unlikely to - far too serious for that), you have just been "owned".
Ouch, that must smart. Dumbass.
What exactly is a 'serious gamer'? Is it someone who never smiles, wears a lot of beige, pencils in their shirt pocket, pocket calculator in their back? Someone who never laughs at funny jokes?
Someone who is that 'serious' about gaming that they have to resort to cheating and spending over 45% of their waking hours playing with themselves silly over their gamer tag achievements (seriously of course - no fun to be had even there). Serious fcuking business indeed.
Last time I heard someone messed with a serious gamer they got owned. Ouch, I bet that taught them. Rather them than me.
Because Virgin already provides access to illegal content through its newservers.
alt.binaries.music.80's
alt.binaries.music.90's
etc.
It also has a rather nice alt.binaries.ebooks.technical
that contains a lot of copyrighted books (including schematics for planes no less)
I guess they cannot cut you off by downloading content held on THEIR servers, especially as you are not the one "making it publically available".
If anyone is on virgin media, I suggest you have a check of their news servers, and have a good chuckle...
If I hear one more idiot bleat on about it being stealing I will scream.
If it is 'stealing' then show me one person who has been convicted of THEFT! Or even prosecuted for theft. It is IP infringement, a civil and not a criminal matter. There is certainly no STEALING involved.
Stop spouting shite. If any crime being committed it is unauthorised duplication, nothing more. Certainly not theft.
I don't agree with people undertaking unauthorised duplication but don't call it stealing. It really pisses me off.
Now known as Cablehell.co.uk, that claims its complete and utter independance from Ntl/Virgin, well there is very little about this over there.
Considering its a site for the consumers of this company, they are certainly keeping it low profile. Surely this site should be screaming this information from the rooftops. Unless of course, it isn't as impartial as it claims to be?
Hmmm.
Hit it with a hammer.. Nah nah nah... Use a grinder on it. Nah nah nah... Use thermite on it.... Tee hee hee.
As if you guys really do any of that stuff. Its just jive talk. Now me, personally, I use fuckoff big nukes on the bastards. Atomisation is the only way, and to be sure, I do it from orbit.
I don't want anyone to find my stash of rick ghastly mp3's and a couple of bootleg windows applications on my machine do I.
*sheesh*
4.9 or 7.9, means nothing to me. Having spent some time on the Galilean Moons of Jupiter then you know what a REAL quake is. Put it this way, there are 9 richters per groonag plus one bushel. Back on IO you regularly get quakes around the 50 groonags, and if you pop over to Europa then your looking at a quake of at least 3 zamblasters. (18 groonags per zamblaster, plus two dogs legs).
And that, dear Americans, Kiwis and Ozzies, trumps everything you have.
I bought a Nintendo Wii just before Christmas. It was opened on Christmas day and hardly played with again after. Luckily they were still hard to get hold off come mid January and I managed to get more than my money back for it (I imagine the joy of paying cash at Tesco's enabled me to transfer the warranty helped)
The Wii is a right pile of garbage in my opinion. The games are just awful, and I imagine that after 6 months the casual purchaser will never play it again. All Nintendo have done is create a massive ecological disaster as there will be millions of Wii's sitting in a landfill come next year.
I will never buy an Xbox after all the fuss about the reliability. I am just waiting until they slim down the PS3 case and a price drop, the PS3 is fucking ugly.
Aren't they the wankers that tried to sue me, you, and everyone in the UK (ie, the taxpayers) by suing the government because they dared introduce a few more checks due to a threat of terrorism and their planes had to wait a bit longer on the tarmac?
Did they ever manage to do this, or was this more "publicity". Tossers.
Some really bitter people out there. Last time I checked no-one was forcing any of you to buy an iPhone. There are plenty of other networks available and handset manufacturers you go for. I really don't see the point in getting worked up about "how the system is against yo" and the drum banging brigade claiming their rights supersede all others.
If you don't like the network Apple have partnered with, then don't buy it.
If you don't like the fact you are not legally entitled to hack the phone, then don't buy it.
If you don't like the price, then don't buy one.
If you don't like Apple products in general, then don't friggin buy them.
No-one is holding your family hostage until you do you know. Grow up and relax a little, some of you guys are heading towards high blood pressure and coronary heart disease... Time to take a reality check I think.
Sorry Daniel B but your analogy sucks big time. Driving down the road at 200 km/h endangers and risks the life of the driver, any passengers they have and other motorist and pedestrians. This is hardly comparable to Martin Ushers daughter removing DRM from a song she has legally purchased is it. You sound like one of the RIAA monkey boys, they would have you believe that every time you download a song you're the cause of a a kitten getting killed.
What always strikes me as rather strange is that companies such as Sony have been selling mp3 players for a good deal longer then you have been able to legally download mp3s especially when you consider that ripping a CD to mp3 is illegal. So stripping DRM from a song is just as illegal as ripping a CD to Mp3. Stop dramatising the issue.
its illegal to rip CD's to Mp3's
"The real issue is the boot-up time for some of these units. If you can't start watching a disc in less than 1 minute from power on, then I wouldn't stand for it. ."
Well you show me a current DVD where I can start watching a film in less than 1 minute. A disc where you don't have to navigate past all the menus, all the legal warnings and sometimes adverts then your comment has some merit. As it stands the boot up time pales into insignificance compared to the time some current DVD disks make you wait before you watch the film itself.
Funny how I hear claims that the organiser of a car boot would not be prosecuted if one of the people on their stall were selling stolen goods, or that the owner of a shopping centre would not be prosecuted if one of the shops were selling stolen goods.
Well, they most certainly would if the owner of organiser of the car boot of the owner of the shopping centre were receiving a "cut" from every stolen good sold.
"The Wii is NOT a designed to be competitor for either M$ or Sony. The race is between M$ and Sony and not anything to do with Nintendo"
Vernon Lloyd
Lets check a few facts.
XBOX360 = games console.
Playstation 3 = games console.
Wii = games console.
Certainly looks like it is a competitor to me. The Wii is thrashing the XBOX360 and Playstation3 in number of "consoles" sold no matter how you try and spin it. You truly are deluding yourself if you believe it has nothing to do with Nintendo.
Are you missing the fact that it is a lot more difficult to change ISP's then it is to change search engines?
I don't have to use google to type at the address bar, and google does not give me a search page if I type the wrong address. Even if it did, I easily have the option to completely disable that "feature". Having your ISP do it is a whole level down.
Any restriction in choice is something to complain about. What a wet lettuce you are.
My previous comment got deleted because I criticised the iPhone as being for fashion victims only.
Let's hope that knob jockey has gone home and some with a sense of reality decides for the better that freedom of speech is far more important than censorship. Even if my post was tosh, it deserves to be heard.
You wrote
"time to sideline the PC regulators"
Also
"Adults must be free to make up their own minds what is or isn't suitable."
Of course they are free to do this. The reason for censorship is that CHILDREN don't watch material made for ADULTS.
If anything you should direct your ridiculous argument at Sony and Nintendo. Those are the companies that prevent you from buying AO games. Read the article again and show some comprehension.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1995/ukpga_19950021_en_16#pt9-ch2-pb2-l1g238
(1) Where a vessel is wrecked, stranded, or in distress at any place on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom or any tidal water within United Kingdom waters, any cargo or other articles belonging to or separated from the vessel which are washed on shore or otherwise lost or taken from the vessel shall be delivered to the receiver.
(2) If any person (whether the owner or not)—
(a) conceals or keeps possession of any such cargo or article, or
(b) refuses to deliver any such cargo or article to the receiver or to any person authorised by the receiver to require delivery,
he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
You need a crime reference number to claim on most of the mobile phone insurance policies as they do not cover accidental damage. So when you drop your phone in a jack daniels and coke on a drunken night out you instantly put the sim card in a friends phone to get any numbers you have not saved or cannot get again and the next morning your down the local police station explaining you need a crime reference number as your mobile phone was stolen from the table you was sitting at last night. Then you phone your mobile company and give them the crime reference number, which they never actually check and there you go.
Of course this is all completely hypothetical and I have never knowingly committed insurance fraud.
I use Outlook (not express) and POP3 to access my email. Therefore I have all my mails downloaded onto my hard drive. I then back up my PST file.
I can also access my gmail via the web, and the messages are still there.
In fact, when I delete my messages from Outlook they remain on googles server. Despite me having the "delete mail of server" checkbox enabled.
Stu Reeves
By reproducing this music, they are breaking copyright.
No Stu, the record companies have extended the length of copyright after someone dies. 70 years after someone has died? How is that right. Just because a law exists does not make it a just law. In fact the only way to protest against unjust laws is to break them. History will tell you that.
Come on, parents don't consider their children pestering them for the latest and greatest toys on their birthdays and Christmas have little princesses, they consider them little horrors.
Besides, a child is more likely to have a little princess. Do they not sell toys called "my little princess"? Of course they do. So of course its aimed at children.
The first handset company that provides a mobile I can bar text messages on gets my vote. So does a network that provides a child friendly PAYG scheme where they CANNOT download ringtones and screen savers.
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