Posts by Rob - Denmark

Ford cars get draconian parental controls

So, how long?

How long before some parent sues Ford because their youngster coudn't get away from someone chasing the car (because of the parental control the parent chose to impose)?

My(First)Key? Brilliant!

Restaurant held up with iPhone, not gun

I used that Google thingy

"USian

A racial slur used by Central and some South Americans to demean real Americans."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=usians

Mozilla takes on web data miners with privacy icon release

Works in Danish

Where "AD" means the same as "YUCK" in English, so still works for us ;o)

Man caught w*nking over Alan Sugar's autobiography

But...

...can you use any ebook reader, or does it have to have 'touch screen'?

Unfeasibly vast amphibian found croaked on video card

Living off ... what?

Yeha, it has probably grown by eating bugs in the computer.

Facebook gets poked in latest privacy gaffe

Did you read the article?

"Worse still, the newspaper found that users whose profiles have rigorous privacy settings have also had their details exposed."

Youth jailed for not handing over encryption password

You don't have to remember 50 chars

Just what those 50 characters are.

It could be a prayer, a poem or a song, or something 4th, maybe in some kind of combination.

Say, first line of your favorite song, followed by chorus from another favorite song, both sans punctuations. Maybe intertwined (alternating letters from the two) if you don't have to type it too often.

Is US prudishness ruining the internet?

Rule of thumb

When you see corporate idiocy resulting in bad press, and the person uttering the idiocy is a low level employee, and he's not being fired to calm down the press, most often it's because the company don't wan't an (en) employee telling the press: "I was just doing what I have been trained to do".

Good thing I'm not a prude

The ad served by Google in the middle of this article?

"Find your nice Thai Women" with a picture of what indeed looks like a nice Thai Woman.

And two buttons "Browse photos" and "Join now" and a link to the website.

Now, I'm at work and can't click the buttons/link, so where do I register my complaint?

Rackspace claims credit for shushing Koran-burning 'pastor'

Re: Why are US troops in danger?

"Because they're involved in an illegal (the Congress has not issued a formal declaration of war, as required by the US Constitution) war in Afghanistan and Iraq."

So, had the Congress issued a formal declaration of war, the troops would be safe?

Riiiiight!

Is Gordon the future of HPC?

"Not that Gordon"

F-ing brilliant!

Firefox 4 beta gets Sync and Tab Candy Tab Panorama

Seems useful to me

Why does so many seem to insist, that we should all use our browsers in the same way?

This seems so much more useful for MY way of browsing, than using new browser window.

Don't like it, don't use it.

Apple eyes kill switch for jailbroken iPhones

Please stop making wrong comparisons

A company buys a load of Blackberrys or WiMo or whatever, and have the ability to brick THEIR OWN PHONES if, say, the employee (who haven't paid for the phone) leaves the company, but keeps the phone.

It is NOT the same as Apple having the ability to brick PHONES OWNED BY OTHERS (who've paid for the phone) because said user somehow has more applications on his phone than Apple has sold to him.

Steve Jobs denies Judas Phone antenna problems

Analogy fail!

Can you tell the difference between soups that has had salt added during cooking and soups where it has been added after?

Are you suggesting, that the bumper will magically disolve into the iPhone, making tast... ehm work like it should, but look no different?

Or should the user just hold the spoon in a different manner, to taste the salt?

Apple antenna guru 'warned Steve Jobs' over Judas Phone

Turning away - you're doing it wrong!

If you turn 360 degrees, you end up facing the same way you started!