Posts by Justin Case 214 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jun 2007
Probably. But I'm just too tired to be bothered with it all right now... there's more to life than the purity of software. But make no mistake, if Stallman didn't exist you'd have to invent him. It's kind of good that there are people out there who care and are looking out for the erosion of freedom in ways you or I cannot even begin to imagine.
Met refuse to act unless someone affected complains?
A criminal offence has taken place - they should investigate it. Pure and simple.
And then have the BBC shut down forthwith. Castration for male staff, nail pulling for the females, burning at stake for the rest. lefty pinko commy bastards...
I'm afraid that the posters drawing our attention to this may be more accurate than many people may realise. The RSPCA, though a charity, dresses like the police, behaves like the police and claims to itself many police-like powers. Indeed, though IANAL, I believe that Nu-Lab have given its "inspectors" some legal standing.
And like the police, they are not above "funny" behaviour. Many years ago there was a documentary about dog fighting. Part of the "evidence" gathered and confiscated by the RSPCA pending legal action were reproduction prints of victorian paintings of bulldogs.
And this is the point. And this is why we should all be scared. Having an antique picture of a dog is NOT evidence of a crime. But because THEY say it is, it is.
As it is in matters children and dogs so it will be with matters Internet. And so it will be with other self-appointed special interest watchdogs (excuse the pun) yet to make their presence known. Example: It is well known that people ACCUSED of crimes against animals are guilty of child abuse, hence RSPCA may well contact NSPCC - not my words, read this and be scared
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/publications/Downloads/understandingthelinks_wdf48177.pdf
I do not defend either animal or child abuse.
"The first thing I do whenever I meet anyone from the Internet for the first time, no matter the circumstances, is swap driver's licenses." From the Internet? Where's that?
Re "wall-facing desk @ work" from original article. Shurely shome mishtake - the back of the desk needs to have the wall behind it. Otherwise some sneaky little beggar could be looking at your screen. Shurely? Hic.
...called Positioning. It's all about how to make a distinction between your products and the rest of the market. For me the 5 year warranty did it. I thought "here's a product about which the manufacturers feel confident enough to put their money where their mouths are."
Well, if even Seagate admit their drives are no less crap than the competitors, what's to stop us previoulsy loyal customers from thinking the same?
Or bits of them. What about a dildo made of bone? Or somebody clad in dead animal skin - oh wait, that's leather. Or what if someone you were making love with keeled over at the (in)appropriate time... It's all OK I guess if it's not being filmed, but with so many CCTV cameras how can we know? So many ways to break the law and so little time.
Maybe we should all live transparently where everybody knows evefrything about us from our browsing habits to what we just bought in Sainsbury's. Get your neighbours to check on the state of your underwear before it is washed? Nothing to fear, nothing to hide...
Or is it just OK because the BNP are a bunch of racist berks? I detect a slippery slope here.
"Users will be able to choose between Windows XP or Linux on all three models. All three have integrated webcams too...."
A penguin's wet dream really. I for one am more than salivating at the thought of the great OS on one of these babies. Might even get one if my credit's not too crunched.
Calm down dear. Words change their meanings. AFAIK 'gay' is used in a derogatory way in the patois of younger people - however this does not in anyway refer to homosexuals or the practices thereof. Gay has had a long an illustrious career before it was commandeered to mean friends of Dorothy - and I for one look forward to the day it will resume its place in the lexicon and simply mean cheerful/happy.
After having my collar felt for taking a photograph in a public place of a certain gateway I can safely say that all photography these days has first to be cleared by a local law official.
Why should google be treated any different from the rest of us?
Oh wait. They've got plenty of money...
Coat, Passport, See yah!
Re Bit disappointed with Verity
I'm a bit disappointed with you and your standard of written communication.
> "It would also be nice to know whether Verity felt they..."
So, Verity is more than one person?
>"Verity's tutor should of been a bit more willing to discuss there comments..."
Utter nonsense - meaningless.
If you had any honour, you would resign your OU position in shame at your semi-literate meanderings. Be gone, now!
It's a sad fact. But if you want a site to do well you have to play Google's game. Keyword density and inbound links. It's not different than any other situation - women love flowers, Google loves inbound links - if you want to get anywhere with the object of your desire you just have to give it what it wants.
Paris - because...
"If caller-ID can be spoofed like this, that means it's broken and needs fixing."
Hear hear! Give that man a beer. If someone does this to me then I'm straight on to Trading Standards plus Small Claims court to get back every penny extracted from me under false pretences that Caller ID was actually supposed to show me the number of the caller. FFS who amongst the ship of fools will take any responsibility for anything. I want someone to fine, right now!
Paris - because she is fine... <ahhhhh>
The brand new FM radio that couldn't pick up a signal in my kitchen versus my 25 year old radio with a half-snapped antenna that receives a multitude of stations with no problem. When I took the former back, the manager of C*met ended up agreeing with me that things aren't what they used to be. Specifically one should not expect a modern wireless set to perform as well as an ancient one.
Paris - because I expect her to perform as well
PHP has mysql_real_escape_string() which takes a lot of typing...
Maybe it would be better if web programming languages did escaping by default to variables got through forms and only presenting the dangerous unescaped version if specifically requested?
Paris because I'm sure all her inputs are safe and verified.
Article says "such slip ups are trivial but embarrassing".
If we spend time educating users to pay attention to the padlock and warnings given off by browsers then how is labeling this as something they can safely ignore going to help. FFS.
Paris - because she is neither trivial nor embarrassing.
Everybody at birth should be issued with a biometric card containing so many LUs "Liver Units". Each time you purchase alcohol your card would be debited a certain number of units until you had used all your entitlement to alcohol. Possibly a person could, in this way,be restricted from guzzling more than a certain amount each week thus cutting binge drinking. As for teetotalers, there could be a LU trading scheme, whereby they could sell their unwanted LUs to us seasoned heavy drinkers. Everyone's a winner! Poor homeless drinkers without the moolah to purchase extra LUs wouldn't be able to get enough drink to make them ill - suddenly there would be a much better class of drunk...
Paris - because she understands
Love Firefox, love opera, love IE, love Paris...
They're web browsers (maybe not paris, but who knows) for heaven's sakes, not the spawn of Satan. I really cannot understand why people get so hot under the collar. It's like, yeah man, whatever floats your boat, go with the flow... if IE didn't exist you'd have to invent it for the sake of balance.
I like Firefox, Opera, Konquerer, Safari (in that order) because their initials spell out something that sounds like fox.
"I may be wrong, I may be right. If I'm wrong then some commercial damage will have been done and the economy will not have grown quite as much."
"If I'm right then the cost of a possible disaster could be truly immense (I said could be, not will be). So I err on the side of the precautionary principle."
So you'll be stocking up on rabbits' feet, not walking on the cracks in the pavement, attending mosque, church & synagogue as well as buying The Watchtower? What else - maybe the sacrifice of a few furry animals to appease vengeful gods? Can't be too careful when exercising ones precautionary principles can we?
PH because she never takes precautions.
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