Posts by ffoulkes 13 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Dec 2010
The first word out my mouth a loud and indignant, "Motherfucker!" showing how long I've been in America, followed by "grab him!" as he zoomed toward to the exit.
I know that nobody would have the presence of mind under the circumstances, but it would have been fun to yell out, "Police! Stop or I shoot!"
The commencement date has been put back yet again, according to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
For the public and the industry to prepare for and comply with age verification, the Government will also ensure a period of up to three months after the BBFC guidance has been cleared by Parliament before the law comes into force. It is anticipated age verification will be enforceable by the end of the year.
I just had to reactivate my Gmail account via SMS after it had been accessed from a Chinese IP range (which seems to be amazingly common - do a Google search). Now, this is the second time this has happened, and both times I was using 12-character randomly-generated passes, so what gives? How are they cracking them? Are they brute-forcing the passes (seems unlikely) or is the suggestion that's floating around that there's some fundamental security flaw in Google's authentication system true??
As has been said many, many times by authors and publishers and God knows who else ad sodding nauseam - the actual printing cost is probably the smallest proportion of a book's production cost. E.g., the printing cost of a hardback is less than £1.50 per copy for a small run, and an average-run paperback probably around 50p.
Oh God no, avoid their cable service! Avoid it like the proverbial plague! Unlike ADSL, if your modem goes tits-up, you can't just plug in a 3rd party one. No, you have to wait a sodding fortnight for Virgin to send you a new one, and that only after you've finally flipped and phoned up to cancel the bloody service.....
I have to agree; some laptops just aren't up to running Windows 7, in the same way that back in the day underpowered laptops were flogged with XP and then Vista crammed on to them. IMHO you need at least a 2 GHz dual core and 2 GB of RAM for acceptable results with 7. Oh, and a decent video chipset if you fancy using the Aero eye candy.
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