Posts by Peter F

Tourist magnet blows off Speedo-wearing men

Barking Policies

This policy is almost exactly the opposite of the policies you get in France where speedo type shorts are required for most swimming pools. Shorts are banned. This is done for "hygeine" purposes.

Equal level of sense for both rules.

Yes, there was a viable liquid bomb plot

Liquid resrictions

Why do we bother with restrictions in the UK and US when you can return to the UK from any non-EU country with as much liquid as you like?!?! I recently returned from a holiday in Turkey and we were encouraged by the tour reps to bring large 1.5L containers of water with us. The airport staff don't even turn a hair.

The whole thing seems pointless if it can be worked around trivially by travelling from a different country.

Vista and IE 7 to receive 'critical' fixes on Patch Tuesday

Perfect Software

For crying out loud, I suppose you Steve A ALWAYS write perfect software.

Now I know MS have set up vista to be the best windows evahhhh! but for goodness sake give them a break.

MS have needed a shake up to make their software better but if you have ever written software you would know that you have to make updates/bugfixes/changes as the product matures.