Posts by NomNomNom

Vatican launches second website in just 2000 years

priests online

facebook is going to need another child saftey button

Boffins take REMOTE CONTROL of HUMAN HAND

typing

this would be very handy

NATO site hacked

No

No not the NATO bookshop

Woman dies of heart attack at own funeral

haha

in soviet russia funeral kills you

Dungeon Siege III

RPGs...

these modern RPGs suck balls. They should get back to 2D. start over. I just want to explore environments, meet strange creatures and smash their faces with a hammer, and adorn my character with armor and jewels and crap. Stealing stuff and burning down villages is fun too.

I don't want to save a kingdom or talk to overly designed 3D characters with voice synced lips with storylines from kids TV.

How can you make an RPG that I find boring? Amazingly these big companies manage to do it again and again and again.

Feds declare victory over notorious Coreflood botnet

is it time?

is it time everyone by law had to enable remote assistance on their machines so that the FBI or NSA can log in to see or fix what was going on? This would solve all the problems concerning spam and hackers.

Think about it. The hackers would be trying to DOS something and suddenly it would say "The FBI have logged in" and even if they minimize the DOS window the officer would take control of the mouse and be able to check what they had hidden. Busted.

To allay privacy concerns I am thinking something like a social networking site for law enforcement that everyone must be registered with. That way they can send you messages when they are logged in like "just checking :)", "just removing a botnet off your computer :)", or "just checking your email for phishing scams :)" and you can also click on their profile to see who they are like it will list where they live and their interests and hobbies so there is accountability. Cuz frankly the way the internet works at the moment is a recipe for disaster everyday it seems another company gets customer details hacked and my inbox is really full of spam.

Faking reviews? You should fret about more than illegality

ok

That's fine if you want to read reviews that make you think of dirt and grubs by all means go for it.

All I am saying is at least give me the choice to read the kind of reviews I want to read and don't use the law to effectively ban the types of review you don't aspire to.

actually

I think you miss my point. In my spare time I do NOT want to be listening to the complaints of the wingeing masses.

If I per chance wanted to read reviews for a hotel, the last thing I would want to read was a series of amateur, poorly spelt, run-of-the-mill dry tone scrawls using facebook-style grammar and complaining about such mundanities as "stains on the carpet" and "no smile on the porter".

What I am looking for in a review is an enjoyable, professional piece outlining the merits of the place I will visit. A foray into the atmosphere and aura of the place told with a flowing pen if you will. The kind of thing that is enjoyable for light reading over tea.

If that means companies must hire professional writers to produce reviews from now on then so be it. Not only does this create jobs but it raises the bar in society full of low standards. In fact if I had it my way shoddy reviews replete with spelling and grammatical errors would be deleted from these so-called "review" sites.

id rather

I don't see why this is a bad thing. Id far rather have paid professional writers producing these reviews than the public anyway

The KILLER MUTANT FUNGUS in YOUR DISHWASHER

hmm

Rather than your over-engineered solution we could just nuke the whole site from orbit. It's really the only way to be sure.

World braces for domain name EXPLOSION

bad move

someone will squat on .dildo

Spielberg flung Fox from Transformers 3

tits

So the story is something about an actress or other who starred in a shit movie and may or may not have starred in a second shit movie and now may or may of not been fired from the third shit movie. Somewhere along the line Linkin Park may or may not have written a song about it.

Japan takes the Top 500 lead with K super

uh

its a 486 running windows 3.1

Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade

tittle

" in reality a slight amount of warming isn't actually a bad thing"

What about a rapid change to an amount of warming unprecedented for millions of years? That's where we are heading

'Leccy price hike: Greens to blame as well as energy biz

le tit

as a greedy selfish bastard I agree with you completely

Has Steve Jobs killed the consumer hard disk industry?

no

i dont see what the price of a movie has to do with streaming, although if you are paying £10.80 a movie you are getting ripped off

can and cant

"They also need to stop telling their users what they can and can't do with their devices."

The problem is you are seeing it as the devices belong to the user. Instead think of it that the devices belong to Apple (who made them) and the users are just renting them out. A bit like how you don't own rights to a movie you buy.

tape is dead

tape *is* dead. ive seen more zip drives than tapes in the past year!

Chinese 'Twitter' breaks out of China

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ha like twitter isnt already censored - in spirit. there's that guy who joked about blowing up the airport and got charged from a criminal act, making it clear the authorities will come down on you hard if you tweet certain types of dark humor. and only today on BBC one of the headlines is "Twitter users who breach injunctions risk legal action"

So it turns out I would actually prefer to use Chinese twitter if, as I suspect, the UK authorities would find it harder to trace the identities behind it's users. And the Chinese authorities are hardly going to care if someone jokes about blowing up glasgow airport. They might delete the comment but unlike the UK they aren't going to send in the police.

I don't want to say stuff that the Chinese government would ban. I want to be able to say stuff that my own government bans! However irresponsible, I want to be I want to be untracable! It's the internet!

Even better I hope North Korea sets one up.

Fort Worth joins crusade against sagging pants

here is the required title

at least they get a fair warning compared to over here. if you pull your pants down on a bus in the UK you dont get a warning, they stop the bus and call the police and then you get arrested even if u were just trying to get your phone which had fallen thru a hole in your pocket and some kids lie and say you were trying to touch them. whats up with that?

Chinese teen flogs kidney to buy iPad

titleplease

iKid(ney)youNot

hahaahaha

Entire London 2012 Olympics' cultural events database held on Excel

sdfsdf

whats wrong with notepad? i put my todo lists in notepad. i acknowledge the olympics events list probably constitutes a larger todo list but what's never failed me is a folder named "do NOT delete" full of text files.

Would putting all the climate scientists in a room solve global warming...

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"Small groups have always sought to bypass democracy and impose their minority views on everyone else."

Eg rationing in WWII

Google lobbying to make driverless cars legal in Nevada

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humans cant even stop the crisps sometimes getting stuck in the vending machine so no i dont think they can make cars drive themselves

Freeman Dyson: Shale gas is 'cheap and effective'

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""A surge in gas production and use may prove to be both the cheapest and most effective way to hasten the decarbonisation of the world economy, given the cost and land requirements of most renewables," he writes in the foreword to a new report."

Wait, what?! The solution to decarbonize the world economy is to start burning a new type of hydrocarbon??

The only way this would kind of work is if coal was internationally banned as a fuel source and replaced with shale gas. But that doesn't seem to be what is being proposed here. In fact the document even states ""Though oil may yet grow more scarce and costly during this century, there is no realistic prospect of the world 'running out' of coal or gas this millennium."

So exactly how does burning shale gas (which is largely methane isn't it?) *as well* as coal and oil decarbonize the economy? It doesn't - it actually does the opposite. This is just another business as usual disguised. We will still burn through the coal and oil as fast as we can, but now we will start burning shale gas ASAP as well.

"The report, written by science writer Matt Ridley, was commissioned by the Global Warming Policy Foundation"

Ahhhhh

Save the planet: Stop the Greens

earth will be fine. ppl maybe not

I wish dinosaurs would be more honest about things, said the triceratops to the diplodocus, as has been pointed out earlier, the planet's been through more climate change than you can shake a stick at and it's still here.

What a non-issue agreed the diplodocus.

Boffins pull plug on SETI alien-seeking antenna array

hmm

What did they find?

STONERS are DESTROYING the PLANET

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

google it. You might be suprised...