Posts by leslie

GPS is killing children

No fun...

Right thats it I'll never buy a nav4 thingy with this feature as its obvious this company are causing global warming by making cars take a longer route, its also anti-darwin as any bright kid wont be playing on the road anyway, so they are also lowering the IQ of the world gene pool by allowing stupid kids to survive into adulthood.

Also if it routes sensibly, we cant have funny news reports showing how lorry drivers have got stuck between a tree and and expensive sprots car etc.

no it wont do, it goes against all the norms of sat nav.

Union threatens Shell with legal action

grrr

Some damn rules should be passed to stop this outsourcing, its a crime in itself, it serves no ones interests but whoever gets the profit from the bottom line.

Its not good for the staff, its not good for the customer, its only good for the fat cats.

If I phone customer services and I dont get body at the end of the line in my own country, I change supplier, end of.

I wont go into the union issues or I'll be writing for a month!

Samsung ML-1630 laser printer

lack of content

I remember when reviews told you how many pages per minute it did, resolution, maybe power consumption, how much paper the tray held, could you attach other addons...

Call this a review, do me a favour.......

I guess its only a mono laser, another fact missing from this ''review''

Toshiba remains upbeat about HD DVD

well I dont know...

I hate bluray, why, well 1 its overinfested with drm and 2 its sony, who forced me into crappy vhs by losing a war it could have won if not greedy, and thats the key word here, greed, so it can stuff its bluray, I will get a HDdvd player and suffer to the end, its not like any of the current movies are going to sway me.

'Draconian' Microsoft promises to make Office work again

Easy answer

Dont install office version past 2003, then you can open 2003 format files, dont update, dont hotfix, dont worry..........

Or like said above, Ooo......

Alcoholic rats' boozing slashed by mutant superpower drug

One for the road

Brings a whole new meaning to the term getting rat arsed.............

Hitachi, Fujitsu spurn miniature HDDs

About time

Who wants clunky mechanical drives as a main system device anyway, if i had a choice between booting from ram or booting from hdd, then its a no brainer, ram wins, its so simple to bolt a memory controller to a bit of board and make it sata or pci, leave the spinning noisy things for archive.

Yes ram can lose its data, but with a clunker as backup, it can restore in a few seconds.

gigabyte make a ramdisk, but its just not cost effective at £99 unpopulated (ram box)

Barcode faking for fun and profit

all too techy

all too technical, the local shoplifters around here soon worked out with a pair of scissors you can put a £0.59p coffee barcode onto a £2.99 one, and with selfscan checkouts coming online at supermarkets, how does it know as both jars weigh 500g etc................

Burma hits satellite TV where it hurts

@silly buggers

no, just make you need a licence (but only 1.5*annual salary) for the radio, and if you have no licence, 10 years in the hole...............

China link puts 3Com takeover in doubt

@china rules the world

Lets face it, here in the good ol' uk, like so many other countries, we_cant_ build anything anymore because we have shut all our factories, if from tomorrow we had to build a car, make a dvd player, we would have no chance.

Shot ourselves in the foot me thinks......

We now have a level of manufacturing tech on a par with dukes of hazzard or the A team.............

QVC debuts Venturer HD DVD player

too expensive

I'm waiting for them to be on pricedroop.tv ...........

Space shuttle launch knocked back again

@bodge

speed irrelevant, more connectors, more problems, its in all industry, 9 times out of ten just twisting the damn wires together is more reliable than a $50 engineered connector....

If connectors were so simple to design/fix/repair, why do ford taillights never work in wet countries....... (ask any UK fiesta/escort/sierra/orion owner)

German police hunt 12,000 strong child abuse ring

@dave

Not to mention open wifi........ the media always make a point that a child pornographer may be stealing your wifi for hi dubious perversion, but what if a wifi stealer is accidentally stealing wifi from a child pornographer etc....

Interesting thought, steal wifi, get locked up for child porn, what a deterrent!

Drink-drive chain gang obliged to bury dead alcoholics

I love this guy!

Can this be done in the UK or are the buffoons in charge only allowed to impose fines and time? oh if I could do this I'd sign up to be a magistrate tomorrow......

UK.gov loses driver ID data

damn those pesky disks....

Who gives the dvla authority to send out your data to manufacturers etc so they can tell you your car needs a recall ?

surely they should just publically make a statement that car model xyz needs to go back to be fixed, not ask the dvla who owns them, and can we have that data please...

I dont want people to be able to see what car I own, its french.........

Campaign to name US street after Douglas Adams

Icon

I 2nd, well 42nd, the idea of a dont panic icon, so it can be attached to all posts of conspiracy and american military iintelligence

Ford offers natter-interface car software in Europe

not new really

CarPc users/builders have used voice control of some functions for years now, it may be new in a sold (car)product, but its not breaking ground

Nigerian keyboard firm sues One Laptop per Child

How could they.....

The may have reverse engineered a keyboard driver, or a shift key........

Grow up, they should be disgusted with themselves dragging OLPC into the courts.

What financial loss have they suffered, not as much as they will when people realise how petty they are being, standing in the way of this project.

New taskforce to discuss why more people aren't turning to digital

All of the above

Has anyone made a point that is about DAB, that is a good point?

Maybe their ''think tank'' should read these comments and they might see where they went wrong.

Digital audio (cd) digital video (dvd,tv) and now digital radio, are all carrying an analog signal, after crushing it, no one who is a purist likes that.

I dont mind it for run of the mill stuf,but now and again I want a bit of quality in my life, I cant wait for ''the vinyl revival''

Dab radio sounds utter shite, mp3 sounds terrible, and now FM has gone 'tinny' as well as its shuffled round the country in a digital form.

Even terrestrial analog tv is from a digitally crushed source.

They stole my analog and I want it back!

@teaching in schools, whisker radios, yes I built one too from the ladybird book of making a transistor radio, great fun it was, but too complicated for our 6th formers of today.....

Skype crypto stumps German cops

why?

Anyone wanting to pass messages without fear of decryption just needs a good old fashioned code book, or a paperback, and then just send page/word count.

unless you know the book in question, you dont stand a chance.

how can you defend agianst that, I know, anyone who looks like a terrorist, wont be allowed to buy books, there, solved it for them.

Employee sacked for texting in sick

@sickline

''medically unfit for work''

Depression is unfit, you may suddenly decide to kill the boss, or more unfortunately for the company, customers..........

'sickline'' WTF is a sickline? I only know of a sicknote, I had my first ever only this year for bells palsy, as a driver dealing with passengers, if any had made amusement at my illness, I may had ''damaged'' them, hence best off work even though not affecting my ability to drive etc, its not all just about physical ability.

Google 'not interested' in bidding for UK spectrum

Damn........

Considering the quality of UK broadband suppliers and 3g net access, I'm disappointed that Google is not coming to save us.

US man dies in Taser incident

damn weapons

How about its modified so it cant be reused until after a minute?

At least then if a ''suspect'' needs more than one hit, it needs more than one officer, so there is less chance of someone being tasered several times until dead.

or better still, go back to wooden trucheons, see how brave killer cops are then..

Cops have a hard job to do,but there is no need for weapons like this, we just need more cops to overpower the suspects, not damn kill them!

Disability law can protect alcoholic workers

chicken or egg?

Work gets you depressed, so you drink, drink causes you to be more susceptible to the depression, so work depresses you more, so you have another little drink or two....

so, which is the condition, and which is the symptom.............

Chinese cyber strikes will be 'like WMD'

its all your own fault.......

If you buy from them, they will grow.................

then you stop building your own things, and they take over.......

In the UK (yes I am) I bet we could not even construct a good VHS vcr never mind a DVD player on our own soil....

hell we dont even make tractors any more, sorry I was meaning Rovers.

And the report has missed the point that every bit of electronic equipment is just waiting for them to send the self destruct signal....

The real danger is we have crippled our own countries ability to build and thus defend itself in exchange for cheap consumer goods, now they are better at construction than us.

Thing is, what do they do with all the money we send them for those cheap goods.....

Canadian Taser death caught on camera

@ Can't Understand Their Language?

Not happen in the uk ?

Your taking the P right?

They use excessive force all the time in most police forces, no more effective way to subdue your victims, sorry, ''suspects'' before transporting them.

Have you forgot the tube ''mistaken identity'' shooting?

I suggest a google ''died in custody'' UK pages.............

''http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7005556.stm#map''

Sierra Leone launches 'Operation Wash Lunatics'

everywhere

"taking care of the city’s roaming lunatics".

What about the english ones who need a wash and a brush up too, often seen wandering all over the whole country, sticking things to windscreens of white vans........

OFT hammers auction sites on consumer info

About time too!

Damn sellers thinking they have rights !

Too many of em want to just shift boxes of (untested) catalog returns and dont care that you bought it and it does not work, then wont refund any of the £1000 postage they have charged for a £1 item....

Well ok thats a bit exagerrated BYKWIM

eBay glitch wipes out 11 year-old account without a trace

Google auctions PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when are google going to get on this ?

Its been a shoddy auction experience in the uk since yahoo exited

iPhone 'killers' stand up and be counted

Paris Hilton angle

But which one does Paris own?

Anyhow, I vote for my w900i, a real brick of a phone, you know its in your pocket, you always look happy to meet people, and it works without fail.

(except if you ever unlock it and change sim, then it will become a flasher and never work again)

Big media gangs up on pirates, file sharers

True....

Can we also stop having to have huge power hungry machines too?

My original machine took 135w of power from the wall, now some gfx cards need that......

Why? so a stupid game can be played, on windows....

Cisco Brazil hit by massive police raid

how much tax?

worth at least $500m that have been shipped into Brazil from Panama, the Bahamas, and the British Virgin Islands.

These goods should have generated $833m in tax to the Brazilian exchequer.{/quote}

how can the tax be more than the sum ?

no wonder they tried to avoid paying it........

Spanish regulators in mobile price fix probe

@ AC - call rounding

if you signed a contract, and that pricing was in that contract, then its not illegal, its user stupidity

YouTube gatecrashers trash 16th birthday bash

not that I'm evil..........

So this is what happens if you post ''party at xyz at 8pm''

Now who do I hate that much............

Telly vision: future display technologies

typical usage

4 hrs a day!

maybe if you work a normal 9-5, butif you are on nights and rest of familyis on days etc......

Kids get up at 07:30 and TV is on as I would have fell asleep on sofa watching late news, they go to school, I go to bed.

it stays on while wife does whatever and crap morning TV dribbles out, then its the lunch time news and I would be getting up for breakfast, I watch what I missed the night before as I would be working, so thats upto about 4pm if a few items

Then kids come home and watch kids tv till about 6pm, I go to work, then its the news, kids/wife watch more tv, then I come home about 2am-4am wife will be asleep on sofa as she always falls aslep waiting for me toget home

I wake her to go to bed, make a drink, catch up on late news or crap shows as I wont be tired, then I'll fall asleep on sofa, so kids wake me up at 7:30 and the cycle repeats....

That TV has suffered this for about 7 years until this year, the things glad I lost my job....

(you watch now I dont have real income it will fail.....)

Florida man faces trial for feeding homeless

Good ol US of A

Anyone wonder america is so hated by every country except america? (politicians excluded....)

3UK still haemorrhaging money

its a dead duck unless

it gets its finger on the new emerging mobile data market, at a sensible price, its made moves in the right direction, but problem is its offering faster connections at silly prices, in my mind it would win if it offered slower connections with more data per buck..

I dont think anyone on the move wants oodles of data, but we do need to pay a sensible price for reading our email etc on a laptop, not on a 2''phone screen with all the formatting shafted.

with all the spam and imbedded images on simple pages, (ohh look at you screen now....) the data transferred is about 80% of static 10% of signal and 10% of useless headers, why should I pay a fortune for that!

Just reading my mail on a morning after a night of spam can zap half my monthly allowance.

MS drops nagware validation for IE7 installs

emmm it smells fishy..

wonder why they want us to be able to download it.........

Not that M$ would ever put spyware on a users machine, or collect information without consent.............

Can you hear them hovering overhead.........

eBay boots off Skype rival

ebay being nasty ?

next you'l tell me they dont like google checkout...........

Roll on google auctions........

Hackers hit back at iPhone update

stop whining

if you bought it on day 1 then the price dropped, tough, thats life, it happens to everything.

If you 'flashed' it with a non manufacture approved firmware, then you did void your warranty etc, I'm sure you will find it in the small print you agreed to when you bought/registered it.

If you then (stupidly) applied a manufacturers 'upgrade', when they had previously gone public and told you it would brick your now midified phone, then you are a total idiot !

And as to car warranty's, here in the uk if you dont use an approved stealer, sorry dealer, to do the service's, you lose warranty, heaven forbid that you actually put oil in it yourself!

O2 goes flat on data

Court?

So if I buy 'unlimited', exceed my 200mb, and get charged extra, as we know they would, and I refuse to pay and go to court, who/should/win, after all I 'paid' for unlimited......

Surely the (english)laws stand on the (english)wording, unlimited means 'all you want'

Greenland's super-melty summer

Different types of ice?

err, its all frozen water aint it?

And if its different and alters the global energy thingy, is this ice that we have this year a good or a bad thing?

eck I wish I learned somefing at skool now, because there was no real info in this damn piece.

Unholy trinity of flaws put Google users at risk

emmmmmmmmmmm

So if I just delete all my contacts from address book, they cant steal them, hell yeah that'l work.

US teacher fired for non-literal bible reading

Lock em all up

I've had it with the religious fools, I went to a Christian school and had to sing hymns and pray every morning before lessons, I soon questioned what I was taught, I soon denouced it as BS.

The bible is nothing more that a 'live your life this way or else' book to bring about law, order, and ultimately control of the week minded masses.

It is funny if you look at a map of the world that countries that are /more/ religious, have more problems because they are constantly at war with each other over 'my dads bigger than your dad', oh sorry, I meant God.....

If I believed that a <insert generic pink elephant> was watching over me and everything I said and did, and was going to judge me when I died, I'd be locked up under some mental health act etc..........

Why cant we do it with these people, we know where they are every Sunday morning.....

MIT student walks into airport wearing circuit board and wires

play doh!

She knew what she was doing, who TF carries playdoh.......

As to the board, well I use those everyday, but if I wanted to wear flashing LED art I would not use one, I'd etch a nice PCB for it.

She did it on purpose and deserves all she gets, as to the cops, well they did what they had to do and I applaud them.

Stupid stupid stupid.

Samsung iPhone rival to hit UK in November

no wifi - no sale

what an omission............

No wonder the likes of the XDA still sell.

The people that buy ipods are the apple lovers, the people that buy the xda's are the 'older executives' and taxi drivers wanting tomtom - the people that buy something not mainstream like this phone, are people who can take a decision and wont buy it if its castrated from the beginning by poor connectivity!

Flash memory makers propose common card

we do need it

No we do need a new universal card, it should be universal in that it should have its own new connector, but be able to fit into a 'jacket' so it can emulate other flash devices and the app file system.

In its native form it can be its new all singing all dancing super fast self, but shove it in a little plastic jacket and its smart media, change its jacket and its MS, one size then fits all, give it USB too.

What I cant understand when I trawl ebay is why I cant buy a little box, with a 40 way connector, that I can drop a few gb of ram in that emulates a dvd, hell that would make testing so much faster that writing dvd r/w etc.

Blind Judo master floors tobacco stealing skinhead

Title

lol almost made me want to go to the video store to see if they still had ''blind justice'' - good on the guy, should have snapped the muggers neck, he'll only go free and mug someone else.

Google Earth mobilised in search for Fossett

who

Obviously at least six other pilots were not rich enough to warrent the massive search that has been launched for Mr Fossett.

who?

London man coughs to 172mph Porsche jaunt

Is that fast?

Sorry not impressed, my 12yr old 300 quid diesel citroen can do 125mph (gps, airfield nearby officer), for all the extra money that car cost, I'd expect more....

(And I get a decent cup holder)