Posts by Fake Ninja

Gadgets are NOT the perfect gift for REAL men

Dutch Oven...

I gave my wife a Dutch Oven once; I slept on the sofa for a week...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dutch+oven

Anonymous hacks MIT websites after Aaron Swartz's death

Re: @ Matt Byrant

1. "prosecutorial overreach of the American Government and MIT"

MIT have no prosecutorial reach, let alone, overreach; they also didn't want to press charges.

2. "As pointed out in the article, if he had downloaded the papers one at a time, there would have been no crime. The fact remains is he wrote a script (and ran it on a computer) to automate the chore, so now the "gubberment" calls this hacking."

As pointed out in the article JSTOR charge a fee for each paper; the script he wrote didn't automate a chore, it bypassed the POS; what he did was steal ‘millions of dollars’ worth of research and academic papers, hardly a noble cause.

3. "If there was no real crime to speak of, then why does the legal system find the need to try to kill people by inducing mental agony through unneccessary legal action? They already know the potential outcome, why are they allowed to proceed when there was no "real" crime committed?"

See 2.

4. "These cases prove that it is government itself that makes violence the last refuge of those who can get no just resolution through the courts."

I may be wrong, but I've never heard of Anonymous trying to take anyone to court, thus rendering this point moot.

A bitter spill to swallow, or 'how to smeg up your keyboard'

Re: Cous Cous

At least once a week I'll hear someone 'Preparing their lunch' in work i.e. removing the end column of keys from their keyboard and banging it on the desk to remove any solid debris.

Reckon you could employ the same technique to your cous cous problem.

Flag-waving Lego Canuck soars to 80,000ft

I fail to see...

what pickle, or any other condiment, has to do with this story.

Facebook wannabe rioters cop large helpings of porridge

Have you...

... considered emigrating?

Mr Bean prangs £650k McLaren

Deja vu...

I also remember reading that he'd written of a McLaren F1 a few years back. By a few, I mean at least 8 or 9. I vaguely remember still being in school....

Facebook honeytrap used in Belgian hypermart blag

Fail

How much of a @!*# do you have to be to accept a 'friend' request from someone you don't know? I'm so glad I don't use Facebook and deal with my friends using old fashioned techniques, like telephone calls, and drunken sojourns to the local.