Posts by Mark 87 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jun 2007
Boeing and Airbus seem to have both suffered from a little overoptimism. Airbus must be feeling they are due for some payback after their delays on the A380. They also had a similar backlog of orders before the problems arose.
Building of components and sticking them together is an Airbus "trick", largely as a result of the dividing of the employment pie between the various governments involved. Airbus wings are built by BAE at present.
Why have a party that seems to have run out of ideas in power?
Looks like Darling almost borrowed the current Conservative proposals as his own.
In 1997, after a decade or so in power, the Conservatives seemed to have lost their way, and now it seems as though New Labia is in the same boat.
The swiss had the good sense to export terror on the rest of Europe. Their mercenaries were highly regarded through the 14th - 16th centuries.
There's only so much excitement you can take, so its hardly surpising if all they wanted to do was come home and listen to a cuckoo clock after killing half of Europe.
They tried to bury people in unmarked graves in the last war, now they're simply stacking them in a damn great pyramid.
If your parents get buried there, don't you think it'll be a bit Oedipal being buried on top of (your) Mummy?
€700 for putting another block of stone on? Definitely a pyramid scheme!
If he willingly set out to get said images as the article implies, then his goose should be cooked.
If his defense was that they were in his cache perhaps due to popups, a mistyped URL or similar inadvertant action, then the prosecution would have to work harder to disprove his defence and secure a conviction.
The test in any such case would be whether the prosecution can prove he actively sought out such images. It is whether there is control behind getting the pictures that is the test of guilt or innocence.
David Haworth seems to have openly spotted the flaws in the argument.
Open wireless connections are "public" in my view. Breaking a password or encryption system is the standard for it to openly qualify as misuse.
I leave my wireless connection open and fence off the rest of the network. I really don't mind if some yuppie in the pub down the road wants to send a few emails.
Besides, it gives me an excuse for all my porn downloads "it was my open connection officer"....
Avoid the basic KWorld cards - they're not very good in my experience.
Instead of Vista, you might want to become a Linux hippy and investigate the MythTV route (http://www.mythtv.org/). There's less problem with content protection, and there are CDROM installations of MythTV available, with no problems about having lots of tuners.
Bring back the days when you could do embarrassing things at the office christmas party and the only thing you'd have to show for it would be a red face when you went back to work in the New Year (and the quiet talk with a collegue explaining how p**sed you were and that you don't remember a thing)
The Data protection laws have a side effect of preventing the government from leaking information about you. I will say the 1998 changes complicated a relatively clear and simple 1984 act.
I thought the Tories had lightened up when David Cameron was elected, and was almost fooled into voting for them. Since then, not including the inopportune jaunt to Rwanda and indecisive education policy, he's also made pronouncements about extending copyright and now this, that makes me not want to touch him with a barge pole.
I'm on the side of limiting length and application of copyright, but this seems to be "passing off" his stuff as genuine Microsoft produce, so not much sympathy here either.
I don't think 25-life as one earlier poster has suggested is appropriate, but I think his sentence is appropriate and I hope that profits from his venture are also recovered.
Selecting characters via mouse from a graphical character map has been round since Windows 3.0 (and maybe before; I think even GEM had it), its an obvious step to change the pointing device from a mouse cursor to a finger.
So the question then arises, what new, non-obvious, claims does this patent make over that level of technology?
If it's 5 billion light years distant, then this has already happened 5 billion years ago and there is already a monster galaxy out there. In fact, it's probably swallowed another set of galaxies by now, especially as it's located in a cluster of galaxies.
Wasn't 1970s astronomy a little basic compared to today? One wonders whether any of his data and observations from that period would carry much weight, and whether he's had to redo his thesis from scratch. Besides, I bet he couldn't find a machine to take any wordprocessor disks from Back In The Day....
The cartoon is undeniably crude and in bad taste, but then the best jokes often are!
Legal decisions like this are assinine, the judge has just ensured the entire world will now find and see the cartoon.
However an appeal to the ECHR under Right to Freedom of Expression (Article 10) would probably be the way to go.
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