Posts by Steven Raith

Intel X-25M solid-state drive

@druck

Which in real world terms, a 3% drop is the time it would take you to rub your eyes/take a drag of a cigarette/grab a gobful of coffee as a couple of gb of data is read. It's still fucking fast. Load a GB of data into ram in under 5 secs? Five years ago, you'd have been laughed at for suggesting such a thing without a large, sophisticated [from a normal user standpoint] multi disk array, or an investment in pretty specialised hardware [15k SCSI disks etc].

Now, you can [after emptying your wallet, admittedly] do that with a consumer storage device on a consumer data bus.

And with more and more consumer SATA buses supporting RAID0/1 at least, and some RAID5 out of the box...come on, 3% is splitting hairs!

Steven R

Google smears Chrome on 'sacred' home page

Don't be evil

But do be hyprocritical.

Nice one google...!

Steven R

Dual-core Atom to be released by month's end

@E

"When the 1 TB disk is full, is the owner expected to buy another "home server"?"

Meh, I expect that chucking a couple of 1Tb USB disks would do the job quite nicely.

I could see the use of it as a terminal server/gateway box running a *nix-esque OS though - firewall, mail server/web server if you have a fixed IP, media server [for local stuff only, unless you have a nice 10Mb uplink...] all in one box, with fairly low power usage.

If it's proper silent, I might be tempted to throw my half terabyte hard disk on one of these, get a fixed IP and start toying, actually.

Anyone know of any similar kit that can run Windows/*nix to a useable degree with similar specs/cost? Other than an old Thinkpad, of course...

Steven R

Paris, because I hear she likes slapping disks. Or something phonetically similar...

WD VelociRaptor 300GB HDD vs SSD

Media centre PCs

"HDD performance is a bit of a non-issue for media center PCs, so I would see no reason to pay for premium disks like the *raptors"

I think depends on whether your media centre PC is just going to be a playback device, or if you are going to be doing a lot of encoding/transcoding of home videos for youtube, CDs, etc - or encoding DVDs to iPhone/phone format where a chunky HDD [or two, or four working in an array] can be useful.

I have a pair of old Spinpoints in RAID0 for doing video processing and playing games on my old workhorse box, makes a difference when it comes to working with big video files - or games with a large footprint - in my relatively limited experience at least.

Steven R

Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility

"Not really a word safe article"

I have seen people moan about it being 'work safe' as well, although I assume that's what you meant.

Let me make this perfectly clear - if your IT dept and senior management think that their staff shouldn't see swear words on the net, then you are either working in a primary school, or your management are a bunch of dribbling fuckwits and you need to get a new job, possibly preceded by a nice, long, send-to-all email detailing what a bunch of pious muppets you [no longer] work for.

Fab rant, I repeat my suggestion of Dziuba for CTO of the US, if not the world.

Keep it up people....

Steven R

How Chrome puts the skids under Nokia

FAO amanfromMars

I love you.

You fill me with pride and hope...plus some other emotions that are weird and deeply confusing.

That is all.

Oh, and I'm bored of Chrome now because of ads. Back to FF+ABP and Opera-sans-JS for me.

Steven R

RE:Is anyone else amazed?

"Amanfrommars has written something intelligible enough for someone to write a reply?"

Newbies sometimes get confused - like the ones who complain that Ted Dzubia has a potty mouth and BOFH contains potentially unrealistic circumstances such as cattle prodding the boss, etc etc.

amfM has a blog somewhere, I believe, where the same script puts the same random gibberish out. An infinite number of monkeys, etc...he has posted cohesive stuff before, so I expect there is a human [or martian] operator there, somewhere. Possibly a raving sociopathic human [or martian] but a human [or martian] nonetheless.

Anyway, I have played with Chrome since release, but I can't see it being a killer app unless you use GApps offline, or have a need to. I'm comfortable with FF3 at the moment, and see no need to dump it, and the wonderful AdBlock Plus yet. And seeing as it's open source, how long before someone rips FF apart and works out a process-per-tab instance of it as well? That's Chromes killer app [if it could be described as such] down in one, surely?

Steven R

EA free petrol stunt triggers north London gridlock

FAO Richard Kilpatrick

I'm struggling to think of a car with active aero and suspension that is also a diesel. Closest I can think of would be a 911 or a Mistu GTO, but they definitely don't have diseasal variants.

Please enlighten me, my good man.

Steven R

Ten tweaks for a new Acer Aspire One

@KenBW2

I've been using Ubuntu for about two years now, and it wasn't till I started prodding the .conf files in /etc and checking the logs in /var/log that I started getting into full on 'power user' mode.

Currently I am looking at setting up my own fully blown email server, with anti-spam, antivirus, the full shebang, primarily thanks to checking out these details. Had I stuck with Windows [and been stuck with exchange....] I would never have bothered.

In the same way that you really don't start getting the best out of windows still you start fiddling with the registry and .inf files, etc, you don't get the best out of any OS till you start

A: Digging around the system config files and logs

B:Understanding them.

For the record, I have played with a colleagues Linpus Aspire One and it makes Ubuntu and XP look horrifically complex!

It's a good wee OS for someone who just wants to play around a bit with 't net, IM software, etc, but it's pretty restrictive. And if this article interests you, then you owe it to yourself to start digging around your Ubuntu box. Just copy out your Home folder, and thats the vast chunk of your system backed up anyway...

I've been doing tech support for over ten years, and frankly, the *nix file layout/OS is far easier to 'hack around' in than Windows I reckon. Have a look at it, once it 'clicks', it's really good fun to play about with, if that's the way your mind works ;-)

Steven "horrific geek" Raith.

America's CTO: We have a winner

FAO Orlowski

It's Steven.

Not Steve.

Steven.

I'll let you off this time, you strangely surnamed* journo type, you. Cheers for the published quote tho.

Kudos to whomever voted for ammfM - he's a True maN 42 of the technical conservative People!!!111!1one

Steven Raith

*yes, I realise the irony there...

World goes mad as Bill and Jerry eat churros

I saw that ad, and thought of this...

From Futurama:

-------------------

Leela: That was [a] terrible [advertisement], people won't even know what we do.

Bender: *I* don't even know what we do. Nah, just kidding, heh...

...what are we like, a bus or something?

Leela: Did you approve that awful ad, Fry?

Fry: Yes I did, Leels, and I'll tell you why: because it grows the brand.

Leela: Oh Lord!

-------------------

I really can't put it any better myself, so here's a link to the above in MP3 format:

http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/sounds/3acv21/321-04.mp3

Simply because you have to get the various tones of voice to describe the situation properly.

Sienfeld probably saw the paycheck on offer and just went with it for that alone. It grows his brand...

Steven R

Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe

Think about it - if it does all go wrong...

...there won't be anyone there to complain about it, will there?

You can't shout at someone from the singularity of a black hole.

Bring on the apocomalypse!

Steven R

Women turn on to a throbbing Maserati

@amfM and AC biker

amfM - Bugattis - especially the EB110 and current Veyron - really don't sound that good. Quite dull. I reckon anyway, YMMV. Now, the BRM V16...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk8qPlOKB0I

Listen to that with headphones, my martian chum. Best. Noise. Evar. If that doesn't get the hairs on the back of your neck standing up, I officially pronounce you dead between waist and knees.

Mr 1000cc V-twin on one wheel ; women don't want an organ donor, they want stability, common sense, and someone to care about them.

At least, that's what all the women tell me they really want from a man, when they tell me they just want to be friends...

...right, I'm off to buy an 1000cc V-twin then.

Steven R

What Maser?

If it was GranTurismo, I can see that - the sound of one of those being booted makes me aroused too.

There again, though, so does the sound of a sawn off Metro 6R4* [Youtube it] - what a noise, never has a six-pot sounded so utterly sexual.

I think this may make me a bit strange though.

Steven "I wasn't looking at that blonde, I was looking at the 964 RS" Raith

*Metro 6R4 - a spaceframed, mid engined, 400+bhp V6, four wheel drive group B rally car. With Metro body panels bolted on top. Hilariously ugly and stupidly fast.

Commodore launches little laptop

Underspecced, overpriced...

They seem to have gone straight back to the days of the Amiga 600 and CD32.

And if it's anything like my second generation C64, it'll be about as reliable as, er, something sentient with a nasty sense of humour. Although that might have been the tape deck being crap.

Still, nowt wrong with a bit of nostalgia...and my S1 C64/tape deck was much better in terms of reliabilty.

[I want my one in S1 C64 light grey with black keys [and the System keys - Win, Pause, PrntScrn et al can be dark grey. In a row. Down the side]

Lovely.

Steven

10 Print "Steven R is great";

20 goto 10

30 End

Raith

Scotland's oldest newspaper exposes readers' smalls in public

Mearns Leader/local rags

"All of the above, but it is a local paper after all. P&J has always been so, but rags like the "Mearns Leader" take the biscuit in the parochial stakes."

Clearly you have not read the Caithness Courier or its sister paper, the John O Groat journal.

30% gossip heard outside the sherrif court, 20% gossip heard in the pub, 40% adverts and 10% of actual news. Any news that they can attach to Wick and Thurso. Normally involving Caithness And Sutherland Enterprise shoving more money into the area attempting to redevelop the area. Badly.

Only the obituaries and marriages are almost always accurate, and even they are fallible...

If the previous poster had said that the JOGJ/CC had the Titanic headline, I'd have believed it without hesitation because that's *exactly* what it's like.

As local papers that far north go, I can say with some authority [as one of the few locals who can read thanks to not being horrifically inbred...] that the P+J isn't actually too bad as a source of news, but I'd never read it if there was a Times available...

Steven R

Google cedes Belgium to Germany

Caithness...

The east and north coasts of caithness appear to have been trimmed back a bit. That is a good thing, all those areas are fucking horrific.

Unfortunately, they have dragged Orkney closer to it - so my old schoolmates [if they weren't killed in the coastal scraping] are now closer to those inbred, sheep shagging fuck nuggets from the islands.

Orkney dickwads, however, are nothing compared to the Shetlanders [who make the Orkney crowd look like the pinnacle of modern society] so we should all be grateful that they seem to have been pushed out to sea.

I, for one, welcome our world-reshaping Belgian overlords. Especially if they get rid of more of the far north of Scotland.

And supply us all with good chocolate.

Steven R

[Grew up in Wick, Thurmster and Thurso - maps.google.co.uk 'em...]

The Google-isation of all the net's access points

"What the freak are Google playing at?!"

It's a setup file that downloads the actual installer.

"What's even worse, if you want to try Google Chrome on a non-Windows platform (e.g. via emulation/virtualisation such as VMWare, WINE etc.), then good luck, because whoever decided to *block* (yes, BLOCK) non-Windows users from downloading the Windows version of Google Chrome ought to be hung, drawn and quartered!"

S'funny, my XP crash-test-dummy setup in VirtualBox within Ubuntu works perfectly for downloading it. I suggest that either VMware [spits] sucks, or You Are Not Doing It Right.

Anyway, seems allright. Might throw it on the XP box at work where I can get a better feel for it. The google lot have hit a nail on the head with the seperate processes per tab thing tho, nothing pisses me off more than one of my thirty tabs deciding to kill my entire browser.

Hopefully that will stay for the *nix variant, or someone will implement it in a *nix browser, because that would be a fucking godsend for the sometimes horrifically flaky Flash support on *nix platforms. Youtube, and other Flash based media browsers, I'm looking at *you*.

Steven R

Anatomy of a malware scam

Just posting to add...

...just seen this on a users personal laptop, and the Malwarebytes Antimalware (malwarebytes.org) software worked a treat.

:-)

Steven R

Brit firm to demo serious flying robo-saucer in 2009

How is this better than a helicopter?

Try hitting a helicopter with a small arms fire or a dumb RPG from 100 yards.

Now try and repeat that trick with something that has 10% of it's visible profile.

Also, have you priced Apaches and Hinds per hour lately [never mind the cost of losing one]? If you want cheap aerial recon/attack without the viewpoint restrictions of a satellite, or the size restrictions of a gunship [think inner city] this sort of thing is your bag I reckon. especially with 4kg of semtex and 1kg of ball bearings wrapped around it hanging from the bottom...never mind dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars of explosives from a multi-million pound fighter-bomber. We're heading for a recession, don't you know?

And you can crash it through a fucking window and obliterate the contents of a room with minimum collateral damage - a cruise missile will fly through a window, but will take the building with it. I mean, come on, I could sit here all night and think of dozens of great uses for it!

I'm not going to though, because the black helicopters will come and get me.

Steven R

"And how much bang does 5Kg give you"

Enough for a small, belt fed machine gun/SMG/machine pistol and a few dozen rounds of ammo, I'd hope.

Now *that* would be a cool remote controlled toy....

Steven R

DARPA in Tom'n'Jerry robo-brain quest

I'm waiting to see...

...a marine, in the middle east, sitting outside an APC with a tin of Whiskas going

"Heeeere kitty kitty kitty"

And a tank oversteering round the corner and nuzzling up to him with it's turret.

Because that's about the only way any of my cats have ever succumber to orders - otherwise they were a law unto themselves all the time...

Steven R

gOS - a Google good OS for your Mum

@simpson

If you can, wang more RAM in there - I'd put money on that making things much, much better.

Seriously, trying to get any modern OS [IE post Win2k] with less than 512Mb is asking for frustration, even if it's just nasty slowdown, rather than 'real' problems - regardless of what the minimum specs say.

Steven R

Booze and breasts combined, finally

@Kain Preacher - youtube

"I would love to see a guy give this to his wife/GF and film the results"

Watch out for the Extreme Porn laws - it would probably end up as a snuff film.

Steven R

BBC iPlayer upgrade prompts new ISP complaints

New Flash/Ubuntu

If you are suggesting what I think you are suggesting, then yes, Flash 10 [beta] works OK in Hardy Heron Ubuntu, but it sometimes has trouble with video stuff/firefox - causing the FF session to die on it's arse without warning.

Given that my old intel 845 Centrino based lappy can barely play Youtube vids without stuttering, I don't hold much hope for HD iPlayer working on my machine, arf.

Steven R

Reg server and chip hack molested by Gray Lady

Otto Vs Ashlee

Has anyone ever seen them in the same room at the same time?

Good luck Mr Vance, enjoy working for a 'respectable' publication for a change!

Steven R

DARPA seeks 'perch and stare' spy-fly robot

@sweep

Thanks for that - I now have to clear my partially masticated lunch from the depths of my keyboard.

If anyone is unaware of the term mars bar party, might I suggest you don't google it at work...

Steven R

Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?

Ms Bee - reader

What you reading for?

Anyone who doesn't know who Bill Hicks is, I demand you immediately get pretty any Bill Hicks DVD or CD and beat yourself to a pulp for missing out on his pretty much perpetually correct, cutting and almost always hilarious social commentary.

His stuff about George Bush Snr is pretty applicable to his son, as it happens.

Steven "How far up your ass does this guy have to be before you realise he is fucking you" Raith.

Microsoft starts stoking hype for Windows 7

ubuntu support costs

You see how much I love you all? Two hours sleep and I find this for you [admittedly not exactly a challenge]

http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid

US$250 for a years desktop support from Canonical themselves.

I realise that's more of a business thing, but there was a 'retail' Ubuntu distro that was about £30 which as I recall included a couple of months support bundled with it, which is the one I was thinking about.

There, not *that* bad at all is it?

Steven "Grouchy" R

@ac @Marc

"Accept that MS has issues, it clearly does, Vista is late with half its functionality descoped, and they cant count, surely (ignoring the consumer side (3, 3fwg, 95, 98 and ME)) Vista is windows 7.....(NT3, NT4, Win2K[5], XP[6], Vista[7].....). Unless of course Vista is just a face lift to XP or was XP just a face lift to Win2K"

Gaah, MS might not be able to count, but you can't read. Two or three posts in this thread have already explained that, so I'll do it again.

NT4

Win2000 = NT5.0

XP = NT 5.1

Vista = NT6

Windows 7 = NT7

*bangs head against wall*

Also, just for snarks:

"OK you could get Ubuntu for a reasonable price, but in teh long run you will end up with a product having a larger cost. Not in hard cash, maybe, but certainly in time and effort. Me, I want a PC I can switch on, use, plug any shit I buy into and just be done with it."

A: Ubuntu is free

B: The support isn't that pricey, if you decide that forums and copying and pasting solutions is too hard. I can't recall exactly what it is, something like £30 a month. If you are having a specific problem/s then get a months support and get them all sorted. Quite sure you can do that, but I'm happy to be corrected [it's too late at night to be googling that shit for me]. Once *nix systems are up, they tend to stay up, certainly more than any Win32 system I have used. Haven't had to wipe this lappy once, even over three OS upgrades. just tell it to update to the latest release, leave it for an hour and it's done. Lovely. And no £180 price tag with it, ta.

C: I changed to Ubuntu so I *could* just turn my PC on and have it just work. I use this lappy for wanking/banking and for that it does a wonderful job. I have an XP machine for if I need to do something Windows Hardware Compatability List specific, like flipping the bird at mates over 't webcam. Although I now look for hardware that is Linux/Ubunto known good, to work around that. The same way that you would look for a Vista Compatible sticker on any hardware you buy to make sure it's certified to work on Vista.

I'll admit with most hardware, it just works with Windows [and the drivers, natch] but there's a good reason for that - it's called Windows having 90%+ of the market, which is a pretty fucking big incentive for hardware vendors making their stuff work on the 32bit NT5/6 code base. However, if you are selective about your hardware, Linux will 'just work' to a frankly gobsmacking degree.

I'm a hardware/desktop support/network tech - it's in my interest to know this sort of shite inside out, and I'm quite happy to admit that there are people out there like yourselves who simply aren't as IT savvy as some of us and don't get the concept of, say, educating yourself before making a purchase. And that's fine. Stick with your Windows, BSODs and systems that slowly start grinding to a halt and DRM - they keep me in pocket money, that's for sure.

No comment on Mac OS - too knackered.

I'll get my coat - it's the dressing gown with the frayed sleeves.

Steven "Insomnia sucks and makes me ratty" Raith.

Tired of RRoD taunts? Turn your Xbox 360 into a PC

Internal PSU

It probably doesn't have an internal PSU because it would require reverse engineering the X360 PSU [probably not that tricky] and then engineering an internal PSU to fit an ATX chassis [perhaps not tricky, but probably costly].

You could argue the toss about mounting the existing external PSU in a mounting bracket inside the chassis, but that would be a heat issue, and given that is what this case is effectively designed to work around, then it would be a bit pointless.

I imagine - if anyone has made an internal X360 PSU then please feel free to correct me....

Steven R

Re: Why, why, why?

Someone with a bit of geek knowledge and who has had their X360 fail a couple of times [I know at least two people of this ilk] may well put the moderate expense [no more than a big weekend on the lash mind] and an evenings effort above the inconvenience of having the machine sent away to be repaired/replaced yet again.

And comparing it to a low end PC is a bit retarded - can you play GOW or Forza on a low end PC?

Oh, and it's $150, not £150 - I know that we get a bum rap in the UK for these things, but doubling the value of it it pretty fecking unlikely.

You seem to have completely missed the entire point, and then argued your case with a complete misinterpretation of the facts.

I award you 8 FAILs out of 10

[your spelling, grammar and lack of caps lock save you from a perfect ten]

Steven R

Criminals hijack terminals to swipe Chip-and-PIN data

AJ Stiles

I like the idea, but the Unique Image Reference on the back of my debit card rubbed off ages ago.

Not that anyone checks it, even when the chip [which is falling out a bit] fails and I have to make my Unique Image on the slip.

No surprise fraud is rife really, no-one checks anything these days.

Steven "Needs to buy a wallet really" R

Gmail outage causes outrage

Outrage at beta service going down once in a while?

Hmm, lets see what that image in the top left of my Gmail window says:

"Google Mail - BETA"

Beta, to me, doesn't strike me as meaning 100% uptime.

Why the 'outrage' then?

Steven R

Paris - because even she woudn't expect perfection from anything marked beta, regardless who supplied it.

CERN: LHC to fire first proton-smash ray next month

RE: MolecularMonkey - sheep

I suspect if you accelerated two sheep together at astonishing speed, rather then sheeplets, you'd get a gooey red mess.

Experience with a mates Vauxhall Cavalier SRi impacting a sheep at 50ish mph suggests that they'll need a pressure hose to stop the think honking up the place the next time they try to turn it on, too.

Dead vulture, because after a few weeks the smell off the Cavaliers heater matrix and the dead vulture would be pretty similar. *retch*

Steven R

PS: Bring on the apocolypse.

Secret of invisibility unravelled by US researchers

FAO Berkely/DARPA

At least I assume Darpa would have had a hand in this, what with their freaky-tech background.

Message begins:

Video evidence or STFU

Message ends.

Steven R

Rockstar confirms GTA IV PC edition

Hmm.

Methinks it's time to spec a new development workstation. With a Radeon HD 4xxx series GPU.

For using Photoshop to create visually compelling presentation images, of course, definetely not to play GTA IV at the weekend after completing repatching and cabling work, oh no, course not.

*cough*

Steven R

ColorWare's colourful iPhone 3G

@Tim Seely

"You could do a fairly good version of the old Gulf racing colours. or go for the 'stealth' all carbon look, but it's hard to see from the site whether this is actually matte..."

Pff. What a load of tosh.

JPS Black 'n' Gold for teh w1n.

Steven R

ASA rules against citing 'hits' in ads

hits/shop analogy

GothicForm:

"surely if a website gets 5millions hits its popular? isnt it? ok, so people might not buy a diamond. if 5 million people walk into a shop its still popular? im confused lol"

but they aren't walking into the shop - a hit is the equivalent of looking in the shop window as you pass...

Steven R

Old ships' logs show temporary global warming in 1730s

RE time travel

@AC - it's all that wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff ; very complicated.

Cash'n'Carrion: A lean, mean, fighting machine

@Sam

You are correct, and I stand corrected.

[ah, the wonders of orthopaedic shoes]

Steven R

Ye Gods

I have never, ever bought 'merchandise', on principal.

The tinfoil hats obligatory and black helicopter designs are bending my will however....

Steven R

Dell's dinky designer desktop

@paul brown

Screwdriver? For that I think a butter knife to get past the 'sealed' chassis would be far more productive.

Or the 'old' kitchen knife that only gets used on non-food items [everyone owns one] which has helped me get into many a 'non-user servicable' item.

"Sealed unit" to me reads as "challenge".

Anyway, Vista? No. I think I'll stick around for the EeeBox meself...

Steven R

Bebo users to summon superhuman alien pop-fancier invasion

@Alan

"2) Haven't they read H2G2, where a seemingly innocent comment along the lines of "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style" can be misinterpreted as a very bad insult towards someones mother, which can lead to all sorts of problems"

You clearly need to adopt a small dog. Problem solved, surely?

Mines the one with the black jewelled battle shorts in the pocket.

Steven R

Inquirer celebrates spammer murder-suicide

Oh dear.

As noted by a few above, regardless of the 'artistic slant' that Charlie Demerjian and the editorial team at The Inquirer might claim have, the mental image of a three year old being shot isn't something I could put 'Yay' next to really.

That article is pretty fucking brutal, even by my admittedly shady standards of humour.

Ah well, sums up what I have always thought of Inq - the electronic equivelant of The Sun/Daily Star - not even suitable for use as toilet paper, because it's already full of steaming shite.

Steven R

The FDRs of Green explain the gentle art of planet saving

FAO Badger

"but on the subject of the market regulating itself, prices being fair, oil being sold at a realistic price, and so on, what's to stop the vested interests (ie. people selling oil) from just consolidating their position and selling very expensive commodities to only those who can afford them?"

You don't think that, say, America or Russia wouldn't roll the tanks in if OPEC started *properly* taking the piss - artifically setting the price [by whatever means] at $500/barrell - to protect western oil dependant industries?

Just a thought...

Steven R

Happy Sysadmin Day!

Huzzah

I think I classify as a sysadmin [well, I set up the network and get blamed if it goes down] and by happy coincidence, after the works party last night I'm staggeringly hung over and haven't made it to work yet.

So when I turn up, the fact that it's SysAdmin day will be used as my excuse. As opposed to my woeful ability to consume alcahol and survive the after effects of it.

Well done to all my fellow sysadmins/bofhs/those who must be bribed to get FaceBook.

Steven R

UK ISPs agree to menace their filesharing users

@James

"Mind you, as FACT is convinced that all piracy is funding terrorism they might just decide to lock up anyone that uses the internet for 42 days and be done with it..."

I've been using the internet for nigh on ten years, am I going to jail? :-0

Be interesting to see how this pans out - all that will happen is that those who are serious about copyright infringement/funding terrorism as it's now known, will just up the encryption ante, in the same arms race that has been going on for a few years now.

Aside - if they can tell a secured torrent connection has copyrighted torrent info in it, why can't they find all this child pr0n that they say is floated around on 't net...?

Steven R

Japan kicks off electric car format war

Re: AC - What I want...

"I want me somthing totaly radical, perhaps an electric cyber punk streetfighter/cafe racer look, but without the need for the tank hump."

My good man, might I suggest you watch Akira, and come back when you have changed your spunk ridden pants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZg8XYJ-bTE

"Damn, my motor coils were just getting warmed up"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotaro_Kaneda_(Akira)#Kaneda.27s_bike

I want.

Steven R

Third plutoid christened 'Makemake'

make make?

As per Stevie, but will a typo lead to it being called:

"make: *** No rule to make target `makw'. Stop."

[apologies]

Steven R