Posts by Trevor

Forth Bridge painters to down brushes in 2012

hang on a minute

If they have been painting for 100 years but the paint only lasts 40 years then the paint at one end of the bridge should have had the next repaint started 60 years ago surely?

If the bridge is 100 miles long and it took you a year to do a mile you'd only get 40 miles in before you had to start painting the first mile again.

So you get a second team in who start at the beginning and the first team does the next 40 miles.

The first team is now at 80 miles and the second team is at 40 so you need a third team to start the first mile again.

Now it gets tricky see because the first team can do the last 20 miles and the first 20 miles and the second team is at 80 and the third is at 40

I'll just get my coat and go now....

Moroccan IT engineer arrested over fake Facebook account

@anon cow

"When you get arrested there you get a kicking as well..."

Certainly a more interesting way of collecting DNA, keeps the cops occupied, and is more exciting than just tasering the guy.

"Lets have some fun!"

Bzzzzt

"Thats that then, shame really I thought he'd put up more of a fight"

What??

So they can give him a kicking and still lock him up for 5 years?

If he did it for whatver reason it was easy to resolve and I think a good kicking would send him a fairly good message to not do it again.

Pirate Bay slapped with copyright charges

Whats stopping you...

from flooding the torrent sites with your own torrents? I'm talking to you, the guy with the flight sim stuff!

Release a real shareware version, not one of these enter code now jobbies, but one with a time limit or fly one of 3 planes for 5 mins or something. Why not fill the airports with adverts for the full version, it's just a texture. Why not write your companies email address down the runway?

Then people can try your flight sim, and they have the contact details, and the torrent sites are flooded with torrents for links to the shareware.

Just had a better idea, why not release a base package completely free? The engine and a geographical area and a plane or 2, then just charge for more areas, scenery, aircraft etc...if they like it they'll buy the extras and if they don't they obviously don't like the product enough.

Not too difficult I would have thought....

100Mbit/s sewer broadband rollout coming your way

Viruses

Now the viruses we have to worry about are Cholera, Typhoid and Dysentry, I'd like to see Mcafee et. al. block them!

How about....

Downloading some brownware?

(Thanks BOFH)

HMRC mislays 1.5kg of Bolivian marching powder

@ D

Where is your one? Why it was sent to me, along with your NI number and bank details....;-)

ISPs baffled by Gordo's 'plans' for web terror talks

Welcome to the machine

Welcome to the machine, They will tell us what to dream, where to go, what we can see, read, listen to.

The only way they can make this country truely "safe" is to have a society of automotons. Created by fear, constantly watched over, threatened and manipulated. And that's just by the government.

Just ask yourself, how bad does it need to get? How many laws need to be created that infringe upon your rights to live your life as you want, before you stand up and do something?

I welcome a revolution, before this goes too far.

Welcome to the machine

I'll get my coat...

Reg lexicographical Shock Army liberates mobe

This is what happens when...

an infinite amount of monkeys with an infinite amount of typewriters write Lester's articles for him.

Can I be the first to say.....

WHAT??!??!??!??!!??!!

Sun: MoD has Bond/Potter/Klingon cloaking device

Gimme one of them!

I would love cloaking for my car, imagine one of them bloody gatso's taking a picture of "nothing" going at 40mph. Fine me then, b*stards!

Unless if you are caught speeding while cloaked, would you get invisible points on your license?

Pentagon: Chinese military hacked us

@amanfrommars

"And after a hard day's work, a night hooking on the town snorting a line and toasting absent friends"

American friendly fire?

Where did I leave that napalm?

Police want DNA collection superpowers

Who are they?

"will be involving a small, group of ordinary people who will consider social and ethical issues involved in the current and future use of DNA for forensic purposes",

Who are these "ordinary people" ? Hopefully they will actually understand what DNA actually is in the first place in order to make a decision!

Some "ordinary people" I know would not even understand the paragraph I have quoted! How are they going to decide either way?

It all sounds remarkably fishy to me.....

Music pirate convicted in Led Zep bootleg case

What about...

If he had still sold the music on whatever format and just charged for the cost of the media and a small addition for his electric and hardware costs?

Would this still be acceptable?

Psst - wanna buy a pirate MPack toolkit?

amanfrommars attacks

he sounds a lot like that guy from pratchett. eg Reflected Sounds of Under Ground Spirits = Echo Gnome ics = economics

Contains filth tunnel insects = in sewer ants = insurance.

I may be completely off of course...anyhew

If the source is completely available then surely defenses can be setup to defeat the rootkit as we will know how exactly the exploits are....well...exploited?

Aardman picks Observer for net monitoring

I thought that....

.....Wallace and Gromit built all their own hardware? Mind you those NASA trousers would be handy getting up a comms riser - as long as BOFH hasn't got the PFY jammed up there again