Ex-Verizon techie cuffed for 5,000 'chat' line calls

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Anonymous Coward

He is #

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 14:03 GMT

in a very *sticky* situation

Colin Reid

Simple test for guilt #

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 14:03 GMT

Surely there is one simple test to determine if he's guilty or not.

I call it the 'hairy hands and impaired vision' test.

Paris, cause she makes my hands hairy.

Jamie

you know it is a geek site when #

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 14:03 GMT

You have to put in a bootnote stating that the calculations are based on a 52 week year, otherwise people reading would do calculations and state you made a mistake.

Louis

Time conversion #

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 14:03 GMT

1.44 hours a week, otherwise known as 17.28 lonely single BT engineer hand shandies (at 5 minutes a piece). I think it's time The Reg online standards convertor was updated to include time..

(I accept no liability for any dodgy half arsed incorrect maths that may have occured in this comment).

Anonymous Coward

Less than 2 hours a week ? #

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 14:03 GMT

How exactly is that "outrageous" ? I mean it is perfectly in the realm of the possible. I'd venture that I spend easily twice that time on the Net - just during my lunch hour.

Gilbert Wham

Chatlines? How terribly quaint. #

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 14:03 GMT

Why was he not spending all his time pissing around on Facebook, like every other workshy dunderhead in the world who is busily INFECTING! MACHINES! I! HAVE! TO! CLEAN! through that horrible web 2.bollocks even as we speak. I'm going to stop explaining to them how they *should* behave even on their home machines and just buy a taser.

Sample of new improved conversation w/thicko:

"Yes, but if you do (X) instead, it wouldn't keep breaking"

"That's stupid! I can't be bothered to do that!"

BZZZZZZT!

"Erk..."

pete

Gives a whole new meaning #

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 14:03 GMT

This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Minute Man".

Paris, for obvious reasons... Mine's the one with the case of Trojans in the bulging pocket.

James Monnett

Gilbert Wham #

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 17:54 GMT

Gilbert may I interest you in my tasercomp design, which features a built in taser with leads to the power button.

I should wanr you given the fact it pulls from a 850 wat power supply as opposed to the standard 9 volt battery there is a chance of overcharge which might include minor side effects to users such as permanant mental or physical impairment, various dysfuntions, retardation (which would be redundant in the case of users anyway) or death.

JM takes NO liability for accidental overcharges or misuse.

Mines the one with the taser and "unique" internal wiring

sidney cook