Startup time could be misleading

My Firefox is showing an average startup time of about 15 seconds. But this is because it's auto-started when I log into my Linux desktop, along with lots of other things that are triggered by me logging in, plus system services that are also starting up at the time.

Starting it manually later, it only takes about a second and a half. So any stats they get from me aren't going to tell them much that's useful.

Eh?

'Microsoft says the vulnerability “exists in the way that Internet Explorer access an object in memory that has been deleted or has not been properly allocated.”'

When I see English like that, I normally assume a scam from someone whose first language isn't English. Though I suppose, as Microsoft is a 'merkin company...

Amazing timing

How strange that Clegg should suddenly rediscover Liberal principles a few days before County Council elections in which the LibDems are widely expected to get hammered, not least through pissing off former supporters by lurching so far to the right.

I'm sure it's coincidence (he lied).

Paying tax in any of them?

Thought not.

The whole extradition thing is just a red-herring

Considering the one-sided extradition treaty that Blunkett sneaked in without even putting it to Parliament, he's a far easier mark for extradition to the United States of Terrorism while he's in the UK than he'd ever be in Sweden.

Funny how suicide-bombers are always labelled "cowards"...

...while we'll be told that these people, who will be murdering other from the safety of thousands of miles away, are heroic.

What a fucked-up world we live in.

I hate sexual discrimiation with a passion...

...but this sounds more like some stupid bastard (Merkin?) who's decided she's going to interpret anything she possibly can as discriminatory.

It reminds me of a situation a few years ago on a company Usenet group when a woman who'd obviously done all the "anti-discrimination" courses (but not the "having a brain" course) slapped down a friend of mine for his "homophobic" comments. And then became strangely quiet after my response, "Hey Darren, do you reckon there's something about you she doesn't know?"

(For the benefit of Merkins, Darren's gay).

Hardly news

It's been well-known for years that people who eat stuff like bacon, sausages, etc. have greatly-increased cancer rates compared to people who don't.

I seem to remember the main problem was the large amount of nitrates pumped into the meat.

Considering the mess we've made of this planet...

...is it really a good idea for us to infest another one?

Honors?

Surely, honours?

Or isn't this theregister.co.UK?

Bugger!

I was planning to go over to them for my broadband so I could ditch the BT line. Branson's an arse, but I could tolerate him. Not sure I can tolerate a Yank arse though.

Oh no!

How will I cope with not knowing when Stephen Fry's having his afternoon shit?

If only we were allowed to kill these bloody vermin!

In my garden, bloody cats cause far more damage than all the natural pests put together. I've had goldfish taken out of the pond and killed, any seeds I sow get dug up and EVERYTHING gets shat on by the filthy creatures.

And the sort of selfish sods who let these pests loose think I should consider it a privilege!

I don't speak Polish...

... but I'd be pretty willing to bet that "Fakt" is the Polish equivalent of the Sunday Sport or Daily Mail - ie full of made-up bullshit. Either for entertainment (as in the SS) or to stir hatred (Mail).

Good news

Let's hope the bastard took a big loss on it too.

"Failures", surely, not "Fails"

Unless we're trying to be a load of mindless Americans (with apologies for the tautology).

Sounds sensible to me

As someone who doesn't frequent crappy places like Costa and the like, the various silly names they give their different ways of serving the same thing mean absolutely nothing to me. When I had to have a meeting with a customer in a café recently the waitress understood what I meant by "a black coffee please" without me having to work out which menu item meant that.

Scousers only at number FOUR???

Amazing!

Another great advantage of totally ignoring popular "culture"...

...is that of all the names listed, the only one I've even HEARD of is Piers Morgan. An I don't think I'm likely to google the man who inspired Stephen Fry to redefine the word "countryside" as "killing Piers Morgan".

The important reason for a minimum price...

...is to make it harder for supermarkets to under-cut pubs and drive more of them out of business.

Now whether I actually WANT to share my local with the sort of person who currently slobs out in front of the TV with a cheap slab of Stella, then gives his wife a kicking before falling asleep, is another question. But if it brings the price of his "lager"[1] nearer to what a nearby boozer that I don't use is selling it at, he might just go there instead.

And taking away the ability to use irresponsible loss-leaders from the supermarkets might just cut their profits a bit, which is no bad thing either.

[1] As opposed to PROPER lager, which actually DOES have some flavour and isn't just there to get you pissed as quickly as possible.

Surprised Digg was worth even that much

An entirely self-inflicted collapse when they pissed off all their users to service their greed. Their loss was definitely Reddit's gain.

Are there ANY olympics sponsors who aren't complete arseholes?

Sad, but at least he had a good innings.

The Martian Chronicles was such a gripping read that I couldn't go to sleep until I'd finished it. And I enjoyed it so much I reread it the next day.

the big ones are starting to move

Jimmy Wales has announced that Wikipedia will be leaving GoDaddy over this. https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736"

Though given the number of complaints about their services I keep seeing on Digg, I'm surprised more people haven't buggered off already.