I'm not on Facebook!

But my sanitised, law-abiding, non-murderous and less offensive alter ego is.

Energy cartels anyone?

So... Meter rental for the new supplier you say. People will be screwed whether they move supplier or not.

1. All suppliers charge each other high meter rental.

2. All suppliers pass on that charge to their newly acquired customers.

3. All suppliers hike charges to existing customers (including dumb meter users) because they will be shafted even more by 1 + 2 if they move.

This article is also worth a mention

http://theinternetoffendsme.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/the-real-story-behind-facebook-moderation-and-your-petty-reports/

Remember that FarceBook is a business, and moderation costs money, and costs are bad mmmkay. Just enough moderation to look like they take things seriously is an investment.

I'm also reminded of the recent farce regarding Scriptonite Daily* allegedly due to some moron at a dole office, who then proudly boasted of getting it censored. I have a mental image of a middle aged spinster with two dozen feline companions...

* http://scriptonitedaily.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/facebook-censors-users-during-media-blackout-on-privatisation-of-the-nhs/

3 ≠ 2

Currently third on the list, not second.

Just a simple menu.

Mozilla: NoScript is quick and nimble even on a mangy old dog of a computer.

Chrome: NotScripts is a stodgy turd of a thing, with the same functionality save for the fact that it draws its own menu. After a little while paging goodness-knows-what. Testament to what a diseased shit-smearing chromosomal clusterfuck Java/Javascript is that that I sigh and put up with it.

Or is all this stuff an excuse to get people to buy new computers?

Admit it...

You saw the pic and looked for the autostereogram.

Yet another damp squib of fail.

Two examples of films I bought: Ink, indie fantasy, on signed Blu-Ray even though it had been released by the makers as a torrent. Four Horsemen, economic documentary, DRM-free download for less than £4. I also refuse to purchase any game that roots my machine in an effort to have me farting about for physical media. Both of those films are highly recommended by the way!

Moral of the story: don't dick us buying public about, an we'll happily drop a few coins in your guitar case.

Seeing it coming and going.

Is it worth me booking my table yet?

Android: paranoid.

I'm currently having fantastic success on a free site, they're really pretty girls and they message me first, which is kind of nice. All seem to be travelling or working around Africa, which is an odd coincidence, but stranger things have happened.

Seriously though, it was in an IRC based free chat site (initially with a horrific java front end*) that I met my current lovely lady. I was a regular chatter, not looking for anything more than timewasting on the net, then when she joined up we noticed each other's twisted humour. I messaged her, apparently. It's not something I'd normally do, but a hearty imbibement of ale that night doubtless had something to do with it, hence the icon.

My point is love happens just as easily when you're not even looking for it. She'd had nothing but fail with the dating-oriented sites. I fancied her before I even saw a pic, and yes it was a bloody big relief when I saw that she's quite pretty. I even have a pic of her bum as the wallpaper on my phone with pattern unlocking: I have to fondle it right to gain access!

*/me chokes a bit of vomit back down.

Define "runs"

Deus Ex "runs" on a pentium 100. (inb4 scatological humour)

45 minutes each way, oranges at half time.

No, wait, it's 'murika: 20 time-outs and all-u-can-eat hot dogs!

Sheeeeit!

"The Pantego powers that be expressed "complete faith" in their officers, and insisted they always behave in "the most professional manner""

The Pantego moonshine racket is alive an well, I see.

I'm actually with the owner on this one. His restaurant, he is SysGod. Not SysAdmin. SysGod. As in way back before my cyber existence in the dialup BBS age. When the SysGod could be a bastard and introduce noise to the line wasting someone's valuable line time, for example.

Service charge? OK it's serve yourself, and probably boil-in-bag stuff, so yeah that's a piss-take. Tap water? I still hurt from having to pay £5 for a mineral water at my middle class cousin's leaving do in a London Bar! Stop taking the piss and we'll start buying. (I do not know the charges for the restaurant in question)

At the end of the day one single restaurant is not as essential to life as your internet connection, gas/water/electricity/sewerage. Learn to cook like I did, it is very rewarding.

Just silly.

Is two finger zoom next? Or some other insignificant piece of UI frill?

I forsee an underground OS emerging that gives all the features a user wants, doesn't track users, has no fed backdoors and, maybe I'm just dreaming, just fucking works.

Sorry, rant over, it's been an allnighter.

Re: "corrects the apostrophes and grammar "

Doubt it. Processing 100 hours of Nyan Cat is one thing, but I reckon we're at least a decade of moores law from that sort of power...

I didn't notice either.

mozilla.org seemed to work just fine.

TEN THOUSAND bloody quid?

If your home(s) need that much work done to keep your haunted fish tanks going, you can pay it your bloody self! Or download it. Or read a book.

Or stick it on parliamentary expenses.

“scenes of bloody violence”

Tiananmen Square, anyone?

Much state violence here (UK) is bad enough to be hidden from public view by the media, presumably "voluntarily" rather than by law, but the result is the same: general public ignorance.

I suspect the effect will be the same as with other forms of prohibition. The commodity "real" news will rise in perceived value, be supplied by the unscrupulous, and be of an inferior quality to that which would otherwise be obtained legally.

Seaga Master System

Alex Kidd in Miracle World, anyone?