Posts by Fibbles 1421 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2008
Apple don't make announcements about their new tablet 6 months before, they just get their suppliers to 'leak' details. That way if the specs change or there is a delay in manufacturing they have an element of plausible deniability and the fanboys can go on thinking that the company is perfect in every way.
Grown in artificially produced fertilizer or even worse, muck from those evil methane producing cows.
I'm not having a go but arguing about what is better for the environment / people's diets / population size at anything less than a global scale seems a bit silly to me.
The HR department won't find any pictures of you, tagged or otherwise, unless you create an account (even then only if your privacy settings are lax). If some old uni acquaintance uploads a photo of you, the HR department has to be made aware that this person exists, friend them somehow, look through their albums and then determine if that photo from 10 years ago labeled Kevin Johnston is the same Kevin they have on staff. That's pretty difficult since Kevin doesn't have an account listing other personal info which is linked to the photo.
If you're really that paranoid don't do stupid things in front of cameras. Even if Facebook wasn't around your old uni mate could still upload that photo of you onto his personal website complete with name, DOB, etc. Only in this scenario it'd be fully searchable from Google.
Facebook tags are just text labels, if you have an account it becomes a hyperlink to your 'wall'. There are a lot of Kevin Johnstons in the world so the fact that some picture on Facebook has a text label saying 'Kevin Johnston' isn't an issue. This is also ignoring the fact that most people don't tag non members because tags are there to notify existing members that somebody has added a picture of them. It'd be a pointless exercise as well as time consuming because your name would need to be typed rather than selected from a list of friends.
A block on people tagging you would be impossible anyway unless you provided Facebook with your name and a picture of your face so that they knew what to block.
If people want to make a game where a character overcomes the trauma of rape I don't have a problem with that. There are a lot of things in such a scenario for the storyline to explore. It'd likely end up as a very dark game clearly aimed at adult players.
The problem I have with this game specifically is that Tomb Raider has always been a game marketed at teenagers. It'a not really the right venue for exploring such issues. I can only see this as a desperate attempt to add some controversy to yet another reboot of an ailing franchise.
If you look back through human history you'll see that different cultures have had different ideas of what marriage is. The only description I can come up with that covers all of them is 'a social contract between two or more people'.
One man, one woman might be the Christian definition but it's by no means the only one.
I'm sure the pirates will also use these figures to justify downloading copyrighted matrial without paying for any of it. Probably whilst announcing that all movies and music produced these days are crap. If they're so bad though why do they keep downloading this stuff?
I have a strong interest in copyright, I rely on it to protect my work so I can make a living. I'm not a fan of the large collecting agencies which often abuse their position but at the same time there are too many freetards with a massively inflated sense of entitlement.
Just because a piece of media has been produced doesn't mean you have some automatic right that allows you to view it. If pirates don't like the price of something then they should simply not buy it, they need to stop pretending it gives them a moral argument for downloading for free.
"I was thinking of you Brits anyway since you'll have to nip down to the "Club" to steal some bluebloods shotgun since you don't have easy access to any firearms. Either that or you need axes and swords."
As a brit come z day I'll be kitted out with a full suit of plate armour and a chainsaw. Petrol is a lot easier to get over here than gun ammo.
Didn't the reg publish an article last week that said the next gen xbox could turn winpho7, android and iOS devices into touch screen controllers by way of an app MS are developing? I can't remember if it was rumour mill nonesense though and cba to check using a phone's web browser.
Every time Lewis posts one of these trolling articles the eco-tards start summoning the troops on mailing lists and forums. They then come and spam the register comments section with cookie-cutter arguments because dissenting opinion seems to be something they can't handle. Lewis is laughing all the way to the bank of course because they're just increasing page views and therefore advertising revenue for the site of which he is editor.
If the regulars disabled their adblockers for el reg perhaps Lewis could stop subjecting us to this asshattery every week?
You mean the war where the US massacred 2 whole cities of an enemy that was already on it's knees?
"No. I started out by asking why the Western media are making such a big deal out of a relatively few civilians being killed in Syria, on the very dubious evidence of self-admitted enemies of the Syrian government, when those same media completely ignore far large numbers of civilians killed by our own governments."
You started by claiming that what we were being told about Syria isn't necessarily the whole truth which is fair enough. You then went off on a tirade about the US as if what's happening in Syria can be excused because America might be worse. The media doesn't ignore western atrocities, you even linked to their reports yourself.
Any country looks better before a war compared to immediately afterwards.
Show me a war that wasn't illegal in some way and I'll give you my life savings. One minute you're criticising the US for dodgy tactics, the next you're saying it's ok for the Syrian government to use those tactics because the Americans do.
You say over a million people marched through London and then point out it achieved nothing as if this means something. You're conveniently ignoring that over 61 million didn't protest at all.
Now you're claiming Iraq under Saddam was some beacon of civilisation? You are George Galloway and I claim my £5.
The war in Iraq may have been illegal but why do people like yourself always brush over the fact it was an illegal war that removed a genocidal dictator (regardless of whether you believe that was Bush's intention)?
The Syrian 'opposition' as far as I know weren't well armed until after the government started it's crackdown and still aren't well armed by any standard a professional military would recognise. If you think shelling your own cities to put down rebels with small arms is a sound tactic I really hope you're not in the military.
Also, taking the actions of people out of context and describing them as terrorists is ridiculous. If America's founding fathers had attempted their revolution in modern times they'd just be armed, tax dodging terrorists.
I'm as unhappy as most people about what has gone on in Iraq and Afghanistan but it worries me that you see no difference between (possibly avoidable) civilian deaths caused by an invading foreign military and a government using it's military to kill citizens who show dissent.
I disagree with you and instead of accepting that I have a different opinion you tell me I'm incapable of understanding your post? Don't kid yourself, you're not some intellectual heavy weight. Claiming people only disagree with you because they can't understand your point is just a lazy way of brushing aside criticism. Anyway, if it were true perhaps you should work on your communication skills? Pontificating clearly isn't working out for you.
The thing is jake, I've seen quite a few of your posts (I'm thinking specifically the one about sustainable farming here) where you've been caught talking out of your arse and gotten a large amount of downvotes that were (imo at least) deserved. If people really are going through your history and downvoting unrelated posts though I'll agree that that's pretty sad.
I'll also agree that they're fairly meaningless. I've currently got a ratio of about 4:1 and the vast majority of those downvotes were received for upsetting wrist-watch owners. Am I to assume I'm right about most things but am completely clueless about the future of wrist-ware?
Apparently the modern state of Israel and the religion of Judaism are the same thing in some peoples' minds. These are usually the same people who view any negative comment about the religion, justified or otherwise, as being anti-semitic (try having a discussion about the morality of circumcising a child without it coming up). This means it's impossible to criticise the actions of the state without appearing in their eyes as a jackboot wearing far right bigot.
I've never bought shares in any company. It was pretty obvious before they went public that the company wasn't worth over $100 billion. I suspect most people who lost money were day traders, not your average Facebook user.
I have never used Facebook but I can say authoritatively that it is of no use to anyone ever and if you use it you're an idiot. Also, no other company on the internet exchanges services for personal information, just failbook. My 'friend' tells me that you have to use all your real info and that using a pseudonym is impossible (I wouldn't know because only idiots have first hand experience). If only you people had joined me on Google+ the world would be so much better!
Intelligent people of any nationality should not be attaching themselves to any specific political party. At an election review all of the candidates' policies, accept that none of them will represent your views 100% and then vote for the one likely to do the least amount of damage. Political parties are not football teams and should not be blindly supported.
Errr... I'm a big fan of open source but AC seems to have forgotten that the vast majority of paid contributors to FOSS projects are employed by companies that can afford to do so because they make lots of money in other areas where they do have IP. Companies like RedHat are rare.
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