Posts by Elmer Phud

Re: You still have landlines in England???

Shared service --- not enough infrastructure in the local network.

Used one leg and earth - first to press the button grabs the line.

Re: Wot, nah Biffa?

Young man, one has no intention in concealing oneself in order to defecate purely at the appearance of your good self.

Re: Attention Michelin Guides

Downvote for the 'twat' bit.

Not twat at all, not a squatter but for a sick squid it's good for a laugh.

Well worth the initial outlay.

" issued a draft code of practice that it claims "introduces a philosophy of surveillance by consent".""

Your consent is automatically given by being in the U.K.

But rest assured that the only cameras working will be the ones that bring in the most revenue.

Re: ...FB login to access other sites?

" log on with your FB account. I was told it is a security feature, as an e-mail account is no proof of identity. "

Made oi larf!

My email username is far closer to the truth than my Facebook username.

Google won't let me use the Facebook one though so I might never be fully signed up to Google's services.

Re: Pardon me

Because he's obviously guilty.

It's how the legal system works -- no jury of peers, no hard evidence, lots of FUD, and the correct meaning of 'prejudice'

Oh, plus he's a Brit and in Hollywood they are usually either the bad guys or a complete fop.

As McKinnon has not got the laydeez swooning I can only assume he's been picked to play the part of villain.

Re: Camera

We used to have a couple of black cats and there was a furry black hat around as well.

Leave the black hat on a chair and people assume it's a cat.

(never had anyone trying to wear a cat on their head, though)

Re: Fuck 'em

I like the way that ' right to privacy' is 'written in to our constitution' but doesn't apply to anyone else on the planet.

No air flights without your entire lifestory.

Re: "Please stop immediately."

I thought fake files were soooo last century (or are the music companies still at it?)

Re: Interesting development, however...

"Maybe I'm a bit too cynical here, but I can't help wonder how long it'll take before this development gets teens and other computer illiterates into problems because 3rd parties were spying on them without their knowledge or permission ?"

Well, we've has schools spying on pupils and malware that allows external access so ---

it looks like the stable door ended up on a Hampstead garage a long time ago.

Re: ACCA DACCA

"Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak,

Somewhere in this town,"

Re: Unlimited until...

It's just BT slagging off Virgin and Virgin's 'yeah, but no, but yeah, but no, but . . .' reply to throttling.

"If any one technology must be stopped it is the ability to see into the persons mind - simply because it opens up to many avenues to create a "perfect" society where those whose brains don't comply can be easily identified and where everyone is compelled to comply to a "socially defined" "norm"

Apart from offering a tin-foil hat we are led to believe that there is already some geezer(?) who looks in to out heads and knows what's going in there -- and it ain't Derren Brown, either.

More worrying for some is the work on DNA to 'improve' humans, that'll be here long before some machine starts doing a 'Doris'. (collective noun for 'psychic').

Re: @dz-015

I bet he never said that at all ;-)

Re: last line of defence

Most of the time you don't notice your immune system working as its just doing its job.

Only when it begins to struggle do you remember its there.

Sometimes it deals well with a virus only to have some other human alter the virus just enough to let it slip past the next time you catch it.

I'm so glad my immune system doesn't tell my via a pop-up every time it deals with a problem - it would be an endless stream.

Re: If your names not down your not coming in..

" Either way, people need to wake up, we're all going to drown sooner or later."

Speak for yourself -- according to even the most scaremongering stats I'm still dry.

Re: Well, Have You Thunken Of

There are the 'educational' software out there -- they are used to make games and stuff - great starts for playing with gravity. And it might teach some coding basics as well.

Social Fixer wrests control back in to your hands.

Ad Block

It's very useful -- a single right-click on a photo of Zuckerberg in Facebook means that any image file coming from Facebook servers is never seen.

Adblock has never been A/V -- it means that reading newspapers on-line don't come with loads of adverts (especially if you can find the ad server address and block it directly)

Re: @adnim

'won't somebody think of the planet?'

As if something as old and twitchy as a planet has some form of awareness of these incredibly short-lived recently arrived bi-peds that live on the rather active scummy bit could care less (if indeed it could in the first place).

Mother Earth will not look after people - every time 'she' farts the self-important bi-peds come off worse.

Re: I love that prop.

Yes, it worked when there were such things as 'police boxes' but now they are merely a device for travelling in.

I doubt if many core Who fans actually remember such things on the high street.

Re: British values?

busy queuing to get pissed?