Posts by I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

>You gotta pay for Windows!

<>Interesting twist on the Microsoft tax: if you want a decent size hdd, you gotta pay for Windows!</>

I don't think we are ready for direct comparisons yet. Once the industry has been sued comprehensively or a starter company can get one in that is direct competition to companies that have made us all pay, things could get interesting.

If one of these goeralongwiths puts out a machine with equal rites and the same price, M$ and ALL the computer sellers that only supplied M$ machines, can be sued successfully.

We'll just haveto wait for the Ubuntu or RedHat people to bring one out.

Now THAT would be interesting. Linux made, with a choice, at market prices.

The phrase "so we ain't going to" comes to mind. Pity the Register can't get it in print. I bet they must have heard it said "off the record" though.

Ah! So that's how to do it.

<blockquote>Scottish politicians rushed through approvals for the station to be allowed to use gas if necessary in future, with one saying they were "lucky it wasn't cold".</blockquote>

Tory B Liar was all set to rush through a new Nuclear Power programme. Typically he hadn't thought it through.

They seem to have learned a thing or two since.

First kill all the thinkers. Then promote all the politicians?

<blockquote>One energy-market analyst, speaking to the Times, blamed lack of investment owing to years of uncertainty over government policy.</blockquote>

Isolate, compromise, threaten and abuse. Everyone has a weakness. so just kill all the experts adjust a meeting off ze Kommittee, pull a few plugs and you can do what you want; invade Iraq if you like.

Whose going to know the truth?

Besides a few dead Iraqis that is.

Oh if only there were alternatives.

<blockquote>Lets do something to give firefox some publicity... its a good browser. ill take part ... altho, not that many ppl have registered on the website...</blockquote>

Lt's js hp th cn spk.

I wonder what happened to all the real browsers that Linux used to have before this dork en machina.

If you make the possession of guns illegal...

Only the criminals will be robbed for them.

$500.oo for a weapon. That's got to be easier prey than half a dozen phones, watches or wallets.

Plus, you can still rob the mark of his phone, watch and wallet.

> There is a definite gap opening between America and Europe ...

And it's called the North Atlantic.

We send them your tired, our poor, our huddled masses and some underaged not-Talibanii and they send us bad weather and pictures of Darth Vadar's mam:

http://staging.michaelmoore.com/_images/splash/almostseetheblood.jpg

What the bloody hell has this got to do with anybody here?

Wouldn't it be better to concentrate on helping BA get their act together vis a vis the software or for that matter hardware they are failing to use on the actual luggage?

For class, I award el Reg ye Idyete ycon.

Maybe I am a bit slow... but

Why would anyone want to opt into a thing like that?

NTIT

You don't sack a IT worker for serious breaches of security and not change the access controls do you?

Well if you don't work in Britain that is.

I'd say he's done them a favour, as the system needed cobbing a long time ago, by the sound of it. The cost of repairing a serious crappy set up shouldn't be mentioned in court except in his defence.

It wouldn't surprise me he'd only taken a stand and whistle blowing might well have been the reason he was sacked in the first place.

Always remember that when governments and politics are involved, the little guy is usually the goodie.

> Myqal

"in light of another Reg story today, "Government orders data retention by ISPs", I would still consider running AntiPhormLite or a similar obfuscation tool. Again it is all about the numbers. A few techies running such applications would be little more than an inconvenience to a government determined to goose step us towards a police/ surveillance state but it would make me feel a bit better!"

That's what I was thinking.

I dare say this is the start of a new approach to confounding the US Patriot Act and various other government regimes world wide. Binladen hand and shrimp.

Good-oh!

They should have used AOL

Every time Windows forces you to reload the software it saves the e-mails you have in your PC files onto another folder that sits on the desktop.

Then when you reload it again after the next outage, the files get overwritten and not only do all your emails go to total client sanctity but your favourite favourites join the happy hunting links too.

Why couldn't Intel come up with that idea? Or does it only work for AMD machines?

Where is the Intel icon?

Inside?

Rock bottom

"How much is a Gitmo cracked rock worth exactly?"

It isn't piece work. What you do is you keep going until you crack open a rock that is worth opening. Then you take the nugget and run.

Of course since Gitmo is a coaling station, Cuba might want to know WTF gave the USAnians mining rights.

Come to think of it, as a port of supply, they don't have concentration and torture camp rights there either, do they?

W3C

If they are not coding to code they shouldn't be available to ISPs, it is as simple as that. Why have ISPs been so lax so long?

If they sorted out all the spam and all the botnets we could clear the decks for unrestricted file transfers from You Tube. Think of all the cats we could be watching.

Boffing

The farts in the news media always use lowest common denominators.

Not because they want to get the message out to the lowest common denom but because it saves text time. You just plug in the needed catch phrase and the rest is done on computer.

Oil? I see no oil.

Oh good, just what we need to clean our atmosphere. Phenol rich jet fuels.

> Oxygen doesn't burn, you mounties!

Oxygen burns you oaf. It just doesn't oxidise -unless you count its reactions with Halogens and the Oxygen group.

You aught to watch more American TV programmes. Heart patients are always catching fire in those. It wouldn't surprise me if Hollywood executives sue the Mounties for loss of income.

Of course if the Red Menace had torched him, they'd have been there with contracts to buy the script.

Whaddya mean 'nother customer took it? He leave me d' gloves though, huh?

RIGHT!

That's OK....

It's OK, fergeddaboudit.

Cheap customers

Bournemouth full of tightwads is it? It would explain this comment:

Its about time too... we're so far behind in internet technology.

There again, so would this:

Hope the prices are competitive, if not super-cheap as we're testing this stuff for them.

Assuming the preliminary figures of £30 million were cooked up by the PR men and that no long term damage to the sewers is involved. And that there are no snags (ha.. in a British sewer?) that is £340 per customer before profit.

And they want it for free?

Monkeying around.

Words fail me with the total incompetence of the regime. Does he really live in the chandeliers?

What an absolute total mind wipe.

I have met people who have been so far gone for so long on booze that their crania seem physically half empty. Their speech patterns are similar to his. The only thing different with him is his balance. And I think that that glazed daze he has is something to do with over-concentration on not falling over.

No wonder he is always on holiday. I had thought he was just being kept away from the Wit House as a safety measure. I couldn't see why he'd need all that time to recover from exhaustion.