Posts by Haviland

I have had people using my gmail address to sign up to Chaturbate alerts, book a weekend away in Stirling (got part of his wife's CC data then), someone opened up an investment account with Capital One in the US and someone who used a hotel on booking.com. The hotel didn't seem that bothered until I pointed out that I could cancel the booking by hitting a link in the email, booking was non-refundable, and it wouldn't be me going getting shit when they tried to check in.

I suspect the response from No. 10 is correct - they were my first follower about 10 minutes after I joined Twitter.

Of course, that was before GCHQ followed everybody without letting them know,

2nd try...

Well, there is a firmware upgrade which, when applied , calls itself the same version as the one it replaced. However, it does seem to be somewhat more stable (i.e. it doesn't reset itself to factory default settings every 40 minutes) and seems to have been ok for a week.

Still looking at it out of the corner of my eye, though.

Slight untruth from DRM maker

"This data and information does not affect your computer system in any way" should read

"Unless you use certain types of software we think are suspicious, in which case the program you've just shelled out 40 quid for will not run, unless you remove all traces it from your PC, or your DVD drive is a common one, but not supported by us, in which case we'lll ask you to delve in to the registry and device manager to fiddle about with your system, in which case we may, if we feel like it, let you run the program you bought.

We realise that you could download a cracked version that doesn't require all this arsing about in far less time, but that doesn't match our business model of treating the customer as scum."

The cars will be clean, it's one of those foam washes during the day.

Wondered why I see so many of the buggers - I stay 500m from that garage.

CE Box

Like Steven, I got the box with the codes months ago.

I'll get my +3 Shroud of Not Getting Wet

@Kane

I'm sure you'd be happy to fund another wodge of cash for my (Government) employers connection to the 'net.

While misuse of facilties is a management issue, it's far easier to just limit access to innapropriate sites and save it ever having to be one.

We block most types of sites, all incoming attachments of any sort, all social networking sites, webmail sites and streaming media. Based on the growth patterns before we stuck the filtering software in, that's saved us (or, you, the taxpayer), a substantial sum of money in bandwidth costs and mail server hardware, as well as removing employee unproductivity opportunities. (Probably, the webcam rollout program isn't finished yet :-))

If that's wrong, well, I don't wanna be right...

@home.

Edinburgh

I've seen the car by my house, at work whilst exiled for a ciggie and this morning after dropping off the kids.

I wonder if I'll be in all three scenes?

@Chad

Just because you've got root access to an iPhone on a network doesn't mean you've got root access to the network.

mwahaha

lots of taxi firms use cli to get the "for an immediate taxi to..."

Just saying...

Got to love status reports

Especially ones with "I would like to provide an update on where we stand following yesterday's explosion ..."

On the bright side...

You'll get to PvP against the CIA.

The joys of outsourcing

No doubt whoever runs the HMRC system charges £5k for a custom SQL query that any decent PFY could do in 20 minutes, given sufficient liquid incentivisation...

Wusses

The heaviest drinkers drank more than 4 units?

They must hae serveyd some sort o' namby-pamby tourists frae England.

Sigh of relief

Bet the posties are glad they're not having to lug millions of copies of the last Harry Potter book.

House to rent....

West Edinburgh, available 16-23 June...

Oh dear.

How sad.

Never mind.

Well...

That was a bit of a let-down.

Throw away the key

Rich semi-pro porn star gets done for drunk driving?

My heart is bleeding.

A hacker did it and ran away

Yeah, right.

They're probably the same hackers that raid our cupboards for chocolate when there's no-one there bar my son.