Posts by Wokstation

@"I'm Suprised" AC

Sure,. have it do voice recognition... then you get a cold, lose your voice... lose your access to your computer and have nothing to do while you sit in bed sipping lemsip.

If we ignore the lessons of history

We're doomed to make the same mistakes.

This guy clearly isn't paying much attention, and he's the next Home Secretary (every time I say or type that I have the guy from Less Than Perfect shouting "Secra-Tary!" in my head)?

Are Labour deliberately trying to alienate people? Surely a sensible politician would have either kept his trap shut or at least made soothing noises?

@AC

Think of the kids? Yes, children must be protected from the evils of knowledge about sex at all costs! Everyone knows that children mustn't know about anything to do with sex because if they do, they will surely explode from the inappropriateness of such knowledge!

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN???

*ahem*

I agree with the ASA simply on the prescription-medicine aspect. The sex part I have no issue with at all.

@Mark Dussard

Do you have reading problems?

"There was a temporary loss of services to a small number of Trusts within our region on 10th February 2009"

Loss of services means they were unable to access the patient data on the system in several Trusts - that's quite a lot of people who's records were unavailable when they attended an appointment.

How does that not jeapardise patient care?

I used to be really anti-EU

Until I realised they actually protect us from our own Government.

"Waaah look at me" says MP

So he had some dodgy mail, the police are contacted. They make an appointment to go see the guy and ask to have a look at the dodgy mail...

...where's the story again? I'd have thought El Reg would be lamabasting the MP for this one!

""We're not happy about that,""

I'm sure that's what sellers were thinking when they got charged through the butt and had their ability to leave feedback removed.

That's got nothing to do with it their profit-drop, of course...

Contacted my MP...

...not holding out much hope. Silly bugger's a Labour party whip and hasn't voted against the Government since he became one.

Ummm...

"This Bill will cover images where "the predominant impression conveyed is that the person shown is a child despite the fact that some of the physical characteristics shown are not those of a child"."

So, StTrinians then?

Or how about that 40yr old lass in a school uniform on www.somerandomnon-existantpornwebsite.com.co.uk.net.biz?

With regard to section 3...

Me, I'm a househusband through neccesity. As a result the only way to fill in section 3 was an organisation of under 10 people, as head of IT and cheif exec, with under 5 people reporting to me (both of whom are under 5yrs old).

I make all IT-related decisions for our organisation, but must defer to group-thinking with regard to everything else - in particularly with regard to spending authority.

And I was sorely dissapointed that Playmobile didn't feature as a reason for "why do you read the Reg?".

Well isn't that lovely?

"Welfare reform is once again on the agenda, with measures promised to help, encourage or force the unemployed back into work, with a particular emphasis on the disabled"

If I could work, I certainly would. I paid National Insurance, and when I became ill, I claimed on that insurance policy. Why should I be punished for that? Sure, they'll say "the genuinely unfit to work needn't worry" but I've already been caught in the crossfire once...

It's also a bit of an odd time to force those out of work into work when the number of jobs available is set to fall.

Lamont?

Perhaps it's the eyebrows. Kent's hoping they'll distract people from PHORM itself...

"Honest, we won't abuse it!"

"You can trust us!"

...right.

Can we therefore expect...

...more unconcious diabetics to be tasered?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7096456.stm

Hey Jacqui...

...were any of those people who are "always coming up to" you Scots?

HDD installation still requires the disk

Those saying you can just rent/borrow-a-mate's, sorry, you can't. You still have to have the disk in to play, it just loads from the HDD instead - which is faster, and above all, doesn't make your TV cabinet sound like a 747 prepping for liftoff.

@"What is wrong with the BNP? " AC

The fact that you've felt the need to post your support for the BNP anonymously shows you yourself are ashamed to be associated with them, and you're trying to "big them up".

I'm guessing your name was on this list...?

"Craigslist has also agreed..."

"...to turn over registered phone numbers to law enforcement officials with a valid search warrant."

Um... if they have a valid search warrant, it doesn't matter if you agree or not...

I need to get a new monitor

I might have to make a trip to Londinium and pick one of these up... literally. Crowbar + van = new, huge, monitor! Woo!

Aren't students generally more liberal...?

It's another page in the conspiracy files!

IF (MemberOfPublic) == UnwantedParty$

DEL VOTEREGISTER/MemberOfPublic /Y

"Banned" it, eh?

So what, they're going to stop every passenger with an IPhone, search their phone for the app and delete it if found? Or refuse to transport such passengers?

@Mr Wurst

Private individual or company, it's still a person that takes the photograph... and that person does not need permission - so you're wrong an' all!

Heck, even to those NOT in the field it should be pretty darned obvious - otherwise press photographers who are employed directly by a newspaper would be constantly asking people for permission to take photographs... which is of course nonsense! They don't do that, they don't need to do that - they don't need permission!

Oh RLY?

"We never comment about specific discussions with any ISP, but based on conversations we've had with many ISPs both in the UK and internationally, we are very confident that in due course this technology is something that most of them will chose to adopt."

So they've not been bragging about having BT, TalkTalk and Virgin onboard then...?

Another Phorm lie? Shirley not!

If I photograph an officer of the law or army...

..."elicit or attempt to elicit information about" - I am not eliciting anything. I am the one creating the information.

Shirley?

@Anon Coward

"It's not that simple at all" - don't you just love fulled formed answers?

@The new T&C - "Significant disadvantage"

Other than being contrary to set contract-law (I believe it's law that material changes to a contract have to be validated by both sides), this new T&C only comes into affect if you accept them...

...so if you get this new T&C, you ring BT and say "You've nulled my contract due to material disadvantage" and they reply with "it's SIGNIFICANT, read the T&C", you can quite easily counter it with "no it's not, I've not accepted that material change to the previous T&C, by which I am bound".

They can't hold you to something you've not agreed.

@Sandy Cosser

"People always forget to read the fine print" - actually, people are reading the fine print and aren't liking what they find there, either. So do you work for BT, PHORM or an external PR company?

@Nic Brough

That's why it's only user-generated content, I expect - they don't wanna risk the wrath of the media lawyer...

Shame the TV companies get 3rd parties...

...else you'd see ITV on the blacklist for sure.

Of course, if a company's that dodgy, they'll just shut their doors and magically a new company with a new name will appear in the same place, with the same employees...

@Justin Case

If that was in the UK and you were in a public space, said plod was wronger than a wrong thing dipped in wrong sauce and eaten with the wrong impliment.