Re: Best xkcd ever

So sad!!!

Re: Luxury!

Double pah! Try using a 300 baud acoustic coupler in a phone box at the side of a busy road in order to get an important document off via Telecom Gold - first proper email service in the UK as I recall. .. (not that I do very much...)

Oh the joys of someone putting a cup down a bit hard on your desk just as you're about to finish 30 minutes 'online'.....

Why re-invent the wheel? If the work is already half done by someone else what's wrong with buying them up? It's what businesses do.

Also, as has already been pointed out here, there's the question of <spit> patents.

Re: doesn’t always give you the best route to a destination

I'd welcome any satnav that could show a route bypassing the Hanger Lane Gyratory/Ealing Common clusterfuck going south on the N. Circ toward Kew Bridge/A3.

And yes I know about cutting through Harlesden, Wood Lane to Shepherds Bush/Putney.... No dice son.

Not that I'm being specific....

Re: Be careful who you engage with anti-competitive allegations

.."corporate-level felonious bellendery..."

Upvote just for that. Thanks!

Re: johnlewis.com

Hmm.. that's the first complaint of John Lewis I've ever seen. Their customer service is generally reckoned to be well above average. Did you trying contacting their customer service?

(No I'm not associated with JL in any way, just curious as I know an awful lot of people who use them.)

Re: What have BT done to upset El Reg?

Absolutely spot on. I went through all those scenarios on behalf of clients. They have a sales force that could sell fridges to Eskimos and a support force that couldn't wire up a 13 amp plug properly.

For the past year or so a client of mine has been battling (with my help) to get her dodgy, intermittent broadband sorted. We changed ADSL modems 4 times, routers 3 times, spent hours monitoring and performing speed tests. In the end, with the help of Zen Internet, we managed to present a prima facie case that the physical line must be the problem. They STILL said that if they send a bloke out and it's not their problem, they'll charge £250. So the next day blokey comes out to check... and finds no less then SEVEN faults on the line.... ffs.

This is not a one off story by the way....

Re: The security services obviously have a need to spy on us en masse

" Govt Interception Modernisation Programme"

GIMP??

Re: What is there to cherish

Hmm... Never mind the language, this is Michelle Shocked.

I'd say you have no experience or concept of how a musician/songwriter is supposed to make a living. The very first step is to sign a publishing contract, in which you immediately give up 50% of your income to the publishers. It's only 50% because it's illegal for the publishers to demand more....

It's downhill from there...

Re: Frank Zappa - Dynamo Hum!

Legend.

That is all.

Re: They can explain why a slinky does its thing...

Yeah but no but...

There's profit and there's ripping the testicles off with exorbitant charges. I'm looking at you Holiday Inn Express in Peterborough. £15 per day.....ffs....

Re: Mail order

In over 15 years dealing with mail order on behalf of myself and clients, thousands of items, I'm struggling to remember if I ever had to deal with goods broken in transit. Not even with goods bought via ebay...

Re: This story is not primarily about Global Warming...

"And trying to hide this has cost the BBC and the taxpayers a lot of money...."

There, fixed that for you.

Re: Without knowing the ins and outs of this..

Are you, by any chance, 'Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' ?

I think we should be told....

/

Re: Ahh...

Sue the wife....

/coat and handbag.

Re: Porn for the Yanks

"Faffing about with Condoms is about as exciting as visting Esther Rantzens' bathroom."

There I was having a good old Friday afternoon chuckle at a Bootnotes item when someone, there's always one isn't there, has to spoil things by mentioning the unmentionable.... "Est....." <sigh> it's no good, it's as much as I can do to cut and paste the offending name.

Please, go and wash your mouth out with soap and water.

Re: Simpler soloution

I think you'll find he meant 'a solution to the problem'...

just sayin'

Re: RE: Over here

Constructive dismissal? Entrapment?

Re: And?

My thoughts Ed Zachery

Bloody hell... That really is one of the worst sites I've seen in a LONG time... The ©2008 at the foot of the home page suggests that that was when it was generated....

Ah well, when you're only interested in money....

Not an illustrious start to a career, is it?

"Well I broke into the shop and stole the goods because it was really easy and I wanted to prove to everyone I could do it. So it's not fair I should be punished."

What a twunt. No doubt he'll fall under the beady 'Eye' for future discussion in the Street of Shame.

Re: It's called a laptop!

Ha ha! I see what you did there! (Pity the downvoters didn't...)

Agreed. In most cities, particularly large ones like London etc, members of the public on on CCTV constantly as they move around, not only on streets but in corridors, shops elevators etc ad infinitum. Apart from the occasional bleat from tree-huggers, nary a word is said about it. And this is FAR more insidious and intrusive than you can imagine. Where do you think all those dodgy videos and images come from that appear on teh interwebs?

Exactly as the man says, it's WHO is using the data that's the problem....

Just my 2p's worth....