Re: Eh?

"They already blocked wikipedia over an album cover you can buy in HMV, their counterparts in other countries have blocked gay marriage and breastfeeding sites."

But they've also blocked hundreds, probably thousands, of pages of sick shit as well. So the odd cock up or dubious judgment and you want to throw the baby out with the bathwater (sorry for the questionable metaphor there!)?

Re: @LDS

"They didn't even realise they had a network, just that they were all connected to the internet."

Then they're paying the wrong consultant/contractor. Or not paying them enough and paying the price for penny pinching.

Re: $100Bn cash pile

Exactly. I mean they'd *only* be left with erm $70 billion so well that would leave them a bit short...

Re: Well-intentioned but ...

On the subject of which, has anyone ever tried to buy a new Mac at a discount? I looked the other week (for the missus) and every online store I checked seemed to be selling at the same price as the Apple Store. Anti-competitive at all..?

Re: Come on 150GB a month

Agreed it does sound a fair old sum, but the crux is if it says unlimited then it should be. Otherwise it should say "really high download limit which most of you will never exceed" (...not as catchy).

Re: Completely outside the box here

"why not, his brother was in Caves of Androzani."

And..? If that counted for anything then much of the British acting establishment of the last 40 years has been in the show some point.

Re: Has to be Billie Piper

Please please PLEASE NO MORE OF THE HAMSTER FACED GURNER! Sick to death enough with all that moony lost-love guff whenever she turned up!

Re: What about a fixed version of 8?

Perhaps because enterprise support of a client OS goes WAY beyond just how it looks to users??!

Re: ability to discern pictures more quickly than words

Right from the my very first experience of Windows Server 2008 (then later Win7 and 8) the first change I make is to restore the names on the taskbar icons instead of just the icons.

Re: there is always a majority

If there were then surely we wouldn't have so many coalitions?

Re: Alternating Succuess

98SE was the best of the Win9x line. Of course all of them sucked when compared with NT - I remember installing NT4 Workstation on to my work laptop and laughing at everyone else restarting their Win 98 machines several times a day :-)

Re: Trojan Horse Satellite

"The Trojan Satellite makes a good metaphor as to why a security-conscious nation should not allow a CLOSED SOURCE operating system onto its computers. If a Satellite can spy, so can an operating system."

Snigger: do you REALLY think the US Govt. doesn't have access to the source code for any Microsoft product it wishes?!

Re: Deliberately misleading nonsense.

"Yep, I am with PlusNet because one of their USPs is that you get through to a Yorkshire call centre."

For anyone west of the Pennines that's definitely NOT a selling point!

Re: Maybe

"Certainly in the UK, we have to break backs to accommodate foreign culture and its ways, whereas if we go to 99.9% of the countries from which we receive immigrants or asylum seekers"

Utter bollocks. I think you'll find most immigrants are happy enough to fit into our society, and avoid those parts of it they're not comfortable with. We certainly don't HAVE to break our backs to accomodate anyone, it's just accomodating others is a civilised thing to do.

Which is a real problem if some pillock has parked their car on the kerb as well.

Cars parked on kerbs are illegal: in cases where they're blocking the route for pedestrians free to give the side mirror a good hard smack with something solid on the way past. I do.

Re: For 41p a day, I say, keep the tax.

We've been watching Broadchurch, which I have to say is very good so far and you can almost forget it's on ITV! Luckily for scheduling convenience we record it and so skip through the ads with a few button presses.

Re: Ta

"True, if a woman (in the US) uses "girlfriend" - it can mean close, female friend. But if a guy uses it, it means the same as the British sense."

Ah thanks for that. We don't have the first usage, hence the potential for many a female American to be misunderstood as refreshingly liberal when discussing all her "girlfriends"!

Re: Ta

is that girlfriend in the British sense (sexual/romantic partner) or US (close friend of female gender)?

Re: Free market economy...

"Isn't this a great example of a free market economy. Why are employers complaining?"

In the particular example of the guy in California, the complaint is not about the work done but the breach of TRUST. He exposed secure systems by sending security tokens to some unknown Joe in China, and he passed off work done by them as his own. So he's a liar.

Anyway, after a few weeks at work surfing the web wouldn't he get SERIOUSLY bored??! I know how much I hate doing nothing at work day after day: it's mind numbing and you have no sense of personal achievement!

Or the fact that [Donald Duck's] last name is one letter up the alphabet from a rude word?

Euck??

"Hollywood studios that put out the likes of Saw?"

Last time I looked Saw and it's ilk had an 18 rating, so hardly being thrown at children?

How easily children might have access to adult entertainment is another question.

Re: Comedy gold my friend

Surely that's ironic?

Re: I'm impressed

At least they're trying to think of ways to squeeze back some of the billions spirited away by those canny (mainly North American?) Internet companies.

We just say harsh words to their employees at a select committee hearing. That'll teach 'em!

Re: London

"but never in such a short space of time have so many foreigners come to these shores."

We're all foreigners somewhere mate. Get over it.

Re: I get offended by people getting offended by this...

I think you're missing the reality here: very few people WERE offended, except in DailyMail-land. A few parents probably cringed, one or two picked up the phone (or keyboard). None of the kids batted an eyelid.

Re: Someone

Aww, I'm sure they are to other crabs!

Re: Eric Clapton

Hey, he was only quoting Bob Marley!

Re: No one cool ever bought a Nokia

Actually you might have something there: the only person I know with a WinPho handset is a lovely guy, but about as 'cool' as Hell's boiler room!

Re: Actions speak louder than words

What?? it speaks volumes in that they're very environmentally conscious, or have a shortage of car parking facilities, or there's huge traffic issues in the area, or possibly all of those and more?!! Bugger all about salaries though?