Good good...
Hope you don't use Google, Yahoo or Bing then, 'cos their names are just as silly!
Posts by King Edward I
93 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
New York Times bans 'tweet'
Best Buy tech finds 'child abuse' wallpaper on broken PC
Wednesday 19th May 2010 12:16 GMT 
Note:
It doesn't say it was *set* as a wallpaer, it says they "were used as a desktop background". To me, that sounds like he's changed the desktop background, but the images were still in the list of recent backgorunds (Or elsewhere, depending on version of windows!)
Or maybe I'm overthinking it!
Lucid Lynx fights 'major' X-Server memory leak
Mandybill: All the Commons drama
Thursday 8th April 2010 14:42 GMT
My comment on the BBC article crossposted...
For all the furore raised by the pirates, it's the blocking laws which worry me. The ability for parliament to censor websites is a dangerous road to go down and should be gaining the focus of the attention.
The problem on the piracy front is, it will only catch the technically incompetent, the young children, the older generations and anyone else not up to speed. The Tech literate will simply move on, as napster's cloure forced them onto decentralised servers, so this two will move them on, perhaps onto The Darknet,or perhaps onto Tor or Freenet. Piracy is not going to be stopped by technical means!
French suspect grilled over Obama Twitter hack
Murdoch promises WSJ on the iPad
Windows 7 - Microsoft minus the martyrdom
Tuesday 1st December 2009 12:39 GMT
I'm running it...
my mate bought it, I tested it on his computer, and finally upgraded my XP partition. It's faster than vista, and I needed something DX10+ capable so I can get new pretties running on it :D Plus I get it for £30 for bring a tax dodging student :P
Ubuntu remains my primary OS for uni work and general webbrowser usage, but I no longer feel quite so lost when I reboot into windows. (If you've used any modern Linux distro/mac, XP feels hella clunky) and I can FINALLY get the HL2 cinematic mod to work (kinda).
3UK shapeshifts on traffic shaping
Friday 13th November 2009 16:02 GMT 
Right!
"Customers will have to get used to the idea of paying for the bandwidth they use: the majority of low-volume users cannot be expected to subsidise the few who have to have the latest American TV shows early."
Very true. However the first step along this way is correct marketing. Make them all stop selling these "unlimited" plans, and really tell you what you get for your money. Then people will be able to choose a package that suits them, as opposed to the current one-size-fits-none (not really)unlimited packages.
Ofcom's 116 discussions confirm El Reg advice
UK population to abandon Midlands
Wednesday 26th August 2009 16:10 GMT
Really?
I live in Birmingham (as a greasy tax dodging student ;)) and I love it. Could well envision living there after I finish Uni. Its compact, affordable and has everything I like in my life (beer, take aways cinemas and, when I'm flush, restaurants.) Only problem really is the Birmingham City/West Brom/Aston Villa (delete as applicable :P) fans!
New trial means Unix ownership still up for debate
Government unbans dirty vids but bans 'legal highs'
100 freetards an hour join Pirate Party UK
Friday 14th August 2009 12:04 GMT
@AC (08:39)
The Pirate Party UK has nothing to do with the pirate bay, or even the Swedish Pirate Party (apart from communication through the international pirate party site). Therefore they also have nothing to do with Lundström.
I joined. Might even consider standing if they need someone where-ever I'm living (but my terminal fear of talking to people offline might put that one on hold!).
Friday 14th August 2009 09:40 GMT
Whilst...
Most of there members are undoubtedly the "freetards" of which you speak, I wouldn't be suprised to see a fair amount of support for them on our dear el reg.
Why? Well they campaign on issues we like to moan about on here, specifically: "We want a patent system that doesn't stifle innovation or make life saving drugs so expensive that patients die."
and
"End the excessive surveillance, profiling, tracking and monitoring of innocent people by Government and big businesses."
and
"Ensure that everyone has real freedom of speech and real freedom to enjoy and participate in our shared culture."
So yah. a (mostly) single issue party I actually agree with. What a novelty :)
Exploding iPhone injures French teen
Judge slaps ban on RealDVD software
µTorrent 2.0 beta drops anchor
Texan judge outlaws Word
Blogger silences Google ads with death and destruction
Microsoft's web Office: No love for Chrome, Opera
Launch your own satellite for only eight grand
T-Mobile UK starts shifting iPhones on the quiet
Tuesday 4th August 2009 13:25 GMT
@rattcatcher
" monopoly exists when there is exclusive control by one group of the means of selling or providing a commodity.
By that definition, O2 have a monopoly in the UK as there is no other way of officially buying an iPhone without an O2 contract (establishing exclusive control)."
Yes. Fortunately, that is not the legal definition of a monopoly. The only place I can buy a Dell from is Dell! They have a monopoly!
According to gartner (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=985912) Apple has 5.3% of the global smart phone market. That is not, by any stretch, a monopoly. When that hits 70+% we can talk.
Pirate Bay mouthpiece puts a zip on it
PerlMonks suffers unholy hack
Dutch court clogs Pirate Bay
Microsoft ultra-thins to 'out cool' netbooks, Apple
Microsoft offers EU choice on Windows browsers
Monday 27th July 2009 10:14 GMT
FFS
Pleas ecan we just sort this out, it is NOT hard.
All boxed versions of windows come with IE. Anyone who is ordering a boxed version is almost certainly savvy enough that they're gonna change their browser straight away
OEM versions come without a browser. Make it illegal for MS to use discounts on/threats-of-removing-the-OEM's-license-to-distribute Windows to as an incentive to install IE.
Make IE FULLY uninstallable.
Problem solved, no need to promote alternate products.
Wheels come off O2's data network
Swedish devil girls fingered on Street View
Magno stimulation makes brain learn skills better - boffins
BT abandons Phorm
iPhone crashing bug could lead to serious exploit
Trading Standards calls for online knife sale ban
Petrol station robbers cuffed after running out of petrol
Thursday 2nd July 2009 13:08 GMT
Sometime's there's no I.T angle song...
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad,
Other things just make you swear and curse,
When you're chewing life's gristle,
Don't grumble,
Give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best.
'cos...
Sometimes there's just no Iiiiii-Teaangle
[whistle]
Sometimes there's just no Iiiiii-Teaangle.
[whistle]
etc.
sure someone else can do better
Dell accidentally sells 140,000 monitors for $15 a pop
Thursday 2nd July 2009 10:17 GMT
@Owain 2
Wrong. The price on an item in not a "price" it's an "invitation to treat". You have to offer a price, the store owner has to accept, and there has to be payment, that's how a contract is made. If something has been genuinely priced wrong, the store is under no obligation to honour it. Of course, in your case, they may have done it as a goodwill gesture, but it was in no way legally required.
The issue gets murky in online territory when they've taken the money off your card. Technically at that point you have a legally binding contract which is where the "payment card has not been "settled" yet" tricks that Simon Newton method comes into play. I have no idea if this has ever been tested in court!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
