* Posts by Wayland Sothcott 1

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HP excessive packaging world record put to the test

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Memory chip from Aashima

which came bubble wrapped and packed in a CRT monitor sized box filled with air bags. I asked a friend who worked there and he said that it was their smallest package and they usually ship larger orders.

EU court rules 11-word snippets can violate copyright

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Joke

An infinite number of monkeys...

...with an infinite number of keyboards is known as The Internet.

Amish farmers lose court battle against RFID

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Alien

Aye OK is what I say

If it works for animals then even better for us. With people catching pig diseases then we should be tagged too. If you make the O for OK with your thumb and first finger you are making three overlapping 6's with the rest of your hand.

666

Microsoft 'update' breaks Office for Mac

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Boffin

Time to stop updating

At least automatic updates should be stopped. What we need is an update controller. Somthing that we trust which delays the updates until they have been tested.

Office admin sacked for Blears abuse

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Big Brother

They Own You

Using your employers time and equipment to do your own thing is permitted but not exactly a right. If she used the email system then her employer could well be reading everything that goes out, I would imagine that is is illegal but it's still easy to do.

I would think that tracking her down from the other end would be unlikely since you would not bother with every comment and this one was not unusual.

Personally I want them to know I am trouble. That way I don't have to worry that I will be discovered. They also show more respect you don't cower. OK yes they push you to the ground and try and band your arms backwards but if you're still not scared of them then they start to fear you.

Plenty of people have kept their heads down and worked hard to reach positions of respect and responsibility. They really don't want to lose their jobs their homes their marrage their children. Those people should do as they are told, they are owned by the system.

Olympics bosses probe mobile tracking tech

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Big Brother

Dan that is the point

The stated reason for this is to catch terrorists, but obviously thats the only people unaffected by this. The whole point is that it's to track the ordinary people. Any non-terrorist non-criminal will be easy to track.

MySociety denies role in Blears sacking

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TheyWant YouToReadComments

It's a pretty good way of getting her post read by a lot of people.

Police told to use Wikipedia for court preparation

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FAIL

Wikipedia is High Tech

"In the real (non IT) world, Wikipedia is widely regarded as the most convenient and accessible source of readily available information - the end!"

I am always showing people WikiPedia, they are amazed having never seen it before. People think that Google Chrome and Google are the same thing. They have never heard of Firefox and Opera.

They saw when they ran Google that there was an icon to get the upgraded Google called Google Chrome. They dutifully upgraded their Google to Google Chrome. They have never heard of a Web Browser only Google.

I found this all very confusing.

Obviously Internet Explorer users get an Icon on their Google home page that says upgrade to Google Chrome web browser. Now the techies would almost never click on a banner or an icon on a website. Where we would not even be able to see the adverts our users will see only the adverts, if one says "your computer could be infected, click here for a free checkup" they will click this.

If these people use Wikipedia then they are power users.

Europe won't pay more for Windows 7. Really!

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Thumb Up

Micro2003 and MicroXP

I have been playing with Micro2003 a cut down slip stream versions of Windows Server 2003. Some points to note;

1. Very much lighter on both CPU usage and Memory, ideal for servers with a specific task in mind, Go1984 for instance was 99% CPU and 600MB RAM now 70% CPU and 270MB RAM.

2. No Internet Explorer and lots of other things missing hehehe

3. No Windows updates so what you get when you set it up is how it stays.

I find it amazing that Microsoft can't leave out Internet Explorer when some hackers with nLite can do so much more. I expect there will be a Micro7 soon.

Webhost hack wipes out data for 100,000 sites

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Black Helicopters

Compromised password?

Someone wanting to do some damage to a particular website could pressure the programmer for the system password, suicide him then hack the main server.

You have to cover your tracks so you kill the person you got the password from and you kill all the websites so there is no clear motive.

Obviously a Black Op, hence the dark chopper.

Imagine! Government to legislate against badness

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Pirate

so that all children have the best start in life

"so that all children have the best start in life and have the opportunities to flourish".

Surely all things are relative. Surely that's the best start in life for a child with those parents. Children from wealthier families generally have the best start in life but sometimes the best writers and artists come from disadvantaged families. Does this mean each child will be assessed to see if they should me fostered with a richer or poorer family than their natural parents?

The other problem with this policy is that the target can also be met in another way. Either you have the best start in life or you have no start at all. I suspect it would be easier to sterilize poor parents than provide them with everything the rich parents can offer.

Hopefully nothing will happen, because I don't like the idea of people being sterilized. Maybe this policy has already begun. Maybe the HPV vaccine will reduce the fertility of teenagers and they will need IVF at age 30, which will ofcourse be means tested.

Be honest, could such mistakes happen?

Gartner: Windows 7 upgrade catch for XP converts

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Gates Horns

Microsoft making it difficult

For home users Vista is OK, it's not worth the bother of installing XP. For businesses with bespoke applications then Vista can be an unnessasary headache. It seems to offer no advantages and plenty of potential problems.

Windows 7 gets you a more modern OS which actually seems better than both Vista and XP. Companies ought to try and use this, it will help them. It can even work on older hardware as good as XP provided you have 1GB RAM or more (1GB RAM is true of XP now).

Microsoft should really stop pushing Vista on people, netbook type computers are better with XP version of Windows and businesses are better with XP.

Why not say that all XP and Windows 7 licences are equivelent from now on.?

Tories don black cap for ID cards

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Tories want to be elected

I don't know why they are saying scrap the ID card scheme, they have surely already won the next general election. They are going to look silly when they don't scrap the ID cards and people will be even more annoyed than they are already.

Oz cops in Taser fatality

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Alert

Tazers are safe

I have had an electric shock and I am still alive, therefore Tazers are safe and don't kill people.

I think they could just have waited for the man to calm down but i expect they had been wanting to try out the tazers for some time. An opportunity not to be missed, I suspect.

Cartoon lion urges Lancs kids to dob in terrorist classmates

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Paris Hilton

Fitting the peices together

I read many people who are fitting the peices of this together. Someone has already come up with WW3. Others have come up with Nazi or Stasi or 1984. The people who read the register are reading the signs.

Is this the case for the rest of the UK, do they get it?

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